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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 04, 2010
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| US 07707788 | Bystricky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel Bystricky (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A buckling restrained brace includes a deformable core contained within an outer casing. Ends of the core protrude from the casing for connection to a frame or other structure. A length of the deformable core between its ends, referred to as the gauge or yielding section, is capable of deforming during an earthquake or blast loading. The gauge section is differentially heat treated from the ends so that the gauge section has a lower yield strength than the ends. The casing provides containment of the core to prevent buckling of the core. A metal foil interface or unbonding layer is provided between the deformable core and the casing so that the deformable core does not bind to the casing. The buckling restrained brace provides significant performance improvements over prior art BRBs coupled with simplified assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725582 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/167.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707957 | Dudt 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) | Philip John Dudt (Rockville, Maryland); Joseph P. Teter (Darnestown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A supporting arrangement for a vessel for counteracting compressive loads at an operating temperature. The supporting arrangement also provides inertial stiffening of the hull of the vessel as well as acoustic and vibration damping. The supporting arrangement includes a support structure that is made from a shape memory alloy that contacts and presses against the inner walls of the vessel. The supporting arrangement utilizes the shape recovery properties and/or the internal energy properties of the shape memory alloy support structure to provide reinforcing and damping forces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700966 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708249 | Froeschner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal A. Froeschner (Florissant, Missouri); Daniel R. Benjey (Alton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for supporting a bond jig comprises a plurality of planar panels including at least one mounting hole for fasteners in each panel, wherein a first panel is arranged in a non-orthogonal position to a second panel. The system further comprises a coupling element for coupling panels, comprising a first and second planar portion, a hinge element connecting the first and second planar portion, wherein the first planar portion and the second planar portion rotate around the hinge element to form an angle, and at least one mounting hole for fasteners in the first and second planar portion. The system further comprises at least one fastener for fastening the first planar portion to the first panel via a mounting hole in the first planar portion and a mounting hole in the first panel and at least one fastener for fastening the second planar portion to the second panel via the mounting hole in the second planar portion and the mounting hole in the second panel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/181182 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/346.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708325 | Grant |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P. (Greenville, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad W. Grant (Campbell, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for rotating objects that shift the center of gravity of an object, such as a wing assembly, from a position outside the rotation axis area of the object to a position within the rotation axis area of the object. In one example, a material handling system that employs rotatable slings may be used to rotate an object by shifting the suspended center of gravity from a position outside the rotation axis area (i.e., outside the rotatable slings in at least one position of rotation) to a position within the rotation axis area (i.e., between the slings at all positions of rotation). The suspended center of gravity may be shifted using at least one ballast component (or other suitable force-applying device) that exerts a force on the object in a direction and magnitude sufficient to so shift the suspended center of gravity of the object. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/951276 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/81.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708413 | Ptasinski 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) | Joanna Ptasinski (San Diego, California); Randy L. Shimabukuro (San Diego, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensing system comprises a corner-cube reflector that has three reflective surfaces wherein at least one of the reflective surfaces is a surface of a bimaterial cantilever. The reflective surface of the bimaterial cantilever undergoes a change between a substantially planar shape and a curved shape upon direct exposure to an agent of interest. Such a change is perceived by a suitable detector. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805265 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708519 | Mignano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank A. Mignano (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A vortex spoiler (180) for delivery of a cooling airflow (192) in a turbine (108) engine (100) including a plurality of inlet ports (182) formed circumferentially about a radial exterior sidewall (188), and a plurality of outlet ports (184) formed circumferentially about a radial interior sidewall (190). The plurality of inlet ports (182) are coupled to the plurality of outlet ports (184) via a plurality of ducts (186). Each of the ducts is formed having an interior diameter at the inlet port and the outlet port formed at a preselected angle normal to the surface of the each of the radial sidewalls to form a radially curved profile such that a cooling airflow (192) may pass radially inwardly through each of the plurality of ducts (186) with minimal tangential stress and minimal static pressure loss. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691307 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708528 | Couch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Couch (South Windsor, Connecticut); Frank J. Cunha (Avon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engine components having an airfoil extending outwardly of a platform are mounted in adjacent relationship, and such that cooling air flows outwardly of a gap between mating faces of the platforms. The location of localized hot spots is identified on the platform, and the mating faces are designed to provide cooling air through the gap to address these hot spots. A suction side edge of the platform has a curved portion extending inwardly into the platform, and the pressure side has a curved portion bulging outwardly away from the airfoil. When these two portions on adjacent components mate, a gap is provided between two platforms that provides leakage cooling air to the hot spot. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/220291 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/193.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708542 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd C. Bailey (Fishkill, New York); Byung-Jin Choi (Round Rock, Texas); Matthew E. Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Carlton G. Willson (Austin, Texas); John G. Ekerdt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are imprint lithography templates, methods of forming and using the templates, and a template holder device. An imprint lithography template may include a body with a plurality of recesses on a surface of the body. The body may be of a material that is substantially transparent to activating light. At least a portion of the plurality of recesses may define features having a feature size less than about 250 nm. A template may be formed by obtaining a material that is substantially transparent to activating light and forming a plurality or recesses on a surface of the template. In some embodiments, a template may further include at least one alignment mark. In some embodiments, a template may further include a gap sensing area. An imprint lithography template may be used to form an imprinted layer in a light curable liquid disposed on a substrate. During use, the template may be disposed within a template holder. The template holder may include a body with an opening configured to receive the template, a support plate, and at least one piezo actuator coupled to the body. The piezo actuator may be configured to alter a physical dimension of the template during use. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/747737 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708653 | Hawkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary F. Hawkins (Torrance, California); Ching-Yao Tang (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sports implement in accordance with at least one exemplary implementation includes a golf club head and a force diversion apparatus on the golf club head. The force diversion apparatus may include a force conversion portion configured to redirect at least a portion of a force associated with an object impacting the force diversion apparatus and a strike plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041974 |
| ART UNIT | 3711 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Games using tangible projectile 473/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708873 | Bazant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Z. Bazant (Winchester, Massachusetts); Yuxing Ben (Duncan, Oklahoma); Jeremy Levitan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John-Paul Urbanski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides devices and apparatuses comprising the same, for efficient pumping and/or mixing of relatively small volumes of fluid. Such devices utilize nonlinear electrokinetics as a primary mechanism for driving fluid flow. Methods of cellular analysis and high-throughput, multi-step product formation using devices of this invention are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700949 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708908 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jae Cheol Cho (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Laura K. Povlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David C. Martin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroconductive carboxylic acid functionalized monomer corresponding to Formula (I), wherein A represents a hydrogen or a carboxyl group. Polymerized monomers of Formula (I) conjugated with a biomolecule result in conjugated PEDOT polymers of Formula (III) wherein A is a hydrogen or a carboxylic acid group and B is a biomolecule selected from the group consisting of a peptide, a protein, a lipid, a carbohydrate and a polynucleotide. The biomolecule conjugated polymers can be disposed onto an electrically conductive substrate wherein the substrate has a first layer of PEDOT polymerized on a surface of the substrate and a second layer of biomolecule conjugated PEDOT polymer of Formula (III) polymerized on the first layer of PEDOT. The first and second layers form a charge transport material in electrical communication with the conductive substrate. The electrically conductive substrate further comprises a dopant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038138 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709035 | Richardson 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) | Michelle Richardson (Providence, Rhode Island); Tom C. S. Yang (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-heating, self-hydrating pouch to simultaneously heat and hydrate a prepackaged, partially or completely dehydrated food or beverage product that is stored in the pouch. The pouch comprises multiple layers of material that prevent the transmission of water and gasses thereby preventing deterioration of the prepackaged food or beverage product. The pouch includes a membrane filter structure and flameless, exothermic reaction agents. The user adds potable or non-potable water to the pouch. When the water contacts the exothermic reaction agents, an exothermic reaction occurs which heats the water above 200° F. The membrane filter structure filters the heated water to remove bacteria, viruses, chemicals and by-products of the exothermic reaction. The filtered, heated water contacts the partially or completely dehydrated food product or dehydrated beverage product and simultaneously heats and hydrates the food or beverage product. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726861 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709055 | Ober et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher K. Ober (Ithaca, New York); Sitaraman Krishnan (Ithaca, New York); Qin Lin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds of formulae (I), (II), and (III), which can be block copolymers with various substituents and side-chain groups. The side-chains can include semifluorinated alkyl- and PEG-derived groups. The block copolymers can be surface active block copolymers (SABCs) and can be used as antifouling coatings. Coating compositions employing the compounds of the invention and methods for their use are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/063242 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709087 | Majidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmel Majidi (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Groff (Central, South Carolina); Ronald S. Fearing (Orinda, California); Steven D. Jones (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabricated microstructure includes a substrate, a primary fiber, and a plurality of base fibers. The primary fiber has a width less than about 5 microns. Each base fiber of the plurality of base fibers has a first end attached to the primary fiber and a second end attached to the substrate. Each base fiber has a width less than the width of the primary fiber. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601528 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709139 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin White (Hudson, Massachusetts); Quinn Horn (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Edward Salley (Andover, Massachusetts); John Lennhoff (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery device includes a cathode current collector and an anode current collector. A fibrous electrode forms a structure defining a plurality of pores. A first portion of the fibrous electrode is in contact with a current collector. An electrolytic polymer is electrodeposited on the fibrous electrode to provide substantial uniform coverage of fibers forming the fibrous electrode. A plurality of electrode particles are disposed within the plurality of pores and separated from the fibrous electrode by the electrolytic polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/656329 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709205 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dihua Yu (Houston, Texas); Jun Yao (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Christopher L. Neal (Houston, Texas); Wentao Yang (Shanghai, China PRC); Xiaoyan Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC); Raphael E. Pollock (Houston, Texas); Mien-Chie Hung (Houston, Texas); Jun Yang (Houston, Texas); Ping Li (Houston, Texas); Nina T. Nguyen (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of determining prognosis in a subject with a hyperproliferative disease, including determining expression and/or function of 14-3-3 zeta in the subject, are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of making a pharmaceutical agent that modulates apoptosis, including the steps of obtaining one or more candidate, testing the one or more candidate substances to determine their ability to modulate the expression and/or function of 14-3-3 zeta, selecting a candidate substance determined to modulate the expression and/or function of 14-3-3 zeta, and making a pharmaceutical composition that includes the selected candidate substance. In addition, methods of treating a subject with a hyperproliferative disease, including making a pharmaceutical agent by the methods set forth herein, and administering the pharmaceutical agent to a subject, are disclosed. The hyperproliferative disease can be cancer, such as breast cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/950264 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709274 | Collins 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) | Steven R. Collins (Lexington, Massachusetts); Abron S. Toure (Portland, Oregon); Steven D. Bernstein (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming an RuOx electrode comprising depositing a TiW layer on an RuOx layer, forming a photo-resist mask on the TiW layer, in order to mask the TiW layer into a masked TiW layer, etching the masked TiW layer with a CF4 plasma, a TiW mask being formed on the RuOx layer, the CF4 plasma is not etching the RuOx and vaporizing unmasked RuOx portion of the RuOx layer with an oxygen plasma, the masked RuOx layer being formed into an RuOx electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/806191 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709378 | Im |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Im (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for processing a thin metal layer on a substrate to control the grain size, grain shape, and grain boundary location and orientation in the metal layer by irradiating the metal layer with a first excimer laser pulse having an intensity pattern defined by a mask to have shadow regions and beamlets. Each region of the metal layer overlapped by a beamlet is melted throughout its entire thickness, and each region of the metal layer overlapped by a shadow region remains at least partially unmelted. After completion of resolidification of the melted regions following irradiation by the first excimer laser pulse, the metal layer is irradiated by a second excimer laser pulse having a shifted intensity pattern so that the shadow regions overlap regions of the metal layer having fewer and larger grains. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/502056 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709517 | Sawyers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Samedy Ouk (Costa Mesa, California); Derek Welsbie (Northridge, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York); Dongwon Yoo (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to diarylhydantoin compounds, including diarylthiohydantoins, and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433829 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709525 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd A. Thompson (Madison, Wisconsin); George Wilding (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the prevention and/or alleviation of androgen-mediated disorders treatable by administering a chroman-derived anti-androgen compound are provided by the present invention. The invention further provides pharmaceutical and nutraceutical compositions containing chroman-derived anti-androgen compounds useful in the prevention and/or alleviation of androgen-mediated disorders, particularly prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/789835 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709729 | Simburger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California); ILC Dover, LP (Frederica, Delaware); Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Simburger (Agoura, California); James H. Matsumoto (Los Angeles, California); Thomas W. Giants (Santa Monica, California); Alec Garcia, III (Santa Clarita, California); Alan R. Perry (Conifer, California); Suraj Rawal (Littleton, Colorado); Craig H. Marshall (Littleton, Colorado); John K. H. Lin (Middletown, Delaware); Jonathan Robert Day (Dover, Delaware); Thomas W. Kerslake (Strongsville, Ohio); Stephen E. Scarborough (Seaford, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible inflatable hinge includes curable resin for rigidly positioning panels of solar cells about the hinge in which wrap around contacts and flex circuits are disposed for routing power from the solar cells to the power bus further used for grounding the hinge. An indium tin oxide and magnesium fluoride coating is used to prevent static discharge while being transparent to ultraviolet light that cures the embedded resin after deployment for rigidizing the inflatable hinge. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771719 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709766 | Gambino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Gambino (Stony Brook, New York); Jon Longtin (Port Jefferson, New York); Sanjay Sampath (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating an electronic device comprises providing a substrate (501), direct writing a functional material by a thermal spray on the substrate (502) and removing a portion of the function material to form the electronic or sensory device (503). |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/491609 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709772 | Patel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehul Patel (Chandler, Arizona); T. Terry Ng (Sylvania, Ohio); Alan B. Cain (Saint Louis, Missouri); Zak Sowle (Cleveland, Ohio); Jack DiCocco (Medina, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an aircraft, missile, projectile, or underwater vehicle with an improved control system and an improved control system for maneuvering an aircraft, missile, projectile, or underwater vehicle. More particularly, the present invention relates to an aircraft, missile, underwater vehicle or projectile with removable control surfaces. The technical advantage of the removable control surface system (or “removable control surface”) over other systems is that the removable control surface system enables the aircraft, missile, underwater vehicle or projectile to have two or more design configurations, each configuration being tailored to the aircraft, missile, projectile, or underwater vehicle's specific stability or maneuverability requirements during a specific portion of the flight. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/292972 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710001 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dylan J. Morris (Seneca, South Carolina); David F. Bahr (Pullman, Washington); Michael Anderson (Troy, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Piezoelectric transducers and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a piezoelectric transducer includes a support member, a piezoelectric element attached to the support member, and a pressurized chamber at one side of the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element comprises a flexible film, and the pressurized chamber contains a fluid that applies a static pressure to a side of the piezoelectric element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/241333 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710313 | Ghaleb 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) | Sam Ghaleb (Ridgecrest, California); Floyd A. Kinder (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using a bistatic passive radar system for tracking a plurality of targets utilizing transmitted radar signals from at least one satellite platform in a geosynchronous orbit with the earth, a radar receiver capturing signals from a reflection of the transmitted radar signals from each target, tracking a position of each target over time, and a processing method for computation of a fire control solution of each target. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176815 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — 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 342/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710346 | Bloss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter L. Bloss (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Eric K. Hall, II (Seal Beach, California); David A. Ksienski (Los Angeles, California); James P. McKay (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna system includes a heptagonal antenna array having one center antenna element and seven circumferentially surrounding antenna elements offering improved near and far sidelobe rejection, which is well suited for mechanically-gimbaled and time delayed electrical steering antenna applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821931 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/844 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710451 | Gluckman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua M. Gluckman (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention presents catadioptric (single-camera) sensors using one or more mirrors to produce rectified stereoscopic images. By combining multiple views (using the mirrors) to form a composite stereo image that is already rectified (i.e., has scan-line correspondence), the invention aids provision of real-time stereo images by avoiding computational cost and image degradation due to computer-rectification-related resampling when rectifying. The invention specifies the number of mirrors that must be used and the geometric/locational constraints on those mirrors that must be substantially satisfied to obtain rectified stereo images with a single camera. The invention also discloses specific configurational techniques for how the mirrors should be placed to minimize sensor size. The configurational/geometric parameters disclosed enable cost-efficient, compact, and error-tolerant single-camera stereoscopic image sensing system and methods, removing the need for computer-controlled image rectifying steps and allowing for convenient computerized capture, processing, manipulation, storage, and transmission of stereo images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/149687 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710576 | Busch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl Busch (Eden Park, Minnesota); Lee Strandjord (Tonka Bay, Minnesota); Norman Tarleton (Glendale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining a level of angle random walk (ARW) associated with a fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) includes first and second photodiodes. The first photodiode is configured to receive a first light signal from a light source associated with the FOG. The second photodiode is configured to receive a second light signal from a fiber optic coil associated with the FOG. First and second analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are operable to respectively convert the first and second light signals into corresponding respective first and second digital signals. A digital relative-intensity-noise (RIN) subtraction element is configured to receive the first and second digital signals and output a third signal based on the first and second digital signals. An electronic device is configured to determine a first noise level associated with the third signal, and determine the ARW level from the first noise level. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/045616 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710828 | Barger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BBN Technologies Corp (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Barger (Winchester, Massachusetts); Stephen D. Milligan (Stow, Massachusetts); Marshall Seth Brinn (Newton, Massachusetts); Richard J. Mullen (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for locating the shooter of supersonic projectiles are described. The system uses at least five, preferably seven, spaced acoustic sensors. Sensor signals are detected for shockwaves and muzzle blast, wherein muzzle blast detection can be either incomplete coming from less than 4 sensor channels, or inconclusive due to lack of signal strength. Shooter range can be determined by an iterative computation and/or a genetic algorithm by minimizing a cost function that includes timing information from both shockwave and muzzle signal channels. Disambiguation is significantly improved over shockwave-only measurements. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075051 |
| 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 367/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710944 | Yoon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-June Yoon (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A node with local GPS time in an ad-hoc wireless network synchronizes with the network time immediately and slowly pulls the network time to GPS time. However, network nodes may immediately transition to the common GPS time after an island or group head node determines that the transition in network time does not disturb the communication links. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521413 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711057 | Pillai |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | C and P Technologies, Inc. (Closter, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Unnikrishna Sreedharan Pillai (Harrington Park, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method for transmitter-receiver design that enhances the desired signal output from the receiver while minimizing the total interference and noise output from the receiver at the desired decision making instant is presented. Further the new design scheme proposed here can be used for transmit signal energy and bandwidth tradeoff. As a result, transmit signal energy can be used to tradeoff for the “premium” signal bandwidth without sacrificing the system performance level in terms of the output Signal to Interference plus Noise power Ratio (SINR). The two designs—the one before and the one after the tradeoff—will result in two different transmitter-receiver pairs that have the same performance level. In many applications such as in telecommunications, since the available bandwidth is at premium, such a tradeoff will result in releasing otherwise unavailable bandwidth at the expense of additional signal energy. The bandwidth so released can be used for other applications or to add additional telecommunication capacity to the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623965 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711120 | Kimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InfoAssure, Inc. (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald D. Kimmel (Stevensville, Maryland); Francis J. Adamouski (Springfield, Virginia); Ersin L. Domangue (Woodbine, Maryland); Wayne R. Kimmel (Glen Burnie, Maryland); James G. Lightburn (Arnold, Maryland); Leonard R. Viola (Purcellville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryptographic coalition administrator for managing information access across multiple organizations includes a communications interface configured to communicate electronically transmit and receive information, a memory configured to store pairs of public and private cryptographic keys associated with different levels of access, and a key manager configured and connected to communicate with the interface and the memory and configured to: distribute cryptographic key sets, of public cryptographic keys and private cryptographic keys, to first and second organizations of members; determine a first group of members in the first organization to have authorization to exchange information with a second group of members in the second organization, the first and second groups sharing cryptographic parameters, and public and private cryptographic keys; and distribute a first cryptographic key set, from the cryptographic key sets, to the first group, the first group having a first sensitivity level at least as high as a second sensitivity level associated with the first cryptographic key set. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193227 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711317 | Lackey 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) | Stephanie Jane Lackey (Orlando, Florida); David Mark Kotick (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to configuring the minimum number of relay radios in a live-virtual communications system for a tactical training event. The system includes live radios, virtual radios cooperating with a wide area network, and radio bridge circuits cooperating between the live radios and the wide area network. A number of relay radios is determined by determining the mean transmission length for the tactical training event. The duration of peak performance and the expected number of transmissions for the tactical training event are determined. The number of radios for the traffic capacity is calculated, which incorporates a QoS and a spare capacity. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879526 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711489 | Chadwick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Bartholomew Chadwick (San Diego, California); Gregory Jon Groves (San Diego, California); Christopher Field Smith (Medford, New York); Ronald J. Paulsen (Riverhead, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Trident Probe Groundwater Exchange System (NC#096456). The apparatus includes a groundwater conductivity sensor, designed to determine a groundwater conductivity surface; a water conductivity sensor, designed to determine a surface water conductivity groundwater; a temperature sensor, designed to determine a groundwater temperature; a surface water temperature sensor, designed to determine a surface water temperature; and a processor operatively coupled to a plurality of sensors and designed to receive information from the plurality of sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/862392 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711494 | Hatzis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Nuvera Biosciences, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christos Hatzis (Melrose, Massachusetts); W. Fraser Symmans (Houston, Texas); Lajos Pusztai (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for determining survival and relapse of a patient undergoing therapy for a tumor by determining a residual cancer burden index based on the bidimensional diameters of a primary tumor bed of said tumor in a resection specimen, the proportion of the primary tumor bed area that contains invasive carcinoma, the number of regional lymph nodes containing metastatic carcinoma, the diameter of the largest metastasis in an regional lymph node; and the fractional reduction in lymph node size with each added positive lymph node. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786980 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711545 | Koehn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Language Weaver, Inc. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Koehn (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A statistical machine translation (MT) system may include a compound splitting module to split compounded words for more accurate translation. The compound splitting module select a best split for translation by the MT system. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/884174 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711821 | Pendarakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for autonomic system management in a computing system containing system resources including network resources and multiple resource demands, or processes. The computing system may be a stream-processing system or other real-time computer management system, such as workload management, or a virtualization engine. The system and method enables achieving a better level of performance than would occur in the computing system using only existing mechanism. It permits, with very low computational overhead, achieving or driving the system closer to a user-defined system performance objective. To do so, a system performance equation is defined to determine a level of performance of the system as a function of the allocation of two or more system resources among a plurality of system resource demands or processes. From this system performance equation, a plurality of resource-specific change equations is derived. Each resource-specific change equation is capable of calculating changes in the level of performance of the system attributable to changes in the allocation of one of the system resources. The resource-specific change equation yielding the greatest change in the level of system performance at a given allocation of all of the system resources and the system resource associated with the identified resource-specific change equation are identified. The allocation of the identified associated system resource to at least one system resource demand to provide the largest increase in the level of performance of the system, and allocations for all system resources are adjusted in accordance with the modified allocation of the identified associated system resource. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444162 |
