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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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| US 07654966 | Westinskow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwayne Westinskow (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Agutter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Noah Syroid (Salt Lake City, Utah); David Strayer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert Albert (Salt Lake City, Utah); S. Blake Wachter (Huntsville, Utah); Frank Drews (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, apparatus and device for the monitoring, diagnosis and evaluation of the state of a dynamic pulmonary system is disclosed. This method and system provides the processing means for receiving sensed and/or simulated data, converting such data into a displayable object format and displaying such objects in a manner such that the interrelationships between the respective variables can be correlated and identified by a user. This invention provides for the rapid cognitive grasp of the overall state of a pulmonary critical function with respect to a dynamic system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269423 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/532 |
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| US 07655216 | Kalinski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pawel Kalinski (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for treating or preventing a target disease in a mammal by induction of memory T cells. The methods comprise (1) administering a sensitizing composition comprising a non-target antigen to a patient; and (2) administering a therapeutic composition comprising a non-target antigen and a target antigen to the patient, wherein the target antigen is associated with the disease, and wherein the therapeutic composition is administered after the sensitizing compositions, at an interval sufficient for induction of memory T cells. The methods can alternatively comprise administering a target antigen along with an inhibitory agent such as an inhibitor of DC apoptosis, an inhibitor of Granzyme B, a Granzyme-B-inducible mediator of apoptosis, an inhibitor of perforin, or a perforin-inducible mediator of apoptosis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/037294 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| US 07655224 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corp. (Boston, Massachusetts); Northeastern Ohio Universities COM (Rootstown, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evan Y. Snyder (La Jolla, California); Xandra O. Breakefield (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Karen S. Aboody (Arcadia, California); Ulrich Herrlinger (Tuebingen, Germany); William P. Lynch (Ravenna, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based upon a surprising finding that stem cells, more particularly neural stem cells, can migrate throughout a brain tumor and track metastatic brain tumor cells. The invention provides a method for treating brain tumors by administering genetically engineered neural stem cells in an individual affected by brain tumors. The invention also provides a method of preparing genetically engineered neural stem cells and a composition comprising genetically engineered neural stem cells in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/546726 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 07655230 | Bednar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin M. Bednar (South Burlington, Vermont); Cordell E. Gross (Williston, Vermont); Linda J. Gross, legal representative (Williston, Vermont); G. Roger Thomas (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for improving clinical outcome in focal ischemic stroke in a mammal by increasing cerebral blood flow and/or reducing infarct size is described which involves administering an effective amount of an anti-CD18 antibody to the mammal, in the absence of removal of the arterial obstruction. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107050 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
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| US 07655236 | Qi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fengxia Qi (Harbor City, California); Page W. Caufield (Mountain Brook, Alabama); Ping Chen (Homewood, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the present invention, an isolated and purified DNA sequence which encodes a lantibiotic, mutacin I, is disclosed. The nucleic acid sequence is set forth in SEQ ID No: 1 and the amino acid sequence is set forth in SEQ ID No: 2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/790914 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 07655238 | Paterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Christian Peters (Radnor, Pennsylvania); George Gunn (Collegeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions, methods and kits for enhancing the immunogenicity of an antigen via fusion to a Listerial protein. The present invention further encompasses Listeria vaccine strains for enhancing the immunogenicity of an antigen. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376572 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07655239 | Cheever et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington); Mary L Disis (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the detection, monitoring and treatment of malignancies in which the HER-2/neu oncogene is associated are disclosed. Detection of specific T cell activation (e.g., by measuring the proliferation of T cells) in response to in vitro exposure to the HER-2/neu protein, or detection of immunocomplexes formed between the HER-2/neu protein and antibodies in body fluid, allows the diagnosis of the presence of a malignancy in which the HER-2/neu oncogene is associated. The present invention also discloses methods and compositions, including peptides, for treating such malignancies. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821574 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| US 07655242 | Weinberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Weinberg (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This application provides, in part, novel polypeptides and nucleic acids that affect induction of defensins, and methods of making and using same. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/538811 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
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| US 07655247 | Fried et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle, Washington); The United States of America as represented by the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michal Fried (Seattle, Washington); Patrick E. Duffy (Seattle, Washington); Susan Francis (Seattle, Washington); Jason P. Wendler (Lincoln, Nebraska); Theonest K. Mutabingwa (Morogoro Municipal, Tanzania); Andrew Oleinikov (Mill Creek, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated placental P. falciparum polypeptides comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:1-4 and 6-24, and immunogenic derivatives thereof. The invention also provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the placental P. falciparum polypeptides of the invention, compositions comprising one or more placental P. falciparum polypeptides of the invention, methods for inducing an immune response against the placental P. falciparum polypeptides, and methods for treating and diagnosing placental malaria. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/006784 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/272.100 |
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| US 07655249 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Vienna, Austria); Patricia D. McNeill (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an antigen-presenting cell presenting a WT1 polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds to a WT1 polypeptide; or a T cell that specifically reacts with a WT1 polypeptide. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/195835 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
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| US 07655397 | Khan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javed Khan (Derwood, Maryland); Markus Ringnér (Lund, Sweden); Carsten Peterson (Lund, Sweden); Paul Meltzer (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of diagnosing a disease that includes obtaining experimental data on gene selections. The gene selection functions to characterize a cancer when the expression of that gene selection is compared to the identical selection from a noncancerous cell or a different type of cancer cell. The invention also includes a method of targeting at least one product of a gene that includes administration of a therapeutic agent. The invention also includes the use of a gene selection for diagnosing a cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/159563 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07655410 | Birken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Carolina University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Birken (Dumont, New Jersey); Yacov Maydelman (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Galina I. Kovalevskaya (New York, New York); John F. O'Connor (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for predicting the likely timing of the onset of menopause for a perimenopausal female subject by determining the amount of hLHβcf in a sample from the subject comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a sample from the subject with an antibody which specifically binds to hLHβcf without substantially cross-reacting with hLH, hLHβ or hLHβcf, under conditions permitting formation of a complex between the antibody and hLHβcf; (b) measuring the amount of complex formed, so as to thereby determine the amount of hLHβcf in the sample; and (c) comprising the amount of hLHβcf in the subject's sample determined in step (b) with either (i) the amount determined for known postmenopausal female subject or (ii) the amount determined for a sample from a known premenopausal female subject, wherein an amount of hLHβcf in the sample similar to the amount of hLHβcf in the known postmenopausal sample indicates temporal proximity to the onset of menopause, and an amount of hLHβcf in the sample similar to the amount of hLHβcf in the known premenopausal sample indicates temporal distance from the onset of menopause for the subject. AS described herein amount is both concentration and pattern of measurement of concentrations in one or more consecutive urine specimens. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/361652 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07655415 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard T. Lee (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular conditions. More specifically, the invention relates to isolated molecules that can be used to diagnose and/or treat cardiovascular conditions including cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, stroke, arteriosclerosis, and heart failure. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/441780 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07655419 | Glenn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Eli Lily and Company (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Glenn (Palo Alto, California); Ella Sklan (Stanford, California); Kirk A. Staschke (Indianapolis, Indiana); Tina Myers Oakes (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and compositions for screening for agents that modulate replication of a virus, particularly Flaviviridae virus (particularly hepatitis C virus (HCV)), where the methods provide for detection of agents that modulate the binding of TBC and NS5A, the inhibition of TBC activity, inhibition of Rab1 activity, and/or the expression of the TBC protein and/or Rab1 protein. The invention also features methods of controlling viral replication, and agents useful in such methods. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/844993 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07655433 | Aebersold |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolf H. Aebersold (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for identifying and quantifying polypeptides in a sample. The methods include the steps of labeling peptides in a polypeptide sample with an isotope tag; adding a plurality of peptide standards to the polypeptide sample, wherein the peptide standards are labeled with an isotopically distinct version of the isotope tag; resolving the labeled sample and standard peptides into a plurality of fractions; analyzing the resolved fractions using mass spectrometry; identifying an isotope-tagged sample peptide in an analyzed fraction; and determining the amount of the identified isotope-tagged sample peptide in the analyzed fraction by comparison to the amount of isotope tagged standard peptide in the same fraction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/455246 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
