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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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| US 07681503 | Fridley, Jr. 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) | Perry L. Fridley, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Kenneth W. Tiedge (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A projectile is provided for delivering a payload from a smoothbore launcher to a target. The projectile includes an aerodynamic stabilizer, an extender along which the stabilizer can longitudinally translate, and a chamber connected to the extender to contain the payload. The chamber can include a plastic bag for containing a liquid that represents the payload, and a plurality of holes that radially extend through its wall. The stabilizer enhances post-launch directional stability of the projectile by longitudinally translating rearward along the extender to shift center of pressure of the projectile aft of center of gravity of the projectile. The bag ruptures upon contact with the target, thereby disbursing the liquid through the holes. The bag can include malodorant or paint. The projectile can be contained within a gunpowder-loaded shotgun shell for launch. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/001747 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07681515 | Apple |
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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) | Thomas A. Apple (Suffolk, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A life raft canister is launched from a below deck doorway. A launcher is activated and pneumatically opens a below deck door, exposing the doorway. The same inflation tank inflates an elongated bladder that forces the life boat canister out of the doorway. The canister drops to the sea where the life boat is deployed from the canister. The life raft auto-inflates. As a result, a life raft is deployed from below-deck. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/231421 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07681625 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Gordon (Wheeling, West Virginia); Gregg W. Wolfe (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A wet filament winding method and apparatus for producing a consolidated metal matrix composite is described. The methods are directed to winding a softened metal infiltrated fiber bundle and layering the resulting softened metal infiltrated fiber bundle onto a rotating mandrel in a prescribed pattern on the surface of the mandrel to form a consolidated metal matrix composite. Upon cooling, the matrix metal solidifies and the resulting consolidated metal matrix composite may be removed from the mandrel. The consolidated metal matrix composites may be produced in a variety of shapes, such as cylinder, a tapered cylinder, a sphere, an ovoid, a cube, a rectangular solid, a polygonal solid, and panels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/995275 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/461 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07681738 | Lean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Jeng Ping Lu (San Jose, California); Scott J. Limb (Palo Alto, California); Jürgen H. Daniel (Mountain View, California); Armin R. Völkel (Mountain View, California); Huangpin Ben Hsieh (Mountain View, California); Scott E. Solberg (Mountain View, California); Bryan T. Preas (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various traveling wave grid configurations are disclosed. The grids and systems are well suited for transporting, separating, and classifying small particles dispersed in liquid or gaseous media. Also disclosed are various separation strategies and purification cells utilizing such traveling wave arrays and strategies. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224347 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/461 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682519 | Wynne 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) | James Wynne (Alexandria, Virginia); Barry Spargo (Washington, District of Columbia); Christopher Lloyd (Springfield, Virginia); Marc Laplante (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition of matter containing a solution made from: from about 18 to about 70 wt % of a sugar; from about 2 to about 10 wt % of a water-soluble polysaccharide; from about 0.1 to about 1 wt % of a phosphate; from about 0.01 to about 1 wt % of a surfactant; and from about 18 wt % to remainder of water. A method for dust and sand abatement and erosion prevention by: providing the above solution, applying the solution to sand or dust particles wherein the solution binds to the particles; and allowing the solution to bind to the sand or dust particles and to dry thereby forming a hardened crust. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307919 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/88.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682539 | Phillips 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) | David M. Phillips (Dayton, Ohio); Robert A. Mantz (Efland, North Carolina); Paul C. Trulove (Annapolis, Maryland); Hugh C. DeLong (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a process of forming fibers of silk and silk-like proteins in a solution with a solvent consisting of a pure ionic liquid, an ionic liquid mixture, an ionic liquid mixed with one or more cosolvents, or an ionic liquid mixture mixed with one or more cosolvents. A solution is extruded through a spinneret orifice to form a fiber. The spinneret is either directly immersed in the coagulation bath or the spinneret is surrounded by a noncoagulating medium (i.e., air or other inert fluid) and the extruded fiber is subsequently immersed in a coagulation bath. Fibers may also be formed by extruding a fiber directly from a reservoir of solution into a noncoagulating, inert medium and then immersing the extruded fibers into a coagulation bath to rinse the fiber of ionic liquid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/655041 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682618 | Bavari 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) | Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); M. Javad Aman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Alan L. Schmaljohn (Millers, Maryland); Kelly L. Warfield (Adamstown, Maryland); Dana Swenson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application are described filovirus-like particles for both Ebola and Marburg and their use as a diagnostic and therapeutic agent as well as a filovirus vaccine. Also described is the association of Ebola and Marburg with lipid rafts during assembly and budding, and the requirement of functional rafts for entry of filoviruses into cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/105031 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/204.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682660 | Shtein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max Shtein (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an organic film is provided. A non-reactive carrier gas is used to transport an organic vapor. The organic vapor is ejected through a nozzle block onto a cooled substrate, to form a patterned organic film. A device for carrying out the method is also provided. The device includes a source of organic vapors, a source of carrier gas and a vacuum chamber. A heated nozzle block attached to the source of organic vapors and the source of carrier gas has at least one nozzle adapted to eject carrier gas and organic vapors onto a cooled substrate disposed within the vacuum chamber. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168532 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682663 | Fedorov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei V. Fedorov (Windsor, Canada); Andrey A. Ermoshkin (Bowling Green, Ohio); Douglas C. Neckers (Perrysburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus for remote curing of resin-coated surfaces and articles by means of a vaporous curing agent. The method of the present invention includes the steps: (a) providing a surface of the substrate with a layer of a coating precursor comprising a curable material and a stabilized curing agent that is adapted to react with a gaseous, vaporous or aerosol initiating agent to activate the stabilized curing agent so as to cause the curable material to undergo a curing reaction; (b) subjecting the coating precursor to the gaseous, vaporous or aerosol initiating agent for sufficient time to initiate the curing reaction, and allowing the coating precursor to form a cured coating on the substrate. Another variation of the method of the present invention involves the reversal of the positions of the active compounds utilizing the interaction between the gaseous, vaporous or aerosol curing agent and coating precursor comprising a curable material and initiating agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/360224 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682700 | 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 | Composites and methods relating to the use of inventive aluminophosphate compounds and films thereof with glass, ceramic and non-oxide ceramic substrates. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/642069 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682709 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Davis (Raleigh, North Carolina); Cheng Wang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing an n-type epitaxial layer of aluminum nitride conductively doped with germanium comprises directing a molecular beam of aluminum atoms onto the growth surface of a substrate that provides an acceptable lattice match for aluminum nitride; directing a molecular beam of activated nitrogen to the growth surface of the substrate; and directing a molecular beam of germanium to the growth surface of the substrate; while maintaining the growth surface of the substrate at a temperature high enough to provide the surface mobility and sticking coefficient required for epitaxial growth, but lower than the temperature at which the surface would decompose or the epitaxial layer disassociate back into atomic or molecular species. |
| FILED | Monday, October 30, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/550195 |
| ART UNIT | 2899 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682796 | Kozel et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Kozel (Reno, Nevada); William J. Murphy (Reno, Nevada); Suzanne Brandt (Reno, Nevada); Peter Thorkildson (Reno, Nevada); Ann Percival (Reno, Nevada); Bruce R. Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Julie A. Lovchik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); C. Rick Lyons (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the detection, prevention, or treatment of anthrax or other infectious diseases. In one aspect, the present invention provides methods for immunizing humans or animals against Bacillus anthracis or other capsulated pathogens. The methods include administering a capsular polypeptide of a pathogen of interest and a CD40 agonist to a human or animal. The capsular polypeptide or the CD40 agonist is administered in such an amount or frequency that an immunoprotective response can be elicited in the human or animal against the pathogen of interest. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods of using passive immunization with anti-capsular polypeptide antibodies to prevent or treat infections caused by Bacillus anthracis or other pathogens. In yet another aspect, the present invention provides methods useful for diagnosis of anthrax by detection of capsular polypeptide in serum or other biological samples. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809831 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 07682822 | Noll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee Noll (Whitmore Lake, Michigan); Brian Hampson (Canton, Michigan); Kristin Goltry (Milan, Michigan); Samantha Snabes (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of generating an ex vivo tissue-like system in a bioreactor system capable of supporting continuous production of, and output of cells and tissues and an ex vivo tissue system made therefrom. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/393908 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/297.