| ART UNIT | 2458 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711929 | Burky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Burky (Austin, Texas); Krishnan Kailas (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of tracking instruction dependency in a processor issuing instructions speculatively includes recording in an instruction dependency array (IDA) an entry for each instruction that indicates data dependencies, if any, upon other active instructions. An output vector read out from the IDA indicates data readiness based upon which instructions have previously been selected for issue. The output vector is used to select and read out issue-ready instructions from an instruction buffer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847530 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2238 | Andrews, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. Andrews, Jr. (Fredericksburg, Virginia); William P. Adams (Mechanicsville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for separating entrained particles from a medium is provided. The medium flows into an intake port, through a separation region and out an exit port. The process includes disposing a separation region between the intake and outlet ports and positioning a magnet having north and south poles at opposite ends of the separation region. For orientation, the ports are disposed along a flow axis, and the opposite ends are disposed parallel to a pole axis transverse to the flow axis. The method operates by the magnet applying Lorenz force on the particles having one of positive and negative charges away from the separation region, wherein the particles avoid the outlet port without obstructing through the separation region. Similarly, a device for separating the particles is similarly described. In addition, the method and device further include a chamber being disposed adjacent to the separation region to collect the particles. In particular, the chamber can represent a first chamber disposed between the separation region and the south pole to collect the particles having positive charge, and a second chamber disposed between the separation region and the north pole to collect the particles having negative charge. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879520 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2239 | Campbell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Campbell (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cone support for use with a stud, the cone support includes a hollow truncated cone with an apex and a base. The hollow truncated cone includes an apex aperture disposed at the apex and a base aperture disposed at the base. The apex aperture has a threaded internal diameter. The apex aperture and base aperture communicate within a cone chamber, the cone chamber is disposed within the interior of the cone and between the apex aperture and the base aperture. The stud is placeable within the apex aperture, the cone chamber and the base aperture such that the cone support protects the stud from shear forces when the stud is stressed perpendicular to its axis. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284474 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/688 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Governing Council of the Univ. of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard A. Stone (Brookline, Massachusetts); Shelley L. Anna (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Nathalie Bontoux (Cagnes sur Mer, France); Darren R. Link (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David A. Weitz (Bolton, Massachusetts); Irina Gitlin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Eugenia Kumacheva (Toronto, Canada); Piotr Garstecki (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Willow Diluzio (Westford, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic method and device for focusing and/or forming discontinuous sections of similar or dissimilar size in a fluid is provided. The device can be fabricated simply from readily-available, inexpensive material using simple techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/024228 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708977 | Finkel 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) | Toren Finkel (Bethesda, Maryland); Jonathan M. Hill (Bethesda, Maryland); Arshed A. Quyyumi (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for diagnosing decreased vascular function is disclosed. The method includes assaying the number of endothelial progenitor cells. A method for detecting increased cardiovascular risk is also disclosed, as is a method for diagnosing atherosclerosis. In one example, the methods include assaying the number of endothelial progenitor cells. A method for treating a subject with decreased vascular function is disclosed. The method includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of endothelial progenitor cells to the subject. In one embodiment, the subject has atherosclerosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/534626 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709002 | Schlom 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) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Scott Abrams (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutant ras oncogene peptides may induce specific anti-ras cellular immune responses in vaccinated patients. Moreover, a human CD8+ CTL epitope(s) reflecting a specific point mutation in the K-ras oncogene at codon 12 was identified. The mutant ras peptide has implications for both active and passive immunotherapies in selected carcinoma patients. A nested 10-mer peptide was identified [i.e., ras5-14(Asp12)], which was shown to bind to HLA-A2 and display specific functional capacity for expansion of the in-vivo-primed CD8+ CTL precursors. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 09/155590 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709007 | Murphy 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) | Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Rockville, Maryland); Stephen S. Whitehead (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Alexander A. Bukreyev (Rockville, Maryland); Katalin Juhasz (Rockville, Maryland); Michael N. Teng (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Attenuated respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and vaccine compositions thereof are produced by introducing specific mutations associated with attenuating phenotypes into wild-type or RSV which is incompletely attenuated by cold-passage or introduction of mutations which produce virus having a temperature sensitive (ts) or cold adapted (ca) phenotype. Alternatively, recombinant RSV and vaccine compositions thereof incorporate attenuating and other mutations specifying desired structural and or phenotypic characteristics in an infectious RSV. Recombinant RSV incorporate desired mutations specified by insertion, deletion, substitution or rearrangement of a selected nucleotide sequence, gene, or gene segment in an infectious RSV clone. The immune system of an individual is stimulated to induce protection against natural RSV infection, or multivalently against infection by RSV and another pathogen, such as PIV, by administration of attenuated, biologically derived or recombinant RSV. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934003 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/211.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709029 | Chow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Foundation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence C. Chow (Germantown, Maryland); Shozo Takagi (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A bone or dental implant material in the form of a paste includes a mixture of calcium phosphate and/or calcium-containing powders, liquid glycerol, organic acid and gelling agent. The paste is stable, resistant to washout and will harden upon exposure to water. Physical characteristics of the paste, including consistency, porosity, and hardening time, are controlled by the choice and ratio of constituents. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/552337 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709047 | Emmert-Buck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Emmert-Buck (Easton, Maryland); Michael Anthony Tangrea (Odenton, Maryland); Robert F. Bonner (Washington, District of Columbia); Rodrigo Chuaqui (North Potomac, Maryland); Thomas J. Pohida (Monrovia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of removing a target from a biological sample which involves placing a transfer surface in contact with the biological sample, and then focally altering the transfer surface to allow selective separation of the target from the biological sample. In disclosed embodiments, the target is a cell or cellular component of a tissue section and the transfer surface is a film that can be focally altered to adhere the target to the transfer surface. Subsequent separation of the film from the tissue section selectively removes the adhered target from the tissue section. The transfer surface is activated from within the target to adhere the target to the transfer surface, for example by heating the target to adhere it to a thermoplastic transfer surface. Such in situ activation can be achieved by exposing the biological sample to an immunoreagent that specifically binds to the target (or a component of the target). The immunoreagent can alter the transfer surface directly (for example with a heat generating enzyme carried by the immunoreagent), or indirectly (for example by changing a characteristic of the target). In some embodiments, the immunoreagent deposits a precipitate in the target that increases its light absorption relative to surrounding tissue, such that the biological specimen can be exposed to light to selectively heat the target. Alternatively, the immunoreagent is an immunofluorescent agent that carries a fluorophore that absorbs light and emits heat. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/543218 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709190 | Montelione et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gaetano Montelione (Highland Park, New Jersey); Kalyan Das (Edison, New Jersey); Edward Arnold (Belle Mead, New Jersey); LiChung Ma (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Rong Xiao (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert M. Krug (Austin, Texas); Karen Y. Twu (Austin, Texas); Rei-Lin Kuo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods related to the structure and function of the cellular polyadenylation and specificity factor 30 (CPSF30) binding site on the surface of the influenza A non-structural protein 1 (NS1). Specifically, critical biochemical reagents, conditions for crystallization and NMR analysis, assays, and general processes are described for (i) discovering, designing, and optimizing small molecule inhibitors of influenza A (avian flu) viruses and (ii) creating attenuated influenza virus strains suitable for avian and human flu vaccine development. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566216 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709191 | Philpott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Rensselaer, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Philpott (Defreestville, New York); Barbara Weiser (East Greenbush, New York); Harold Burger (East Greenbush, New York); Christina Kitchen (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and may be indicated by a shift in coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4. The shift in coreceptor use to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients undergoing HAART, the predominant populations of virus may be shifted back to CCR5-mediated entry soon after the CXCR4-specific strains have emerged. The present invention relates to a diagnostic method to monitor coreceptor use in the treatment and clinical management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The present invention further relates to a diagnostic method applied to HIV-positive individuals undergoing HAART to monitor the suppression of CCR5- or CXCR4-specific strains. The diagnostic methods may be used to assist in selecting antiretroviral therapy and to improve predictions of disease prognosis over time. The methods of the invention include cell-based methods, including cell fusion assays, and molecular-based methods, including heteroduplex tracking assay, to both quantitatively and qualitatively analyze patient-derived HIV for coreceptor usage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174141 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular aliquot, which, in turn, is from a particular aliquot of a prior tier, and so on. For every fragment of an aliquot in the final tier, the aliquots from which it was derived at every prior tier is known, or can be discerned. Thus, identical sequences from overlapping fragments from different aliquots can be distinguished and grouped as being derived from the same or different fragments from prior tiers. When the fragments in the final tier are sequenced, overlapping sequence regions of fragments in different aliquots are used to register the fragments so that non-overlapping regions are ordered. In one aspect, this process is carried out in a hierarchical fashion until the one or more target polynucleotides are characterized, e.g. by their nucleic acid sequences, or by an ordering of sequence segments, or by an ordering of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451692 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709201 | Barany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); Hanna Pincas (New York, New York); Jianmin Huang (Jackson Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to various methods for detecting DNA sequence differences, including single nucleotide mutations or polymorphisms, one or more nucleotide insertions, and one or more nucleotide deletions. Labeled heteroduplex PCR fragments containing base mismatches are prepared. Endonuclease cleaves the heteroduplex PCR fragments both at the position containing the variation (one or more mismatched bases) and, to a lesser extent, at non-variant (perfectly matched) positions. Ligation of the cleavage products with a DNA ligase corrects non-variant cleavages and thus substantially reduces background. This is then followed by a detection step in which the reaction products are detected, and the position of the sequence variations are determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/574286 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709214 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Genetics Institute, LLC (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon J. Freeman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Irene Chernova (Brighton, Massachusetts); Tatyana Chernova (Brighton, Massachusetts); Nelly Malenkovich (Boston, Massachusetts); Clive R. Wood (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated PD-L2 nucleic acid molecules, which encode novel B7-related molecules which are ligands for PD-1. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing PD-L2 nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and nonhuman transgenic animals in which a PD-L2 gene has been introduced or disrupted. The invention further provides isolated PD-L2 polypeptides, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-PD-L2 antibodies. The invention still further provides methods for promoting or inhibiting the interaction between PD-L2 and PD-1. Diagnostic and treatment methods utilizing compositions of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765838 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709216 | Erhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Biomedical Research Institute (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Erhardt (Natick, Massachusetts); Ambrus Toth (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods relating to inhibition of PUMA function for preventing or reducing myocardial cell death. A method for preventing or reducing ischemia/reperfusion induced myocardial cell death in a human is provided as are methods for identifying pharmaceuticals which interfere with PUMA function. Also herein provided is a method for reducing stem cell death in stem cell explants wherein the explants are intended to restore cardiac efficiency following cell death in response to coronary infarct. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891015 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709219 | Siegel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Siegel (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes Rh(D) binding proteins, including antibodies, and DNA encoding such proteins. Methods of generating such proteins and DNAs are also included. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328483 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowsmith Technology Licensing LLC (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jefferson Foote (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for humanizing antibodies based on selecting variable region framework sequences from human antibody genes by comparing canonical CDR structure types for CDR sequences of the variable region of a non-human antibody to canonical CDR structure types for corresponding CDRs from a library of human antibody sequences, preferably germline antibody gene segments. Human antibody variable regions having similar canonical CDR structure types to the non-human CDRs form a subset of member human antibody sequences from which to select human framework sequences. The subset members may be further ranked by amino acid similarity between the human and the non-human CDR sequences. Top ranking human sequences are selected to provide the framework sequences for constructing a chimeric antibody that functionally replaces human CDR sequences with the non-human CDR counterparts using the selected subset member human frameworks, thereby providing a humanized antibody of high affinity and low immunogenicity without need for comparing framework sequences between the non-human and human antibodies. Chimeric antibodies made according to the method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/432734 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709227 | Dagher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suzanne Dagher (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | ELP fusion proteins, multimeric ELP spider complexes formed of ELP fusion proteins, and methods of using the same. The construct may be in the form of an ELP spider structure complex including multi-leg moieties comprising ELP fusion proteins capable of forming covalent disulfide bonds. The multimeric fusion constructs may be employed in peptide production and purification and/or to enhance protelytic resistance of a protein or peptide moiety in a fusion construct, by provision of the fusion protein in an ELP spider complex. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/620034 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709252 | Pastan 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) | Ira H. Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Partha S. Chowdhury (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Mesothelin is a differentiation antigen present on the surface of ovarian cancers, mesotheliomas and several other types of human cancers. Because among normal tissues, mesothelin is only present on mesothelial cells, it represents a good target for antibody mediated delivery of cytotoxic agents. The present invention is directed to anti-mesothelin antibodies, including Fv molecules with particularly high affinity for mesothelin, and immunoconjugates employing them. Also described are diagnostic and therapeutic methods using the antibodies. The anti-mesothelin antibodies are well-suited for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers of the ovary, stomach, squamous cells, mesotheliomas and other malignant cells expressing mesothelin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/055145 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HemoGenix, Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan N. Rich (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to high-throughput assay methods that determine the proliferative status of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. The present invention further relates to high-throughput assays for screening compounds that modulate the growth of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and for identifying subpopulations thereof that are suitable for transplantation. The assay of the present invention is particularly useful for quality control and monitoring of the growth potential in the stem cell transplant setting and would provide improved control over the reconstitution phase of transplanted cells. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049861 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709259 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaou-Chen Huang (Houston, Texas); Jennifer S. Goldsby (Houston, Texas); Wan-Song A. Wun (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing in vitro development of a mammalian embryo is disclosed which comprises supplementing the culture medium with a prostaglandin, or a prostaglandin analog, in an amount effective to promote complete hatching of the embryo (i.e., freeing of the embryo from the zona pellucida). The quality of human blastocysts is enhanced in vitro by culturing with a prostacyclin agonist, Iloprost. The in vivo implantation potential and live birth potential of an in vitro fertilization embryo is thereby enhanced and establishment of a viable pregnancy is facilitated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370152 |
| 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 435/387 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709266 | Mayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Mayer (Menlo Park, California); Yakir Levin (Palo Alto, California); Daniel Spielman (Menlo Park, California); Ralph Eugene Hurd (Milpitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of imaging the individual components of systems with sparse spectra using magnetic resonance imaging including the steps of a) exciting nuclei of labeled components using a MRI pulse sequence, b) selecting a proper spectral window to avoid/minimize signal overlap of aliased frequency components. In step a) preferably a spiral chemical shift imaging (spCSI) sequence is employed. In a preferred embodiment, hyperpolarized nuclei of 13C are used for labeling in a pyruvate substrate with metabolites of lacatate, alanine, and bicarbonate. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/469801 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Jian Mao (Closter, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The in vivo synthesis of connective tissue by fibroblast or fibroblast precursor cells ensconced within a biocompatible scaffold is disclosed. The cells are preferably present in a biocompatible scaffold such as gelatin and placed between two other biocompatible scaffolds such as collagen sponges soaked with a collagenic amount of a member of the TGF-β family of proteins. This composition is then implanted in a host to produce cranial sutures, periodontal ligament or other fibrous tissue structures in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119631 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709451 | Marshak-Rothstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann Marshak-Rothstein (Newton, Massachusetts); Elizabeth A. Leadbetter (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Ian R. Rifkin (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark J. Shlomchik (Woodbridge, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating immune complex associated diseases (ICAD), such as SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, and hepatitis-C related immune complex disease (e.g., cryoglobulinemia) in a subject having an ICAD or at risk for developing ICAD. The invention is based upon the surprising finding that chromatin-containing immune complexes activate autoreactive B cells and dendritic cells by a dual receptor engagement process which, in both cell types, involves a Toll-like receptor (TLR). The methods of treating ICAD comprise administering a compound to an individual in need thereof that either 1) inhibits formation of the immune complex either by preventing formation and/or binding to the TLR, or 2) interferes with binding of an autoantigen-containing immune complex (or the antigenic component thereof) to the TLR, or 3) inhibits signaling pathways initiated by dual engagement of BCR and TLR (in B cells) or FcR and TLR (in dendritic cells) via immune complexed or uncomplexed autoantigens. |
| FILED | Monday, September 09, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/487885 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709456 | Corey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Corey (Dallas, Texas); David S. Shames (Dallas, Texas); Bethany A. Janowski (Dallas, Texas); John D. Minna (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis of a target transcript of a gene is selectively increased in a mammalian cell by contacting the cell with a polynucleotide oligomer of 12-28 bases complementary to a region within a target promoter of the gene under conditions whereby the oligomer selectively increases synthesis of the target transcript. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599566 |
| 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 07709517 | Sawyers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Samedy Ouk (Costa Mesa, California); Derek Welsbie (Northridge, California); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (Nanuet, New York); Dongwon Yoo (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to diarylhydantoin compounds, including diarylthiohydantoins, and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433829 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709604 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into a peptide using an orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair. In particular, an orthogonal pair is provided to incorporate 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan in a position encoded by an opal mutation. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/016348 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709609 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis C. Harris (Garrett Park, Maryland); Makoto Nagashima (Kiryu, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of novel human tumor suppressors, antibodies to such tumor suppressors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and proteins, methods of screening for modulators of tumor suppressors, and methods of diagnosing and treating tumors with such nucleic acids and proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/962906 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709613 | Dadachova |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ekaterina Dadachova (Mahopac, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of using Rhenium radioisotopes to detect and treat tumors that express a Na+/I− symporter. The invention also provides compositions and methods of making compositions comprising Rhenium radioisotopes for detection and treatment of tumors that express a Na+/I− symporter. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/704434 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 534/10 |
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| US 07709622 | Rikihisa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasuko Rikihisa (Worthington, Ohio); Norio Ohashi (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Diagnostic tools for serodiagnosing ehrlichiosis in mammals, particularly in members of the Canidae family and in humans are provided. The diagnostic tools are a group of outer membrane proteins of E. chaffeensis and variants thereof, referred to hereinafter as the “OMP proteins”, a group of outer membrane proteins of E. canis and variants thereof referred to hereinafter as the “P30F proteins”, and antibodies to the ONP proteins and the P30F proteins. The OMP proteins of E. chaffeensis encompass OMP-1, OMP-1A, OMP1-B, OMP-1C, OMP1-D, OMP1-E, OMP1-F, OMP1-H, OMP-1R, OMP-1S, OMP-1T, OMP-1U, OMP-1V, OMP-1W, OMP-1X, OMP-1Y and OMP-1Z. The P30F proteins of E. canis encompass P30, P30a, P30-1, P30-2, P30-3; P30-4, P30-5, P30-6, P30-7, P30-8, P30-9, P30-10, P30-11, and P30-12. Isolated polynucleotides that encode the E. chaffeensis OMP proteins and isolated polynucleotides that encode the E. canis P30F protein are also provided. The present invention also relates to kits containing reagents for diagnosing human ehrlichiosis and canine ehrlichiosis, and to immunogenic compositions containing one or more OMP proteins or P30F proteins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/452602 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07709625 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Senlin Li (San Antonio, Texas); Robert A. Clark (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a peptide or protein and/or an RNA (e.g., antisense or ribozyme), wherein the promoter comprises elements that can include, but are not limited to, a) a myeloid specific promoter element comprising a core sequence GAGGAA; b) a myeloid specific promoter element comprising a core sequence AAGGAGAAG; c) a myeloid specific promoter element comprising a core sequence TTTCCAAA; d) a myeloid specific promoter element comprising a core sequence TGTGGTTGC; e) a myeloid specific promoter element comprising a core sequence TGAGTCA; f) a myeloid associated promoter element comprising a core sequence CCGCCC; and g) any combination of (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and/or (f), any combination of multiples of (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and/or (f), in any order and/or in any orientation (forward or reverse). |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199465 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
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| US 07709626 | Narayanan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jothikumar Narayanan (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Vincent Hill (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This application provides universal labeled primers for detection and amplification of nucleic acid molecules. These universal primers can be attached to the 5′-end of a target sequence-specific primer. In particular examples, the universal primer includes a labeled nucleotide flanked on both sides a nucleotide whose complement nucleotides changes a detectable signal from the label when the universal primer hybridizes with its complementary nucleic acid molecule. Also disclosed are methods of using the universal primer in nucleic acid amplification, such as real-time PCR. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267869 |
| 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 536/24.300 |
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| US 07709643 | 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); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves use of the compounds narciclasine (2a) and 7-deoxy-narciclasine (2c), which are obtained via isolation from the medicinal plant species Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae), as precursors in a novel synthesis method in which each of these compounds are selectively hydrogenated to produce trans-dihydronarciclasine (1a) and 7-deoxy-trans-dihydronarciclasine (1c). Also described herein is a novel synthesis method for producing sodium narcistatin (11) from narciclasine (2a). Further described herein are certain novel 3,4-cyclic phosphate prodrugs, including sodium-7-deoxynarcistatin (8), sodium-7-deoxy-transdihydronarcistatin (9), and sodium transdihydronarcistatin (10). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/813657 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/23 |
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| US 07709654 | Smith, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milton R. Smith, III (East Lansing, Michigan); Robert E. Maleczka, Jr. (DeWitt, Michigan); Venkata A. Kallepalli (East Lansing, Michigan); Edith Onyeozili (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Process for the preparation of oxazole, imidazole, and pyraxole boryl compounds. The compounds are intermediates to functionalized compounds, both natural and synthetic which are cytotoxic, anticancer and antiviral agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900329 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/235 |