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| US 07655434 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua T. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah); Angela Teresa Hahn (Redwood City, California); Tobias Meyer (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for determining the duration of a cell cycle phase of a mammalian cell, as well as identification of the cell cycle stage of fixed mammalian cells, are provided. In practicing the subject methods, at least one biosensor polypeptide that monitors a cell-cycle phase in a mammalian cell, such as mitosis, G1, S, or G2 phase, is used to determine the duration of a cell-cycle phase of a mammalian cell. Also provided are methods for identifying an agent (e.g., a gene product or small molecule compound) that modulates the duration of a cell-cycle phase of a mammalian cell, as well as kits and systems for practicing the subject methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052001 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — 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 435/29 |
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| US 07655458 | O'Reilly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. O'Reilly (Winchester, Massachusetts); M. Judah Folkman (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An inhibitor of endothelial cell proliferation, capable of inhibiting angiogenesis and causing tumor regression, that is approximately 20 kDa and corresponds to a C-terminal fragment of collagen type XVIII, and methods of treating angiogenesis-related disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/232316 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07655461 | Finn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsbugh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivera J. Finn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Nehad M. Alajez (Toronto, Canada); Jan Schmielau (Lübeck, Germany); Mark D. Alter (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid encoding a receptor, other than an immunoglobulin, wherein the receptor binds to a MUC1 tumor antigen independently of an major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The invention provides a method of activating a signaling pathway and/or killing a cancer cell using a receptor that is similar to or is a T cell receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295767 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/334 |
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| US 07655464 | Hosahudya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gopi Hosahudya (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Irwin Chaiken (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, which inhibit the binding of gp120 to CD4 as well as 17b and methods for their use in inhibiting the HIV fusion process, are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409285 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 07655467 | Chamberlain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Chamberlain (Seattle, Washington); Paul Gregorevic (Seattle, Washington); Michael J. Blankinship (Seattle, Washington); James M. Allen (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systemic nucleic acid sequence delivery without conventional systemic administration aids (SAAs). In certain embodiments, vascular permeability agents (VPAs), such as VEGF, are used in conjunction with nucleic acid viral vectors, such as adeno-associated virus (AAV). The present invention also provides methods of treating disease by co-administration of nucleic cid sequences encoding Igf-1 and dystrophin or dystrophin-like proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988723 |
| 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 435/456 |
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| US 07655468 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leaf Huang (Durham, North Carolina); Xiang Gao (Nashville, Tennessee); Frank L. Sorgi (Sonoma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel stable, concentrated, biologically active and ready-to-use lipid-comprising drug delivery complexes and methods for their production are described. The biological activity of the complexes produced are comparable to the formulations prepared according to the prior art admixture method and upon purification, the complexes produced by the method of this invention are 50 to 500 fold more concentrated than the complexes formed by admixture. The method described herein provides for the large scale production of lipid-comprising drug delivery systems useful for gene therapy and other applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943434 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/458 |
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| US 07655470 | Ismagilov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Bo Zheng (Chicago, Illinois); Cory J. Gerdts (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microfluidic technology enabling rapid and economical manipulation of reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082187 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/55 |
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| US 07655472 | Chojkier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Chojkier (San Diego, California); Martina Buck (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the treatment and prevention of diseases characterized by excess cell proliferation and/or activation. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods to suppress the activation and/or proliferation of various cells. In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to suppress the activation and/or proliferation of mesenchymally derived cells (including, but not limited to hepatic stellate cells), as well as cells with abnormal growth characteristics. In particularly preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to inhibit or eliminate fibrosis. In alternative preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to induce fibrosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166907 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 07655479 | Zhukov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatyana A. Zhukov (Lutz, Florida); Sergei Ostapenko (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Rebecca Sutphen (Tampa, Florida); Johnathan Lancaster (Tampa, Florida); Thomas A. Sellers (Tampa, Florida); Jin Z. Zhang (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) conjugated with biomolecules to serve as sensitive probes for early detection of the cancer cells, specifically for ovarian cancer and lung cancer, which represents the most lethal malignancies. The luminescence characterization of the bin-conjugated QDs with cancer specific antigens using linkage molecules. Photo-enhancement is measured at various laser density power, temperatures and laser wavelengths. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/160617 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
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| US 07655480 | Pereira |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Anne Pereira (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention in one embodiment is an early detection marker for chronic or acute inflammatory-associated diseases. Chronic diseases may include atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and inflammatory diseases of the bowel such as Crohn's disease, Ulcerative colitis, Irritable bowel syndrome and Inflammatory bowel disease. Acute diseases may include sepsis, acute systemic infections, acute lung injury, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/712028 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/811 |
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| US 07655634 | Tamm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingo Tamm (Berlin, Germany); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods of regulating cellular apoptosis by affecting the interaction of hepatitis B X-interacting protein (HBXIP) with Survivin are described. More specifically, these novel methods of enhancing apoptosis of neoplastic cells comprises inhibiting interaction of hepatitis B X-interacting protein (HBXIP) with Survivin using siRNA or antisense compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691393 |
| 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 07655635 | Nerenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael I. Nerenberg (San Diego, California); Isao Kitajima (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antisense oligonucleotides which hybridize with nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) mRNA and methods of using these oligonucleotides. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/115373 |
| 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 07655640 | Curran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Curran (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hubert Josien (Jersey City, New Jersey); Bom David (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting topoisomerase I mediated DNA cleavage including administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a compound having the following formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1 and R2 are independently the same or different and are hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aminoalkyl group, an alkylaminoalkyl group, a haloalkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an alkoxyl group, an aryloxy group, a carbamoyloxy group, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, a cyano group, an azido group, a formyl group, a hydrazino group, —C(O)Rf, an amino group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, —SRc, or R1 and R2 together form a group of the formula —O(CH2)nO— wherein n represents the integer 1 or 2; R3 is H, F, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, or a cyano group; or R2 and R3 together form —O(CH2)nO— (n=1 or 2); R4 is H, F, a C1-3 alkyl group, a C2-3 alkenyl group, a C2-3 alkynyl group, or a C1-3 alkoxyl group; R5 is a C1-10 alkyl group, or a propargyl group. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981059 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/63 |
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| US 07655674 | 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 (Palo Alto, California); Anssi Jussi Nikolai Taipale (Espoo, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention makes available methods and reagents for inhibiting aberrant growth states resulting from hedgehog gain-of-function, ptc loss-of-function or smoothened gain-of-function comprising contacting the cell with a hedgehog antagonist, such as a small molecule, in a sufficient amount to aberrant growth state, e.g., to agonize a normal ptc pathway or antagonize smoothened or hedgehog activity. Such methods and reagents may also inhibit the hedgehog pathway in normal cells, e.g., where normal levels of hedgehog signalling are unwanted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/512804 |
| ART UNIT | 1611 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655691 | Sard et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Howard P. Sard (Arlington, Massachusetts); Louis Shuster (Brighton, Massachusetts); Bryan Roth (Moreland Hills, Ohio); Cynthia Morency (Andover, Massachusetts); Govindaraj Kumaran (Woburn, Massachusetts); Liang Xu (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel indole compounds are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for using the compounds to treat human and animal disease, pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds, and kits including the compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/237318 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/415 |
