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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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| US 07650710 | Conroy 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) | Paul J. Conroy (Chruchville, Maryland); James M. Garner (Belair, Maryland); Charles Leveritt (Jarretsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A body of iron, steel or other such ferrous material is protected from thermochemical erosion by a layer of an iron nitride having a relatively low nitrogen content. The atomic percentage of nitrogen in the iron nitride layer is no greater than 20%, and in specific embodiments is in the range of 10-15%. The nitride layer may have a layer of a refractory material deposited thereatop. Some refractory materials include metals such as chromium. The invention has specific utility for protecting gun barrels, turbines, internal combustion engines, drilling equipment, machine tools, aerospace systems and chemical reactors which are exposed to extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. Specifically disclosed is a gun barrel which incorporates the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/859153 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/76.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07650819 | Haynes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Haynes (Arlington, Texas); David L. Williams (Colleyville, Texas); Michael R. Smith (Colleyville, Texas); Robert J. Pascal (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable stiffness support has a support housing that is configured to adjust the orientation of an internal elastomer assembly. The support housing includes an adjustment mechanism, and the elastomer assembly includes an outer ring that encircles an elastomeric material, a central bushing embedded in the elastomeric material, and a plurality of shims embedded in the elastomeric material in a parallel planar fashion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/515391 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/606.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07650827 | Spooner, Jr. |
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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) | George E. Spooner, Jr. (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A tool conforms at one end to an annular nozzle end of a rocket and conforms peripherally to a tube of a launcher for the rocket so that the tool may be inserted into the tube to urge the rocket precisely into a loaded position without slipping from the nozzle and damaging elements inside the nozzle. The tool is configured to receive a blast paddle of the launcher when the paddle is pivoted across the tube to engage a detent and an igniter contact with the rocket in the loaded position. The tool is configured to urge the rocket from the loaded position for unloading from the tube and is constructed of static dissipative material. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/807583 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07650848 | Brennan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony B Brennan (Gainesville, Florida); Ronald H. Baney (Gainesville, Florida); Michelle L. Carman (Ocala, Florida); Thomas G. Estes (Marietta, Georgia); Adam W. Feinberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Leslie H. Wilson (Gainesville, Florida); James F. Schumacher (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An article has a surface topography for resisting bioadhesion of organisms and includes a base article having a surface. A composition of the surface includes a polymer. The surface has a topography comprising a pattern defined by a plurality of spaced apart features attached to or projected into the base article. The plurality of features each have at least one microscale dimension and at least one neighboring feature having a substantially different geometry. An average feature spacing between adjacent ones of the features is between 10 μm and 100 μm in at least a portion of the surface. The surface topography can be numerically represented using at least one sinusoidal function. In one embodiment, the surface can comprise a coating layer disposed on the base article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567103 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07650910 | Welle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Welle (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-hydraulic valve apparatus includes a flow channel, a hydraulic control channel defining an electro-hydraulic valve junction where the hydraulic control channel is adjacent to the flow channel, a flexible wall between the flow channel and the hydraulic control channel at the electro-hydraulic valve junction, and Peltier devices adjacent to the hydraulic control channel on opposite sides of the electro-hydraulic valve junction for controllably applying a hydraulic force against the flexible wall repositioning the flexible wall in relation to the flow channel to selectively close or open the electro-hydraulic valve apparatus. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150551 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/828 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07650926 | Tholen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan M. Tholen (Kennebunk, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A blade outer air seal (BOAS) casting core has first and second end portions and a plurality of legs. Of these legs, first legs each have: a first end joining the first end portion; a main body portion; and a second end. Second legs each have: a second end joining the second end portion; a main body portion; and a first portion. At least one of the second legs may have its first end joining the core first end portion and a plurality of apertures in the main body portion. Alternatively, at least one of the first legs may have its second end joining the core second end portion and a plurality of apertures in its main body portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529120 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/516 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651051 | Agrawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil K. Agrawal (Newark, Delaware); Sean H. McIntosh (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Zaeem Khan (Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle with wings and a mechanism for causing a flapping motion in wings. Each wing structure comprises a wing and a wing spar coupled to a follower via a resilient member. Each wing carrier is pivotally connected to the body and is configured to restrain lateral movement and permit rotation of the wing spar about a feathering axis. A biasing member provides torsional bias to each wing spar. A linkage, driven by an actuator, transmits cyclic motion that rotates the wing carrier about a flapping axis, which moves the follower along a follower path. A guide attached to the vehicle body lies in the path of each follower, and the follower and guide are shaped such that each wing spar has a first rotational position about its axis along a first portion of the follower path and a second rotational position along a second portion of the follower path. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593863 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651305 | Boyd 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) | Eric R. Boyd (Ramsey, New Jersey); Mark A. Heinrichs (Brielle, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A retractable fitting assembly may include a cover that is rotatable around a first axis between closed and open positions, and a fitting that is rotatable around a second axis between closed and open positions. The first and second axes may be spaced apart and generally parallel. The direction of rotation of the fitting from the closed position to the open position may be opposite the direction of rotation of the cover from the closed position to the open position. In the closed position of the cover and the open position of the fitting, at least a portion of the cover abuts the fitting to thereby hinder rotation of the fitting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/456267 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651543 | Marple 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) | Virgil A. Marple (Maple Plain, Minnesota); Bernard A. Olson (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Alan W. Hall (King George, Virginia); Edward A. Lustig, Jr. (Charlotte Hill, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar omni-directional inlet assembly is provided for installing on a device, such as a dry filter unit, that draws a fluid medium, such as ambient air, to collect particulate matter suspended in the fluid medium onto a filter. The inlet assembly includes an annular platform removably positionable on the device; an annular nozzle to direct the air from the platform; an annular impactor disposed downstream of the nozzle; a housing that disposes the filter downstream of the impactor; and an exit for passing the air from the filter to the device. The impactor presents a flow obstacle for a portion of the particulate matter. The housing directs the air through the filter. The housing includes a base with a first cavity and a lid with a second cavity such that the filter is disposable between the first and second cavities. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482295 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651600 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ying-Chih Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a device and methods of use thereof in concentrating a species of interest and/or controlling liquid flow in a device. The methods, inter-alia, make use of a device comprising microchannels, which are linked to nanochannels, whereby induction of an electric field in the nanochannel results in ion depletion in the linkage region between the microchannel and nanochannel, and a space charge layer is formed within the microchannel, which provides an energy barrier for said species of interest which enables its concentration in a region in the microchannel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338885 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651667 | McVey 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); Steris Inc. (Temecula, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iain F. McVey (Lakewood, Ohio); Lewis I. Schwartz (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Michael A. Centanni (Parma, Ohio); George W. Wagner (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrogen peroxide is vaporized (20) and mixed (30) with ammonia gas in a ratio between 1:1 and 1:0.0001. The peroxide and ammonia vapor mixture are conveyed to a treatment area (10) to neutralize V-type, H-type, or G-type chemical agents, pathogens, biotoxins, spores, prions, and the like. The ammonia provides the primary deactivating agent for G-type agents with the peroxide acting as an accelerator. The peroxide acts as the primary agent for deactivating V-type and H-type agents, pathogens, biotoxins, spores, and prions. The ammonia acts as an accelerator in at least some of these peroxide deactivation reactions. