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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 13, 2010
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| US 07695504 | Anders 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); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juanita J. Anders (Potomac, Maryland); Ilko K. Ilev (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald W. Waynant (Clarksville, Maryland); Kimberly R. Byrnes (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating spinal cord injury (SCI) includes transcutaneously irradiating at least a portion of a spinal environment of the patient with light having a power density of at least about 0.01 mW/cm2 at the portion of the spinal environment. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970425 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
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| US 07695676 | Kloepfer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hans Kloepfer (Indpls., Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans G. Kloepfer (Noblesville, Indiana); Thomas P. Kloepfer (Indianapolis, Indiana); Jason Heim (Indianapolis, Indiana); Reinhard Hafellner (St Margarethen, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | A meter and test wand system is capable of cooperatively processing an analysis fluid and communicating results to a user. The system includes a meter case including a case front, a case back, a case top, a case bottom, a first case side member, and a second case side member. The first and second case side members connect the case front to case back. The first case side member has a longitudinal dimension between said case top and said case bottom and a latitudinal dimension between said case front and said case back. The first case side member includes a first case ridge; A test wand is capable of receiving an analysis fluid, and includes a cartridge including a cartridge ridge. The cartridge ridge is sized and shaped to matingly engage with said first case ridge to connect said test wand to said meter case. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/916292 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/58 |
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| US 07695711 | Myette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Myette (Belmont, Massachusetts); Zachary Shriver (Boston, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Maitland W. McLean (Orkney, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to Δ4,5 glycuronidase, related compositions, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402491 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07695724 | Dietzschold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernhard Dietzschold (Newton Square, Pennsylvania); Marie Luise Faber (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania); Matthias Schnell (Harleysville, Pennsylvania); Milosz Faber (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant rabies viruses in which the arginine residue of the glycoprotein (G) at amino acid position 333 is exchanged, renders these viruses nonpathogenic for immunocompetent mammals regardless of the route of infection. Some of these recombinant rabies viruses after several serial virus passages in newborn mice can become pathogenic for adult mice. The reversion to the pathogenic phenotype is associated with a thymidine to adenosine mutation (T→A) at position 639 of the G gene, which results in an asparagine to lysine exchange at position 194 of G. The codon at position 637-639 was changed by site directed mutagenesis to replace asparagine at position 194 by an amino acid that minimized the possibility for an Asn→Lys exchange at amino acid position 194 of G and prevents reversion to a pathogenic form of the virus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571842 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/224.100 |
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| US 07695752 | Bonner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Bonner (Washington, District of Columbia); Thomas J. Pohida (Monrovia, Maryland); Michael R. Emmert-Buck (Easton, Maryland); Michael Anthony Tangrea (Odenton, Maryland); Rodrigo F. Chuaqui (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for performing target activated transfer that includes a mounting surface for mounting a tissue sample; and a light source positioned to substantially uniformly irradiate both stained and unstained regions of the tissue sample with light energy that activates the reagent to selectively adhere the stained regions to a transfer surface. Also described is an automated system for transferring tissue from a tissue sample to a transfer substrate. The system includes means for holding a tissue section that includes targets specifically stained with an absorptive stain thereby resulting in a stained tissue surface, and a flexible transfer film that includes a lower thermoplastic layer in sufficient thermal contact with the stained tissue surface; an irradiating assembly configured to provide a predetermined uniform light dose to the entire tissue section; and means for applying a constant pressure to the transfer film during irradiation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202848 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695784 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Williams (Torrance, California); Jonathan M. Cannata (Santa Monica, California); Ruibin Liu (South Pasadena, California); K. Kirk Shung (Monterey Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are described for making posts and kerfs in an interdigital bonded composite. The desired alignment criteria for a plurality of posts and kerfs in a pair of slabs are determined, as well as the desired widths W of the posts and the desired widths K of the kerfs. The posts in the first slab are configured to be received into corresponding kerfs in the second slab, and vice versa, so that the pair of slabs can be interdigitated to generate a composite. At least one of an alignment post and an alignment kerf are created, in at least one of the slabs. The alignment posts and the alignment kerf are configured to allow the plurality of posts and kerfs to be correctly positioned and aligned, in accordance with the desired alignment criteria. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781849 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/33 |
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| US 07695899 | Su et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tin Tin Su (Boulder, Colorado); Burnley R. Jaklevic (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure includes methods for the identification of chemotherapeutic agents that selectively reduce the growth or the survival of genotoxically stressed DNA damage checkpoint deficient tissue, such as irradiated cancerous tissue. The methods involve the use of genotoxically-stressed tissue(s) that are deficient in one or more DNA damage checkpoints. The disclosure also provides kits for performing the disclosed methods. The disclosure also includes chemotherapeutic agents that selectively reduce the growth or the survival of genotoxically stressed DNA damage checkpoint deficient tissue, such as irradiated cancerous tissue. The disclosure also includes methods of treatment or management of cancer, tumor formation, other conditions involving abnormal proliferation, or cell-cycle diseases or disorders. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/978206 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07695903 | Zlokovic |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Berislav V. Zlokovic (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Brain endothelial low-density lipoprotein receptor related protein-1 (LRP-1) mediates vascular clearance of Alzheimer's amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) from the brain. Transport of Aβ occurs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to the systemic circulation, but the brain endothelium is compromised in Alzheimer's disease. The invention is used to diagnose the disease in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals, to identify those at risk for disease or already affected thereby, to determine the stage of disease or its progression, to intervene earlier in or alter the disease's natural history, to provide a target for therapeutic or prophylactic treatments, to screen drugs or compare medical regimens, to determine the effectiveness of a drug or medical regimen, or any combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/296168 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07695904 | Cawthon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salk Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M Cawthon (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for compositions and methods for amplifying target nucleic acids using nucleic acid primers designed to limit non-target nucleic acid dependent priming events. The present invention permits amplifying and quantitating the number of repetitive units in a repetitive region, such as the number of telomere repetitive units. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/355626 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07695909 | Gorin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Gorin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Johanna Jakobsdottir (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yvette P. Conley (White Oak, Pennsylvania); Daniel E. Weeks (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Tammy S. Mah-Fraser (Edmonton, Canada); Robert E. Ferrell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Allelic variations in the genes PLEKHA1 and LOC387715 are identified herein as risk factor for Age Related Maculopathy (ARM). A method is therefore provided for identifying a risk of development of ARM in an individual that comprises identification of allelic variations in PLEKHA1 and/or LOC387715. Related apparatus, such as an array, are identified as being useful in implementing those methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/448267 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07695917 | Conn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Michael Conn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein disclosed is a method of rescuing gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor (GnRHR) mutants with IN3 or a mimetic thereof. IN3 significantly rescues 11 missense mutations as assessed by radioligand binding and by IP production. Such rescue occurred despite widely disparate loci along the receptor. In addition, many altered GnRH receptors (terminally truncated, internal deletions, or lacking the ability to form bridges to form tertiary structure) were rescued with IN3. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/492295 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07695923 | Riordan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Riordan (Scottsdale, Arizona); Xiu-Bao Chang (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to biosynthetic maturation of cell surface polypeptides and, more specifically, to particular CFTR polypeptides which exhibit increased transport to the cell surface and tripeptide amino acid sequences that promote or enhance transport of export-incompetent CFTR to the cell surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565551 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
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| US 07695925 | Houghton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inbios International, Inc. (Seattle, Washington); Infectious Disease Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond L. Houghton (Seattle, Washington); Steven G. Reed (Seattle, Washington); Syamal Raychaudhuri (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising fusion polypeptides of T. cruzi epitopes are provided, together with methods for the use of such compositions in the diagnosis of T. cruzi infection and in screening blood supplies. Diagnostic kits comprising such compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092562 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.220 |