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682832 | Schmidt 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) | Jeffrey A. Schmidt (Superior, Colorado); Franklin Earl Lynch (Conifer, Colorado); John S. Wilkes (Larkspur, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas flow is controlled to a feed gas consuming device depending on whether a contaminant gas is present. In one embodiment, hydrogen gas flow from a hydrogen gas generator to a hydrogen consuming device, such as a fuel cell, gas chromatograph or a flame ionization detector, is terminated when there is chemical contaminant breakthrough in the hydrogen gas flow. The apparatus relates to the use of a sensor for detecting a predetermined concentration of a chemical contaminant such as ammonia. In one embodiment the apparatus terminates the gas flow when a concentration of ammonia in the gas flow corresponds to a breakthrough (e.g., approximately in the range of 2.0% or greater). The apparatus prevents the ammonia-contaminated hydrogen from disabling such a hydrogen consuming device that would have otherwise received the contaminated gas flow. The apparatus terminates such a hydrogen contaminated gas flow by exposing a breakthrough detection material to the gas flow, wherein this material is substantially only reactive to concentrations of a predetermined contaminant (e.g., ammonia) for terminating the gas flow when such concentrations are indicative of a breakthrough of the contaminant. For instance, such a material may undergo a readily discernible change when in the presence of at least a predetermined concentration of the contaminant corresponding to a breakthrough. Such a discernible change in the breakthrough detection material may be, e.g., one or more of: a change in volume, density, opacity, color and/or electrical conductivity or potential. The 20 detection material may be used in series with other substances that chemically and physically capture impurities in the gas flow until the detection material reacts, stopping the flow of hydrogen to the hydrogen consuming device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082191 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682838 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California); Robert L. White (Stanford, California); Chris D. Webb (Scotts Valley, California); Guanxiong Li (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic nanoparticles and methods for their use in detecting biological molecules are disclosed. The magnetic nanoparticles can be attached to nucleic acid molecules, which are then captured by a complementary sequence attached to a detector, such as a spin valve detector or a magnetic tunnel junction detector. The detection of the bound magnetic nanoparticle can be achieved with high specificity and sensitivity. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938187 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682865 | Razeghi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MP Technologies, LLC (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manijeh Razeghi (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention comprises the realization of a superlattice photodiode with polyimide surface passivation. Effective surface passivation of type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice photodiodes with cutoff wavelengths in the long-wavelength infrared is presented. A stable passivation layer, the electrical properties of which do not change as a function of the ambient environment, nor time, can be realized by a solvent-based surface preparation, vacuum desorption, and the application of an insulating polyimide layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/136446 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682933 | Loomis |
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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) | Andrew H. Loomis (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method and apparatus for close alignment of two or more electrically conductive wafers which are positioned face-to-face in closely spaced opposition, the wafers having position marks on corresponding portions thereof, the wafers being aligned as to their mating components, as guided by optically comparing the alignment of the respective position marks; deflecting an interior portion of one of the wafers into contact with the other wafer, to partially bond the wafers to each other, then fully contacting and bonding the rest of the wafer pair and then optically checking the resulting wafer alignment to see if same is acceptable. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973981 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682956 | Rao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masaru P. Rao (Santa Barbara, California); Marco F. Aimi (Menands, New York); Noel C. MacDonald (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to a method for three-dimensional (3D) microfabrication of complex, high aspect ratio structures with arbitrary surface height profiles in metallic materials, and to devices fabricated in accordance with this process. The method builds upon anisotropic deep etching methods for metallic materials previously developed by the inventors by enabling simplified realization of complex, non-prismatic structural geometries composed of multiple height levels and sloping and/or non-planar surface profiles. The utility of this approach is demonstrated in the fabrication of a sloping electrode structure intended for application in bulk micromachined titanium micromirror devices, however such a method could find use in the fabrication of any number of other microactuator, microsensor, microtransducer, or microstructure devices as well. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445067 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/595 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683303 | Lincoln et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Denis Lincoln (Woodside, California); Charles M. Patton (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an imaging device comprised of nanoscale crossbar arrays upon a transmissive medium. The preferred embodiment employs a BOPET film as the transparent material bearing addressable nanoscale arrays, and the arrays connected to leads through micro lithographic techniques, and in turn connected to a logic device. An imaging volume is provided by stacking the array-bearing sheets. The volumetric imaging device functions omnidirectionally. By means of applying Fourier and/or geometric optics techniques to imaging data, various focal points and planes of focus can be calculated. The preferred embodiment is on the order of 1 cubic mm. Alternate embodiments include display and projection devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/333989 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683346 | Ting 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) | Antonio C Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Ilya Alexeev (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Phillip A Sprangle (Great Falls, Virginia); Richard F Hubbard (Burke, Virginia); Glenn Rubel (Baldwin, Maryland); Eldridge C Briscoe (San Diego, California); Christopher I Moore (Prince Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method used to detect and identify biological substances suspended in air in the form of aerosols or clouds including generating a remote infrared light beam directed toward the atmospheric contamination, producing an ultraviolet light beam from the infrared light beam by compression via the air through which the IR beam travels, and producing fluorescence of the atmospheric contamination, when the generated ultraviolet light contacts the atmospheric contamination. The fluorescent signals are then processed in order to identify the nature of the atmospheric contamination. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/467580 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/461.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683444 | Tonucci |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald J Tonucci (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials and structures whose index of refraction can be tuned over a broad range of negative and positive values by applying above band-gap photons to a structure with a strip line element, a split ring resonator element, and a substrate, at least one of which is a photoconductive semiconductor material. Methods for switching between positive and negative values of n include applying above band-gap photons to different numbers of elements. In another embodiment, a structure includes a photoconductive semiconductor wafer, the wafer operable to receive above band-gap photons at an excitation frequency in an excitation pattern on a surface of the wafer, the excitation patterns generating an effective negative index of refraction. Methods for switching between positive and negative values of n include projecting different numbers of elements on the wafer. The resonant frequency of the structure is tuned by changing the size of the split ring resonator excitation patterns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559508 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683478 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuan-Neng Chen (White Plains, New York); Bruce K. Furman (Pouquag, New York); Edmund J. Sprogis (Underhill, Vermont); Anna W. Topol (Jefferson Valley, New York); Cornelia K. Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York); Matthew R. Wordeman (Kula, Hawaii); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A sealed microelectronic structure which provides mechanical stress endurance and includes at least two chips being electrically connected to a semiconductor structure at a plurality of locations. Each chip includes a continuous bonding material along it's perimeter and at least one support column connected to each of the chips positioned within the perimeter of each chip. Each support column extends outwardly such that when the at least two chips are positioned over one another the support columns are in mating relation to each other. A seal between the at least two chips results from the overlapping relation of the chip to one another such that the bonding material and support columns are in mating relation to each other. Thus, the seal is formed when the at least two chips are mated together, and results in a bonded chip structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/026776 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683643 | Qi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Santa Fe Science and Technology, Inc. (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baohua Qi (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Benjamin R. Mattes (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes the use of conducting polymers as sensors in distributed sensing systems, as sensors and operating elements in multifunctional devices, and for conducting-polymer based multifunctional sensing fabrics suitable for monitoring humidity, breath, heart rate, blood (location of wounds), blood pressure, skin temperature, weight and movement, in a wearable, electronic embedded sensor system, as examples. A fabric comprising conducting polyaniline fibers that can be used to distribute energy for resistive heating as well as for sensing the fabric temperature is described as an example of a multifunctional sensing fabric. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/331010 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683709 | Hammond 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) | Russ Hammond (La Jolla, California); Ed F. Rynne (San Diego, California); Steve Pucillo (Lakeside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low frequency amplifier uses a switched bridge circuit, providing a first frequency output. A transformer circuit receiving the first frequency output from the switched bridge circuit. Power from the transformer is output from a plurality of secondaries and the power from the secondaries is supplied to the corresponding output switching circuits and provided as switched outputs from the transformer circuit. The switched outputs from the transformer circuit are responsive to a transformer output from the transformer at the first frequency, and switch the transformer outputs in a timed sequence to provide a combined second frequency output. The second frequency output has a lower frequency than the transformer outputs. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133535 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683833 | Floyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Allan Floyd (Mahopac, New York); Arun Sridhar Natarajan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved phased array techniques and architectures are provided. For example, a linear phased array includes N discrete phase shifters and N−1 variable phase shifters, wherein the N−1 variable phase shifters are respectively coupled between adjacent output nodes of the N discrete phase shifters such that the N discrete phase shifters reduce an amount of continuous phase shift provided by the N−1 variable phase shifters. Each of the N discrete phase shifters may select between two or more discrete phase shifts. The N discrete phase shifters also preferably eliminate a need for a variable termination impedance in the linear phased array. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923152 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683945 | Leddy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Leddy (Huntington Beach, California); Robert J. Coda (Torrance, California); Johnny Y. Lee (Aliso Viejo, California); Stephen R. Nash (Playa del Ray, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system and method with an arrangement for sensing the performance of an optical system and providing data in response thereto and electronically correcting nonuniformity in the performance of the optical system in response thereto. In the illustrative application, the nonuniformity is a porthole effect. In the preferred embodiment, the arrangement for correcting includes an arrangement for providing an inverse distortion to an output of the system electronically. The inverse distortion is applied by generating a plurality of spatial correction coefficients from the performance data, storing the coefficients and applying the coefficients to current data from the optical system. The spatial correction coefficients are statistically generated gain and level correction defect maps. The present teachings should enable a correction of optical distortion in nonideal electro-optical systems without requiring additional optics. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/393989 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanhua Shih (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for clock synchronization and position determination using entangled photon pairs is provided. The present invention relies on the measurement of the second order correlation function of entangled states. Photons from an entangled photon source travel one-way to the clocks to be synchronized. By analyzing photon registration time histories generated at each clock location, the entangled states allow for high accuracy clock synchronization as well as high accuracy position determination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/079266 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684043 | Dorvee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of California (, None); The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason R. Dorvee (Ithaca, New York); Jamie R. Link (Arlington, Virginia); Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Harold E. Hager (Bellevue, Washington); William D. Sherman (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for free space, optical remote sensing of a potential threat agent using spectrally responsive sensor material. In one example the sensor material is formed by particles, which in one particular form are porous photonic crystals. The particles are dispersed into an area being monitored for the presence of the potential threat agent. A pair of lasers is used to generate optical light beams that are directed at the sensor particles after the particles have been dispersed. The light reflected by the sensor particles is then analyzed. The presence of the potential threat agent causes a shift in the spectral peak of light reflected from the sensor particles that can be sensed using photo detectors and a processing subsystem. The system can be tuned to remotely detect for specific chemical, biological or environmental agents that may be present within a given area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/680309 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684098 | Javidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bahram Javidi (Storrs, Connecticut); Ahouzi Esmail (Rabat, Morocco); Guansheng Zhang (Hamilton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for encrypting a set of data may include a signal source, and a first, second, third, and fourth subsystem. The first subsystem may receive a first signal from the signal source and provide as output therefrom a first output signal. The second subsystem may receive a second signal from the signal source and provide as output therefrom a second output signal. The third subsystem may combine the first and second output signals. The fourth subsystem may acquire a set of encrypted data. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867597 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684134 | Tearney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Constantinos Pitris (Aglandjia, Cyprus); Milen Shishkov (Watertown, Massachusetts); Brett E. Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A confocal microscope lens arrangement is provided. The confocal microscope lens arrangement includes a lens assembly housing which has a lens assembly, and an exterior housing including a distal end and a proximal end. The exterior housing is configured to allow the lens assembly housing to be placed therein, and translated between the proximal end and the distal end of the exterior housing to focus the lens assembly. The exterior housing has an aperture formed through a distal end thereof. The arrangement also includes an immersion media filling the volume of area between the exterior housing and the lens assembly housing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/542966 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/821 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684147 | Ahn et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Ahn (New Haven, Connecticut); Lior Klein (Ramat-Gan 52488, Israel); Yosef Basson (Ganey Tiqva 55900, Israel); Xia Hong (New Haven, Connecticut); Jeng-Bang Yau (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the use of perovskite manganite thin films and other magnetic films that exhibit both planar Hall effect and biaxial magnetic anisotropy to form the active area in magnetic sensor devices and in magnetic bit cells used in magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices. The manganite thin films of the invention are ferromagnetic manganites of the formula R1-xAxMnO3, wherein R is a rare-earth metal, A is an alkaline earth metal, and x is generally between about 0.15 and about 0.5. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/582813 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Durst (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism to allow hosts on the plaintext side of IP-layer encryptors to utilize Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs) on the ciphertext side of IP-layer encryptors is provided. Two processes are utilized for each IP-layer encryptor to extend a higher-level protocol (as represented, for example, by OSI layers 4-7) from the plaintext or red-side of the IP-layer encryptor to the ciphertext or black-side of the IP-layer encryptor. These two processes are known as the red-side Performance Enhancing Proxy Enabler (PEPE) and the black-side PEPE. The red-side and black-side PEPEs of a local IP-layer encryptor work together with red-side and black-side PEPEs of a remote IP-layer encryptor to transmit packets between the IP-layer encryptors using a higher-level protocol. Hence, PEPEs allow packets exchanged by red-side hosts separated by IP-layer encryptors to be transmitted on the black-side using a higher-level protocol. Therefore, PEPEs allow hosts on the red-side to take advantage of PEPs on the black-side. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/359541 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684478 | Cranford, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hayden C. Cranford, Jr. (Cary, North Carolina); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Jeremy D. Schaub (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A sequence of K voltage samples of a transmitted data signal is generated by sampling, digitizing, and storing voltage samples of the data signal with an imbedded sample clock on an IC having an unknown period TS. The K voltage samples are plotted against a time base of K sequential times TB[K] normalized so all samples fall within one cycle of the data clock used to generate the data signal or a unit time of 1. The time base is generated by estimating the sample clock period TSE to be some multiple of 1/P where P is greater than K. Eye diagrams are analyzed for time jitter wherein only the minimum value of jitter is saved. TSE is incremented by 1/P until TS is greater than one half the data clock period. The eye diagram at the TSE with the minimum time jitter is used to analyze the data channels. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427831 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684595 | Kamgar-Parsi 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) | Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi (Silver Spring, Maryland); Behzad Kamgar Parsi (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An original image of a target is provided. The original image is guidedly perturbed into a first plurality of recognizable uniquely perturbed images, each of the first plurality of recognizable uniquely perturbed images being recognizable as representing the target and distinguishable from the original image. The first plurality of recognizable uniquely perturbed images is guidedly perturbed into a second plurality of unrecognizable uniquely perturbed images, each of the second plurality of unrecognizable uniquely perturbed images being unrecognizable as representing the target. A contour is generated between the first plurality of recognizable uniquely perturbed images and the second plurality of unrecognizable uniquely perturbed images. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426093 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684634 | Kilgore |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick M. Kilgore (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing an amount of fixed pattern noise from an image signal generated by an image sensor. The method includes, for each operational pixel in the image signal, applying a recursively updated offset term to generate a corrected image signal. The offset correction terms are recursively updated by spatially filtering the corrected image signal for a current frame of the image signal; comparing the filtered corrected image signal of the current frame with a spatially filtered corrected image signal of a preceding frame of the image signal; and updating the offset correction terms with terms generated as a function of the comparison. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/468137 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684666 | Hamann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hendrik Hamann (Yorktown Heights, New York); Yurii A. Vlasov (Katonah, New York); Fengnian Xia (Plainsboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and an apparatus for tuning an optical delay line. In one embodiment, an optical delay line includes at least one ring resonator in which light is guided or is confined and at least one heater positioned laterally from the ring resonator. The heater produces heat in a localized area, allowing for the tuning of individual delay elements with minimal crosstalk. |
| FILED | Friday, November 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/558847 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684709 | Ray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siddharth Ray (Bedminster, New Jersey); Muriel Medard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lizhong Zheng (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A FAWNA that allows high-speed mobile connectivity by leveraging the speed of optical networks. Specifically, SIMO FAWNA, which comprises a SIMO wireless channel interfaced with a fiber channel through wireless-to-optical interfaces. Received wireless signal at each interface are sampled and quantized prior to transmission. The capacity of the FAWNA approaches the capacity of the architecture exponentially with fiber capacity. It is also shown that for a given fiber capacity, there is an optimal method of operating wireless bandwidth and number of interfaces. An optimal method to divide the fiber capacity among the interfaces is shown, which ensures that each interface is allocated a rate so that noise is dominated by front end noise rather than by quantization distortion. A method is also presented in which, rather than dynamically changing rate allocation based on channel state, a less complex, fixed rate allocation may be adopted with very small loss in performance. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540975 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684927 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Zhang (Cupertino, California); Qingfeng Huang (San Jose, California); Julia Liu (Milpitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing distributed sequential node localization in active sensor deployment is presented. An equilateral orthogonal reference frame is defined. The reference frame includes s+1 anchor nodes that is placed in s-dimensional physical space. New nodes are sequentially placed in a natural sequential ordering within the s-dimensional physical space to form a sequentially well-connected network. For each of the new nodes, location estimates are obtained for the new node from at least s+1 of the anchor nodes previously placed in the s-dimensional physical space. A location is determined for the new node based on the location estimates. The new node are placed in the s-dimensional physical space as a new anchor node proximate to at least one of the s+1 previously-placed anchor nodes upon satisfactory location determination. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/318184 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684963 | Aggarwal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing density-based traffic generation. Data are clustered to create partitions, and transforms of clustered data are constructed in a transformed space. Data points are generated via employing grid discretization in the transformed space, and density estimates of the generated data points are employed to generate synthetic pseudo-points. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092495 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684966 | Genovese |
