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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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| US 07703375 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Technological University (Southfield, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Scott (Middletown, Delaware); Nabil F. Grace (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite armor 10 is provided with a cellular structure 12 having a plurality of composite inserts 14 arranged in openings 20 provided in the cellular structure 12. A pair of laminate sheets are arranged on oppositely facing sides of the cellular structure 12 and covering the inserts 14. The laminate sheets 26 and 28 are bonded to the structure 12 and the inserts 14 by an adhesive. The cellular structure 12 includes a plurality of fibers extending continuously throughout the cellular structure 12. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504343 |
| 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 |
07703406 — Ship and associated methods of formation with vessels connectable between decks and hulls
| US 07703406 | Keck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Keck Technologies, LLC (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Keck (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert Scher (Annandale, Virginia); Weimin Hu (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A ship and associated methods of operation. In an example embodiment, a method of operating a ship includes providing multiple vessels each having a first deck attached to two spaced-apart hull sections. The deck and hull sections define a cavity when the vessel is afloat. A plurality of like coupling mechanisms are provided, each suitable for joining two of the vessels. First and second vessels are joined along starboard and port sides of the deck of the second vessel with one of the coupling mechanisms. Joining is effected by attaching a first of the hull sections on the first vessel to the deck of the second vessel along the port side of the second vessel, and attaching a second of the hull sections on the first vessel to the deck of the second vessel along the starboard side of the second vessel. When coupled to one another the deck of the second vessel is positioned between the first and second hull sections of the first vessel. Attaching of the first vessel to the second vessel includes positioning of a first pin between the first hull section and the deck of the second vessel and positioning of a second pin between the second hull section and the deck of the second vessel. The first coupling mechanism limits movement of the first and second vessels, with respect to one another, to movement about a single axis of rotation, this permitting the first vessel to undergo changes in pitch relative to the second vessel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061306 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/248 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07703572 | Du et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Technologies, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Du (Christiansburg, Virginia); Kenji Homma (Blacksburg, Virginia); Michael A. Vaudrey (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An earmuff assembly with a double-shell structure is disclosed for use with a sound-attenuating circumaural headset. The earmuff assembly comprises a cup-shaped outer shell mounted on a resilient outer sealing ring and a cup-shaped inner shell mounted on a resilient inner sealing ring. By means of the two sealing rings the outer and the inner shells are brought into abutment with the head surface around an ear of a wearer. Both shells are structurally rigid. The sound attenuation performance is maximized by isolating the inner shell from the outer shell. The two sealing rings are interconnected through a thin skin layer of soft compliant materials, which acts as a vibration isolating/decoupling means between the outer shell and the inner shell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949850 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07703742 | Heim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan R. Heim (Pacifica, California); Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Roy David Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California); Marcus A. Rosenthal (Pacifica, California); Richard P. Heydt (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes devices for controlling fluid flow, such as valves. The devices may include one or more electroactive polymer transducers with an electroactive polymer that deflects in response to an application of an electric field. The electroactive polymer may be in contact with a fluid where the deflection of the electroactive polymer may be used to change a characteristic of the fluid. Some of the characteristic of the fluid that may be changed include but are not limited to 1) a flow rate, 2) a flow direction, 3) a flow vorticity, 4) a flow momentum, 5) a flow mixing rate, 6) a flow turbulence rate, 7) a flow energy, 8) a flow thermodynamic property. The electroactive polymer may be a portion of a surface of a structure that is immersed in an external fluid flow, such as the surface of an airplane wing or the electroactive polymer may be a portion of a surface of a structure used in an internal flow, such as a bounding surface of a fluid conduit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424486 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/129.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07703918 | Kolanko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eye Marker Systems, Inc. (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Kolanko (Morgantown, West Virginia); Lance R. Molnar (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for diagnosing a disease state in a subject, including examining the subject's eyes in order to determine whether the subject exhibits one or more symptoms of the disease state. Symptoms of the disease state include altered ocular characteristics, such as pupil size, pupil motility, ocular blood vessel coloration, and strobe light cutoff frequency. By evaluating changes to ocular characteristics, a disease state can be diagnosed in a subject. In addition, the seventy of the disease state also can be determined. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740979 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704323 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Jianli He (Houston, Texas); Bo Chen (Sugar Land, Texas); Austen K. Flatt (Houston, Texas); Jason J. Stephenson (Humble, Texas); Condell D. Doyle (Nocona, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Work from several laboratories has shown that metal nanofilaments cause problems in some molecular electronics testbeds. A new testbed for exploring the electrical properties of single molecules has been developed to eliminate the possibility of metal nanofilament formation and to ensure that molecular effects are measured. This metal-free system uses single-crystal silicon and single-walled carbon nanotubes as electrodes for the molecular monolayer. A direct Si-arylcarbon grafting method is used. Use of this structure with π-conjugated organic molecules results in a hysteresis loop with current-voltage measurements that are useful for an electronic memory device. The memory is non-volatile for more than 3 days, non-destructive for more than 1,000 reading operations and capable of more than 1,000 write-erase cycles before device breakdown. Devices without π-conjugated molecules (Si—H surface only) or with long-chain alkyl-bearing molecules produced no hysteresis, indicating that the observed memory effect is molecularly relevant. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337456 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704340 | Nauflett 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) | George W. Nauflett (Ft. Washington, Maryland); Robert E. Farncomb (Accokeek, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making pelletized nitrocellulose (PNC) includes preparing a lacquer, the lacquer comprising nitrocellulose (NC), ethyl acetate and ethyl centralite, the NC having a nitrogen content of at least about 12.2%; mixing the lacquer with an antisolvent to thereby emulsify the lacquer and form PNC; drowning the PNC with the antisolvent; and separating the antisolvent and ethyl acetate from the PNC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263289 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704415 | Su et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Fang Su (Taipei, Taiwan); Chi-An Dai (Taipei, Taiwan); Chun-Chih Ho (Taichung, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a composite material with electron-donating and electron-accepting property is disclosed, wherein the composite material comprises a plurality of nanoparticles with electron-accepting property, a plurality of diblock copolymers, and a bi-continuous structure. Each diblock copolymer comprises a first polymer chain with electron-donating property and a second polymer chain connected with the mentioned nanoparticles. Additionally, the bi-continuous structure containing a first domain and a second domain, wherein the bi-continuous structure is self-assembled from the diblock copolymers, wherein the first polymer chain is in the first domain, and the second polymer chain and the plurality of nanoparticles are in the second domain. Furthermore, this invention also discloses methods for forming the composite material and their applications. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/298464 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704507 | Finn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivera J. Finn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Henry Kao (St. Louis, Missouri); Donald F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jarrod A. Marto (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for vaccinating a patient against a malignancy comprising introducing a protein or peptide comprising of all or an immunogenic fragment of a cyclin protein into the patient. The invention further provides a method of identifying tumor antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366196 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704579 | Brewer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Brewer (Mogadore, Ohio); Dhiraj H. Darjee (Copley, Ohio); David R. Dingler (Massillon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A seaming system for forming a seam is disclosed, wherein the seam consists of at least two opposed sections of high-modulus, high-tenacity, low-elongation fabric sections joined by a tape. The system comprises a seamer head, and a seamer base that includes a topography configured to impart a predetermined pressure gradient to the adhesive layer, tape, and fabric sections of the seam. The resultant seam has a cross-section or thickness profile that generally corresponds to that of the applied pressure gradient. As such, the constructed seam more efficiently distributes stress imparted from any applied load. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/391747 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704594 | Mulligan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony C. Mulligan (Tucson, Arizona); John Halloran (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dragan Popovich (Mercer Island, Washington); Mark J. Rigali (Carlsbad, New Mexico); Manish P. Sutaria (Malden, Massachusetts); K. Ranji Vaidyanathan (Tucson, Arizona); Michael L. Fulcher (Tucson, Arizona); Kenneth L. Knittel (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Fibrous monolith processing techniques to fabricate multifunctional structures capable of performing more than one discrete function such as structures capable of bearing structural loads and mechanical stresses in service and also capable of performing at least one additional non-structural function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915923 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/292.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704615 | Teeters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Teeters (Sand Springs, Oklahoma); Anthony Layson (Newark, Ohio); Christina Dewan (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A sequence or array of electrochemical cells storing both digital and analog data. Both binary code and codes having a higher base may be stored in the memory device to increase information density. Such battery arrays could also provide power for the micro or nanodevice. Devices are microscale and nanoscale in size and utilize electrically conductive atomic force microscopy tips to record and read data stored in the device. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913918 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704644 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware); Army Research Laboratory (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garrett Schneider (New Castle, Delaware); Eric D. Wetzel (Baltimore, Maryland); Dennis W. Prather (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating three-dimensional photonic crystal structures includes providing a layer of photosensitive material; introducing a laser beams into the material; reintroducing the laser beams into the photosensitive material during a second exposure; combining results from at least the first and second exposures to produce a three-dimensionally periodic pattern in the photosensitive material. A related system includes a laser source; a grating array having a plurality of diffraction gratings located thereon; a mask plate located on a photoresist layer and arranged in registration with the grating array; a rotating shutter arranged between the grating array and the laser source, said rotating shutter being suitable for periodically blocking light from the laser source; wherein each of the diffraction gratings is positioned and oriented so as to converge all first-order diffracted spots to a common point lying in a plane of a back side of the mask plate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307148 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704653 | Lordi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincenzo Lordi (Livermore, California); Shem-Tov Levi (Cupertino, California); Harald F. Hess (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and tool for conducting charged-particle beam direct write lithography is disclosed. A disclosed method involves condensing an initial design file down to a set of profiles and a pattern of relative locations to form a formatted pattern file. The formatted pattern file is adjusted to accommodate desired pattern corrections. Portions of the formatted pattern records are extracted to form data strips that have a plurality of channels with a pattern of profiles and spatial indicators. Data strips are sequentially read to construct a printable pattern of profiles and spatial indicators that specify the locations of the profiles. Additionally, the pattern of profiles are sequentially printed from each data strip onto a substrate to form the desired pattern on the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624652 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704724 | Fry 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) | Ilona J. Fry (Edgewood, Maryland); Joseph J. DeFrank (Bel Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for catalytic buffering of enzymatic decontamination reactions are provided. Enzymatic decontamination of organophosphorus or organohalogen compounds generates acidic reaction products that precipitously reduce the pH of the medium, thus impairing activity of the decontaminating enzymes. Catalytic buffering, that is, the use of an enzyme to produce ions from a substrate to modulate pH, can provide effective pH control. The compositions provided here include urease enzymes with mutations in the alpha subunit of the urease holoenzyme. These mutant ureases maintain urease activity in the presence of fluoride ions, which are organophosphorus and organohalogen hydrolysis products that otherwise inhibit urease activity. The fluoride-resistant ureases act as effective catalytic buffers during organofluorophosphorus hydrolysis reactions. Methods for using the fluoride-resistant ureases in enzymatic decontamination are also provided. Catalytic buffering afforded by fluoride-resistant ureases facilitates the application of safe and effective enzymatic methods for decontamination of personnel, equipment and the environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345679 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704731 | Bjorndal 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) | Bryan Bjorndal (Carlsbad, California); David Lapota (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A toxicity test system comprising an aqueous suspension of dinoflagellates; a test chamber capable of containing the aqueous suspension and a test sample; an optical signal generator capable of emitting an excitation signal, which is capable of exciting the dinoflagellates to emit a fluorescence signal if the dinoflagellates are alive; a first optical transducer capable of producing a first data signal in response to detecting to the fluorescence signal; a stimulator capable of generating a pressure pulse, which is capable of stimulating the dinoflagellates to emit a bioluminescence signal if the dinoflagellates are alive; a second optical transducer capable producing a second data signal in response to detecting the bioluminescence signal; and an analyzer disposed to compare the first data signal and the second data signal to a control data to generate an output representative of the toxicity of the test sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586745 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704745 | Baudenbacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Franz Baudenbacher (Franklin, Tennessee); John P. Wikswo (Brentwood, Tennessee); R. Robert Balcarcel (Nashville, Tennessee); David Cliffel (Nashville, Tennessee); Sven Eklund (Antioch, Tennessee); Jonathan Mark Gilligan (Nashville, Tennessee); Owen McGuinness (Brentwood, Tennessee); Todd Monroe (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Ales Prokop (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark Andrew Stremler (Franklin, Tennessee); Andreas Augustinus Werdich (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for monitoring the status of a cell that consumes oxygen. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes the steps of confining the cell in a sensing volume, measuring dynamically intracellular or extracellular signaling of the cell, and determining the status of the cell from the measured intracellular or extracellular signaling of the cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/213049 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704815 | Chu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack O. Chu (Manhasset Hills, New York); Michael A. Cobb (Croton on Hudson, New York); Philip A. Saunders (Millwood, New York); Leathen Shi (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for achieving a substantially defect free SGOI substrate which includes a SiGe layer that has a high Ge content of greater than about 25 atomic % using a low temperature wafer bonding technique is described. The wafer bonding process described in the present application includes an initial prebonding annealing step that is capable of forming a bonding interface comprising elements of Si, Ge and O, i.e., interfacial SiGeO layer, between a SiGe layer and a low temperature oxide layer. The present invention also provides the SGOI substrate and structure that contains the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/140600 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704862 | Im et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University (City of New York, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York); Robert S. Sposili (New York, New York); Mark A. Crowder (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for reducing a surface roughness of a polycrystalline or single crystal thin film produced by the sequential lateral solidification process are disclosed. In one arrangement, the system includes an excimer laser for generating a plurality of excimer laser pulses of a predetermined fluence, an energy density modulator for controllably modulating the fluence of the excimer laser pulses such that the fluence is below that which is required to completely melt the thin film, a beam homoginizer for homoginizing modulated laser pulses in a predetermined plane, a sample stage for receiving homoginized laser pulses to effect melting of portions of the polycrystalline or single crystal thin film corresponding to the laser pulses, translating means for controllably translating a relative position of the sample stage with respect to the laser pulses, and a computer for coordinating the excimer pulse generation and fluence modulation with the relative positions of the sample stage to thereby process the polycrystalline or single crystal thin film by sequential translation of the sample stage relative to the laser pulses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671917 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704869 | La Tulipe, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. La Tulipe, Jr. (Guilderland, New York); Mark Todhunter Robson (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a high aspect ratio via opening through multiple dielectric layers, a high aspect ratio electrically conductive via, methods of forming three-dimension integrated circuits, and three-dimensional integrated circuits. The methods include forming a stack of at least four dielectric layers and etching the first and third dielectric layers with processes selective to the second and fourth dielectric layers, etching the second and third dielectric layers with processes selective to the first and second dielectric layers. Advantageously the process used to etch the third dielectric layer is not substantially selective to the first dielectric layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/853139 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705049 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Brooks (Carmel, New York); Leonard Liebes (New Rochelle, New York); Elissa Kramer (New York, New York); Bruce Ng (New York, New York); Danielle Morais (Putnam Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for treating non-melanotic cancers by administration of PABA. The present invention also relates to the potentiation of standard cancer treatment of radiation, radioimmunotherapy, and/or chemotherapy using PABA. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/044638 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/557 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705062 | Markowitz 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) | Michael Markowitz (Springfield, Virginia); Mazyar Zeinali (Columbia, Maryland); Scott Trammell (Springfield, Virginia); Paul Charles (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A molecularly imprinted material made from polymerizing a monomer having the structural formula (OR)3Si—B-A-B—Si(OR)3. A is a divalent organic group, B is a saturated or unsaturated divalent hydrocarbon group or a covalent bond, and R is an independently selected saturated or unsaturated monovalent hydrocarbon group. A preconcentrator having: a container comprising in inlet and an outlet and the above material within the container. The inlet is capable of allowing a fluid to enter the container. The outlet is capable of being coupled to a sensor and of allowing the fluid to exit the container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/307286 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705100 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Manoj K. Kolel-Veetil (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber of linear polymer coated with a siloxane-carborane polymer or a thermoset or ceramic made therefrom. An organic fiber coated with a siloxane-carborane polymer or a thermoset or ceramic made therefrom and a surfactant. An organic fiber coated with a siloxane-carborane polymer made from a hydrosilation reaction of a siloxane-carborane compound containing at least two unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds and a silane compound or a thermoset or ceramic made therefrom. A method of coating a fiber by contacting a fiber to an aqueous solution of a siloxane-carborane polymer and a surfactant or to a solution of a siloxane-carborane polymer in a non-halogenated organic solvent. A method of contacting a fiber to a solution of a siloxane-carborane polymer, drying the coating to a temperature that does not change the polymer to a thermoset or ceramic, and using the dried, coated fiber in a process that requires that the fiber be flexible. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/468367 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705119 | Oeltgen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter R. Oeltgen (Frankfort, Kentucky); Meera Govindaswami (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides, compositions, and methods for treating shock are described. A isolated polypeptide, Deltorphin-E, can be administered without concomitant fluid resuscitation, before, concurrently with, or after the onset of shock or the occurrence of an event that creates a risk of shock. Deltorphin-E can be administered in accordance with the method as part of a preconditioning strategy, which reduces the extent of ischemic injury. Deltorphin-E can be used in preparation for planned ischemia or in a prophylactic manner in anticipation of further ischemic events. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/759013 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705319 | Bale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc. (Endicott, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek S. Bale (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Stephen A. Soldner (Butler, Pennsylvania); Csaba Szeles (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A CdZnTe photon counting detector includes a core material of Cd1-xZnxTe, where (0≦x<1), an anode terminal on one side of the core material and a cathode terminal on a side of the core material opposite the anode terminal. At least one of the following is selected in the design of the detector as a function of the maximum sustainable photon flux the core material is able to absorb in operation while avoiding polarization of the core material: electron lifetime-mobility product of the core material; de-trapping time of the core material; a value of a DC bias voltage applied between the anode and the cathode; a temperature of the core material in operation; a mean photon flux density to be absorbed by the core material in operation; and a thickness of the core material between the anode and the cathode. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/204929 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705339 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. Smith (St. Petersburg, Florida); David Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida); George Steimle (St. Petersburg, Florida); Stanislav Ivanov (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides core technologies necessary for a portable, low cost LED-based handheld fluorometer. The fluorometer is based on a heater integrated within the walls of the reaction chamber, and an orthogonal geometry LED based light source to provide optical excitation. Power is supplied through either an internal power supply, and data is collected in real-time through standard serial interfaces of personal computers, which can also be used to provide power, or personal digital assistants. Thermal regulation is automatically maintained using temperature sensor feedback control. Such a handheld system can allow applications requiring temperature sensitive photometric measurements for real time analyte detection to be performed in the field. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/739993 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/576 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705739 | Northrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microfluidic Systems, Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Northrup (Orinda, California); Farzad Pourahmadi (Fremont, California); Bob Yuan (Belmont, California); Amy J. Devitt (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A collection and detection system is directed to a combined system in which a detect to warn system is integrated with a detect to treat system. Such a combined system provides multi-levels of detection to determine the presence and identity of one or more different types of specific particles. In some applications, the combined system is configured to detect and identify one or more different types of specific biological particles such as toxins and pathogens. The combined system includes a first level detection device, in which the presence of one or more toxins and/or pathogens are detected, and a second level detection device. Upon detection by the first level detection device, the second level detection device performs a second level of detection in which the one or more toxins and/or pathogens are identified. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510073 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/603 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705780 | Khoury |