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| US 07695933 | Lund et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trudeau Institute, Inc. (Saranac Lake, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frances E. Lund (Saranac Lake, New York); Troy D. Randall (Saranac Lake, New York); Santiago Partida-Sanchez (Galloway, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for modulating the migratory activity of cells expressing CD38 for the treatment of disorders including, but not limited to, inflammation, ischemia, asthma, autoimmune disease, diabetes, arthritis, allergies, infection with pathogenic organisms, such as parasites, and transplant rejection. Such cells include, for example, neutrophils, lymphocytes, eosinophils, macrophages and dentritic cells. The invention further relates to drug screening assays designed to identify compounds that modulate the ADP-ribosyl cyclase activity of CD38 and the use of such compounds in the treatment of disorders involving CD38 modulated cell migration. Additionally, the invention relates to the isolation and characterization of a CD38 homologue from the parasitic flatworm, Schistosoma mansoni. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058924 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07695962 | Levine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genentech, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold J. Levine (New York City, New York); Diane Pennica (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | DNAs are provided, whose genes are induced at least by Wnt-1. Also provided are nucleic acid molecules encoding those polypeptides, as well as vectors and host cells comprising those nucleic acid sequences, chimeric polypeptide molecules comprising the polypeptides fused to heterologous polypeptide sequences, antibodies which bind to the polypeptides, and methods for producing the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132350 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07695967 | Russell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brenda Russell (Evanston, Illinois); Tejal A. Desai (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel substrate for use in growing cells and for the study of mechanobiology. The membrane of the present invention comprises appropriate microtopography and surface chemical modifications to facilitate the production of adherent and oriented cells that phenotypically resemble cells in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062374 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/401 |
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| US 07696148 | Peters-Golden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Peters-Golden (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Theodore Standiford (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of leukotrienes and other products of the 5-lipoxygenase pathway to enhance bacterial defense and treat infections is described. The products are especially useful when administered to the lungs for the treatment of pneumonia and other lower respiratory tract infections. The products may be administered for treatment or prophylactic purposes and may be administered concomitantly with antibiotics to combat infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 03, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/291656 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07696150 | Shaughnessy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Shaughnessy (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes the cloning and molecular and cellular characterization of a novel protein with homology to the IL-17 receptor. The gene was cloned by virtue of its proximity to a common site of retroviral integration in a murine acute myeloid leukemia. The gene described herein possibly codes for a novel interleukin receptor that binds an as yet unidentified cytokine ligand, and may be useful in cancer diagnostics and therapies that rely on immune system modulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/128403 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07696155 | Woolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention features methods and compositions useful for treating and diagnosing diseases of the nervous system, retina, skin, muscle, joint, and cartilage using a Dragon family protein. Protein and nucleic acid sequences of human, murine, zebrafish, and C. elegans Dragon family members are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786368 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07696156 | Woolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention features methods and compositions useful for treating and diagnosing diseases of the nervous system, retina, skin, muscle, joint, and cartilage using a Dragon family protein. Protein and nucleic acid sequences of human, murine, zebrafish, and C. elegans Dragon family members are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786369 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07696168 | Kuliopulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Athan Kuliopulos (Winchester, Massachusetts); Lidija Covic (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to G protein coupled receptors and in particular to agonists and antagonists of G protein receptors and methods of using the same. |
| FILED | Friday, September 20, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/251703 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07696169 | Tracey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Connecticut); Huan Yang (Douglaston, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features a method of treating an inflammatory condition in an individual, comprising administering an agent inhibits the interaction between a Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) and a high mobility group B (HMGB) polypeptide to the individual. The invention also features methods for identifying agents that inhibit the interaction between TLR2 and HMGB. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787032 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07696179 | Lieberman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immune Disease Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judy Lieberman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Manjunath Narasimhaswamy (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Erwei Song (Guangzhou, China PRC); Sang-Kyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Premlata Shankar (Roslindale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based, at least in part, on the discovery of compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases or disorders, e.g., HIV infection, AIDS, and AIDS-related diseases. In particular, the present invention pertains to methods of modulating cellular gene expression or protein activity, e.g., CCR5, gene expression or protein activity and/or gene expression or protein activity of a gene or sequence of an infectious agent, in order to treat or prevent infectious diseases or disorders, HIV infection, AIDS, or an AIDS-related disease or disorder. In one embodiment the combination of an RNA interfering agent targeting a cellular gene in combination with an RNA interfering agent targeting a gene or sequence of an infectious agent results in prolonged prevention of infection by an infectious agent. The present invention is based on the identification of novel RNA interference agents, e.g., siRNA molecules, which target cellular genes, e.g., chemokine receptors, e.g., the CCR5 gene, and result in inhibition of target gene expression on target gene expressing cells, thereby inhibiting entry of infectious agents, e,g., HIV infection into target cells, prevention infection, and/or suppressing replication in established infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/533621 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07696185 | Berkman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cancer Targered Technology LLC (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cliff Berkman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of the formula, A—L—B, wherein A is glutamate or a glutamate analog; L is a phosphoramidate or a phosphoramidate analog; and B is serine or a serine analog are described which are potent inhibitors of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PMSA). Such compounds are useful in treatment of prostate cancer; and when chemically attached to a fluorescent dye, can efficiently and selectively label prostate cancer cells for fluorescent imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686272 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/114 |
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| US 07696211 | Wilson |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Constance N. Wilson (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for treating and preventing sepsis are provided. The methods of the invention comprise administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of an A1 adenosine receptor antagonist in combination with an antibiotic agent. The invention further encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising a combination of an A1 adenosine receptor antagonist and an antibiotic agent in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention find use in methods for treating and preventing sepsis. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/412754 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/263.100 |
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| US 07696244 | Verkman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Verkman (San Francisco, California); Luis J. V. Galietta (San Francisco, California); R. Kiplin Guy (Concord, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions, including pharmaceutical preparations, which comprise one or more substituted thiophene, benzofuran, pyrimidinetrione, dihydropyridine, tetrahydrocarbazol or anthraquinone compounds. The invention also features methods of use of such compositions in increasing activity of mutant-cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein in a cell, e.g. by increasing ion transport in a mutant-CFTR. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/556195 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/447 |
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| US 07696306 | Hollingsworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Agents of the University of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony Hollingsworth (Omaha, Nebraska); Karl Kohlgraf (Omaha, Nebraska); Tom Caffrey (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a MUC1 cytoplasmic tail peptide or portion thereof. These peptides are useful for inducing an immune response to MUC1-expressing tumor cells and thus for preventing or treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/618481 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07696307 | Yu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qin Yu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to ADAMTS-1 and uses thereof. The present invention also relates to fragments of ADAMTS-1 and methods of inhibiting cell growth and metastasis. The present invention also provide methods of identifying inhibitors and activators relating to the function of ADAMTS-1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104075 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07696338 | Neville, Jr. 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); Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Neville, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Jerry T. Thompson (Frenchville, Pennsylvania); Huaizhong Hu (Madison, Wisconsin); Jung-Hee Woo (Rockville, Maryland); Shenglin Ma (Indianapolis, Indiana); Jonathan Mark Hexham (S. Orange, New Jersey); Mary Ellen Digan (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings provides novel recombinant DT-based immunotoxins, and, more specifically anti-T cell immunotoxin fusion proteins. Also provided are immunotoxins that can be expressed in bacterial, yeast, or mammalian cells. The invention also provides means for expression of the immunotoxin fusion protein. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/296085 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
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| US 07696407 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Kang Zhu (Tucson, Arizona); Huazhong Shi (Davis, California); Manabu Ishitani (Cary, North Carolina); Becky Stevenson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to proteins and nucleic acids related to salt tolerance in plants. |
