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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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| US 07678140 | Brainard et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George Brainard (Haddonfield, New Jersey); Gena Glickman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves a light system for stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals based upon the discovery of peak sensitivity ranging from 425-505 nm; a light meter system for quantifying light which stimulates or regulates mammalian circadian, photoneural, and neuroendocrine systems. The present invention also relates to translucent and transparent materials, and lamps or other light sources with or without filters capable of stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals. Additionally, the present invention involves treatment of mammals with a wide variety of disorders or deficits, including light responsive disorders, eating disorders, menstrual cycle disorders, non-specific alerting and performance deficits, hormone-sensitive cancers, and cardiovascular disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/853428 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
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| US 07678178 | Boddu 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) | Veera M. Boddu (Champaign, Illinois); Kent James Hay (Mahomet, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and associated method for removing metal, including metal in vapor form, from high temperature fluid emissions such as may occur at the exhaust of furnaces or thermal treatment equipment. One embodiment is the Integrated Metal Emissions Control System (IMECS™) incorporating both a Steel Screen Particulate (SSP) Filter System and a Perlite Based Sorbent (PBS) System. IMECS™ uses the SSP Filter System, with pore sizes down to one micron, to capture toxic metal particulate materials and the PBS System to capture vapor phase metals using surface-modified perlite. Using the IMECS™, EPA-listed heavy metals have been removed from representative high-temperature emissions in field tests to easily meet the NESHAP standards. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/802432 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678195 | Schlesser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raoul Schlesser (Cary, North Carolina); Vladimir Noveski (Chandler, Arizona); Zlatko Sitar (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of growing bulk single crystals of an AlN on a single crystal seed is provided, wherein an AlN source material is placed within a crucible chamber in spacial relationship to a seed fused to the cap of the crucible. The crucible is heated in a manner sufficient to establish a temperature gradient between the source material and the seed with the seed at a higher temperature than the source material such that the outer layer of the seed is evaporated, thereby cleaning the seed of contaminants and removing any damage to the seed incurred during seed preparation. Thereafter, the temperature gradient between the source material and the seed is inverted so that the source material is sublimed and deposited on the seed, thereby growing a bulk single crystal of AlN. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399713 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678210 | Newman 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) | Kirk E. Newman (Yorktown, Virginia); James A. Gusack (Williamsburg, Virginia); Lisa A. Mondy (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Alan L. Graham (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ronald E. Smith (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William J. Parkinson (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for mitigating shear induced particle migration of highly filled explosive suspensions during injection loading of the explosive suspension into a confined container that includes monitoring particle migration within the highly filled explosive suspension and correcting flow parameters effective to reduce the particle migration. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/794655 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
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| US 07678423 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xin Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xiangfei Qi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Marcelo Davanco (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An elastomeric stamp is used to deposit material on a non-planar substrate. A vacuum mold is used to deform the elastomeric stamp and pressure is applied to transfer material from the stamp to the substrate. By decreasing the vacuum applied by the vacuum mold, the elasticity of the stamp may be used to apply this pressure. Pressure also may be applied by applying a force to the substrate and/or the stamp. The use of an elastomeric stamp allows for patterned layers to be deposited on a non-planar substrate with reduced chance of damage to the patterned layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/711115 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678440 | McKnight et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey P. McKnight (Los Angeles, California); Christopher P. Henry (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a deformable, variable-stiffness cellular structure. The cellular structure a group of unit cells with each unit cell having a cellular geometry. The group of unit cells are formed of a variable-stiffness composite material (VSM). The VSM has a first stiffness state and a second stiffness state. Additionally, the cellular structure has a first shape and a second shape, with a gradation of shapes between the first shape and second shape. The transition from the first shape to the second shape occurs through using an actuation signal to actuate the VSM to change the stiffness of the cellular structure, thereby allowing the cellular structure to be deformed from the first shape to the second shape, and any shape therebetween. The cellular structure can be locked in the second shape through actuating the VSM from the second stiffness state to the first stiffness state. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713560 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678463 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods of using inorganic moieties for dielectric modulation, and related device structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642504 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678465 | Sambasivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Thin Films, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sankar Sambasivan (Chicago, Illinois); Kimberly A. Steiner (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Aluminophosphate compounds, compositions and/or materials as can be used for substrate coatings. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627194 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/469 |
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| US 07678707 | Santiago 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) | Francisco Santiago (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Victor H. Gehman, Jr. (Dahlgren, Virginia); Karen J. Long (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Kevin A. Boulais (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotube apparatus, and methods of carbon nanotube modification, include carbon nanotubes having locally modified properties with the positioning of the modifications being controlled. More specifically, the positioning of nanotubes on a substrate with a deposited substance, and partially vaporizing part of the deposited substance etches the nanotubes. The modifications of the carbon nanotubes determine the electrical properties of the apparatus and applications such as a transistor or Shockley diode. Other applications of the above mentioned apparatus include a nanolaboratory that assists in study of merged quantum states between nanosystems and a macroscopic host system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894632 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678728 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim Olson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Plamen Atanassov (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly dispersed, unsupported, electrocatalyst made of pyrolyzed porphyries and a method for synthesizing the same. The disclosed synthesis procedure allows for optimization of pore size and therefore transport properties. Compounds suitable for use include transition metal N4-chelates such as, but not necessarily limited to, N4-chelates containing different metal centers including Co, Fe, Mn, Ni, Ru, Cu, etc., and other N4-chelates such as porphyrin, phthalocyanies, and structures based on their pyro products. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/872836 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/164 |
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07678736 — Modified reactive sorbents exhibiting enhanced decontamination of chemical warfare agents
| US 07678736 | Wagner |
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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) | George W. Wagner (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for decontaminating a highly toxic material, wherein the composition includes a modified reactive sorbent comprising a reactive sorbent in combination with a sufficient amount of an organic solvent to saturate the pores of the reactive sorbent to yield a non-slurry, free flowing mixture. The present invention is further directed to a method for making such compositions and method for decontaminating surfaces using such compositions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/467964 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/401 |
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| US 07678828 | Ellis 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) | William Y. Ellis (Laurel, Maryland); Peter Lim (Palo Alto, California); Manaj Maniar (Freemont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the manufacture of a sterile intravenous or intramuscular formulation of artesunic acid and the formulation are the subject of this invention. First the artesunic acid powder is sterilized with ethylene oxide and placed into a sterile container. The contained sterilized powder is then dissolved in sterile sodium phosphate buffered solution to produce an injectable intravenous or intramuscular formulation. The sodium phosphate dissolves and dilutes the artesunic acid powder without caking or frothing resulting in an improved drug product. The invention also relates to the formulation and a method of treating a patient with either uncomplicated or severe and complicated malaria. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315209 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — 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 514/450 |
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| US 07678870 | Southard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glen E. Southard (Park City, Utah); George M. Murray (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided herein for preparing molecularly imprinted polymers for detecting a target analyte by Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT). The process includes providing a complex having the formula L3M wherein L is a β-diketone ligand containing a chain transfer moiety and L3 can be the same or different ligands, and M is a lanthanide element; reacting the complex with the target analyte to provide an adduct containing the target analyte; co-polymerizing the adduct with a monomer and cross-linking agent to provide a polymer; and removing the target analyte from the polymer to provide the molecularly imprinted polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/599062 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678873 | Tan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); David H. Wang (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel ether-ketone-imide hyperbranched polymers with thermally reactive ethynyl endgroups were prepared from the corresponding AB2 monomer and the respective benzophenone-based endcapping agents in one-pot fashion. The resulting polymer has repeating units of the formula: where the chain-end groups, Ar is a benzophenone with an ortho, a meta- or a para-ethynyl substituent. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079086 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/128 |