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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) | Edward N. Khoury (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ES tracker for tracking an emitter target, including ships and airborne targets, includes a sensor for receiving a signal emitted by the target; a sensor processor for processing the signal and outputting a measurement; and an information processor for processing the measurement. The information processor includes an IMM bearing filter having a mixing section for receiving the measurement and producing a mixed output signal; a first order Kalman filter for receiving the mixed output signal for stationary target tracking; a second order Kalman filter for receiving the mixed output signal and tracking bearing and bearing rate; and a third order Kalman filter for receiving the mixed output signal and tracking bearing, bearing rate, and bearing acceleration. The tracker may also include a second-order elevation filter for modeling and tracking elevation and elevation rate, and a first-order ESM parameters filter for adaptively estimating plant noise, modeling and tracking frequency, pulsewidth, and PRI of the emitter target. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/960926 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705781 | Straatveit 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) | Sverre Nils Straatveit (White Plains, Maryland); Peter William Schuck (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for constructing a histogram to represent the root-mean-squared phase differences for a signal received at pairs of elements in an array. A pair-wise element phase difference (“PEP”) between a signal received at an angle of arrival θ1 and a signal received at an angle of arrival θ2 are determined. The difference ΔΨ between the differential phase measurements at θ1 and θ2 is computed. The process is repeated for all unique pairs of angles (θ1, θ2) from 0 to 359 degrees and the results are summed over all PEPs to calculate the root mean squared phase difference √{square root over ( |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/189286 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706062 | Ramboyong 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) | Lenard V. Ramboyong (South Riding, Virginia); Yau L. Fung (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A night vision device includes an objective lens assembly, an image detector assembly, an eyepiece lens assembly and a housing. The objective lens assembly receives low intensity light. The image detector assembly converts the low intensity light into a visible output image. The eyepiece lens assembly provides for viewing the output image from the image detector assembly. The housing receives the objective lens assembly, the image detector assembly, and the eyepiece lens assembly. Additionally, the housing aligns the objective lens assembly with the image detector assembly and the eyepiece lens assembly along an optical axis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532476 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706213 | Winfree et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Ann Winfree (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joseph Hyunchul Kang (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An arrangement of material layers designed and utilized as a filter to mechanical waves entering a sensor. To isolate the sensor, the filter can be designed to attenuate specified frequencies that could propagate from the environment and into the sensor. Provided there is a difference in the mechanical impedance between the environment and the sensor case, then a filter can be designed to amplify a specified range of frequencies, enhancing the coupling of the sensor to its environment. The filters work by altering the transmission and reflection of incident waves. Dissipative mechanisms are not required. Test data is included that demonstrates the effectiveness of layered isolation mounts developed to block inputs that would excite the resonance frequency an accelerometer's seismic mass. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977032 |
| 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 367/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706296 | Talpade et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh R. Talpade (Madison, New Jersey); Anjum Farooq (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In packet-drop attacks in ad hoc networks, a malicious network node chooses to selectively drop packets that are supposed to be forwarded, which results in adverse impact on application good-put and network stability. A method and system for detection of packet-drop attacks in ad hoc networks requires network nodes to report statistics on IP flow packets originated, received, or forwarded to neighbors. These statistics are analyzed and correlated to determine nodes suspected of dropping packets. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299570 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706340 | Bronez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Bronez (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for reliable neighbor discovery in wireless ad hoc networks are provided herein. In one aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for analyzing the quality of a communication link. In embodiments, several factors affecting link quality may be incorporated in the analysis, and basic and/or complex statistical and/or probabilistic analysis may be used. In another aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for neighbor node discovery that adapt to network and/or node operating conditions and that dynamically maintain a neighbor node set at a given node according to these conditions. In a further aspect, embodiments of the present invention extend the utility of neighbor node discovery beyond the customary role of data routing support into the problem of deploying an ad hoc network by providing a display module for displaying node connectivity information. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402826 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706454 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication system is described that generates FDFR transmissions with any number of transmit and receive antennas through flat-fading channels and frequency- or time-selective channels. In particular, the system utilizes layer-specific linear complex-field (LCF) coding with a circular form of layered space-time (ST) multiplexing to achieve FDFR wireless communications with any number of transmit and receive antennas through flat-fading and frequency- or time-selective channels. Additionally, the described techniques provide flexibility for desirable tradeoffs among performance, rate, and complexity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/955336 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706464 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514510 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706535 | Pearson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Spencer Pearson (Bennington, Vermont); Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantum cryptographic key distribution (QKD) relay (205) includes one or more interfaces (530-1 through 530-N) and processing logic (505). The one or more interfaces (530-1 through 530-N) receive secret keys from other QKD relays in a QKD network. The processing logic (505) determines one or more paths for transporting the secret keys, using quantum cryptographic techniques, across a QKD network and route the secret keys towards a respective destination across the QKD network using the determined one or more paths. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799177 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706571 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhodev Das (Princeton, New Jersey); Manoj Aggarwal (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (West Windsor, New Jersey); Supun Samarasekera (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for tracking an object recorded within a selected frame of a sequence of frames of video data, using a plurality of layers, where at least one object layer of the plurality of layers represents the object includes initializing layer ownership probabilities for pixels of the selected frame using a non-parametric motion model, estimating a set of motion parameters of the plurality of layers for the selected frame using a parametric maximization algorithm and tracking the object. The non-parametric motion model is optical flow and includes warping the mixing probabilities, the appearances of the plurality of layers, and the observed pixel data from the pixels of the preceding frame to the pixels of the selected frame to initialize the layer ownership probabilities for the pixels of the selected frame. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250181 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706600 | Kreeger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Kreeger (Sunnyvale, California); Sarang Lakare (Selden, New York); Zhenrong Liang (Stony Brook, New York); Mark R. Wax (Greenlawn, New York); Ingmar Bitter (Rockville, Maryland); Frank Dachille (Amityville, New York); Dongqing Chen (Port Jefferson Station, New York); Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Virtual navigation (2255) and examination of virtual objects are enhanced using methods of insuring that an entire surface to be examined has been properly viewed. A user interface (FIG. 23) identifies regions which have not been subject to examination and provides a mechanism (2250) to route the user to these regions in the 3D display. Virtual examination is further improved by the use of measuring disks (905) to enhance quantitative measurements such as diameter, distance, volume and angle. Yet another enhancement to the virtual examination of objects is a method of electronic segmentation, or cleaning, which corrects for partial volume effects occurring in an object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/380210 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707004 | Edelstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan S. Edelstein (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferromagnetic object is located by moving magnetic sensors along a path in an area of detection; using the sensors to measure a total magnetic field in the area of detection; using the sensors to measure all three vector components of magnetic field as the sensors travel along the path and passes the object; computing theoretical vector components of the total magnetic field in the area of detection; matching the measured vector components with the computed theoretical vector components of the total magnetic field; calculating an error measurement between matched measured vector components and computed theoretical vector components of the magnetic field; determining optimized values of parameters that minimize an error between the measured vector components and computed theoretical vector components of the magnetic field; and determining a position of the object based on the measured components of the magnetic field as a function of the optimized values. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852484 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707042 | Konoske 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) | Paula Konoske (San Diego, California); Michael Galarneau (San Diego, California); Gerald Pang (San Diego, California); Tim Daly (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for estimating needed medical supplies based on a selected predefined operational scenario. A predefined operational scenario may be modified, a new operational scenario may be built, or a predefined operational scenario may be imported from an external source. A computer-readable program, system and method is provided for enabling a user to produce a query concerning relationships between patient conditions, tasks and medical supplies needed in specific locations. The production of a report or query is performed by referencing a database containing data pertaining to patient conditions, functional locations at which patients are to be treated (triage, operating room, etc.), equipment available in defined functional areas, tasks associated with treatment of defined patient conditions, medical supplies needed to carry out each defined task, and relationships therebetween, and determining needed medical supplies based on use data input and data contained in the database. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209954 |
| ART UNIT | 3686 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Manno (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Invention provides a method for an e-mail based interface to function as a single common access point for requesting, receiving, publishing, accessing and sharing various data from multiple, remote information systems. The invention becomes akin to a human relay operator in the loop which is transparent to the user. By relaying the e-mail chain, the invention performs multiple functions based on the originating request, and reply as a human would. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879522 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/781 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707344 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fu-Chung Chang (Rhinebech, New York); Carol L. Soto (Highland, New York); Jian Xiao (LaGrangeville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium, mitigate processor assignments. A first processor in a plurality of processors is assigned to a first communication port in a plurality of communication ports. An interrupt associated with the first communication port is generated. An assignment of a processor other than the first processor to handle the interrupt is inhibited. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/021949 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/268 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707384 | Dally et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology University (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California); Scott W. Rixner (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory processing approach involves implementation of memory status-driven access. According to an example embodiment, addresses received at an address buffer are processed for access to a memory relative to an active location in the memory. Addresses corresponding to an active location in the memory array are processed prior to addresses that do not correspond to an active location. Data is read from the memory to a read buffer and ordered in a manner commensurate with the order of received addresses at the address buffer (e.g., thus facilitating access to the memory in an order different from that received at the address buffer while maintaining the order from the read buffer). |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745067 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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07704272 — Method for introducing an ultraviolet light activated viral vector into the spinal column