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| US 07655694 | Landauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Landauer (Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas Michael Seed (Bethesda, Maryland); Venkataraman Srinivasan (Germantown, Maryland); Alla Shapiro (Rockville, Maryland); Chris H. Takimoto (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for the prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of animals, including humans from radiation injury. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions comprising the isoflavone genistein (4′,5,7-trihydroxyflavone) or phytoestrogenic isoflavonoids. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/297978 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655752 | Levine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart J. Levine (North Potomac, Maryland); Caitriona A. Buckley (Potomac, Maryland); Farshid N. Rouhani (Germantown, Maryland); Maryann Kaler (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides peptides, variants of peptides, peptide fragments, and peptidomimetics that can inhibit the protease activity of tumor necrosis factor alpha converting enzyme. The invention also provides coupled proteins containing a partner protein coupled to a peptide, peptide fragment, or peptidomimetic. The invention also provides polyproteins containing at least two peptides, peptide fragments, or coupled proteins that are connected through a linker. Isolated nucleic acid segments, expression cassettes, and nucleic acid constructs are also provided by the invention. The invention also provides antibodies and aptamers. Pharmaceutical compositions are provided by the invention. Methods to lower or increase levels of active tumor necrosis factor alpha in a mammal are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389675 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655755 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas D. Ross (Columbia, Maryland); L. Austin Doyle (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lynne V. Abruzzo (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The Breast Cancer Resistance Protein is described, as well as the cDNA encoding said protein. This protein has been found to confer resistance to cancer chemotherapeutic drugs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/184860 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655757 | Raines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); George N. Phillips, Jr. (Madison, Wisconsin); R. Jeremy Johnson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Jason G. McCoy (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to cytotoxic variants of human ribonuclease 1 (RNase 1) identified through analysis of the interaction between RNase 1 and the human ribonuclease inhibitor (hRI) as defined by the three dimensional (3-D) atomic structure of the RNase 1 hRI complex. Also disclosed is the 3-D structure of the hRI.RNase 1 complex and methods for designing the RNase 1 variants. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454418 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655774 | Mullins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James I. Mullins (Seattle, Washington); Allen G. Rodrigo (Auckland, New Zealand); Gerald H. Learn (Kingston, Washington); Fusheng Li (Seattle, Washington); David C. Nickle (Seattle, Washington); Mark A. Jensen (Snohomish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to ancestral and COT nucleic acid and amino acid sequences, methods for producing such sequences and uses thereof, including prophylactic and diagnostic uses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/780507 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655787 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peixuan Guo (West Lafayette, Indiana); Stephen M. Hoeprich (North Canton, Ohio); Dan Shu (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A circularly permuted chimeric pRNA molecule carrying a stabilized biologically active RNA, such as a ribozyme. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373612 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655832 | Tanguay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Tanguay (Corvallis, Oregon); Lljoy K. Mathew (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of simultaneously screening at least two candidate agents for an activity affecting regeneration of an embryonic teleost. According to this method, for each agent, a fin of the embryonic teleost is amputated. Next, the amputated teleost is incubated with the candidate agent for a specified period of time. After this period of time, the amputated teleost is imaged. This image is compared to an image of an amputated teleost that was incubated for the specified period of time in the absence of the candidate agent. When comparing the images, a change in morphology of the amputated fin of the embryonic teleost incubated in the presence of the candidate agent compared to the amputated fin of the embryonic teleost raised in the absence of the candidate agent indicates that the candidate agent affects regeneration. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890653 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655835 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute For Biological Studies (La Jola, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongwei Guo (La Jolla, California); Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transgenic plants having reduced sensitivity to ethylene as a result of having a recombinant nucleic acid encoding a F-box protein, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with reduced ethylene sensitivity by transforming the plant with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a F-box protein. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/298286 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656990 | Wigstrom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lars Wigstrom (Palo Alto, California); Rebecca Fahrig (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | CT imaging is enhanced by adaptively filtering x-ray attenuation data prior to image reconstruction. Detected x-ray projection data are adaptively and anisotropically filtered based on the locally estimated orientation of structures within the projection data from an object being imaged at a plurality of rotation positions. The detected x-ray data are uniformly low pass filtered to preserve the local mean values in the data, while the high pass filtering is controlled based on the estimated orientations. The resulting filtered data provide projection data with smoothing along the structures while maintaining sharpness along edges. Image noise and noise induced streak artifacts are reduced without increased blurring along edges in the reconstructed images. The enhanced image allows reduced x-ray dose while maintaining image quality. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/533289 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
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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) | Randall D. Cope (Ridgecrest, California); Gabriel H. Soto (Ridgecrest, California); John K. Kandell (Ridgecrest, California); Brian D. Dutton (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-contained fuze module, for installation on pieces of ordnance, having sensing devices and processing capability within the fuze module to determine whether conditions have been met to arm the ordnance. The fuze module is a unitary sealed module communicating with a launch vehicle via one or more communication/power buses. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/128900 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/6.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07654213 | Marolda |
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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) | Victor J. Marolda (Salem, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A normal belt capstan assembly for arrays towed by vessels includes a drive wheel mounted on the vessel and adapted to deploy and discharge an array. The drive wheel has a continuous groove throughout an outer edge thereof with opposed rims on either side of the groove. The assembly further includes a normal belt mounted on a plurality of rollers and disposed along a portion of the periphery of the drive wheel, the belt having a continuous central groove formed in a surface facing the drive wheel. The combined drive wheel groove and central groove are adapted to receive the array and termination module, and a retaining groove on either side of the central groove are adapted for receiving the drive wheel rims. The normal belt provides a normal force to the array and termination module. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499975 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/244 |
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| US 07654262 | Warkander |
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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) | Dan E. Warkander (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The system of the present invention reduces hydrostatic imbalances acting on the diaphragm of a diver's open-circuit breathing apparatus' regulator. In general, the system applies a flexing force to the diaphragm based on the position of the diver's head relative to gravity when the mouthpiece is in the diver's mouth. The system can be realized by a simple mechanical pendulum assembly attached to the regulator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/605063 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/204.260 |
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| US 07654348 | Ohm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy R. Ohm (Grover Beach, California); Michael Bassett (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Configurations are provided for vehicular robots or other vehicles to provide shifting of their centers of gravity for enhanced obstacle navigation. Various head and neck morphologies are provided to allow positioning for various poses such as a stowed pose, observation poses, and inspection poses. Neck extension and actuator module designs are provided to implement various head and neck morphologies. Robot control network circuitry is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842868 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.320 |
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| US 07654458 | Kokodis 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) | Victor N. Kokodis (Wharton, New Jersey); Arnold S. Klein (Rockaway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual purpose munition includes a housing; a shaped warhead disposed in a front interior of the housing; a vertically orienting explosive disposed on a front end of the housing; a safe and arm device explosively connected to the shaped warhead for arming and detonating the shaped warhead; a dual sensor circuit comprising an E-field sensor board, a B-field sensor board and a processor board; and a power source connected to the dual sensor circuit and the safe and arm device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/306024 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/400 |
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| US 07655090 | Marchand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hugues Marchand (Goleta, California); Brendan Jude Moran (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of controlling stress in GaN films deposited on silicon and silicon carbide substrates and the films produced therefrom are disclosed. A typical method comprises providing a substrate and depositing a graded gallium nitride layer on the substrate having a varying composition of a substantially continuous grade from an initial composition to a final composition formed from a supply of at least one precursor in a growth chamber without any interruption in the supply. A typical semiconductor film comprises a substrate and a graded gallium nitride layer deposited on the substrate having a varying composition of a substantially continuous grade from an initial composition to a final composition formed from a supply of at least one precursor in a growth chamber without any interruption in the supply. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855785 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/105 |