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| US 07678888 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel M. Friedman (South Orange, New Jersey); Mahantesh S. Navati (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides oxygenated hemoglobins in powdered form and methods of preparing a powdered form of a protein, such as hemoglobin, which comprise (a) mixing a solution of the protein with inulin, and optimally with a reducing sugar such as glucose or tagatose, and (b) drying the mixture. Also provided are blood substitutes formed from reconstituted powdered hemoglobins, and methods of treatment using the blood substitutes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/593387 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/385 |
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| US 07679028 | Im 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) | James S. Im (New York, New York); Robert S. Sposili (New York, New York); Mark A. Crowder (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for processing an amorphous silicon thin film sample into a polycrystalline silicon thin film are disclosed. In one preferred arrangement, a method includes the steps of generating a sequence of excimer laser pulses, controllably modulating each excimer laser pulse in the sequence to a predetermined fluence, homoginizing each modulated laser pulse in the sequence in a predetermined plane, masking portions of each homoginized fluence controlled laser pulse in the sequence with a two dimensional pattern of slits to generate a sequence of fluence controlled pulses of line patterned beamlets, each slit in the pattern of slits being sufficiently narrow to prevent inducement of significant nucleation in region of a silicon thin film sample irradiated by a beamlet corresponding to the slit, irradiating an amorphous silicon thin film sample with the sequence of fluence controlled slit patterned beamlets to effect melting of portions thereof corresponding to each fluence controlled patterned beamlet pulse in the sequence of pulses of patterned beamlets, and controllably sequentially translating a relative position of the sample with respect to each of the fluence controlled pulse of slit patterned beamlets to thereby process the amorphous silicon thin film sample into a single or polycrystalline silicon thin film. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744493 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.600 |
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| US 07679039 | van den Engh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerrit J. van den Engh (Seattle, Washington); Peter I. Nelson (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an apparatus and method for determining the position of a radiation beam. The apparatus includes (a) a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface, the reflective surfaces being placed to form the reflective exterior of a wedge; (b) a first detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the first reflective surface, and (c) a second detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the second reflective surface. The method includes the steps of (a) directing a radiation beam to the reflective exterior of a wedge formed by a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface; (b) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the first reflective surface; (c) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the second reflective surface; and (d) determining the position of the radiation beam based on the difference in the amount of radiation detected from each surface. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102809 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/204 |
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| US 07679042 | Flusberg et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Allen M. Flusberg (Somerville, Massachusetts); Michael A. Huff (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for fabricating structures such as transducer pedestal structures and transducers fabricated by the methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753258 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
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| US 07679079 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Myung-Han Yoon (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic thin film transistor and related composite and device structures comprising an organic dielectric medium comprising, for instance, a non-linear optical chromophoric moiety. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181132 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 07679410 | Steinbrecher |
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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) | Donald H. Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A driver circuit is provided for enabling a transistor collector-emitter path to be used as a broadband periodic switch. The broadband driver circuit controls the magnitude of the transistor base-emitter current in order to enable a CLOSED switch state and to simultaneously control the magnitude of the transistor base-emitter reverse-bias voltage in order to enable the OPEN-switch state. The precise control of these parameters minimizes base-charge storage and prevents reverse-breakdown failure. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287158 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/108 |
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| US 07679413 | Carangelo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MKS Instruments, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Carangelo (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Paul C. Jette (Bethel, Connecticut); Jack Kisslinger (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Eight or more transition points are generated during a given period, and are used in tracking movement of an interferometer reflector. Duty cycles of generated square waves are used to establish precise intervals between the transition points, and precise wave-phase relationships. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248651 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/184 |
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| US 07679423 | Nichols |
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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) | Kenneth R. Nichols (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A switch circuit is provided for conditional communication within a magnetic-induction interface, including first and second control nodes, a data input and output nodes, a parallel circuit, and first and second control nodes. The parallel circuit includes a pair of legs, each leg connecting to the data input and data output nodes. Each leg has a connector to a condition. Each control node is connected to the corresponding connector. The condition is one of the interface is connected and the interface is disconnected. The parallel circuit enables communication between the data input and output nodes only in response to the condition being that the interface is disconnected. The pair of leg includes first and second legs. The first leg includes a first MOSFET and a first diode. The first MOSFET has a first source, a first gate and a first drain. The second leg includes a second MOSFET and a second diode. The second MOSFET has a second source, a second gate and a second drain. The first and second diodes are connected to the data input node. The first and second sources are connected to the first and second diodes, respectively. The first and second gates are connected to the first and second control nodes, respectively. The first and second drains are connected to the data output node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/006755 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/365 |
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| US 07679563 | Werner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas H. Werner (State College, Pennsylvania); Theresa S. Mayer (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Jeremy A. Bossard (State College, Pennsylvania); Robert P. Drupp (Columbia, Maryland); Xiaotao Liang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ling Li (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved frequency selective surface (FSS) comprises a periodically replicated unit cell, the unit cell including a material having a first electrical conductivity in the presence of an external condition, and a second electrical conductivity in the absence of an external condition, or in the presence of a modified external condition. For example, the material may be a chemoresistive material, having an electrical conductivity that changes in the presence of a chemical or biological analyte, i.e. having a first value of electrical conductivity in the presence of the analyte, and a second value of electrical conductivity in the absence of the analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/586117 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
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| US 07679574 | Horner |
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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) | Rob Horner (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Tapered Slot Antenna EC Method (NC #098517). The method comprising coupling a first antenna element to a second antenna element to for a tapered slot antenna pair; electrically coupling a first end cap to the first antenna element; electrically couples a second end cap to the second antenna element; and configuring the first and second end caps to provide induction-canceling, capacitive coupling when operating at frequencies below a theoretical cutoff frequency. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775036 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/767 |
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| US 07679575 | Horner 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) | Rob Horner (San Diego, California); Rod Cozad (San Diego, California); Bruce Calder (San Diego, California); Hale Simonds (Santee, California); Robbi Mangra (San Diego, California); Rolf Dahle (La Mesa, California); Dennis Bermeo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Tapered Slot Antenna Cylindrical Array (NC#98219). The method includes coupling at least two tapered slot antenna pairs to a base element in a cylindrical configuration. The method may further include coupling a transmitter/receiver to each tapered slot antenna of the at least two tapered slot antenna pairs via radio frequency links. In addition, the method may further include coupling a microprocessor to the transmitter/receiver via communication links. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482301 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/770 |
