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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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| US 07716863 | Johnson 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) | Mark A. Johnson (West Sand Lake, New York); Andrew G. Littlefield (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for counting and storing a number of rounds fired from a gun includes a microcomputer; a non-volatile memory connected to the microcomputer; and at least one piezoelectric transducer connected to the microcomputer and mounted on the gun, the at least one piezoelectric transducer comprising a power source that generates power during operation of the gun. The piezoelectric transducer may also sense the firing of the gun. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671238 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/1.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07717023 | Pereira 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) | Carlos M. Pereira (Tannersville, Pennsylvania); Hai-Long Nguyen (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Edip Niver (Mountainside, New Jersey); Aladin H. Kamel (Cairo, Egypt); Mohamed A. Salem (Harrison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and accompanying methods for the detection and subsequent destruction or disablement of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) while maintaining a satisfactory level of human safety. Operationally, our inventive method and apparatus detects the IED using one or more methods including: detecting internal battery components; detecting magnetic signature(s) of the IED; detecting a characteristic energy spectrum of the IED; and/or detecting characteristic chemical signatures of the device(s). Once detected, the device may be further characterized and then subsequently deactivated and/or destroyed by a shaped pulse charge directed at the device or its power source (battery) from a safe distance. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/306191 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07717470 | Pluymers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Pluymers (Haddonfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A quick fluid connector includes two mating portions. Leakage may occur during mating and demating. In order to contain such leakage, the mating portions of the connector are mounted on the distal end of a projecting boss and at the fundus of a matching well, respectively, so that the boss and well together define a chamber which surrounds the two mating portions of the quick connector. One or more drainage channels are coupled to the chamber to carry away leakage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/640445 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipe joints or couplings 285/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07717495 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Industries, Inc. (Medina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua J. Leonard (North Branch, Minnesota); Richard Raymond Maki (North Branch, Minnesota); Eric Bjerketvedt (North Branch, Minnesota); Michael D Schneider (Dalbo, Minnesota); Bradley Robert Morisch (Lindstrom, Minnesota); Brian D Krosschell (Chisago City, Minnesota); Louis J Brady (Wyoming, Minnesota); James Bergman (Oslo, Minnesota); Larry Holter (Alvarado, Minnesota); Richard Nelson (Oslo, Minnesota); Lionel Hoff (Oslo, Minnesota); Doug Moman (Warren, Minnesota); Lyle R. Georges (Loretto, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A utility vehicle with space utilization features is disclosed. The space utilization features provide storage and access to components. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/050064 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/183.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718047 | Koval et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl A. Koval (Arvada, Colorado); Christine E. Evans (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Richard D. Noble (Boulder, Colorado); Mya A. Norman (Springdale, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides electrochemically-based methods and devices for producing fluid flow and/or changes in fluid pressure. In the methods and devices of the invention, current is passed through a divided electrochemical cell. Adjacent compartments of the cell are divided by a separator which comprises an ionically conducting separator. Each compartment includes an electrode and an electrolyte solution or ionic liquid. The electrolyte solution(s) or ionic liquid(s) and the ionically conducting separator are selected to obtain the desired relationship between the current through the cell and the fluid flowrate and/or change in fluid pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/252981 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718112 | Drew et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher Drew (Dracut, Massachusetts); Ferdinando Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Lynne Ann Samuelson (Marlboro, Massachusetts); Jayant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanometer scale structures, and methods of making the same are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/209898 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718222 | Hass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek D. Hass (Charlottesville, Virginia); Douglas T. Queheillalt (Charlottesville, Virginia); Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct vapor deposition (DVD) apparatus and method is taught, that provides a carrier gas flow entraining vapor atoms for the coating of regions on a substrate that are not in line-of-sight. The degree of non line-of-sight (NLOS) coating, hence thickness uniformity around the substrate is a sensitive function of the flow conditions. For a fixed background pressure in the region of deposition, an increase in the uniformity of the coating thickness is accomplished as the flow velocity is reduced. This improvement in uniformity is a result of an increase in the fraction of vapor atoms which deposit in NLOS positions on the substrate such as backside (21) of fiber (65) as indicated by vapor streamlines (51). Vapor impact width (VIW) is the width of the vapor flux impacting on some area of the fiber. Front side coating (FSC) width is the vapor width of atoms impacting on the substrate frontside (22). |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/512161 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718224 | Burke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Burke (Irvine, California); Zhen Yu (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for synthesizing ultra long carbon nanotubes comprising one or more metal underlayer platforms that allow the nanotube to grow freely suspended from the substrate. A modified gas-flow injector is used to reduce the gas flow turbulence during nanotube growth. Nanotube electrodes are formed by growing arrays of aligned nanotubes between two metal underlayer platforms. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198902 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718230 | Zakhidov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anvar A. Zakhidov (McKinney, Texas); Rashmi Nanjundaswamy (Dallas, Texas); Sergey Li (Dallas, Texas); Alexander Zakhidov (Moscow, Russian Federation); Mei Zhang (Plano, Texas); Ray H. Baughman (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transferring an array of oriented carbon nanotubes from a first surface to a second surface by providing the array of oriented carbon nanotubes on the first surface within a vacuum chamber, providing the second surface within the vacuum chamber separate from the first surface, and applying an electric potential between the first surface and the second surface such that the array of oriented carbon nanotubes are sublimed from the first surface and re-deposited on the second surface. |
