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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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| US 07644489 | Arora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Arora (Lake Forest, Illinois); Fernando Castano (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anthony J. Nichol (Boston, Massachusetts); George Barbastathis (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive nanomagnet alignment method is described to self-align a membrane to another surface. The membrane and the surface each have a plurality of nanomagnets patterned on it, wherein the nanomagnets are magnetized based on an applied external magnetic field. The membrane is brought into close proximity and coarse alignment to the surface by a positioning mechanism (e.g., an actuation force), such that the nanomagnets on the membrane attract to and self-align with the nanomagnets on said surface based on the nanomagnet magnetizations. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513952 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/607 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07644624 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Winnetta, Illinois); Jonathan Engel (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jack Chen (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial sensor comprises at least one substrate, and a plurality of flow sensors disposed on the at least one substrate for providing a plurality of spatial-temporally varying signals representing a hydrodynamic stimulus. The plurality of flow sensors are spatially distributed on the at least one substrate. A processor is coupled to the plurality of flow sensors for receiving the signals and determining spatial-temporal information from the received signals. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/824042 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07644890 | Quincieu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Utah State University (Logan, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joël Quincieu (Hyde Park, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-energy locking hinge mechanism operable with a spacecraft to support a deployable device, and to facilitate the deployment and locking of the deployable device, the hinge mechanism comprising: (a) a support base configured to couple to a structure of the spacecraft; (b) means for securing a deployable device to the support base, the deployable device being configured to rotate about a pivot axis; (c) a one-way clutch supported about the support base and operable with the means for securing, the one-way clutch being configured to facilitate one-way rotation of the deployable device from a stowed position to a deployed position, and to lock the deployable device in the deployed position, the one-way clutch having an inherent actuatable locking function configured to prevent backward motion; and (d) an actuation member operable with the one-way clutch to deploy the deployable device from the stowed position to the deployed position, the actuation member comprising an actuation energy sufficient to actuate the locking function of the one-way clutch within a zero-gravity environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446443 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645094 | Krise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DRS Sustainment Systems, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Krise (Florence, Kentucky); Ken Broussard (Ridge City, Texas); John Wootton (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A piping transport structure for use with a deployment vehicle to provide for improved efficiencies in laying temporary or semi-permanent piping structures. There is also a system for having one or more deployment vehicles smoothly lay piping and to allow for long pipe lays to be carried out in less time. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/889599 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645350 | Kecskes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laszlo J. Kecskes (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Brian T. Edwards (Nottingham, Maryland); Robert H. Woodman (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A class of high-density bulk metallic glass hafnium alloys, having copper, nickel, aluminum and titanium or niobium as alloying elements is disclosed. This class includes alloys having higher densities and a higher reduced glass-transition temperature than other known metallic glass alloys. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/828530 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645406 | Kilwin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey J. Kilwin (St. Peters, Missouri); Jim S. Piszar (Chesterfield, Missouri); Christopher B. Mathiesen (University City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | An adhesive injection process for a Pi-joint assembly comprises the steps of: machining at least two ports into a female part of a Pi-joint assembly; inserting a filler into a gap between a male part and the female part; applying a sealant above the filler; creating a vacuum with a vacuum pump at one port; injecting an adhesive through another port; and drawing the adhesive towards the vacuum pump until the gap under the filler is completely filled with the adhesive. The adhesive injection process incorporates lean technologies that enable increased productivity during the assembly of a Pi-joint design using adhesive bonding. The adhesive injection process is suitable for, but not limited to, applications in the aerospace industry, such as the aircraft airframe assembly. The adhesive injection process may be used for the bonding of upper and lower skins to airframe structure as well as for structure-to-structure bonding. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/111318 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645454 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Vadim Dudkin (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Justin Miller (New York, New York); David A. Scheinberg (New York, New York); Christophe Antczak (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds having formula (I): wherein W1, W2, R1, R3, R4, R2A and R2B are as defined herein. In another aspect, the invention provides an antibody or antibody fragment which binds specifically to a normal or transformed PSA glycan or glycopeptide of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145002 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645482 | Burke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Burke (Irvine, California); Zhen Yu (Irvine, California); Shengdong Li (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for synthesizing long carbon nanotubes and using the nanotube as an electrical conductor. A substrate is provided with one or more metal underlayer platforms that allow the nanotube to grow freely suspended from the substrate. A modified gas-flow injector is used to reduce the gas flow turbulence during nanotube growth. Nanotube electrodes are formed by growing arrays of aligned nanotubes between two metal underlayer platforms. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224917 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
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| US 07645584 | Svetlov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Banyan Biomarkers (Alachua, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislav I. Svetlov (Gainesville, Florida); Ronald L. Hayes (Gainesville, Florida); Kevin K. W. Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida); Andrew K. Ottens (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel, sensitive and specific markers for diagnostics and monitoring of liver injuries, including, but not limited to ischemic liver damage, are provided. This includes identification several enzymes of arginine/urea/nitric oxide cycle, sulfuration enzymes and spectrin breakdown related products, among others. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/396406 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07645610 | Sherley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Sherley (Boston, Massachusetts); Hsuan-Shu Lee (Taipei, Taiwan); Gracy G. Crane (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for readily generating hepatocyte precursor cell lines that retain hepatocyte-specific functions after extensive in vitro culturing. The methods comprise isolating and culturing hepatocyte precursor cell lines under permissive culture conditions that suppress asymmetric cell kinetics and allow exponential growth of the precursor cells, followed by transferring the hepatocyte precursor cell lines to non-permissive culture conditions that allow expression of asymmetric cell kinetics and induce expression of hepatocyte-specific characteristics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/369428 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/370 |
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| US 07645626 | Ha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wonill Ha (Mountain View, California); Vincent Gambin (Menlo Park, California); James S. Harris (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In connection with an optical-electronic semiconductor device, improved photoluminescent output is provided at wavelengths approaching and beyond 1.3 μm. According to one aspect, a multiple quantum well strain compensated structure is formed using a GaInNAs-based quantum well laser diode with GaNAs-based barrier layers. By growing tensile-strained GaNAs barrier layers, a larger active region with multiple quantum wells can be formed increasing the optical gain of the device. In example implementations, both edge emitting laser devices and vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) devices can be grown with at least several quantum wells, for example, nine quantum wells, and with room temperature emission approaching and beyond 1.3 μm. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/027436 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645854 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Central Michigan University Board of Trustees (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dillip K Mohanty (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan); Zhong-Biao Zhang (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | We report Michael addition products between primary amines and activated α,β-unsaturated compounds exemplified by diethyl methylenemalonate (DEMM). In various embodiments, the reaction proceeds with high yields in the absence of strong base or Lewis acid catalyst under mild reaction conditions. Depending on the state of steric hindrance in the amine, the reaction products are a double Michael addition product or a so-called vicarious Michael addition reaction product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365902 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645883 | Hawkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom W. Hawkins (Lancaster, California); Gregory W. Drake (Madison, Alabama); Adam J. Brand (Palmdale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a TNT replacement comprising one or more ionic liquids selected from the group of a triazolium salt, substituted triazolium salt and mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398746 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645982 | King |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Wayne King (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for calibrating laser designator and rangefinder test sets. The system includes a high speed detector module which receives a laser input signal, and outputs a laser output signal and an electrical pulse shaped output. A variable attenuator module receives the laser output signal and includes a rotating waveplate which rotates a polarization of the received laser output signal and a Glan laser polarizing beam splitter which receives the rotated laser output signal. The polarizing beam splitter passes only vertically polarized portions of the rotated laser output signal. An energy detector module receives the vertically polarized portions of the rotated laser output signal and includes a beam splitter which splits the vertically polarized portions of the rotated laser output signal into a first path pulse and a second path pulse. The second path pulse and the electrical pulse shaped output are used to calibrate a laser designator/rangefinder test set. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/427634 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646043 | Sriram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saptharishi Sriram (Cary, North Carolina); Matt Willis (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A unit cell of a metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) is provided. The MESFET has a source, a drain and a gate. The gate is between the source and the drain and on an n-type conductivity channel layer. A p-type conductivity region is provided beneath the gate between the source and the drain. The p-type conductivity region is spaced apart from the n-type conductivity channel layer and electrically coupled to the gate. Related methods are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536143 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646135 | Churchill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroStrain, Inc. (Williston, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Churchill (Burlington, Vermont); Steven W. Arms (Williston, Vermont); James Marc Leas (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A module includes a first piezoelectric element and first electronic device. The first piezoelectric provides physical support for said first electronic device. One embodiment includes a first insulating layer. The first insulating layer is mounted on the first piezoelectric element. The first electronic device is mounted on the first insulating layer for providing an electronic support function to the first piezoelectric element. In one embodiment the first electronic device includes a rectifier. One embodiment includes multiple contacts to the piezoelectric element each with its own rectifier. Another embodiment includes a stack of piezoelectric elements. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644334 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646249 | Hajimiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-differential amplifier is provided. The cross-differential amplifier includes an inductor connected to a direct current power source at a first terminal. A first and second switch, such as transistors, are connected to the inductor at a second terminal. A first and second amplifier are connected at their supply terminals to the first and second switch. The first and second switches are operated to commutate the inductor between the amplifiers so as to provide an amplified signal while limiting the ripple voltage on the inductor and thus limiting the maximum voltage imposed across the amplifiers and switches. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075194 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/297 |
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| US 07646263 | Ergene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmet D. Ergene (Melbourne, Florida); Michael Zarro (Melbourne Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna feed system having a single corrugated horn wave guide ports in one of the corrugations, a combiner network which receives signals at approximately 20 GHz from the four wave guide ports and provides sum and difference signals, and a transducer which provides transmit signals at approximately 30 GHz and approximately 44 GHz to a rear end of the single horn. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851066 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/137 |
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| US 07646326 | Antonik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Antonik (Utica, New York); Michael C. Wicks (Utica, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for simultaneous synthetic aperture radar and moving target detection. A plurality of independent radio frequency signals are generated and applied to separate radiating/receiving antenna elements. Signals are generated as basis functions, such that moving target detection and synthetic aperture radar signals are constructed from individual waveform components in space, time, frequency, and coding. Waveform components are sorted and combined at reception. Received data is simultaneously processed to extract synthetic aperture radar images and moving target indication detections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725939 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.B00 |
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| US 07646327 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Will Freeman (Ridgecrest, California); Duane Roth (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A target object motion estimation method using at least one subset of a complex SAR image. Coarse range cell alignment is performed on at least one subset of a complex SAR image. At least one subset is autofocused, thereby providing an estimated phase error function. The estimated phase error function yielded by autofocusing (or a manipulated version of the phase error function) may be analyzed to detect, characterize, and estimate target object motion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/182910 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.B00 |
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| US 07646524 | Tonucci |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald J Tonucci (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and structures whose index of refraction can be tuned over a broad range of negative and positive values by applying above band-gap photons to a structure with a strip line element, a split ring resonator element, and a substrate, at least one of which is a photoconductive semiconductor material. Methods for switching between positive and negative values of n include applying above band-gap photons to different numbers of elements. In another embodiment, a structure includes a photoconductive semiconductor wafer, the wafer operable to receive above band-gap photons at an excitation frequency in an excitation pattern on a surface of the wafer, the excitation patterns generating an effective negative index of refraction. Methods for switching between positive and negative values of n include projecting different numbers of elements on the wafer. The resonant frequency of the structure is tuned by changing the size of the split ring resonator excitation patterns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559535 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/244 |
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| US 07646669 | Stevenson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willard Stevenson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring water-flow noise over a hydrophone comprising: coupling the hydrophone to a distal end of a hydrodynamic-drag-reduced beam, which has a proximal end that is rotatably connected to a frame; pivoting the beam through water; and recording the water-flow noise generated by the water flowing around the hydrophone. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852899 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/13 |
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| US 07646788 | Dorris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Dorris (OFallon, Missouri); David E. Corman (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Thomas S. Herm (Frontenac, Missouri); Eric Martens (Crestwood, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for executing a protocol for tunneling of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) packets over a tactical link. The tunneling protocol includes interfacing to a host software on a node of a tactical network using a TAP interface; breaking up ethernet packets from the TAP interface into J16.0 messages that include payload data from the ethernet packet and header information that uniquely identifies the J16.0 message for deterministic reassembly of the ethernet packet from the stream of J16.0 messages in which it is included. The J16.0 messages may be transmitted using a fighter data link over a tactical network link. At the destination node of the link, the J16.0 messages may be reassembled into ethernet packets, allowing the tactical network to be implemented as virtual private network having (internet protocol) IP addresses for each node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/196865 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646797 | Hoffman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Hoffman (Woodstock, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Current channels, blocking areas, or strips in a semiconductor laser are used to channel injected current into the antinodal region of the optical standing wave present in the optical cavity, while restricting the current flow to the nodal regions. Previous devices injected current into both the nodal and antinodal regions of the wave, which is fed by the population inversion created in the active region by the injected electrons and holes, but inversion created in the nodal regions is lost to fluorescence or supports the creation of undesirable competing longitudinal modes, causing inefficiency. Directing current to the antinodal regions where the electric field is at its maximum causes a selected longitudinal mode to preferentially oscillate regardless of where the longitudinal mode lies with respect to the gain curve. In one embodiment, exacting fabrication of the Fabry-Perot cavity correlates the current channels to antinodal regions, vis-a vis current blocking areas, strips or segmented layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178028 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/46.10 |