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| US 07679742 | Haddock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translume, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Haddock (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark Allen Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ali Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Philippe Bado (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method, system and apparatus for continuously monitoring variations in the size of particles present in a fluid on a real time basis. The method comprises of passing one or more optical signal through the fluid such as engine oil. The variation (attenuation or enhancement) in the intensity of the optical signal is continuously measured with respect to time. In an embodiment, the method, system and apparatus of the present invention enable monitoring of the amount, size and onset of particle agglomeration using single or multiple wavelengths as interrogating optical signal(s). An exemplary embodiment is provided for monitoring of the amount, size and onset of soot particle agglomeration in engine oil using single or multiple wavelengths as interrogating optical signal(s). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/712274 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07679805 | Dadkhah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cubic Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahyar Dadkhah (San Diego, California); Tony Maryfield (Poway, California); Thomas Davidson (Santee, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum well modulator configured to absorb or transmit light depending on an applied voltage is provided according to various embodiments. The quantum well modulator may include a substrate, a p-type and n-type semiconductor layers as well as a quantum well layer, each of which are deposited above the substrate. The substrate may be configured to filter light incident thereon, wherein the substrate does not include a reflective surface. The flip-chip quantum well modulator may be configured to substantially absorb light received through the substrate when a first voltage is applied. The flip-chip quantum well modulator may be configured to substantially transmit light received through the substrate when a second voltage is applied. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/171803 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Anthony A. Ruffa (Hope Valley, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A marine acoustic sensor assembly includes an acoustic panel having a forward surface and an after surface, a laser scanner oriented so as to project a laser beam onto the acoustic panel after surface, and a sensor oriented so as to receive reflections of the laser beam off the acoustic panel and to transmit data from which a position of a sound generating source can be determined, wherein the acoustic panel is provided with an absorber layer extending over the after surface thereof, and the absorber layer is provided with holes extending therethrough, the holes being of a size sufficient to permit passage of the laser beams to the acoustic panel after surface and the reflections to pass to the sensor, whereby to minimize reflections and noise originating from aft of the after surface, while permitting sound incoming from forward of the acoustic panel to be measured. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772870 |
| 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 367/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680077 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Clark (Marion, Iowa); Kelli A. Hoback (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Scott J. F. Zogg (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling channel access in a communications system is disclosed. The method and system include providing a data packet to communications queue and determining the priority of the data packet. The method and system also generate a channel occupancy statistic. The channel occupancy statistic is based on the level of activity on a communications channel during a predetermined period. The method and system also compare the channel occupancy statistic to a predetermined threshold. The threshold is based on the priority. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210648 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680221 | Lillo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Engevald Lillo (Torrance, California); Manorama Gollakota Raghavender (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); John Lukesh (Torrance, California); Randal Kirk Douglas (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An observation lock detector receives I and Q correlations and measurement residuals and transforms the I and Q quadrature correlation outputs based upon computed code phase and carrier phase into transformed I and Q quadrature signals communicated to conventional output lock detectors to provide validity and confidence indicator signals for indicating that the residual estimates are valid for dynamic propagation of the residuals in a navigation receiver for improved performance especially in low signal-to-noise environments such as for use in an ultratight GPS navigation system. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400140 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680300 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energid Technologies (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chu-Yin Chang (Plano, Texas); James D. English (Newton, Massachusetts); Neil M. Tardella (West Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a method for identifying and tracking an object from two-dimensional data pictorially representing said object by an object-tracking system through processing said two-dimensional data using at least one tracker-identifier belonging to the object-tracking system for providing an output signal containing: a) a type of the object, and/or b) a position or an orientation of the object in three-dimensions, and/or c) an articulation or a shape change of said object in said three dimensions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141843 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680383 | Kolodziejski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie A. Kolodziejski (Belmont, Massachusetts); Gale S. Petrich (Arlington, Massachusetts); Orit Shamir (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical modulator is provided. The optical modulator includes a ridge-shaped active region comprising a plurality of alternating high and low index layers. The ridge-shaped active region is used to confine a selective optical mode for optical modulation. A plurality of oxidized layers positioned so as to confine the selective optical mode in the middle region of the ridge-shaped active region. The oxidized layers enable the optical modulator to withstand high operating voltages both in reverse and forward bias without concern of breakdown or carrier loss. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198307 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680474 | Kirichenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander F. Kirichenko (Pleasantville, New York); Deepnarayan Gupta (Hawthorne, New York); Saad Sarwana (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital mixers which permit mixing of asynchronous signals are constructed of Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic elements. The logic elements may include an RSFQ non-destructive readout cell (NDRO), an RSFQ D flip-flop, an RSFQ XOR circuit, and an RSFQ T flip-flop. A binary tree arrangement of T flip-flops can be used to provide in-phase and quadrature phase-divided replicas of a reference signal. The mixing elements can be either an XOR circuit, a dual port NDRO circuit functioning as a multiplexer or an RS type NDRO functioning as an AND gate. The RSFQ logic elements utilize Josephson junctions which operate in superconducting temperature domains. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243019 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680607 | Smulko 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) | Janusz Smulko (Suchy Dwor, Poland); Laszlo B. Kish (College Station, Texas); Gabor Schmera (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A System and Method for Gas Recognition by Analysis of Bispectrum Functions is based on the Higher-Order Spectral analysis of time series measurements of resistance fluctuations in Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) gas sensors, such as Taguchi-type sensors. A two-dimensional contour plot module of the bispectrum function is treated as a pattern. These patterns include information about the analyte(s) whereby characteristics of the gas can be identified. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/134597 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680951 | Kulik |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna L. Kulik (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are techniques used in connection with subscribe and alert services as may be embodied in a subscription system. The subscription system uses a preprocessor for preprocessing subscription and notification messages prior to submission to the subscription/publication server. The preprocessor outputs a preprocessed message including one or more identifiers categorizing an input subscription or notification message. The preprocessor uses a content graph to produce the preprocessed message. The subscription system uses a content based routing system with a tree-like topology to process preprocessed subscriptions and notifications using content graphs maintained at each node in the system. Also described is a loss detection technique using sequence numbers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/935843 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07681036 | Zuber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric O. Zuber (South Amana, Iowa); Dipak P. Patel (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Robert R. Jakoubek (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-channel radio operating with multiple security levels is disclosed. The multi-channel radio includes more than one input/output. Each of the input/outputs corresponds to a security level. The radio also includes a first common bus coupled to the more than one input/output and a first set of more than one processor coupled to the common bus. Each of the first set of processors corresponds to a security level. Further, the radio includes a second set of more than one processors coupled to the first set of processors and more than one transceiver. Each transceiver is coupled to at least one of the processors of the first set of processors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/643451 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/166 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07681054 | Ghiasi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soraya Ghiasi (Austin, Texas); Thomas Walter Keller (Austin, Texas); Karthick Rajamani (Austin, Texas); Freeman Leigh Rawson, III (Austin, Texas); Juan C. Rubio (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Processing system performance is improved while meeting power management constraints in a processing system by using activity factor headroom estimation. The method and system estimate the power consumption of the system from a model that relates measured activities at a present operating point to power consumption for any available operating point of one or more processors in the system. The method then chooses the operating point(s) with the highest performance among the available operating points that will still meet budgetary constraints or specific thresholds of power consumption. The budgetary constraints or specific thresholds may be dynamically adjusted, and the method will update the operating point(s) to maintain safe operation and maximize performance. The method provides the best performance for the executing workload while ensuring safe operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538131 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07681103 | Devadas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivas Devadas (Lexington, Massachusetts); Blaise Gassend (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A device-specific value is reliably generated in a device. In a first component of the device, a first digital value is generated that is substantially dependent fabrication variation among like device. Redundancy information is computed based on the first digital value. A subsequent digital value is later generated in the first component of the device. The first digital value is then determined in a second component of the device from the subsequent digital value and the redundancy information. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421588 |
| 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 D611785 | Spradling |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald L. Spradling (Valdosta, Georgia) |