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401733 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651760 | Gleason et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen K. Gleason (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gregory C. Rutledge (Newton, Massachusetts); Malancha Gupta (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Minglin Ma (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yu Mao (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a versatile method to produce superhydrophobic surfaces by combining electrospinning and initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD). A wide variety of surfaces, including electrospun polyester fibers, may be coated by the inventive method. In one embodiment, poly(caprolactone) (PCL) was electrospun and then coated by iCVD with a thin layer of hydrophobic polymerized perfluoroalkyl ethyl methacrylate (PPFEMA). In certain embodiments said coated surfaces exhibit water contact angles of above 150 degrees, oleophobicities of at least Grade-8 and sliding angles of less than 12 degrees (for a water droplet of about 20 mg). |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229062 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/292.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651777 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Rishon le Zion, Israel); Seong-Sik Chang (Chicago, Illinois); Seng-Tiong Ho (Wheeling, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/254335 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651819 | Long 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) | Jeffrey W. Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Debra R. Rolison (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for use in energy storage comprising a nanostructured mesoporous electrically conductive substrate coated with a metal oxide and an ultrathin conformal polymer coating on the metal oxide wherein said electrode has a mesoporous structure. Also disclosed is the related method for making an electrode for use in energy storage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/589729 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651821 | Tyrrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Tyrrell (Nashua, New Hampshire); Michael Fritze (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method forms patterns on a substrate by exposing the substrate a first time and exposing the substrate a second time using a mask containing gray-tone features. The gray-tone features locally adjust an exposure dose in regions corresponding to features defined in the primary exposure. Moreover, the gray-tone features enable the forming of features having different critical dimensions on a substrate. The gray-tone features may be implemented as sub-resolution features formed by pixellation. The gray-tone features may also be realized by the local size bias of trim features on the trim mask that have dimensions near the resolution limit of the exposure system. The trim mask containing gray-tone features may have regions with different transmissivities or generate varying illumination intensities. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102133 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651998 | MacDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gene H. MacDonald (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert E. Johnston (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for delivering a nucleotide sequence to a cell using an alphavirus vector that is complexed with an enhancing antibody that specifically binds to the alphavirus vector. Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis vectors are preferred. The cell may be a cell in vitro or in vivo. Alternatively, the cell may be removed from a subject, administered the alphavirus vector ex vivo and then administered to a subject. Antigen-presenting cells are preferred, with dendritic cells being more preferred. Also provided are methods of producing an immune response in a subject, e.g., for producing an immune response against an antigen associated with a pathogen or for immunotherapy of cancer of tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/069305 |
| 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 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652001 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); W. Brad Wan (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment, prevention, or amelioration of a variety of medical disorders associated with viral infections, cell proliferation and bone metabolism. The compounds provided herein are alkyl esters of phosphonates. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053198 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/75 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652078 | Carlo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Carlo (Monroe, New York); Eva M. Maya (Madrid, Spain); Arthur W. Snow (Alexandria, Virginia); Richard G. S. Pong (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | High concentrations of dye may be prepared in combination with thermoplastic polymers and used in optical polymers as monomeric and dimeric molecular solutions. The method of preparing high concentration levels allows the control over the aggregation of dye molecules that is required to maintain effective nonlinear operation. The present invention is applicable to many systems and is essential to the successful production of working optical limiting devices and other optically transparent polymeric devices, as well as other photonic applications, such as nonlinear optics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746499 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07652084 — Nanocomposite fibers and film containing polyolefin and surface-modified carbon nanotubes
| US 07652084 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Reseach Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Benjamin S. Hsiao (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modifying carbon nanotubes with organic compounds are disclosed. The modified carbon nanotubes have enhanced compatibility with polyolefins. Nanocomposites of the organo-modified carbon nanotubes and polyolefins can be used to produce both fibers and films having enhanced mechanical and electrical properties, especially the elongation-to-break ratio and the toughness of the fibers and/or films. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570553 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652253 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Jianming Dai (Troy, New York); Xu Xie (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a remotely-located object includes the step of illuminating at least a portion of a targeted object with electromagnetic radiation to induce a phase transformation in the targeted object, wherein the phase transformation produces an emitter plasma, which emits terahertz radiation. The method also includes the step of ionizing a volume of an ambient gas to produce a sensor plasma by focusing an optical probe beam in the volume and the step of detecting an optical component of resultant radiation produced from an interaction of the focused optical probe beam and the terahertz radiation in the sensor plasma. Detecting an optical component of the resultant radiation emitted by the sensor plasma facilitates detection of a characteristic fingerprint of the targeted object imposed onto the terahertz radiation produced as a result of the induced phase transformation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835152 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652278 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuan-Neng Chen (White Plains, New York); Lia Krusin-Elbaum (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Chung H. Lam (Peekskill, New York); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable via structure is provided as well as a method of fabricating the same. The inventive programmable via a semiconductor substrate. An oxide layer such as a thermal oxide is located on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A patterned heating material is located on a surface of the oxide layer. The inventive structure also includes a patterned dielectric material having a least one via filled with a phase change material (PCM). The patterned dielectric material including the PCM filled via is located on a surface of the patterned heating material. A patterned diffusion barrier is located on an exposed surface of said at least one via filled with the phase change material. The inventive structure also includes contact vias that extend through the patterned dielectric material. The contact vias are filled with a conductive material which also extends onto the upper surface of the patterned dielectric material. A conductive material which serves as the input of the device is located atop the patterned diffusion barrier that is located directly above the via that is filled with the phase change material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/612631 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652396 | Poroseva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Svetlana V. Poroseva (Tallahassee, Florida); Mohammed Yousuff Hussaini (Tallahassee, Florida); Stephen L. Woodruff (Tehachapi, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to systems and methods for enhancing the ability of a power delivery system to withstand the occurrence of multiple failure events. Specifically, the invention is directed to a power delivery system employing a web-type network topology for a generator bus where at least two power generating sources, such as generators, are connected by an external ring, wherein the external ring is comprised of a plurality of ring segments. A first set of cables connects each power generating element with a central point and a second set of cables connects the center of each ring segment with the central point, wherein power is deliverable to the central point via at least one of the external ring, first set of cables and the second set of cables. Additional internal rings of cables may also be utilized to connect the first and second sets of cables. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781798 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652488 | Lopatin |