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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) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing hazardous incident decision support and training includes a user interface component that receives situation definition data, a hazard assessment component and a decision aid. Decision support advice and decision prompts are presented by the system in response to the situation definition interface and hazard assessment. The hazard assessment and expert advice of the system are updated with elapsed time. In another embodiment of the present invention, graphical user interfaces are provided to display a set of menu entries wherein individual menu entries represent a hazardous incident characteristic. The user may select one or more of the menu entries to create a situation definition. Such definitions may be used, for example, to identify a hazardous agent based upon user-inputted signs and symptoms data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713827 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07685133 | Sample 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) | John T Sample (Diamondhead, Mississippi); Lev I Shulman (New Orleans, Louisiana); Frank P McCreedy (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer system for identifying internet web pages containing documents that comply with a predetermined XML schema. The method includes searching the internet with a search engine for web pages using initial search terms and identifying a first set of HTTP URLs, web crawling at least the first set of HTTP URLs to identify additional HTTP URLs, appending a query to the identified URLs, and evaluating the responses to the query to determine which responses comply with the predetermined XML schema. The XML schema can be a Web Mapping Services schema. The system can store responses that comply with the XML schema in a database of servers, periodically check the database for validity, and convert the map requests for map servers in the database to a GIDB Portal Interface API. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753389 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/10 |
| 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) | William Helms (Washington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is an adaptive Internet-based product control system that utilizes web technology to gather and present asset control data in an environment with constantly changing requirements due to various third party demands and/or funding restrictions. The present system tracks third party assets, provides real-time data regarding current status, and assists in returning the assets to the customer in a more timely fashion. The system can adapt to constantly changing user requirements by use of a Cold Fusion database interface to a set of data files that can be constructed and reconstructed on-the-fly. Multiple third party structures are supported with one central data file that handles the security logs and one central tasking data bank for tracking specific third party funding/tasking. The system also interfaces with bar code readers to gather of asset data and to upload it at a later time. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/627144 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/790 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annelise E. Barron (Evanston, Illinois); Cheuk-Wai Kan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric compounds and related methods and apparatus, as can be used in a wide range of RNA and DNA separations. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/174082 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682607 | Rhee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chae-Seo Rhee (Seoul, South Korea); Malini Sen (La Jolla, California); Christina Wu (San Diego, California); Lorenzo M. Leoni (San Diego, California); Maripat Corr (San Diego, California); Dennis A. Carson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The diverse receptor-ligand pairs of the Wnt and frizzled (Fzd) families play important roles during embryonic development, and thus may be overexpressed in cancers that arise from immature cells. The mRNA levels and expression levels of 5 Wnt (Wnt-1, 5a, 7a, 10b, 13) and 2 Fzd (Fzd-2, 5) genes in 10 head and neck squamous carcinoma cell lines (HNSCC) were investigated. In addition, anti-Wnt-1 antibodies were used to study the Wnt/Fzd signalling pathway. These results indicate that HNSCC cell lines overexpress one or more Wnt and Fzd genes, and the growth and survival of a subset of HNSCC may depend on the Wnt/Fzd pathway. Therefore, The Wnt and Fzd receptors may be useful targets for immunotherapy of this common cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/381636 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682614 | Strober et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Strober (Stanford, California); Everett Hurteau Meyer (Redwood City, California); Dale T. Umetsu (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Molecules that interact with the NKT cell antigen receptor and its counterpart antigen presenting molecule, but which inhibit the NKT cell immune function, are administered to a patient. Conditions of particular interest include the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), cancer, atherosclerosis, and allergic disease. In some embodiment of the invention, the inhibitory agent is an anergizing glycolipid, for example β-galactosylceramide. Pharmaceutical formulations of such glycolipids are provided, and find use in the treatment of diseases involving undesirable NKT cell activation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266033 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682781 | LeCluyse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward L. LeCluyse (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Kim L. R. Brouwer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xingrong Liu (Groton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of screening a candidate compound for susceptibility to biliary excretion. The method includes the steps of providing a culture of hepatocytes, the culture having at least one bile canaliculus; exposing a candidate compound to the culture; and determining an amount of candidate compound in the at least one bile canaliculus, the amount of candidate compound in the at least one bile canaliculus indicating the susceptibility of the candidate compound to biliary excretion. Optionally, the culture of hepatocytes is a long-term culture in a sandwich configuration. The method is particularly applicable to the screening of multiple candidate compounds in a single effort. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/855085 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682794 | Varki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajit Varki (La Jolla, California); Pam Tangvoranuntakul (San Francisco, California); Nissi Varki (La Jolla, California); Elaine Muchmore (La Jolla, California); Pascal Gagneux (San Diego, California); Sandra Diaz (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application is in the field of sialic acid chemistry, metabolism and antigenicity. More particularly, the present invention relates to the detection and analysis of the non-human sialic acid, N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) in bio-logical materials, such as food and clinical specimens. Such detection and analysis is facilitated by the use of Neu5Gc specific antibodies. The present invention also relates to the detection of anti Neu5Gc antibodies in clinical samples, as well as the production of anti-Neu5Gc specific antibodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/565742 |
| 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 07682796 | Kozel et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Kozel (Reno, Nevada); William J. Murphy (Reno, Nevada); Suzanne Brandt (Reno, Nevada); Peter Thorkildson (Reno, Nevada); Ann Percival (Reno, Nevada); Bruce R. Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Julie A. Lovchik (Albuquerque, New Mexico); C. Rick Lyons (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the detection, prevention, or treatment of anthrax or other infectious diseases. In one aspect, the present invention provides methods for immunizing humans or animals against Bacillus anthracis or other capsulated pathogens. The methods include administering a capsular polypeptide of a pathogen of interest and a CD40 agonist to a human or animal. The capsular polypeptide or the CD40 agonist is administered in such an amount or frequency that an immunoprotective response can be elicited in the human or animal against the pathogen of interest. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods of using passive immunization with anti-capsular polypeptide antibodies to prevent or treat infections caused by Bacillus anthracis or other pathogens. In yet another aspect, the present invention provides methods useful for diagnosis of anthrax by detection of capsular polypeptide in serum or other biological samples. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809831 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Doxsey (Princeton, Massachusetts); Chun-Ting Chen (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This application relates to a newly identified animal cell structure, the midbody scar. This structure is a remnant of the midbody that is retained by one daughter cell following cytokinesis and persists through multiple subsequent cell cycles. The midbody scar can be useful as a marker of dividing cells or of a cell's replicative age. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544053 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07682800 | Gelboin 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) | Harry V. Gelboin (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Kristopher W. Krausz (Columbia, Maryland); Frank J. Gonzalez (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides monoclonal antibodies and other binding agents to human cytochrome P450 2C19 having advantageous properties, including capacity substantially to inhibit enzyme activity of human cytochrome P450 2C19 and lack of specific binding to other human cytochrome P450s. The binding agents of the invention are useful inter alia in methods for screening drugs for metabolism by cytochrome P450 2C19, and in methods of measuring P450 2C19 levels in individuals relative to P450 2C19 levels in a control population. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/683229 |
| 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 07682808 | Morrissey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Morrissey (Champaign, Illinois); Stephanie A. Smith (Champaign, Illinois); Roberto Docampo (Athens, Georgia); Nicola J. Mutch (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A thromboplastin reagent comprises (i) TF, (ii) a phospholipid, and (iii) a polyP TFPI blocker. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/362270 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/13 |