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul T. Rubery (Honeoye Falls, New York); Edward M. Schwarz (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, methods and structures are provided for the treatment of functional spinal unit injuries through the use of light activated gene therapy to induce bone fusion through the introduction of a desired gene into a patient's spinal tissue. Methods and structures are also provided for the utilization of ultraviolet light activated gene therapy to repair/rebuild an injured intervertebral disc through the introduction of a desired gene into a patient's spinal tissue. An implant system including a light probe and an implant with which r-AAV is integrated is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/357273 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704322 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A static fluid and a second fluid are placed into contact along a microfluidic free interface and allowed to mix by diffusion without convective flow across the interface. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the fluids are static and initially positioned on either side of a closed valve structure in a microfluidic channel having a width that is tightly constrained in at least one dimension. The valve is then opened, and no-slip layers at the sides of the microfluidic channel suppress convective mixing between the two fluids along the resulting interface. Applications for microfluidic free interfaces in accordance with embodiments of the present invention include, but are not limited to, protein crystallization studies, protein solubility studies, determination of properties of fluidics systems, and a variety of biological assays such as diffusive immunoassays, substrate turnover assays, and competitive binding assays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/001768 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704491 | Collins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter L. Collins (Kensington, Maryland); Stephane Biacchesi (Bethesda, Maryland); Ursula Buchholz (Bethesda, Maryland); Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant HMPV (rHMPV) and related immunogenic compositions and methods are provided. The rHMPVs, including chimeric and chimeric HMPV vectors viruses, provided according to the current disclosure are infectious and attenuated in permissive mammalian subjects, including humans. The rHMPVs are useful in immunogenic compositions for eliciting an immune response against HPIV, against one or more non-HMPV pathogens, or against a HMPV and a non-HMPV pathogen. Also provided are isolated polynucleotide molecules and vectors incorporating a recombinant HMPV genome or antigenome. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789400 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704497 | Dall'Acqua et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MedImmune, LLC (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Dall'Acqua (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Leslie S. Johnson (Darnstown, Maryland); Elizabeth Sally Ward (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides molecules, including IgGs, non-IgG immunoglobulins, proteins and non-protein agents, that have increased in vivo half-lives due to the presence of an IgG constant domain, or a portion thereof that binds the FcRn, having one or more amino acid modifications that increase the affinity of the constant domain or fragment for FcRn. Such proteins and molecules with increased half-lives have the advantage that smaller amounts and or less frequent dosing is required in the therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic use of such molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/649455 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07704502 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Kimihisa Ichikawa (Kanagawa-ken, Japan); Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama); William J. Koopman (Indian Springs, Alabama); Jun Ohsumi (Kanagawa-ken, Japan); Albert F. LoBuglio (Birmingham, Alabama); Donald J. Buchsbaum (Alabaster, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An antibody of the invention interacts with human DR5 or with human DR4 to produce agonistic or antagonistic effects downstream of the receptor including inhibition of cell proliferation and apoptosis. Methods and uses for the antibodies, optionally in combination with various therapeutic agents, are detailed, including treatment of apoptosis-related disease and treatment of dysregulated cell growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/752153 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704507 | Finn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olivera J. Finn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Henry Kao (St. Louis, Missouri); Donald F. Hunt (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jarrod A. Marto (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for vaccinating a patient against a malignancy comprising introducing a protein or peptide comprising of all or an immunogenic fragment of a cyclin protein into the patient. The invention further provides a method of identifying tumor antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366196 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704510 | Shenk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Shenk (Princeton, New Jersey); Dai Wang (Blue Bell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic compositions and prophylactic or therapeutic vaccines for use in protecting and treating against human cytomegalovirus (CMV) are disclosed. Subunit vaccines comprising a human CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130, and nucleic acid vaccines comprising at least one nucleic acid encoding a CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130 are described. Also disclosed are therapeutic antibodies reactive against a CMV protein complex comprising pUL128 or pUL130, as well as methods for screening compounds that inhibit CMV infection of epithelial and endothelial cells, methods for immunizing a subject against CMV infection, methods for determining the capability of neutralizing antibodies to inhibit human CMV infection of cell types other than fibroblasts, and methods of diminishing an CMV infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810578 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/230.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704687 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tian-Li Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Victor Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland); Kenneth Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Alterations in the genetic content of a cell underlie many human diseases, including cancers. A method called Digital Karyotyping provides quantitative analysis of DNA copy number at high resolution. This approach involves the isolation and enumeration of short sequence tags from specific genomic loci. Analysis of human cancer cells using this method identified gross chromosomal changes as well as amplifications and deletions, including regions not previously known to be altered. Foreign DNA sequences not present in the normal human genome could also be readily identified. Digital Karyotyping provides a broadly applicable means for systematic detection of DNA copy number changes on a genomic scale. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/705874 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704701 | Allison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Allison (Berkeley, California); Marcella Fasso (Oakland, California); Nilabh Shastri (Richmond, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for inducing protective immunity against cancer are disclosed. The compounds provided include polypeptides that contain at least one immunogenic portion of one or more SPAS-1 proteins and DNA molecules encoding such polypeptides. Such compounds may be formulated into vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions for immunization against cancer, or can be used for the diagnosis of cancer and the monitoring of cancer progression. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/699879 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704703 | Kriwacki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc. (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Kriwacki (Memphis, Tennessee); Brian Bothner (Bozeman, Montana); William Lewis (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses that the binding of Arf with Dm2, important components of the p53 tumor suppressor pathway, results in specific domains of both proteins undergoing a dramatic transition from dynamically disordered conformations to amyloid-like structures comprised of anti-parallel β-strands. The invention exploits this discovery by providing unique methods for identifying and/or designing compounds that mimic, inhibit and/or enhance the effect of Arf on Dm2. The present invention also provides specific peptides derived from the binding domains of Arf and Dm2 which co-assemble into supramolecular structures comprised of binary anti-parallel β-strands. The disclosed peptides may represent structural prototypes for a broader class of peptides that is capable of assembly into supramolecular structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 19, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/489802 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704718 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney A. Welch (Madison, Wisconsin); Wyndham W. Lathem (St. Louis, Missouri); Thomas E. Grys (Rochester, Minnesota); Laura Walters (Monona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a pO157 plasmid-specified polypeptide found in E. coli EDL933 and other E. coli that binds to and cleaves C1-esterase inhibitor, and antibodies specific for the polypeptide. Also disclosed are methods employing the polypeptide for diagnosing enterohemorrhagic E. coli infection, identifying potential inhibitors of its activity, and reducing viscosity of material containing glycosylated polypeptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847489 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704736 | Scholer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans R. Scholer (Muenster, Germany); Karin M. Huebner (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for the reproducible derivation of germ cells and oocytes and spermatogonia therefrom. Also provide are methods of use of the same in reproductive and therapeutic cloning protocols. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/494795 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704954 | Szeto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York); Kesheng Zhao (Jackson Heights, New York); Hugh D. Robertson (New York, New York); Alex V. Birk (Woodhaven, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to carrier complexes and methods for delivering molecules to cells. The carrier complexes comprises a molecule and an aromatic cationic peptide in accordance with the invention. In one embodiment, the method for delivering a molecule to a cell comprises contacting the cell with a carrier complex. In another embodiment, the method for delivering a molecule to a cell comprises contacting the cell with a molecule and an aromatic cationic peptide. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/838135 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704963 | Kerr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Kerr (Tampa, Florida); Jia-Wang Wang (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel LPS-responsive and Beige-like Anchor gene (lrba), variants of the lrba gene, fragments of the lrba gene, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The subject invention also pertains to lrba interfering RNA, and uses thereof. In another aspect, the present invention also includes methods of inhibiting tumor growth in a patient by suppressing lrba function. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/473741 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704967 | Gnatt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Averall Gnatt (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns cancer therapy related to the targeting of at least one core transcription factor. In particular, the compositions and methods of the invention concern targeting TFIIS, GDOWN1, or both for cancer therapy. In specific aspects, TFIIS and/or GDOWN1 inhibitors are employed for breast, prostate, pancreatic, and/or lung cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/683172 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704968 | Nerenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael I. Nerenberg (San Diego, California); Isao Kitajima (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antisense oligonucleotides which hybridize with nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) mRNA and methods of using these oligonucleotides. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888342 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704970 | Steinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Steinman (Palo Alto, California); Pedro Ruiz (Menlo Park, California); Hideki Garren (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pro-inflammatory T cell response is specifically suppressed by the injection into a recipient of DNA encoding an autoantigen associated with autoimmune disease. The recipient may be further treating by co-vaccination with a DNA encoding a Th2 cytokine, particularly encoding IL4. In response to the vaccination, the proliferation of autoantigen-reactive T cells and the secretion of Th1 cytokines, including IL-2, IFN-γ and IL-15, are reduced. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923139 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704990 | Landry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Shixian Deng (White Plains, New York); Zhen Zhuang Cheng (Elmhurst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula I and salts, hydrates, solvates, complexes, and prodrugs thereof. The present invention further provides methods for synthesizing compounds of Formula I. The invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions of Formula I to treat and prevent disorders and diseases associated with the RyR receptors that regulate calcium channel functioning in cells. Such disorders and diseases include, by way of example only, cardiac disorders and diseases, skeletal muscular disorders and diseases, cognitive disorders and diseases, malignant hyperthermia, diabetes, and sudden infant death syndrome. Cardiac disorder and diseases include, but are not limited to, irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases; exercise-induced irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases; sudden cardiac death; exercise-induced sudden cardiac death; congestive heart failure; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and high blood pressure. Irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases include and exercise-induced irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases include, but are not limited to, atrial and ventricular arrhythmia; atrial and ventricular fibrillation; atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmia; atrial and ventricular tachycardia; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT); and exercise-induced variants thereof. Skeletal muscular disorder and diseases include, but are not limited to, skeletal muscle fatigue, exercise-induced skeletal muscle fatigue, muscular dystrophy, bladder disorders, and incontinence. Cognitive disorders and diseases include, but are not limited to, Alzheimer's Disease, forms of memory loss, and age-dependent memory loss. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/212413 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/211.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705016 | Rossetti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luciano Rossetti (Bedford Hills, New York); Silvana Obici (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of reducing food intake and glucose production in a mammal, or restoring hepatic autoregulation are provided. The methods involve increasing long-chain fatty acyl-Co-A (LC-CoA) levels in the hypothalamus, or stimulating efferent fibers in the hepatic branch of the vagus nerve. Also provided are methods of increasing food intake and glucose production in a mammal. The methods involve decreasing long-chain fatty acyl-Co-A (LC-CoA) levels in the hypothalamus of the mammal. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/545056 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705022 | Prendergast et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Prendergast (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); William P. Malachowski (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Alexander J. Muller (Media, Pennsylvania); James B. DuHadaway (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors, compositions comprising the same, and methods of use thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/589024 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705049 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Brooks (Carmel, New York); Leonard Liebes (New Rochelle, New York); Elissa Kramer (New York, New York); Bruce Ng (New York, New York); Danielle Morais (Putnam Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for treating non-melanotic cancers by administration of PABA. The present invention also relates to the potentiation of standard cancer treatment of radiation, radioimmunotherapy, and/or chemotherapy using PABA. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/044638 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/557 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705054 | Roberts, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. Jackson Roberts, II (Gallatin, Tennessee); Jeffrey R. Balser (Brentwood, Tennessee); Sean S. Davies (Nashville, Tennessee); Prakash C. Viswanathan (Nashville, Tennessee); Venkataraman Amarnath (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating and/or preventing oxidative damage, comprising administering an effective IsoK/NeuroK adduct formation suppressing amount of a phenolic amine compound and/or pyridoxamine or pyridoxamine analog, including embodiments where the phenolic compound is at least one of a pyridoxamine, salicylamine, tyrosine compound or an analog thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254846 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/649 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705118 | Arora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paramjit Arora (New York, New York); Ross Chapman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for preparing a peptide having a stable, internally constrained alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region and a method of stabilizing an alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region within a peptide structure. The resulting peptides and methods of using them are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678836 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705131 | Tabibzadeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siamak Tabibzadeh (Albertson, New York); Ravi Kothapalli (Wesley Chapel, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the early diagnosing of selected adenocarcinomas in a human comprising the steps of removing a bodily sample from the human, and assaying the bodily sample for elevated expression of a specific gene. The gene being assayed for in the bodily sample is the TGFB-4 gene (hereinafter referred to as the endometrial bleeding associated factor (ebaf) gene. The bodily sample can be tissue from a specific organ in the body, or a blood sample. Increased levels of ebaf in the sample relative to basal levels may be indicative of a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon or ovaries, or an adenocarcinoma of the testis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/654074 |
| 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 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705182 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Mitchell S. Steiner (Germantown, Tennessee); Karen A. Veverka (Cordova, Tennessee); Dong Jin Hwang (Memphis, Tennessee); Jiyun Chen (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA). The agents define a new subclass of compounds, which are selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM). Several of the SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected androgenic and anabolic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. Other SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected antiandrogenic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. The SARM compounds, either alone or as a composition, are useful for a) male contraception; b) treatment of a variety of hormone-related conditions, for example conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Aging Male (ADAM), such as fatigue, depression, decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, osteoporosis, hair loss, anemia, obesity, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, alterations in mood and cognition and prostate cancer; c) treatment of conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Female (ADIF), such as sexual dysfunction, decreased sexual libido, hypogonadism, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, alterations in cognition and mood, depression, anemia, hair loss, obesity, endometriosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer; d) treatment and/or prevention of acute and/or chronic muscular wasting conditions; e) preventing and/or treating dry eye conditions; f) oral androgen replacement therapy; and/or g) decreasing the incidence of, halting or causing a regression of prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, February 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/371155 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705188 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of the Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Matthew P. Grealish (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel compounds having antineoplastic and antimicrobial activity, obtained via structural modifications of resveratrol and combretastatin A-4, methods for synthesis of these compounds, and their use in pharmaceutical composition and for use in the treatment of mammals having cancer. Examples of the novel compounds are: (Z)- and (E)-3,4′,5-trimethoxystilbene (4a, 4b); (Z)- and (E)-3,5-dimethoxy-4′-hydroxystilbene (14c, 14d); (Z)- and (E)-3-hydroxy-4′,5-dimethoxystilbene (14g, 14h); (Z)- and (E)-3,5-dihydroxy-4′-methoxy-stilbene (14k, 14l); sodium resverastatin dibenzyl phosphate ((Z)-3,5-dimethoxy-4-[O-bis(benzyl)phosphoryl]-stilbene) (14m); and sodium resverastatin phosphate (14n). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/510675 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705198 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Lewis (Omaha, Nebraska); Diane Costanzo (Omaha, Nebraska); Aimee Schreiner (Papillion, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A transgenic non-human animal with a homologous disruption of the KSR-2 gene is disclosed. Methods for using transgenic mice so generated to screen for agents that effect cellular metabolism are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431285 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705199 | Beutler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Beutler (San Diego, California); Koichi Tabeta (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for treatment of autoimmune and other related diseases. 3d, a point mutation of the protein uncoordinated-93b (unc-93B), unc-93A, unc-93B, and unc-93C, polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them, for example, to produce transgenic non-human animals. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/817288 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705596 | Witschey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter R. T. Witschey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ari Borthakur (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Mark A. Elliot (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Ravinder Reddy (Gladwyne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of, and systems for, simultaneously compensating for external-magnetic-field inhomogeneity as well as radiofrequency magnetic-field inhomogeneity in an MRI system. In one method embodiment, a pulse sequence is applied when the transmitter-reference frequency is delivered on resonance. The pulse sequence includes radiofrequency pulses which may be applied at arbitrary-excitation-flip angles that are not necessarily 90° degrees. The pulse sequence also includes spin-locking pulses applied in concert with a refocusing-composite pulse. In another method embodiment, a pulse sequence is applied when the transmitter-reference frequency is delivered off resonance. This off-resonance-pulse sequence includes radiofrequency pulses which may be applied at arbitrary-excitation-flip angles that are not necessarily 90° degrees. Sandwiched between the excitation-flip angles are at least two off-resonance-spin-lock pulses applied at an inverse phase and frequency from each other. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154012 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07706039 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen W. Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Kenneth L. Gentry (Durham, North Carolina); Jason Zara (Vienna, Virginia); Stephen M. Bobbio (Wake Forest, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A disclosed scanner apparatus includes a member having spaced apart proximal and distal portions. An electromagnetic radiation device is configured to direct electromagnetic radiation therefrom and is movably coupled to the distal portion of the member. The electromagnetic radiation device is configured to move in a first plane of movement to a first position to direct the electromagnetic radiation along a first path and configured to move in the plane of movement to a second position to direct the electromagnetic radiation along a second path. A MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) actuator is coupled to the electromagnetic radiation device, wherein the MEMS actuator is configured to move in a first direction to move the electromagnetic radiation device to the first position and configured to move in a second direction to move the electromagnetic radiation device to the second position. Other scanning and robotic structure devices are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170828 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706600 | Kreeger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Kreeger (Sunnyvale, California); Sarang Lakare (Selden, New York); Zhenrong Liang (Stony Brook, New York); Mark R. Wax (Greenlawn, New York); Ingmar Bitter (Rockville, Maryland); Frank Dachille (Amityville, New York); Dongqing Chen (Port Jefferson Station, New York); Arie E. Kaufman (Plainview, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Virtual navigation (2255) and examination of virtual objects are enhanced using methods of insuring that an entire surface to be examined has been properly viewed. A user interface (FIG. 23) identifies regions which have not been subject to examination and provides a mechanism (2250) to route the user to these regions in the 3D display. Virtual examination is further improved by the use of measuring disks (905) to enhance quantitative measurements such as diameter, distance, volume and angle. Yet another enhancement to the virtual examination of objects is a method of electronic segmentation, or cleaning, which corrects for partial volume effects occurring in an object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/380210 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706857 | Aletras et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony H. Aletras (Rockville, Maryland); Han Wen (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus are provided for mapping the internal or bulk motion of an object by labeling the phase of a specimen magnetization with a selected spatial function and measuring changes in the phase of the magnetization. The spatial function is selectable to provide magnetization phase modulation corresponding to displacements in a selected direction, such as a radial or azimuthal direction. Methods and apparatus for producing images based on magnetization phase modulation acquire image data based on stimulated echos and stimulated anti-echos. In an embodiment, a series of 180 degree pulses produces alternating stimulated and stimulated anti-echos that are measured and assigned to respective images. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800398 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706893 | Hung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andy Hung (Irvine, California); Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Jack Judy (Los Angeles, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a micro-machined electrode for neural-electronic interfaces which can achieve a ten times lower impedance and higher charge injection limit for a given material and planar area. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488806 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania); John Albert Cooke (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Michael David Buzinski (Slatington, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas flow isolation device includes a gas flow isolation valve movable from an opened condition to a closed condition. The module isolation valve in one embodiment includes a rupture disk in flow communication with a flow of gas when the module isolation valve is in an opened condition. The rupture disk ruptures when a predetermined pressure differential occurs across it causing the isolation valve to close. In one embodiment the valve is mechanically linked to the rupture disk to maintain the valve in an opened condition when the rupture disk is intact, and which permits the valve to move into a closed condition when the rupture disk ruptures. In another embodiment a crushable member maintains the valve in an open condition, and the flow of gas passed the valve upon rupturing of the rupture disk compresses the crushable member to close the isolation valve. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296633 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07703513 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Ernest E. Carter (Sugar Land, Texas); Jaime Santos Son (Houston, Texas); Taixu Bai (Katy, Texas); Mohamad Fereydoon Khoda Verdian (The Woodlands, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming a barrier around at least a portion of a treatment area in a subsurface formation are described herein. A material including wax may be introduced into one or more wellbores. The material introduced into two or more wells may mix in the formation and congeal to form a barrier to fluid flow. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975714 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Liang (Palm City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine airfoil (10) includes a serpentine cooling path (32) with a plurality of channels (34,42,44) fluidly interconnected by a plurality of turns (38,40) for cooling the airfoil wall material. A splitter component (50) is positioned within at least one of the channels to bifurcate the channel into a pressure-side channel (46) passing in between the outer wall (28) and the inner wall (30) of the pressure side (24) and a suction-side channel (48) passing in between the outer wall (28) and the inner wall (30) of the suction side (26) longitudinally downstream of an intermediate height (52). The cross-sectional area of the pressure-side channel (46) and suction-side channel (48) are thereby controlled in spite of an increasing cross-sectional area of the airfoil along its longitudinal length, ensuring a sufficiently high mach number to provide a desired degree of cooling throughout the entire length of the airfoil. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639959 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704383 | Zulauf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Interational Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary B. Zulauf (Findlay, Ohio); Ronald P. Rohrbach (Flemington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile fuel filter for removing sulfur-containing compounds from a diesel fuel is provided. The mobile fuel filter comprises: a filter median comprising an absorbent for removing sulfur-containing compounds from the diesel fuel, the filter median being in fluid communication with a storage device, the storage device having a holding capacity greater than 1000 gallons and being configured for storing the diesel fuel, the absorbent being configured to remove sulfur containing compounds from the diesel fuel to produce filtered diesel fuel having less than 15 ppm of sulfur containing compounds, the absorbent comprises an inorganic oxide having a surface acidity characterized by a pKa of at least −3. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252911 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704468 | Klaehn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mason K. Harrup (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jack D. Law (Pocatello, Idaho); Dean R. Peterman (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An extraction agent for the separation of trivalent actinides from lanthanides in an acidic media and a method for forming same are described, and wherein the methodology produces a stable regiospecific and/or stereospecific dithiophosphinic acid that can operate in an acidic media having a pH of less than about 7. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/232541 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704489 | Shelnutt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Shelnutt (Tijeras, New Mexico); Craig J. Medforth (Winters, California); Yujiang Song (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanotagged chemical structure comprising a chemical structure with an associated photocatalyst and a tagging nanoparticle (a nanotag) grown in proximity to the photocatalyst, and a method for making the nanotagged chemical structure. The nanoparticle is grown in proximity to the photocatalyst by using a photocatalytic reduction reaction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/542506 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704594 | Mulligan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony C. Mulligan (Tucson, Arizona); John Halloran (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dragan Popovich (Mercer Island, Washington); Mark J. Rigali (Carlsbad, New Mexico); Manish P. Sutaria (Malden, Massachusetts); K. Ranji Vaidyanathan (Tucson, Arizona); Michael L. Fulcher (Tucson, Arizona); Kenneth L. Knittel (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Fibrous monolith processing techniques to fabricate multifunctional structures capable of performing more than one discrete function such as structures capable of bearing structural loads and mechanical stresses in service and also capable of performing at least one additional non-structural function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/915923 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/292.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704610 | Chichak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Kyle Erik Litz (Ballston Spa, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Qing Ye (Schenectady, New York); Kevin Henry Janora (Schenectady, New York); Gautam Parthasarathy (Saratoga Springs, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides electronic devices comprising novel polymer compositions which provide for enhanced device performance. The polymer compositions employed comprise 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). In one aspect, the polymeric component may be an electroactive polymer. In one aspect, the present invention provides optoelectronic devices, such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In another aspect, the invention provides OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507051 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704684 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Seokwoo Jeon (Champaign, Illinois); Jangung Park (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and devices for fabricating 3D structures and patterns of 3D structures on substrate surfaces, including symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns of 3D structures. Methods of the present invention provide a means of fabricating 3D structures having accurately selected physical dimensions, including lateral and vertical dimensions ranging from 10s of nanometers to 1000s of nanometers. In one aspect, methods are provided using a mask element comprising a conformable, elastomeric phase mask capable of establishing conformal contact with a radiation sensitive material undergoing photoprocessing. In another aspect, the temporal and/or spatial coherence of electromagnetic radiation using for photoprocessing is selected to fabricate complex structures having nanoscale features that do not extend entirely through the thickness of the structure fabricated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001689 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/325 |
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| US 07704722 | Studier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. William Studier (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for promoting and suppressing auto-induction of transcription of cloned DNA in cultures of T7 expression strains are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/741048 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704746 | White 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) | Curt White (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Arthur Wells (Bridgeville, Pennsylvania); J. Rodney Diehl (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian Strazisar (Venetia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for the measurement of carbon dioxide leakage from sequestration reservoirs. Tracer moieties are injected along with carbon dioxide into geological formations. Leakage is monitored by gas chromatographic analyses of absorbents. The invention also provides a process for the early leak detection of possible carbon dioxide leakage from sequestration reservoirs by measuring methane (CH4), ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8), and/or radon (Rn) leakage rates from the reservoirs. The invention further provides a method for branding sequestered carbon dioxide using perfluorcarbon tracers (PFTs) to show ownership. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/351348 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704918 | Adzic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Miomir Vukmirovic (Port Jefferson Station, New York); Kotaro Sasaki (Ronkonkoma, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to platinum-metal oxide composite particles and their use as electrocatalysts in oxygen-reducing cathodes and fuel cells. The invention particularly relates to methods for preventing the oxidation of the platinum electrocatalyst in the cathodes of fuel cells by use of these platinum-metal oxide composite particles. The invention additionally relates to methods for producing electrical energy by supplying such a fuel cell with an oxidant, such as oxygen, and a fuel source, such as hydrogen. The invention also relates to methods of making the metal-metal oxide composites. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/760051 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704919 | Adzic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Junliang Zhang (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to gold-coated particles useful as fuel cell electrocatalysts. The particles are composed of an electrocatalytically active core at least partially encapsulated by an outer shell of gold or gold alloy. The invention more particularly relates to such particles having a noble metal-containing core, and more particularly, a platinum or platinum alloy core. In other embodiments, the invention relates to fuel cells containing these electrocatalysts and methods for generating electrical energy therefrom. |
| FILED | Monday, August 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193694 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705136 | Golova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia B. Golova (Willowbrook, Illinois); Boris K. Chernov (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New modifiers were synthesized for incorporation of a methacrylic function in 3′-, 5′- and internal positions of oligonucleotides during solid phase synthesis. A modifier was used for synthesis of 5′-methacrylated oligonucleotides for preparation of microarrays by a co-polymerization method. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/066791 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07705280 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Nathan H. Mack (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Matthew Stewart (Urbana, Illinois); Viktor Malyarchuk (Urbana, Illinois); Jimin Yao (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides plasmonic crystals comprising three-dimensional and quasi comprising three-dimensional distributions of metallic or semiconducting films, including multi-layered crystal structures comprising nanostructured films and film arrays. Plasmonic crystals of the present invention include precisely registered and deterministically selected nonplanar crystal geometries and spatial distributions providing highly coupled, localized plasmonic responses in thin film elements and/or nanostructures of the crystal. Coupling of plasmonic responses provided by three-dimensional and quasi-three dimensional plasmonic crystal geometries and structures of the present invention generates enhanced local plasmonic field distributions useful for detecting small changes in the composition of an external dielectric environment proximate to a sensing surface of the plasmonic crystal. Plasmonic crystal structures of the present invention are also useful for providing highly localized excitation and/or imaging of fluorophores proximate to the crystal surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782799 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705495 | Alfermann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Alfermann (Fishers, Indiana); Arthur L. McGrew, Jr. (Plainfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a stator assembly for an electromechanical hybrid transmission. The stator assembly is generally annular and defines a centrally located rotor aperture configured to accommodate a rotor. The stator assembly includes a stator core having a plurality of radially inwardly extending stator teeth, and a stator wire wound around each of the stator teeth to form a plurality of stator coils. Epoxy resin is applied between each pair of adjacent stator teeth. The epoxy resin defines a plurality of stator cooling channels located in close proximity to the stator coils, and a plurality of rotor cooling channels located in close proximity to the rotor aperture. A cooling medium is disposed within the stator cooling channels and the rotor cooling channels such that the stator coils and a later assembled rotor can be cooled. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561083 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/59 |