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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) | Craig M. Lopatin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invented method for measuring the health of a solid rocket propellant includes embedding at least one piezoelectric capacitance sensor in the propellant, where the capacitance of the sensor is a function of a modulus of the propellant, and where the position is selected to measure manifestations of stress failure as a consequence of changes in the shear modulus. The capacitance of the sensor is measured at a predetermined frequency. The capacitance of the piezoelectric capacitance sensor is converted into a digital representation which is then converted into the digital representation of a modulus (or gradient modulus). In subsequent analysis, the modulus (or gradient of the modulus) is correlated to the health of the solid rocket propellant. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801765 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/681 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652532 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingyuan Li (La Jolla, California); Peter Asbeck (Del Mar, California); Ian Galton (Del Mar, California); Lawrence E. Larson (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for estimating power amplifier nonlinearity using simple correlation techniques. Methods and devices of the invention can monitor a power amplifier that has digitally modulated inputs and an output containing more than one signal stream. A preferred method of the invention creates a test signal by forming the products of several pseudorandom noise sequences from the digitally modulated inputs to the power amplifier. Nonlinear contributions of the power amplifier output are determined by cross-correlating the test signal and the total output signal of the power amplifier. In preferred embodiments, the determined nonlinear contributions of the power amplifier are used to introduce corrective predistortion in the power amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515584 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652549 | Hadden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve L. Hadden (Peoria, Arizona); Paul D. Buchele (Glendale, Arizona); David Osterberg (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic latch includes a stator having first and second permanent magnets disposed on either side of a center portion. Each of the first and second permanent magnets has at least two associated poles. A rotor has at least one magnetic region. The rotor is configured for rotation about an axis of the stator between a first latched position and a second latched position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782399 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/234 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Lynn Kurtz (Gainesville, Florida); Philip Russell Carlson (Gainesville, Florida); Charles Henry Overman, IV (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments pertain to methods of improving the performance of a frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW) radar system and improving the value of the information provided the FMCW system. In an embodiment, the IF level is monitored while sweeping the frequency of the system through at least a portion of the frequency range of the system and the frequency is set to produce the minimum IF level. Embodiments expedite the adaptation of the comb filter to the signal when the system is turned on. In an embodiment, a method of quickly determining the largest peaks in the RDM is implemented. Embodiments relate to a method for processing a radar signal that classifies two or more targets. An embodiment classifies a human target or other target(s) using amplitude values in time-consecutive range-Doppler maps. An embodiment processes a radar signal for improving the performance of FMCW detection, tracking, and classification algorithms. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809707 |
| 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 342/76 |
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| US 07652626 | Potenziani, II 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) | Ernest Potenziani, II (Tinton Falls, New Jersey); Michael T. Cummings (Howell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A direction-finding co-linear antenna is provided by collinearly aligning an exposed reference antenna with a primary antenna that is surrounded by a dielectric sleeve with a predetermined thickness and the reference and primary antennas are separated by a ground plane. The direction-finding co-linear antenna provides a simple, light-weight and inexpensive arrangement with fewer antennas and reduced antenna spacing that avoids unwanted detection because of a smaller electronic footprint that consists of the area of a single antenna plus a few inches of dielectric material in the sleeves rather than four widely spaced antennas positioned in an array. The direction-finding co-linear antenna apparatus also requires less electronic processing because the antenna only needs to address the RF from two antennas rather than from four or five antennas in a conventional array arrangement. The present invention also encompasses a direction-finding co-linear antenna system and a method for determining the unknown location of a signal transmission source with a co-linear direction-finding antenna. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/001596 |
| 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 342/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652754 | Barrows |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey L. Barrows (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual sensor for generating an array of binarized feature signals based on a visual field is provided. The visual sensor comprises an array of photoreceptor circuits capable of generating photoreceptor signals based on the visual field, an array of feature detectors capable of generating feature signals based on the photoreceptor signals, and a reconfigurable binary generator array capable of generating binarized feature signals based on the feature signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/905851 |
| 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 356/28 |
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| US 07652767 | Harsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sporian Microsystems, Inc. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Harsh (Westminster, Colorado); Brian Schaible (Longmont, Colorado); Wenge Zhang (Louisville, Colorado); William Garrett (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved optical sensor and methods for measuring the presence of various materials or constituents in a fluid sample uses reactive material(s) in a fluid environment. The reactive materials have optical properties that change in the presence of a target material that may be present in the environment. An optical emitter generates light that is directed to the reactive materials, and one or more optical detectors receive reflected light from one or more interfaces in the optical path between the emitter and the detector(s), one or more of the interfaces having a reactive material. The reactive material(s), emitter(s), and detector(s) are selected based on the desired target material to be sensed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/551158 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653122 | Siriwongpairat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wipawee Siriwongpairat (College Park, Maryland); Zhu Han (Vienna, Virginia); K. J. Ray Liu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A power controlled sub-band assignment and power allocation among users in a multiband UWB system aims to reduce power consumption without compromising performance. The overall transmit power is minimized under the practical constraints, including packet error rate, transmission rate, and FCC regulations. To insure the system feasibility in variable channel conditions, an optimization scheme manages the assignment of UWB devices to respective channels subject to their suitability to the requested users' transmission rates. An inexpensive suboptimal approach reduces the complexity of the optimization procedure and achieves a comparable performance to those of the complex full search optimization routine. The suboptimal scheme obtains the feasible solutions adaptively when the channels assignment, initially calculated under the optimization criteria, is not feasible for the user's rate requirement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/443040 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653199 | Renes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC. UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Renes (Erlangen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods for establishing a secret key to encrypt and share data using quantum signals represented by an equiangular spherical code and using classical signals in authenticating the key. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194092 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653264 | Hero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred Hero (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Huzefa Neemuchwala (Mountain View, California); Paul Carson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles Raymond Meyer (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method determines alignment of images in high dimensional feature space. The method comprises registering a source image of a reference modality to a target image of a second modality with an algorithm based upon a measure of information affinity present in both of the source and target image to create a registered image. Next, a plurality of feature vector are extracted from the registered image for each of the source and target images and attributes of the joint distribution of feature vector are captured using an entropic graph spanning the features. Edge lengths are between proximal feature vectors are extracted from the entropic graph and a similarity measure of one of an α-divergence estimate or an α-affinity estimate is constructed based upon these edge lengths to quantify whether the source and target image are sufficiently registered. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276537 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653464 | Mitra |
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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) | Atindra K. Mitra (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid air-ground vehicle design that cycles through a regenerative energy phase during a ground-based trajectory. The regenerative ground-based trajectory, in turn, produces energy for purposes of implementing another air-based trajectory cycle. The design significantly improves the versatility and endurance of robotic position-adaptive sensor designs. The radar (or electro-optic) sensors on the platform perform surveillance operations during both the ground and air trajectories of the hybrid air/ground vehicle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398738 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653605 | Jackson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary M. Jackson (Gambrills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method of behavior prediction includes selecting behavior examples having corresponding antecedent candidates, identifying source text descriptions describing the behavior examples, automatically extracting predictors as common themes across all statements and all behavior examples with a language-independent theme extraction process, flagging each behavior example to indicate a presence or absence of the corresponding extracted antecedents in each of the source text descriptions and creating a data array consisting of antecedent columns and behavior example rows, submitting the data array to a pattern classifier to extract patterns among the antecedent candidates and outcomes by training and validating the pattern classifier and predicting a new occurrence of a target behavior by entering a current state of the antecedents to the trained pattern classifier. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404896 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653746 | Touch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Dean Touch (Manhattan Beach, California); Lars Eggert (Playa del Rey, California); Yu-Shun Wang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for relocating a subnet to a remote location includes a tether router coupled to an anchor router via a link. The tether router is coupled to a plurality of nodes, each node corresponding to a network address of a plurality of network addresses allocated to a user. The plurality of network addresses is allocated to the user by a lease broker. The link may include a private tunnel for traversing a mechanism that otherwise hinders communication from the tether router to the anchor router, such as a network address translation (NAT) mechanism. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632249 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Hall (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor may be used to measure particulate mass concentration in the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. The sensor may include a signal electrode and a detector electrode at least partially enclosed within a sensor body. The sensor may continuously measure the particulate mass concentration in the exhaust of the internal combustion engine. Continuously measuring the particulate mass concentration may produce a time-resolved measurement of the particulate mass concentration. In certain embodiments, the sensor may be coupled to a feedback control system that may adjust operating conditions of the internal combustion engine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039365 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/114.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651686 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Sparks Glencoe, Maryland); Scott E. Strome (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention features methods of enhancing immune responses in mammalian subjects and in vitro methods of enhancing the response of a T cell. Also embodied by the invention are methods of receiving and preventing the induction of energy in T cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/492056 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07651689 | Dadachova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ekaterina Dadachova (Mahopac, New York); Arturo Casadevall (Pelham, New York); Antonio Nakouzi (Bayside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for treating infections in a subject which comprise administering to the subject an amount of a radiolabeled antibody effective to treat the infection, wherein the antibody specifically binds to the agent causing the infection. The invention also provides compositions and methods of making compositions comprising radiolabeled antibodies for the treatment of infections. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/704469 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/152.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651846 | Morris |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudia R. Morris (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and compositions for diagnosis and treatment of conditions associated with decreased nitric oxide bioavailability, such as a condition associated with elevated arginase activity, using an arginine- and/or arginase-inhibitor based therapy, which therapies include administration of arginine or an arginase inhibitor, either alone or in combination. The invention also contemplates administration of magnesium with arginine, an arginase inhibitor, or with arginine-arginase inhibitor combination therapy. The invention also features methods and compositions for diagnosis, including prognosis, of conditions associated with arginase activity by assessing the ratio of arginine to ornithine in samples from a subject. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002956 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651847 | Lebrilla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlito B. Lebrilla (Davis, California); Hyun Joo An (Davis, California); Kit S. Lam (Davis, California); Suzanne Miyamoto (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for identifying oligosaccharides specific to cancer and methods for determining a strain of cancer in an individual. The present invention also provides methods for diagnosing cancer or a stage of cancer in an individual by detecting the presence or absence of specific cancer markers and methods for treating cancer by administering antibodies directed to such markers. In addition, the present invention provides cancer markers comprising O-linked oligosaccharides and kits for diagnosing or treating cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/157478 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07651855 — Regulatory T cells and their use in immunotherapy and suppression of autoimmune responses
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Carl June (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Wayne R. Godfrey (Birchwood, Minnesota); Richard G. Carroll (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania); Bruce Levine (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); James L. Riley (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Patricia Taylor (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Based upon a strong correlation between regulator T cells (Treg cells) and suppressing or preventing a cytotoxic T cell response, provided are methods for the production of ex vivo activated and culture-expanded isolated CD4+CD25+ suppressor Treg cells for the prevention or suppression of immune reactions in a host, particularly in a human host, and including autoimmune responses. The resulting ex vivo culture-expanded Treg cells provide a sufficient amount of otherwise low numbers of such cells, having long term suppressor capability to permit therapeutic uses, including the preventing, suppressing, blocking or inhibiting the rejection of transplanted tissue in a human or other animal host, or protecting against graft vs host disease. Also provided are therapeutic and immunosuppressive methods utilizing the ex vivo culture-expanded Treg cells for human treatment, and high efficiency methods for research use. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/827023 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — 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 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651858 | Bakker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama); Beckman Coulter, Inc. (Fullerton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bakker (Auburn, Alabama); Martin Telting-Diaz (Brooklyn, New York); Mike Bell (Fullerton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of using ion-detecting microspheres containing an ionphore and a chromoionphore in clinical laboratory instrumentation such as flow cytometry for sample analysis. In one embodiment, the microspheres are contacted with a flowing stream of a sample under conditions that allow the ion-selective ionophores to complex with the ions in the sample, and to cause deprotonation of the chromoionophore. The complexes are then exposed to an excitation wavelength light source suitable for exciting the deprotonated chromoionophore to emit a fluorescence signal pattern. Detection of the fluorescence signal pattern emitted by the deprotonated chromoionophore in microspheres containing the complexes allows for determination of the presence of the target ions in the sample. In one embodiment, lead ion-detecting microspheres are provided that can detect nanomolar levels of lead ions with response times on the order of minutes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/779173 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651997 | Joullie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madeleine M. Joullie (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bo Liang (Glenolden, Pennsylvania); Xiaobin Ding (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to tamandarin and didemnin analogs which have a deoxo-proline residue or a dehydro-proline residue in their structure. These analogs are useful as anti-cancer agents and for other purposes. Methods of making these analogs and methods of using them as inhibitors of protein synthesis, cell growth, and tumorigenesis and as enhancers of apoptosis are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/455937 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/10 |
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| US 07651998 | MacDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gene H. MacDonald (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert E. Johnston (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for delivering a nucleotide sequence to a cell using an alphavirus vector that is complexed with an enhancing antibody that specifically binds to the alphavirus vector. Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis vectors are preferred. The cell may be a cell in vitro or in vivo. Alternatively, the cell may be removed from a subject, administered the alphavirus vector ex vivo and then administered to a subject. Antigen-presenting cells are preferred, with dendritic cells being more preferred. Also provided are methods of producing an immune response in a subject, e.g., for producing an immune response against an antigen associated with a pathogen or for immunotherapy of cancer of tumors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/069305 |
| 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 514/44 |
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| US 07652001 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); W. Brad Wan (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and compositions are provided for treatment, prevention, or amelioration of a variety of medical disorders associated with viral infections, cell proliferation and bone metabolism. The compounds provided herein are alkyl esters of phosphonates. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053198 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/75 |
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| US 07652031 | Smith, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amos B Smith, III (Merion, Pennsylvania); Thomas Beauchamp (Portage, Michigan); Matthew J. Lamarche (Reading, Massachusetts); Paul V. Rucker (University City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds which mimic the chemical and/or biological activity of discodermolide are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/296138 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/292 |
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| US 07652033 | Van Meir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erwin G Van Meir (Tucker, Georgia); Chalet Tan (Duluth, Minnesota); Anthony Roecker (La Jolla, California); Kyriacos C. Nicolaou (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | HIF-1 inhibitors and methods of their use are provided. In particular, 2,2-dimethylbenzopyran based compounds and methods of their use, for example in the treatment or prevention of hypoxia-related pathologies are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/550286 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/303 |
