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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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| US 07712213 | Karmazyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AAI Corporation (Hunt Valley, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Karmazyn (Sparrows Point, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for making an encapsulated stack of circuit boards. The method includes assembling the stack of circuit boards from a plurality of circuit boards, the circuit boards being spaced apart from each other; inserting the stack into an internal volume of a shell, the shell having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, an input orifice adjacent the first end, and an output orifice adjacent the second end and on a side opposite the input orifice; positioning the shell such that the input orifice is at a lowest point of any part of the internal volume of the shell, and such that the output orifice is at a highest point of any part of the internal volume of the shell; angling the shell relative to horizontal; and injecting an encapsulating compound into the input orifice to fill the internal volume of the shell with the encapsulating compound. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/606961 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/855 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07712417 | Einstein 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) | Sandor Einstein (Denville, New Jersey); Adriana Eng (Randolph, New Jersey); Donald Chiu (Fresh Meadow, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular propellant charge for semi-fixed ammunition is disclosed. The propellant charge is disposed within an ammunition cartridge canister, and permits direct access to each charge increment. Further, the propellant charge comprises at least one charge increment comprising a rigid section of a cylindrical solid of rotation, and each charge increment has a length less than the central cavity of said ammunition canister. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/306927 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07712419 | Cheng 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) | Gartung Cheng (Edison, New Jersey); Neha Mehta (Succasunna, New Jersey); Emily A. Cordaro (Hopatcong, New Jersey); Gregory Papatrefon (Somerset, New Jersey); Carl Hu (Parsippany, New Jersey); Brian Fuchs (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Neelam Mehta (Bel Air, Maryland); Kathy Yang (Ledgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A detonator for a hand grenade fuze comprises a detonator case; a slider that is transversely reciprocable in the detonator case from an unarmed position to an armed position, the slider including a longitudinal through-hole filled with a primary explosive; a spring that biases the slider to the unarmed position; an arming mechanism attached to the slider, the arming mechanism comprising a shape memory alloy; an explosive lead disposed below the slider; and a booster charge disposed below the explosive lead. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747397 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07712429 | Gibson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Gibson (Lynn Haven, Florida); Robert Peebles (Lynn Haven, Florida); Edward Hendrickson (Panama City Beach, Florida); Danny Smith (Panama City Beach, Florida); Sauer Brian (Brunswick, Georgia); William R. Walton (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system operable by a single workman safely launches and recovers an unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) using a motor-driven carriage to transport the UUV to the water. The UUV is fitted to a reconfigurable sabot. An elevating ramp on the carriage supports the sabot and UUV on an elongate conveyer assembly having inclined rollers aligned with motor-driven belts to selectively outwardly and inwardly displace the UUV between the carriage and the water. Hinge members are used to rotatably connect the elevating ramp to the carriage, and a lifting mechanism connected to the carriage and ramp rotatably displaces the ramp about the hinge members. The rollers and belts displace the UUV on the conveyer assembly. A winch on the elevating ramp has a line connected to the UUV to lower and raise the UUV during launch and recovery operations. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879521 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07712727 | Cole |
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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) | Robert E. Cole (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method retracts and lets-out a laterally extending flexible bow seal on an air cushion vehicle having a bow ramp. Attachment loops on the forward outside surface of the bow seal receive a skirt cable. A separate cable routing system is connected to opposite ends of the skirt cable for selectively retracting and letting-out the bow seal. The cable routing systems also include ramp cables connected to the bow ramp to raise or lower the bow ramp. The cable routing systems retract the bow seal with the skirt cable simultaneously as the bow ramp is lowered by letting out the ramp cables, and the cable routing systems let-out the bow seal with the skirt cable simultaneously as the bow ramp is raised by drawing in the ramp cables. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900146 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force 254/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713201 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Mostafa Fatemi (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a shear elasticity and shear viscosity of a material based on resonance characteristics. A focused ultrasound wave is directed at the material to induce oscillations in the material, and a velocity of the material is measured. A spectrum of frequency of oscillation versus velocity is developed, and the resonance characteristics exhibited by the spectrum are used to estimate the shear elasticity and viscosity of the material. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/821461 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713334 | Peterson 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) | Gregory W. Peterson (Belcamp, Maryland); Christopher J. Karwacki (Churchville, Maryland); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); William B. Feaver (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for removing epoxides from a process stream over a wide range of temperature and relative humidity, comprising the step of contacting the process stream with a filtration media comprising an acid form of a mesoporous zeolite produced from pentasil zeolite treated with a caustic agent, for a sufficient time to remove the epoxides therefrom. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869349 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713347 | Krienke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Krienke (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A binder formulation is provided that is capable of forming a heat and erosion resistant coating on the surface of a substrate, particularly a substrate comprising titanium or aluminum. The binder formulation comprises a metal alkoxide compound, such as a titanium alkoxide and an organosilane, such as 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane (GTMS). The binder material may be capable of strongly bonding the binder to the substrate. The binder coating may also include one or more additives that may help improve the heat resistance and impact absorbance of the coating. The binder may also include one or more pigments so that the resulting sol-gel coating has a desired appearance and properties. The sol-gel coating can be cured under ambient conditions and does not require additional heat curing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/302630 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/287.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713352 | Sunkara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahendra Kumar Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky); Shashank Sharma (San Jose, California); Hari Chandrasekaran (Louisville, Kentucky); Hongwei Li (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Sreeram Vaddiraju (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided to produce bulk quantities of nanowires in a variety of semiconductor materials. Thin films and droplets of low-melting metals such as gallium, indium, bismuth, and aluminum are used to dissolve and to produce nanowires. The dissolution of solutes can be achieved by using a solid source of solute and low-melting metal, or using a vapor phase source of solute and low-melting metal. The resulting nanowires range in size from 1 nanometer up to 1 micron in diameter and lengths ranging from 1 nanometer to several hundred nanometers or microns. This process does not require the use of metals such as gold and iron in the form of clusters whose size determines the resulting nanowire size. In addition, the process allows for a lower growth temperature, better control over size and size distribution, and better control over the composition and purity of the nanowire produced therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521084 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713721 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002387 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713733 | Cliffel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Cliffel (Nashville, Tennessee); Franz J. Baudenbacher (Franklin, Tennessee); John P. Wikswo (Brentwood, Tennessee); Sven Eklund (Antioch, Tennessee); R. Robert Balcarcel (Nashville, Tennessee); Jonathan M. Gilligan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for detecting at least one analyte of interest either produced or consumed by a plurality of cell. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes the steps of providing a housing defining a chamber, placing a plurality of cells in the chamber, and simultaneously detecting at least two analytes of interest either produced or consumed by the plurality of cells in the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/483466 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/305.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713736 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Jaisree Moorthy (Madison, Wisconsin); Richard R. Burgess (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A platform and method for mimicking the environment within a cell is provided. The platform includes a microfluidic device defining a chamber. At least one hydrogel post is positioned within the chamber of the microfluidic device. Each hydrogel post defines a corresponding pore for receiving a first molecule therein. Second molecules are introduced into the pores of the hydrogel posts and the interactions between the first and second molecules are observed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/997259 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713778 | Li et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Yang Li (Irvine, California); Frederique Cunin (34250 Palavas les Flots, France); Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Jamie R. Link (Arlington, Virginia); Ting Gao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating three-dimensional nanostructures that includes providing a silicon substrate, creating a porous silicon template from the silicon substrate, wherein the template is created to have a predetermined configuration, depositing a predetermined material on the porous silicon template, and removing the porous silicon template from the deposited material to leave a freestanding nanostructure. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/544801 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713835 | Pillalamarri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil K. Pillalamarri (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | New spin-on, bonding compositions and methods of using those compositions are provided. The cured bonding compositions comprise a crosslinked oxazoline (either crosslinked with another oxazoline or with a crosslinking agent), and can be used to bond an active wafer to a carrier wafer or substrate to assist in protecting the active wafer and its active sites during subsequent processing and handling. The compositions form bonding layers that are chemically and thermally resistant, but that can be thermally decomposed at 285° C. or higher to allow the wafers to slide apart at the appropriate stage in the fabrication process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/866908 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713914 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Frank E. Inscore (Bristol, Connecticut); Alan D. Gift (Lafayette, Indiana); Chetan Shrikant Shende (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A weak organic acid is used to effect the release of CaDPA from Bacillus or Clostridium endospores, rapidly and at room temperature, to enable detection and measurement of DPA and thereby the assessment of risk associated with exposure to Bacillus anthracis, Clostridium botulinum, and like spores. The method can be applied to airborne, food-borne, and water-borne spores, as well as to spores collected from surfaces or contained in body fluids, and analysis is advantageously carried out using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355782 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714099 | Morishita et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan); Sumation Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshii Morishita (Tsukuba, Japan); Satoyuki Nomura (Tsukuba, Japan); Yoshihiro Tsuda (Tsukuba, Japan); Seiji Tai (Tokyo, Japan); Matthew L. Marrocco, III (Fontana, California); Farshad J. Motamedi (Claremont, California); Li-Sheng Wang (Arcadia, California); Yongchao Liang (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High quantum yield luminescent monomers, oligomers, and polymers, comprising benzotriazole repeating units and derivatives thereof have been discovered and utilized in optical devices and components therefor, including electroluminescent devices, light emitting devices, photoluminescent devices, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), OLED displays, sensors, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/966370 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714102 | Oh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youngman Oh (Glen Allen, Virginia); Ron G. Rosenfeld (Los Altos, California); Caroline K. Buckway (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed novel mutant IGFBP-3 polypeptides and fragments thereof that have either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the human IGFBP-3 receptor (“P4.33”). The present invention provides novel mutant IGFBP-3 nucleic acid sequences, and expression systems. Additional exemplary embodiments provide for screening assays for identifying IGFBP-3 receptor antagonists or agonists, methods for modulating IGF-independent IGFBP-3 responses of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, methods for inducing or potentiating apoptosis of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, methods for treating solid tumors having cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, and compositions comprising polypeptides having either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the IGFBP-3 receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/369268 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714504 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Paul E. Burrows (Kennewick, Washington); Linda Susan Sapochak (Arlington, Virginia); Dennis Matthew McCarty (Pennsauken, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A multicolor organic light emitting device employs vertically stacked layers of double heterostructure devices which are fabricated from organic compounds. The vertical stacked structure is formed on a glass base having a transparent coating of ITO or similar metal to provide a substrate. Deposited on the substrate is the vertical stacked arrangement of three double heterostructure devices, each fabricated from a suitable organic material. Stacking is implemented such that the double heterostructure with the longest wavelength is on the top of the stack. This constitutes the device emitting red light on the top with the device having the shortest wavelength, namely, the device emitting blue light, on the bottom of the stack. Located between the red and blue device structures is the green device structure. The devices are configured as stacked to provide a staircase profile whereby each device is separated from the other by a thin transparent conductive contact layer to enable light emanating from each of the devices to pass through the semitransparent contacts and through the lower device structures while further enabling each of the devices to receive a selective bias. The devices are substantially transparent when de-energized, making them useful for heads-up display applications. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701743 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714536 | Silberg 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) | Eric J. Silberg (North Bethesda, Maryland); Judah H. Milgram (Hyattsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for charging energy supplies in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The present invention relates to a UAV that comprises an inductive charging device that utilizes the electromagnetic field emanated by overhead/utility power lines, to charge the energy supplies. The UAV also includes a releasable latch for holding power lines to allow for the perching of the UAV on power lines during the charging process. The latch and the inductive charging device may be provided on a single device, a battery augmentation trap (BAT). The UAV may be perched in an upright orientation to allow for takeoff after the charging of energy supplies on the power line. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789128 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714671 | In 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) | Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Joseph D. Neff (San Diego, California); Adi R. Bulsara (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A target signal analyzer having at least one receiving antenna configured to receive the target signal, and a parallel array of oscillator rings. Each oscillator ring is operatively coupled to receive the target signal from the receiving antenna. Each oscillator ring has an odd number of at least three bistable, nonlinear oscillators circularly coupled to each other such that only one-way signal flow is allowed between the oscillators in each oscillator ring. Each of the oscillator rings is configured to oscillate and thereby produce a response signal only when the target signal frequency is within a designated frequency band. For every designated frequency band in a spectrum of interest, at least one of the oscillator rings is configured to produce a response signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/755601 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714762 | Poon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Sang Poon (Lexington, Massachusetts); Guy Rachmuth (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A current-mode analog-to-digital (IADC) has subnA sensitivity. An IADC cell receives an input current signal and provides an output to a comparator for comparison with an adjustable input reference signal. A digital output signal is generated and an analog output is provided to the next cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104270 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714989 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan J. Freeman (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Kenneth R. Nichols (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser tracking processor is provided for integrating measured target-reflection signals used in directional control. The integration is performed to distinguish pulses reflected from the target against a noise background. The processor includes an optical detector, an accumulator, a correlator, a phase-lock loop and an integrator array. The optical detector receives the measured signals distributed among several guidance channels. The accumulator sums the measured signals as a combined signal for all the channels. The correlator temporally identifies an event that occurs to indicate a target-reflection pulse within the combined signal. The phase-lock loop synchronizes the event with a clock reference to produce a pulse window within which to search the combined signal for the pulses. The integrator array superimposes the measured signals within the pulse window for each channel to produce channel-specific integrated pulse signals. The processor can further include a sum integrator, a noise comparator and a reset trigger. The sum integrator superimposes a temporal sequence of combined signals from the accumulator as sum integration signals. The noise comparator determines whether the sum integrated signals exceed a noise threshold to set a detection satisfaction condition. The reset trigger initializes the temporal sequence of the integrator array and the sum integrator in response to the detection satisfaction condition, so that as the processor approaches the target, the guidance system can receive updates from the measured signals after becoming distinguishable above the noise. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315490 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714991 | Barenek 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) | Mark William Barenek (Leonardtown, Maryland); Michael J. Hackert (Lexington Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic optical subassembly configuration for monitoring fibers. The configuration includes a hollow container, a laser for emitting laser signals towards the fibers being monitored, a photodetector for monitoring reflected laser signals from the fibers being monitored and for monitoring laser output power, a beam splitter and an optical fiber. The optical fiber, disposed within the hollow container, has a coated end face surface, the laser emits signals toward and through the beam splitter, whereby a portion of the laser signal illuminates the photodetector, and another portion traverses down the optical fiber toward the coated end face surface and reflects off the coated end face surface toward the fibers that are being monitored, and reflects back from the fibers being monitored to the photodetector such that faults on the fibers can be detected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255227 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715014 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung-Jen Chen (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing vibration error suppression in a fiber optic gyro sensor. An example system includes a light source, a sensing loop assembly, a photo detector, and a processing component. The light source generates a light signal that is then modulated by the sensing loop assembly and applied to a fiber optic coil in the assembly. The photo detector receives a modulated light signal that is an output of the sensing loop assembly (coil) and generates an analog signal. The processing component converts the generated analog signal into a modulated digital signal, determines an average of the modulated digital signal, determines an intensity modulation amplitude based on the determined average of the modulated digital signal, and re-scales the modulated digital phase signal based on the determined intensity modulation amplitude. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/682669 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715228 | Deak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVE Corporation (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Deak (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferromagnetic thin-film based digital memory system having memory cells interconnected in a grid that are selected through voltage values supplied coincidently on interconnections made thereto for changing states thereof and determining present states thereof through suitable biasing of grid interconnections. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229586 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715420 | Drost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates biasing receiver circuits within an integrated circuit. During operation, the system provides n receiver circuits within the integrated circuit to be biased. Next, the system provides n+m communication channels between n drivers and n receivers, wherein m is a number of additional communication channels, and wherein m>0. Then, the system couples the n+m communication channels to the n drivers, wherein each driver is selectively coupled to m+1 communication channels. The system also couples the n+m communication channels to the n receivers, wherein each receiver is selectively coupled to m+1 communication channels. In this way, at any given time n of the communication channels are active and m of the communication channels are inactive. Finally, the system refreshes inactive m communication channels' biases while the m inactive communication channels are not communicating signals. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651222 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715494 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514637 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715505 | Rasmussen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald John Rasmussen (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for synchronization (SYNC) detection of a received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform modulated by a symbol SYNC sequence are provided. The waveform is serially demodulated into a serial baseband signal and correlated in parallel with segments of the symbol SYNC sequence. Correlation strength estimates of each of the correlated output signals are computed and used to adjust a SYNC threshold level. The correlation strength estimates or the correlated output signals are combined and a peak is determined in the resulting signal. The peak in the resulting signal is compared to the SYNC threshold level to detect synchronization. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314757 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715565 | Kimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InfoAssure, Inc. (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald D. Kimmel (Stevensville, Maryland); Ersin L. Domangue (Woodbine, Maryland); Francis J. Adamouski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for encrypting a data encryption key includes a key encryption key generator configured to receive a public portion of a label, the label including an asymmetric key pair of the public portion and a private portion, the key encryption key generator being further configured to process the public portion of the label to obtain a key encryption key, and a data encryption key encoder configured to receive the key encryption key from the key encryption key generator and to receive a data encryption key from a random number generator, the encoder being further configured to encrypt the data encryption key using the key encryption key to produce an encrypted data encryption key and to provide the encrypted data encryption key to an encryption device. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193607 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715670 | Harres et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Harres (Belleville, Illinois); Samuel I. Green (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A bidirectional fiber-optic transceiver with lower optical loss than previous beam-splitters or fiber couplers and a method of implementing the same. Preferably, the transceivers can operate in both directions using a single-wavelength of electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/126003 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715727 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L Murphy (Huntington, Maryland); William S Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland); G Charmaine Gilbreath (Burke, Virginia); Peter G Goetz (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for encoding an analog input signal for optical transmission, including driving a voltage controlled oscillator with an analog input signal to produce a frequency modulated electrical signal having a frequency proportional to the amplitude of the input signal, and applying the frequency modulated electrical signal to a multiple quantum well modulating retroreflector. The retroreflector receives optical energy from a laser source and modulates the optical energy with the frequency modulated signal to produce an output optical signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499988 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715732 | Koh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JDS Uniphase Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ping-Chiek Koh (Goleta, California); Michael C. Larson (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bias-control circuit that provides operating point control for a Mach-Zehnder modulator experiencing optical absorption at their interferometric arms. The bias control circuit generates compensation signals that are used to counter the thermally induced index shifts as a result of absorption. In addition, an operating point with desirable transmitter characteristics can also be arbitrarily chosen by over-compensating or under-compensating thermal effects. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571872 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07716173 — Computer systems and methods for the query and visualization of multidimensional database
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for producing graphics. A hierarchical structure of a database is determined. A visual table, comprising a plurality of panes, is constructed by providing a specification that is in a language based on the hierarchical structure of the database. In some cases, this language can include fields that are in the database schema. The database is queried to retrieve a set of tuples in accordance with the specification. A subset of the set of tuples is associated with a pane in the plurality of panes. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488407 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716271 | Bertsekas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitri P. Bertsekas (Belmont, Massachusetts); Asuman E. Koksal (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for solving routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problems for all-optical networks involves formulating a joint optimization problem in which the routing of lightpaths and assignment of wavelengths on links of those routes to the lightpaths is expressed jointly in terms of a single optimization criterion. The method features formulation of the joint optimization problem as a continuous variable optimization problem with a convex constraint set. Integer constraints, for example, related to the fact that any particular lightpath is not permitted to split over multiple routes or over separate wavelengths on a link of its route, are not necessarily represented explicitly by the constraint set. However, the formulation of the objective function is such that although the problem is formulated in terms of continuous optimization variables, optimal solutions to the problem are integer or equivalent to an integer solution, thereby satisfying the integer constraints. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/157375 |
| ART UNIT | 2451 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716393 | Vigouroux et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xavier-Francois Vigouroux (Lieu Dit le Montiou, France); Bernard Tourancheau (Miribel, France); Cedric Koch-Hofer (Saint Martin D'heres, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a plurality of integrated circuits for propagating data between at least one central processing unit and another component of the system. The plurality of integrated circuits are configured for proximity I/O communication. The plurality of integrated circuits is configured such that data propagation through the plurality of integrated circuits is unaffected by a rotation of at least one of the plurality of integrated circuits by 90 degrees. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/148495 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716424 | Franaszek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Franaszek (Mount Kisco, New York); Steven R. Kunkel (Rochester, Minnesota); Luis Alfonso Lastras Montaño (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Aaron C. Sawdey (Cannon Falls, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | We present a “directory extension” (hereinafter “DX”) to aid in prefetching between proximate levels in a cache hierarchy. The DX may maintain (1) a list of pages which contains recently ejected lines from a given level in the cache hierarchy, and (2) for each page in this list, the identity of a set of ejected lines, provided these lines are prefetchable from, for example, the next level of the cache hierarchy. Given a cache fault to a line within a page in this list, other lines from this page may then be prefetched without the substantial overhead to directory lookup which would otherwise be required. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/989997 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716470 | Stillerman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew A. Stillerman (Ithaca, New York); Dexter Kozen (Ithaca, New York); Thomas J. Merritt (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for generating and actively verifying a boot code associated with a peripheral device of a computer system to prevent potential security threats the boot code may introduce into the computer system. The techniques for generating boot code entail generating the boot code from a high-level programming language using a verification application program interface (API). The API aids in generating a certificate, which is associated with the boot code in that the certificate describes operation of the boot code. After generating the boot code and associated certificate, the two are loaded onto a memory module of the peripheral device. Once the peripheral device is connected to the computer system, the computer system may retrieve the boot code and certificate. The computer system utilizes techniques to actively verify the boot code by performing a security check on the boot code in accordance with the associated certificate. Finally, the computer system executes the boot code based on a result of the security check. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336222 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716552 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Robert J. McEliece (Pasadena, California); Hui Jin (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Fabrizio Pollara (Lacanada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbo-like code is formed by repeating the signal, coding it, and interleaving it. A serial concatenated coder is formed of an inner coder and an outer coder separated by an interleaver. The outer coder is a coder which has rate greater than one e.g. a repetition coder. The interleaver rearranges the bits. An outer coder is a rate one coder. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/429083 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716610 | Challenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul Reed (Brookline, Massachusetts); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributable and serializable finite state machine and methods for using the distributable and serializable finite state machine are provided wherein finite state machine instance can be location-shifted, time-shifted or location-shift and time-shifted, for example by serializing and deserializing each instance. Each instance can be located-shifted between agents, and a persistent memory storage location is provided to facilitate both location-shifting and time-shifting. Finite state machine instances and the actions that make up each instance can be run in a distributed fashion among a plurality of agents. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/620558 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716645 | Dolby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julian Dolby (Bronx, New York); Frank Tip (Ridgewood, New Jersey); Mandana Vaziri (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method includes steps or acts of receiving and examining a computer program written in an object-oriented language; receiving sequences of accesses that form logical operations on a set of memory locations used by the program; receiving definitions of atomic sets of memory locations, each consisting of pieces of data; providing a message indicating where the synchronization is required. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150611 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07713200 | Sarvazyan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey); Stanislav Emelianov (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-reversal acoustics system includes a wireless beacon with a piezoelectric element adapted to receive an initial acoustic signal from each of a plurality of transducers combined in a single transmitter and controlled individually by an electronic unit. The initial acoustic signal is transformed by the piezoelectric element into an electromagnetic wave feedback signal and transmitted wirelessly to the receiver connected to the input of the electronic unit. The electronic unit receives the feedback signal and transforms it using the time-reversal principles to generate a driving signal for each transducer. All such driving signals are then sent simultaneously to all transducers to deliver high intensity acoustic energy to the beacon. The invention can be used advantageously to non-invasively recharge implant batteries, control drug eluting from an implant, in an image-guided drug-delivery apparatus, etc. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/223259 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713201 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); James F. Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Mostafa Fatemi (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a shear elasticity and shear viscosity of a material based on resonance characteristics. A focused ultrasound wave is directed at the material to induce oscillations in the material, and a velocity of the material is measured. A spectrum of frequency of oscillation versus velocity is developed, and the resonance characteristics exhibited by the spectrum are used to estimate the shear elasticity and viscosity of the material. |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/821461 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713525 | Kimberly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama); Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Takeshi Isoyama (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are biomarkers and uses thereof for evaluating anti-cancer efficacy and sensitivity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877234 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713526 | Rhee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chae-Seo Rhee (Seoul, South Korea); Malini Sen (San Diego, California); Christina Wu (San Diego, California); Lorenzo M. Leoni (San Diego, California); Maripat Corr (San Diego, California); Dennis A. Carson (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The diverse receptor-ligand pairs of the Wnt and frizzled (Fzd) families play important roles during embryonic development, and thus may be overexpressed in cancers that arise from immature cells. The mRNA levels and expression levels of 5 Wnt (Wnt-1, 5a, 7a, 10b, 13) and 2 Fzd (Fzd-2, 5) genes in 10 head and neck squamous carcinoma cell lines (HNSCC) were investigated. In addition, anti-Wnt-1 antibodies were used to study the Wnt/Fzd signalling pathway. These results indicate that HNSCC cell lines overexpress one or more Wnt and Fzd genes, and the proliferation and survival of a subset of HNSCC may depend on the Wnt/Fzd pathway. Therefore, the Wnt and Fzd receptors may be useful targets for immunotherapy of this common cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285976 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713529 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Iowa City, Iowa); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid sequences containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides that modulate an immune response including stimulating a Th1 pattern of immune activation, cytokine production, NK lytic activity, and B cell proliferation are disclosed. The sequences are also useful as a synthetic adjuvant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/306522 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713542 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ADA Foundation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huakun Xu (Frederick, Maryland); Michael D. Weir (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Living cellular material is encapsulated or placed in a protective material (cell protector) which is biocompatible, biodegradable and has a three-dimensional form. The three dimensional form is incorporated into a matrix that maybe implanted in vivo, ultimately degrade and thereby by replaced by living cell generated material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132028 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713543 | Vyavahare et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Narendra R. Vyavahare (Easley, South Carolina); Jason C. Isenburg (Pendleton, South Carolina); Dan T. Simionescu (Central, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and product are provided for the treatment of connective tissue weakened due to destruction of tissue architecture, and in particular due to elastin degradation. The treatment agents employ certain unique properties of phenolic compounds to develop a protocol for reducing elastin degradation, such as that occurring during aneurysm formation in vasculature. According to the invention, elastin can be stabilized in vivo and destruction of connective tissue, such as that leading to life-threatening aneurysms in vasculature, can be tempered or halted all together. The treatment agents can be delivered or administered acutely or chronically according to various delivery methods, including sustained release methods incorporating perivascular or endovascular patches, use of microsphere carriers, hydrogels, or osmotic pumps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/827121 |