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| US 07655115 | Becker 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) | Carol A. Becker (Del Mar, California); Wayne E. Glad (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method provide a solute-solvent solution that allows the solute to become photo-protonated by the solvent on absorption of ultraviolet light. The solute is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octamethylanthracene (OMA). The solvent is 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol (HFIP). The protonated form of the solute absorbs visible light to change the coloration of the solution from a substantially clear state to a colored state. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/159975 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/158.140 |
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| US 07655148 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inframat Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut); The University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huimin Chen (Willington, Connecticut); Meidong Wang (Willington, Connecticut); T. Danny Xiao (Willington, Connecticut); Dennis A. Clifford (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A water treatment composition includes an oxidizing component and an adsorbing component, wherein one or both of the oxidizing component and adsorbing component comprise nanostructured materials. The water treatment compositions are useful in at least partially removing contaminants such as metallic or cationic arsenic, lead, chromium, and/or mercury from water. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/581504 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/688 |
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| US 07655252 | Baker, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tarek Hamouda (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Amy Shih (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrzej Myc (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for decreasing the infectivity, morbidity, and rate of mortality associated with a variety of pathogenic organisms and viruses. The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for decontaminating areas colonized or otherwise infected by pathogenic organisms and viruses. Moreover, the present invention relates to methods and compositions for decreasing the infectivity of pathogenic organisms in foodstuffs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/179547 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
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| US 07655269 | Mayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theresa S. Mayer (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Christine D. Keating (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides sensor, preferably biosensor devices and method of fabrication. The devices have significant advantages over the prior art methods having compatibility with future trends in clinical diagnostics and chemical detection. The underlying principle involves the integration of nanometer diameter, micron long metal or semiconductor rods onto a substrate to form a suspended nanomechanical cantilevers. The cantilever rods are rigidly attached to the substrate on one or both ends, and resonate at a characteristic frequency depending on the diameter, length, and stiffness of the rod. The metal or semiconductor rods are integrated onto the substrate using electrofluidic or fluidic assembly techniques. A receptor coating is placed on the metal or semiconductor rods prior to or following rod alignment using self-assembly chemistries. Sensing is accomplished when the target agent binds to the receptor substance, causing a change in the mass of the cantilever rod, and a corresponding change in the resonant frequency. This change in resonant frequency can be detected using an electrical readout. The sensing circuitry is integrated with CMOS or TFT technologies to form compact multi-analyte senor arrays on single crystal silicon, glass, or polymeric substrates. Circuits can also be included on the substrate to transmit the array data via wireless methods to a remote workstation for analysis. Devices may be integrated on chips with other analysis devices. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/423832 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.130 |
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| US 07655302 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to carbon fiber produced from fullerene nanotube arrays. In one embodiment, the present invention involves a macroscopic carbon fiber comprising at least 106 fullerene nanotubes in generally parallel orientation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508111 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/367 |
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| US 07655461 | Finn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsbugh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivera J. Finn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Nehad M. Alajez (Toronto, Canada); Jan Schmielau (Lübeck, Germany); Mark D. Alter (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated nucleic acid encoding a receptor, other than an immunoglobulin, wherein the receptor binds to a MUC1 tumor antigen independently of an major histocompatibility complex (MHC). The invention provides a method of activating a signaling pathway and/or killing a cancer cell using a receptor that is similar to or is a T cell receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295767 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655474 | Jhaveri 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) | Sulay Jhaveri (Alexandria, Virginia); Mario Ancona (Alexandria, Virginia); Edward E Foos (Alexandria, Virginia); Eddie L Chang (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA strand comprising the steps of providing nanoclusters, combining said nanoclusters with thiolated DNA, incubating said nanoclusters and thiolated DNA mixture, combining said mixture with a solution comprising ethanol and dichloromethane; separating said mixture into an aqueous phase and an organic phase, mixing said aqueous phase with a solution comprising dicholormethane and NaCl, and separating the mixture into an aqueous phase and an organic phase; wherein said organic phase comprises said nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA strand. Further, provided is a nanocluster functionalized with a single DNA strand comprising a nanocluster, said nanocluster being functionalized with a single DNA strand, said DNA strand having a length of about 10 to about 50 bases. |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/278502 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/166 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655489 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Notre Dame Du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Hall (South Bend, Indiana); Mingjun Huang (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of doping an oxide. The example method includes forming at least one of an AlGaAs oxide or an InAlP oxide on a GaAs substrate, and incorporating Erbium into the at least one AlGaAs oxide or InAlP oxide via ion implantation to form an Erbium-doped oxide layer. The example method also includes annealing the substrate and the at least one AlGaAs oxide or InAlP oxide. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123257 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655529 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Chen (Oak Park, California); Marko Sokolich (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wafer comprising at least one emitter-up Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (HBT) and at least one emitter-down HBT on a common InP based semiconductor wafer. Isolation and N-type implants into the device layers differentiate an emitter-down HBT from an emitter-up HBT. The method for preparing a device comprises forming identical layers for all HBTs and performing ion implantation to differentiate an emitter-down HBT from an emitter-up HBT. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052935 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655594 | Okun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neyla Okun (Alpharetta, Georgia); Craig L. Hill (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, compositions, materials including the compositions, methods of using the compositions, and methods of degrading contaminants, are described herein. The composition can include a polyoxometalate/ cationic silica material. In addition, the compositions can be made of a polyoxometalate/cationic silica material, a copper (II) salt having a weakly bound anion, and a nitrate salts. Further, the compositions can be made of a polyoxometalate/cationic silica material, a copper (II) salt having a weakly bound anion, a compound selected from tetraethylammonium (TEA) nitrate, tetra-n-butylammonium (TBA) nitrate, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/512336 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655738 | Keller 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) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermoset and method of making such by crosslinking a mixture of a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane having pendent siloxane groups or unsaturated carbon bonds and a siloxylcarborane compound having unsaturated carbon bonds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834741 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655944 | Darwish |
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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) | Ali Mohamed Darwish (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of systems and methods for estimating channel temperatures of a field effect transistor structure are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving geometrical values corresponding to a field effect transistor (FET) structure, and associating the geometrical values of the FET structure to elliptical cylinder and prolate spheroidal coordinates to provide a closed form expression. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/143678 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655996 | Edelstein |
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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) | Alan S. Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A MEMS device and method comprising a MEMS structure adjacent to a SOI base; a sacrificial support operatively connecting the base to the MEMS structure; a suspension member operatively connecting the base to the MEMS structure, wherein the suspension member is longer than the sacrificial support; and an electrode operatively connected to the base. The device may further comprise a current pulse generator adapted to send a current pulse through the sacrificial support, wherein the current pulse causes the sacrificial support to detach from the MEMS structure. Moreover, the sacrificial support structures may be electrically resistive. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345542 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656071 | Mehta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarabjit Mehta (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuating assembly for tuning a circuit and a process for forming a carrier substrate containing a membrane, a conductive layer, and piezoelectric actuators are disclosed. The actuating assembly comprises a membrane overlying a circuit to be tuned, a conductive element connected with the membrane, and a piezoelectric arrangement. Changes in shape of the piezoelectric arrangement allow a deflection of the membrane and a corresponding controllable upward or downward movement of the conductive element. In the process, a membrane and a piezoelectric structure are formed on a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421303 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656159 | Edelstein |