| FILED | Friday, January 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/749386 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697658 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ge Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Yangbo Ye (Coralville, Iowa); Hengyong Yu (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for tomographic image reconstruction using truncated limited-angle projection data that allows exact interior reconstruction (interior tomography) of a region of interest (ROI) based on the linear attenuation coefficient distribution of a subregion within the ROI, thereby improving image quality while reducing radiation dosage. In addition, the method includes parallel interior tomography using multiple sources beamed at multiple angles through an ROI and that enables higher temporal resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/362979 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Haupt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ken Rolt (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sonic excitation is used to locate, without contact, an object or defect beneath a surface. Defects may include, for example, damage and flaws in load bearing concrete structures wrapped in plastic, fiberglass or composite sheathing, while buried objects amenable to detection include landmines or above-ground mines. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400544 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07694620 | Narus |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Narus (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A magazine support reinforcement for a machine gun having a receiver. A magazine support is attached to the underside of the receiver. The magazine support reinforcement is connected to the magazine support. The reinforcement includes a front support, a rear support and a fastener for fastening the front support to the rear support. The front and rear supports include bracing members having a generally concave side and a lug portion. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672626 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/33.100 |
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| US 07694621 | Ma |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MKP Structural Design Associates, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng-Dong Ma (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved composite armor designs uses optimally shaped ceramic pellets, a specific stacking geometry and a web system for patterning the pellets, improving manufacturability, and providing additional structural reinforcement. Lightweight, composite ballistic armor according to the invention may comprise an array of ceramic pellets, each pellet having a front surface, a back surface and a longitudinal centerline, and wherein the front surface of each pellet is intentionally convex. The front surface of each pellet may be hemispherical, in which case the cross-section of the pellet taken perpendicular to the centerline may be oval-shaped. Alternatively, the front surface of each pellet may be elliptical, in which case the cross-section of the pellet taken perpendicular to the centerline may be circular. In the preferred embodiment, the back surface of each pellet is formed at the same angle relative to its centerline, with the pellets being arranged with the flat surfaces lying in a plane. The pellets may be arranged in a square matrix, or may be arranged in a hexagonally close-packed matrix. The array of pellets may be embedded in a hardened matrix material, and/or tied together with netting material. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237615 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07694628 | Adebimpe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GMA Industries (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Adebimpe (Annapolis, Maryland); Marek A. Zgol (Annapolis, Maryland); R. Glenn Wright (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method that can be used to scientifically fabricate pseudoscents of explosives, which, in their entirety, are comprised of non-energetic materials. It also discloses specific compositions of such pseudoscents, which can be used as energetically-inert-but-odoriferously-identical simulants for a range of explosives and are comprised of non-energetic components of the scent signature of an explosive and/or energetic scent components of the same headspace scent signature that have been rendered non-energetic. The scents achievable by the groups of formulations generated by this method encompass the different types of military and commercial explosives, and the components within the pseudoscents can be tuned to generate simulants representative of different qualities and quantities of such explosives. These explosive-scent simulants can be used to bolster existing explosive detecting dog (EDD) training programs, establish new training paradigms in canine, rodent, insect, and other creature explosive detection and training and, in some cases, increase the efficiencies of analytical instruments that rely on the phenomenon of vapor sampling to detect explosive materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385472 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/355 |
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| US 07694694 | Welle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Welle (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A valve apparatus includes a substrate, a main flow channel formed in the substrate, a control channel formed in the substrate such that the main flow channel and the control channel meet at a junction, a bi-phase material within the control channel, a heating element adjacent the control channel and the junction, the heating element being controllable to generate sufficient energy to cause the bi-phase material to transition from a solid phase to a liquid phase, and a pumping mechanism for forcing the bi-phase material either into or out of the junction when the bi-phase material is in the liquid phase. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/843515 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/828 |
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| US 07694973 | Hofmeister et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Strategic Systems, Inc. (Decatur, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. Hofmeister (Decatur, Alabama); Gregory T. Roden (Hartselle, Alabama); Bryan H. Graves (Somerville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for rapidly displacing an object comprises a lever with an object end and a power end. The lever is mounted to a fulcrum between the ends. A driven cam has a trunnion attached proximal to an outer edge thereof, and a tie rod member has an end pivotally attached to the power end of the lever and a second end pivotally attached to the trunnion such that about 180° of rotation of the cam causes about 90° displacement of the power end of said lever. Also, a tension member is coupled to the power end such that restorative force of the tension member contributes to displacement of the power end in one direction. A motor drives rotation of the cam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/364923 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 273/406 |
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| US 07695504 | Anders 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); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juanita J. Anders (Potomac, Maryland); Ilko K. Ilev (Rockville, Maryland); Ronald W. Waynant (Clarksville, Maryland); Kimberly R. Byrnes (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating spinal cord injury (SCI) includes transcutaneously irradiating at least a portion of a spinal environment of the patient with light having a power density of at least about 0.01 mW/cm2 at the portion of the spinal environment. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970425 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
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| US 07695601 | Jiang 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) | Rongzhong Jiang (Olney, Maryland); Deryn Chu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical electrode probe includes an elongated body of a porous material disposed in a housing. The porous material is permeated with an electrolyte. A body of electrode material surrounds the porous body and functions as one electrode of an electrochemical system. A portion of the elongated body of porous material projects beyond the electrode body and functions to establish ionic and electrical conductivity with a sample of material which is to be tested. The sample of material functions as a working electrode, and the electrode body of the probe functions as a counter electrode/reference electrode. Further disclosed is an electrochemical analysis system which includes the probe and a support plate operable to retain a plurality of samples of test material thereupon. The probe is moved across the plate to sequentially measure the electrochemical properties of the various samples of material. Also disclosed are methods for using the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/798020 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/435 |
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| US 07695647 | Smela et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elisabeth Smela (Silver Spring, Maryland); Remi Delille (Greenbelt, Maryland); Mario Urdaneta (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Samuel Moseley (University Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive, compliant elastomer material that is impregnated with a metal is formed by combining a metal salt with an elastomer precursor material to form a metal salt/precursor mixture, curing the metal salt/precursor mixture to form an elastomer impregnated with metal salt, and treating the elastomer impregnated with metal salt with a chemical reducing composition so as to convert at least a portion of the metal salt impregnated within the elastomer to a metal. The elastomer can be subjected to a suitable solvent that swells the elastomer during the chemical reduction of the metal salt to metal, which enhances the mechanical and electrical properties of the resultant metal impregnated elastomer material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946425 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/512 |
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| US 07695811 | Northen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Northen (Santa Barbara, California); Kimberly L. Turner (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An on/off reversible adhesive mechanism, and method for fabricating same. The adhesive mechanism is a hierarchical system comprised of a micro-scale compliant surface having one or more nano-structures thereon, wherein the compliant surface is moved by applying a magnetic field either to engage the nano-structures with an adhering surface or to remove the nano-structures from the adhering surface. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688161 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/343 |
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| US 07695841 | Crumm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Materials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron T. Crumm (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Timothy LaBreche (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Christopher J. Reilly (Whitinsville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid oxide fuel cell comprises a tube forming an anode, electrolyte and cathode, and a catalytic substrate is positioned within the tube. Such solid oxide fuel cells are highly compact and lightweight, and can be used in portable applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425206 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/31 |
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| US 07695894 | Kohl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); Paul J. Joseph (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Hollie K. Reed (Pearland, Texas); Sue Ann Bidstrup-Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Celesta E. White (Katy, Texas); Clifford Henderson (Douglasville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods of use thereof, and methods of decomposition thereof, are provided. One exemplary composition, among others, includes a polymer and a catalytic amount of a negative tone photoinitiator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/272978 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