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| US 07646850 | MacDonald |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn A MacDonald (Duanesburg, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and system for detecting a material in an object to be analyzed in a radiographic imaging system. The method includes providing wide-field illumination of an object with partially monochromatic x-ray radiation from a divergent source without restrictively collimating the x-ray radiation. The x-ray radiation scattered by the object outside of a predetermined range of angles defined about a characteristic angle is rejected. The characteristic angle is a scattering angle about which a material of the object coherently scatters the incident x-ray radiation. In addition, the method includes the step of detecting coherently-scattered radiation, which is the x-ray radiation diffracted by the object within the predetermined range of angles defined about the characteristic angle. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624437 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/87 |
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| US 07646902 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heang-Ping Chan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jun Wei (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sahiner Berkman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lubomir M. Hadjiiski (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for using computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for digital tomosynthesis mammograms (DTM) including retrieving a DTM image file having a plurality of DTM image slices; applying a three-dimensional gradient field analysis to the DTM image file to detect lesion candidates; identifying a volume of interest and locating its center at a location of high gradient convergence; segmenting the volume of interest by a three dimensional region growing method; extracting one or more three dimensional object characteristics from the object corresponding to the volume of interest, the three dimensional object characteristics being one of a morphological feature, a gray level feature, or a texture feature; and invoking a classifier to determine if the object corresponding to the volume of interest is a breast cancer lesion or normal breast tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350301 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 07646946 | Lagakos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Lagakos (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joseph A Bucaro (Herndon, Virginia); Jacek Jarzynski (Bethesda, Maryland); Barbara Jarzynski, legal representative (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A strain sensor includes an optical fiber with at least one optical fiber, a reflector body with a reflective surface, a housing affixed to the optical fiber probe and to the reflector body. The reflective surface is spaced apart at a distance d from the ends of the probe's fibers and receives light from the end of the fiber and to reflect at least a portion of the light into the end of the fiber. The housing is attached to the fiber probe at a first end of the housing and attached to the reflector body at a second end of the housing. The housing is affixed to the material to be measured, and in the material causes a change in gap between the fiber end and the reflective surface, modulating the amount of light received in the receiving fiber, detectable by a photodetector connected to the receiving fiber. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113749 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/13 |
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| US 07646980 | Menendez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald C. Menendez (Chatham, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed toward a variable spectral phase encoder. The variable spectral phase encoder includes a plurality of switches and at least one encoder. The encoder is coupled between a first switch and second switch among the plurality of switches. The first switch selectively routes an optical signal to some combination of fixed encoders such that their collective product applies one of the Hadamard sequences to the optical signal. |
| FILED | Monday, May 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/429686 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/77 |
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| US 07647471 | Hastings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew B. Hastings (Eagan, Minnesota); Alok N. Choudhary (Chicago, Illinois); Harriet G. Coverston (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing using a shared file that includes creating a plurality of mmaps between a shared file and a plurality of address spaces, wherein each of the plurality of mmaps maps at least a portion of the shared file to one of the plurality of address spaces, and wherein each of the plurality of address spaces is associated with one of a plurality of processors, transferring, in parallel, data between the shared file and the address spaces using the plurality of mmaps associated with the plurality of address spaces, processing the data in parallel by the plurality of processors to obtain a result, wherein the plurality of processors access data from the plurality of address spaces, and storing the result in the shared memory. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601521 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester Medical Center (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Duffy (Pittsford, New York); Laura Cushman (Rochester, New York); Mark Mapstone (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assessing the navigational capacity in human subjects, and its use in diagnosing spatial disorientation in neurodegenerative diseases, such as, for example Alzheimer's disease. The method for assessing the navigational capacity includes conducting a spatial orientation test, recording the results of the test, analyzing the test results and making a determination of the navigational capacity of a human subject. In its most simple sense, navigational capacity includes the capacity not to get lost. The spatial orientation test includes various naturalistic navigation tasks that are each designed to assess specific areas of the navigational capacity of a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703101 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645225 | Medvedev et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Medvedev (Orange Village, Ohio); Leonard A. R. Golding (Auburn Road, Ohio); Alexander Massiello (Chesterland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | In a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) a rotodynamic blood pump (10) is powered by a brushless DC motor (12). A power supply (14) supplies power to the motor (12). Three feedback channels, one for each of voltage, current, and motor speed lead to a microcontroller or microprocessor (18). The three feedback waveforms are analyzed, and from these waveforms, motor input power, patient heart rate, current pump flow rate, and systemic pressure are determined. The microprocessor (18) then calculates a desired flow rate proportional to the patient heart rate. The microprocessor communicates a new power output to a commutation circuit (16), which regulates power to the motor (12). The pump (10) also includes safety checks that are prioritized over desired pump flow. These include prevention of ventricular suction, low pulsatility, minimum and maximum pump speed, minimum speed-relative pump flow, minimum absolute pump flow, minimum and maximum motor input power. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/333759 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/17 |
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| US 07645262 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, such as for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/517859 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/115 |
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| US 07645442 | Hale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ron L. Hale (Woodside, California); Peter M. Lloyd (Walnut Creek, California); Amy Lu (Los Altos, California); Daniel J. Myers (Mountain View, California); Reynaldo J. Quintana (Redwood City, California); Joshua D. Rabinowitz (Mountain View, California); Dennis W. Solas (San Francisco, California); Soonho Song (Palo Alto, California); Curtis Tom (San Mateo, California); Martin J. Wensley (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device, method, and system for producing a condensation aerosol are disclosed. The device includes a chamber having an upstream opening and a downstream opening which allow gas to flow through the chamber, and a heat-conductive substrate located at a position between the upstream and downstream openings. Formed on the substrate is a drug composition film containing a therapeutically effective dose of a drug when the drug is administered in aerosol form. A heat source in the device is operable to supply heat to the substrate to produce a substrate temperature greater than 300° C., and to substantially volatilize the drug composition film from the substrate in a period of 2 seconds or less. The device produces an aerosol containing less than about 10% by weight drug composition degradation products and at least 50% of the drug composition of said film. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/633876 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645452 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Thompson (Houston, Texas); Chengzhen Ren (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a gene encoding RTVP that has been shown to be up-regulated by p53 using differential display-PCR and subsequently by co-transfection studies. RTVP-1 mRNA is abundant in normal mouse and human prostatic epithelial cells and primary tumors, but is significantly down regulated in metastatic mouse and human prostate cancer. In prostate cancer cells overexpression of the mouse RTVP-1 gene (mRTVP-1) induced apoptosis that was accompanied by increased caspase 8, 9 and 3 activities. mRTVP-1-stimulated apoptosis was also associated with increased levels of bax, bad and activated BID; reduced levels of bcl-2 and bcl-XL; and cytosolic cytochrome c accumulation. Adenoviral-vector-mediated mRTVP-1 expression lead to potent growth suppression and antimetastatic activities in an orthotopic mouse model of prostate cancer in vivo. These therapeutic activities were associated with anti-angiogenic effects and importantly a local and systemic immune response. Accordingly, p53 was linked with suppression of metastasis through its induction of mRTVP-1, which can concurrently induce apoptosis, suppress angiogenesis and stimulate an antitumor immune response. Thus, the invention includes compositions and methods, based on RTVP nucleic acid, polypeptides, and antibodies, for use in the treatment, prevention and detection of neoplastic disease and, specifically, metastatic prostatic neoplasia. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417727 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645454 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Vadim Dudkin (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Justin Miller (New York, New York); David A. Scheinberg (New York, New York); Christophe Antczak (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds having formula (I): wherein W1, W2, R1, R3, R4, R2A and R2B are as defined herein. In another aspect, the invention provides an antibody or antibody fragment which binds specifically to a normal or transformed PSA glycan or glycopeptide of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145002 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645456 | Weltzin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Biologics Co. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Weltzin (Lunenburg, Massachusetts); Thomas P. Monath (Harvard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides attenuated vaccinia virus vaccines that can be used in methods to prevent or treat small pox in patients, as well as methods of obtaining such vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/826680 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/232.100 |