| FILED | Friday, November 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/271571 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718354 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California); Lawrence B. Blyn (Mission Viejo, California); Raymond Ranken (Encinitas, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of: identifying pathogens in biological samples from humans and animals, resolving a plurality of etiologic agents present in samples obtained from humans and animals, determining detailed genetic information about such pathogens or etiologic agents, and rapid detection and identification of bioagents from environmental, clinical or other samples. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/728486 |
| 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 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718364 | Hoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancer Institute (Santa Monica, California); Bret Taback (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California); Bret Taback (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for assessing allelic losses and hypermethylation of genes in CpG tumor promotor region on specific chromosomal regions in cancer patients, including melanoma, neuroblastoma breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer patients. The method relies on the evidence that free DNA and hypermethylation of genes in CpG tumor promotor region may be identified in the bone marrow, serum, plasma, and tumor tissue samples of cancer patients. Methods of melanoma, neuroblastoma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer detection, staging, and prognosis are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809965 |
| 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 07718369 | Tomlins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Belmont, Massachusetts); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519397 |
| 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 07718421 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IQuum, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuqi Chen (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bertrand Lemieux (Brighton, Massachusetts); Zihua Wang (Newton, Massachusetts); Kevin R. Kopczynski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lingjun Chen (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample processing tubule may include a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment. Each segment may be defined by the tubule, may be fluidly isolated, at least in part by a breakable seal, may be so expandable as to receive a volume of fluid expelled from another segment, and may be so compressible as to contain substantially no fluid when so compressed. Each segment may contain at least one reagent. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/773775 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718461 | Weller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida); Thomas Ketterl (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes nano-scale fabrication technique used to create a sub-micron wide gap across the center conductor of a coplanar waveguide transmission line configured in a fixed-fixed beam arrangement, resulting in a pair of opposing cantilever beams that comprise an electro-mechanical switch. Accordingly, a nanometer-scale mechanical switch with very high switching speed and low actuation voltage has been developed. This switch is intended primarily for application in the RF/microwave/wireless industry. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/266845 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718481 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuefeng Liu (South Burlington, Vermont); Robert M. Rassel (Colchester, Vermont); Steven H. Voldman (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure comprises a deep subcollector buried in a first region of a dual epitaxial layer and a reachthrough structure in contact with the deep subcollector to provide a low-resistive shunt which prevents CMOS latch-up for a first device. The structure may additionally include a near subcollector formed in a higher region than the deep subcollector and under another device. At least one reachthrough electrically connects the deep subcollector and the near subcollector. The method includes forming a merged triple well double epitaxy/double subcollector. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279934 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/199 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718594 | Lawson 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) | Glenn E. Lawson (Springfield, Virginia); Richard C. Hodge (King George, Virginia); Jerry S. Brown (Woodford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention encompasses a microemulsion having environmentally safe components, the microemulsion exhibiting optical clarity and stability over a wide range of temperatures. The microemulsion also forms a part of a decontaminant solution for treating chemical and biological contaminant agents, the solution preferably containing peroxycarboxylic acids generated from solids as the primary decontamination agent. The solution is a single phase emulsion that is both stable and effective over a broad range of temperatures, the range extending well below 0° C. There is also disclosed a microemulsion decontaminate solution having components that stabilize the included solid and peroxycarboxylic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973847 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718603 | Wipf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jingbo Xiao (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerian E. Kagan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yulia Y. Tyurina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Kanai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition and related methods for delivering cargo to a mitochondria which includes (a) a membrane active peptidyl fragment having a high affinity with the mitochondria and (b) cargo. The