| ART UNIT | 1619 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713544 | Chaikof et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliot L. Chaikof (Atlanta, Georgia); June Feng (Duluth, Georgia); Janine M. Orban (Warsaw, Indiana); Hongbo Liu (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Xue Long Sun (Atlanta, Georgia); Keith M. Faucher (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A biocompatible biological component is provided comprising a membrane-mimetic surface film covering a substrate. Suitable substrates include hydrated substrates, e.g. hydrogels which may contain drugs for delivery to a patient through the membrane-mimetic film, or may be made up of cells, such as islet cells, for transplantation. The surface may present exposed bioactive molecules or moieties for binding to target molecules in vivo, for modulating host response when implanted into a patient (e.g. the surface may be antithrombogenic or antiinflammatory) and the surface may have pores of selected sizes to facilitate transport of substances therethrough. An optional hydrophilic cushion or spacer between the substrate and the membrane-mimetic surface allows transmembrane proteins to extend from the surface through the hydrophilic cushion, mimicking the structure of naturally-occurring cells. An alkylated layer directly beneath the membrane-mimetic surface facilates bonding of the surface to the remainder of the biological component. Alkyl chains may extend entirely through the hydrophilic cushion when present. To facilitate binding, the substrate may optionally be treated with a polyelectrolyte or alternating layers of oppositely-charged polyelectrolytes to facilitate charged binding of the membrane-mimetic film or alkylated layer beneath the membrane-mimetic film to the substrate. The membrane-mimetic film is preferably made by in situ polymerization of phospholipid vesicles. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/343408 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713689 | Chilkoti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashutosh Chilkoti (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An article such as a biosensor having a nonfouling surface thereon is described. The article comprises: (a) a substrate having a surface portion; (b) a linking layer on the surface portion; (c) a polymer layer comprising brush molecules formed on the linking layer; and (d) optionally but preferably, a first member of a specific binding pair (e.g., a protein, peptide, antibody, nucleic acid, etc.) coupled to the brush molecules. The polymer layer is preferably formed by the process of surface-initiated polymerization (SIP) of monomeric units thereon. Preferably, each of the monomeric units comprises a monomer (for example, a vinyl monomer) core group having at least one protein-resistant head group coupled thereto, to thereby form the brush molecule on the surface portion. Methods of using the articles are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521651 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07713701 | Dervan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California); Shane Foister (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Raymond Doss (Clark, New Jersey); Michael A. Marques (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for forming complexes between dsDNA and novel DNA-binding polymers comprising N-terminal thiophene-containing moieties which exhibit selectivity for T-A base pairs. By appropriate choice of target sequences and DNA-binding polymers, complexes comprising polymer-DNA are obtained with high association constants. The formation of complexes can be used for identification of specific dsDNA sequences, for inhibiting gene transcription, and as a therapeutic for inhibiting proliferation of undesired cells or modulation of expression of specific genes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/238167 |
| 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 07713710 | Clarke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Clarke (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sean J. Morrison (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Max S. Wicha (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Muhammad Al-Hajj (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A small percentage of cells within an established tumor have the properties of stem cells. These solid tumor stem cells give rise both to more tumor stem cells and to the majority of cells in the tumor that have lost the capacity for extensive proliferation and the ability to give rise to new tumors. The solid tumor heterogeneity reflects the presence of tumor cell progeny arising from a solid tumor stem cell. This discovery is the basis for solid tumor stem cell compositions, methods for distinguishing functionally different populations of tumor cells, methods for using these tumor cell populations for studying the effects of therapeutic agents on tumor growth, and methods for identifying and testing novel anti-cancer therapies directed to solid tumor stem cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753191 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713721 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002387 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713924 | Noble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); The American National Red Cross (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy A. Noble (Salt Lake City, Utah); Wayne A. Border (Salt Lake City, Utah); Daniel A. Lawrence (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is methods and compositions for reducing and preventing the excess accumulation of extracellular matrix in a tissue and/or organ or at a wound site using a combination of agents that inhibit TGFβ, or using agents that inhibit TGFβ in combination with agents that degrade excess accumulated extracellular matrix. The compositions and methods of the invention are used to treat conditions such as fibrotic diseases and scarring that result from excess accumulation of extracellular matrix, impairing tissue or organ function or skin appearance in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/887378 |
| 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 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713925 | Ekker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Ekker (St. Paul, Minnesota); Eleanor Y. Chen (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and materials related to modulating syndecan levels and angiogenesis in an animal. The invention provides syndecan polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding syndecan polypeptides, including dominant negative syndecan polypeptides. The invention also provides polynucleotides and polynucleotide analogues for modulating angiogenesis, as well as cells and embryos containing the polynucleotides and polynucleotide analogues. The invention further provides methods for identifying syndecan- and angiogenesis-modulating agents. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/537804 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713927 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); C3 Jian, Inc. (Sequim, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian He (Los Angeles, California); Randal H. Eckert (Ellensburg, Washington); Fengxia Qi (Laguna Niguel, California); Maxwell H. Anderson (Sequim, Washington); Wenyuan Shi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel antimicrobial peptides that are effective to inhibit growth and/or proliferation of various gram positive bacteria. In particular, the peptides are effective against Streptococcus mutans a common oral pathogen and the causative agent of dental caries. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014634 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713945 | Kerr |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Kerr (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibition of dendritic cell function in solid organ grafts or allogeneic bone marrow transplants prior to or during engraftment by blocking SH2-containing inositol phosphatase (SHIP) expression or function is taught as a method of abrogating immune rejection and thereby increasing the efficacy of engraftment of an allogeneic bone marrow transplant or solid organ allograft or xenograft. Also disclosed is a transgenic mouse having the genotype SHIP−/− which exhibits enhanced survival following mismatched allogeneic marrow grafts. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787064 |
| 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 07713960 | Sebti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention disclosed herein provides for methods of treating cancer using inhibitors of the Raf/Mek/P-Erk 1/2 pathway. These inhibitors include B2AR agonists (such as ARA-211 (pirbuterol) and isoproterenol), adenylyl cyclase activators, cAMP analogs and Epac activators. The invention also provides methods for diagnosing cancer in an individual. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490777 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714005 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Chung-Wai Shiau (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bcl-xL/Bcl-2 binding inhibitors useful in the treatment of unwanted proliferating cells, including cancers and precancers, in subjects in need of such treatment. Also provided are methods of treating a subject having unwanted proliferating cells comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a Bcl-xL/Bcl-2 binding inhibitor described herein to a subject in need of such treatment. Also provided are methods of preventing the proliferation of unwanted proliferating cells, such as cancers and precancers, in a subject comprising the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a Bcl-xL/Bcl-2 binding inhibitor described herein to a subject at risk of developing a condition characterized by unwanted proliferating cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315077 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714007 | Miller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth E. Miller (Sapulpa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition having sustained pain-relieving properties such that the composition may be administered to a subject to alleviate chronic pain. The composition includes an effective amount of at least one glutaminase inhibitor. A method for alleviating chronic pain in a subject for an extended period of time is also disclosed, in which the compound is administered to a subject suffering from chronic pain at a site of inflammation such that the administration of the compound results in a reduction in at least one of thermal and mechanical pain responses at the site of inflammation for a period of at least two days without any resulting acute pain behavior. The composition may further include an effective amount of at least one compound having analgesic effects such that the composition also alleviates acute pain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431245 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/378 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714012 | Honda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth University (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tadashi Honda (Hanover, New Hampshire); Chitra Sundararajan (Hamilton, Canada); Gordon W. Gribble (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Michael B. Sporn (Tunbridge, Vermont); Karen T. Liby (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes novel tricyclic-bis-enone derivatives (TBEs), such as TBE-31, TBE-34, TBE-45 and water-soluble TBEs. The methods of preparing these compounds are also disclosed. The inventors demonstrate the ability of these new TBEs to inhibit proliferation of human myeloma cells, inhibit the induction of iNOS in cells stimulated with interferon-γ, induce heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), induce CD11b expression—a leukemia differentiation marker, inhibit proliferation of leukemia cells, induce apoptosis in human lung cancer, and induce apoptosis in other cancerous cells. The TBEs of this invention are expected to be useful agents for the treatment and prevention of many diseases, including cancer, neurological disorders, inflammation, and pathologies involving oxidative stress. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941820 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/396 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714102 | Oh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youngman Oh (Glen Allen, Virginia); Ron G. Rosenfeld (Los Altos, California); Caroline K. Buckway (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed novel mutant IGFBP-3 polypeptides and fragments thereof that have either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the human IGFBP-3 receptor (“P4.33”). The present invention provides novel mutant IGFBP-3 nucleic acid sequences, and expression systems. Additional exemplary embodiments provide for screening assays for identifying IGFBP-3 receptor antagonists or agonists, methods for modulating IGF-independent IGFBP-3 responses of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, methods for inducing or potentiating apoptosis of cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, methods for treating solid tumors having cells expressing IGFBP-3 receptors, and compositions comprising polypeptides having either no binding, or diminished binding to IGFs, yet retain their ability to bind to the IGFBP-3 receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/369268 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714122 | Nix 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) | William Allan Nix (Bethlehem, Georgia); M. Steven Oberste (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of using enterovirus-specific primers for the detection and identification of enterovirus infection. Also provided are isolated nucleic acid molecules and kits useful for detection and diagnostic testing of enterovirus infection in a subject. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777916 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714149 | Zhang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xumu Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a chiral ligand, represented by a formula or its enantiomer: X and X′ can be independently O, NH, NR, NCOR or S; each of Z1-Z7 and Z1′-Z7′ can be independently H, alkyl, aryl, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, alkoxyl, aryloxyl, nitro, amide, aryoxide, halide, hydroxyl, carboxylate, hetereoaryl, or a cyclic alkene, fused aryl, or cyclic ether group formed from any two adjacent Z groups or any two adjacent Z′ groups; Y and Y′ can be independently OH, OR, NH2, NHR, NR2, SH, PR2, OPR2, NHPR2, OP(OR)2, COOH, COOR, CONHR, or a linking group formed from Y and Y′ groups together. Processes of preparing these ligands, catalysts that employ them and methods of using the catalysts are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218105 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/220 |
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| US 07714309 | Mackie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin); Ryan T. Flynn (Iowa City, Iowa); Michael William Kissick (Madison, Wisconsin); Jihad H. Al-Sadah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); David C. Westerly (Madison, Wisconsin); Patrick M. Hill (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A phantom for heavy ion radiation therapy provides characterization of an ion beam that may enter but not exit from the phantom. The phantom may include multiple materials and multiple spatially dispersed ion detectors to obtain signals that may be fit to known beam curves to accurately characterize the location and other parameters of Bragg peak of a given ion beam within a patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038697 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
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| US 07714581 | Erickson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew G. Erickson (Madison, Wisconsin); Sean B. Fain (Madison, Wisconsin); Krishna N. Kurpad (Madison, Wisconsin); James H. Holmes (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas M. Grist (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF coil assembly for an MRI system includes a resonator formed by a cylindrical shield and pairs of opposing conductive legs disposed symmetrically around a central axis and extending the axial length of the shield. Drive circuitry for each pair of opposing conductive legs includes a current balun that maintains substantially equal and opposite currents in the two conductive legs. Terminal susceptance elements are used to maintain maximum currents and minimum voltage at the midpoints of the conductive legs. Multinuclear measurements can be made simultaneously at different Larmor frequencies. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726643 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714762 | Poon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Sang Poon (Lexington, Massachusetts); Guy Rachmuth (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A current-mode analog-to-digital (IADC) has subnA sensitivity. An IADC cell receives an input current signal and provides an output to a comparator for comparison with an adjustable input reference signal. A digital output signal is generated and an analog output is provided to the next cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104270 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/161 |
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| US 07715001 | Lundquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Lundquist (San Jose, California); Denis Zaccarin (San Jose, California); Yves Lacroix (San Jose, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California); John Dixon (Moss Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for real-time monitoring of optical signals from arrays of signal sources, and particularly optical signal sources that have spectrally different signal components. Systems include signal source arrays in optical communication with optical trains that direct excitation radiation to and emitted signals from such arrays and image the signals onto detector arrays, from which such signals may be subjected to additional processing. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704733 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/244 |
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| US 07715900 | Yarnykh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vasily L. Yarnykh (Seattle, Washington); Chun Yuan (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A contrast enhancement (CE) agent is infused into blood flowing through a site that is to be imaged with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Two double inversion procedures are carried out, forming a quadruple inversion recovery (QIR) pulse sequence. Each double inversion procedure comprises a non-selective and slice-selective inversion RF pulse. The first double inversion procedure is followed by a first predefined inversion delay period, TI1, and the second procedure by a second predefined inversion delay period, TI2. A black-blood image can thus be produced in which blood appears consistently black and tissues surrounding the blood, such as a vessel wall, heart, atherosclerotic plaque, or thrombus, are clearly visible. Unlike the prior art black-blood imaging technique, the QIR method does not require a precise knowledge of the T1 of the blood carrying the CE agent in order to suppress the signal and artifacts caused by the blood flowing through the site. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/740354 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE41328 | Sasisekharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramnath Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Charles L. Cooney (Brookline, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts); Daniel L. Lohse (Bryan, Texas); Robert J. Linhardt (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified heparinase I, II and III free of lyase activity and each having a molecular weight of 42,800 84,100, 70,800, respectively, are produced by culturing Flavobacterium heparinum. The kinetic properties of the heparinases have been determined as well as the conditions to optimize their activity and stability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199215 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/220 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Gordon Felix (Pelham, Alabama); William Earl Farthing (Pinson, Alabama); James Hodges Irvin (Birmingham, Alabama); Todd Robert Snyder (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A dilution apparatus for diluting a gas sample. The apparatus includes a sample gas conduit having a sample gas inlet end and a diluted sample gas outlet end, and a sample gas flow restricting orifice disposed proximate the sample gas inlet end connected with the sample gas conduit and providing fluid communication between the exterior and the interior of the sample gas conduit. A diluted sample gas conduit is provided within the sample gas conduit having a mixing end with a mixing space inlet opening disposed proximate the sample gas inlet end, thereby forming an annular space between the sample gas conduit and the diluted sample gas conduit. The mixing end of the diluted sample gas conduit is disposed at a distance from the sample gas flow restricting orifice. A dilution gas source connected with the sample gas inlet end of the sample gas conduit is provided for introducing a dilution gas into the annular space, and a filter is provided for filtering the sample gas. The apparatus is particularly suited for diluting heated sample gases containing one or more condensable components. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/712042 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.210 |
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| US 07712960 | Sanishvili et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruslan Sanishvili (Naperville, Illinois); Robert F. Fischetti (Plainfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Enhanced methods and a device enabling a plurality of tools for implementing a plurality of procedures for the accurate alignment and calibration of multiple components of the experimental set up at a synchrotron beam line are provided. The device includes an alignment pin or needle for centering a sample rotation axis. The device includes a YAG crystal for visualization of the beam and beam alignment and a metal foil for transmission or fluorescence measurements used for the monochromator calibration. The same, or different foils, or powders, or polymers, can be used for obtaining powder rings for finding the direct beam coordinates, for centering the beamstop on the direct beam and for calibration of the sample-to-detector distance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391740 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/205 |
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| US 07713395 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conrad D. James (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul C. Galambos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark S. Derzon (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A dielectrophoretic columnar focusing device uses interdigitated microelectrodes to provide a spatially non-uniform electric field in a fluid that generates a dipole within particles in the fluid. The electric field causes the particles to either be attracted to or repelled from regions where the electric field gradient is large, depending on whether the particles are more or less polarizable than the fluid. The particles can thereby be forced into well defined stable paths along the interdigitated microelectrodes. The device can be used for flow cytometry, particle control, and other process applications, including cell counting or other types of particle counting, and for separations in material control. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401714 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
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| US 07713401 | Lister et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tedd Edward Lister (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Robert Vincent Fox (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the electrochemical synthesis of dinitro compounds is disclosed. The method comprises using an anode to oxidize an inactive chemical mediator, such as a ferrocyanide (Fe(CN)6−4) ion, to an active chemical mediator or oxidizing agent, such as a ferricyanide (Fe(CN)6−3) ion, in the presence of a differential voltage. The oxidizing agent reacts with a nitro compound and a nitrite ion to form a geminal dinitro compound. The anode may continuously oxidize ferrocyanide to regenerate active ferricyanide, thus keeping sufficient amounts of ferricyanide available for reaction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836009 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/431 |