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| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 29/315442 |
| ART UNIT | 2915 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools and hardware D8/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenyuan Xu (Oakdale, Minnesota); John S. Huizinga (Dellwood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for estimating the propagation velocity through a surface acoustic wave sensor. In particular, techniques which measure and exploit a proper segment of phase frequency response of the surface acoustic wave sensor are described for use as a basis of bacterial detection by the sensor. As described, use of velocity estimation based on a proper segment of phase frequency response has advantages over conventional techniques that use phase shift as the basis for detection. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/596674 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Dowalo (Blackfoot, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure sensor for sensing changes in pressure in an enclosed vessel may include a first chamber having at least one expandable section therein that allows that first chamber to change in length. A reference member mounted within the first chamber moves as a result of changes in length of the first chamber. A second chamber having an expandable section therein allows the second chamber to change in length in response to changes in pressure in the enclosed vessel. The second chamber is operatively associated with the first chamber so that changes in length of the second chamber result in changes in length of the first chamber. A sensor operatively associated with the reference member detects changes in position of the reference member. Changes in position of the reference member are related to changes in pressure in the enclosed vessel. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237633 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/714 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07677310 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); John Michael Karanikas (Houston, Texas); Deniz Sumnu Dinkoruk (Houston, Texas); Scott Lee Wellington (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a tar sands formation are disclosed herein. Methods for treating a tar sands formation may include providing heat to at least part of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from one or more heaters located in the formation. Pressure may be allowed to increase in an upper portion of the formation to provide a gas cap in the upper portion. At least some hydrocarbons are produced from a lower portion of the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975689 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07677314 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chia-Fu Hsu (Rijswijk, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a tar sands formation are described herein. Methods may include heating at least a section of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from a plurality of heaters located in the formation. Heat may be allowed to transfer from the heaters to at least a first portion of the formation. Conditions may be controlled in the formation so that water vaporized by the heaters in the first portion is selectively condensed in a second portion of the formation. At least some of the fluids may be produced from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975737 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678251 | Chow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proton Energy Systems, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oscar Ken Chow (Simsbury, Connecticut); Lawrence Clinton Moulthrop (Windsor, Connecticut); Ken Wayne Dreier (Madison, Connecticut); Jacob Andrew Miller (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to detect a presence of a specific gas in a mixture of gaseous byproducts comprising moisture vapor is disclosed. The system includes an electrochemical cell, a transport to deliver the mixture of gaseous byproducts from the electrochemical cell, a gas sensor in fluid communication with the transport, the sensor responsive to a presence of the specific gas to generate a signal corresponding to a concentration of the specific gas, and a membrane to prevent transmission of liquid moisture, the membrane disposed between the transport and the gas sensor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671594 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/409 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678256 | Davalos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafael V. Davalos (Blacksburg, Virginia); Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Robert W. Crocker (Fremont, California); Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are microfluidic devices for assaying at least one analyte specie in a sample comprising at least one analyte concentration area in a microchannel having insulating structures on or in at least one wall of the microchannel which provide a nonuniform electric field in the presence of an electric field provided by off-chip electrodes; and a pair of passivated sensing electrodes for impedance detection in a detection area. Also disclosed are assay methods and methods of making. |
| FILED | Friday, November 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556685 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678329 | Montgomery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick C. Montgomery (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); David L. West (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Timothy R. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee); Lonnie C. Maxey (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A NOx sensing device includes at least one pair of spaced electrodes, at least one of which is made of a conductive oxide, and an oxygen-ion conducting material in bridging electrical communication with the electrodes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/949854 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678362 | Wolverton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois); Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Mark Wolverton (Saline, Michigan); Gregory J. Lewis (Santa Curz, California); John J. Low (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen storage material. The hydrogen storage material is a combination of LiBH4 with MHx, wherein greater than about 50% of M comprises Al. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471443 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678465 | Sambasivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Thin Films, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sankar Sambasivan (Chicago, Illinois); Kimberly A. Steiner (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Aluminophosphate compounds, compositions and/or materials as can be used for substrate coatings. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627194 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/469 |
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| US 07678471 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong-Hee Park (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Krishnamurti Natesan (Naperville, Illinois); David L. Rink (Mokena, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An article of manufacture and a method for providing an Fe—Cr ferritic steel article of manufacture having a surface layer modification for corrosion resistance. Fe—Cr ferritic steels can be modified to enhance their corrosion resistance to liquid coal ash and other chemical environments, which have chlorides or sulfates containing active species. The steel is modified to form an aluminide/silicide passivating layer to reduce such corrosion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/374849 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/682 |
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| US 07678503 | Manthiram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arumugam Manthiram (Austin, Texas); Yan Wu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions, surface and bulk modifications, and methods of making of (1−x)Li[Li1/3Mn2/3]O2.xLi[Mn0.5-yNi0.5-yCo2y]O2 cathode materials having an O3 crystal structure with a x value between 0 and 1 and y value between 0 and 0.5, reducing the irreversible capacity loss in the first cycle by surface modification with oxides and bulk modification with cationic and anionic substitutions, and increasing the reversible capacity to close to the theoretical value of insertion/extraction of one lithium per transition metal ion (250-300 mAh/g). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861248 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.950 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678561 | Mayfield |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. Mayfield (Cardiff, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are disclosed to engineer chloroplast comprising heterologous mammalian genes via a direct replacement of chloroplast Photosystem II (PSII) reaction center protein coding regions to achieve expression of recombinant protein above 5% of total protein. When algae is used, algal expressed protein is produced predominantly as a soluble protein where the functional activity of the peptide is intact. As the host algae is edible, production of biologics in this organism for oral delivery or proteins/peptides, especially gut active proteins, without purification is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801506 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/257.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07679039 | van den Engh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerrit J. van den Engh (Seattle, Washington); Peter I. Nelson (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an apparatus and method for determining the position of a radiation beam. The apparatus includes (a) a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface, the reflective surfaces being placed to form the reflective exterior of a wedge; (b) a first detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the first reflective surface, and (c) a second detector placed to detect radiation reflected from the second reflective surface. The method includes the steps of (a) directing a radiation beam to the reflective exterior of a wedge formed by a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface; (b) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the first reflective surface; (c) selectively detecting radiation reflected from the second reflective surface; and (d) determining the position of the radiation beam based on the difference in the amount of radiation detected from each surface. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102809 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07679060 | McKigney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Allen McKigney (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony Keiran Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Bryan L. Bennett (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David Wayne Cooke (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Kevin Curtis Ott (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Minesh Kantilal Bacrania (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Rico Emilio Del Sesto (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert David Gilbertson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ross Edward Muenchausen (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomas Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved nanophosphor scintillator liquid comprises nanophosphor particles in a liquid matrix. The nanophosphor particles are optionally surface modified with an organic ligand. The surface modified nanophosphor particle is essentially surface charge neutral, thereby preventing agglomeration of the nanophosphor particles during dispersion in a liquid scintillator matrix. The improved nanophosphor scintillator liquid may be used in any conventional liquid scintillator application, including in a radiation detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/924136 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/361.R00 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vi-En Choong (Carlsbad, California); Stelios Choulis (Nuremberg, Germany); Benjamin Claus Krummacher (Regensburg, Germany); Mathew Mathai (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Franky So (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic electroluminescent device, includes: a substrate; a hole-injecting electrode (anode) coated over the substrate; a hole injection layer coated over the anode; a hole transporting layer coated over the hole injection layer; a polymer based light emitting layer, coated over the hole transporting layer; a small molecule based light emitting layer, thermally evaporated over the polymer based light emitting layer; and an electron-injecting electrode (cathode) deposited over the electroluminescent polymer layer. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294904 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07679297 | Stygar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Stygar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael E. Cuneo (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel I. Headley (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Harry C. Ives (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Berry Cottrell Ives, legal representative (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ramon J. Leeper (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael G. Mazarakis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Craig L. Olson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John L. Porter (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Tim C. Wagoner (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A petawatt pulsed-power accelerator can be driven by various types of electrical-pulse generators, including conventional Marx generators and linear-transformer drivers. The pulsed-power accelerator can be configured to drive an electrical load from one- or two-sides. Various types of loads can be driven; for example, the accelerator can be used to drive a high-current z-pinch load. When driven by slow-pulse generators (e.g., conventional Marx generators), the accelerator comprises an oil section comprising at least one pulse-generator level having a plurality of pulse generators; a water section comprising a pulse-forming circuit for each pulse generator and a level of monolithic triplate radial-transmission-line impedance transformers, that have variable impedance profiles, for each pulse-generator level; and a vacuum section comprising triplate magnetically insulated transmission lines that feed an electrical load. When driven by LTD generators or other fast-pulse generators, the need for the pulse-forming circuits in the water section can be eliminated. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499548 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680048 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machiens Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Roy Glenn Musselman (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Brent Allen Swartz (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Brian Paul Wallenfelt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A massively parallel computer system contains an inter-nodal communications network of node-to-node links. Each node implements a respective routing strategy for routing data through the network, the routing strategies not necessarily being the same in every node. The routing strategies implemented in the nodes are dynamically adjusted during application execution to shift network workload as required. Preferably, adjustment of routing policies in selective nodes is performed at synchronization points. The network may be dynamically monitored, and routing strategies adjusted according to detected network conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539329 |
| ART UNIT | 2419 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680502 | McCown et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven H. McCown (Rigby, Idaho); Kurt Warren Derr (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio frequency detection assembly is described and which includes a radio frequency detector which detects a radio frequency emission produced by a radio frequency emitter from a given location which is remote relative to the radio frequency detector; a location assembly electrically coupled with the radio frequency detector and which is operable to estimate the location of the radio frequency emitter from the radio frequency emission which has been received; and a radio frequency transmitter electrically coupled with the radio frequency detector and the location assembly, and which transmits a radio frequency signal which reports the presence of the radio frequency emitter. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460662 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680971 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for granting one or more requesting entities access to a resource in a predetermined time interval. The apparatus includes a first circuit receiving one or more request signals, and implementing logic for assigning a priority to the one or more request signals, and, generating a set of first_request signals based on the priorities assigned. One or more priority select circuits for receiving the set of first_request signals and generating corresponding one or more fixed grant signals representing one or more highest priority request signals when asserted during the predetermined time interval. A second circuit device receives the one or more fixed grant signals generates one or more grant signals associated with one or more highest priority request signals assigned, the grant signals for enabling one or more respective requesting entities access to the resource in the predetermined time interval, wherein the priority assigned to the one or more request signals changes each successive predetermined time interval. In one embodiment, the assigned priority is based on a numerical pattern, the first circuit changing the numerical pattern with respect to the first_request signals generated at each successive predetermined time interval. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768799 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07678140 | Brainard et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George Brainard (Haddonfield, New Jersey); Gena Glickman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves a light system for stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals based upon the discovery of peak sensitivity ranging from 425-505 nm; a light meter system for quantifying light which stimulates or regulates mammalian circadian, photoneural, and neuroendocrine systems. The present invention also relates to translucent and transparent materials, and lamps or other light sources with or without filters capable of stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals. Additionally, the present invention involves treatment of mammals with a wide variety of disorders or deficits, including light responsive disorders, eating disorders, menstrual cycle disorders, non-specific alerting and performance deficits, hormone-sensitive cancers, and cardiovascular disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/853428 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678252 | Bakker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bakker (West Lafayette, Indiana); Yu Qin (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A graft copolymer having metalloporphyrin ionophores covalently attached in a manner that prevents dimer formation is provided. A method of making the graft copolymer comprises polymerizing a functionalized metalloporphyrin monomer, which includes a polymerizable group, with a co-monomer. Methods for synthesizing the polymerizable metalloporphyrin monomers are provided. The graft copolymer can be incorporated into anion-selective membranes for use in anion-detecting sensors, which have improved longevity and response times. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424185 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/418 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678390 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustine M. K. Choi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Leo E. Otterbein (New Kensington, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of carbon monoxide (CO) as a biomarker and therapeutic agent of heart, lung, liver, spleen, brain, skin and kidney diseases and other conditions and disease states including, for example, asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, cystic fibrosis, pneumonia, interstitial lung diseases, idiopathic pulmonary diseases, other lung diseases including primary pulmonary hypertension, secondary pulmonary hypertension, cancers, including lung, larynx and throat cancer, arthritis, wound healing, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, peripheral vascular disease and pulmonary vascular thrombotic diseases such as pulmonary embolism. CO may be used to provide anti-inflammatory relief in patients suffering from oxidative stress and other conditions especially including sepsis and septic shock. In addition, carbon monoxide may be used as a biomarker or therapeutic agent for reducing respiratory distress in lung transplant patients and to reduce or inhibit oxidative stress and inflammation in transplant patients. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/053535 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678538 | Wagner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American National Red Cross (Wsahington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetric cyanine dyes of Formula I bind nucleic acid but not red blood cell membrane, and function as photosensitizers when rigidly bound but not when free in solution. Unbound dye thus causes minimal oxidative damage. The dyes do not substantially accumulate in red blood cells, thereby minimizing hemolysis due to oxidative damage. Biological fluids can be disinfected by mixing the fluid with these asymmetric cyanine dye that binds to nucleic acid, irradiating the mixture, and recovering clinically significant components from the biological fluid and/or assaying the fluid for pathogens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/430848 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678540 | Weis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Weis (Amherst, Massachusetts); Anthony L. Shrout (Northampton, Massachusetts); David J. Montefusco (Northampton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Transmembrane receptors in the signaling pathways of bacterial chemotaxis systems influence cell motility by forming noncovalent complexes with the cytoplasmic signaling proteins to regulate their activity. The requirements for receptor-mediated activation of CheA, the principal kinase of the Escherichia coli chemotaxis signaling pathway, can be demonstrated using self-assembled clusters of a receptor fragment (CF) derived from the cytoplasmic domain of the aspartate receptor, Tar. Histidine-tagged Tar CF can be assembled on the surface of unilamellar vesicles via a lipid containing the Nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid moiety as a headgroup. The stability of such a complex can be controlled by the properties of the template including the size and composition, which can be used, for example, to vary the 2-dimensional concentration of receptor fragments. Surface-assembled CF is also found to serve as a substrate for receptor methylation, which is catalyzed by the receptor transferase. Since neither CheA activation nor CF methylation is observed in comparable samples in the absence of vesicles, it is concluded that surface-templating generates the organization among CF subunits required for biochemical activity. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967107 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678547 | Eyal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shulamit Eyal (Givat-Shmuel, Israel); Stephen Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides apparatuses for determining velocity independent analyte characteristic parameters and methods for using the same. In one particular aspect, the present invention provides a velocity independent flow cytometry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/970453 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678558 | Comstock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurie E. Comstock (Medfield, Massachusetts); Katja G. Weinacht (Denzlingen, Germany); Michael J. Coyne (North Attleboro, Massachusetts); Dennis L. Kasper (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Arthur O. Tzianabos (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for producing and selecting novel mutant strains of B. fragilis that constitutively express a particular capsular polysaccharide or only selected capsular polysaccharides; compositions directed to the novel mutant strains of B. fragilis that constitutively express a particular capsular polysaccharide or only selected capsular polysaccharides; improved methods for purification of individual capsular polysaccharides; and compositions directed to novel res02 and inv19 genes and their gene products. Significantly, the present invention provides methods and compositions for overexpressing and purifying immunomodulatory capsular polysaccharide A (PSA) in high yield. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/654246 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678561 | Mayfield |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. Mayfield (Cardiff, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are disclosed to engineer chloroplast comprising heterologous mammalian genes via a direct replacement of chloroplast Photosystem II (PSII) reaction center protein coding regions to achieve expression of recombinant protein above 5% of total protein. When algae is used, algal expressed protein is produced predominantly as a soluble protein where the functional activity of the peptide is intact. As the host algae is edible, production of biologics in this organism for oral delivery or proteins/peptides, especially gut active proteins, without purification is disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801506 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/257.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678569 | Bukh 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) | Jens Bukh (Praesto, Denmark); Robert H. Purcell (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Suzanne U. Emerson (Darnestown, Maryland); Akito Sakai (Ishikawa, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments described herein include nucleic acid sequences, which encode hepatitis C virus of strain HC-TN, genotype 1a, proteins and polypeptides and fragments thereof. Use of these compositions, and diagnostics for HCV and in the development of screening assays for the identification of antiviral agents for HCV are also contemplated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061504 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678759 | Sontheimer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TransMolecular, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harald W. Sontheimer (Birmingham, Alabama); Susan A. Lyons (Monterallo, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides fusion proteins for the detection and treatment of neuroectodermal tumors. Previous work demonstrated that chlorotoxin is specific for glial-derived or meningioma-derived tumor cells. The current invention has extended the use of chlorotoxin-cytotoxin fusion proteins to treat the whole class neuroectodermal tumors such as gliomas, meningiomas, ependymonas, medulloblastomas, neuroblastomas, gangliomas, pheochromocytomas, melanomas, PPNET's, small cell carcinoma of the lung, Ewing's sarcoma, and metastatic tumors in the brain. Also, diagnostic methods are provided for screening neoplastic neuroectodermal tumors. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686782 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKK-TEC, Inc. (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee Roy Morgan (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to salts and compositions of isophosphoramide mustard and isophosphoramide mustard analogs. In one embodiment the salts can be represented by the formula wherein A+ represents an ammonium species selected from the protonated (conjugate acid) or quaternary forms of aliphatic amines and aromatic amines, including basic amino acids, heterocyclic amines, substituted and unsubstituted pyridines, guanidines and amidines; and X and Y independently represent leaving groups. Also disclosed herein are methods for making such compounds and formulating pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Methods for administering the disclosed compounds to subjects, particularly to treat hyperproliferative disorders, also are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257766 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678819 | Kung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hank F. Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Mei Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to radiolabeled compounds and their use in methods of imaging amyloid deposits, as well as to methods of their manufacture. The invention also relates to compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins that form amyloid deposits, methods for delivering therapeutic agents to amyloid deposits, as well as methods of making compounds that inhibit the aggregation of amyloid proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/951612 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678824 | Liggett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate (Boluder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen B. Liggett (Clarksville, Maryland); Michael Bristow (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the use of methods for evaluating bucindolol treatment for a patient, particularly one with heart failure. It concerns methods for determining whether to administer or prescribe bucindolol to a patient based on whether the patient is homozygous for the Arg 389 polymorphism in the β1-adrenergic receptor (AR). |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/226908 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678830 | Honda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tadashi Honda (Hanover, New Hampshire); Frank G. Favaloro (Norfolk, Massachusetts); Gordon W. Gribble (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Michael B. Sporn (Tunbridge, Vermont); Nanjoo Suh (White River Junction, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel tricyclic-bis-enone derivatives (TBEs) as well as the process for the preparation of such TBEs are provided. Also provided are methods for prevention and/or treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotropic lateral sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and all other diseases whose pathogenesis is believed to involve excessive production of either nitric oxide (NO) or prostaglandins or the overexpression of iNOS or COX-2 genes or gene products. Further, methods for the synthesis of the TBE compounds of the invention utilize cheap commercially available reagents and are highly cost effective and amenable to scale-up. Additional high efficiency synthetic methods that utilize novel intermediates as well as the synthesis of these intermediates are also provided. Furthermore, the invention also provides methods for designing novel and water-soluble TBEs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672449 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678888 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel M. Friedman (South Orange, New Jersey); Mahantesh S. Navati (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides oxygenated hemoglobins in powdered form and methods of preparing a powdered form of a protein, such as hemoglobin, which comprise (a) mixing a solution of the protein with inulin, and optimally with a reducing sugar such as glucose or tagatose, and (b) drying the mixture. Also provided are blood substitutes formed from reconstituted powdered hemoglobins, and methods of treatment using the blood substitutes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/593387 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678900 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Doyoung Ra (Taejon, South Korea); Guoning Mo (Ontario, Canada); Thiagarajan Balasubramanian (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making chlorins comprises the steps of reacting (e.g. condensing) a dipyrrin western half intermediate with an eastern half intermediate to form a tetrahydrobilene, and then cyclizing the tetrahydrobilene to form a chlorin. Intermediates including tetrahydrobilenes useful in such reactions are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/271346 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida); Balaji Lakshminarayanan (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | /The present invention provides a method of use for a monolithic device utilizing cascaded, switchable slow-wave CPW sections that are integrated along the length of a planar transmission line. The purpose of the switchable slow-wave CPW sections element is to enable control of the propagation constant along the transmission line while maintaining a quasi-constant characteristic impedance. The method can be used to produce true time delay phase shifting components in which large amounts of time delay can be achieved without significant variation in the effective characteristic impedance of the transmission line, and thus also the input/output return loss of the component. Additionally, for a particular value of return loss, greater time delay per unit length can be achieved in comparison to tunable capacitance-only delay components. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782821 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678140 | Brainard et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George Brainard (Haddonfield, New Jersey); Gena Glickman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves a light system for stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals based upon the discovery of peak sensitivity ranging from 425-505 nm; a light meter system for quantifying light which stimulates or regulates mammalian circadian, photoneural, and neuroendocrine systems. The present invention also relates to translucent and transparent materials, and lamps or other light sources with or without filters capable of stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals. Additionally, the present invention involves treatment of mammals with a wide variety of disorders or deficits, including light responsive disorders, eating disorders, menstrual cycle disorders, non-specific alerting and performance deficits, hormone-sensitive cancers, and cardiovascular disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/853428 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678222 | Grier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Grier (New York, New York); Kosta Ladavac (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joy M. Barker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for bonding and unbonding of small objects using small adhesive particles. The system and method includes the use of a plurality of optical tweezers to manipulate objects to be bonded and adhesive particles suspended in a fluid. The objects to be bonded (or unbonded) and the adhesive particles are positioned by lower power optical tweezers and then an intense bonding optical tweezer is activated to cause the adhesive to join the objects together (or used to unbond objects). |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473398 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/272.