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| US 07652038 | Cooke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Cooke (Palo Alto, California); Christopher Heeschen (Frankfurt, Germany); Michael Weis (Munich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of reducing angiogenesis in an individual. The methods generally involve administering to the individual an effective amount of a nicotinic acetyl choline receptor antagonist. The methods are useful to treat conditions associated with or resulting from angiogenesis, particularly pathological angiogenesis. The invention further provides methods of treating a condition associated with or resulting from angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/118373 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/315 |
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| US 07652043 | Beachy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Beachy (Towson, Maryland); James K. Chen (Mountain View, California); Ronald K. Mann (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Aromatic compounds for treating various diseases and pathologies are disclosed. The methods use of such compounds are also provided. Accordingly, the present invention makes available methods and compositions for inhibiting aberrant growth states in cells having Wnt receptors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574248 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/359 |
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| US 07652069 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck HDAC Research, LLC (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Miller (Brookline, Massachusetts); Victoria M. Richon (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selectively inducing terminal differentiation, cell growth arrest and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, and/or inhibiting histone deacetylase (HDAC) by administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising potent HDAC inhibitors. The oral bioavailability of the active compounds in the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention is surprisingly high. Moreover, the pharmaceutical compositions unexpectedly give rise to high, therapeutically effective blood levels of the active compounds over an extended period of time. The present invention further provides a safe, daily dosing regimen of these pharmaceutical compositions, which is easy to follow, and which results in a therapeutically effective amount of the HDAC inhibitors in vivo. The present invention also provides a novel Form I polymorph of SAHA, characterized by a unique X-ray diffraction pattern and Differential Scanning Calorimetry profile, as well a unique crystalline structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981367 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
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| US 07652070 | Rubin |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Rubin (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A treatment method for pathologies in which increased levels of MMP production are implicated in pathogenesis. Examples of such pathologies include pterygium, kerataconus, and macular degeneration. Treatment is based on administration of cysteamine in therapeutically effective amounts. Treatment may be in one of several alternative forms, including eye drops and oral applications. Administration in the form of eye drops may be preferred for pathologies affecting the eyes. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695164 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/665 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652172 | Semmelhack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Shawn R. Campagna (Hamilton, New Jersey); Bonnie L. Bassler (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael J. Federle (Pennington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a practical synthesis route for 4,5-dihydroxypentane-2,3-dione (DPD), an unstable small molecule which is proposed to be the source of universal signaling agents for quorum sensing in bacteria. The synthesis route includes new intermediates and allows preparation of isotopically-labeled DPD and ent-DPD. The method provides sufficient quantities of DPD for study of spontaneous binding of borate to DPD, the signal for the marine bacteria V. harveyi. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/575557 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652772 | Backman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Young Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yang Liu (Somerset, New Jersey); Vladimir Turzhitsky (Evanston, Illinois); Jeremy Rogers (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatuses of low-coherence enhanced backscattering spectroscopy are described within this application. One embodiment includes providing incident light comprising at least one spectral component having low coherence, wherein the incident light is to be illuminated on a target object in vivo. An intensity of one or more of at least one spectral component and at least one angular component of backscattering angle of backscattered light is recorded, wherein the backscattered light is to be backscattered from illumination of the incident light on the target object and wherein the backscattering angle is an angle between incident light propagation direction and backscattered light propagation direction. The intensity of the at least one spectral component and the at least one backscattering angle of backscattered light is analyzed, to obtain one or more optical markers of the backscattered light, toward evaluating said properties. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803029 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653264 | Hero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred Hero (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Huzefa Neemuchwala (Mountain View, California); Paul Carson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles Raymond Meyer (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method determines alignment of images in high dimensional feature space. The method comprises registering a source image of a reference modality to a target image of a second modality with an algorithm based upon a measure of information affinity present in both of the source and target image to create a registered image. Next, a plurality of feature vector are extracted from the registered image for each of the source and target images and attributes of the joint distribution of feature vector are captured using an entropic graph spanning the features. Edge lengths are between proximal feature vectors are extracted from the entropic graph and a similarity measure of one of an α-divergence estimate or an α-affinity estimate is constructed based upon these edge lengths to quantify whether the source and target image are sufficiently registered. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276537 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653495 | Murali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramachandran Murali (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of identifying compounds that modulate intermolecular interactions between a target protein and a modifier are disclosed. Pharmaceutical composition comprising compounds that inhibit intermolecular interactions between a target protein and a modifier are disclosed. Methods of treating individual suffering from inflammatory conditions, undesirable immune responses, immunological conditions and bacterial infections are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/720647 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Hiskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); My Hang Huynh (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosive formulation including 2,4,8,10-tetranitro-5H-pyrido[3′,2′:4,5][1,2,3]triazolo[1,2-a]benzotriazol-6-ium, inner salt and a high temperature binder is disclosed together with a process of preparing 2,4,8,10-tetranitro-5H-pyrido[3′,2′:4,5][1,2,3]triazolo[1,2-a]benzotriazol-6-ium, inner salt. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879842 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651633 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kevin C. Ott (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Rico E. Del Sesto (Santa Fe, New Mexico); T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanophosphor compositions were prepared. The compositions can be used for radiation detection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729279 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4H0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651669 | Wegeng 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) | Robert S. Wegeng (Richland, Washington); Ward E. TeGrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Greg A. Whyatt (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Various aspects and applications or microsystem process networks are described. The design of many types of microsystems can be improved by ortho-cascading mass, heat, or other unit process operations. Microsystems having energetically efficient microchannel heat exchangers are also described. Detailed descriptions of numerous design features in microcomponent systems are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/241585 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651673 | Insepov 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) | Zeke Insepov (Darien, Illinois); Ahmed Hassanein (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the field of small scale pumping and, more specifically, to a method and system for very small scale pumping media through microtubes. One preferred embodiment of the invention generally comprises: method for small scale pumping, comprising the following steps: providing one or more media; providing one or more microtubes, the one or more tubes having a first end and a second end, wherein said first end of one or more tubes is in contact with the media; and creating surface waves on the tubes, wherein at least a portion of the media is pumped through the tube. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467987 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651966 | Brow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mo-Sci Corporation (Rolla, Missouri); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard K. Brow (Rolla, Missouri); Signo T. Reis (Rolla, Missouri); Mariano Velez (Rolla, Missouri); Delbert E. Day (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A substantially alkaline resistant calcium-iron-phosphate (CFP) glass and methods of making and using thereof. In one application, the CFP glass is drawn into a fiber and dispersed in cement to produce glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) articles having the high compressive strength of concrete with the high impact, flexural and tensile strength associated with glass fibers. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/693863 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07652084 — Nanocomposite fibers and film containing polyolefin and surface-modified carbon nanotubes