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| US 07713436 | Trajkovska-Petkoska et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anka Trajkovska-Petkoska (Rochester, New York); Stephen D. Jacobs (Pittsford, New York); Kenneth L. Marshall (Henrietta, New York); Tanya Z. Kosc (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Doped electrically actuatable (electrically addressable or switchable) polymer flakes have enhanced and controllable electric field induced motion by virtue of doping a polymer material that functions as the base flake matrix with either a distribution of insoluble dopant particles or a dopant material that is completely soluble in the base flake matrix. The base flake matrix may be a polymer liquid crystal material, and the dopants generally have higher dielectric permittivity and/or conductivity than the electrically actuatable polymer base flake matrix. The dopant distribution within the base flake matrix may be either homogeneous or non-homogeneous. In the latter case, the non-homogeneous distribution of dopant provides a dielectric permittivity and/or conductivity gradient within the body of the flakes. The dopant can also be a carbon-containing material (either soluble or insoluble in the base flake matrix) that absorbs light so as to reduce the unpolarized scattered light component reflected from the flakes, thereby enhancing the effective intensity of circularly polarized light reflected from the flakes when the flakes are oriented into a light reflecting state. Electro-optic devices contain these doped flakes suspended in a host fluid can be addressed with an applied electric field, thus controlling the orientation of the flakes between a bright reflecting state and a non-reflecting dark state. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230059 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713506 | Burrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Benjamin J. Davis (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David L. Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John C. Gordon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); R. Thomas Baker (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Troy Allen Semelsberger (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William Tumas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Himashinie Vichalya Kaviraj Diyabalanage (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Roshan P. Shrestha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal aminoboranes of the formula M(NH2BH3)n have been synthesized. Metal aminoboranes are hydrogen storage materials. Metal aminoboranes are also precursors for synthesizing other metal aminoboranes. Metal aminoboranes can be dehydrogenated to form hydrogen and a reaction product. The reaction product can react with hydrogen to form a hydrogen storage material. Metal aminoboranes can be included in a kit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/151575 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713577 | Phillips et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Phillips (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Martin Nemer (Carlsbad, New Mexico); John C. Weigle (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Graphitic structures have been prepared by exposing templates (metal, metal-coated ceramic, graphite, for example) to a gaseous mixture that includes hydrocarbons and oxygen. When the template is metal, subsequent acid treatment removes the metal to yield monoliths, hollow graphitic structures, and other products. The shapes of the coated and hollow graphitic structures mimic the shapes of the templates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/364980 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713721 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for generating components of protein biosynthetic machinery including orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases. Methods for identifying orthogonal pairs are also provided. These components can be used to incorporate unnatural amino acids into proteins in vivo. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002387 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713725 | England et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. England (Redwood City, California); Aaron Kelley (Mountain View, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a composition useful for inducing expression of genes whose expression is under control of an inducible promoter sequence and methods for the compositions preparation and use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660123 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713744 | Benner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Henry Benner (Danville, California); Ronald M. Krauss (Berkeley, California); Patricia J. Blanche (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical diagnostic method and instrumentation system for analyzing noncovalently bonded agglomerated biological particles is described. The method and system comprises: a method of preparation for the biological particles; an electrospray generator; an alpha particle radiation source; a differential mobility analyzer; a particle counter; and data acquisition and analysis means. The medical device is useful for the assessment of human diseases, such as cardiac disease risk and hyperlipidemia, by rapid quantitative analysis of lipoprotein fraction densities. Initially, purification procedures are described to reduce an initial blood sample to an analytical input to the instrument. The measured sizes from the analytical sample are correlated with densities, resulting in a spectrum of lipoprotein densities. The lipoprotein density distribution can then be used to characterize cardiac and other lipid-related health risks. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/771862 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713907 | Elam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Elam (Elmhurst, Illinois); Michael J. Pellin (Naperville, Illinois); Peter C. Stair (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for depositing catalytic clusters on a surface, the method comprising confining the surface to a controlled atmosphere; contacting the surface with catalyst containing vapor for a first period of time; removing the vapor from the controlled atmosphere; and contacting the surface with a reducing agent for a second period of time so as to produce catalyst-containing nucleation sites. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/714087 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714240 | Roesler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander W. Roesler (Tijeras, New Mexico); Joshua M. Schare (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kyle Bunch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated vacuum switch is disclosed which includes a substrate upon which an anode, cathode and trigger electrode are located. A cover is sealed over the substrate under vacuum to complete the vacuum switch. In some embodiments of the present invention, a metal cover can be used in place of the trigger electrode on the substrate. Materials used for the vacuum switch are compatible with high vacuum, relatively high temperature processing. These materials include molybdenum, niobium, copper, tungsten, aluminum and alloys thereof for the anode and cathode. Carbon in the form of graphitic carbon, a diamond-like material, or carbon nanotubes can be used in the trigger electrode. Channels can be optionally formed in the substrate to mitigate against surface breakdown. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/231915 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Circuit makers and breakers 2/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714297 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher L. Morris (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Mark F. Makela (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, apparatus and systems for detecting particles such as muons and neutrons. In one implementation, a particle detection system employs a plurality of drift cells, which can be for example sealed gas-filled drift tubes, arranged on sides of a volume to be scanned to track incoming and outgoing charged particles, such as cosmic ray-produced muons. The drift cells can include a neutron sensitive medium to enable concurrent counting of neutrons. The system can selectively detect devices or materials, such as iron, lead, gold, uranium, plutonium, and/or tungsten, occupying the volume from multiple scattering of the charged particles passing through the volume and can concurrently detect any unshielded neutron sources occupying the volume from neutrons emitted therefrom. If necessary, the drift cells can be used to also detect gamma rays. The system can be employed to inspect occupied vehicles at border crossings for nuclear threat objects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977314 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714317 | Sutter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eli Anguelova Sutter (Westhampton Beach, New York); Peter Werner Sutter (Westhampton Beach, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments of the invention, encapsulated semiconducting nanomaterials are described. In certain embodiments the nanostructures described are semiconducting nanomaterials encapsulated with ordered carbon shells. In some aspects a method for producing encapsulated semiconducting nanomaterials is disclosed. In some embodiments applications of encapsulated semiconducting nanomaterials are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/854168 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714405 | Auciello |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orlando Auciello (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A layered device including a substrate; an adhering layer thereon. An electrical conducting layer such as copper is deposited on the adhering layer and then a barrier layer of an amorphous oxide of TiAl followed by a high dielectric layer are deposited to form one or more of an electrical device such as a capacitor or a transistor or MEMS and/or a magnetic device. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/073263 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/499 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714623 | Reilly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. A. Reilly (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hideya Koizumi (Oakridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Jitterless transition of the programmable clock waveform is generated employing a set of two coupled direct digital synthesis (DDS) circuits. The first phase accumulator in the first DDS circuit runs at least one cycle of a common reference clock for the DDS circuits ahead of the second phase accumulator in the second DDS circuit. As a phase transition through the beginning of a phase cycle is detected from the first phase accumulator, a first phase offset word and a second phase offset word for the first and second phase accumulators are calculated and loaded into the first and second DDS circuits. The programmable clock waveform is employed as a clock input for the RAM address controller. A well defined jitterless transition in frequency of the arbitrary waveform is provided which coincides with the beginning of the phase cycle of the DDS output signal from the second DDS circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100011 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715098 | Sweatt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Sweatt (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for improving the contrast between incident projected light and ambient light reflected from a projection screen are described. The efficiency of the projection screen for reflection of the projected light remains high, while permitting the projection screen to be utilized in a brightly lighted room. Light power requirements from the projection system utilized may be reduced. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/028270 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715892 | Welp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Welp (Lisle, Illinois); Alexei E. Koshelev (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Kenneth E. Gray (Naperville, Illinois); Wai-Kwong Kwok (Evanston, Illinois); Vitalii Vlasko-Vlasov (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, solid-state THz source based on the driven Josephson vortex lattice in a highly anisotropic superconductor such as Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 that allows cw emission at tunable frequency. A second order metallic Bragg grating is used to achieve impedance matching and to induce surface emission of THz-radiation from a Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 sample. Steering of the emitted THz beam is accomplished by tuning the Josephson vortex spacing around the grating period using a superimposed magnetic control field. |
| FILED | Monday, October 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/605997 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07716173 — Computer systems and methods for the query and visualization of multidimensional database
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for producing graphics. A hierarchical structure of a database is determined. A visual table, comprising a plurality of panes, is constructed by providing a specification that is in a language based on the hierarchical structure of the database. In some cases, this language can include fields that are in the database schema. The database is queried to retrieve a set of tuples in accordance with the specification. A subset of the set of tuples is associated with a pane in the plurality of panes. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488407 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/600 |