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| US 07695941 | Lin 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) | Baochuan Lin (Bethesda, Maryland); Kate M. Blaney (Alexandria, Virginia); Anthony P. Malanoski (Greenbelt, Maryland); Joel M Schnur (Burke, Virginia); David A Stenger (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A PCR method involving: providing a biological sample suspected of containing one or more pathogen nucleic acids; adding a plurality of PCR primers corresponding to genes found in the pathogens; and performing a polymerase chain reaction on the sample to amplify a subset of the nucleic acids that correspond to the genes. The primers include at least one primer pair for each pathogen, and the primers contain a tail sequence that is not homologous any pathogen DNA or to any background DNA in the sample. The concentration of at least one primer in the polymerase chain reaction is no more than about 100 nM. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422425 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696062 | Chang-Chien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patty Pei-Ling Chang-Chien (Redondo Beach, California); Chi Kong Cheung (Pasadena, California); Melanie Sachiko Yajima (Los Angeles, California); Xianglin Zeng (Monterey Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for mounting a dielectric substrate to a semiconductor substrate, such as mounting a dielectric antenna substrate to an MMIC semiconductor substrate. The method includes providing a thin dielectric antenna substrate having metallized layers on opposing sides. In one embodiment, carrier wafers are used to handle and maintain the dielectric substrate in a flat configuration as the metallized layers are patterned. The dielectric substrate is sealed to the semiconductor substrate using a low temperature bonding process. In an alternate embodiment, the metallized layers on the dielectric substrate are patterned simultaneously so as to prevent the substrate from curling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828147 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696116 | Reimanis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivar Reimanis (Golden, Colorado); Chris Seick (Golden, Colorado); Kyle Fitzpatrick (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides composite materials comprising eucryptite particles distributed in a matrix material other than eucryptite. The matrix material may be a ceramic material such as an oxide ceramic. In an embodiment, the eucryptite particles are transformed from the β-phase to the ε-phase during fabrication of the composite. This phase transformation can enable a eucryptite-based transformation toughening mechanism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689366 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/128 |
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| US 07696185 | Berkman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cancer Targered Technology LLC (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cliff Berkman (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of the formula, A—L—B, wherein A is glutamate or a glutamate analog; L is a phosphoramidate or a phosphoramidate analog; and B is serine or a serine analog are described which are potent inhibitors of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PMSA). Such compounds are useful in treatment of prostate cancer; and when chemically attached to a fluorescent dye, can efficiently and selectively label prostate cancer cells for fluorescent imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686272 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696453 | Frankel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald S. Frankel (Columbus, Ohio); John C. Lippold (Hillard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A chromium-free welding consumable and a method of welding stainless steel to reduce the presence of chromium emissions. The consumable is made from an alloy that reduces the emission of chromium during a welding process, and include predominantly nickel, with between approximately five and ten weight percent copper, up to approximately two percent by weight of ruthenium and up to five percent non-copper alloying ingredients. Welding consumables made from the alloy are particularly well-suited for welding austenitic stainless steels, such as type 304 stainless steel. The method involves using chromium-free weld filler material with a stainless steel base material. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/029164 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/145.230 |
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| US 07696499 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Miller (Orlental, North Carolina); Steve K. McAllaster (Rancho Cucamonga, California); Jerry D. Slater (Redlands, California); Nickolas S. Rigney (Redlands, California); Daniel C. Anderson (Loma Linda, California); Michael F. Moyers (Colton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation treatment system (100) for accurately delivering radiation to a targeted site within a cancer patient (108) that includes a modular patient support system and a patient positioner (114). The modular patient support system includes a modularly expandable patient pod (200) and at least one immobilization device, such as, for example, a rigid moldable foam cradle (350). The patient pod (200) includes a generally hemi-cylindrical support shell (212) that extends longitudinally between proximal edge (214) and distal edge (216), and transversely between two lateral edges (222, 224). In one embodiment, the lateral edges (222, 224) are tapered to minimize edge effects that result when radiation beams traverse the lateral edges (222, 224). |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671922 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
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| US 07696696 | Fuks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Fuks (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edl Schamiloglu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A cathode for use in a magnetron may include a plurality of longitudinally oriented emitter regions disposed around a longitudinal axis of the cathode. Each emitter region may be configured to emit electrons and adjacent emitter regions may be separated from one another by openings. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/462561 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/39.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697263 | Bridger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Active Signal Technologies, Inc. (Linthicum, Maryland); Alfred University (Alfred, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Bridger (Washington, District of Columbia); Arthur V. Cooke (Baltimore, Maryland); Walter Arthur Schulze (Alfred Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic dielectric composition suitable for preparing capacitors for use in high-temperature service conditions is disclosed. The ceramic material and capacitors made from it exhibit unique and heretofore unrealizable properties including low variation in capacitance with voltage up to high fields, low variation in capacitance with temperature over a broad temperature range, retained high permittivity at temperatures up to 200° C. and beyond, low loss, low field-induced strain and adequate capacitance to retain performance at very low service temperatures. The material is based on sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) with selected additions of substituents and dopants to broaden and flatten its dielectric response, lower loss, lower strain, lower voltage coefficient and increase resistivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691837 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/311 |
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| US 07697374 | Kitchin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Kitchin (Laurel, Maryland); Charles W. Kerechanin, II (Burtonsville, Maryland); Juan I. Arvelo, Jr. (Dayton, Maryland); Ronald W. Mitnick (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrophone array includes an inflatable shaped housing enclosing an interior space and formable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, a framework of compliant material disposed within the interior of the inflatable housing, and a plurality of hydrophones attached to the compliant material at respective positions, wherein said hydrophones are arranged in a predetermined geometric array when the shaped housing is in the expanded configuration. Also provided herein is a system and method for deploying the hydrophone array. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539948 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/153 |
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| US 07697687 | Liang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nucrypt, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuang Liang (Evanston, Illinois); Gregory S. Kanter (Chicago, Illinois); Eric Corndorf (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Prem Kumar (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of synchronizing the encryption/decryption functions of an AlphaEta physical-layer encryption or key generation system. The method includes the insertion of a header to indicate the start of encryption after clock-synchronization has been established. The method also allows for a side-channel to signal other useful information, such as a loss-of-syncrhonization signal from Bob or to synchronize a dynamic key change. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404329 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for performing a quantum key distribution process in a quantum cryptographic system (200, 400) is provided. A first endpoint (405a) contributes a first set of random values to a quantum key distribution process. A second endpoint (405b) contributes a second set of random values to the quantum key distribution process. The first and the second endpoints (405a, 405b) derive a key based on at least some of the first set of random values and at least some of the second set of random values. In some implementations, the first endpoint (405a) may send each of the first set of random values using a basis (act 702, act 902) and the second endpoint (405b) may send an indication of received pulses and a basis for each of the received pulses (act 704, act 904). |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/795313 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697725 | Burns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Brian Burns (Palo Alto, California); Michael Eriksen (San Francisco, California); Carl Shapiro (Palo Alto, California); Aaron Heller (Belmont, California); Regis Vincent (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for autonomous object tracking. In one embodiment, a method for tracking a moving object across at least a portion of a video signal made up of a plurality of image frames includes stabilizing the video signal by processing selected portions of selected image frames, detecting at least one movement in the stabilized video signal, and computing a location of the detected movement(s). |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397988 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697798 | Lagakos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Lagakos (Silver Spring, Maryland); Joseph A Bucaro (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter with many fiber optic pressure sensors. The sensor diaphragm is formed from a wafer with a thin silicon layer and a silicon substrate layer separated by a silicon dioxide layer. A method includes masking and etching channels through the silicon substrate layer in a pattern of concentric circles to form a concentric circular etched channels and cylindrical unetched portions of the silicon substrate layer between the channels, exposing the silicon dioxide in the etched regions, and dissolving the exposed silicon dioxide to expose the crystalline silicon layer in the etched regions. The unetched cylindrical portion of the silicon substrate forms the diaphragm support element and the thin silicon layer forms the diaphragm. After applying a reflective coating to the exposed thin silicon layer, the support element face is adhered to the end face of a tubular housing, and a fiber optic probe is inserted in the tubular housing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/356678 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698106 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph P. Bigus (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric Bouillet (Jersey City, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and computer program product for benchmarking a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises generating a plurality of correlated test streams. A semantically related data set is embedded within each of the test streams in the plurality of correlated test streams. The plurality of correlated test streams is provided to at least one stream processing system. A summary is generated for each of the semantically related embedded data sets. A common identifier, which is transparent to the system being tested, is embedded within each stream in the plurality of correlated test streams. The common identifier is extracted from the output data set generated by the stream processing system. At least one of the stored copies of the summaries and the common identifier are compared to an output data set including a set of zero or more correlation results generated by the stream processing system. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926208 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698108 | Haney et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Haney (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Geoffrey S. Edelson (Andover, Massachusetts); Paul D. Fiore (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for parameterization of data distributions for efficient information sharing in distributed sensor networks including a plurality of sensors, comprising the steps of performing Bayesian multi-source data fusion and sharing probalistic data information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973693 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698457 | Ghetie et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei Ghetie (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Harshad Tanna (Plainsboro, New Jersey); John Unger (Succasunna, New Jersey); Gabor Kiss (Long Valley, New Jersey); Vincent Massa (Paterson, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Applications and users dynamically make QoS provisioning requests for individual traffic flows traversing client and server hosts. A traffic flow provisioning request is conveyed to a services manager, which determines a set of traffic attributes for the flow and determines the networks the flow traverses between the client and server hosts. The services manger then oversees the admission of the flow to appropriate traffic classes in each determined network and the obtaining of a DSCP value for each network. Lastly, the services manger conveys the DSCP value of the first network traversed back to the client or server host, depending on the direction of the flow, which host is then configured to appropriately mark the DSCP field of the traffic flow packets. In a further embodiment, the services manager also instructs the client or server host to perform packet policing and shaping for the flow. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/706796 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D613814 | Farina 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) | Anthony P. Farina (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Brian C. Wong (Hamburg, New Jersey); Stewart Gilman (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Joseph D. Wu (Wharton, New Jersey) |
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| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 29/333452 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Arms, pyrotechnics, hunting and fishing equipment D22/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Deere and Company (Moline, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Mathew Whiting (Waterloo, Iowa); Carl Thomas Vuk (Denver, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An engine system incorporating an air breathing, reciprocating internal combustion engine having an inlet for air and an exhaust for products of combustion. A centripetal turbine receives products of the combustion and has a housing in which a turbine wheel is rotatable. The housing has first and second passages leading from the inlet to discrete, approximately 180°, portions of the circumference of the turbine wheel. The passages have fixed vanes adjacent the periphery of the turbine wheel and the angle of the vanes in one of the passages is different than those in the other so as to accommodate different power levels providing optimum approach angles between the gases passing the vanes and the blades of the turbine wheel. Flow through the passages is controlled by a flapper valve to direct it to one or the other or both passages depending upon the load factor for the engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838645 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07694547 | Dutta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabir K. Dutta (Worthington, Ohio); Ramamoorthy Ramasamy (Strongsville, Ohio); Xiaogan Li (Columbus, Ohio); Sheikh A. Akbar (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a composite exhibiting a change in electrical resistance proportional to the concentration of a reducing gas present in a gas mixture, detector and sensor devices comprising the composite, a method for making the composite and for making devices comprising the composite, and a process for detecting and measuring a reducing gas in an atmosphere. In particular, the reducing gas may be carbon monoxide and the composite may comprise rutile-phase TiO2 particles and platinum nanoclusters. The composite, upon exposure to a gas mixture containing CO in concentrations of up to 10,000 ppm, exhibits an electrical resistance proportional to the concentration of the CO present. The composite is useful for making sensitive, low drift, fast recovering detectors and sensors, and for measuring CO concentrations in a gas mixture present at levels from sub-ppm up to 10,000 ppm. The composites, and devices made from the composites, are stable and operable in a temperature range of from about 450° C. to about 700° C., such as may be found in a combustion chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040597 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695545 | Golden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Christopher Golden (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Edward Landis Weist, Jr. (Macungie, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Raymond Hufton (Fogelsville, Pennsylvania); Paul Anthony Novosat (Emmaus, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for selectively separating hydrogen from at least one more strongly adsorbable component in a plurality of adsorption beds to produce a hydrogen-rich product gas from a low hydrogen concentration feed with a high recovery rate. Each of the plurality of adsorption beds subjected to a repetitive cycle. The process comprises an adsorption step for producing the hydrogen-rich product from a feed gas mixture comprising 5% to 50% hydrogen, at least two pressure equalization by void space gas withdrawal steps, a provide purge step resulting in a first pressure decrease, a blowdown step resulting in a second pressure decrease, a purge step, at least two pressure equalization by void space gas introduction steps, and a repressurization step. The second pressure decrease is at least 2 times greater than the first pressure decrease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685992 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695580 | Cutler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Ceramatec, Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Ashton Cutler (Bountiful, Utah); Kent Neal Hutchings (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian Paul Kleinlein (Salt Lake City, Utah); Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of joining at least two sintered bodies to form a composite structure, includes: providing a joint material between joining surfaces of first and second sintered bodies; applying pressure from 1 kP to less than 5 MPa to provide an assembly; heating the assembly to a conforming temperature sufficient to allow the joint material to conform to the joining surfaces; and further heating the assembly to a joining temperature below a minimum sintering temperature of the first and second sintered bodies. The joint material includes organic component(s) and ceramic particles. The ceramic particles constitute 40-75 vol. % of the joint material, and include at least one element of the first and/or second sintered bodies. Composite structures produced by the method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332995 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695640 | Chichak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); Kyle Erik Litz (Ballston Spa, New York); James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Qing Ye (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel polymer compositions comprising a polymeric component and a novel organic iridium compound comprising at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The organic iridium compounds used in the polymer compositions are referred to as Type (1) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that no ligand of the novel organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (1) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “organic iridium complexes”. In one aspect, the polymeric component may be an electroactive polymer. The novel polymer compositions of the invention are useful in optoelectronic electronic devices such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In one aspect, the invention provides novel polymer compositions useful in the preparation of OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506001 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695663 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Laura D. Marlino (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Curtis W. Ayers (Kingston, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention teaches methods of making a hermetic terminal assembly comprising the steps of: inserting temporary stops, shims and jigs on the bottom face of a terminal assembly thereby blocking assembly core open passageways; mounting the terminal assembly inside a vacuum chamber using a temporary assembly perimeter seal and flange or threaded assembly interfaces; mixing a seal admixture and hardener in a mixer conveyor to form a polymer seal material; conveying the polymer seal material into a polymer reservoir; feeding the polymer seal material from the reservoir through a polymer outlet valve and at least one polymer outlet tube into the terminal assembly core thereby filling interstitial spaces in the core adjacent to service conduits, temporary stop, and the terminal assembly casing; drying the polymer seal material at room temperature thereby hermetically sealing the core of the terminal assembly; removing the terminal assembly from the vacuum chamber, and; removing the temporary stops, shims. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/837767 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695834 | Borole |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhijeet P. Borole (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for preparing a microbial fuel cell, wherein the method includes: (i) inoculating an anodic liquid medium in contact with an anode of the microbial fuel cell with one or more types of microorganisms capable of functioning by an exoelectrogenic mechanism; (ii) establishing a biofilm of the microorganisms on and/or within the anode along with a substantial absence of planktonic forms of the microorganisms by substantial removal of the planktonic microorganisms during forced flow and recirculation conditions of the anodic liquid medium; and (iii) subjecting the microorganisms of the biofilm to a growth stage by incorporating one or more carbon-containing nutritive compounds in the anodic liquid medium during biofilm formation or after biofilm formation on the anode has been established. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252015 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695860 | Amine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); Qingzheng Wang (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Bookeun Oh (Lisle, Illinois); Donald R. Vissers (Naperville, Illinois); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nonaqueous liquid electrolyte comprising poly(siloxane-g-3 ethylene oxide) and its synthesis. This electrolyte provides significant safety, improved electrochemical stability, improved conductivity, lower impedance, and lower manufacturing costs. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/487780 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695919 | Apel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analyzing a biological sample by antibody profiling for identifying forensic samples or for detecting the presence of an analyte. In an embodiment of the invention, the analyte is a drug, such as marijuana, Cocaine (crystalline tropane alkaloid), methamphetamine, methyltestosterone, or mesterolone. The method comprises attaching antigens to a surface of a solid support in a preselected pattern to form an array wherein locations of the antigens are known; contacting the array with the biological sample such that a portion of antibodies in the sample reacts with and binds to the antigens in the array to form immune complexes; washing away antibodies that do form immune complexes; and detecting the immune complexes, to form an antibody profile. Forensic samples are identified by comparing a sample from an unknown source with a sample from a known source. Further, an assay, such as a test for illegal drug use, can be coupled to a test for identity such that the results of the assay can be positively correlated to the subject's identity. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691096 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695921 | Karin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Karin (La Jolla, California); Jun-Li Luo (Jupiter, Florida); Wei Tan (Calzada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, treatment and drug screening. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods for targeting the nuclear translocation of IkB kinase-α (IKKα) and the IKKα-mediated suppression of Maspin expression observed in metastatic prostate cancer cells. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/004696 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 07695988 | Stavis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel M. Stavis (Ithaca, New York); Joshua B. Edel (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kevan T. Samiee (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanofluidic channel fabricated in fused silica with an approximately 500 nm square cross section was used to isolate, detect and identify individual quantum dot conjugates. The channel enables the rapid detection of every fluorescent entity in solution. A laser of selected wavelength was used to excite multiple species of quantum dots and organic molecules, and the emission spectra were resolved without significant signal rejection. Quantum dots were then conjugated with organic molecules and detected to demonstrate efficient multicolor detection. PCH was used to analyze coincident detection and to characterize the degree of binding. The use of a small fluidic channel to detect quantum dots as fluorescent labels was shown to be an efficient technique for multiplexed single molecule studies. Detection of single molecule binding events has a variety of applications including high throughput immunoassays. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143334 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiyu Hu (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid state thermoelectric converter includes a thermally insulating separator layer, a semiconducting collector and an electron emitter. The electron emitter comprises a metal nanoparticle layer or plurality of metal nanocatalyst particles disposed on one side of said separator layer. A first electrically conductive lead is electrically coupled to the electron emitter. The collector layer is disposed on the other side of the separator layer, wherein the thickness of the separator layer is less than 1 μm. A second conductive lead is electrically coupled to the collector layer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926934 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696684 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shimon Weiss (Pinole, California); Michael C. Schlamp (Plainsboro, New Jersey); A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multicolor electronic display is based on an array of luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals. Nanocrystals which emit light of different colors are grouped into pixels. The nanocrystals are optically pumped to produce a multicolor display. Different sized nanocrystals are used to produce the different colors. A variety of pixel addressing systems can be used. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701879 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696900 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Spanish Fork, Utah); Tyson Wilde (Aurora, Colorado); Jonathan S. Barlow (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of responding to an anomalous change in downhole pressure in a bore hole comprises detecting the anomalous change in downhole pressure, sending a signal along the segmented electromagnetic transmission path, receiving the signal, and performing a automated response. The anomalous change in downhole pressure is detected at a first location along a segmented electromagnetic transmission path, and the segmented electromagnetic transmission path is integrated into the tool string. The signal is received by at least one receiver in communication with the segmented electromagnetic transmission path. The automated response is performed along the tool string. Disclosed is an apparatus for responding to an anomalous change in downhole pressure in a downhole tool string, comprising a segmented electromagnetic transmission path connecting one or more receivers and at least one pressure sensor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/030444 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/853.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697134 | Sinclair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Sinclair (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kent B. Pfeifer (Los Lunas, New Mexico); Jeb H. Flemming (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gary D. Jones (Tijeras, New Mexico); Chris P. Tigges (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A correlation spectrometer can detect a large number of gaseous compounds, or chemical species, with a species-specific mask wheel. In this mode, the spectrometer is optimized for the direct measurement of individual target compounds. Additionally, the spectrometer can measure the transmission spectrum from a given sample of gas. In this mode, infrared light is passed through a gas sample and the infrared transmission signature of the gasses present is recorded and measured using Hadamard encoding techniques. The spectrometer can detect the transmission or emission spectra in any system where multiple species are present in a generally known volume. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593386 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697243 | Novosad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valentyn Novosad (Chicago, Illinois); Kristen Buchanan (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The determination of the strength of an in-plane magnetic field utilizing one or more magnetically-soft, ferromagnetic member, having a shape, size and material whereas a single magnetic vortex is formed at remanence in each ferromagnetic member. The preferred shape is a thin circle, or dot. Multiple ferromagnetic members can also be stacked on-top of each other and separated by a non-magnetic spacer. The resulting sensor is hysteresis free. The sensor's sensitivity, and magnetic saturation characteristics may be easily tuned by simply altering the material, size, shape, or a combination thereof to match the desired sensitivity and saturation characteristics. The sensor is self-resetting at remanence and therefore does not require any pinning techniques. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/530148 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697443 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark G. Megerian (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Locating hardware faults in a parallel computer, including defining within a tree network of the parallel computer two or more sets of non-overlapping test levels of compute nodes of the network that together include all the data communications links of the network, each non-overlapping test level comprising two or more adjacent tiers of the tree; defining test cells within each non-overlapping test level, each test cell comprising a subtree of the tree including a subtree root compute node and all descendant compute nodes of the subtree root compute node within a non-overlapping test level; performing, separately on each set of non-overlapping test levels, an uplink test on all test cells in a set of non-overlapping test levels; and performing, separately from the uplink tests and separately on each set of non-overlapping test levels, a downlink test on all test cells in a set of non-overlapping test levels. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279592 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697495 | Armstrong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. R. Armstrong (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Luis R. Pereira (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Sujit R. Das (New Berlin, Wisconsin); Carlos H. Rentel (Sussex, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless system includes a plurality of wireless nodes structured to participate in a system test of the wireless nodes. The system test includes a plurality of test packets. A packet sniffer node includes a wireless receiver, a memory storing a schedule defining transmission and reception of the test packets by the wireless nodes, and a processor cooperating with the wireless receiver and the memory to receive at least some of the test packets responsive to the schedule, and to output data corresponding to the received test packets of the system test. A monitoring computer receives the output data from the processor of the packet sniffer node. Operation of the packet sniffer node, which does not transmit, does interfere with or alter execution of the system test. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613331 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697807 | D'urso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R D'urso (Clinton, Tennessee); John T Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical component includes a support structure having a first composition including a recessive phase material and a second composition including protrusive phase material, the protrusive phase material defining a plurality of spaced apart surface features, each of the surface features comprising a distal end opposite the support structure, integrated with the support structure, and protruding distally from a surface of the support structure, each of the surface features reducing in cross sectional area distally from the support structure to provide a lowest cross sectional area at the distal end, the recessive phase material supporting and separating the surface features and defining a contiguous recessed surface area between the surface features, at least two of the protrusive features being characterized as optical waveguides. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421547 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697808 | D'Urso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. D'Urso (Clinton, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical component has a plurality of parallel noncontiguous optical conduits of at least one protrusive phase material embedded in a recessive phase material that acts as a support structure. The optical conduits extend from a proximal surface to a distal surface of the optical component. The distal surface has a plurality of spaced apart surface features of the protrusive phase material. Each independent optical conduits act as waveguides for a wavelength or range of wavelengths. The optical component can be formed such that the protruding surface features at the distal end of the component form an ordered array. An optical instrument can include the optical component in conjunction with a light source for illuminating a sample and a detector in optical communication optical component via the optical conduits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/873139 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07695647 | Smela et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elisabeth Smela (Silver Spring, Maryland); Remi Delille (Greenbelt, Maryland); Mario Urdaneta (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Samuel Moseley (University Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive, compliant elastomer material that is impregnated with a metal is formed by combining a metal salt with an elastomer precursor material to form a metal salt/precursor mixture, curing the metal salt/precursor mixture to form an elastomer impregnated with metal salt, and treating the elastomer impregnated with metal salt with a chemical reducing composition so as to convert at least a portion of the metal salt impregnated within the elastomer to a metal. The elastomer can be subjected to a suitable solvent that swells the elastomer during the chemical reduction of the metal salt to metal, which enhances the mechanical and electrical properties of the resultant metal impregnated elastomer material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946425 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695860 | Amine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); Qingzheng Wang (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Bookeun Oh (Lisle, Illinois); Donald R. Vissers (Naperville, Illinois); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nonaqueous liquid electrolyte comprising poly(siloxane-g-3 ethylene oxide) and its synthesis. This electrolyte provides significant safety, improved electrochemical stability, improved conductivity, lower impedance, and lower manufacturing costs. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/487780 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695894 | Kohl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); Paul J. Joseph (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Hollie K. Reed (Pearland, Texas); Sue Ann Bidstrup-Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Celesta E. White (Katy, Texas); Clifford Henderson (Douglasville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods of use thereof, and methods of decomposition thereof, are provided. One exemplary composition, among others, includes a polymer and a catalytic amount of a negative tone photoinitiator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/272978 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696252 | Pashley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Australian National University (Canberra ACT, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M Pashley (Canberra, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the formation of colloidal suspensions. The method includes combining an aqueous substance with a second substance that is normally immiscible with the aqueous substance, to form a mixture, and before, during or after the combining removing dissolved gases from one or both of the aqueous and second substance, whereby the aqueous and second substances mix and form a colloidal suspension. The methods for the formation of colloidal suspensions include methods for the formation of emulsions as well as particulate dispersions. The methods used to form the colloidal suspensions in accordance with the present invention produce colloidal suspensions that are stable for periods from an hour to several weeks in the absence of surfactants or stabilizing agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/703094 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696361 | Beauchamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse L. Beauchamp (La Canada, California); Ryan R. Julian (Bloomington, Indiana); Brian M. Stoltz (Pasadena, California); Jeremy A. May (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Biomimetic reagents capable of selectively forming non-covalent complexes and initiating intermolecular reactions with peptides in the gas phase are described. The reagents are particularly useful in gas phase peptides chemistry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782373 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697145 | Izatt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging method which can image with micrometer-scale resolution up to a few millimeters deep into, for example, living biological tissues and preserved tissue samples. An improved apparatus and image reconstruction algorithm for parallel Fourier Domain OCT which greatly eases requirements for interferometer stability and also allows for more efficient parallel image acquisition is provided. The apparatuses and algorithms reconstruct images from interfered, low-coherence, multiwave length signals having a π radian phase difference relative to one another. Other numbers of signals and other phase differences may be alternatively used, with some combinations resulting in higher resolution and image stability. The apparatus also eliminates a need for bulk optics to modulate a phase delay in a reference arm of the optical path. Images may be reconstructed using two spectrometers, where each is coupled to a detector array such as a photodiode array. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854426 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698121 | Steenkiste et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Steenkiste (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Glenn Judd (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An emulator for emulating a wireless network comprised of a plurality of RF nodes is comprised of a programmable controller for emulating the movements of the plurality of RF nodes within an emulated space. The controller provides both information and control signals based on the emulated movements. A programmable logic core receives a plurality of signals from the plurality of RF nodes and emulates signal propagation based on the information from the controller. A plurality of signal generation and conversion cards are interposed between the programmable logic core and the RF nodes. The signal generation and conversion cards are responsive to the control signals. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/274530 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698267 | Papakonstantinou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, California); Andrey Balmin (San Jose, California); Evangelos Christidis (North Bay Village, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes methods for searching digital information such as digital documents (e.g., web pages) and computer databases, and specific search techniques such as authority ranking and information retrieval (IR) relevance ranking in keyword searches. In some implementations, the technique includes analyzing digital information viewed as a labeled graph, including nodes and edges, based on a flow of authority among the nodes along the edges, the flow of authority being derived at least in part from different authority transfer rates assigned to the edges based on edge type schema information. In some implementations, the system includes an object rank module configured to generate multiple initial rankings corresponding to multiple query keywords, each of the multiple initial rankings indicating authority of nodes in a graph with respect to each respective query keyword individually; and a query module configured to combine the multiple initial rankings in response to a query. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/215346 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07695849 | Narayanan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sekharipuram R. Narayanan (Arcadia, California); Jay F. Whitacre (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the preparation of a metallic material having catalytic activity that includes synthesizing a material composition comprising a metal content with a lower Pt content than a binary alloy containing Pt but that displays at least a comparable catalytic activity on a per mole Pt basis as the binary alloy containing Pt; and evaluating a representative sample of the material composition to ensure that the material composition displays a property of at least a comparable catalytic activity on a per mole Pt basis as a representative binary alloy containing Pt. Furthermore, metallic compositions are disclosed that possess substantial resistance to corrosive acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060629 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07697759 | Tilton |
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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) | James C. Tilton (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer readable storage, and apparatus for implementing recursive segmentation of data with spatial characteristics into regions including splitting-remerging of pixels with contagious region designations and a user controlled parameter for providing a preference for merging adjacent regions to eliminate window artifacts. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251530 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698075 | Curry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A Curry (Lynnwood, Washington); Simon D Senibi (Covington, Washington); David L Banks (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting damage to a structure is provided. The system includes a voltage source and at least one capacitor formed as a layer within the structure and responsive to the voltage source. The system also includes at least one sensor responsive to the capacitor to sense a voltage of the capacitor. A controller responsive to the sensor determines if damage to the structure has occurred based on the variance of the voltage of the capacitor from a known reference value. A method for sensing damage to a structure involves providing a plurality of capacitors and a controller, and coupling the capacitors to at least one surface of the structure. A voltage of the capacitors is sensed using the controller, and the controller calculates a change in the voltage of the capacitors. The method can include signaling a display system if a change in the voltage occurs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353443 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698274 | Maluf 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 (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Maluf (Mountain View, California); Yuri O. Gawdiak (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for providing selective access to different portions of a database by different subgroups of database users. Where N users are involved, up to 2N−1 distinguishable access subgroups in a group space can be formed, where no two access subgroups have the same members. Two or more members of a given access subgroup can edit, substantially simultaneously, a document accessible to each member. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956524 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07695843 | Eshraghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microcell Corporation (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray R. Eshraghi (Cary, North Carolina); Changquig Lin (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jung-Chou Lin (Raleigh, North Carolina); Martin E. Ketterer (Apex, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfibrous fuel cell structure of elongated form with a longitudinal axis. Such microfibrous fuel cell includes electrocatalyst layers supported by a fiber network formed of unidirectional or substantially unidirectional conductive fibers. The conductive fibers of such fiber network are oriented parallelly or substantially parallelly to the longitudinal axis of the fuel cell, therefore allowing such fiber network to conform to the curvature of the microfibrous fuel cell along the radial direction but without causing overbending of the individual fibers. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030703 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695860 | Amine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Robert C. West (Madison, Wisconsin); Qingzheng Wang (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Bookeun Oh (Lisle, Illinois); Donald R. Vissers (Naperville, Illinois); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a nonaqueous liquid electrolyte comprising poly(siloxane-g-3 ethylene oxide) and its synthesis. This electrolyte provides significant safety, improved electrochemical stability, improved conductivity, lower impedance, and lower manufacturing costs. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/487780 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07696122 | Ezenyilimba et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. Ezenyilimba (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paolina Atanassova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hanwei Lei (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ross A. Miesem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ryan Cash Wall (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrocatalyst ink composition comprising a liquid vehicle, particles comprising at least one electrocatalyst metal, and at least one copolymer dispersant comprising at least one polyalkylene oxide segment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428747 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07696410 | Bhattacharyya |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madan K. Bhattacharyya (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the purified and isolated family of Rps1-k disease resistance genes, proteins encoded thereby and use of the same to confer, enhance or otherwise modify resistance of soybean to plant pathogens, particularly Phytophthora sojae. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805792 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP20930 | Henny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (Greenwood, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Henny (Tavares, Florida); Jianjun Chen (Apopka, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A new Epipremnum plant particularly distinguished by having compact and dense growth habit, dark green leaves that are wider, in relation to length, than other cultivars, vines with large diameters, and vines with shorter internodes, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316063 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07697291 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yves Martin (Ossining, New York); Theodore G. Van Kessel (Millbrook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus for cooling a semiconductor heat source. In one embodiment a thermal spreader is provided and includes a substrate for supporting the semiconductor heat source and a heat sink coupled to the substrate. A channel is disposed between the heat sink and substrate. The channel has at least one wall defined by the heat sink. The surface area of the channel wall defined by the heat sink is about 10 to about 100 times the surface area of a bottom surface of the semiconductor heat source. A coolant, for example liquid metal, circulates within the channel. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751334 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698106 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Joseph P. Bigus (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric Bouillet (Jersey City, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and computer program product for benchmarking a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises generating a plurality of correlated test streams. A semantically related data set is embedded within each of the test streams in the plurality of correlated test streams. The plurality of correlated test streams is provided to at least one stream processing system. A summary is generated for each of the semantically related embedded data sets. A common identifier, which is transparent to the system being tested, is embedded within each stream in the plurality of correlated test streams. The common identifier is extracted from the output data set generated by the stream processing system. At least one of the stored copies of the summaries and the common identifier are compared to an output data set including a set of zero or more correlation results generated by the stream processing system. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926208 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07694628 | Adebimpe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GMA Industries (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Adebimpe (Annapolis, Maryland); Marek A. Zgol (Annapolis, Maryland); R. Glenn Wright (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method that can be used to scientifically fabricate pseudoscents of explosives, which, in their entirety, are comprised of non-energetic materials. It also discloses specific compositions of such pseudoscents, which can be used as energetically-inert-but-odoriferously-identical simulants for a range of explosives and are comprised of non-energetic components of the scent signature of an explosive and/or energetic scent components of the same headspace scent signature that have been rendered non-energetic. The scents achievable by the groups of formulations generated by this method encompass the different types of military and commercial explosives, and the components within the pseudoscents can be tuned to generate simulants representative of different qualities and quantities of such explosives. These explosive-scent simulants can be used to bolster existing explosive detecting dog (EDD) training programs, establish new training paradigms in canine, rodent, insect, and other creature explosive detection and training and, in some cases, increase the efficiencies of analytical instruments that rely on the phenomenon of vapor sampling to detect explosive materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385472 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695724 | Dietzschold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernhard Dietzschold (Newton Square, Pennsylvania); Marie Luise Faber (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania); Matthias Schnell (Harleysville, Pennsylvania); Milosz Faber (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant rabies viruses in which the arginine residue of the glycoprotein (G) at amino acid position 333 is exchanged, renders these viruses nonpathogenic for immunocompetent mammals regardless of the route of infection. Some of these recombinant rabies viruses after several serial virus passages in newborn mice can become pathogenic for adult mice. The reversion to the pathogenic phenotype is associated with a thymidine to adenosine mutation (T→A) at position 639 of the G gene, which results in an asparagine to lysine exchange at position 194 of G. The codon at position 637-639 was changed by site directed mutagenesis to replace asparagine at position 194 by an amino acid that minimized the possibility for an Asn→Lys exchange at amino acid position 194 of G and prevents reversion to a pathogenic form of the virus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571842 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/224.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 07697725 | Burns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Brian Burns (Palo Alto, California); Michael Eriksen (San Francisco, California); Carl Shapiro (Palo Alto, California); Aaron Heller (Belmont, California); Regis Vincent (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for autonomous object tracking. In one embodiment, a method for tracking a moving object across at least a portion of a video signal made up of a plurality of image frames includes stabilizing the video signal by processing selected portions of selected image frames, detecting at least one movement in the stabilized video signal, and computing a location of the detected movement(s). |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397988 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07694567 | Haupt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Haupt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ken Rolt (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Sonic excitation is used to locate, without contact, an object or defect beneath a surface. Defects may include, for example, damage and flaws in load bearing concrete structures wrapped in plastic, fiberglass or composite sheathing, while buried objects amenable to detection include landmines or above-ground mines. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400544 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07695238 | Heath |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan C. Heath (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A lift mechanism includes a balance structure configured to hold an object, wherein the balance structure is rotateably connected to an arm structure at a pivot point. The pivot point is configured, and the object is positioned, such that the pivot point is substantially coincident with the center-of-mass of the object being moved. Weights may be selectively attached to the balance structure to adjust the center-of-mass. In one embodiment, the lift mechanism includes a base and an arm configured to rotate with respect to the base, wherein the arm is attached to the balance structure at the pivot point. In this way, heavy objects may be lifted, translated, and rotated into place safely in an efficient manner. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264491 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Material or article handling 414/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07695544 | Iwasaki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Iwao Iwasaki (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Michael J. Lalich (Duluth, Minnesota); Robert C. Beaudin (Duluth, Minnesota); Richard F. Kiesel (Hibbing, Minnesota); Andrew J. Lindgren (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Rodney L. Bleifuss (Grand Rapids, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for producing metallic nuggets includes providing reducible mixture (e.g., reducible micro-agglomerates; reducing material and reducible iron bearing material; reducible mixture including additives such as a fluxing agent; compacts, etc.) on at least a portion of a hearth material layer. In one embodiment, a plurality of channel openings extend at least partially through a layer of the reducible mixture to define a plurality of nugget forming reducible material regions. Such channel openings may be at least partially filled with nugget separation fill material (e.g., carbonaceous material). Thermally treating the layer of reducible mixture results in formation of one or more metallic iron nuggets. In other embodiments, various compositions of the reducible mixture and the formation of the reducible mixture provide one or more beneficial characteristics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296198 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07698100 | Hintz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth J. Hintz (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A multidimensional sensor data analyzer that includes: discretizing values in multidimensional sensor data at index locations in value surfaces that reside in a multidimensional value space; deriving surface components resulting from the intersection of a geometric beam shape function that describing the sensor beam with the value surfaces; determining minimum-maximum index location limits for the surface components; determining surface component index points by identifying the index locations that are located within the minimum-maximum index location limits for the surface components; and generating a beam value by performing a beam function using the values at the surface component index points. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748539 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
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FUNDED BY
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We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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