| US 07652084 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Reseach Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Benjamin S. Hsiao (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modifying carbon nanotubes with organic compounds are disclosed. The modified carbon nanotubes have enhanced compatibility with polyolefins. Nanocomposites of the organo-modified carbon nanotubes and polyolefins can be used to produce both fibers and films having enhanced mechanical and electrical properties, especially the elongation-to-break ratio and the toughness of the fibers and/or films. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570553 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652131 | Werpy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd A. Werpy (West Richland, Washington); Andrew J. Schmidt (Richland, Washington); John G. Frye, Jr. (Richland, Washington); Alan H. Zacher (Kennewick, Washington); James A. Franz (Kennewick, Washington); Mikhail S. Alnajjar (Richland, Washington); Gary G. Neuenschwander (Burbank, Washington); Eric V. Alderson (Kennewick, Washington); Rick J. Orth (Kennewick, Washington); Charles A. Abbas (Champaign, Illinois); Kyle E. Beery (Decatur, Illinois); Anne M. Rammelsberg (Decatur, Illinois); Catherine J. Kim (Decatur, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes methods of processing plant material by adding water to form a mixture, heating the mixture, and separating a liquid component from a solid-comprising component. At least one of the liquid component and the solid-comprising component undergoes additional processing. Processing of the solid-comprising component produces oils, and processing of the liquid component produces one or more of glycerol, ethylene glycol, lactic acid and propylene glycol. The invention includes a process of forming glycerol, ethylene glycol, lactic acid and propylene glycol from plant matter by adding water, heating and filtering the plant matter. The filtrate containing starch, starch fragments, hemicellulose and fragments of hemicellulose is treated to form linear poly-alcohols which are then cleaved to produce one or more of glycerol, ethylene glycol, lactic acid and propylene glycol. The invention also includes a method of producing free and/or complexed sterols and stanols from plant material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/980928 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652151 | Chichak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel ketopyrroles having structure XXIV wherein R2 is independently at each occurrence a deuterium atom, a halogen, a nitro group, an amino group, a C3-C40 aromatic radical, a C1-C50 aliphatic radical, or a C3-C40 cyclcoaliphatic radical; “a” is an integer from 0 to 3; and X1 and X2 are independently at each occurrence a bromine atom, a hydroxy group, or the group OR10, and wherein the group R10 is independently at each occurrence a deuterium atom, a halogen, a nitro group, an amino group, a C3-C40 aromatic radical, a C1-C50 aliphatic radical, or a C3-C40 cyclcoaliphatic radical. Ketopyrroles XXIV are useful ligands for the preparation of Type (1) and Type (2) organic iridium compositions. In one aspect, the present invention provides deuterated analogs of XXIV. Organic iridium compositions are useful in the preparation optoelectronic devices, such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices exhibiting enhanced performance characteristics. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504084 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/539 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652209 | Delahoy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy Photovoltaics (Robbinsville, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan E. Delahoy (Rocky Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Sulfur is used to improve the performance of CIGS devices prepared by the evaporation of a single source ZIS type compound to form a buffer layer on the CIGS. The sulfur may be evaporated, or contained in the ZIS type material, or both. Vacuum evaporation apparatus of many types useful in the practice of the invention are known in the art. Other methods of delivery, such as sputtering, or application of a thiourea solution, may be substituted for evaporation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361776 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652479 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Scribner Associates, Inc. (Southern Pines, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Cooper (Southern Pines, North Carolina); Louie L. Scribner (Southern Pines, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for measuring the through-thickness resistance or conductance of a thin electrolyte is provided. The method and apparatus includes positioning a first source electrode on a first side of an electrolyte to be tested, positioning a second source electrode on a second side of the electrolyte, positioning a first sense electrode on the second side of the electrolyte, and positioning a second sense electrode on the first side of the electrolyte. current is then passed between the first and second source electrodes and the voltage between the first and second sense electrodes is measured. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890446 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/444 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652547 | Wittwer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan W. Wittwer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for the robust fabrication of a microelectromechanical (MEM) resonator. In this method, a pattern of holes is formed in the resonator mass with the position, size and number of holes in the pattern being optimized to minimize an uncertainty Δf in the resonant frequency f0 of the MEM resonator due to manufacturing process variations (e.g. edge bias). A number of different types of MEM resonators are disclosed which can be formed using this method, including capacitively transduced Lamé, wineglass and extensional resonators, and piezoelectric length-extensional resonators. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269094 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652572 | Roybal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle Gene Roybal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Dale Kent Kotter (Shelley, Idaho); David Thomas Rohrbaugh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David Frazer Spencer (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting and locating ferromagnetic objects in a security screening system. One method includes a step of acquiring magnetic data that includes magnetic field gradients detected during a period of time. Another step includes representing the magnetic data as a function of the period of time. Another step includes converting the magnetic data to being represented as a function of frequency. Another method includes a step of sensing a magnetic field for a period of time. Another step includes detecting a gradient within the magnetic field during the period of time. Another step includes identifying a peak value of the gradient detected during the period of time. Another step includes identifying a portion of time within the period of time that represents when the peak value occurs. Another step includes configuring the portion of time over the period of time to represent a ratio. |
| FILED | Monday, October 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539678 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653155 | Ormesher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Ormesher (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John J. Mason (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The time delay and/or phase of a communication signal received by a digital communication receiver can be estimated based on a convolutional decoding operation that the communication receiver performs on the received communication signal. If the original transmitted communication signal has been spread according to a spreading operation, a corresponding despreading operation can be integrated into the convolutional decoding operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982134 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653716 | Faraj |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmad A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for determining a bisection bandwidth for a multi-node data communications network that include: partitioning nodes in the network into a first sub-network and a second sub-network in dependence upon a topology of the network; sending, by each node in the first sub-network to a destination node in the second sub-network, a first message having a predetermined message size; receiving, by each node in the first sub-network from a source node in the second sub-network, a second message; measuring, by each node in the first sub-network, the elapsed communications time between the sending of the first message and the receiving of the second message; selecting the longest elapsed communications time; and calculating the bisection bandwidth for the network in dependence upon the number of the nodes in the first sub-network, the predetermined message size of the first test message, and the longest elapsed communications time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838965 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Asaf Zomet (Jerusalem, Israel); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, a device includes a light modulator layer having a plurality of elements, each having a controllable transmittance, and a plurality of lenses, wherein each of the plurality of lenses is disposed to receive light independently of each other. The device further includes an image detector disposed at a distance from the light modulator layer and configured to acquire images from light that passes through the light modulator layer. In addition, the device includes a controller configured to control transmittance of the elements of the light modulator layer. Methods of acquiring images are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417864 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photography 396/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651600 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ying-Chih Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a device and methods of use thereof in concentrating a species of interest and/or controlling liquid flow in a device. The methods, inter-alia, make use of a device comprising microchannels, which are linked to nanochannels, whereby induction of an electric field in the nanochannel results in ion depletion in the linkage region between the microchannel and nanochannel, and a space charge layer is formed within the microchannel, which provides an energy barrier for said species of interest which enables its concentration in a region in the microchannel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338885 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651662 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Lawrence Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Seung-Ryeol Kim (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing a rubbed substrate structure suitable for use in a liquid crystal assay device, includes reacting a biochemical blocking compound that includes at least one reactive group with an activated modified surface of a support, the activated modified surface of the support having at least one functional group capable of reacting with the reactive group of the biochemical blocking compound, wherein a covalent bond is formed between the biochemical blocking compound and the support producing a support with a surface comprising the biochemical blocking compound. The method also includes rubbing the surface having the biochemical blocking compound to produce a rubbed surface that possesses features that drive uniform anchoring of liquid crystals when the liquid crystals contact the rubbed surface. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/779161 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651777 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Milko E. van der Boom (Rishon le Zion, Israel); Seong-Sik Chang (Chicago, Illinois); Seng-Tiong Ho (Wheeling, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of robust, thin film materials with large second-order optical nonlinearities through the covalent self-assembly of chromophoric compositions and innovative use of silyl chemistry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/254335 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07652084 — Nanocomposite fibers and film containing polyolefin and surface-modified carbon nanotubes