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| US 07716407 | Almasi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gheorghe Almasi (Ardsley, New York); Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Jeffrey J. Parker (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Executing application function calls in response to an interrupt including creating a thread; receiving an interrupt having an interrupt type; determining whether a value of a semaphore represents that interrupts are disabled; if the value of the semaphore represents that interrupts are not disabled: calling, by the thread, one or more preconfigured functions in dependence upon the interrupt type of the interrupt; yielding the thread; and if the value of the semaphore represents that interrupts are disabled: setting the value of the semaphore to represent to a kernel that interrupts are hard-disabled; and hard-disabling interrupts at the kernel. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/968720 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mahendra Kumar Sunkara (Louisville, Kentucky); Shashank Sharma (San Jose, California); Hari Chandrasekaran (Louisville, Kentucky); Hongwei Li (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Sreeram Vaddiraju (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is provided to produce bulk quantities of nanowires in a variety of semiconductor materials. Thin films and droplets of low-melting metals such as gallium, indium, bismuth, and aluminum are used to dissolve and to produce nanowires. The dissolution of solutes can be achieved by using a solid source of solute and low-melting metal, or using a vapor phase source of solute and low-melting metal. The resulting nanowires range in size from 1 nanometer up to 1 micron in diameter and lengths ranging from 1 nanometer to several hundred nanometers or microns. This process does not require the use of metals such as gold and iron in the form of clusters whose size determines the resulting nanowire size. In addition, the process allows for a lower growth temperature, better control over size and size distribution, and better control over the composition and purity of the nanowire produced therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521084 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713421 | Galbraith |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Separation Design Group, LLC (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Douglas Galbraith (Holbrook, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of separating components of a fluid mixture comprising the steps of providing a fluid, providing a sorbent structure (120), sorbing a first component of the fluid, desorbing the first component, and electrokinetically biasing the first component in a direction other than the vector of the fluid mixture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/582314 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/663 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713507 | Hemley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Hemley (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Ho-Kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Chih-shiue Yan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A single crystal diamond grown by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition has a hardness of 50-90 GPa and a fracture toughness of 11-20 MPa m1/2. A method for growing a single crystal diamond includes placing a seed diamond in a holder; and growing single crystal diamond at a temperature of about 1000° C. to about 1100° C. such that the single crystal diamond has a fracture toughness of 11-20 MPa m1/2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/602403 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713629 | Schlenoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A polyelectrolyte film is provided, the polyelectrolyte film comprises an interpenetrating network of a net positively charged polymer and a net negatively charged polymer, wherein the net positively charged polymer, the net negatively charged polymer, or both contain polymer repeat units with at least two fluorine atoms. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/594185 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/421 |
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| US 07713698 | Ju et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey); Zengmin Li (New York, New York); John Robert Edwards (New York, New York); Yasuhiro Itagaki (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for attaching a nucleic acid to a solid surface and for sequencing nucleic acid by detecting the identity of each nucleotide analogue after the nucleotide analogue is incorporated into a growing strand of DNA in a polymerase reaction. The invention also provides nucleotide analogues which comprise unique labels attached to the nucleotide analogue through a cleavable linker, and a cleavable chemical group to cap the —OH group at the 3′-position of the deoxyribose. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894690 |
| 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 07713778 | Li et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Yang Yang Li (Irvine, California); Frederique Cunin (34250 Palavas les Flots, France); Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Jamie R. Link (Arlington, Virginia); Ting Gao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of generating three-dimensional nanostructures that includes providing a silicon substrate, creating a porous silicon template from the silicon substrate, wherein the template is created to have a predetermined configuration, depositing a predetermined material on the porous silicon template, and removing the porous silicon template from the deposited material to leave a freestanding nanostructure. |
| FILED | Friday, February 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/544801 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713849 | Habib et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illuminex Corporation (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youssef M. Habib (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); John Steinbeck (Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Freestanding metallic nanowires attached to a metallic substrate are disclosed. A method of creating the nanowire structure using an anodized layer is presented. In one embodiment an optical SERS sensor is formed. The sensor head has at least one array of nanowires chemically functionalized to recognize molecules of interest. A method of forming a SERS sensor and using the sensor to analyze a sample is presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206632 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713914 | Farquharson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Real-Time Analyzers, Inc. (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Farquharson (Meriden, Connecticut); Frank E. Inscore (Bristol, Connecticut); Alan D. Gift (Lafayette, Indiana); Chetan Shrikant Shende (Vernon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A weak organic acid is used to effect the release of CaDPA from Bacillus or Clostridium endospores, rapidly and at room temperature, to enable detection and measurement of DPA and thereby the assessment of risk associated with exposure to Bacillus anthracis, Clostridium botulinum, and like spores. The method can be applied to airborne, food-borne, and water-borne spores, as well as to spores collected from surfaces or contained in body fluids, and analysis is advantageously carried out using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355782 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07713923 | Genove et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elsa Genove (Barcelona, Spain); Shuguang Zhang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Carlos Semino (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a self-assembling peptide comprising (a) a first amino acid domain that mediates self-assembly, wherein the domain comprises alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic amino acids that are complementary and structurally compatible and self-assemble into a macroscopic structure when present in unmodified form; and (b) a second amino acid domain that does not self-assemble in isolated form. In certain embodiments of the invention the second amino acid domain comprises a biologically active peptide motif, e.g., a peptide motif found in a naturally occurring protein, or a target site for an interaction with a biomolecule. In certain embodiments of the invention the naturally occurring protein is a component of the extracellular matrix, e.g., a component of the basement membrane. The invention further provides scaffolds comprising the self-assembling peptides and methods of using the scaffolds including for cell culture, tissue engineering, and tissue repair. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877068 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714097 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donghui Zhang (Las Cruces, New Mexico); William B. Tolman (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Marc A. Hillmyer (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A synthetic route is provided to prepare poly(ω-hydroxycarboxylic acid) polymers via the ring-opening polymerization of ω-hydroxycarboxylic acid cyclic oligomers. The cyclic oligomers can be prepared directly from biorenewable sources, such as 3-hydroxypropionic acid. The method can be used to prepare high molecular weight polymers from the cyclic oligomers. Good molecular weight control can be obtained for both solution state and melt polymerizations. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/545092 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714610 | He |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei He (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Field Programmable Logic Arrays (FPGAs) are described which utilize multiple power supply voltages to reduce both dynamic power and leakage power without sacrificing speed or substantially increasing device area. Power reduction mechanisms are described for numerous portions of the FPGA, including logic blocks, routing circuits, connection blocks, switch blocks, configuration memory cells, and so forth. Embodiments describe circuits and methods for implementing multiple supplies as sources of Vdd, multiple voltage thresholding Vt, signal level translators, and power gating of circuitry to deactivate portions of the circuit which are inactive. The supply voltage levels can be fixed, or programmable. Methods are described for performing circuit CAD in the routing and assignment process on FPGAs, in particular for optimizing FPGA use having the power reduction circuits taught. Routing methods describe utilizing slack timing, power sensitivity, trace-based simulations, and other techniques to optimize circuit utilization on a multi Vdd FPGA. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566573 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715018 | Gharib et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morteza Gharib (San Marino, California); Joshua Adams (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system for three-dimensional (3-D) acoustic imaging of a scattering structure using information from a two-dimensional (2-D) image. The system uses a characterized sensor array to emit a signal from the sensor array into an object of interest to generate at least one 2-D representation of the object of interest. The 2-D representation comprises a plurality of x and y coordinate pairs and at least one candidate scattering structure. The candidate scattering structure comprises a shape defined by at least one pair of x and y coordinates. The candidate scattering structure shape is restricted to at least one pair of x and y coordinates. The pair of x and y coordinates of the candidate scattering structure shape are then compared with a first coordinate-dependent response function to assign an x, y, and z position of a scattering structure in 3-D space. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/784304 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715950 | Lasseter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Lasseter (Madison, Wisconsin); Shashank Krishnamurthy (Rocky Hill, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsource is provided, which includes a generator, a prime mover, and a controller. The prime mover includes a shaft connected to drive the generator to generate power at a frequency controlled by a rotation rate of the shaft. The controller calculates an operating frequency for the generator based on a comparison between a power set point and a measured power flow. A requested shaft speed for the prime mover is calculated by combining a maximum frequency change, a minimum frequency change, and the calculated operating frequency. A shaft speed adjustment is calculated for the prime mover based on a comparison between the requested shaft speed and a measured shaft speed of the prime mover. A fuel command for the prime mover is calculated based on the shaft speed adjustment. A rotation rate of the shaft of the prime mover is adjusted based on the calculated fuel command to control the frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/681014 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716552 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Robert J. McEliece (Pasadena, California); Hui Jin (Glen Gardner, New Jersey); Fabrizio Pollara (Lacanada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbo-like code is formed by repeating the signal, coding it, and interleaving it. A serial concatenated coder is formed of an inner coder and an outer coder separated by an interleaver. The outer coder is a coder which has rate greater than one e.g. a repetition coder. The interleaver rearranges the bits. An outer coder is a rate one coder. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/429083 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716553 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Min Kim (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Renfei Liu (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory address generation method and circuit architecture for time-multiplexed RS-based LDPC code decoder is presented. The method is developed for non quasi-cyclic RS-based LDPC code decoder implementation. A circuit for the memory address generation method achieves low area. High throughput time-multiplexed RS-based LDPC code decoder design models and circuit architectures are presented. The decoder models are specifically developed for 10BASE-T (10-Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Over Copper) system. These time-multiplexed architectures enable higher throughput with lower area. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487042 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07715474 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John F. Bulzacchelli (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and method includes summer circuits to add a dynamic feedback signal representing an h2 tap to a received input and to speculate on an h1 tap. Data slicers receive and sample the outputs of the summer circuits using a clock signal to produce even data bits and odd data bits. First and second multiplexers receive the even data bits and the odd data bits. A first output latch is configured to receive an output of the first multiplexer to provide a select signal for the second multiplexer and to drive the dynamic feedback signal to an even half summer circuit of the summer circuits. A second output latch is configured to receive an output of the second multiplexer to provide a select signal for the first multiplexer and to drive the dynamic feedback signal to an odd half summer circuit of the summer circuits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672270 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715996 | Cusmariu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adolf Cusmariu (Eldersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a novel method of performing spectral analysis on a digital signal. The received signal is segmented into a number of data blocks, which may be disjoint or overlapping. For each data block, the signal is differentiated, and the Gram-Schmidt process is used to obtain orthogonality between a signal and its derivative. The complex extension leads to computation of phase using either the inverse tangent function or the complex logarithm. Finally, frequency estimation follows through differentiation of the unwrapped phase. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/904538 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716610 | Challenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Louis R. Degenaro (White Plains, New York); James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul Reed (Brookline, Massachusetts); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributable and serializable finite state machine and methods for using the distributable and serializable finite state machine are provided wherein finite state machine instance can be location-shifted, time-shifted or location-shift and time-shifted, for example by serializing and deserializing each instance. Each instance can be located-shifted between agents, and a persistent memory storage location is provided to facilitate both location-shifting and time-shifting. Finite state machine instances and the actions that make up each instance can be run in a distributed fashion among a plurality of agents. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/620558 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07713849 | Habib et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illuminex Corporation (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youssef M. Habib (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); John Steinbeck (Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Freestanding metallic nanowires attached to a metallic substrate are disclosed. A method of creating the nanowire structure using an anodized layer is presented. In one embodiment an optical SERS sensor is formed. The sensor head has at least one array of nanowires chemically functionalized to recognize molecules of interest. A method of forming a SERS sensor and using the sensor to analyze a sample is presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206632 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715565 | Kimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InfoAssure, Inc. (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald D. Kimmel (Stevensville, Maryland); Ersin L. Domangue (Woodbine, Maryland); Francis J. Adamouski (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for encrypting a data encryption key includes a key encryption key generator configured to receive a public portion of a label, the label including an asymmetric key pair of the public portion and a private portion, the key encryption key generator being further configured to process the public portion of the label to obtain a key encryption key, and a data encryption key encoder configured to receive the key encryption key from the key encryption key generator and to receive a data encryption key from a random number generator, the encoder being further configured to encrypt the data encryption key using the key encryption key to produce an encrypted data encryption key and to provide the encrypted data encryption key to an encryption device. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193607 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07716553 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Min Kim (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Renfei Liu (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory address generation method and circuit architecture for time-multiplexed RS-based LDPC code decoder is presented. The method is developed for non quasi-cyclic RS-based LDPC code decoder implementation. A circuit for the memory address generation method achieves low area. High throughput time-multiplexed RS-based LDPC code decoder design models and circuit architectures are presented. The decoder models are specifically developed for 10BASE-T (10-Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Over Copper) system. These time-multiplexed architectures enable higher throughput with lower area. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487042 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07712248 | Beroza |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morton Beroza (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for uniform emission of a composition having at least one volatile liquid attractant. It is especially useful in traps to improve the monitoring of pest insect populations and/or for mass trapping of insects. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/803121 |
| 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 043/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07714101 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Delbert Linn Harris (Ames, Iowa); Matthew M. Erdman (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a polypeptide of a protective antigenic determinant (PAD polypeptide) of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide. The PAD polypeptide and nucleic acids encoding a PAD polypeptide are useful in the development of antibodies directed to PAD, vaccines effective in providing protection against PRRSV infection, and diagnostic assays detecting the presence of PAD antibodies generated by a PAD-specific vaccine. The invention also discloses methods of generating antibodies to PAD, for vaccinating a pig to provide protection from PRRSV infections, a method of preparing the vaccine, a method of treating PRRSV infections in a pig, and a method of detecting antibodies to PAD of PRRSV. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/345219 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07713423 | Moller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Idaho Research Foundation, Inc. (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Moller (Moscow, Idaho); Kevin Marshall Brackney (Moscow, Idaho); Roger Alan Korus (Moscow, Idaho); Gerald Michael Keller, Jr. (Omaha, Nebraska); Brian Keith Hart (Moscow, Idaho); Remembrance Louisa Newcombe (Hayden, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a reactive filtration method includes continuously regenerating a reactive filter media while simultaneously filtering contaminants from fluid flowing through the filter media. In one embodiment, regenerating the reactive filter media comprises mixing metal granules with the filter media and agitating the mixture. In another embodiment, regenerating the reactive filter media comprises introducing a metal in the fluid flowing through the filter media and agitating the filter media. In one embodiment, a method for removing phosphorus, arsenic or a heavy metal from water includes introducing a metal salt reagent into the water at a molar ratio of 5:1 to 200:1 to the phosphorous or the arsenic in the water and passing the water through a bed of moving sand. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025194 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/667 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715013 | Glaser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Glaser (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kenneth Copenhaver (Savoy, Illinois); George May (Stennis Space Center, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided to monitor targeted pest populations, disease, presence of transgenic and non-transgenic plants, or targeted pest population in a transgenic crop using remote imagery to discern differences in crops along with pest infestation in all crop varieties. The system relies on the fact that plant leaves are known to change color based on stress, herbivory, and other environmental factors. The system provides a special camera that can see reflected light energy across the visible and near infrared (about 400-1000 nm) to identify these effects. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520753 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07714936 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sony Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Lee Martin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Daniel P. Kuban (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Steven D. Zimmermann (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nicholas Busko (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method is provided for converting digital images for use in an imaging system. The apparatus includes a data memory which stores digital data representing an image having a circular or spherical field of view such as an image captured by a fish-eye lens, a control input for receiving a signal for selecting a portion of the image, and a converter responsive to the control input for converting digital data corresponding to the selected portion into digital data representing a planar image for subsequent display. Various methods include the steps of storing digital data representing an image having a circular or spherical field of view, selecting a portion of the image, and converting the stored digital data corresponding to the selected portion into digital data representing a planar image for subsequent display. In various embodiments, the data converter and data conversion step may use an orthogonal set of transformation algorithms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/887319 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/576 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07715994 | Richards et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Lance Richards (Palmdale, California); William L. Ko (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is an improved process for using surface strain data to obtain real-time, operational loads data for complex structures that significantly reduces the time and cost versus current methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191734 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07713899 | Hampden-Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cabot Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Hampden-Smith (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Toivo T. Kodas (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paolina Atanassova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Rimple Bhatia (Placitas, New Mexico); Ross A. Miesem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul Napolitano (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gordon L. Rice (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the manufacture of electrodes for fuel cells. The compositions and methods are particularly useful for the manufacture of anodes and cathodes for proton exchange membrane fuel cells, particularly direct methanol fuel cells. The methods can utilize direct-write tools to deposit ink compositions and form functional layers of a membrane electrode assembly having controlled properties and enhanced performance. |
| FILED | Monday, July 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428533 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07715494 | Dally |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Dally (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An equalizer provided in a digital transmitter compensates for attenuation in a signal channel to a digital receiver. The equalizer generates signal levels as a logical function of bit history to emphasize transition signal levels relative to repeated signal levels. The preferred equalizer includes an FIR transition filter using a look-up table. Parallel circuits including FIR filters and digital-to-analog converters provide a high speed equalizer with lower speed circuitry. The equalizer is particularly suited to in-cabinet and local area network transmissions where feedback circuitry facilitates adaptive training of the equalizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514637 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
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-20100511.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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