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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) | Alan S. Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for locating stationary magnetic objects comprises placing magnetic sensors on a movable platform; for each sensor, measuring a total magnetic field signal in an area of detection; using the sensors to identify a line upon which a target stationary magnetic object is located; and fixing a location of the object by moving the platform in substantially straight lines until the object is detected by at least two of the sensors; using the measured signals to determine a first path on which the object lies; positioning the sensors so that a line connecting two of the sensors intersects the first path on which the object lies; moving the platform along a second path substantially parallel to the first path; recording two positions at which at least two of the sensors detect a maximum total magnetic field signal from the object; and identifying a third path through the two positions. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852504 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656256 | Houck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nuvotronics, PLLC (Radford, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Houck (Blacksburg, Virginia); David W. Sherrer (Radford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are three-dimensional microstructures and their methods of formation. The microstructures are formed by a sequential build process and include microstructural elements which are affixed to one another. The microstructures find use, for example, in coaxial transmission lines for electromagnetic energy. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/005936 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656351 | Rao 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) | Jaganmohan B. L. Rao (College Park, Maryland); Rashmi Mital (Lorton, Virginia); Dharmesh P. Patel (Fulton, Maryland); Mark G. Parent (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Gregory C. Tavik (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for electronically scanning a predetermined geostationary orbital arc segment around the earth with an antenna system. The antenna system includes a planar array. A number of fixed electronic squints is selected. Lengths of the total plurality of fixed delay line lengths are generated for the planar array based on the number of fixed electronic squints. All of the antenna elements in the planar array for the mobile earth station are fitted with the generated lengths. The orbital arc segment is electronically scanned with a single linear scan with the planar array. This method is extendable to the case of multiple beams by adding additional phase shifters at each column and keeping the number of fixed line lengths the same, regardless of the number of additional beams. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/969390 |
| 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 342/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656749 | Scanlon |
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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) | Michael V. Scanlon (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for analyzing acoustic waves are provided. An exemplary system includes a housing, multiple acoustic passageways and an acoustic sensor. The housing defines an interior cavity. The multiple acoustic passageways communicate acoustically between the interior cavity and an exterior of the housing. Each of the acoustic passageways has an inlet port and an outlet port, with each outlet port being located within the housing to direct a portion of an acoustic wave to the interior cavity. The acoustic sensor is mounted within the interior cavity and is operative to receive portions of an acoustic wave directed to the interior cavity by the acoustic passageways. The acoustic sensor also is operative to provide information such as direction of arrival information corresponding to a composite waveform formed by acoustic interference, within the interior cavity, of the portions of the acoustic wave. Methods and other systems also are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/849996 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656805 | Vigouroux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xavier-Francois Vigouroux (Lieu Dit le Montiou, France); Bernard Tourancheau (Miribel, France); Cedric Koch-Hofer (Saint Martin D'heres, France) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic system in which integrated circuits employing cornered I/O are arranged in a framework including an optional path manager and at least one updateable routing table. Packet routing options are described with solutions being provided to minimize transmission latency and pathway alternatives. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/219153 |
| ART UNIT | 2416 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657139 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); National Institute of Information and Communication (Tokyo, Japan); Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianxiao Chen (La Jolla, California); Paul Kit Lai Yu (San Diego, California); Tetsuya Kawanishi (Tokyo, Japan); Kaoru Higuma (Chiba, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides tunable delay or resonator devices in an electro optical substrate. Signals in at least one waveguide in the electro optical substrate pass through Y-junction reflectors which direct signals from one branch of the waveguide back into another branch of the waveguide. A coupled delay or resonator approximated loop is presented in an embodiment of the invention with opposing Y-junction reflectors. In other embodiments of the invention, a delay ladder is provided with selectable levels of delay from multiple outputs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/628572 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657416 | Subasic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cadence Design Systems, Inc (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pero Subasic (Phoenix, Arizona); Enis Aykut Dengi (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of system design, and more particularly a method of designing systems that achieve a set of performance goals using a hierarchically partitioned system representation wherein performance simulations are performed at multiple levels within the hierarchy and are combined to simulate a system level result in order to reduce the aggregate time required for performance simulation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202742 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657496 | Aparicio, IV |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saffron Technology, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel Aparicio, IV (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Associative memories include associative memory cells. A respective cell includes a sensor input, a prior association representation, a next association representation and an associative output. The cells are serially interconnected to form a linear array, such that the sensor inputs, the prior association representations and the next association representations of the serially connected cells are arranged in a sequence from distal to proximal cells based on affinities of associations among the series of sensor inputs. A respective cell also includes processing logic. The processing logic is responsive to the associated sensor input being active, to send a measure of the next association representation to an adjacent proximal cell and/or to send a measure of prior association representation to an adjacent distal cell. The processing logic may be further responsive to the associated sensor input being active, and to receipt of the measure of the next association representation from an adjacent distal cell, to accumulate an associative count in the associative output. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426520 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657729 | El-Essawy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wael R. El-Essawy (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hazim Shafi (Redmond, Washington); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an apparatus for enabling a prefetch engine to detect and support hardware prefetching with different streams in received accesses. Multiple (simple) history tables are provided within (or associated with) the prefetch engine. Each of the multiple tables is utilized to detect different access patterns. The tables are indexed by different parts of the address and are accessed in a preset order to reduce the interference between different patterns. When an address does not fit the patterns of a first table, the address is passed to the next table to be checked for a match of different patterns. In this manner, different patterns may be detected at different tables within a single prefetch engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/457178 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657875 | Alexander, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Preston Alexander, III (Austin, Texas); Scott Thomas Jones (Austin, Texas); Frank Eliot Levine (Austin, Texas); Robert John Urquhart (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for collecting a plurality of metrics during a single run of a computer program. The mechanism of the present invention initializes a plurality of counters to count events associated with metrics of interest. The mechanism of the present invention then counts the occurrence of events associated with metrics of interest during a single execution of a computer program. When a branch has been taken, a trace record is generated for the branch taken, wherein the generated trace record contains a count of events associated with the metrics of interest for the branch taken. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104323 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657935 | Stolfo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Shlomo Herskop (Brooklyn, New York); Manasi Bhattacharyya (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods of detecting an occurrence of a violation of an email security policy of a computer system. A model relating to the transmission of prior emails through the computer system is defined which is derived from statistics relating to the prior emails. For selected emails to be analyzed, statistics concerning the selected email are gathered. Such statistics may refer to the behavior or other features of the selected emails, attachments to emails, or email accounts. The determination of whether a violation of an email security policy has occurred is performed by applying the model of prior email transmission to the statistics relating to the selected email. The model may be statistical or probabilistic. A model of prior email transmission may include grouping email recipients into cliques. A determination of a violation of a security policy may occur if email recipients for a particular email are in more than one clique. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/222632 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maxim Zalalutdinov (Ithaca, New York); Anatoli Olkhovets (Ithaca, New York); Alan T. Zehnder (Ithaca, New York); Bojan Ilic (Ithaca, New York); David Alan Czaplewski (Ithaca, New York); Lidija Sekaric (Ithaca, New York); Jeevak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-electrical mechanical oscillator has a resonant frequency of oscillation that is varied by application of heat. The resonant frequency is varied at a frequency different from the resonant frequency of the oscillator to amplify oscillations. In one embodiment, the oscillator is disc of material supported by a pillar of much smaller diameter than the disc. The periphery of the disc is heated by a laser to provide a time varying shift of the resonant frequency (or equivalently the stiffness) of the disc. Feedback from movement of the disc is used to modulate the intensity of the laser, and thus the stiffness of the disc to provide parametric amplification of sensed vibrations, using heating as a pump. Various other shapes of micro-electrical mechanical oscillators are used in other embodiment, including an array of such oscillators on a substrate, each having different resonant frequencies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/097178 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655302 | Smalley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas); Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Andrew G. Rinzler (Newberry, Florida); Jason H. Hafner (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Ting Guo (Davis, California); Pavel Nikolaev (Houston, Texas); Andreas Thess (Kusterdingen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to carbon fiber produced from fullerene nanotube arrays. In one embodiment, the present invention involves a macroscopic carbon fiber comprising at least 106 fullerene nanotubes in generally parallel orientation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508111 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655445 | Rosenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Rosenberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kuberan Balagurunathan (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, processes and reaction mixtures, which produce sulfated heparosan polysaccharides. This invention also provides methods and reaction mixtures for the synthesis of N-deacetylate N-sulfate derivatives of non-sulfated N-acetyl heparosan (HS) polysaccharides. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/986058 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655465 | Sherley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Sherley (Boston, Massachusetts); Johnathan King (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for readily propagating somatic hair follicle stem cells or melanocyte stem cells. The methods comprise enhancing guanine nucleotide (GNP) biosynthesis, thereby expanding guanine nucleotide pools. This in turn conditionally suppresses asymmetric cell kinetics in the explanted cells. The methods of the invention include pharmacological methods and genetic methods. For example, the resulting cultured somatic hair follicle stem cells can be used for a variety of applications including cell replacement therapies such as hair transplants, gene therapies, and tissue engineering applications, such as the generation of artificial skin and skin regeneration strategies including skin grafts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147013 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655470 | Ismagilov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rustem F. Ismagilov (Chicago, Illinois); Bo Zheng (Chicago, Illinois); Cory J. Gerdts (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microfluidic technology enabling rapid and economical manipulation of reactions on the femtoliter to microliter scale. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082187 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655479 | Zhukov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatyana A. Zhukov (Lutz, Florida); Sergei Ostapenko (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Rebecca Sutphen (Tampa, Florida); Johnathan Lancaster (Tampa, Florida); Thomas A. Sellers (Tampa, Florida); Jin Z. Zhang (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) conjugated with biomolecules to serve as sensitive probes for early detection of the cancer cells, specifically for ovarian cancer and lung cancer, which represents the most lethal malignancies. The luminescence characterization of the bin-conjugated QDs with cancer specific antigens using linkage molecules. Photo-enhancement is measured at various laser density power, temperatures and laser wavelengths. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/160617 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655489 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Notre Dame Du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Hall (South Bend, Indiana); Mingjun Huang (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of doping an oxide. The example method includes forming at least one of an AlGaAs oxide or an InAlP oxide on a GaAs substrate, and incorporating Erbium into the at least one AlGaAs oxide or InAlP oxide via ion implantation to form an Erbium-doped oxide layer. The example method also includes annealing the substrate and the at least one AlGaAs oxide or InAlP oxide. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123257 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655787 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peixuan Guo (West Lafayette, Indiana); Stephen M. Hoeprich (North Canton, Ohio); Dan Shu (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A circularly permuted chimeric pRNA molecule carrying a stabilized biologically active RNA, such as a ribozyme. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/373612 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655835 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute For Biological Studies (La Jola, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongwei Guo (La Jolla, California); Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transgenic plants having reduced sensitivity to ethylene as a result of having a recombinant nucleic acid encoding a F-box protein, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with reduced ethylene sensitivity by transforming the plant with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a F-box protein. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/298286 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656510 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory C. Roberts (San Diego, California); Athanasios Nenes (Mableton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A cloud condensation nuclei instrument including an aerosol flow line (320) to carry a desired sample to the CNN chamber (310) and a temperature control unit (313A, 313B) to provide a monotonically increasing temperature profile along the direction of flow. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/528348 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656525 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Yongjun Liu (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Fiber optic surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems (also referred to as “SERS system”), portable SERS systems, SERS probes, and methods of using the SERS systems and SERS probes to detect an analyte, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834233 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656526 | Spuler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Spuler (Westminster, Colorado); Shane Mayor (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A lidar system capable of remotely identifying calibrated absolute aerosol backscatter coefficients of atmospheric aerosol particles by transmitting a beam of light and spectrally separating the intensity of Rayleigh and Mie backscattering is disclosed. The transmitter features high pulse energy to generate sufficient Rayleigh backscattering, enabling atmospheric scanning in a timely manner. The transmitter employs a seeded Nd:YAG laser and a seeded stimulated Raman scattering wavelength shifter to achieve narrow bandwidth, eye-safe laser pulses. The receiver employs a telescope, collimating lens, beam splitter, molecular absorption filter, focusing lenses, and avalanche photodiodes. Mie backscattering is blocked by the molecular absorption filter to provide a Rayleigh signal, which is used with knowledge of atmospheric density to calibrate the Mie signal. The system is intended for atmospheric research and aerosol monitoring applications where calibrated Mie scattering intensity is necessary to measure the optical depths of aerosol structures such as plumes, clouds, and layers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459269 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656912 | Brueck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Liang Xue (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ron Kaspi (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide tunable laser devices, methods for making the laser devices and methods for tuning the laser devices. The tunable laser devices can include an optically pumped semiconductor laser heterostructure, on which a distributed-feedback (DFB) laser grating having variable grating spacings (or chirps) can be formed. The optically pumped semiconductor laser heterostructure can be an optically pumped type-II quantum well laser structure. The emission wavelength of the tunable laser devices can be tuned by changing positions of the region illuminated by the pump laser and with respect to the chirped DFB grating. The disclosed laser devices and methods can provide tunable laser emission with a combination of narrow linewidth and high output power that can be used for remote sensing applications and/or spectroscopic applications across the entire mid infrared (IR) spectral region. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056454 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657816 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron E. Cohen (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Encoders and methods for designing encoders for Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) and other block codes are presented. An efficient and systematic method for designing partially parallel encoders is presented. A parallelism factor is selected such that the end result for the encoder is similar to the partially parallel G matrix multiplication method. In addition to the method an initial circuit is given for the G matrix multiplication encoder and the RU encoder. A circuit for the hybrid encoder is presented which achieves less power consumption and smaller area than an equivalent encoder based on the G matrix multiplication with a smaller critical path than previous encoders. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487063 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657882 | Oskin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark H. Oskin (Seattle, Washington); Steven J. Swanson (Seattle, Washington); Susan J. Eggers (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A dataflow instruction set architecture and execution model, referred to as WaveScalar, which is designed for scalable, low-complexity/high-performance processors, while efficiently providing traditional memory semantics through a mechanism called wave-ordered memory. Wave-ordered memory enables “real-world” programs, written in any language, to be run on the WaveScalar architecture, as well as any out-of-order execution unit. Because it is software-controlled, wave-ordered memory can be disabled to obtain greater parallelism. Wavescalar also includes a software-controlled tag management system. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/041396 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07654240 | Jarrett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Wayne Jarrett (Washington, Illinois); Brent Michael Hunold (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper crown with a top and a bottom surface, and a lower crown with a top and a bottom surface. The upper crown and the lower crown are fixedly attached to each other using welds, with the bottom surface of the upper crown and the top surface of the lower crown forming a mating surface. The piston also has at least one centrally located air gap formed on the mating surface. The air gap is sealed to prevent substantial airflow into or out of the air gap. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/505803 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/193.