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| US 07705513 | West et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip B. West (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John Svoboda (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for the generation of Electricity from Thermal Energy using the thermal magnetic properties of a Ferromagnetic, Electrically Conductive Material (FECM) in one or more Magnetic Fields. A FECM is exposed to one or more Magnetic Fields. Thermal Energy is applied to a portion of the FECM heating the FECM above its Curie Point. The FECM, now partially paramagnetic, moves under the force of the one or more Magnetic Fields. The movement of the FECM induces an electrical current through the FECM, generating Electricity. |
| FILED | Monday, September 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859916 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706275 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Roy Glenn Musselman (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Brent Allen Swartz (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Brian Paul Wallenfelt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A massively parallel computer system contains an inter-nodal communications network of node-to-node links. An automated routing strategy routes packets through one or more intermediate nodes of the network to reach a final destination. The default routing strategy is altered responsive to detection of overutilization of a particular path of one or more links, and at least some traffic is re-routed by distributing the traffic among multiple paths (which may include the default path). An alternative path may require a greater number of link traversals to reach the destination node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672315 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. M. Marr (Golden, Colorado); Tieying Gong (Golden, Colorado); David Wu (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods provided use external fields such as light and electricity as a means of directing the crystallization of concentrated colloidal systems. Not only can nucleation be directed, crystal melting can be carefully controlled and light-induced crystal diffraction used as a means of directing light propagation. A number of factors play a significant role on the crystallization rate and location, including the intensity of the light field, the magnitude of the electric field, the colloid concentration, the colloid size, and the colloid composition. In varying these parameters, kinetics in these processes are extremely fast when compared to traditional colloidal crystallization approaches. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/838908 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704362 | Hamers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Hamers (Madison, Wisconsin); Joseph D. Beck (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Dielectrophoresis is used to attract particles to an electrode edge then to controllably allow the transport of particles along that edge under a fluid flow to a particular region. The particles may be bacteria which may be maintained in this process in a live state through capture, transport and release. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/075615 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704615 | Teeters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale Teeters (Sand Springs, Oklahoma); Anthony Layson (Newark, Ohio); Christina Dewan (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A sequence or array of electrochemical cells storing both digital and analog data. Both binary code and codes having a higher base may be stored in the memory device to increase information density. Such battery arrays could also provide power for the micro or nanodevice. Devices are microscale and nanoscale in size and utilize electrically conductive atomic force microscopy tips to record and read data stored in the device. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913918 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704704 | Ibey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bennett L. Ibey (College Station, Texas); Vamsi K. Yadavalli (North Bethesda, Maryland); Rebecca M. Rounds (College Station, Texas); Hope T. Beier (College Station, Texas); Gerard L. Cote (College Station, Texas); Michael V. Pishko (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods of sensing an analyte. An implantable sensor may be contacted with a test sample under conditions that permit a binding protein and a ligand of the sensor to interact in an analyte-dependent manner to produce an analyte-dependent signal, and (b) detecting the analyte-dependent signal with a detector. A binding protein may reversibly bind an analyte and/or a ligand. A binding protein may have a higher binding affinity for an analyte than for a ligand. A binding protein and a ligand may each include a fluorophore, the absorption and/or emission properties of which may change in an analyte-dependent manner. A binding protein and/or a ligand may be bound to an active or inactive substrate. Some embodiments of systems, devices, and methods may be practiced in vitro, in situ, and/or in vivo. Systems and/or devices of the disclosure may be configured to be wearable. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529280 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705332 | Marconi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario C. Marconi (Fort Collins, Colorado); Przemyslaw W. Wachulak (Fort Collins, Colorado); Carmen S. Menoni (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge J. Rocca (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Direct patterning of nanometer scale features by interferometric lithography using a 46.9 nm laser is described. Multiple exposures using a Lloyd's mirror interferometer permitted printing of arrays having 60 nm FWHM features. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840890 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/504.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705415 | Nabet |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bahram Nabet (Erdenheim, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for detecting electromagnetic radiation, charged particles or photons including a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) and/or a 2-dimensional hole gas (2DHG). The device detects the collective response of the plasma to perturbations of the 2DEG and/or the 2DHG. The device is tunable by using Schottky contacts. The device can be used for high-speed photodetector devices, terahertz sensors, and charged particle sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202771 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705425 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ningyue Jiang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-power solid-state transistor structure comprised of a plurality of emitter or gate fingers arranged in a uniform or non-uniform manner to provide improved high power performance is disclosed. Each of the fingers is associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of sub-cells. In an exemplary embodiment, the fingers may be arranged in a 1-D or 2-D form having a “hollow-center” layout where one or more elongated emitter fingers or subcells are left out during design or disconnected during manufacture. In another exemplary embodiment, the fingers may be arranged in a 1-D or 2-D form having one or more “arc-shaped” rows that includes one or more elongated emitter fingers or subcells. The structure can be practically implemented and the absolute thermal stability can be maintained for very high power transistors with reduced adverse effects due to random variation in the manufacturing and design process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498665 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/587 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705617 | Hersam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Liam S. C. Pingree (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoscale impedance microscopy and related methods, circuit and/or apparatus capable of quantitatively measuring magnitude and phase of alternating current flow. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490592 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/719 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706365 | Effros et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle Effros (Pasadena, California); Tracey Ho (Sudbury, Massachusetts); David Karger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ralf Koetter (Champaign, Illinois); Muriel Medard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A network and a method for transmitting processes in a network are disclosed, where a randomized coding approach is provided. Network nodes transmit on each outgoing link a linear combination of incoming signals, specified by independently and randomly chosen code coefficients from a finite field. The approach allows robust, distributed transmission and compression of information in networks and is advantageous over routing-based approaches. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992463 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707132 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Xie (Orange County, California); Antonio Ortega (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Searching multimedia information which allows determining preferences based on very little amounts of data. The preferences are nonparametrically determined. Each preference is quantized into one of a plurality of bins. By doing the quantization, the distances between positive and negative samples are increased. The quantization amount may change depending on the number of samples which are used. The quantization can be used in a support vector machine or the like. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243501 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707388 | Vishkin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XMTT Inc. (Potomac, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uzi Vishkin (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a serial processor is configured to execute software instructions in a software program in serial. A serial memory is configured to store data for use by the serial processor in executing the software instructions in serial. A plurality of parallel processors are configured to execute software instructions in the software program in parallel. A plurality of partitioned memory modules are provided and configured to store data for use by the plurality of parallel processors in executing software instructions in parallel. Accordingly, a processor/memory structure is provided that allows serial programs to use quick local serial memories and parallel programs to use partitioned parallel memories. The system may switch between a serial mode and a parallel mode. The system may incorporate pre-fetching commands of several varieties. For example, towards switching between the serial mode and the parallel mode, the serial processor is configured to send a signal to start pre-fetching of data from the shared memory. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/606860 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07704784 | Bao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey); E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenan Bao (Millburn, New Jersey); Howard Edan Katz (Owings Mills, Maryland); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor apparatus comprising: a substrate having a substrate surface; a layer of a first material overlying a first region of the substrate surface; a layer of a semiconductor overlying the layer of first material and overlying a second region of the substrate surface; a first region of the layer of semiconductor, overlying the layer of first material and having a first conductivity; a second region of the layer of semiconductor, overlying the second region of the substrate surface and having a second conductivity; and the first conductivity being substantially different from the second conductivity. Such semiconductor apparatus further comprising a layer of a second material overlying the second region of the substrate surface, the second region of the layer of semiconductor overlying the layer of the second material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354365 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705111 | Ong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer of the following formula wherein R is a suitable hydrocarbon or a heteroatom containing group; and n represents the number of repeating units. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399246 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705346 | Birau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihaela Maria Birau (Missisauga, Canada); Yu Qi (Oakville, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel barrier layer which protects electronic devices from adverse environmental effects such as exposure to light, oxygen and/or moisture is described. The barrier layer comprises a polymer, an antioxidant, and an inorganic particulate material. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145701 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706654 | Peng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chubing Peng (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Xuhui Jin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a first waveguide configured to focus an electromagnetic wave to a focal region, and a second waveguide to further condense the light to an optical spot. The second waveguide includes a metallic structure defining an opening having one end positioned adjacent to the focal region and a multilayer structure positioned in the opening, the multilayer structure including a first layer of dielectric material, and second and third layers of dielectric material positioned on opposite sides of the first layer. A layer of lower index of refraction than that of the first dielectric layer may be positioned adjacent to the inner walls of the opening in the second waveguide to efficiently excite surface plasmons, and propagate them with low loss. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/934908 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707517 | Bier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Allan Bier (Palo Alto, California); Stephen W. Smoliar (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are presented to display values for a set of icons by controlling their assignment to a set of rows and their placement within these rows. A plurality of icons to be displayed is determined. An abacus attribute taking a finite set of values is associated with the set of icons. Icon groups are formed for each abacus attribute value and optionally ordered based on each of one or more sorting attributes. Inter-group indicators such as display characteristic changes, spacing and the like are determined. The inter-group indicators separate each group of icons within a row. An ordering of the icons is determined based on the abacus attribute value and the one or more optional sorting attribute values. The icons are laid out in the display space ordered by the values of the primary abacus attribute and the secondary optional sorting attributes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/300559 |