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| US 07682828 | Jaenisch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolf Jaenisch (Brookline, Massachusetts); Konrad Hochedlinger (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for reprogramming somatic cells to generate multipotent or pluripotent cells. Such methods are useful for a variety of purposes, including treating or preventing a medical condition in an individual. The invention further provides methods for identifying an agent that reprograms somatic cells to a less differentiated state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997146 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682837 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maneesh Jain (San Francisco, California); Robert L. White (Stanford, California); Lester A. Roberts (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes devices and methods for forming random arrays of magnetic particles, arrays formed using these devices and methods, and to methods of using the arrays. The invention provides an assembly (chip) with magnetic domains that produce localized magnetic fields capable of immobilizing magnetic particles such as commercially available magnetic beads. Probe or sensor molecules can be coupled to the beads, which are then dispersed on the assembly, forming a random order array. The arrays can be used for analyzing samples, targets, and/or the interaction between samples and targets. The invention finds particular use in processes such as high-throughput genotyping and other nucleic acid hybridization-based assays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/923752 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683046 | Glick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Glick (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, for example, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a benzodiazepine compound and an agent selected from the group consisting of a topical steroid, a keratolytic agent, a topical retinoid, a coal tar, and a vitamin D-3 analog. The pharmaceutical compositions are useful for treating medical disorders, such as epidermal hyperplasia. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/111068 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683055 | Hensley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Hensley (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions comprising lanthionine ketimine derivatives and thiomorpholine dicarboxylic acid derivatives, as well as processes for the preparation of such compounds. The invention also concerns the use of lanthionine, lanthionine ketimine (LK), LK derivatives, thiomorpholine dicarboxylic acid (TMDCA), and TMDCA derivatives. It concerns the use of these compounds for the treatment and/or prevention diseases, including diseases affecting the central nervous system. The invention provides for compounds and methods having anti-oxidant, anti-neuroinflammatory and neuroprotective activities. It also provides for compounds having the ability to pass through and/or be transported through cellular membranes, such the blood-brain barrier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/621469 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/227.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683176 | Charvat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Cheng Hu (Menlo Park, California); Jeff Jin (Fremont, California); Yandong Li (San Jose, California); Anita Melikian (San Francisco, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 or CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2 and CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, CCR9-mediated diseases, as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775601 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/272.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683180 | Grubbs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Donald W. Ward (Atladena, California); Thomas J. Seiders (San Diego, California); Steven D. Goldberg (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention pertains to the use of Group 8 transition metal carbene complexes as catalysts for olefin cross-metathesis reactions, and for enantioselective reactions in particular. The synthesis of these complexes and details of their use as catalysts is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/124745 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzolipoxin analogs, methods of their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds are provided. The compounds and compositions are useful in methods for treatment of various diseases, including, inflammation, autoimmune disease and abnormal cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398481 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683614 | Posse |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stefan Posse (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Posse (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) method, specifically to a magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging method with up to three spatial dimensions and one spectral dimension. Interleaving dynamically switched magnetic field gradients into the spectroscopic encoding scheme enables multi-region shimming in a single shot to compensate the spatially varying spectral line broadening resulting from local magnetic field gradients. The method also employs sparse spectral sampling with controlled spectral aliasing and nonlinear sampling density to maximize encoding speed, data sampling efficiency and sensitivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789509 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683618 | Balchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Priti Balchandani (Menlo Park, California); Daniel Spielman (Menlo Park, California); John Pauly (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A manifestation of the invention provides a method for slice selective excitation for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A B0 field is applied. A STABLE pulse comprising of a BIR-4 envelope sampled by a plurality of subpulses with a duration is applied, where amplitude and frequency modulation functions of the BIR-4 envelope are slowly varying with respect to the duration of the subpulses. A portion of k-space is read out to obtain k-space data. The STABLE pulse and readout are repeated until sufficient k-space has been acquired. A Fourier Transform of the k-space data is taken. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/048107 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fa-Hsuan Lin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for suppressing the noise component of a measured magnetic resonance (MR) signal is disclosed. In particular, a signal-space projection operator is produced and employed to suppress the noise component from acquired MR signals that is uncorrelated with the spatial pattern of a desired NMR signal. In one embodiment, an fMRI scan is performed to acquire time course image data. The NMR data is filtered with a signal-space projection operator and reconstructed into a series of image frames. In another embodiment, the signal-space projection operator is employed to suppress lipid signal in MRS image data. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114339 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip R. Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for measuring a distance to an object with light determines the distance by measuring the relative intensity of light reflected from the object and traveling over two or more paths of differing optical length. Light is emitted by one or more light sources; reflected from a surface of the object; and the reflected light is detected by one or more light detectors. The light detector(s) generate signals based on the intensity of reflected light detected and the signals are utilized to calculate the distance from the device to the object. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804420 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684934 | Shvartsburg 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) | Alexandre Shvartsburg (Richland, Washington); Jon G. Wilkes (Little Rock, Arkansas); Paul Chiarelli (Chicago, Illinois); Ricky D. Holland (Sheridan, Arkansas); Dan A. Buzatu (Benton, Arkansas); Michael A. Beaudoin (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reproducibly analyzing mass spectra from different sample sources is provided. The method deconvolutes the complex spectra by collapsing multiple peaks of different molecular mass that originate from the same molecular fragment into a single peak. The differences in molecular mass are apparent differences caused by different charge states of the fragment and/or different metal ion adducts and/or reactant products of one or more of the charge states. The deconvoluted spectrum is compared to a library of mass spectra acquired from samples of known identity to unambiguously determine the identity of one or more components of the sample undergoing analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/863745 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramesh Raju Mudunuri (Houston, Texas); Namit Jaiswal (Houston, Texas); Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); John Michael Karanikas (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating a tar sands formation are described herein. Methods for treating a tar sands may include providing heat to at least part of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from one or more heaters located in the formation. The heat may be allowed to transfer from the heaters to at least a portion of the formation such that a drive fluid is produced in situ in the formation. The drive fluid may move at least some mobilized, visbroken, and/or pyrolyzed hydrocarbons from a first portion of the formation to a second portion of the formation. At least some of the mobilized, visbroken, and/or pyrolyzed hydrocarbons may be produced from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975712 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/302 |
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| US 07681663 | Cobern |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APS Technology, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin E. Cobern (Cheshire, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Preferred methods and systems generate a control input based on a periodically-varying characteristic associated with the rotation of a drill string. The periodically varying characteristic can be correlated with the magnetic tool face and gravity tool face of a rotating component of the drill string, so that the control input can be used to initiate a response in the rotating component as a function of gravity tool face. |
| FILED | Monday, May 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416009 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/45 |
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| US 07682136 | Donoho, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Donoho, II (Edelstein, Illinois); Christopher M. Elliott (Metamora, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid delivery system includes a first pump having a first drive assembly, a second pump having a second drive assembly, and a pump housing. At least a portion of each of the first and second pumps are located in the housing. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/746500 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/374 |
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| US 07682423 | Gangwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santosh Kumar Gangwal (Cary, North Carolina); Brian Scott Turk (Durham, North Carolina); Raghubir Prasael Gupta (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Zinc oxide-based sorbents, and processes for preparing and using them are provided. The sorbents are preferably used to remove one or more reduced sulfur species from gas streams. The sorbents comprise an active zinc component, optionally in combination with one or more promoter components and/or one or more substantially inert components. The active zinc component is a two phase material, consisting essentially of a zinc oxide (ZnO) phase and a zinc aluminate (ZnAl2O4) phase. Each of the two phases is characterized by a relatively small crystallite size of typically less than about 500 Angstroms. Preferably the sorbents are prepared by converting a precursor mixture, comprising a precipitated zinc oxide precursor and a precipitated aluminum oxide precursor, to the two-phase, active zinc oxide containing component. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/771364 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/136 |
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| US 07682453 | Reilly |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. A. Reilly (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for producing carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition includes a catalyst support having first and second surfaces. The catalyst support is capable of hydrogen transport from the first to the second surface. A catalyst is provided on the first surface of the catalyst support. The catalyst is selected to catalyze the chemical vapor deposition formation of carbon nanotubes. A fuel source is provided for supplying fuel to the catalyst. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218240 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/715 |