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| US 07645569 | Gardner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin H. Gardner (Dallas, Texas); Carlos A. Amezcua (Dallas, Texas); Paulus J. A. Erbel (Dallas, Texas); Paul B. Card (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Specific binding of a foreign core ligand to a PAS domain, wherein the PAS domain is predetermined, prefolded in its native state, and comprises a hydrophobic core that has no NMR-apparent a priori formed ligand cavity, is determined using NMR spectra of the PAS domain in the presence and absence of a foreign ligand bound within the hydrophobic core. A functional surface binding specificity of a PAS domain is changed by (a) introducing into the hydrophobic core of the PAS domain a foreign ligand of the PAS domain; and (b) detecting a change in the functional surface binding specificity of the PAS domain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677733 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07645584 | Svetlov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Banyan Biomarkers (Alachua, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislav I. Svetlov (Gainesville, Florida); Ronald L. Hayes (Gainesville, Florida); Kevin K. W. Wang (Gainesville, Florida); Monika Oli (Gainesville, Florida); Andrew K. Ottens (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel, sensitive and specific markers for diagnostics and monitoring of liver injuries, including, but not limited to ischemic liver damage, are provided. This includes identification several enzymes of arginine/urea/nitric oxide cycle, sulfuration enzymes and spectrin breakdown related products, among others. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/396406 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Fisher (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Microphthalmia (Mi) while present in melanocytes, a cells and osteoclast, is not normally present in other cells. We have found that Mi is present in the nucleus of melanoma cells. Melanoma can be diagnosed by contacting a malignant cell with a probe for Mi. If the probe identities Mi in the nucleus of the cell, the cell is a melanoma. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943099 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07645590 | Riggins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Riggins (Baltimore, Maryland); Janete Cerruti (Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | Follicular thyroid adenoma (FTA) is distinguished from follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) by comparing amount of an expression product of at least one gene selected from the group consisting of DDIT3, ARG2, ITM1, C1orf24, TARSH, and ACO1 in a test follicular thyroid specimen to a normal control thyroid specimen. The test follicular thyroid specimen is identified as FTA if the amount of expression product of TARSH is equal to or greater in the test follicular thyroid specimen than in the normal control thyroid specimen. The test follicular thyroid specimen is identified as FTC if the amount of expression product of DDIT3, ARG2, ITM1, C1orf24, or ACO1 is greater in the test follicular thyroid specimen than in the normal control thyroid specimen. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/954661 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07645593 | Dertinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Litron Laboratories, Ltd. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Dertinger (Webster, New York); Sian E. Cairns (Clifton Park, New York); Svetlana L. Avlasevich (Webster, New York); Dorothea K. Torous (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates a method for the enumeration of mammalian cell micronuclei, while distinguishing micronuclei from the chromatin of dead and dying cells. The method utilizes differential staining of chromatin from dead and dying cells, to distinguish the chromatin from micronuclei and nuclei that can be detected based upon fluorescent emission and light scatter following exposure to an excitatory light source. Counting of micronuclei events relative to the number of nuclei can be used to assess the DNA-damaging potential of a chemical agent, the DNA-damaging potential of a physical agent, the effects of an agent which can modify endogenously-induced DNA damage, and the effects of an agent which can modify exogenously-induced DNA damage. Kits for practicing the invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244179 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
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| US 07645602 | Stafford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrel W. Stafford (Carrborro, North Carolina); Tao Li (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the productivity of recombinant vitamin K dependent protein expression in host cells. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787072 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
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| US 07645732 | Ye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Ye (Dallas, Texas); Fang Sun (Chesire, Connecticut); Hua Huang (Dallas, Texas); Michael J. Gale (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided to inhibit release of HCV from an HCV-infected cell by contacting the cell with a VLDL assembly inhibitor, and detecting a resultant inhibition of HVC release from the cell. The methods can be used to decrease serum viremia of an HCV-infected person. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657856 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
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| US 07645734 | Chaudhry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hina W. Chaudhry (New York, New York); Debra J. Wolgemuth (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions useful for cardiac therapy comprising a cyclin-associated agent. The present invention also provides kits for use in delivering a cyclin-associated agent to cardiac cells in a subject, comprising the composition of the present invention and a catheter. The present invention additionally provides a methods for enhancing cardiac function; promoting regeneration of cardiac tissue; inducing endogenous myocardial regeneration; and preventing or treating heart failure in a subject in need thereof by augmenting cyclin in cells. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/267431 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07645735 | Folkman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judah Folkman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kashi Javaherian (Lexington, Massachusetts); Christian Becker (Oxford, United Kingdom); Robert D'Amato (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are peptides from the N-terminal of endostatin proteins, including the first histidine of the protein, nucleic acids encoding the peptides, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the nucleic acids and proteins and methods for using the pharmaceutical compositions to treat or prevent endometriosis in a subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/364887 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07645857 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming-Ming Zhou (Greenwich, Connecticut); Mitchell Goldfarb (River Edge, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides fragments of SNT and FGFR which can form a binding complex that is amenable to structural determinations by NMR spectroscopy. The three-dimensional structural data is also included as part of the invention. In addition, the present invention provides methodology for related structure based rational drug design using the three-dimensional data. Nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the fragments are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183567 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
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| US 07645866 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Smith (Gloucester, Massachusetts); Kevin J. McKernan (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods for producing a modified polynucleotide sequence that comprises a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage, methods for determining a polynucleotide sequence comprising a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage, and methods for separating forward and reverse extension products that comprise a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage. The invention also encompasses kits for producing and/or determining the sequence of a modified polynucleotide that comprises a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/476423 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07645871 | McCormick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Justin McCormick (Port Austin, Michigan); Lito Piro (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for identifying compounds that decrease the expression or activity of an overexpressed Sprouty protein in certain cancers. Such compounds can be useful for treating cancers in which a Sprouty protein is overexpressed. Also provided are therapeutic formulations and pharmaceutical formulations for treating cancers characterized by overexpression of a Sprouty protein. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178753 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 07645881 | Karp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (South Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Mitchell Karp (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Guangming Chen (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, compounds that can inhibit viral replication, preferably Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) replication, have been identified, and methods for their use provided. In one aspect of the invention, compounds useful in the treatment or prevention of a viral infection are provided. In another aspect of the invention, compounds useful in the treatment or prevention of HCV infection are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180779 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/114 |