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| US 07709659 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xumu Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Yongjun Yan (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Tetraphosphorous ligands are combined with transition metal salts to form catalysts for use in hydroformylation, isomerization-hydroformylation, hydrocarboxylation, hydrocyan-ation, isomerization-formylation, hydroaminomethylation and similar related reactions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425832 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709669 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Clary B. Clish (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspirin triggered lipid mediators (ATLMs) are disclosed which are useful for the treatment of prevention of inflammation associated with various diseases, including ischemia. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334330 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709961 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (Montrose, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Honggang Jiang (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable hermetically sealed microelectronic device and method of manufacture are disclosed. The microelectronic device of the present invention is hermetically encased in a insulator, such as alumina formed by ion bean assisted deposition (“IBAD”), with a stack of biocompatible conductive layers extending from a contact pad on the device to an aperture in the hermetic layer. In a preferred embodiment, one or more patterned titanium layers are formed over the device contact pad, and one or more platinum layers are formed over the titanium layers, such that the top surface of the upper platinum layer defines an external, biocompatible electrical contact for the device. Preferably, the bottom conductive layer is larger than the contact pad on the device, and a layer in the stack defines a shoulder. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/924486 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/769 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710061 | Niemeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Günter Niemeyer (Mountain View, California); Nicola Diolaiti (Palo Alto, California); Neal A. Tanner (Burnet, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A motor control amplifier for position feedback control is provided utilizing the inherent inductor and/or resistor dynamics of the motor. The motor control amplifier applies a voltage to the motor equivalent to the electrical motor resistance multiplied by the current of the motor, canceling out the electrical motor resistance, and thereby providing position feedback control through motor inductance. A command term/voltage could be added to make the position feedback control relative to a setpoint. Further, a motor control amplifier for feedback control to arbitrary dynamics is provided. The motor amplifier applies a voltage proportional to a wave command signal. The motor amplifier has a sensing component to provide a wave return signal to construct a wave transformer from the electrical motor resistance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891052 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/628 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710115 | Hargreaves |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a first volume and a second volume spaced apart from the first volume is provided. The first volume is excited with a first linearly varying phase with respect to k-space. The second volume is excited with a second linearly varying phase with respect to k-space, wherein the first linearly varying phase has a different slope than the second linearly varying phase. Data in k-space is acquired line by line. The acquired data in k-space is Fourier transformed to image space. An image is formed with a first volume image and a second volume image from the transformed data. Use of phase modulation allows imaging with a reduced field-of-view, which can result in faster scan times or improved performance of parallel imaging acquisition strategies. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855882 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711166 | Mistretta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Julia Velikina (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin Michael Johnson (Hartland, Wisconsin); Oliver Wieben (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of velocity encoded MR image frames are acquired. To increase the temporal resolution of the acquired image frames radial projections are acquired and each image frame is highly undersampled. The radial projections for each velocity encoding direction are interleaved throughout the scan and a composite phase image is reconstructed from these and used to reconstruct a velocity image for each image frame in a highly constrained backprojection method. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518036 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711171 | Basser 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 J. Basser (Washington, District of Columbia); Valery Pickalov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | An average propagator is estimated from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance data. Diffusion-weighted signal attenuation data is determined from the diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance data. Estimated average propagator data is determined from the diffusion-weighted signal attenuation data based on at least one of a priori information of the diffusion-weighted signal attenuation data or a priori information of the average propagator. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/407096 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711492 | Staudt 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) | Louis M. Staudt (Silver Spring, Maryland); George Wright (Takoma Park, Maryland); Sandeep Dave (Washington, District of Columbia); Bruce Tan (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Gene expression data provides a basis for more accurate identification and diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders. In addition, gene expression data can be used to develop more accurate predictors of survival. The present invention discloses methods for identifying, diagnosing, and predicting survival in a lymphoma or lymphoproliferative disorder on the basis of gene expression patterns. The invention discloses a novel microarray, the Lymph Dx microarray, for obtaining gene expression data from a lymphoma sample. The invention also discloses a variety of methods for utilizing lymphoma gene expression data to determine the identity of a particular lymphoma and to predict survival in a subject diagnosed with a particular lymphoma. This information will be useful in developing the therapeutic approach to be used with a particular subject. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934930 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711529 | MacAuslan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Speech Technology and Applied Research Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel M. MacAuslan (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for determining the number of constraints on, or topological dimension of, a set of input data produced by a nonlinear system, such as a pathological vocal or econometric system. The technique characterizes the tangent space about a predetermined base point by identifying a maximal set of non-redundant nonlinear fits to the data. It needs only a few data points and only assumes that the functional form of the true constraints is smooth. Each fit is equivalent to a set of contours, with the data lying along the zero-value contour. For each fit, the gradient at the base point in the uphill direction identifies the constraint direction. The number of linearly independent constraint directions provides the number of constraints near the base point. The remaining unconstrained directions define the tangent space, which has a dimensionality equal to the number of linearly independent unconstrained directions. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/581952 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Viecelli (Orinda, California); Lowell L. Wood (Simi Valley, California); Muriel Y. Ishikawa (Livermore, California); John H. Nuckolls (Danville, California); Phillip F. Pagoria (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hollow RX-08HD cylindrical charges were loaded with boron and PTFE, in the form of low-bulk density powders or powders dispersed in a rigid foam matrix. Each charge was initiated by a Comp B booster at one end, producing a detonation wave propagating down the length of the cylinder, crushing the foam or bulk powder and collapsing the void spaces. The PdV work done in crushing the material heated it to high temperatures, expelling it in a high velocity fluid jet. In the case of boron particles supported in foam, framing camera photos, temperature measurements, and aluminum witness plates suggest that the boron was completely vaporized by the crush wave and that the boron vapor turbulently mixed with and burned in the surrounding air. In the case of PTFE powder, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of residues recovered from fragments of a granite target slab suggest that heating was sufficient to dissociate the PTFE to carbon vapor and molecular fluorine which reacted with the quartz and aluminum silicates in the granite to form aluminum oxide and mineral fluoride compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947815 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07707854 | D'Urso |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. D'Urso (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an article having channels therethrough includes the steps of: providing a ductile structure defining at least one macro-channel, the macro-channel containing a salt; drawing the ductile structure in the axial direction of the at least one macro-channel to reduce diameter of the macro-channel; and contacting the salt with a solvent to dissolve the salt to produce an article having at least one microchannel. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687201 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708504 | Heckendorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank M. Heckendorn (Aiken, South Carolina); Athneal D. Matzolf (Martinez, Georgia); Kevin R. Hera (North Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A pneumatic nozzle capable of removing dry solid debris, liquids, and mixtures of solid and liquid waste is provided. The pneumatic nozzle uses a pressurized gas stream to push materials through the nozzle. The force of a pressurized gas stream provides a partial vacuum to allow material to be introduced into an opening of a nozzle via a slight suction force. Thereafter, individual particles and materials introduced into the pneumatic nozzle are pushed by a stream of pressurized gas through the nozzle. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/214240 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Fluid current 46/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708577 | Lallouet et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Nicolas Lallouet (62132 Fiennes, France); James Maguire (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an electrical connection structure for a superconductor element cooled by a cryogenic fluid and connected to an electrical bushing, which bushing passes successively through an enclosure at an intermediate temperature between ambient temperature and the temperature of the cryogenic fluid, and an enclosure at ambient temperature, said bushing projecting outside the ambient temperature enclosure. According to the invention, said intermediate enclosure is filled at least in part with a solid material of low thermal conductivity, such as a polyurethane foam or a cellular glass foam. The invention is applicable to connecting a superconductor cable at cryogenic temperature to a device for equipment at ambient temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/373816 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708851 | Corman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Scot Corman (Ballston Lake, New York); Henry Charles McGuigan (Duanesburg, New York); Milivoj Konstantin Brun (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A CMC article and process for producing the article to have a layer on its surface that protects a reinforcement material within the article from damage. The method entails providing a body containing a ceramic reinforcement material in a matrix material that contains a precursor of a ceramic matrix material. A fraction of the reinforcement material is present and possibly exposed at a surface of the body. The body surface is then provided with a surface layer formed of a slurry containing a particulate material but lacking the reinforcement material of the body. The body and surface layer are heated to form the article by converting the precursor within the body to form the ceramic matrix material in which the reinforcement material is contained, and by converting the surface layer to form the protective layer that covers any fraction of the reinforcement material exposed at the body surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/163618 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/89.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708943 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex L. Robinson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald P. Manginell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Matthew W. Moorman (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated fuel heating value monitoring device comprises a microfabricated gas chromatography column in combination with a catalytic microcalorimeter. The microcalorimeter can comprise a reference thermal conductivity sensor to provide diagnostics and surety. Using microfabrication techniques, the device can be manufactured in production quantities at a low per-unit cost. The microfabricated fuel heating value monitoring device enables continuous calorimetric determination of the heating value of natural gas with a 1 minute analysis time and 1.5 minute cycle time using air as a carrier gas. This device has applications in remote natural gas mining stations, pipeline switching and metering stations, turbine generators, and other industrial user sites. For gas pipelines, the device can improve gas quality during transfer and blending, and provide accurate financial accounting. For industrial end users, the device can provide continuous feedback of physical gas properties to improve combustion efficiency during use. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355661 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708949 | Stone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Governing Council of the Univ. of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard A. Stone (Brookline, Massachusetts); Shelley L. Anna (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Nathalie Bontoux (Cagnes sur Mer, France); Darren R. Link (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David A. Weitz (Bolton, Massachusetts); Irina Gitlin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Eugenia Kumacheva (Toronto, Canada); Piotr Garstecki (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Willow Diluzio (Westford, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic method and device for focusing and/or forming discontinuous sections of similar or dissimilar size in a fluid is provided. The device can be fabricated simply from readily-available, inexpensive material using simple techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/024228 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708964 | Boardman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Boardman (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert A. Carrington (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Pollution control substances may be formed from the combustion of oil shale, which may produce a kerogen-based pyrolysis gas and shale sorbent, each of which may be used to reduce, absorb, or adsorb pollutants in pollution producing combustion processes, pyrolysis processes, or other reaction processes. Pyrolysis gases produced during the combustion or gasification of oil shale may also be used as a combustion gas or may be processed or otherwise refined to produce synthetic gases and fuels. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/460547 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709056 | Elam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Elam (Elmhurst, Illinois); Alex B. F. Martinson (Evanston, Illinois); Michael J. Pellin (Naperville, Illinois); Joseph T. Hupp (Northfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for preparing a light transmitting and electrically conductive oxide film. The method and system includes providing an atomic layer deposition system, providing a first precursor selected from the group of cyclopentadienyl indium, tetrakis (dimethylamino) tin and mixtures thereof, inputting to the deposition system the first precursor for reaction for a first selected time, providing a purge gas for a selected time, providing a second precursor comprised of an oxidizer, and optionally inputting a second precursor into the deposition system for reaction and alternating for a predetermined number of cycles each of the first precursor, the purge gas and the second precursor to produce the oxide film. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804059 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709057 | Fusaro, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Anthony Fusaro, Jr. (Cobleskill, New York); Timothy Francis Bethel (Ballston Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a method for providing a clean edge at the interface of a portion of a substrate coated with a coating system and an adjacent portion of the substrate which is uncoated. The method includes the step of forming a zone of non-adherence on the substrate portion which is to be uncoated, prior to application of the coating system. The zone of non-adherence is adjacent the interface, so that the coating system will not adhere to the zone of non-adherence, but will adhere to the portion of the substrate which is to be coated with the coating system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409523 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne Lundberg (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating an atmospheric-pressure solid oxide fuel cell generator (6) in combination with a gas turbine comprising a compressor (1) and expander (2) where an inlet oxidant (20) is passed through the compressor (1) and exits as a first stream (60) and a second stream (62) the first stream passing through a flow control valve (56) to control flow and then through a heat exchanger (54) followed by mixing with the second stream (62) where the mixed streams are passed through a combustor (8) and expander (2) and the first heat exchanger for temperature control before entry into the solid oxide fuel cell generator (6), which generator (6) is also supplied with fuel (40). |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992182 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709124 | Barnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott A. Barnett (Evanston, Illinois); Tammy Lai (Evanston, Illinois); Jiang Liu (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The direct electrochemical oxidation of hydrocarbons in solid oxide fuel cells, to generate greater power densities at lower temperatures without carbon deposition. The performance obtained is comparable to that of fuel cells used for hydrogen, and is achieved by using novel anode composites at low operating temperatures. Such solid oxide fuel cells, regardless of fuel source or operation, can be configured advantageously using the structural geometries of this invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/427707 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709133 | Evans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara R. Evans (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hugh M. O'Neill (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jonathan Woodward (Surrey, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive cellulose composite includes a cellulose matrix and an electrically conductive carbonaceous material incorporated into the cellulose matrix. The electrical conductivity of the cellulose composite is at least 10 μS/cm at 25° C. The composite can be made by incorporating the electrically conductive carbonaceous material into a culture medium with a cellulose-producing organism, such as Gluconoacetobacter hansenii. The composites can be used to form electrodes, such as for use in membrane electrode assemblies for fuel cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153146 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709135 | Shore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF Corporation (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Shore (Edison, New Jersey); Ramail Matlin (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Robert Heinz (Ludwigshafen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for recovering a catalytic element from a fuel cell membrane electrode assembly. The method includes grinding the membrane electrode assembly into a powder, extracting the catalytic element by forming a slurry comprising the powder and an acid leachate adapted to dissolve the catalytic element into a soluble salt, and separating the slurry into a depleted powder and a supernatant containing the catalytic element salt. The depleted powder is washed to remove any catalytic element salt retained within pores in the depleted powder and the catalytic element is purified from the salt. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134394 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709604 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California); Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and compositions for incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into a peptide using an orthogonal aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair. In particular, an orthogonal pair is provided to incorporate 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan in a position encoded by an opal mutation. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/016348 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709728 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California); Junqiao Wu (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The highly mismatched alloy Zn1-yMnyOxTe1-x, 0≦y<1 and 0<x<1 and other Group II-IV-Oxygen implanted alloys have been synthesized using the combination of oxygen ion implantation and pulsed laser melting. Incorporation of small quantities of isovalent oxygen leads to the formation of a narrow, oxygen-derived band of extended states located within the band gap of the Zn1-yMnyTe host. With multiple band gaps that fall within the solar energy spectrum, Zn1-yMnyOxTe1-x is a material perfectly satisfying the conditions for single-junction photovoltaics with the potential for power conversion efficiencies surpassing 50%. |
| FILED | Monday, November 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999456 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709738 | Mirebeau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nexans (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre Mirebeau (Villebon S/yvette, France); Nicolas Lallouet (Fiennes, France); Sebastien Delplace (Ardres, France); Regis Lapierre (Marck, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an electrical bushing serving to make a connection at ambient temperature to a superconductor element situated in an enclosure at cryogenic temperature. The electrical bushing passes successively through an enclosure at intermediate temperature between ambient temperature and cryogenic temperature, and an enclosure at ambient temperature, and it comprises a central electrical conductor surrounded by an electrically insulating sheath. According to the invention, an electrically conductive screen connected to ground potential surrounds the insulating sheath over a section that extends from the end of the bushing that is in contact with the enclosure at cryogenic temperature at least as far as the junction between the enclosure at intermediate temperature and the enclosure at ambient temperature. The invention is more particularly applicable to making a connection to a superconductor cable. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/373853 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/73.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709742 | Allais et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nexans (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnaud Allais (Hannover, Germany); Frank Schmidt (Langenhagen, Germany); Erik Marzahn (Braunschweig, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconductor cable is described, having a superconductive flexible cable core (1) , which is laid in a cryostat (2, 3, 4), in which the cable core (1) runs in the cryostat (2, 3, 4) in the form of a wave or helix at room temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/384033 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/125.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709821 | Casstevens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Cytometry Instrumentation Systems, Inc. (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin K. Casstevens (Amherst, New York); Ryszard Burzynski (Kenmore, New York); John Weibel (Tonawanda, New York); Alexander Kachynski (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow cytometer has a flow cell through which a sample flows and at least one laser emitting an excitation beam for illuminating a corresponding interrogation region in the flow cell. Scattered and fluorescence light from each interrogation region is collected by one or more input fibers for that region, and the input fiber(s) are fed to a dispersion module for that interrogation region that disperses the incoming light into different spectral regions. The dispersed light is conveyed, such as by a plurality of output fibers, to one or more photosensitive detectors. Thus, time multiplexed light signals may be delivered to a detector whereby several unique light signals can be measured by a single detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/380434 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/573 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710007 | Liang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edison Liang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for producing relativistic particles are provided. The devices and methods involve collision of a thin collimated plasma layer from opposite sides with two counter-propagating ultra-intense laser (UL) electromagnetic (EM) pulses. The plasma layer is sufficiently thin so that the pulses penetrate and conjointly propagate through the plasma layer. The Lorenz force between induced skin currents and the magnetic field of the propagating pulses accelerates a number of “in-phase” plasma particles to relativistic velocities. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/675147 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/231.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710051 | Caporaso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Caporaso (Livermore, California); Yu-Jiuan Chen (Fremont, California); Steven A. Hawkins (Livermore, California); Stephen E. Sampayan (Manteca, California); Arthur C. Paul (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact accelerator system having an integrated particle generator-linear accelerator with a compact, small-scale construction capable of producing an energetic (˜70-250 MeV) proton beam or other nuclei and transporting the beam direction to a medical therapy patient without the need for bending magnets or other hardware often required for remote beam transport. The integrated particle generator-accelerator is actuable as a unitary body on a support structure to enable scanning of a particle beam by direction actuation of the particle generator-accelerator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586378 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710086 | Stamps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Stamps (Livermore, California); Daniel D. Yee (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A high voltage power supply for use in a system such as a microfluidics system, uses a DC-DC converter in parallel with a voltage-controlled resistor. A feedback circuit provides a control signal for the DC-DC converter and voltage-controlled resistor so as to regulate the output voltage of the high voltage power supply, as well as, to sink or source current from the high voltage supply. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/128342 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Power supply or regulation systems 323/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710232 | Stalford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold L. Stalford (Norman, Oklahoma); Vincent M. Hietala (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James G. Fleming (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carol Fleming, legal representative (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical tunable inductor is formed from a pair of substantially-identically-sized coils arranged side by side and coiled up about a central axis which is parallel to a supporting substrate. An in-plane stress gradient is responsible for coiling up the coils which. The inductance provided by the tunable inductor can be electrostatically changed either continuously or in discrete steps using electrodes on the substrate and on each coil. The tunable inductor can be formed with processes which are compatible with conventional IC fabrication so that, in some cases, the tunable inductor can be formed on a semiconductor substrate alongside or on top of an IC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746147 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711491 | Vandersall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer A. Vandersall (Livermore, California); Shea N. Gardner (San Leandro, California); David S. Clague (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computational method and computer-based system of modeling DNA synthesis for the design and interpretation of PCR amplification, parallel DNA synthesis, and microarray chip analysis. The method and system include modules that address the bioinformatics, kinetics, and thermodynamics of DNA amplification and synthesis. Specifically, the steps of DNA selection, as well as the kinetics and thermodynamics of DNA hybridization and extensions, are addressed, which enable the optimization of the processing and the prediction of the products as a function of DNA sequence, mixing protocol, time, temperature and concentration of species. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/840779 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711661 | Gentile et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Gentile (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Jason Perry (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen W. Langish (Easthampton, New Jersey); Kenneth Silber (Hopewell, New Jersey); William M. Davis (East Windsor, New Jersey); Dana Mastrovito (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for identifying radionuclide emissions is described. The system includes at least one processor for processing output signals from a radionuclide detecting device, at least one training algorithm run by the at least one processor for analyzing data derived from at least one set of known sample data from the output signals, at least one classification algorithm derived from the training algorithm for classifying unknown sample data, wherein the at least one training algorithm analyzes the at least one sample data set to derive at least one rule used by said classification algorithm for identifying at least one radionuclide emission detected by the detecting device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/743421 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07712092 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sorav Bansal (New Delhi, India); Alex Aiken (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An efficient binary translator uses peephole translation rules to directly translate executable code from one instruction set to another. In a preferred embodiment, the translation rules are generated using superoptimization techniques that enable the translator to automatically learn translation rules for translating code from the source to target instruction set architecture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/069755 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07708908 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jae Cheol Cho (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Laura K. Povlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David C. Martin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroconductive carboxylic acid functionalized monomer corresponding to Formula (I), wherein A represents a hydrogen or a carboxyl group. Polymerized monomers of Formula (I) conjugated with a biomolecule result in conjugated PEDOT polymers of Formula (III) wherein A is a hydrogen or a carboxylic acid group and B is a biomolecule selected from the group consisting of a peptide, a protein, a lipid, a carbohydrate and a polynucleotide. The biomolecule conjugated polymers can be disposed onto an electrically conductive substrate wherein the substrate has a first layer of PEDOT polymerized on a surface of the substrate and a second layer of biomolecule conjugated PEDOT polymer of Formula (III) polymerized on the first layer of PEDOT. The first and second layers form a charge transport material in electrical communication with the conductive substrate. The electrically conductive substrate further comprises a dopant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038138 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708944 | Sadik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omowunmi A. Sadik (Vestal, New York); Jason Karasinski (Forty Fort, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight, rugged, easy-to-operate biosensor useful for rapidly detecting cells, viruses, antibodies, and other proteins. A capillary tube has a capture antibody immobilized on its interior surface. The specific capture antibody is selected based upon a desired target analyte to be detected. A sample potentially containing the target antigen is introduced into the capillary tube. Thereafter, a second antibody labeled with a fluorescent dye is introduced. Upon excitation by electromagnetic energy, typically supplied by a laser, the fluorescence of the sample is captured and analyzed. The apparatus is extremely compact and rugged making it ideal for field use. In addition, accurate results may be obtained by relatively unskilled operators directly from a self-contained readout. Optionally, an external device (e.g., a computer) may be connected to the apparatus via an optional interface. The analysis time provided by the biosensor system of the invention is shorter than has heretofore been possible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451842 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07708949 | Stone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Governing Council of the Univ. of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard A. Stone (Brookline, Massachusetts); Shelley L. Anna (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Nathalie Bontoux (Cagnes sur Mer, France); Darren R. Link (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David A. Weitz (Bolton, Massachusetts); Irina Gitlin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Eugenia Kumacheva (Toronto, Canada); Piotr Garstecki (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Willow Diluzio (Westford, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic method and device for focusing and/or forming discontinuous sections of similar or dissimilar size in a fluid is provided. The device can be fabricated simply from readily-available, inexpensive material using simple techniques. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/024228 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709054 | Mao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guangzhao Mao (Northville, Michigan); Stephanie L. Brock (Ferndale, Michigan); Dongzhong Chen (Longjiang Community of Gulo, China PRC); Ruomiao Wang (Detroit, Michigan); Indika U. Arachchige (Detroit, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a particle-rod nanostructure is disclosed. The method comprises preparing a mixture comprising an inorganic nanoparticle and an organic molecule in a solvent. The method further comprises spin-coating the mixture to nucleate a crystal growth of the organic molecule on the inorganic nanoparticle deposited on a substrate, yielding the particle-rod nanostructure. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486663 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709087 | Majidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmel Majidi (Berkeley, California); Richard E. Groff (Central, South Carolina); Ronald S. Fearing (Orinda, California); Steven D. Jones (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fabricated microstructure includes a substrate, a primary fiber, and a plurality of base fibers. The primary fiber has a width less than about 5 microns. Each base fiber of the plurality of base fibers has a first end attached to the primary fiber and a second end attached to the substrate. Each base fiber has a width less than the width of the primary fiber. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601528 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709113 | Logan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); Ion Power, Inc. (New Castle, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen Grot (Newark, Germany); Thomas E. Mallouk (State College, Pennsylvania); Hong Liu (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and processes for producing hydrogen using bacteria are described. One detailed process for producing hydrogen uses a system for producing hydrogen as described herein, the system including a reactor. Anodophilic bacteria are disposed within the interior of the reactor and an organic material oxidizable by an oxidizing activity of the anodophilic bacteria is introduced and incubated under oxidizing reactions conditions such that electrons are produced and transferred to the anode. A power source is activated to increase a potential between the anode and the cathode, such that electrons and protons combine to produce hydrogen gas. In one system for producing hydrogen is provided which includes a reaction chamber having a wall defining an interior of the reactor and an exterior of the reaction chamber. An anode is provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber and a cathode is also provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber. The cathode is spaced apart at a distance in the range between 0.1-100 centimeters, inclusive, from the anode. A conductive conduit for electrons is provided which is in electrical communication with the anode and the cathode and a power source for enhancing an electrical potential between the anode and cathode is included which is in electrical communication at least with the cathode. A first channel defining a passage from the exterior of the reaction chamber to the interior of the reaction chamber is also included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/360708 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709115 | Leddy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johna Leddy (Iowa City, Iowa); Pengcheng Zou (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for making magnetically modified electrodes and electrodes made according to the method. Such electrode are useful as electrodes in batteries, such as Ni-MH batteries, Ni—Cd batteries, Ni—Zn batteries and Ni—Fe batteries. |
| FILED | Monday, February 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/356723 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Wu Chu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a superconducting composition comprising an oxide complex of the formula [L1−xMx]aAbOy wherein L is lanthanum, lutetium, yttrium or scandium; A is copper, bismuth, titanium, tungsten, zirconium, tantalum, niobium, or vanadium; M is barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium or mercury; and “a” is 1 to 2; “b” is 1; “x” is a number in the range of 0.01 to 0.5 and preferably 0.075 to 0.5; and “y” is about 2 to about 4. The oxide complexes of the invention are prepared by solid-state reaction procedure which produce oxide complexes having enhanced superconducting transition temperatures compared to an oxide complex of like empirical composition prepared by a coprecipitation—high temperature decomposition procedure. With a solid-state reaction prepared oxide complex of the invention a transition temperature as high as 100° K has been observed even under atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 1989 |
| APPL NO | 07/300063 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709544 | Doyle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick S. Doyle (Boston, Massachusetts); Daniel C. Pregibon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dhananjay Dendukuri (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for synthesizing polymeric microstructures, a monomer stream is flowed, at a selected flow rate, through a fluidic channel. At least one shaped pulse of illumination is projected to the monomer stream, defining in the monomer stream a shape of at least one microstructure corresponding to the illumination pulse shape while polymerizing that microstructure shape in the monomer stream by the illumination pulse. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586197 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709569 | Rafailovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miriam Rafailovich (Plainview, New York); Jonathan Sokolov (Plainview, New York); Benjamin Chu (Setauket, New York); Shaoming Zhu (Commack, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition which includes polymethylmethacrylate and an organoclay functionalized with an intercalation agent, wherein said intercalation agent is a reaction product of a polyamine and an alkyl halide in a polar solvent, preferably a di-methyl, di-tallow ammonium functionalized montmorillonite clay. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380602 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709959 | Watkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Watkins (South Hadley, Massachusetts); Yinfeng Zong (Milford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An article includes a substrate and a metal layer adhered to a surface of the substrate so as to form an interface. The interface comprises an atomic concentration of carbon that is about 10% or less and of oxygen that is about 10% or less as determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363403 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710566 | Arnott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Patrick Arnott (Reno, Nevada); Hans Moosmuller (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Photoacoustic instruments and their methods of use are disclosed. Certain disclosed photoacoustic instruments include a resonator cavity, an acoustic detector, a laser, an optical power detector, and a scattering detector. Further disclosed photoacoustic instruments include a resonator cavity, an acoustic detector, an optical power detector, a plurality of laser beams, each laser beam having a different wavelength, and, optionally, a scattering detector. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139166 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710827 | Arnoult, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Alaska (Fairbanks, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth M. Arnoult, Jr. (Fairbanks, Alaska); John V. Olson (Fairbanks, Alaska); Curt A. L. Szuberla (Fairbanks, Alaska) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided herein for signal source tracking. A signal emitted over time from a moving source is a collection of small sub-signals that were emitted by the source at different positions along its path. If the source is traveling at a slower speed than the signal, the sub-signals will arrive at a given sensor in the same order that they were released. By identifying the locations and times of the releases of several of these sub-signals, the path and velocity of the moving source can be estimated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832051 |
| 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 367/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt David Murrow (West Chester, Ohio); Rollin George Giffin (Cincinnati, Ohio); Oladapo Fakunle (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An axial flow positive displacement engine has an inlet axially spaced apart and upstream from an outlet. Inner and outer bodies have offset inner and outer axes extend from the inlet to the outlet through first, second, and third sections of a core assembly in serial downstream flow relationship. At least one of the bodies is rotatable about its axis. The inner and outer bodies have intermeshed inner and outer helical blades wound about the inner and outer axes respectively. The inner and outer helical blades extend radially outwardly and inwardly respectively. The helical blades have first, second, and third twist slopes in the first, second, and third sections respectively. The first twist slopes are less than the second twist slopes and the third twist slopes are less than the second twist slopes. A combustor section extends axially downstream through at least a portion of the second section. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/313146 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709418 | Chu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Wu Chu (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a superconducting composition comprising an oxide complex of the formula [L1−xMx]aAbOy wherein L is lanthanum, lutetium, yttrium or scandium; A is copper, bismuth, titanium, tungsten, zirconium, tantalum, niobium, or vanadium; M is barium, strontium, calcium, magnesium or mercury; and “a” is 1 to 2; “b” is 1; “x” is a number in the range of 0.01 to 0.5 and preferably 0.075 to 0.5; and “y” is about 2 to about 4. The oxide complexes of the invention are prepared by solid-state reaction procedure which produce oxide complexes having enhanced superconducting transition temperatures compared to an oxide complex of like empirical composition prepared by a coprecipitation—high temperature decomposition procedure. With a solid-state reaction prepared oxide complex of the invention a transition temperature as high as 100° K has been observed even under atmospheric pressure. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 1989 |
| APPL NO | 07/300063 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709729 | Simburger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California); ILC Dover, LP (Frederica, Delaware); Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Simburger (Agoura, California); James H. Matsumoto (Los Angeles, California); Thomas W. Giants (Santa Monica, California); Alec Garcia, III (Santa Clarita, California); Alan R. Perry (Conifer, California); Suraj Rawal (Littleton, Colorado); Craig H. Marshall (Littleton, Colorado); John K. H. Lin (Middletown, Delaware); Jonathan Robert Day (Dover, Delaware); Thomas W. Kerslake (Strongsville, Ohio); Stephen E. Scarborough (Seaford, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible inflatable hinge includes curable resin for rigidly positioning panels of solar cells about the hinge in which wrap around contacts and flex circuits are disposed for routing power from the solar cells to the power bus further used for grounding the hinge. An indium tin oxide and magnesium fluoride coating is used to prevent static discharge while being transparent to ultraviolet light that cures the embedded resin after deployment for rigidizing the inflatable hinge. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771719 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710007 | Liang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edison Liang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices and methods for producing relativistic particles are provided. The devices and methods involve collision of a thin collimated plasma layer from opposite sides with two counter-propagating ultra-intense laser (UL) electromagnetic (EM) pulses. The plasma layer is sufficiently thin so that the pulses penetrate and conjointly propagate through the plasma layer. The Lorenz force between induced skin currents and the magnetic field of the propagating pulses accelerates a number of “in-phase” plasma particles to relativistic velocities. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/675147 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/231.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711455 | Cogan |
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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) | Bruce R. Cogan (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-cost, easily retrofit Propulsion Controlled Aircraft (PCA) system for use on a wide range of commercial and military aircraft consists of an propulsion controlled aircraft computer that reads in aircraft data including aircraft state, pilot commands and other related data, calculates aircraft throttle position for a given maneuver commanded by the pilot, and then displays both current and calculated throttle position on a cockpit display to show the pilot where to move throttles to achieve the commanded maneuver, or is automatically sent digitally to command the engines directly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/463485 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711509 | Woodard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of calibrating a fluid-level measurement system is provided. A first response of the system is recorded when the system's sensor(s) is (are) not in contact with a fluid of interest. A second response of the system is recorded when the system's sensor(s) is (are) fully immersed in the fluid of interest. Using the first and second responses, a plurality of expected responses of the system's sensor(s) is (are) generated for a corresponding plurality of levels of immersion of the sensor(s) in the fluid of interest. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930222 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07708829 | Sachs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuel Michael Sachs (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for growing a crystalline or poly-crystalline body from a melt is described, wherein the melt is retained by capillary attachment to edge features of a mesa crucible. The boundary profile of the resulting melt surface results in an effect which induces a ribbon grown from the surface of the melt to grow as a flat body. Further, the size of the melt pool is substantially reduced by bringing these edges close to the ribbon, thereby reducing the materials cost and electric power cost associated with the process. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483438 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709787 | Carter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger G. Carter (Rigby, Idaho); Shane A. Beard (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Debbie J. LaCroix (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Randall C. Johnson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for measuring low or trace concentrations of compounds and mixture of gases. A method and apparatus of the invention permits separating ions of different mobilities by passing them through an abrupt change or step in electric field magnitude. By using the separation method, the compounds of interest may be measured with less interference from other compounds of the gas mixture, which reduces or eliminates the need for prior separation of the components of the gas mixture. Several embodiments of the invention are described including the use of current amplifiers on one, or more, parts of the apparatus. While a single screen can provide a chamber which is divided into two regions of different electric fields, it is within the scope of the invention to include multiple screens to provide several steps in the electric field permitting it to be possible to trap and measure ions with successively higher mobilities. The gases used include halogenated compounds, including fluorocarbons, and most preferable SF6. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/892610 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709807 | McClelland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jabez J. McClelland (Bethesda, Maryland); James L. Hanssen (Silver Spring, Maryland); Marcus Jacka (York, United Kingdom); Shannon B. Hill (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are disclosed for producing a source of ions, and particularly, a focused ion beam. The system and method use a magneto-optical trap (MOT) to produce a population of neutral atoms. A laser is then utilized to ionize atoms and produce a population of ions. An extraction element is then used to transfer the ions so that they can be used in a wide array of applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/116522 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/423.P00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07707788 | Bystricky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel Bystricky (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A buckling restrained brace includes a deformable core contained within an outer casing. Ends of the core protrude from the casing for connection to a frame or other structure. A length of the deformable core between its ends, referred to as the gauge or yielding section, is capable of deforming during an earthquake or blast loading. The gauge section is differentially heat treated from the ends so that the gauge section has a lower yield strength than the ends. The casing provides containment of the core to prevent buckling of the core. A metal foil interface or unbonding layer is provided between the deformable core and the casing so that the deformable core does not bind to the casing. The buckling restrained brace provides significant performance improvements over prior art BRBs coupled with simplified assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725582 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/167.