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678423 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xin Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xiangfei Qi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Marcelo Davanco (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An elastomeric stamp is used to deposit material on a non-planar substrate. A vacuum mold is used to deform the elastomeric stamp and pressure is applied to transfer material from the stamp to the substrate. By decreasing the vacuum applied by the vacuum mold, the elasticity of the stamp may be used to apply this pressure. Pressure also may be applied by applying a force to the substrate and/or the stamp. The use of an elastomeric stamp allows for patterned layers to be deposited on a non-planar substrate with reduced chance of damage to the patterned layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/711115 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678545 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Nathan A. Lockwood (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Katie D. Cadwell (Madison, Wisconsin); Frank Caruso (Melbourne, Australia); Elvira Tjipto (Melbourne, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for providing a polyelectrolyte multilayer film at a liquid-liquid interface. Such methods include steps of sequentially-depositing layers of cationic and anionic polyelectrolytes at a liquid-liquid interface that is formed between immiscible first and second liquids whereby a polyelectrolyte multilayer film is provided at the liquid-liquid interface. In certain preferred embodiments, the first liquid is an aqueous solution and the second liquid is a liquid crystal. In alternative embodiments, the first liquid is an aqueous solution and the second liquid is an oil. The invention further encompasses polyelectrolyte multilayer films provided by the disclosed methods as well as applications utilizing such materials. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483891 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678554 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joshua A. Bittker (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of altering a nucleic acid. The method includes fragmenting a parent nucleic acid strand to generate nucleic acid fragments. At least a subset of the fragments are ligated to generate shuffled nucleic acid strands. A selected strand is identified from the shuffled nucleic acid strands for a criterion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/101461 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678838 | Pinkhassik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgueni Pinkhassik (Memphis, Tennessee); Delia Cesara Danila (Houston, Texas); Larry Todd Banner (Cordova, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing nanothin polymer films having uniform and selectively sized pores utilizing pore forming templates. Lipids and pore forming templates are dissolved into a first solution. The solvent is removed thereby creating a lipid bilayer with pore forming templates dispersed throughout. The bilayer is hydrated and monomers and crosslinkers are added to create a second solution. A nanothin film with pore forming templates is created through polymerization of said second solution. The pore forming templates are dissolved into a third solution by addition of a chemical in which the pore forming template is soluble, but the lipid bilayer is insoluble. This third solution is separated from the mixture leaving a nanothin polymer film with pores of a uniform thickness and surface area. In summary, the guided assembly method presented here suggests a new general strategy for the fabrication of nanothin materials with controlled permeability, which provides improvements over the currently existing technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888739 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07679079 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Myung-Han Yoon (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic thin film transistor and related composite and device structures comprising an organic dielectric medium comprising, for instance, a non-linear optical chromophoric moiety. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181132 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07679416 | Cheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung-Kuan Cheng (San Diego, California); Hongyu Chen (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for clock distribution and VLSI circuits include a clock distribution network. In a method of the invention, a transmission lines are patterned as to connect a clock tree and a periodic waveform clock, preferably a sine waveform, is used to control clock skew, even at frequencies extending into the gigahertz range. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, an overlay includes differential pairs of transmission lines that connect the drivers of a clock distribution tree. In preferred embodiments of the invention, an H-tree clock distribution scheme is overlayed with a spiral of transmission lines, each realized by a differential conductors and driven using a sinusoidal standing wave to distribute global clock signals into local regions of the chip. Each transmission line connects drivers in the H-tree that are at the same level of the H-tree. In a VLSI chip according to an embodiment of the invention, the transmission line overlay delivers sinusoidal clock signals to local areas that are locally converted into digital clock signals. The invention thus presents a passive technique for clock distribution. |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/596968 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07679563 | Werner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas H. Werner (State College, Pennsylvania); Theresa S. Mayer (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Jeremy A. Bossard (State College, Pennsylvania); Robert P. Drupp (Columbia, Maryland); Xiaotao Liang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ling Li (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved frequency selective surface (FSS) comprises a periodically replicated unit cell, the unit cell including a material having a first electrical conductivity in the presence of an external condition, and a second electrical conductivity in the absence of an external condition, or in the presence of a modified external condition. For example, the material may be a chemoresistive material, having an electrical conductivity that changes in the presence of a chemical or biological analyte, i.e. having a first value of electrical conductivity in the presence of the analyte, and a second value of electrical conductivity in the absence of the analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, January 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/586117 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07677261 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Big Horn Valve, Inc. (Sheridan, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronn G. Smith (Sheridan, Wyoming); Zoltan Frank Nagy, Jr. (Titusville, Florida); Joseph Roch Moszczienski (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid coupling device and coupling system that may start and stop the flow of a fluid is disclosed. In some embodiments, first and second couplings are provided having an actuator coupled with each of the couplings. The couplings and actuators may be detachable to provide quick disconnect features and, in some embodiments, provide unitary actuation for the actuators of the coupling device to facilitate connection in mobile applications. Actuation may occur as the two couplings and actuators are engaged and disengaged and may occur by rotational actuation of the actuators. Rotational actuation can be provided to ensure flow through the coupling device, which in some embodiments may further provide an offset venturi feature. Upon disengagement, a compression element such as a compression spring can be provided to return the actuators to a closed position. Some embodiments further provide a seal external to the actuators and provided at incipient engagement of the couplings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283694 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678140 | Brainard et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | George Brainard (Haddonfield, New Jersey); Gena Glickman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves a light system for stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals based upon the discovery of peak sensitivity ranging from 425-505 nm; a light meter system for quantifying light which stimulates or regulates mammalian circadian, photoneural, and neuroendocrine systems. The present invention also relates to translucent and transparent materials, and lamps or other light sources with or without filters capable of stimulating or regulating neuroendocrine, circadian, and photoneural systems in mammals. Additionally, the present invention involves treatment of mammals with a wide variety of disorders or deficits, including light responsive disorders, eating disorders, menstrual cycle disorders, non-specific alerting and performance deficits, hormone-sensitive cancers, and cardiovascular disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/853428 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678463 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods of using inorganic moieties for dielectric modulation, and related device structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642504 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678503 | Manthiram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas Systems (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arumugam Manthiram (Austin, Texas); Yan Wu (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions, surface and bulk modifications, and methods of making of (1−x)Li[Li1/3Mn2/3]O2.xLi[Mn0.5-yNi0.5-yCo2y]O2 cathode materials having an O3 crystal structure with a x value between 0 and 1 and y value between 0 and 0.5, reducing the irreversible capacity loss in the first cycle by surface modification with oxides and bulk modification with cationic and anionic substitutions, and increasing the reversible capacity to close to the theoretical value of insertion/extraction of one lithium per transition metal ion (250-300 mAh/g). |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861248 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.950 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680147 | Bruck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jehoshua Bruck (La Canada, California); Michael Langberg (Pasadena, California); Alexander Sprintson (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of transmitting data packets, where randomness is added to the schedule. Universal broadcast schedules using encoding and randomization techniques are also discussed, together with optimal randomized schedules and an approximation algorithm for finding near-optimal schedules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218334 |