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| US 07645885 | Scanlan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Scanlan (Portland, Oregon); Dmitry V. Kadnikov (Dekalb, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides non-steroidal ligands for the androgen receptor, methods for making non-steroidal ligands of the androgen receptor, compositions of non-steroidal ligands of the androgen receptor and methods of using non-steroidal ligands and compositions of non-steroidal ligands of the androgen receptor for treating or preventing diseases (e.g., prostate cancer) associated with androgen binding to the androgen receptor. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/467908 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/359.100 |
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| US 07645898 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides SARM compounds and uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, a muscle wasting disease and/or disorder or a bone-related disease and/or disorder. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/505499 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 558/414 |
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| US 07645997 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin Zhang (Mountain View, California); Peter D. Olcott (Stanford, California); Craig S. Levin (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved position estimation for a square photodetector having terminals at its corners is provided by first estimating an event position in a coordinate system aligned with the diagonals of the square, and then performing a coordinate rotation to provide an estimated position in a coordinate system aligned with the sides of the square. These two steps can also be mathematically combined. It is believed that the improved accuracy of this position determination approach is a result of a greater degree of linearity in charge division between terminals along diagonal axes than along orthogonal axes of a square detector. Flood images provided by this method have been compared to flood images provided by the conventional Anger method, and substantially less image distortion is observed with the present method than with the Anger method. This reduced distortion can enable automatic crystal segmentation from raw flood image data, which is particularly beneficial in connection with simplifying positron emission tomography (PET) system calibration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/904627 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646199 | Dannels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne R. Dannels (Mentor, Ohio); Chun Jiang Xiao (Richmond Heights, Ohio); Robert C. Gauss (Aurora, Ohio); John T. Carlon (Madison, Ohio); David L. Foxall (Mentor, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | When scanning a patient to generate an image thereof, radio frequency (RF) coil modules are scalably coupled to each other using a plurality of clips to form flat or polygonal coil arrays that are placed on or around the patient or a portion thereof. A user assesses the volume to be imaged, identifies a coil array configuration of suitable size and shape and employs clips of one or more pre-determined angles to construct the identified coil array configuration, which is placed on or about the volume. Coil modules are coupled to a preamplifier interface box (PIB), which provides preamplified coil signal(s) to a patient imaging device, such as an MRI scanner. Small arrays are constructible to accommodate pediatric patients and/or smaller animals. Modules are hermetically sealed, can be sanitized between uses, and discarded at end-of-life. In one aspect, the modular coil array, clips, and PIB are maintained in an isolated contamination zone, separate from the patient imaging device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845827 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646902 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heang-Ping Chan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jun Wei (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sahiner Berkman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Lubomir M. Hadjiiski (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for using computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) for digital tomosynthesis mammograms (DTM) including retrieving a DTM image file having a plurality of DTM image slices; applying a three-dimensional gradient field analysis to the DTM image file to detect lesion candidates; identifying a volume of interest and locating its center at a location of high gradient convergence; segmenting the volume of interest by a three dimensional region growing method; extracting one or more three dimensional object characteristics from the object corresponding to the volume of interest, the three dimensional object characteristics being one of a morphological feature, a gray level feature, or a texture feature; and invoking a classifier to determine if the object corresponding to the volume of interest is a breast cancer lesion or normal breast tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350301 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646904 | Summers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland); Marek Franaszek (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Gheorghe Iordanescu (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Candidate anomalies in an anatomical structure are processed for classification. For example, false positives can be reduced by techniques related to the anomaly's neck, wall thickness associated with the anomaly, template matching performed for the anomaly, or some combination thereof. The various techniques can be combined for use in a classifier, which can determine whether the anomaly is of interest. For example, a computed tomography scan of a colon can be analyzed to determine whether a candidate anomaly is a polyp. The technologies can be applied to a variety of other scenarios involving other anatomical structures. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775011 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07647087 | Miga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael I. Miga (Franklin, Tennessee); Benoit M. Dawant (Nashville, Tennessee); Tuhin K. Sinha (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A cortical surface registration procedure related to a diagnostic or surgical procedure. In one embodiment, the procedure includes the steps of pre-operatively obtaining a first textured point cloud of the cortical surface of a targeted region of a brain of a living subject, intra-operatively obtaining optically a second textured point cloud of the cortical surface of the brain of the living subject, and aligning the first textured point cloud of the cortical surface to the second textured point cloud of the cortical surface so as to register images of the brain of the living subject to the cortical surface of the living subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/497589 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07647088 | Mistretta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Julia Velikina (Madison, Wisconsin); Oliver Wieben (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Projection views of the moving heart and stationary background tissues are acquired and processed to provide corresponding moving tissue projection views. An average image is reconstructed in a conventional manner and a moving tissue image is reconstructed using a highly constrained backprojection method and a composite image formed from selected moving tissue projection views. The average image is then combined with the moving tissue image. The method is disclosed in a cardiac gated MRI scan. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516957 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07647092 | Motz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason T. Motz (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Luis H. Galindo (Fitchberg, Massachusetts); Martin Hunter (Belmont, Massachusetts); Ramachandra Dasari (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael S. Feld (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The system and method of the present invention relates to using spectroscopy, for example, Raman spectroscopic methods for diagnosis of tissue conditions such as vascular disease or cancer. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a system for measuring tissue includes a fiber optic probe having a proximal end, a distal end, and a diameter of 2 mm or less. This small diameter allows the system to be used for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease or other small lumens or soft tissue with minimal trauma. A delivery optical fiber is included in the probe coupled at the proximal end to a light source. A filter for the delivery fibers is included at the distal end. The system includes a collection optical fiber (or fibers) in the probe that collects Raman scattered radiation from tissue, the collection optical fiber is coupled at the proximal end to a detector. A second filter is disposed at the distal end of the collection fibers. An optical lens system is disposed at the distal end of the probe including a delivery waveguide coupled to the delivery fiber, a collection waveguide coupled to the collection fiber and a lens. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/178062 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuh-Haw Sheen (Naperville, Illinois); Apostolos C. Raptis (Downers Grove, Illinois); Hual-Te Chien (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A user-friendly photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) system and process (technique) provides an open-field PAS instrument, unit and device to remotely sense explosives, chemicals and biological agents. The PAS system and process can include: a pulsed tunable laser, such as a CO2 laser, a reflector, such as a parabolic reflector, an acoustic reverberant resonator in which a microphone is installed, and a data acquisition and analysis system. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/699146 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/24.