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| US 07682556 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qingyou Han (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hanbing Xu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas T. Meek (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method are disclosed in which ultrasonic vibration is used to assist the degassing of molten metals or metal alloys thereby reducing gas content in the molten metals or alloys. High-intensity ultrasonic vibration is applied to a radiator that creates cavitation bubbles, induces acoustic streaming in the melt, and breaks up purge gas (e.g., argon or nitrogen) which is intentionally introduced in a small amount into the melt in order to collect the cavitation bubbles and to make the cavitation bubbles survive in the melt. The molten metal or alloy in one version of the invention is an aluminum alloy. The ultrasonic vibrations create cavitation bubbles and break up the large purge gas bubbles into small bubbles and disperse the bubbles in the molten metal or alloy more uniformly, resulting in a fast and clean degassing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/204893 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metallurgical apparatus 266/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682650 | Ajayi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oyelayo O. Ajayi (Oswego, Illinois); Jeffrey G. Hershberger (Berwyn, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved process for the creation or formation of nanocrystalline layers on substrates' surfaces is provided. The process involves “prescuffing” the surface of a substrate such as a metal by allowing friction to occur on the surface by a load-bearing entity making rubbing contact and moving along and on the substrate's surface. The “prescuffing” action is terminated when the coefficient of friction between the surface and the noise is rising significantly. Often, the significant rise in the coefficient of friction is signaled by a change in pitch of the scuffing action sound emanating from the buffeted surface. The “prescuffing” gives rise to a harder and smoother surface which withstands better any inadequate lubrication that may take place when the “prescuffed” surface is contacted by other surfaces. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/841731 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/11 |
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| US 07682707 | Vardeny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Z. Valy Vardeny (Salt Lake City, Utah); Markus Wohlgenannt (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The maximum luminous efficiency of organic light-emitting materials is increased through spin-dependent processing. The technique is applicable to all electro-luminescent processes in which light is produced by singlet exciton decay, and all devices which use such effects, including LEDs, super-radiant devices, amplified stimulated emission devices, lasers, other optical microcavity devices, electrically pumped optical amplifiers, and phosphorescence (Ph) based light emitting devices. In preferred embodiments, the emissive material is doped with an impurity, or otherwise modified, to increase the spin-lattice relaxation rate (i.e., decrease the spin-lattice time), and hence raise the efficiency of the device. The material may be a polymer, oligomer, small molecule, single crystal, molecular crystal, or fullerene. The impurity is preferably a magnetic or paramagnetic substance. The invention is applicable to IR, UV, and other electromagnetic radiation generation and is thus not limited to the visible region of the spectrum. The methods of the invention may also be combined with other techniques used to improve device performance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110445 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
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| US 07682797 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Karen B. Barrett (Meridian, Idaho); Diane E. Key (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for analyzing a biological sample by antibody profiling for identifying forensic samples or for detecting the presence of an analyte. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, the analyte is a drug, such as marijuana, cocaine (crystalline tropane alkaloid), methamphetamine, methyltestosterone, or mesterolone. The method involves attaching antigens to a surface of a solid support in a preselected pattern to form an array wherein the locations of the antigens are known; contacting the array with the biological sample such that a portion of antibodies in the sample reacts with and binds to antigens in the array, thereby forming immune complexes; washing away antibodies that do not form immune complexes; and detecting the immune complexes, thereby forming an antibody profile. Forensic samples are identified by comparing a sample from an unknown source with a sample from a known source. Further, an assay, such as a test for illegal drug use, can be coupled to a test for identity such that the results of the assay can be positively correlated to a subject's identity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101216 |
| 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 07682798 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Karen B. Barrett (Meridian, Idaho); Diane E. Key (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for analyzing a biological sample by antibody profiling for identifying forensic samples or for detecting the presence of an analyte. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, the analyte is a drug, such as marijuana, Cocaine (crystalline tropane alkaloid), methamphetamine, methyltestosterone, or mesterolone. The method involves attaching antigens of the surface of a solid support in a preselected pattern to form an array wherein the locations of the antigens are known; contacting the array with the biological sample such that a portion of antibodies in the sample reacts with and binds to antigens in the array, thereby forming immune complexes; washing away antibodies that do not form immune complexes; and detecting the immune complexes, thereby forming an antibody profile. Forensic samples are identified by comparing a sample from an unknown source with a sample from a known source. Further, an assay, such as a test for illegal drug use, can be coupled to a test for identity such that the results of the assay can be positively correlated to a subject's identity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/101254 |
| 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 07682811 | Leschine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Leschine (Leverett, Massachusetts); Thomas A. Warnick (Sunderland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Clostridium phytofermentans cells (American Type Culture Collection 700394T) and all other strains of the species can ferment materials such as biomass into useful products and coproducts, such as ethanol, hydrogen and organic acids. Compositions that include Clostridium phytofermentans are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/698727 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682813 | Samani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zohrab A. Samani (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Adrian T. Hanson (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Maritza Macias-Corral (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic solid waste digester for producing methane from solid waste, the digester comprising a reactor vessel for holding solid waste, a sprinkler system for distributing water, bacteria, and nutrients over and through the solid waste, and a drainage system for capturing leachate that is then recirculated through the sprinkler system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/373739 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683010 | Paranthaman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mariappan Parans Paranthaman (Knoxville, Tennessee); Urs Schoop (Westborough, Massachusetts); Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Cornelis Leo Hans Thieme (Westborough, Massachusetts); Darren T. Verebelyi (Oxford, Massachusetts); Martin W. Rupich (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A laminated conductor includes a metallic substrate having a surface, a biaxially textured buffer layer supported by the surface of the substrate, the biaxially textured buffer layer comprising LZO and a dopant for mitigating metal diffusion through the LZO, and a biaxially textured conductor layer supported by the biaxially textured buffer layer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192487 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683041 | Frechet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean M. J. Frechet (Oakland, California); Niren Murthy (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel microgels, microparticles and related polymeric materials capable of delivering bioactive materials to cells for use as vaccines or therapeutic agents. The materials are made using a crosslinker molecule that contains a linkage cleavable under mild acidic conditions. The crosslinker molecule is exemplified by a bisacryloyl acetal crosslinker. The new materials have the common characteristic of being able to degrade by acid hydrolysis under conditions commonly found within the endosomal or lysosomal compartments of cells thereby releasing their payload within the cell. The materials can also be used for the delivery of therapeutics to the acidic regions of tumors and sites of inflammation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/388924 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683264 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John W. McKeever (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a terminal assembly having a casing with at least one delivery tapered-cone conductor and at least one return tapered-cone conductor routed there-through. The delivery and return tapered-cone conductors are electrically isolated from each other and positioned in the annuluses of ordered concentric cones at an off-normal angle. The tapered cone conductor service can be AC phase conductors and DC link conductors. The center core has at least one service conduit of gate signal leads, diagnostic signal wires, and refrigerant tubing routed there-through. A seal material is in direct contact with the casing inner surface, the tapered-cone conductors, and the service conduits thereby hermetically filling the interstitial space in the casing interior core and center core. The assembly provides simultaneous high-current, high-pressure, low-inductance, and high-reliability service. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/844544 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/152.GM0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683296 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Patrick Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Joseph Arno Horton, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John Michael Vitek (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Heaters for treating a subsurface formation are described herein. Such heaters can be obtained by using the systems and methods described herein. The heater includes a heater section including iron, cobalt, and carbon. The heater section has a Curie temperature less than a phase transformation temperature. The Curie temperature is at least 740° C. The heater section provides, when time varying current is applied to the heater section, an electrical resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788860 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683310 | Sinclair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Sinclair (Albuquerque, New Mexico); William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser warning receiver is disclosed which has up to hundreds of individual optical channels each optically oriented to receive laser light from a different angle of arrival. Each optical channel has an optical wedge to define the angle of arrival, and a lens to focus the laser light onto a multi-wavelength photodetector for that channel. Each multi-wavelength photodetector has a number of semiconductor layers which are located in a multi-dielectric stack that concentrates the laser light into one of the semiconductor layers according to wavelength. An electrical signal from the multi-wavelength photodetector can be processed to determine both the angle of arrival and the wavelength of the laser light. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/108635 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683334 | Farsoni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdollah T. Farsoni (Corvallis, Oregon); David M. Hamby (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A phoswich radiation detector for simultaneous spectroscopy of beta rays and gamma rays includes three scintillators with different decay time characteristics. Two of the three scintillators are used for beta detection and the third scintillator is used for gamma detection. A pulse induced by an interaction of radiation with the detector is digitally analyzed to classify the type of event as beta, gamma, or unknown. A pulse is classified as a beta event if the pulse originated from just the first scintillator alone or from just the first and the second scintillator. A pulse from just the third scintillator is recorded as gamma event. Other pulses are rejected as unknown events. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221675 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684708 | Maywar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew Maywar (Rochester, New York); Govind P. Agrawal (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention pertain to remote optical control of holding beam-type, optical flip-flop devices, as well as to the devices themselves. All-optical SET and RE-SET control signals operate on a cw holding beam in a remote manner to vary the power of the holding beam between threshold switching values to enable flip-flop operation. Cross-gain modulation and cross-polarization modulation processes can be used to change the power of the holding beam. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206012 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EXPORTech Company, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward D. Brandner (Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania); Russell E. Jamison (Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for separating a stream of particles with individual sizes smaller than 300 μm and magnetic properties ranging from collective magnetism as in ferromagnetism to paramagnetism to diamagnetism. The apparatus includes a plurality of stages for separating a stream of particles. The apparatus includes a magnetic component producing a magnetic force associated with each stage. The apparatus includes an aerodynamic component producing an aerodynamic force associated with each stage, where the more magnetic component or components of a feed of particles for each stage is separated and either or both the less magnetic product and the more magnetic product of each stage are the feed for separate succeeding stages with each stage and where the magnetic and aerodynamic forces along with gravimetric forces of each stage are chosen to separate more strongly magnetic particles from less magnetic particles. A method for separating a stream of particles with individual sizes smaller than 300 μm and magnetic properties ranging from collective magnetism as in ferromagnetism to paramagnetism to diamagnetism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/248941 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl J. Boehlert (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a finished implant prosthesis which comprises: (a) providing an unforged alloy consisting essentially of Ti(x %)Al(y %)Nb wherein x is between about 45 to 54% by atoms, y is between about 15 to 25% by atoms and the balance is niobium; (b) forging the alloy at an elevated temperature below a melting point of the alloy in a shape which is an implant preform; and (c) machining the implant preform to provide a machined implant; and (d) finishing the exposed surfaces of the implant so as to provide the exposed surfaces with a finish which provides biocompatibility, to thereby form the implant prosthesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/583666 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682497 | Barron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annelise E. Barron (Evanston, Illinois); Cheuk-Wai Kan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymeric compounds and related methods and apparatus, as can be used in a wide range of RNA and DNA separations. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/174082 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682523 | Weisman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Bruce Weisman (Houston, Texas); Sergei M. Bachilo (Houston, Texas); Eric Christopher Booth (Moorhead, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward fluorescent inks and markers comprising carbon nanotubes. The present invention is also directed toward methods of making such inks and markers and to methods of using such inks and markers, especially for security applications (e.g., anti-counterfeiting). Such inks and markers rely on the unique fluorescent properties of semiconducting carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/572720 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682970 | Grigoropoulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Constantine P. Grigoropoulos (Berkeley, California); Seung-Hwan Ko (Berkeley, California); Jaewon Chung (Jang-ahn, South Korea); Dimos Poulikakos (Zollikon, Switzerland); Heng Pan (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems, materials and methods for the formation of conducting, semiconducting, and dielectric layers, structures and devices from suspensions of nanoparticles. Drop-on-demand systems are used in some embodiments to fabricate various electronic structures including conductors, capacitors, FETs. Selective laser ablation is used in some embodiments to pattern more precisely the circuit elements and to form small channel devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/478294 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/662 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683232 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lanny D. Schmidt (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Ramanathan Subramanian (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is disclosed for producing functionalized olefins from a fuel source including an organic compound including a functional group. Useful fuel sources include, for example, biofeedstocks (e.g., carbohydrates, triglycerides, polyols, and biodiesel). The process is preferably carried out by partial oxidation. The overall process can be carried out autothermally. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/137770 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683323 | Kymissis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ioannis Kymissis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An OFET on a pyroelectric or piezoelectric substrate, such as PVDF, can provide highly adaptable and manufacturable radiation or acoustic sensing. Local charge amplification can be provided, such to construct an array of sensing pixels, which can be configured in an active or passive matrix. A susceptor or guide element can be provided. Systems, devices, methods of making, and methods of using are among the examples described. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077723 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684098 | Javidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bahram Javidi (Storrs, Connecticut); Ahouzi Esmail (Rabat, Morocco); Guansheng Zhang (Hamilton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for encrypting a set of data may include a signal source, and a first, second, third, and fourth subsystem. The first subsystem may receive a first signal from the signal source and provide as output therefrom a first output signal. The second subsystem may receive a second signal from the signal source and provide as output therefrom a second output signal. The third subsystem may combine the first and second output signals. The fourth subsystem may acquire a set of encrypted data. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867597 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684147 | Ahn et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Ahn (New Haven, Connecticut); Lior Klein (Ramat-Gan 52488, Israel); Yosef Basson (Ganey Tiqva 55900, Israel); Xia Hong (New Haven, Connecticut); Jeng-Bang Yau (Hamden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the use of perovskite manganite thin films and other magnetic films that exhibit both planar Hall effect and biaxial magnetic anisotropy to form the active area in magnetic sensor devices and in magnetic bit cells used in magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices. The manganite thin films of the invention are ferromagnetic manganites of the formula R1-xAxMnO3, wherein R is a rare-earth metal, A is an alkaline earth metal, and x is generally between about 0.15 and about 0.5. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/582813 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684664 | Digonnet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michel J. F. Digonnet (Palo Alto, California); Anuranjita Tewary (Palo Alto, California); Mark Brongersma (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical switch includes a microresonator comprising a plurality of nanoparticles. The microresonator is configured to receive signal light having a signal wavelength and to receive a pump pulse having a pump wavelength. At least a portion of the microresonator is responsive to the pump pulse by undergoing a refractive index change at the signal wavelength. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/522802 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684709 | Ray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siddharth Ray (Bedminster, New Jersey); Muriel Medard (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lizhong Zheng (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A FAWNA that allows high-speed mobile connectivity by leveraging the speed of optical networks. Specifically, SIMO FAWNA, which comprises a SIMO wireless channel interfaced with a fiber channel through wireless-to-optical interfaces. Received wireless signal at each interface are sampled and quantized prior to transmission. The capacity of the FAWNA approaches the capacity of the architecture exponentially with fiber capacity. It is also shown that for a given fiber capacity, there is an optimal method of operating wireless bandwidth and number of interfaces. An optimal method to divide the fiber capacity among the interfaces is shown, which ensures that each interface is allocated a rate so that noise is dominated by front end noise rather than by quantization distortion. A method is also presented in which, rather than dynamically changing rate allocation based on channel state, a less complex, fixed rate allocation may be adopted with very small loss in performance. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540975 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684868 | Tai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Damien C. Rodger (Los Angeles, California); Wen Li (Pasadena, California); Mark Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the design and fabrication of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) for applications in such varied fields as the biomedical, micro-fluidics and chemical analysis fields. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272382 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07685112 | Ntoulas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandros Ntoulas (Los Angeles, California); Junghoo Cho (Los Angeles, California); Petros Zerfos (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for autonomously downloading and indexing Hidden Web pages from Websites includes the steps of selecting a query term and issuing a query to a site-specific search interface containing Hidden Web pages. A results index is then acquired and the Hidden Web pages are downloaded from the results index. A plurality of potential query terms are then identified from the downloaded Hidden Web pages. The efficiency of each potential query term is then estimated and a next query term is selected from the plurality of potential query terms, wherein the next selected query term has the greatest efficiency. The next selected query term is then issued to the site-specific search interface using the next query term. The process is repeated until all or most of the Hidden Web pages are discovered. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/570330 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | M and R Consulting Services (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henri J. R. Maget (La Jolla, California); James Dikeman (El Cajon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for achieving a controlled low emanation rate of small volumes of liquid solutions, such as single or multi-component solutions, fragrances, or pheromones, for pest and insect management or fragrance enhancement. The device has a housing with an upper chamber to hold a bladder containing desired liquid solution to be released, a lower chamber containing an electro-chemical gas generator, a collector pad for receiving liquid solution from the bladder, and a cap which, when translated downward, activated the gas generator which fills the upper chamber with gas exerting pressure on the bladder which in turn forces the liquid solution from the bladder onto the pad for release to the environment. The gas generator is capable of releasing gases such as hydrogen, oxygen, or carbon dioxide at extremely small, pre-determined, and adjustable rates. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137715 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682813 | Samani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowhead Center, Inc. (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zohrab A. Samani (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Adrian T. Hanson (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Maritza Macias-Corral (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic solid waste digester for producing methane from solid waste, the digester comprising a reactor vessel for holding solid waste, a sprinkler system for distributing water, bacteria, and nutrients over and through the solid waste, and a drainage system for capturing leachate that is then recirculated through the sprinkler system. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/373739 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683095 | Guthrie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); KGK Synergize, Inc. (London, ON, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Najla Guthrie (London, Canada); Elzbieta Maria Kurowska (Ontario, Canada); John A. Manthey (Auburndale, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the treatment, reduction and/or prevention of cardiovascular diseases and disorders are described. Individuals at high risk for developing or having cardiovascular disease or disorder may be treated with an effective dose of a polymethoxyflavone including limocitrin derivatives, quercetin derivatives, naturally occurring polymethoxyflavones, tocotrienols, and mixtures of these compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854063 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07683797 | Woodard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Thomas W. Jones (Smithfield, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia); A. Shams Qamar (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A damage locating system also provides thermal protection. An array of sensors substantially tiles an area of interest. Each sensor is a reflective-surface conductor having operatively coupled inductance and capacitance. A magnetic field response recorder is provided to interrogate each sensor before and after a damage condition. Changes in response are indicative of damage and a corresponding location thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671131 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/652 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07684015 | Shih |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanhua Shih (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for clock synchronization and position determination using entangled photon pairs is provided. The present invention relies on the measurement of the second order correlation function of entangled states. Photons from an entangled photon source travel one-way to the clocks to be synchronized. By analyzing photon registration time histories generated at each clock location, the entangled states allow for high accuracy clock synchronization as well as high accuracy position determination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/079266 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07682565 | Linton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BioTrove, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Linton (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Karl Yoder (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Robert Hess (Arlington, Massachusetts); Leila Hasan (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert Ellis (Burlington, Massachusetts); Tanya S. Kanigan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kristine Friesen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Arrin Katz (Somerville, Massachusetts); Colin Brenan (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Tom Morrison (Winchester, Massachusetts); Javier Garcia (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for holding at least one of sample and reagent for analysis. The system includes a pair of parallel covers, at least one of which is light transmissive, of which pair a light transmissive cover forms a top, and of which pair the other forms a bottom. A frame is disposed between the covers to define, in relation to the covers, an interior volume. The frame and the covers are associated with one another to form a case, the case being substantially tight to liquids. A microfluidic array is disposed in the interior volume. The array includes a sheet of material having a pair of opposed surfaces, a thickness, and a plurality of through-holes running through the thickness between the surfaces, the through-holes containing at least one of sample and reagent. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/744580 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07683611 | Burkhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Lane Burkhardt (Adkins, Texas); Alfred Eugene Crouch (San Antonio, Texas); Albert Joseph Parvin, Jr. (San Antonio, Texas); Ronald Herbert Peterson (Helotes, Texas); Todd Hegert Goyen (San Antonio, Texas); Richard Franklin Tennis (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to a device and method for pipeline inspection, The inspection device may include an exciter coil capable of providing an alternating current magnetic field and producing eddy currents. A plurality of sensors may then be provided which are capable of sensing a magnetic field produced by the eddy currents and the sensors may be engaged with a sensor shoe. The sensors may then be capable of being positioned at a first distance D1 with respect to an inner pipe wall surface and capable of providing coupling to the magnetic field produced by the eddy currents. The sensor shoe may also be capable of retracting to a second distance D2, wherein D1<D2. The sensor shoe may be connected to a sensor support arm wherein the support arm may be pivotably attached to a fixed hub and to a control arm which control arm may then be pivotably attached to a driven hub. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/767267 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07681394 | Haugen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David James Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved transient response times are obtained while maintaining low emissions with a low pressure EGR system through methods for quickly obtaining a desired oxygen concentration for charge-air to be used for combustion. Under a first method, fuel quantity in the main combustion event is controlled in the combustion process to produce exhaust around a relatively constant target exhaust oxygen concentration value. By keeping the exhaust oxygen concentration levels at a relatively constant value, lag time in waiting for low pressure EGR valve adjustments during transients may be avoided, and the system's air handling response to meet transients may be paced solely by adjusting the mass of air to be supplied (i.e. boost response). Under a second method, a multiple-stage combustion process is utilized, in which fuel feed is controlled in a small, preliminary HCCI-type combustion event in order to produce a target oxygen concentration of charge-air to be used for the second, main combustion event. Under a third method, exhaust rebreathing is used to produce a target oxygen concentration of charge-air to be used for combustion. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389385 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07684098 | Javidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bahram Javidi (Storrs, Connecticut); Ahouzi Esmail (Rabat, Morocco); Guansheng Zhang (Hamilton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for encrypting a set of data may include a signal source, and a first, second, third, and fourth subsystem. The first subsystem may receive a first signal from the signal source and provide as output therefrom a first output signal. The second subsystem may receive a second signal from the signal source and provide as output therefrom a second output signal. The third subsystem may combine the first and second output signals. The fourth subsystem may acquire a set of encrypted data. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867597 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07684963 | Aggarwal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing density-based traffic generation. Data are clustered to create partitions, and transforms of clustered data are constructed in a transformed space. Data points are generated via employing grid discretization in the transformed space, and density estimates of the generated data points are employed to generate synthetic pseudo-points. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/092495 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07682523 | Weisman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Bruce Weisman (Houston, Texas); Sergei M. Bachilo (Houston, Texas); Eric Christopher Booth (Moorhead, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward fluorescent inks and markers comprising carbon nanotubes. The present invention is also directed toward methods of making such inks and markers and to methods of using such inks and markers, especially for security applications (e.g., anti-counterfeiting). Such inks and markers rely on the unique fluorescent properties of semiconducting carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/572720 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07684016 | Schaefer |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip R. Schaefer (Weaverville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for measuring a distance to an object with light determines the distance by measuring the relative intensity of light reflected from the object and traveling over two or more paths of differing optical length. Light is emitted by one or more light sources; reflected from a surface of the object; and the reflected light is detected by one or more light detectors. The light detector(s) generate signals based on the intensity of reflected light detected and the signals are utilized to calculate the distance from the device to the object. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804420 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07683334 | Farsoni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abdollah T. Farsoni (Corvallis, Oregon); David M. Hamby (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A phoswich radiation detector for simultaneous spectroscopy of beta rays and gamma rays includes three scintillators with different decay time characteristics. Two of the three scintillators are used for beta detection and the third scintillator is used for gamma detection. A pulse induced by an interaction of radiation with the detector is digitally analyzed to classify the type of event as beta, gamma, or unknown. A pulse is classified as a beta event if the pulse originated from just the first scintillator alone or from just the first and the second scintillator. A pulse from just the third scintillator is recorded as gamma event. Other pulses are rejected as unknown events. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221675 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07682613 | Fabene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paolo Francesco Fabene (Villafranca di Verona, Italy); Eugene C. Butcher (Portola Valley, California); Gabriela Constantin (San Floriano, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for the prevention and treatment of seizures and epilepsy. It is shown herein that leukocyte recruitment plays a key role in the pathogenesis of epilepsy. Treatment with an agent that inhibits leukocyte recruitment has therapeutic and preventative effects in blocking recurrent seizures and epilepsy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811245 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07682952 | Isaacson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Michael Isaacson (Boston, Massachusetts); Eugene A. Fitzgerald (Windham, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure and method of forming same, comprising a low threading density alloy graded layer, deposited according to a deposition temperature profile in correspondence with increasing alloy composition. In one embodiment, a first substantially relaxed alloy graded layer is deposited while varying a deposition temperature according to a first temperature profile. A second substantially relaxed alloy graded layer is deposited over the first graded layer while varying a deposition temperature according to a second temperature profile. Preferably, the minimum signed rate of change of the second temperature profile is less than the maximum signed rate of change of the first temperature profile. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999486 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/493 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07683025 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Randal C. Claussen (Wilmette, Illinois); Bryan M. Rabatic (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for bola amphiphiles compositions which have more than one lyophilic (hydrophilic) head group and a hydrophobic (hydrophobic) moiety capable of hydrogen bonding with other bola amphiphiles. These bola amphiphiles are capable of self assembling into micelles. The advantage of these bola amphiphiles is that they may self-assemble into micelles whose lyophilic head groups are located within the core and on the surface of the micelles. The lyophilic environment at the core and on the surface of the micelles may be different and may be controlled by the choice of head group moieties on the bola amphiphiles. The utility of these compositions is that they can be used to load or encapsulate polar drugs, DNA, mineralizable inorganic salts, or other molecules of interest within the polar interior of the micelle. Such compositions may also provide small water-filled ion-conducting channels within their structure suitable for use in micro electromechanical devices, as templates for nanowires or dielectrics, and as chemical sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/534266 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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