| ART UNIT | 2463 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680300 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energid Technologies (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chu-Yin Chang (Plano, Texas); James D. English (Newton, Massachusetts); Neil M. Tardella (West Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a method for identifying and tracking an object from two-dimensional data pictorially representing said object by an object-tracking system through processing said two-dimensional data using at least one tracker-identifier belonging to the object-tracking system for providing an output signal containing: a) a type of the object, and/or b) a position or an orientation of the object in three-dimensions, and/or c) an articulation or a shape change of said object in said three dimensions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141843 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680350 | Baxes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TerraMetrics, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Baxes (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for progressive mesh storage and reconstruction using wavelet-encoded height fields. A method for progressive mesh storage includes reading raster height field data, and processing the raster height field data with a discrete wavelet transform to generate wavelet-encoded height fields. In another embodiment, a method for progressive mesh storage includes reading texture map data, and processing the texture map data with a discrete wavelet transform to generate wavelet-encoded texture map fields. A method for reconstructing a progressive mesh from wavelet-encoded height field data includes determining terrain blocks, and a level of detail required for each terrain block, based upon a viewpoint. Triangle strip constructs are generated from vertices of the terrain blocks, and an image is rendered utilizing the triangle strip constructs. Software products that implement these methods are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/124793 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07678222 | Grier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia); New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Grier (New York, New York); Kosta Ladavac (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joy M. Barker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for bonding and unbonding of small objects using small adhesive particles. The system and method includes the use of a plurality of optical tweezers to manipulate objects to be bonded and adhesive particles suspended in a fluid. The objects to be bonded (or unbonded) and the adhesive particles are positioned by lower power optical tweezers and then an intense bonding optical tweezer is activated to cause the adhesive to join the objects together (or used to unbond objects). |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473398 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/272.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678277 | Kloos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GE Osmonics, Inc. (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Cargill, Incorporated (Wayzara, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Kloos (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Keith Schwartz (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian Rudie (Rockford, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides porous matrices that comprise one or more anionic surfactants that can be used in non-aqueous environments. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/293869 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678334 | Bedingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); James E. Aysta (Stillwater, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin); Kenneth B. Wood (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for thermal processing of multiple samples at the same time are disclosed. The sample processing devices provide process arrays that include conduits useful in distributing sample materials to a group of process chambers located in fluid communication with the main conduits. The sample processing devices may include one or more of the following features in various combinations: deformable seals, process chambers connected to the main conduit by feeder conduits exiting the main conduit at offset locations, U-shaped loading chambers, and a combination of melt bonded and adhesively bonded areas. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399244 |
| 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 07678476 | Weller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dieter Klaus Weller (San Jose, California); Edward Charles Gage (Mars, Pennsylvania); Ganping Ju (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Bin Lu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film structure comprises a first layer including a first plurality of grains of magnetic material having a first intergranular exchange coupling, and a second layer positioned adjacent to the first layer and including a second plurality of grains of magnetic material having a second intergranular exchange coupling, wherein the second intergranular exchange coupling is larger than the first intergranular exchange coupling and wherein the Curie temperature of the first layer is greater than the Curie temperature of the second layer. A data storage system including the thin film structure is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336799 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/828.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07678892 | Fisher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Virgil Fisher (El Granada, California); Paolo Vatta (San Mateo, California); Shaheer H. Khan (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel dye-labeled ribonucleotide analogs and methods for synthesizing those analogs. The compounds of the invention are especially useful for DNA sequencing by the polymerase chain reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/797586 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07680955 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yih Huang (Fairfax, Virginia); David Arsenault (Reston, Virginia); Arun Sood (Clifton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a self-cleansing intrusion tolerance-domain name systems system comprising at least three DNS servers, at least four storage systems accessible by the DNS servers, a communications link, a message transfer mechanism, and a self-cleansing mechanism. The storage systems include at least three online storage systems and at least one offline storage system. The communications link can connect the DNS servers with the storage systems, as well as connect the DNS servers with a local area network, which can connect the DNS servers with an external network. The message transfer mechanism can rotate the DNS servers into a plurality of roles, including a primary role, a secondary role, a designated role, and a self-cleansing role. The self-cleansing mechanism can be used to perform the self-cleansing role. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/290784 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07680300 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energid Technologies (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chu-Yin Chang (Plano, Texas); James D. English (Newton, Massachusetts); Neil M. Tardella (West Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a method for identifying and tracking an object from two-dimensional data pictorially representing said object by an object-tracking system through processing said two-dimensional data using at least one tracker-identifier belonging to the object-tracking system for providing an output signal containing: a) a type of the object, and/or b) a position or an orientation of the object in three-dimensions, and/or c) an articulation or a shape change of said object in said three dimensions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141843 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07677734 | Wallace |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Wallace (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods provide audio-visual distraction to a patient while the patient is undergoing a surgical or other such medical procedure. When used in the context of a surgical procedure, local anesthetics are used to eliminate the pain of the procedure, autonomic blockade (beta blockers and/or alpha-2 agonists) is used to control autonomic responses, and audio-visual distraction is provided to distract the patient. The system allows reduction in the need for pharmacologic sedation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101728 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Image projectors 353/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07677871 | Gray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray (Pickney, Michigan); Andrew J. Moskalik (Detroit, Michigan); Matthew J. Brusstar (South Lyon, Michigan); David K. Gill (Bellevue, Michigan); Kevin Berent Fuqua (Clarkston, Michigan); Craig Douglas Moffat (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable displacement hydraulic/pump motor has a yoke with a pair of shafts aligned to define a yoke pivot axis and connected to a valve plate therebetween having intake and discharge apertures. A rotatable cylinder barrel has piston cylinders open at one end to receive a piston head and opening through fluid ports at another end, flush against the valve plate surface. A drive block is mounted on an input/output shaft for rotation about a central axis of rotation inclined at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder barrel which may be changed by a drive engaging the yoke at a point near its pivot axis. Loads on bushings supporting the yoke shafts are reduced by providing radially extending fluid ports in the shafts and in communication with the intake and discharge apertures of the valve plate. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266179 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/269 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07678593 | Fitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Fitz (Baltimore, Maryland); Daniel S. Hinkel (Sykesville, Maryland); Scott C. Horst (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of fabricating an optical device using multiple sacrificial spacer layers. The first step in this process is to fabricate the underlying base structure and deposit an optical structure thereon. A facet is then created at the ends of the optical structure and alternating sacrificial and intermediate layers are fabricated on the device. A mask layer is deposited on the structure, with openings created in the layers to allow use of an etchant. User-defined portions of the spacer layers are subsequently removed with the etchant to create air gaps between the intermediate layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518737 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07677261 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Big Horn Valve, Inc. (Sheridan, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronn G. Smith (Sheridan, Wyoming); Zoltan Frank Nagy, Jr. (Titusville, Florida); Joseph Roch Moszczienski (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid coupling device and coupling system that may start and stop the flow of a fluid is disclosed. In some embodiments, first and second couplings are provided having an actuator coupled with each of the couplings. The couplings and actuators may be detachable to provide quick disconnect features and, in some embodiments, provide unitary actuation for the actuators of the coupling device to facilitate connection in mobile applications. Actuation may occur as the two couplings and actuators are engaged and disengaged and may occur by rotational actuation of the actuators. Rotational actuation can be provided to ensure flow through the coupling device, which in some embodiments may further provide an offset venturi feature. Upon disengagement, a compression element such as a compression spring can be provided to return the actuators to a closed position. Some embodiments further provide a seal external to the actuators and provided at incipient engagement of the couplings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/283694 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07680139 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); BBN Technologies Corp. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine Elaine Jones (Waltham, Massachusetts); Gregory Donald Troxel (Stow, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to methods and systems for queuing traffic in packet-switched networks. In one of many possible embodiments, a queue management system includes a plurality of queues and a priority module configured to assign incoming packets to the queues based on priorities associated with the incoming packets. The priority module is further configured to drop at least one of the packets already contained in the queues. The priority module is configured to operate across multiple queues when determining which of the packets contained in the queues to drop. Some embodiments provide for hybrid queue management that considers both classes and priorities of packets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/087408 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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