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07644688 | Marriott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig D. Marriott (Clawson, Michigan); Zongxuan Sun (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A valve actuator assembly for an engine includes a movable poppet valve, and movable first and second spool valves. The assembly also includes an intermediate channel interconnecting the first and second spool valve, a driving channel, and a first and second feedback channel interconnecting the second spool valve and the poppet valve. The valve actuator assembly includes an actuator cooperating with the first spool valve to position the first spool valve to selectively allow high pressure fluid flow to the second spool valve and the driving channel to position the engine valve. The valve actuator assembly further includes a first and second on/off valve in respective fluid communication with the first feedback channel and the second feedback channel to selectively exhaust the first and second feedback channel to control motion of the second spool valve. The second spool valve includes a detent feature operable to maintain the second spool valve in a center biased position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417097 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/90.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07644765 | Stegemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Leo Stegemeier (Houston, Texas); Gary Lee Beer (Houston, Texas); Etuan Zhang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a tar sands formation are described herein. Methods may include heating at least a section of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from a plurality of heaters located in the formation. A pressure in the majority of the section may be maintained below a fracture pressure of the formation. The pressure in the majority of the section may be reduced to a selected pressure after the average temperature reaches a temperature that is above 240° C. and is at or below pyrolysis temperatures of hydrocarbons in the section. At least some hydrocarbon fluids may be produced from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975713 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645397 | Parce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Wallace Parce (Palo Alto, California); Paul Bernatis (Sunnyvale, California); Robert Dubrow (San Carlos, California); William P. Freeman (San Mateo, California); Joel Gamoras (Vallejo, California); Shihai Kan (San Jose, California); Andreas Meisel (Redwood City, California); Baixin Qian (Sunnyvale, California); Jeffery A. Whiteford (Belmont, California); Jonathan Ziebarth (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Matrixes doped with semiconductor nanocrystals are provided. In certain embodiments, the semiconductor nanocrystals have a size and composition such that they absorb or emit light at particular wavelengths. The nanocrystals can comprise ligands that allow for mixing with various matrix materials, including polymers, such that a minimal portion of light is scattered by the matrixes. The matrixes of the present invention can also be utilized in refractive index matching applications. In other embodiments, semiconductor nanocrystals are embedded within matrixes to form a nanocrystal density gradient, thereby creating an effective refractive index gradient. The matrixes of the present invention can also be used as filters and antireflective coatings on optical devices and as down-converting layers. Processes for producing matrixes comprising semiconductor nanocrystals are also provided. Nanostructures having high quantum efficiency, small size, and/or a narrow size distribution are also described, as are methods of producing indium phosphide nanostructures and core-shell nanostructures with Group II-VI shells. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/492717 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645437 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Moore (Edgewood, New Mexico); Paul S. Pickard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward J. Parma, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Milton E. Vernon (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Fred Gelbard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roger X. Lenard (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus, constructed of ceramics and other corrosion resistant materials, for decomposing sulfuric acid into sulfur dioxide, oxygen and water using an integrated boiler, superheater, and decomposer unit comprising a bayonet-type, dual-tube, counter-flow heat exchanger with a catalytic insert and a central baffle to increase recuperation efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/873451 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/539 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645532 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amanda M. Weiss (Livonia, New York); Subhasish Mukerjee (Rochester, New York); Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Gregory W. Alexander (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-oxide fuel cell system wherein a reformate combustor is disposed in the reformate flow path between a hydrocarbon reformer and a fuel cell stack. At system start-up, reformate is partially burned within the combustor by admitting combustion air, and the partially-burned reformate is passed through the anode chambers of the stack to warm the anodes. In addition, reformate is passed through a cathode-air heat exchanger to warm combustion air entering the cathode chambers of the stack. The combustor may continue to be supplied with a low level of air during steady-state operation of the SOFC, thereby providing a moist environment within the anode chambers to prevent coking of the anodes and providing additional heat to the reformate. The combustor decouples the reformer from the stack thermodynamically, permitting the reformer and the stack each to run in its own optimal temperature range. |
| FILED | Monday, August 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/909577 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645585 | Apel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analyzing a biological sample by antibody profiling for identifying forensic samples or for detecting the presence of an analyte. In an embodiment of the invention, the analyte is a drug, such as marijuana, Cocaine (crystalline tropane alkaloid), methamphetamine, methyltestosterone, or mesterolone. The method comprises attaching antigens to a surface of a solid support in a preselected pattern to form an array wherein locations of the antigens are known; contacting the array with the biological sample such that a portion of antibodies in the sample reacts with and binds to the antigens in the array to form immune complexes; washing away antibodies that do form immune complexes; and detecting the immune complexes, to form an antibody profile. Forensic samples are identified by comparing a sample from an unknown source with a sample from a known source. Further, an assay, such as a test for illegal drug use, can be coupled to a test for identity such that the results of the assay can be positively correlated to the subject's identity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691096 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645902 | Stephens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances Helen Stephens (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Ralph Thomas Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of dehydrogenating an amine-borane using an acid-catalyzed reaction. The method generates hydrogen and produces a solid polymeric [R1R2B—NR3R4]n product. The method of dehydrogenating amine-boranes may be used to generate H2 for portable power sources. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473510 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646126 | Trzynadlowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski (Reno, Nevada); Ling Qin (Smithtown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent-magnet switched-flux (PMSF) device has a ferromagnetic outer stator mounted to a shaft about a central axis extending axially through the PMSF device. Pluralities of top and bottom stator poles are respectively mounted in first and second circles, radially outwardly in first and second transverse planes extending from first and second sections of the central axis adjacent to an inner surface of the ferromagnetic outer stator. A ferromagnetic inner rotor is coupled to the shaft and has i) a rotor core having a core axis co-axial with the central axis; and ii) first and second discs having respective outer edges with first and second pluralities of permanent magnets (PMs) mounted in first and second circles, radially outwardly from the rotor core axis in the first and second transverse planes. The first and second pluralities of PMs each include PMs of alternating polarity. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135867 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646130 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan G. Holmes (Clarkston, Michigan); Richard A. Ordo (Greenwood, Indiana); Ahmed M. El-Antably (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A stator assembly is provided for an electric motor having a longitudinal axis. The stator assembly includes at least one stator segment having a first end member having a stator tooth and at least one of a stator shoe and a back iron. A second end member is positioned with respect to the first end member and has a stator tooth and at least one of a stator shoe and a back iron. A winding generally circumscribes the stator tooth of the first end member and the stator tooth of the second end member. The first and second end members have a parting line generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the motor. A motor incorporating the stator assembly of the present invention is disclosed. Additionally, a method of forming the stator assembly of the present invention is described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/380343 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/216.7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646272 | Schmierer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Schmierer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); F. Coyne Prenger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dallas D. Hill (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A freely oriented portable superconducting magnet is disclosed. Coolant is supplied to the superconducting magnet from a repository separate from the magnet, enabling portability of the magnet. A plurality of support assemblies structurally anchor and thermally isolate the magnet within a thermal shield. A plurality of support assemblies structurally anchor and thermally isolate the thermal shield within a vacuum vessel. The support assemblies restrain movement of the magnet resulting from energizing and cooldown, as well as from changes in orientation, enabling the magnet to be freely orientable. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832669 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646473 | Ramsey, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Ramsey, Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick Finley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brad Melton (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, computer software, and a method of determining position inside a building comprising selecting on a PDA at least two walls of a room in a digitized map of a building or a portion of a building, pointing and firing a laser rangefinder at corresponding physical walls, transmitting collected range information to the PDA, and computing on the PDA a position of the laser rangefinder within the room. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509161 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646721 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark G. Megerian (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Hardware faults location in a data communications network of a parallel computer. Such a parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes and a data communications network that couples the compute nodes for data communications and organizes the compute node as a tree. Locating hardware faults includes identifying a next compute node as a parent node and a root of a parent test tree, identifying for each child compute node of the parent node a child test tree having the child compute node as root, running a same test suite on the parent test tree and each child test tree, and identifying the parent compute node as having a defective link connected from the parent compute node to a child compute node if the test suite fails on the parent test tree and succeeds on all the child test trees. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279586 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Kaner (Pacific Palisades, California); John J. Gilman (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Osmium, when combined with boron alone, or in combination with rhenium, ruthenium or iron, produces compounds that are ultra-hard and incompressible. These osmium diboride compounds are useful as a substitute to for other super or ultra-hard materials that are used in cutting tools and as abrasives. The osmium diboride compounds have the formula OsxM1-xB2 where M is rhenium, ruthenium or iron and x is from 0.01 to 1, except when x is not 1 and M is rhenium, x is from 0.01 to 0.3. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/578029 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrasive tool making process, material, or composition 051/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645327 | Pfeffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Pfeffer (Teaneck, New Jersey); Rajesh Dave (Short Hill, New Jersey); Stanislav Dukhin (Goldens Bridge, New York); Jose A. Quevedo (Brick, New Jersey); Qun Yu (South Bound Brook, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for achieving filtration are provided that utilize agglomerates or granules of nanoparticles. The agglomerates or granules of nanoparticles may be used as and/or incorporated into a HEPA filtration system to remove solid or liquid submicron-sized particles, e.g., MPPS, in an efficient and efficacious manner. The filtration systems and methods are provided that utilize agglomerates or granules in a size range of about 100-500 microns. The agglomerates or granules of nanoparticles exhibit a hierarchical fractal structure. In the case of agglomerates of nanoparticles, porosities of 0.9 or greater are generally employed, and for granules of nanoparticles, porosities that are smaller than 0.9 may be employed. Filter media formed from the agglomerates or granules may be formed from materials such as carbon black and fumed silica, and may be employed in baffled or non-baffled filtration apparatus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416034 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645925 | Conkling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Conkling (Fuquay Varina, North Carolina); Wen Song (San Diego, California); Nandini Mendu (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | DNA encoding a plant quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase (QPRTase) enzyme, and constructs comprising such DNA are provided. Methods of altering quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase expression are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416574 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/317.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645933 | Narkis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd R. Narkis (Indianapolis, Indiana); Matt S. Marcus (Madison, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark A. Eriksson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube Schottky barrier photovoltaic cells and methods and apparatus for making the cells are provided. The photovoltaic cells include at least one contact made from a first contact material, at least one contact made from a second contact material and a plurality of photoconducting carbon nanotubes bridging the contacts. A Schottky barrier is formed at the interface between the first contact material and the carbon nanotubes while at the interface between the second contact material and the carbon nanotubes, a Schottky barrier for the opposite carrier is formed, or a small, or no Schottky barrier is formed. It is the Schottky barrier asymmetry that allows the photo-excited electron-hole pairs to escape from the carbon nanotube device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070834 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646918 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Yang Lin (Madison, Wisconsin); Nigel Boston (Madison, Wisconsin); Yu Hen Hu (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An image is analyzed to locate an object appearing in the image. A contour of that object is extracted from the image and normalized. Based on the normalized contour, one or more summation invariant values are determined and compared to templates comprising one or more summation invariants for each of one or more target objects. The determined summation invariants for the extracted object are compared to summation invariants for the target objects. When the summation invariants for the extracted object sufficiently match the summation invariants determined from an image of a target object, the extracted object is recognized as that target object. The summation invariants can be semi-local summation invariants determined for each point along the normalized contour, based on a number of points neighboring that point on the normalized contour. The semi-local summation invariants are determined as a function of the x and y coordinates of those points. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328862 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/199 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07647642 | Erickson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Erickson (Norwich, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Copyrighted electronic media are packaged in a secure electronic format, and registered on associated registration server, which serves to provide on-line licensing and copyright management for that media. Users are connected to the server, e.g., through a computer network or the Internet, to enable data transfers and to transact licenses to utilize the media. Packaged electronic media are typically created by an author or derivative user of the work. Once the packaged media is registered on the server, the media is made available for limited use and possible license through an authorization server. This limited use is specified within the minimum permissions data set assigned to each packaged media. Without a license, users are typically permitted to view the packaged media—through a system which unpackages the media—but cannot save or otherwise transfer the media without obtaining auxiliary permissions to do so from the authorization server. The electronic media is authenticated through digital signatures and optional encryption. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/925432 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07646249 | Hajimiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-differential amplifier is provided. The cross-differential amplifier includes an inductor connected to a direct current power source at a first terminal. A first and second switch, such as transistors, are connected to the inductor at a second terminal. A first and second amplifier are connected at their supply terminals to the first and second switch. The first and second switches are operated to commutate the inductor between the amplifiers so as to provide an amplified signal while limiting the ripple voltage on the inductor and thus limiting the maximum voltage imposed across the amplifiers and switches. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075194 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07647543 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tak-kwong Ng (Yorktown, Virginia); Jeffrey A. Herath (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated system mitigates the effects of a single event upset (SEU) on a reprogrammable field programmable gate array (RFPGA). The system includes (i) a RFPGA having an internal configuration memory, and (ii) a memory for storing a configuration associated with the RFPGA. Logic circuitry programmed into the RFPGA and coupled to the memory reloads a portion of the configuration from the memory into the RFPGA's internal configuration memory at predetermined times. Additional SEU mitigation can be provided by logic circuitry on the RFPGA that monitors and maintains synchronized operation of the RFPGA's digital clock managers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535574 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07647231 | Kuebert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Kuebert (Warrenton, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); William J. Dowling (Venice, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The principles of the present invention provide the ability to flexibly change the delivery point and time for a mail item, while the item is en route. The recipient, sender, or mailer may flexibly change the delivery point of the item alone or in combination with each other. While an item is en route between the sending point and the delivery point, a notification is sent to indicate that the item is in transit. In response, the delivery of the item may be changed. For example, the destination specified by the sender (e.g., the delivery address written on the item) may be changed or a delivery time may be specified. The item is then delivered to the new delivery point and/or at the specified delivery time. |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/976039 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07647504 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Wilson (Collierville, Tennessee); Robert F. Snapp (Memphis, Tennessee); David J. Payne (Collierville, Tennessee); Edgar H. Gillock, II (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for efficiently retrieving secured data by securely pre-processing provided access information, provides data store security based on a single piece of access information, which is generally public, such as the proper name of a business or individual that is used to retrieve mailing address information. The access information is hashed for access to a secured data store and efficient access and low data storage for permutations of input access information are provided by verifying the presence of an entry for the hashed access information in a look-up table. If an entry is found, the data store is accessed using the hashed access information, but if an entry is not found, another look-up table corresponding to another information type may be tried or the input access information permuted and retried. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638445 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07645818 | Jong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Jong (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to the preparation of an ionic polymer composite material comprising a protein and carbohydrate-containing vegetable material component that serves as a reinforcement agent for the composite. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the vegetable seed component is selected from the group of soy spent flakes, defatted soy flour, or soy protein concentrate with ionic polymers and the ionic polymer is carboxylated poly(styrene-butadiene). The composites have a significantly higher elastic modulus when compared with base polymer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/823648 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07645581 | Knapp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Knapp (Palo Alto, California); Jill M. Baker (Redwood City, California); Andrea W. Chow (Los Altos, California); Anne R. Kopf-Sill (Portola Valley, California); Michael A. Spaid (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining nucleic acid fragmentation status are provided. A nucleic acid of interest in a reaction mixture is contacted with two or more different probes complementary to sites separated by a point of potential fragmentation. The probes each comprise a detectable marker. The nucleic acid of interest is flowed into a detection region, where two or more coincident detectable marker signals from the probes are detected. Fragmentation status of the nucleic acid of interest is determined, coincident detection of signals from two or more of the different probes indicating the nucleic acid of interest is not fragmented between the probes. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867626 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07644585 | Haugen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David James Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-stage turbocharging system recovers exhaust energy that is conventionally lost in bypassing exhaust flow from one stage to another in a multi-stage turbocharging system. The exhaust energy is preserved through converting a portion of the exhaust energy of the bypassed flow from pressure to kinetic energy (velocity) by passing the bypassed flow through a VGT vane outlet or other variable geometry valve/nozzle, and then not allowing the accelerated flow to dissipate energy before reaching the subsequent stage's turbine wheel, where the accelerated flow may then be converted to a mechanical rotational force by the lower pressure turbine's wheel. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/174391 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/612 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07646249 | Hajimiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-differential amplifier is provided. The cross-differential amplifier includes an inductor connected to a direct current power source at a first terminal. A first and second switch, such as transistors, are connected to the inductor at a second terminal. A first and second amplifier are connected at their supply terminals to the first and second switch. The first and second switches are operated to commutate the inductor between the amplifiers so as to provide an amplified signal while limiting the ripple voltage on the inductor and thus limiting the maximum voltage imposed across the amplifiers and switches. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075194 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07646916 | O'Hara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. O'Hara (Columbus, Mississippi); Suyoung Seo (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for feature evaluation that include an evaluation system configured to consider extracted features and reference features and an evaluation system configured to quantify accuracy, quality, and correspondence between the reference features and the extracted features. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279831 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07644891 | Aston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Aston (Brea, California); Michael Langmack (Huntington Beach, California); Torger J. Totusek (La Palma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for releasing a spacecraft payload at a substantially constant velocity are disclosed. A linear actuator is used that includes a spring loaded and fluid filled chamber. The spring drives against a piston within the chamber that includes a control orifice that restricts the fluid flowing from one side of the piston to the other and results in a substantially constant damped motion of the piston. The piston drives a rod from the chamber that is attached to a capture device that holds a flange of the spacecraft payload. The capture device moves along a linear guide toward an open end. Spring loaded latches are held in a closed position by the side walls of the guide as the capture device moves. The latches release the flange as exit the open end of the guide. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754130 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645577 | Adderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elisabeth Adderson (Memphis, Tennessee); John Bohnsack (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides isolated nucleic acids encoding polypeptides comprising amino acid sequences of streptococcal matrix adhesion (Ema) polypeptides. The invention provides nucleic acids encoding Group B streptococcal Ema polypeptides EmaA, EmaB, EmaC, EmaD and EmaE. The present invention provides isolated polypeptides comprising amino acid sequences of Group B streptococcal polypeptides EmaA, EmaB, EmaC, EmaD and EmaE, including analogs, variants, mutants, derivatives and fragments thereof. Ema homologous polypeptides from additional bacterial species, including S. pneumoniae, S. pyogenes, E. faecalis and C. diptheriae are also provided. Antibodies to the Ema polypeptides and immunogenic fragments thereof are also provided. The present invention relates to the identification and prevention of infections by virulent forms of streptococci. This invention provides pharmaceutical compositions, immunogenic compositions, vaccines, and diagnostic and therapeutic methods of use of the isolated polypeptides, antibodies thereto, and nucleic acids. Assays for compounds which modulate the polypeptides of the present invention for use in therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493705 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07645996 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Yang (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Ulrich Bonne (Hopkins, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A microscale planar device for detecting particles under high pressure with high sensitivity. The device may have an anode and cathode with an insulator situated between them. The insulator may have a number of holes, cavities or channels between the anode and cathode. There may be conductive rings at the perimeters of openings of the channels on the anode side of the insulator. These rings may be a part of the anode. An ion may be attracted into one of the channels where it interacts with a gas to result in an avalanche breakdown. The breakdown may be detected by instrumentation connected to the anode and cathode. The lateral and/or longitudinal dimensions of the channels may be such that the device may operate as a detector with ambient air as a gas under its pressure of about one atmosphere. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/553948 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07646173 | Coleman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Coleman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery safety monitor system. The system includes at least one battery, at least one zener diode, at least one safety device, a microcontroller, a display device and a power supply. The at least one battery comprises at least one cell string capable of outputting voltage signals. The at least one zener diode is operatively coupled to the at least one battery cell string. The at least one safety device is operatively coupled to the at least one battery cell string. The microcontroller is operatively coupled to the at least one zener diode. The display device is operatively coupled to the microcontroller. The power supply is operatively coupled to the microcontroller and the display device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802562 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07647089 | Bond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Essex Julian Bond (Madison, Wisconsin); Susan Carol Hagness (Madison, Wisconsin); Barry Dean Van Veen (McFarland, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system of determining a surface location defining an interface between an object to image and an antenna is provided. The method uses geometric principles and the fact that an impedance mismatch at the interface results in significant reflection. A propagation time from the surface to each antenna of a plurality of antennas is estimated. The propagation time locates the surface on a circle centered at each antenna and having a radius calculated using the propagation time. A tangent line connects the intersection of adjacent circles with the surface. The surface is estimated to be located at the tangent point where the circle and the shared tangent line between adjacent antennas intersect. Multiple tangent points may be averaged for each interior antenna. A curve is fit to the set of tangent points to provide an estimate of the surface location. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340214 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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