| ART UNIT | 2174 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/835 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07704547 | Delzeit 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) | Lance D. Delzeit (Sunnyvale, California); John F. Schipper (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for combined coarse scale control and fine scale control of growth density of a carbon nanotube (“CNT”) array on a substrate, using a selected electrical field adjacent to a substrate surface for coarse scale density control (by one or more orders of magnitude) and a selected CNT growth temperature range for fine scale density control (by multiplicative factors of less than an order of magnitude) of CNT growth density. Two spaced apart regions on a substrate may have different CNT growth densities and/or may use different feed gases for CNT growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472516 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704553 | Watson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Aerospace Associates (Hampton, Virginia); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent A. Watson (New Kent, Virginia); Michael J. Fallbach (Sedalia, Colorado); Sayata Ghose (Newport News, Virginia); Joseph G. Smith (Smithfield, Virginia); Donavon M. Delozier (Newport News, Virginia); John W. Connell (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for depositing nanometer-sized metal particles onto a substrate in the absence of aqueous solvents, organic solvents, and reducing agents, and without any required pre-treatment of the substrate, includes preparing an admixture of a metal compound and a substrate by dry mixing a chosen amount of the metal compound with a chosen amount of the substrate; and supplying energy to the admixture in an amount sufficient to deposit zero valance metal particles onto the substrate. This process gives rise to a number of deposited metallic particle sizes which may be controlled. The compositions prepared by this process are used to produce polymer composites by combining them with readily available commodity and engineering plastics. The polymer composites are used as coatings, or they are used to fabricate articles, such as free-standing films, fibers, fabrics, foams, molded and laminated articles, tubes, adhesives, and fiber reinforced articles. These articles are well-suited for many applications requiring thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity, antibacterial activity, catalytic activity, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710386 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704622 | Meador et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maryann B. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio); James D. Kinder (Canfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a series of organic/inorganic hybrid polymers that are easy to fabricate into dimensionally stable films with good ion-conductivity over a wide range of temperatures for use in a variety of applications. The polymers are prepared by the reaction of amines, preferably diamines and mixtures thereof with monoamines with epoxy-functionalized alkoxysilanes. The products of the reaction are polymerized by hydrolysis of the alkoxysilane groups to produce an organic-containing silica network. Suitable functionality introduced into the amine and alkoxysilane groups produce solid polymeric membranes which conduct ions for use in fuel cells, high-performance solid state batteries, chemical sensors, electrochemical capacitors, electro-chromic windows or displays, analog memory devices and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926457 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705617 | Hersam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Liam S. C. Pingree (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoscale impedance microscopy and related methods, circuit and/or apparatus capable of quantitatively measuring magnitude and phase of alternating current flow. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490592 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/719 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707132 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua Xie (Orange County, California); Antonio Ortega (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Searching multimedia information which allows determining preferences based on very little amounts of data. The preferences are nonparametrically determined. Each preference is quantized into one of a plurality of bins. By doing the quantization, the distances between positive and negative samples are increased. The quantization amount may change depending on the number of samples which are used. The quantization can be used in a support vector machine or the like. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243501 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07704716 | Pichersky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); Agricultural Research Organization Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Bet Dagan, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eran Pichersky (Chelsea, Michigan); Yoko Iijima (Kisarazu, Japan); Efraim Lewinsohn (Timrat, Israel); David R. Gang (Tucson, Arizona); James Simon (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel type of monoterpene synthase, a key enzyme in the production of the monoterpene aroma compound geraniol. More specifically, the present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences coding for CUES from flowers and herbs species, in particular sweet basil, as well as to vectors containing the sequences, to host cells containing the sequences and to methods of producing recombinant GES, its products, and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/582549 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07704723 | Huhnke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents For Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, Oklahoma); The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond L. Huhnke (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Randy S. Lewis (Provo, Utah); Ralph S. Tanner (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel clostridia bacterial species (Clostridium ragsdalei, ATCC BAA-622, “P11”) is provided. P11 is capable of synthesizing, from waste gases, products which are useful as biofuel. In particular, P11 can convert CO to ethanol. Thus, this novel bacterium transforms waste gases (e.g. syngas and refinery wastes) into useful products. P11 also catalyzes the production of acetate. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514385 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07705197 | Schrick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Neal Schrick (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An embryo that is transferred into the uterus of a recipient female is protected from embryotoxic effects of prostaglandin F2α by exposing the embryo to a prostaglandin antagonist. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039662 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07706464 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514510 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07706340 | Bronez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Bronez (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for reliable neighbor discovery in wireless ad hoc networks are provided herein. In one aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for analyzing the quality of a communication link. In embodiments, several factors affecting link quality may be incorporated in the analysis, and basic and/or complex statistical and/or probabilistic analysis may be used. In another aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for neighbor node discovery that adapt to network and/or node operating conditions and that dynamically maintain a neighbor node set at a given node according to these conditions. In a further aspect, embodiments of the present invention extend the utility of neighbor node discovery beyond the customary role of data routing support into the problem of deploying an ad hoc network by providing a display module for displaying node connectivity information. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402826 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07705188 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of the Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Matthew P. Grealish (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel compounds having antineoplastic and antimicrobial activity, obtained via structural modifications of resveratrol and combretastatin A-4, methods for synthesis of these compounds, and their use in pharmaceutical composition and for use in the treatment of mammals having cancer. Examples of the novel compounds are: (Z)- and (E)-3,4′,5-trimethoxystilbene (4a, 4b); (Z)- and (E)-3,5-dimethoxy-4′-hydroxystilbene (14c, 14d); (Z)- and (E)-3-hydroxy-4′,5-dimethoxystilbene (14g, 14h); (Z)- and (E)-3,5-dihydroxy-4′-methoxy-stilbene (14k, 14l); sodium resverastatin dibenzyl phosphate ((Z)-3,5-dimethoxy-4-[O-bis(benzyl)phosphoryl]-stilbene) (14m); and sodium resverastatin phosphate (14n). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/510675 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07707038 | Shah |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pranab M. Shah (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Items to be distributed and transported are separated into at least two categories, based on the shape of the items. Distribution and transportation functions are performed within a system comprising a plurality of Origin Facility/Destination Facility and Network Control Points, with each ODF being assigned to a single NCP. Each ODF, in turn, is assigned one or more geographic area. Items arrive at an ODF, are distributed and then transported to the assigned NCP for further distribution, and then transported to a second ODF for final distribution. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/778999 |
| ART UNIT | 3629 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07705610 | Bray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | System and Material Research Corporation (Spicewood, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan V. Bray (Spicewood, Texas); Claude H. Garrett (Austin, Texas); Christian J. Corley (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Wet and dry film thickness can be measured non-invasively on structures, such as surfaces associated with vessels, aircraft and buildings, using calibrated microwave sensors. The film is measured by directing microwave energy toward the film. The microwave energy passes through the film and is reflected by a reflective or semi-reflective substrate surface below the film. Properties of the reflected wave are compared with properties of reflected waves that were passed through calibration samples of known thicknesses to determine the unknown thickness of the film. In some embodiments, one or more sensors are maintained at a fixed altitude above the conductive/semi-conductive substrate for measurement, and in other embodiments, one or more sensors are maintained at a fixed altitude above the film. In one embodiment, sensors are associated with a coating applicator, with a first sensor preceding the applicator and a second sensor following the applicator to measure the thickness of the film applied by the applicator by comparing measurements before and after coating. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041470 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07706538 | Hughes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Hughes (Herndon, Virginia); Alexander Stewart (Louisville, Colorado); Dwayne A. Edling (Longmont, Colorado); Gregory S. Toles (Erie, Colorado); Bradley E. Whitney (Erie, Colorado); Benjamin J. Baron (Broomfield, Colorado); Howard H. Rather (Boulder, Colorado); Michael E. Foy (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and data storage device for encrypting data to provide at-rest data encryption of data in the data storage device. The system includes a compression engine for receiving a host data stream packet and selectively generating a compressed data packet, and an encryption engine in electronic communication with the compression engine for receiving an unencrypted data packet from the compression engine. The unencrypted data packet comprises the compressed data packet when the compression engine generates the compressed data packet. The unencrypted data packet comprises the host data packet when the compression engine does not generate the compressed data packet. The encryption engine generates an encrypted data packet having an encrypted component corresponding to the unencrypted data packet and a set of meta data indicative of one or more characteristic of the encrypted data packet. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404692 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/269 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
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 27, 2010.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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