cargo may be selected from a wide variety of desired cargos which are to be delivered to the mitochondria for a specific purpose. Compositions and methods are disclosed for treating an illness that is caused or associated with cellular damage or dysfunction which is caused by excessive mitochondrial production of reaction oxygen species (ROS). Compositions which act as mitochondria-selective targeting agents using the structural signaling of the β-turn recognizable by cells as mitochondria) targeting sequences are discussed. Mitochondria and cell death by way of apoptosis is inhibited as a result of the ROS-scavenging activity, thereby increasing the survival rate of the patient. In a preferred embodiment, the compositions and methods may be administered therapeutically in the field to patients with profound hemorrhagic shock so that survival could be prolonged until it is feasible to obtain surgical control of the bleeding vessels. In further preferred embodiments, the composition for scavenging radicals in a mitochondria membrane includes a radical scavenging agent and a membrane active compound having a high affinity with said mitochondrial membrane and associated methods. In another embodiment, the cargo transported by mitochondrial-selective targeting agents may include an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzyme activity. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565779 |
| 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 07718684 | Jung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Samedy Ouk (Los Angeles, California); Charles L. Sawyers (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Derek Welsbie (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A modest (2-5 fold) increase in androgen receptor (AR) mRNA is the only expression change consistently associated with developing resistance to antiandrogen therapy. Increased levels of AR confer resistance to anti-androgens by amplifying signal output from low levels of residual ligand and altering the normal response to antagonists. This invention provides cell based assays for use in the examination of new therapeutic modalities and provides for the design of novel antiandrogen compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/590445 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718779 | Chanh 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) | Tran C. Chanh (Lovettsville, Virginia); Gerard P. Andrews (Laramie, Wyoming); Jeffrey J. Adamovicz (Thurmont, Maryland); Bradford S. Powell (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application are described monoclonal antibodies which specifically recognize V antigen of Y. pestis and epitopes recognized by these monoclonal antibodies. Also provided are mixtures of antibodies of the present invention, as well as methods of using individual antibodies or mixtures thereof for the detection, prevention, and/or therapeutical treatment of plague infections in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987533 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718794 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); ZettaCore, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Robert S. Loewe (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Porphyrin compounds having a surface attachment group coupled thereto at the 5 position are described. The surface attachment group has the formula: wherein R is —CHCH2 or —CCH and Ar is an aromatic group. Methods and intermediates useful for making such compounds are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052084 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718950 | Saraf |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi F. Saraf (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor to detect and map various mechanical stimuli spatially distributed over the area of contact with the surface of the sensor. The sensor is a thin film including a stack of alternating layers of nanoparticles and dielectric materials sandwiched between electrodes. By applying a bias between the electrodes, the applied stimuli to the sensor is converted to light and/or device-current through the stack. The optical signal may be directly focused on a photo detector, such as a digital camera, to image the distribution of the stimuli. The electronic signal in the form of spatial distribution of device-current over the area of contact may be obtained by patterning top and bottom electrodes and analyzed using standard electronics. The sensor has applications in many fields, including medicine, forensics, basic and applied research, and robotics. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810113 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718953 | Prather et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis W. Prather (Newark, Delaware); Zhaolin Lu (Newark, Delaware); Janusz Murakowski (Newark, Delaware); Shouyuan Shi (Newark, Delaware); Garrett Schneider (New Castle, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are electromagnetic traps or tweezers. Desired results are achieved by combining two recently developed techniques, 3D negative refraction flat lenses (3DNRFLs) and optical tweezers. The very unique advantages of using 3DNRFLs for electromagnetic traps have been demonstrated. Super-resolution and short focal distance of the flat lens result in a highly focused and strongly convergent beam, which is a key requirement for a stable and accurate electromagnetic trap. The translation symmetry of 3DNRFL provides translation-invariance for imaging, which allows an electromagnetic trap to be translated without moving the lens, and permits a trap array by using multiple sources with a single lens. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786670 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718969 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Jianming Dai (Troy, New York); Xu Xie (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating amplified terahertz radiation includes inducing a first volume of a gas to produce a seed plasma and emit pulsed seed terahertz radiation by focusing an optical seed beam in the first volume. The seed terahertz radiation is then amplified by focusing an optical gain beam to produce a gain plasma in a second volume overlapping with the pulsed seed terahertz radiation remote from the seed plasma. The method may be implemented in a system for detecting and analyzing a remotely-located object such as an explosive material, a biological agent, and a chemical agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/756243 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719070 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kimberley C. Hall (Halifax, Canada); Wayne H. Lau (Goleta, California); Kenan Gündo{hacek over (g)}du (Iowa City, Iowa); Michael E. Flatté (Iowa City, Iowa); Thomas F. Boggess (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A nonmagnetic semiconductor device which may be utilized as a spin resonant tunnel diode (spin RTD) and spin transistor, in which low applied voltages and/or magnetic fields are used to control the characteristics of spin-polarized current flow. The nonmagnetic semiconductor device exploits the properties of bulk inversion asymmetry (BIA) in (110)-oriented quantum wells. The nonmagnetic semiconductor device may also be used as a nonmagnetic semiconductor spin valve and a magnetic field sensor. The spin transistor and spin valve may be applied to low-power and/or high-density and/or high-speed logic technologies. The magnetic field sensor may be applied to high-speed hard disk read heads. The spin RTD of the present invention would be useful for a plurality of semiconductor spintronic devices for spin injection and/or spin detection. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/351534 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719071 | Flatté et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Edward Flatté (Iowa City, Iowa); Zhi Gang Yu (Mountain View, California); Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin (San Dimas, California); David Awschalom (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A bipolar spin transistor is provided. In one embodiment of the present invention, the bipolar spin transistor includes a first semiconductor region having a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region having a second conductivity type that is different from the first conductivity type and also having a spin polarization, and a third semiconductor region having a conductivity type that is the same conductivity type of the first semiconductor region. The first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region are adjacent to each other so as to form a first charge depletion layer therebetween, the first charge depletion layer having a first side facing the first semiconductor region and an opposing second side facing the second semiconductor region. Additionally, the second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region are adjacent to each other so as to form a second charge depletion layer therebetween, the second charge depletion layer having a first side facing the second semiconductor region and an opposing second side facing the third semiconductor region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/854022 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719256 | Baum 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) | Jerry D. Baum (Los Angeles, California); Anthony J. Bissonette (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a time interval between leading edges of two adjacent cyclic input pulses of a series of cyclic input pulses. A sample of the cyclic input pulses is taken at each of a series of sampling times to produce sampling hits, each sampling hit being an indication of a presence of a cyclic input pulse, recording a count number at each of the sampling hits, determining initial sampling hits from the detected sampling hits, determining a minimum sampling interval between initial sampling hits, and determining a count number located at a back end of the minimum sampling interval, count numbers of the minimum sampling interval being used to determine a time interval between lead edges of two adjacent cyclic input pulses. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/076564 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719304 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizonia State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Jonathan E. Knudsen (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a radiation hardened flip-flop formed from a modified temporal latch and a modified dual interlocked storage cell (DICE) latch. The temporal latch is configured as the master latch and provides four output storage nodes, which represent outputs of the temporal latch. The DICE latch is configured as the slave latch and is made of two cross-coupled inverter latches, which together provide four DICE storage nodes. The four outputs of the temporal latch are used to write the four DICE storage nodes of the DICE latch. The temporal latch includes at least one feedback path that includes a delay element, which provides a delay. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117320 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719316 | Chueh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juang-Ying Chueh (Auburndale, Massachusetts); Jerry Kao (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Visvesh Sathe (Fort Collins, Colorado); Marios C. Papaefthymiou (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a digital system that includes a distribution network to carry a reference clock and a plurality of circuit domains coupled to the distribution network to receive the reference clock for synchronous operation in accordance with the reference clock. Each circuit domain of the plurality of circuit domains includes a respective clock generator driven by the reference clock to generate a resonant clock signal, respective circuitry coupled to the clock generator to operate in accordance with the resonant clock signal, with the circuitry including a capacitive load for the resonant clock signal and a respective inductance coupled to the circuitry and the clock generator to resonate the capacitive load of the circuitry. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949664 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719317 | Chueh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juang-Ying Chueh (Auburndale, Massachusetts); Jerry Kao (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Visvesh Sathe (Fort Collins, Colorado); Marios C. Papaefthymiou (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a digital system that includes a distribution network to carry a reference clock, and a circuit domain coupled to the distribution network to receive the reference clock for synchronous operation in accordance with the reference clock. The circuit domain includes a clock generator driven by the reference clock to generate a resonant clock signal, an input port to receive a control signal, and a gate coupled to the input port to discontinue application of the resonant clock signal within the circuit domain based on the control signal. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949669 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719384 | Arceo 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) | Diana Arceo (San Diego, California); John W. Rockway (San Diego, California); Jeffery C. Allen (San Diego, California); Jeffery Young (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes more than one subsystem, each subsystem operating within a different subsystem frequency range, the subsystems comprising a circulator having three or more circulator ports and a direction of circulation, the circulator operating within a specific frequency range of the subsystem frequency range, and a filter, such as a bandpass filter, connected to at least one of the circulator ports. The filters each define a subsystem port and operate within the specific frequency range. Each subsystem port has a port index determined by the direction of circulation of the circulator within the subsystem. Each subsystem port has a specific port index that is connected to a common port having the specific port index. At least one of the circulator ports may be terminated to a matched load. Each subsystem circulator may comprise at least three circulator ports, with a filter connected to each of the circulator ports. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237592 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719401 | Nyffenegger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes Friederich Nyffenegger (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature probe assembly is provided. The temperature probe assembly may comprise a housing formed of a first thermally conductive material and having an inner diameter defined by an inner bore, an insert formed of a second thermally conductive material disposed in the inner bore and having an outer diameter that is substantially equal to the inner diameter of the housing at a first temperature and a temperature sensor mounted within the insert. The second thermally conductive material has a thermal coefficient of expansion that is greater than the first thermally conductive material, such that the insert is insertable into the inner bore at the first temperature and is tightly locked in the inner bore at a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/411511 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719416 | Arms et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroStrain, Inc. (Williston, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven W. Arms (Williston, Vermont); Chris Pruyn Townsend (Shelburne, Vermont); David Lawrence Churchill (Burlington, Vermont); Michael John Hamel (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of maintaining a structure includes providing a structure having a component subject to failure. A sensor, a memory and an energy harvesting device are mounted on the structure. The sensor is used and data derived from the sensor logged in the memory, wherein the memory is powered solely with energy derived from the energy harvesting device. The component is replaced if information in the memory shows that the component was subject to damaging usage. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518777 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719529 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce M. Anderson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kevin W. Blietz (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for recovering high-resolution images from an analog video interface by autonomously correcting for phase errors between a synchronized clock signal to a sampling analog-to-digital converter and the input video signal. A global phase adjustment first detects video transitions in the sampled video data stream in order to determine and then select the optimum clock phase over entire video frames for rendering the pixels of the video input. This corrects for long-term phase errors, such as those from timing tolerances in circuit components and timing tolerances in the video input. A local phase adjustment selects the samples used for rendering individual pixels according to an algorithm that avoids the selection of samples that may be located within video transition regions. This corrects for short-term phase errors, such as those from jitter and phase drift on the sample clock. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/952329 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719693 | Osborn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon V. Osborn (Thousand Oaks, California); Josh A. Conway (Redondo Beach, California); Jesse D. Fowler (Laguna Niguel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A stroboscopic imaging interferometer system includes an environmental chamber having a novel viewing window equipped with a rigidly integrated beam splitter and piezo actuated reference mirror for illuminating a device providing an object beam and reference mirror for providing a reference beam, upon the reflection of both beams, produces interference of the object beam by the reference beam for providing absolute phase observations of the device, that may be a MEMS device under test. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789013 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719746 | Goetz 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) | Peter G. Goetz (Springfield, Virginia); William S Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optic device with a doped semiconductor base and a plurality of pixels on the semiconductor base, each pixel including: a multiple quantum well formed on the semiconductor base, an oppositely doped semiconductor layer on the multiple quantum well, and a top electrode on the semiconductor layer, the top electrode shaped to produce an approximately uniform lateral resistance in the pixel. An embodiment is a large area modulator for modulating retro-reflector systems, which typically use large area surface-normal modulators with large lateral current flow. Uniform resistance to each part of the modulator decreases location dependence of frequency response. A chirped grid electrode balances semiconductor sheet resistance and metal line resistance components of the series resistance. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210665 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719761 | Lau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth H. Lau (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A filter or lens for a star-tracking telescope includes a clear center portion and an attenuating peripheral portion. The peripheral portion attenuates off-axis images through any radial line extending from a center of the filter or lens to a circumference edge of the filter or lens. The attenuation is for passing on-axis images with high signal to noise ratios, for attenuating off-axis images, and for attenuating but not completely blocking the off-axis images. The telescope with such a filter or lens is well suited for improved star tracking systems, and well suited for reducing off-axis glare in handheld optical apparatus such as binoculars, telescopes, cameras, and eyeglasses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/525645 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719925 | Kitchin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Kitchin (Laurel, Maryland); Charles W. Kerechanin, II (Burtonsville, Maryland); Charles B. Cooperman (Highland, Maryland); Juan I. Arvelo, Jr. (Dayton, Maryland); Ronald W. Mitnick (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrophone assembly includes at least four hydrophone units for converting an acoustic signal to an electrical signal, the hydrophone units being in a parallel, cylindrically symmetric spaced spatial relationship with each other, and at least one spacer element to maintain the hydrophone units fixed in the spatial relationship to each other, wherein the hydrophone units and spacer element are embedded in an encapsulant to form an elongated, flexible body. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/548006 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719983 | Pendarakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary method of resource allocation is provided. A relationship is estimated between at least one controlled resource and at least one dependent parameter. A resource allocation of the at least one controlled resource is adjusted to effect a desired system goal expressed in terms of the at least one dependent parameter. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327069 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720132 | Pillai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | C and P Technologies, Inc. (Closter, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Unnikrishna Sreedharan Pillai (Harrington Park, New Jersey); Ke Yong Li (Jackson Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method for transmitter-receiver design that enhances the desired signal output from the receiver by whitening the total interference and noise input to the receiver and maximizing the output Signal to Interference plus Noise power Ratio (SINR) is presented. As a result of the whitening process, the receiver “sees” a desired signal in white noise, and the receiver structure is then optimized to maximize the receiver output at the desired decision making instant. Furthermore the new design scheme proposed here can be used for transmit signal energy and bandwidth tradeoff. As a result, transmit signal energy can be used to tradeoff for “premium” signal bandwidth without sacrificing the system performance level in terms of the output Signal to Interference plus Noise power Ratio (SINR). |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/681218 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720299 | Hou |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsieh S. Hou (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system provides lossless split and merge processes of integer discrete cosine transform (DCT) transformed data such that the discrete cosine transform of one data block may be split into two half length DCT odd and even blocks for merging, with split and merge processes being lossless and are generated in the discrete cosine transformed domain. After splitting, the redundancy existing between the two integer discrete cosine transformed half data blocks allows one to approximately reconstruct the original data block in case one of the discrete cosine transformed half data block is lost during transmission. The system may be used with existing JPEG and MPEG compressors and decompressors because both use the discrete cosine transform for image and video compression and decompression, may be used as a resolution conversion device for transcribing from digital high-definition TV to analog low-definition TV, and may be used for lossless splitting and merging type-IV discrete cosine transformed data for audio compression and decompression in the international standard MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), such as AC-3 or MP3. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/126705 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720511 | Hanley 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) | Brian Hanley (Bethesda, Maryland); Choong K Oh (Burke, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention determines optimal positions of a variable antenna using an artificial intelligence-based genetic algorithm (GA). The GA acquires a fitness value for an individual of a genetic algorithm population by updating positions of the antenna. The population improves through an evolutionary computational process using a fitness measure based on the signal strength. At the end of the process, the system positions the antenna to the best position found by the GA. Therefore, the final position gives exceptionally clear reception for a chosen received frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748630 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/562.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720566 | Di Troia 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 A. Di Troia (Mullica Hill, New Jersey); Adam L. Kirby (Fair Lawn, New Jersey); Suzanne D. Kralle (Runnemede, New Jersey); John Messick (Middletown, Delaware); John D. Cavalieri (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Three software programs are respectively run on the main processing constituent of a programmable logic controller (PLC), the network-controlling constituent of the PLC, and a human interface unit. Intelligent (e.g., switch, sensor, control, etc.) devices are distributed within a communications network associated with a vertical package conveyor (VPC). Signals are transmitted between/among the processing constituent, the controlling constituent, the interface and the devices. In an ongoing informational and regulative process, the devices provide input for the processing constituent, which in turn provides output to the devices. In furtherance of human safety, the processing constituent causes VPC operation to stop upon the occurrence of any of the following events: breached light curtain; open machinery access door; inoperable run stop button; inoperable emergency stop button; activated emergency stop button; misplaced package. The processing constituent also dictates the direction (up or down) and mode (constant or variable) of the VPC. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890839 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720779 | Perry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quantum Leap Research, Inc. (Claymont, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Beau Perry (Bear, Germany); Eli T. Faulkner (Clayton, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for the representation, editing, evaluation, and inference of graphical models is disclosed which can be used to construct and evaluate a graphical model or graphical network and to calculate inference values. An efficient method of updating graphical models is demonstrated, and provides the basis for an improved system for manipulation and evaluation of probabilistic models. The graphical network editor is useful in the construction of graphical modes such as Bayesian Networks. The graphical network and network graphical user interface (GUI) are used in conjunction with each other to model a system wherein failure probabilities and the current state of components are taken into account to monitor the health and progress of a system for an engineer or engineering software to evaluate and monitor. The evaluation is useful in the monitoring of assets and other real systems having multiple, dependent, and independently operating components such as a pump, a manufacturing plant, a production line, an assembly line, where asset health and quality control is a concern. The asset components each influencing some overall outcome of a system or situation. Success or failure or probability of success, probability of failure and health of the system can be monitored and manipulated by altering the values of prior probability and posterior probability values. Failure correlation between components can be evaluated wherein failure rates of asset is unknown. Production and quality can be monitored and altered. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626354 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720841 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York); Shu-Ping Chang (Shrub Oak, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing data collection in a distributed processing system. The method includes dynamically collecting at least one statistical query pattern associated with a selected group of information processing nodes. The statistical query pattern is dynamically collected from a plurality of information processing nodes in a distributed processing system. At least one operating attribute distribution associated with an operating attribute that has been queried for the selected group is dynamically monitored. The selected group is dynamically configured, based on the query pattern and the operating attribute distribution, to periodically push a set of attributes associated with the each information processing node in the selected group. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538525 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/721 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720993 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Liu (Milpitas, California); Feng Zhao (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor network routing is formulated as a joint optimization problem taking into account routing cost and information aggregation. Information gain is used explicitly to optimize the routing path. The optimization approach involves a shortest path algorithm in a modified network graph. A method is provided that routes queries from an arbitrary entry point to high activity network sensor regions using inputs from sensor nodes along the path to refine the message. The multiple step look-ahead approach provides deadlock avoidance and routing around sensor network holes. For point-to-point query routing, a method based on real-time A* (RTA*) search is provided to find a path which takes detours efficiently to maximize information aggregation. Future information expected to be gained along the path from an arbitrary node to an exit node may be estimated to allow the selection of a successor sensor node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/736748 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07721086 | Milliken |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. and BBN Technologies Corp. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Clark Milliken (Dover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryptographic system (500) includes cryptographic sub-units (510) and associated input buffers (520) connected to a scheduler (530) and a reassembler (540). The scheduler (530) receives packets, where each of the packets includes one or more data blocks, and assigns each of the packets to one of the sub-units (510). The input buffers (520) temporarily store the packets from the scheduler (530). Each of the sub-units (510) performs a cryptographic operation on the data blocks from the associated input buffer (520) to form transformed blocks. The reassembler (540) receives the transformed blocks from the sub-units (510), reassembles the packets from the transformed blocks, and outputs the reassembled packets in a same order in which the packets were received by the scheduler (530). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/347170 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07721183 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alain J. Martin (Pasadena, California); Wonjin Jang (Pasadena, California); Mika Nystroem (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides circuits that are tolerant to soft errors, such as a single event upset (SEU). The circuits have a chain of permitted state changes. Redundant elements, including redundant literals and assignments, are designed and implemented in the circuit. The design is such that a disruption or change of state on a single element by an SEU will not change the state flow of a circuit or lead to impermissible state changes. In one embodiment, the invention is implemented in quasi-delay-insensitive (QDI) asynchronous circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216577 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Graham Timmins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Vojo P. Deretic (Placitas, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for detecting P aeruginosa infection and bacterial burden in the lungs of patients who are at risk for P. aeruginosa infections, especially including patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF). The present method provides numerous tests (breath, blood, urine) which are readily administered to a patient that will sensitively and specifically detect the presence and extent of lung infection P. aeruginosa (both mucoid and non-mucoid), and allow monitoring of bacterial load as a parameter in monitoring treatment. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/150199 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718165 | Kappe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle, Washington); Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan H. I. Kappe (Seattle, Washington); Kai-Uwe C. Matuschewski (Heidelberg, Germany); Ann-Kristin Mueller (Dossenheim, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for inoculating a vertebrate host against malaria, by administering to the host a live Plasmodium organism that is genetically engineered to disrupt a liver-stage-specific gene function. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/583186 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07718183 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvão Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Los Angeles, California); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332464 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718193 | Stayton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Xiangchun Yin (Seattle, Washington); Lakeshia J. Taite (Seattle, Washington); Jessica Garbern (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Temperature- and pH-responsive copolymer compositions, and drug delivery devices, conjugates, nanoparticles, and micelles that include the compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687522 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/487 |