| US 07652084 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Reseach Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Benjamin S. Hsiao (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modifying carbon nanotubes with organic compounds are disclosed. The modified carbon nanotubes have enhanced compatibility with polyolefins. Nanocomposites of the organo-modified carbon nanotubes and polyolefins can be used to produce both fibers and films having enhanced mechanical and electrical properties, especially the elongation-to-break ratio and the toughness of the fibers and/or films. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570553 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652132 | Yaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omar M. Yaghi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam J. Matzger (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jesse L. C. Rowsell (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a metal-organic framework (“MOF”) comprising a plurality of metal clusters and a plurality of multidentate linking ligands. Each metal of the plurality of metal clusters comprises one or more metal ions. Each ligand of the plurality of multidentate linking ligands connects adjacent metal clusters. The present invention also provides a method of forming the metal-organic framework. The method of the invention comprises combining a solution comprising one or metal ions with a multidentate linking ligand having a sufficient number of accessible sites for atomic or molecular adsorption that the surface area of the resulting metal-organic framework is greater than 2,900 m2/g. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841983 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652253 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Jianming Dai (Troy, New York); Xu Xie (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a remotely-located object includes the step of illuminating at least a portion of a targeted object with electromagnetic radiation to induce a phase transformation in the targeted object, wherein the phase transformation produces an emitter plasma, which emits terahertz radiation. The method also includes the step of ionizing a volume of an ambient gas to produce a sensor plasma by focusing an optical probe beam in the volume and the step of detecting an optical component of resultant radiation produced from an interaction of the focused optical probe beam and the terahertz radiation in the sensor plasma. Detecting an optical component of the resultant radiation emitted by the sensor plasma facilitates detection of a characteristic fingerprint of the targeted object imposed onto the terahertz radiation produced as a result of the induced phase transformation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835152 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652614 | Venkatachalam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandrasekaran Venkatachalam (Fort Collins, Colorado); Dmitriy Moiseev (Fort Collins, Colorado); Cuong Nguyen (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are disclosed for investigating a region of interest with a radar. A radar signal is propagated to the region of interest. Sampled time-domain radar data scattered within the region of interest are collected. A likelihood function is calculated with the sampled time-domain data within a parametric model of the region of interest for a defined set of parameters. The set of parameters in varied to find an extremum of the likelihood function. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830574 |
| 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 342/26.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652772 | Backman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Young Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yang Liu (Somerset, New Jersey); Vladimir Turzhitsky (Evanston, Illinois); Jeremy Rogers (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatuses of low-coherence enhanced backscattering spectroscopy are described within this application. One embodiment includes providing incident light comprising at least one spectral component having low coherence, wherein the incident light is to be illuminated on a target object in vivo. An intensity of one or more of at least one spectral component and at least one angular component of backscattering angle of backscattered light is recorded, wherein the backscattered light is to be backscattered from illumination of the incident light on the target object and wherein the backscattering angle is an angle between incident light propagation direction and backscattered light propagation direction. The intensity of the at least one spectral component and the at least one backscattering angle of backscattered light is analyzed, to obtain one or more optical markers of the backscattered light, toward evaluating said properties. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803029 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652773 | DiMarzio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts); Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. DiMarzio (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ronald A. Roy (Mansfield, Massachusetts); Todd W. Murray (Medford, Massachusetts); Florian J. Blonigen (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Luis A. Nieva (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Lei Sui (Brighton, Massachusetts); Gopi Maguluri (Allston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of detecting acousto-photonic emissions in optically turbid media that provide increased levels of detection sensitivity. The detection system includes an ultrasonic transducer, a laser, a photo-detector for detecting ultrasound-modulated laser light, and circuitry for processing the detected signals for subsequent analysis. The ultrasonic transducer generates an ultrasonic wave that propagates within an optically turbid medium. The laser generates a coherent light beam, which is split to form signal and reference beams. The signal beam is sent through the turbid medium, where it is phase modulated by the ultrasound. The ultrasound-modulated signal beam is provided to a photo-refractive crystal for subsequent interference with the reference beam to convert the phase modulation to intensity modulation. The DC offset of the signal beam intensity provides a measure of the magnitude of the mean phase shift induced by the ultrasound on the multiply scattered optical field within the turbid medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/586713 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653520 | De Moura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonardo De Moura (Fremont, California); Harald Ruess (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides bounded model checking of a program with respect to a property of interest comprising unfolding the program for a number of steps to create a program formula; translating the property of interest into an automaton; encoding the transition system of the automaton into a Boolean formula creating a transition formula; conjoining the program formula with the transition formula to create a conjoined formula; and deciding the satisfiability of the conjoined formula. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/431780 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653867 | Stankovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir M. Stankovic (Bryan, Texas); Angelos D. Liveris (Stafford, Texas); Zixiang Xiong (Spring, Texas); Costas N. Georghiades (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for Slepian-Wolf coding using channel code partitioning. A generator matrix is partitioned to generate multiple sub-matrices corresponding respectively to multiple correlated data sources. The partitioning is in accordance with a rate allocation among the correlated data sources. Corresponding parity matrices may be generated respectively from the sub-matrices, where each parity matrix is useable to encode correlated data for a respective correlated data source, resulting in respective syndromes, e.g., in the form of binary vectors. A common receiver may receive the syndromes and expand them to a common length by inserting zeros appropriately. The expanded syndromes may be vector summed (e.g., modulo 2), and a single channel decoding applied to determine a closest codeword, portions of whose systematic part may be multiplied by respective submatrices of the generator matrix, which products may be added to the respective expanded syndromes to produce estimates of the source data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/086974 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/785 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07651582 | Weimer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Weimer (Madison, Wisconsin); Linda F. Lorenz (Middleton, Wisconsin); Anthony H. Conner (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Charles R. Frihart (Dana, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioadhesive composition for bonding together adjacent surfaces of wood comprises a microbially-produced fermentation residue containing adherent microbial cells and glycocalyx. This residue finds particular application as a replacement for a significant amount of phenol-formaldehyde (PF) or other conventional adhesive component commonly used in the production of plywood and other wood products. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/151353 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07652204 | Elias |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elias M Elias (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of producing Fusarium resistant tetraploid wheat by crossing a hexaploid Fusarium resistant wheat with a teraploid durum wheat. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071272 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/320.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07651574 | Shull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Shull (Boyds, Maryland); Alexander J. Shapiro (Rockville, Maryland); Virgil Provenzano (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A Gd5Ge2Si2 refrigerant compound is doped or alloyed with an effective amount of silicide-forming metal element such that the magnetic hysteresis losses in the doped Gd5Ge2Si2 compound are substantially reduced in comparison to the hysteresis losses of the undoped Gd5Ge2Si2 compound. The hysteresis losses can be nearly eliminated by doping the Gd5Ge2Si2 compound with iron, cobalt, manganese, copper, or gallium. The effective refrigeration capacities of the doped Gd5Ge2Si2 compound are significantly higher than for the undoped Gd5Ge2Si2 compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262270 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651885 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for fabricating an electronic device including: (a) forming a liquid composition using starting ingredients comprising an organic semiconductor and a stabilizer, wherein the stabilizer comprises a strong electron donor compound or a strong electron acceptor compound, wherein the organic semiconductor exhibits a high oxygen sensitivity in a comparison solution without the stabilizer but a lower oxygen sensitivity in the liquid composition; (b) liquid depositing the liquid composition; and (c) drying the liquid composition to form a layer of the electronic device, wherein the layer comprises the organic semiconductor. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/303535 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07651600 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jongyoon Han (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ying-Chih Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a device and methods of use thereof in concentrating a species of interest and/or controlling liquid flow in a device. The methods, inter-alia, make use of a device comprising microchannels, which are linked to nanochannels, whereby induction of an electric field in the nanochannel results in ion depletion in the linkage region between the microchannel and nanochannel, and a space charge layer is formed within the microchannel, which provides an energy barrier for said species of interest which enables its concentration in a region in the microchannel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338885 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651821 | Tyrrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Tyrrell (Nashua, New Hampshire); Michael Fritze (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method forms patterns on a substrate by exposing the substrate a first time and exposing the substrate a second time using a mask containing gray-tone features. The gray-tone features locally adjust an exposure dose in regions corresponding to features defined in the primary exposure. Moreover, the gray-tone features enable the forming of features having different critical dimensions on a substrate. The gray-tone features may be implemented as sub-resolution features formed by pixellation. The gray-tone features may also be realized by the local size bias of trim features on the trim mask that have dimensions near the resolution limit of the exposure system. The trim mask containing gray-tone features may have regions with different transmissivities or generate varying illumination intensities. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102133 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 07653234 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Edward Warren (Brentwood, Tennessee); Reed Avon Beatse (Taylorsville, Utah); Jeremy Philip Becker (San Francisco, California); Thomas Vincent Costello (Southhampton, Pennsylvania); Hugh Francis Guilbeau, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Gopa Kumar (Castro Valley, California); Kevin Jude McCabe (Franklin, Massachusetts); Bruce Allen McPherson (Sausalito, California); David James Moore (Fairfax, California); Marilee Jean Niemi (Oakland, California); Danny Shawn Oursbourn (Rowlett, Texas); Cynthia Lynne Rasche (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Communicating and matching electronic files for a check adjustment case comprises communicating an electronic check adjustment message comprising key data relating to the case, communicating an electronic image of a document to follow (“DTF”) related to the case, associating the key data with the electronic DTF image, determining whether the electronic message's key data matches the key data associated with the electronic DTF image, and linking the electronic message to the electronic DTF image in response to a determination that the electronic message's key data matches the key data associated with the electronic DTF image. If the DTF image's key data does not match the message's key data, matching electronic files can comprise correcting errors in the key data associated with the electronic DTF image and performing a secondary match routine. An operator accesses the electronic message and the linked DTF image to resolve the check adjustment case. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337323 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07651862 | Ponce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Ponce (Altadena, California); Dmitri A. Kossakovski (Pasadena, California); Gregory H. Bearman (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical time domain reflectometry caused by absorption of a volatile or analyte into the fiber optic cladding is used an optical nose. The fiber optics (14) are covered with a gas permeable film (44) which is patterned to leave millimeter wide gas permeable notches (48a-48d). The notches contain a sensing polymer that responds to different gases by expanding or contracting. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469216 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07651598 | Shapiro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Shapiro (Washington, District of Columbia); Satej V. Chaudhary (Greenbelt, Maryland); Michael D. Armani (Dayton, Maryland); Roland Probst (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In a microfluidic device, respective motion of a plurality of objects along corresponding trajectories is achieved by determining a force field, such as an underlying fluid flow which, when applied to the plurality of object, moves each object along its corresponding trajectory. The force field is a linear superposition of a subset of all force fields supported by the physical characteristics of the microfluidic device. Once the fields have been ascertained, a plurality of actuation signals corresponding to the fields is applied to actuators installed on the microfluidic device to cause the force on each object. By implementing a feedback structure, corrections for positional errors may be made by computing a corrective force for each object and adjusting the actuation signals appropriately thereto. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933357 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07651979 | Lippard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Christopher J. Ziegler (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel coordination complexes, methods for synthesizing and identifying coordination complexes, using combinatorial techniques, and assaying their activity. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to a library comprising a plurality of platinum-containing coordination complexes represented by the general formula {PtLnA(4-n)}, wherein, independently for each occurrence, each L is a non-labile ligand under standard conditions, each n is equal to 1, 2 or 3; each A is a labile ligand under standard conditions; and each Pt is Pt(II) or Pt(IV); provided that when Pt is Pt(IV), two additional ligands in the trans axial positions of the general formula depicted are present; and at least one of the plurality of platinum-containing coordination complexes is represented by the formula wherein, independently for each occurrence: X represents halogen or other labile ligand under standard conditions; W represents S, N, or P; Y represents —OR7, —SR7, a halogen or —N(R9)R10; R9 and R10, each independently, represent —H, alkyl, alkenyl, —(CH2)n—R7, or R9 and R10, taken together with the N atom to which they are attached complete a heterocycle having from 4 to about 8 atoms in the ring structure, all optionally substituted; L represents a non-labile ligand under standard conditions; R7 represents —H, alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, heterocycle or polycycle; the ligand V comprises W, Y, and a heterocycle having from 4 to about 8 atoms in the ring structure, optionally aromatic and optionally substituted; and the symbol represents a single or a double bond. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928929 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653232 | Kothapalli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli (St. Louis, Missouri); Chandra S. Yelleswarapu (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Pengfei Wu (Malden, Massachusetts); D. V. Gopal L. N. Rao (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for medical imaging. Digital images are processed to provide phase images of a region of interest to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of various conditions. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides improved mammography screening for cancerous or precancerous conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/342254 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07653248 | Witzgall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hanna Elizabeth Witzgall (Chantilly, Virginia); Jay Scott Goldstein (Centerville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Image pixel intensity data is transformed to a holographic representation of the image. A subset of the holographic representation is modeled. Model parameters constitute a compressed image representation. A two-dimensional Fourier transform can be applied to obtain the holographic image. Modeling includes applying an analysis portion of an adaptive analysis/synthesis prediction methodology to a subset of the holographic representation. Linear prediction can be the adaptive analysis/synthesis prediction methodology. Prior to modeling, one-dimensional Fourier transform can be performed on the holographic representation and the linear prediction is one-dimensional. Model parameters are preferably quantized. Embodiments include determining error between the model and the model's input data. There the compressed image representation the error, which also can be quantized. The subset of the holographic representation can be less than all the representation. The subset can be a plurality of complete rows; preferably substantially symmetric about 0 Hz. |
| FILED | Monday, November 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/267177 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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