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655065 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); David B. Brown (Brighton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A regeneration method for a particulate filter includes estimating a quantity of particulate matter trapped within the particulate filter, comparing the quantity of particulate matter to a predetermined quantity, heating at least a portion of the particulate filter to a combustion temperature of the particulate matter, and introducing hydrocarbon fuel to the particulate filter. The hydrocarbon fuel facilitates combustion of the particulate matter to regenerate the particulate filter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/497808 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655183 | Benn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC Power Corporation (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond C. Benn (Madison, Connecticut); Susanne M. Opalka (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Thomas Henry Vanderspurt (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A durable Pd-based alloy is used for a H2-selective membrane in a hydrogen generator, as in the fuel processor of a fuel cell plant. The Pd-based alloy includes Cu as a binary element, and further includes “X”, where “X” comprises at least one metal from group “M” that is BCC and acts to stabilize the β BCC phase for stability during operating temperatures. The metal from group “M” is selected from the group consisting of Fe, Cr, Nb, Ta, V, Mo, and W, with Nb and Ta being most preferred. “X” may further comprise at least one metal from a group “N” that is non-BCC, preferably FCC, that enhances other properties of the membrane, such as ductility. The metal from group “N” is selected from the group consisting of Ag, Au, Re, Ru, Rh, Y, Ce, Ni, Ir, Pt, Co, La and In. The at. % of Pd in the binary Pd—Cu alloy ranges from about 35 at. % to about 55 at. %, and the at. % of “X” in the higher order alloy, based on said binary alloy, is in the range of about 1 at. % to about 15 at. %. The metals are selected according to a novel process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/712200 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Alloys or metallic compositions 420/463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655188 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cyril V. Thompson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Rob R. Smith (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly and an associated method for collecting a sample of material desired to be characterized with diagnostic equipment includes or utilizes an elongated member having a proximal end with which the assembly is manipulated by a user and a distal end. In addition, a collection tip which is capable of being placed into contact with the material to be characterized is supported upon the distal end. The collection tip includes a body of chemically-inert porous material for binding a sample of material when the tip is placed into contact with the material and thereby holds the sample of material for subsequent introduction to the diagnostic equipment. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194095 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655193 | Rau 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) | Gregory H. Rau (Castro Valley, California); Kenneth G. Caldeira (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method associated therewith to extract and sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) from a stream or volume of gas wherein said apparatus hydrates CO2 and reacts the resulting carbonic acid with carbonate. Suitable carbonates include, but are not limited to, carbonates of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, preferably carbonates of calcium and magnesium. Waste products are metal cations and bicarbonate in solution or dehydrated metal salts, which when disposed of in a large body of water provide an effective way of sequestering CO2 from a gaseous environment. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/901313 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655833 | Heilmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ingo H. Heilmann (Bay Shore, New York); John Shanklin (Shoreham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to enzymes involved in lipid metabolism. In particular, the present invention provides coding sequences for Arabidopsis Desaturases (ADS), the encoded ADS polypeptides, and methods for using the sequences and encoded polypeptides, where such methods include decreasing and increasing saturated fatty acid content in plant seed oils. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/857765 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655835 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute For Biological Studies (La Jola, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongwei Guo (La Jolla, California); Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transgenic plants having reduced sensitivity to ethylene as a result of having a recombinant nucleic acid encoding a F-box protein, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with reduced ethylene sensitivity by transforming the plant with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a F-box protein. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/298286 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655887 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); Richard Kramer (Sharon, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling electrical heating of an element to maintain a constant electrical resistance, by adjusting electrical power supplied to such element according to an adaptive feedback control algorithm, in which all the parameters are (1) arbitrarily selected; (2) pre-determined by the physical properties of the controlled element; or (3) measured in real time. Unlike the conventional proportion-integral-derivative (PID) control mechanism, the system and method of the present invention do not require re-tuning of proportionality constants when used in connection with a different controlled element or under different operating conditions, and are therefore adaptive to changes in the controlled element and the operating conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/440241 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655935 | Frank |
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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) | Michael I. Frank (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-contained source of gamma-ray and neutron radiation suitable for use as a radiation surrogate for weapons-grade plutonium is described. The source generates a radiation spectrum similar to that of weapons-grade plutonium at 5% energy resolution between 59 and 2614 keV, but contains no special nuclear material and emits little α-particle radiation. The weapons-grade plutonium radiation surrogate also emits neutrons having fluxes commensurate with the gamma-radiation intensities employed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748689 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/493.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07656931 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Smith (London, Tennessee); William B. Dress (Camas, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are described for hybrid spread spectrum radio systems. A method includes modulating a signal by utilizing a subset of bits from a pseudo-random code generator to control an amplification circuit that provides a gain to the signal. Another method includes: modulating a signal by utilizing a subset of bits from a pseudo-random code generator to control a fast hopping frequency synthesizer; and fast frequency hopping the signal with the fast hopping frequency synthesizer, wherein multiple frequency hops occur within a single data-bit time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/750432 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07654966 | Westinskow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwayne Westinskow (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Agutter (Salt Lake City, Utah); Noah Syroid (Salt Lake City, Utah); David Strayer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert Albert (Salt Lake City, Utah); S. Blake Wachter (Huntsville, Utah); Frank Drews (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, apparatus and device for the monitoring, diagnosis and evaluation of the state of a dynamic pulmonary system is disclosed. This method and system provides the processing means for receiving sensed and/or simulated data, converting such data into a displayable object format and displaying such objects in a manner such that the interrelationships between the respective variables can be correlated and identified by a user. This invention provides for the rapid cognitive grasp of the overall state of a pulmonary critical function with respect to a dynamic system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/269423 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655145 | Gormly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sherwin J. Gormly (Carson City, Nevada); Michael T. Flynn (Corte Madera, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for processing of a liquid (“contaminant liquid”) containing water and containing urine and/or other contaminants in a two step process. Urine, or a contaminated liquid similar to and/or containing urine and thus having a relatively high salt and urea content is passed through an activated carbon filter to provide a resulting liquid, to remove most of the organic molecules. The resulting liquid is passed through a semipermeable membrane from a membrane first side to a membrane second side, where a fortified drink having a lower water concentration (higher osmotic potential) than the resulting liquid is positioned. Osmotic pressure differential causes the water, but not most of the remaining inorganic (salts) contaminant(s) to pass through the membrane to the fortified drink. Optionally, the resulting liquid is allowed to precipitate additional organic molecules before passage through the membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543275 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655421 | Lynes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ciencia, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Lynes (Eastford, Connecticut); Salvador M. Fernández (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay technique for label-free, highly parallel, qualitative and quantitative detection of specific cell populations in a sample and for assessing cell functional status, cell-cell interactions and cellular responses to drugs, environmental toxins, bacteria, viruses and other factors that may affect cell function. The technique includes a) creating a first array of binding regions in a predetermined spatial pattern on a sensor surface capable of specifically binding the cells to be assayed; b) creating a second set of binding regions in specific spatial patterns relative to the first set designed to efficiently capture potential secreted or released products from cells captured on the first set of binding regions; c) contacting the sensor surface with the sample, and d) simultaneously monitoring the optical properties of all the binding regions of the sensor surface to determine the presence and concentration of specific cell populations in the sample and their functional status by detecting released or secreted bioproducts. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/454329 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655497 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Yu (Cupertino, California); Xuhui Sun (Santa Clara, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for growth of an alloy for use in a nanostructure, to provide a resulting nanostructure compound including at least one of GexTey, InxSby, InxSey, SbxTey, GaxSby, GexSby,Tez, InxSbyTez, GaxSeyTez, SnxSbyTez, InxSbyGez, GewSnxSbyTez, GewSbxSeyTez, and TewGexSbySz, where w, x, y and z are numbers consistent with oxidization states (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) of the corresponding elements. The melt temperatures for some of the resulting compounds are in a range 330-420° C., or even lower with some compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513431 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655595 | Watkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony N. Watkins (Hampton, Virginia); Bradley D. Leighty (Gloucester, Virginia); Donald M. Oglesby (Virginia Beach, Virginia); JoAnne L. Ingram (Manassas Park, Virginia); Jacqueline L. Schryer (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An oxidation catalyst system is formed by particles of an oxidation catalyst dispersed in a porous sol-gel binder. The oxidation catalyst system can be applied by brush or spray painting while the sol-gel binder is in its sol state. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421924 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07655253 | Kuenen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bedoukian Research, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lodewyk P. S. Kuenen (Squaw Valley, California); Walter S. Leal (Davis, California); Jocelyn G. Millar (Riverside, California); Douglas J. Pesak (Oxford, Connecticut); Ana Lia Parra Pedrazzoli (Piracicaba, Brazil); Frank G. Zalom (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds useful for preparing synthetic pheromone compositions that can be used as attractants or inhibitors of insect species. The compositions are useful in the control of navel orangeworm or meal moth insect pests. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/339088 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655454 | Hinton, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Hinton, Jr. (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemically defined media supplemented with organic acids is used for supporting in vitro growth of Campylobacter and Arcobacter species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077107 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/253.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP20694 | Mehlenbacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon, Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education; Oregon State Univ (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn A. Mehlenbacher (Corvallis, Oregon); David C. Smith (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultivar of Corylus plant named ‘Red Dragon,’ characterized by its outwardly spreading plant habit, twisting stems, rich dark burgundy-colored leaves, burgundy color of the catkins and leaf buds, and resistance to eastern filbert blight caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala (Peck) E. Muller. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148080 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07655401 | Raskind et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendy H. Raskind (Seattle, Washington); Dong-Hui Chen (Seattle, Washington); Thomas D. Bird (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Zoran Brkanac (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods of identifying genetic mutations that are associated with ataxic neurological disease. The methods comprise identifying a difference between a nucleic acid sequence of a protein kinase C gamma gene from a mammalian subject exhibiting ataxia and a nucleic acid sequence of a protein kinase C gamma gene from a subject which is not exhibiting ataxia, wherein the difference is a genetic mutation associated with ataxic neurological disease. In another aspect, isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding protein kinase C gamma missense mutations are provided. In another aspect, a method of screening a subject to determine if the subject has a genetic predisposition to develop an ataxic neurological disease is provided. In another aspect, the invention provides kits for determining susceptibility or presence of ataxic neurological disease in a mammalian subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/671007 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07655472 | Chojkier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Chojkier (San Diego, California); Martina Buck (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the treatment and prevention of diseases characterized by excess cell proliferation and/or activation. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods to suppress the activation and/or proliferation of various cells. In preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to suppress the activation and/or proliferation of mesenchymally derived cells (including, but not limited to hepatic stellate cells), as well as cells with abnormal growth characteristics. In particularly preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to inhibit or eliminate fibrosis. In alternative preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to induce fibrosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166907 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07655249 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Vienna, Austria); Patricia D. McNeill (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an antigen-presenting cell presenting a WT1 polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds to a WT1 polypeptide; or a T cell that specifically reacts with a WT1 polypeptide. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, July 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/195835 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657816 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron E. Cohen (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Encoders and methods for designing encoders for Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) and other block codes are presented. An efficient and systematic method for designing partially parallel encoders is presented. A parallelism factor is selected such that the end result for the encoder is similar to the partially parallel G matrix multiplication method. In addition to the method an initial circuit is given for the G matrix multiplication encoder and the RU encoder. A circuit for the hybrid encoder is presented which achieves less power consumption and smaller area than an equivalent encoder based on the G matrix multiplication with a smaller critical path than previous encoders. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487063 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07655832 | Tanguay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L. Tanguay (Corvallis, Oregon); Lljoy K. Mathew (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of simultaneously screening at least two candidate agents for an activity affecting regeneration of an embryonic teleost. According to this method, for each agent, a fin of the embryonic teleost is amputated. Next, the amputated teleost is incubated with the candidate agent for a specified period of time. After this period of time, the amputated teleost is imaged. This image is compared to an image of an amputated teleost that was incubated for the specified period of time in the absence of the candidate agent. When comparing the images, a change in morphology of the amputated fin of the embryonic teleost incubated in the presence of the candidate agent compared to the amputated fin of the embryonic teleost raised in the absence of the candidate agent indicates that the candidate agent affects regeneration. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890653 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP20694 | Mehlenbacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon, Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education; Oregon State Univ (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn A. Mehlenbacher (Corvallis, Oregon); David C. Smith (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultivar of Corylus plant named ‘Red Dragon,’ characterized by its outwardly spreading plant habit, twisting stems, rich dark burgundy-colored leaves, burgundy color of the catkins and leaf buds, and resistance to eastern filbert blight caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala (Peck) E. Muller. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148080 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07654833 | Fork et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David K. Fork (Los Altos, California); Thomas Hantschel (Wevelgem, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | A spring contact has a post-release outer upper surface in compression and a post-release outer lower surface in compression. A compressive lower layer of spring material may be formed at a thickness that is three-eighths or less of a tensile upper layer of spring material. A low modulus of elasticity cladding material may also be applied to the outer surface of the spring contact with a lower surface of the cladding material being formed with a compressive stress. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/851479 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07656250 | Zabinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Zabinski (Stewartville, Minnesota); Rick Philpott (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A termination block for connecting a first signal device and a second signal device. The termination block includes a housing, first and second pair of connectors, and an electrical circuit having passive elements that connect the first and second pair of connectors and provide impedance matching. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185636 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07657120 | Aradhye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hrishikesh B. Aradhye (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the “open” portions of text characters to determine in which direction the open portions face. By determining the respective densities of characters opening in each direction (e.g., right or left), the method can establish in which direction the text as a whole is orientated. The present invention may be adapted for use in automated mail processing, to determine the orientation of checks in automated teller machine envelopes, or the orientation of scanned or copied documents, or documents sent via facsimile, or to determine the orientation of digital photographs that include text (e.g., road signs, business cards, driver's licenses, etc.), among other applications. A fast, substantially automatic determination of text orientation according to the present invention will reduce the labor expense and processing delay required for manual orientation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/844555 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07654203 | Roop et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen S. Roop (College Station, Texas); Craig E. Roco (College Station, Texas); Leslie E. Olson (Arlington, Texas); Curtis A. Morgan (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment of the invention, a freight transportation system includes a track comprising a pair of rails and a linear motor reaction plate disposed between the rails and a transport vehicle having a universal intermodal container bay configured to accommodate a plurality of containers. The transport vehicle includes one or more suspension systems each having a plurality of steel wheels engaged with the rails. The freight transportation system further includes a linear induction propulsion system coupled to the transport vehicle and operable to work in conjunction with the linear motor reaction plate to move the transport vehicle, and a control system coupled to the linear induction propulsion system and operable to control the movement of the transport vehicle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/875021 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Railways 14/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657030 | Thomson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Brent Thomson (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating a strong DES cryptographic key that doesn't require checking for parity or weak keys in the resulting key. First, all possible hexadecimal values are generated. Next, all possible two-hexadecimal value combinations are generated, where one of the two-hexadecimal values in a combination has odd parity, and the other even parity. Then, eliminate hexadecimal values E0, 01, F1, FE, 1F, 0E, 1E, and 0F from the list of all possible two-hexadecimal value combinations. Next, arrange each remaining two-hexadecimal value combination once in a user-definable order on a user-definable medium, such that the hexadecimal values alternate even and odd parity . Then, select eight unique two-hexadecimal value combinations on the user-definable medium in a user-definable manner. Lastly, use the selected eight two-hexadecimal value combinations as the DES cryptographic key. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/190209 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07657127 | Lolacono et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dominick Lolacono (Yardville, New Jersey); James R. Matey (Princeton, New Jersey); Oleg Naroditsky (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Tinker (Yardley, New Jersey); Thomas Zappia (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for strobed image capture includes stroboscopic illumination synchronized with one or more cameras to improve a signal to noise ratio, reduce motion blur and avoid object damage in sensor systems used to analyze illumination sensitive objects. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429695 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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