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709258 | Rich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HemoGenix, Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan N. Rich (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to high-throughput assay methods that determine the proliferative status of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. The present invention further relates to high-throughput assays for screening compounds that modulate the growth of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and for identifying subpopulations thereof that are suitable for transplantation. The assay of the present invention is particularly useful for quality control and monitoring of the growth potential in the stem cell transplant setting and would provide improved control over the reconstitution phase of transplanted cells. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049861 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711120 | Kimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InfoAssure, Inc. (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald D. Kimmel (Stevensville, Maryland); Francis J. Adamouski (Springfield, Virginia); Ersin L. Domangue (Woodbine, Maryland); Wayne R. Kimmel (Glen Burnie, Maryland); James G. Lightburn (Arnold, Maryland); Leonard R. Viola (Purcellville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryptographic coalition administrator for managing information access across multiple organizations includes a communications interface configured to communicate electronically transmit and receive information, a memory configured to store pairs of public and private cryptographic keys associated with different levels of access, and a key manager configured and connected to communicate with the interface and the memory and configured to: distribute cryptographic key sets, of public cryptographic keys and private cryptographic keys, to first and second organizations of members; determine a first group of members in the first organization to have authorization to exchange information with a second group of members in the second organization, the first and second groups sharing cryptographic parameters, and public and private cryptographic keys; and distribute a first cryptographic key set, from the cryptographic key sets, to the first group, the first group having a first sensitivity level at least as high as a second sensitivity level associated with the first cryptographic key set. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193227 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07707767 | Ragon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation (Mississippi State, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin W. Ragon (Sturgis, Mississippi); J. Patrick Donohoe (Starkville, Mississippi); Terry Amburgey (Sturgis, Mississippi); Michael Sanders (Sturgis, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method, system and apparatus for controlling the movement of insects such as termites by using a vibration device that produces mechanical vibrations within a certain frequency range. The frequency range may be chosen to attract or repel. The source may be coupled with insect food sources or other attractants. The present invention can be used to protect a natural or man-made structure from termite infestation. The present invention can also be used for controlling activity of other social insects such as ants, bees and wasps. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634943 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/132.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709113 | Logan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); Ion Power, Inc. (New Castle, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Logan (State College, Pennsylvania); Stephen Grot (Newark, Germany); Thomas E. Mallouk (State College, Pennsylvania); Hong Liu (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and processes for producing hydrogen using bacteria are described. One detailed process for producing hydrogen uses a system for producing hydrogen as described herein, the system including a reactor. Anodophilic bacteria are disposed within the interior of the reactor and an organic material oxidizable by an oxidizing activity of the anodophilic bacteria is introduced and incubated under oxidizing reactions conditions such that electrons are produced and transferred to the anode. A power source is activated to increase a potential between the anode and the cathode, such that electrons and protons combine to produce hydrogen gas. In one system for producing hydrogen is provided which includes a reaction chamber having a wall defining an interior of the reactor and an exterior of the reaction chamber. An anode is provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber and a cathode is also provided which is at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber. The cathode is spaced apart at a distance in the range between 0.1-100 centimeters, inclusive, from the anode. A conductive conduit for electrons is provided which is in electrical communication with the anode and the cathode and a power source for enhancing an electrical potential between the anode and cathode is included which is in electrical communication at least with the cathode. A first channel defining a passage from the exterior of the reaction chamber to the interior of the reaction chamber is also included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/360708 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07708944 | Sadik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omowunmi A. Sadik (Vestal, New York); Jason Karasinski (Forty Fort, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight, rugged, easy-to-operate biosensor useful for rapidly detecting cells, viruses, antibodies, and other proteins. A capillary tube has a capture antibody immobilized on its interior surface. The specific capture antibody is selected based upon a desired target analyte to be detected. A sample potentially containing the target antigen is introduced into the capillary tube. Thereafter, a second antibody labeled with a fluorescent dye is introduced. Upon excitation by electromagnetic energy, typically supplied by a laser, the fluorescence of the sample is captured and analyzed. The apparatus is extremely compact and rugged making it ideal for field use. In addition, accurate results may be obtained by relatively unskilled operators directly from a self-contained readout. Optionally, an external device (e.g., a computer) may be connected to the apparatus via an optional interface. The analysis time provided by the biosensor system of the invention is shorter than has heretofore been possible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451842 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709635 | Davis, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Alabama (Mobile, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Davis, Jr. (Mobile, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to “boronium” ions that are stable, hydrophobic, room-temperature ionic liquids. In certain embodiments, ionic liquids of the instant invention are represented by the formula [XnBY4−n]+(n−1)(n−1)Z−1, wherein X refers to a Lewis base, Y refers to a substituent covalently bonded to boron, Z−1 is a charge diffuse anion, and x is 2, 3 or 4. In certain embodiments, the ionic liquids of the instant invention are of the general type [X2BY2]+1Tf2N−1, wherein each X is independently a tertiary amine, a N-alkylimidazole or a pyridine; and each B—X bond is a B—N bond. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437417 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/541 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07709031 | Greenway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank L. Greenway (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Zhijun Liu (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Eugene A. Woltering (Kenner, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An extract of Chinese blackberry (Rubus suavissimus) has been found to inhibit angiogenesis, and two active fractions isolated. Gallic acid was shown to be one of the active anti-angiogenic compounds by an in vitro human angiogenesis model. Aqueous extracts from other plants either known or found to have gallic acid were also found to have anti-angiogenic activity. Various derivatives of gallic acid were found to inhibit angiogenesis. The extract from Chinese blackberry also slowed the growth of a pancreatic tumor and of corneal neovascularization in rats. Extracts from pomegranate were shown to inhibit angiogenesis in fat tissue. Extracts from Rubus spp, and other plants with gallic acid, and gallic acid and its derivatives will be useful for treating various diseases associated with neovascularization, including diabetic retinopathy, psoriasis, tumors, obesity, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559091 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07711821 | Pendarakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for autonomic system management in a computing system containing system resources including network resources and multiple resource demands, or processes. The computing system may be a stream-processing system or other real-time computer management system, such as workload management, or a virtualization engine. The system and method enables achieving a better level of performance than would occur in the computing system using only existing mechanism. It permits, with very low computational overhead, achieving or driving the system closer to a user-defined system performance objective. To do so, a system performance equation is defined to determine a level of performance of the system as a function of the allocation of two or more system resources among a plurality of system resource demands or processes. From this system performance equation, a plurality of resource-specific change equations is derived. Each resource-specific change equation is capable of calculating changes in the level of performance of the system attributable to changes in the allocation of one of the system resources. The resource-specific change equation yielding the greatest change in the level of system performance at a given allocation of all of the system resources and the system resource associated with the identified resource-specific change equation are identified. The allocation of the identified associated system resource to at least one system resource demand to provide the largest increase in the level of performance of the system, and allocations for all system resources are adjusted in accordance with the modified allocation of the identified associated system resource. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444162 |
| ART UNIT | 2458 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07709643 | 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); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention involves use of the compounds narciclasine (2a) and 7-deoxy-narciclasine (2c), which are obtained via isolation from the medicinal plant species Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae), as precursors in a novel synthesis method in which each of these compounds are selectively hydrogenated to produce trans-dihydronarciclasine (1a) and 7-deoxy-trans-dihydronarciclasine (1c). Also described herein is a novel synthesis method for producing sodium narcistatin (11) from narciclasine (2a). Further described herein are certain novel 3,4-cyclic phosphate prodrugs, including sodium-7-deoxynarcistatin (8), sodium-7-deoxy-transdihydronarcistatin (9), and sodium transdihydronarcistatin (10). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/813657 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07708160 | Booth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary E. Booth (Germantown, Maryland); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); Terry M. Cossin (Castle Rock, Colorado); Edward S. Mascali (Falls Church, Virginia); Paul E. Vogel (Dunn Loring, Virginia); Ralph E. Walker (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A collapsible container having a base with top and bottom surfaces, a plurality of support members, legs attached to the base and configured to support a second collapsible container placed on a first collapsible container and a plurality of side panels, wherein at least one of the side panels is configured to lock in place in at least one position, wherein at least one of the side panels has both a foldable portion and a fixed portion and wherein the system provides for load bearing members for securing another collapsible container or device on top of a first collapsible container in either the folded or the extended configuration. Some embodiments of the collapsible container include an anchor member configured to anchor the collapsible container to a surface. Methods of stacking and methods of manufacturing the above embodiments are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329405 |
| ART UNIT | 3781 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/4.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07709261 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); Susan J. Berrios-Rivera (Pearland, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a novel recombinant NADH recycling system that is used as a process for producing reduced compounds. In a specific embodiment, the reduced compounds include ethanol, succinate, lactate, a vitamin, a pharmaceutical and a biodegraded organic molecule. The NADH recycling system effects metabolic flux of reductive pathways in aerobic and anaerobic environments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/773408 |
| 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 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07709535 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The University of Rochester Medical Center (Rochester, New York); Androscience Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuo-Hsiung Lee (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Li Lin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Charles C-Y Shih (Solana Beach, California); Ching-Yuan Su (San Diego, California); Junko Ishida (Tokyo, Japan); Hironori Ohtsu (Matsubara, Japan); Hui-Kang Wang (San Diego, California); Hideji Itokawa (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Chawnshang Chang (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds capable of acting as androgen receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical formulations containing the same, and methods of use thereof. Such uses include, but are not limited to, use as antitumor agents, particularly for the treatment of cancers such as colon, skin and prostate cancer and to induce androgen receptor antagonist activity in a subject afflicted with an androgen-related affliction. Examples of androgen-related afflictions include, but are not limited to, baldness, hirsutism, behavioral disorders, acne, and uninhibited spermatogenesis wherein inhibition of spermatogenesis is so desired. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/030691 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07710643 | Mitchell-Dignan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alion Science and Technology Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Mitchell-Dignan (Groton, Connecticut); John A. Santini (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Barry E. Mapen (Stonington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An image projection system that communicates an image into the air includes screen material particles, a screen generation device, a delivery device and a light projecting system. The screen generation device disperses the screen material particles from the screen generation device at a targeted screen location, thereby forming a projection screen. The delivery device launches the screen generation device from a launch location to the targeted screen location in the air. The light projecting device projects light from a projection location onto the screen to form the image on the screen so as to be visible from an observation location of a viewer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/902936 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07711015 | Holonyak, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois); Milton Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Gabriel Walter (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling operation of a transistor includes the following steps: providing a bipolar transistor having emitter, base and collector regions; applying electrical signals to the transistor to produce light emission from the transistor; effecting photon-assisted tunneling of carriers in the transistor with self-generated photons of the light emission, and controlling operation of the transistor by controlling the photon-assisted tunneling. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805859 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/11 |
| 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, May 04, 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
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2010/fedinvent-patents-20100504.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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