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| US 07718196 | Fowler 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); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel H. Fowler (Bethesda, Maryland); Unsu Jung (Ashburn, Virginia); Ronald E. Gress (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Bruce Levine (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); Carl June (Merion Station, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for generating highly enriched Th1/Tc1 and Th2/Tc2 functions are described. In particular, the generation of these functions are attained by the addition of an immune suppression drug, rapamycin or a rapamycin derivative compound. In addition to enhanced purity of T cell function, the T cells generated in rapamycin also express molecules that improve immune T cell function such as CD28 and CD62L. Such rapamycin generated functional T cell subsets may have application in the prevention or treatment of GVHD after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the treatment of autoimmunity, or the therapy of infection or cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/298313 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/578 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718356 | Philpott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Rensselaer, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Philpott (Defreestville, New York); Barbara Weiser (East Greenbush, New York); Harold Burger (East Greenbush, New York); Christina Kitchen (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and may be indicated by a shift in coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4. The shift in coreceptor use to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients undergoing HAART, the predominant populations of virus may be shifted back to CCR5-mediated entry soon after the CXCR4-specific strains have emerged. The present invention relates to a diagnostic method to monitor coreceptor use in the treatment and clinical management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The present invention further relates to a diagnostic method applied to HIV-positive individuals undergoing HAART to monitor the suppression of CCR5- or CXCR4-specific strains. The diagnostic methods may be used to assist in selecting antiretroviral therapy and to improve predictions of disease prognosis over time. The methods of the invention include cell-based methods, including cell fusion assays, and molecular-based methods, including heteroduplex tracking assay, to both quantitatively and qualitatively analyze patient-derived HIV for coreceptor usage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/654897 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07718364 | Hoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancer Institute (Santa Monica, California); Bret Taback (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California); Bret Taback (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for assessing allelic losses and hypermethylation of genes in CpG tumor promotor region on specific chromosomal regions in cancer patients, including melanoma, neuroblastoma breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer patients. The method relies on the evidence that free DNA and hypermethylation of genes in CpG tumor promotor region may be identified in the bone marrow, serum, plasma, and tumor tissue samples of cancer patients. Methods of melanoma, neuroblastoma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer detection, staging, and prognosis are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809965 |
| 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 07718369 | Tomlins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Tomlins (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Daniel Rhodes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arul Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiao-Wei Sun (New York, New York); Sven Perner (Belmont, Massachusetts); Charles Lee (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Francesca Demichelis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Recurrent gene fusions of androgen regulated genes and ETS family member genes in prostate cancer are described. Compositions and methods having utility in prostate cancer diagnosis, research, and therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519397 |
| 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 07718384 | Maihle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tumor Biology Investment Group, Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nita J. Maihle (New Haven, Connecticut); Hakjoo Lee (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method using human soluble ErbB3, for example p85-sErbB3, as a negative regulator of heregulin-stimulated ErbB2, ErbB3, and ErbB4 activation. The present invention also discloses p85-sErbB3 binding to heregulin with an affinity comparable to that of full-length ErbB3, and competitively inhibiting high affinity heregulin binding to ErbB2/ErbB3 heterodimers on the cell surface of breast carcinoma cells. The present invention also uses p85-sErbB3 to inhibit heregulin-induced phosphorylation of ErbB2, ErbB3, and ErbB4 in cells, as a negative regulator of heregulin-stimulated signal transduction, and as a block for cell growth. The present invention is also directed to nucleic acids and expression vectors encoding p85-sErbB3, host cells harboring such expression vectors, and methods of producing the protein. The present invention discloses a method of therapeutically treating human malignancies associated with heregulin-mediated cell growth such as breast and prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143333 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718385 | Dick |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan A. Dick (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid screening method for identifying acylfulvenes and acylfulvene analogs with improved chemotherapeutic properties has been developed. The mechanism of toxicity of irofulven, a potentially clinically useful member of the acylfulvene class, has been elucidated and provides guidance for design and testing of a new class of alkylating agents with structures related to irofulven. The role of alkenal/one oxidoreductase (AOR) is shown to be important in cancer cell susceptibility to this class of alkylating agent. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/968727 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07718386 | Baekkeskov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steinunn Baekkeskov (San Francisco, California); Henk-Jan Aanstoot (San Francisco, California); Pietro Decamilli (Guilford, Connecticut); Franco Folli (New Haven, Connecticut); Michele Solimena (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Assays for the detection of diabetes and prediabetic status rely on exposing patient serum samples to purified ligand capable of binding autoantibodies specific for a 64kD autoantigen present on pancreatic β-cells. The purified ligand is usually purified glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) or a fragment or analog thereof. Preferably, the assays will detect the presence of antibodies to both lower molecular weight GAD and higher molecular weight GAD since diabetic and prediabetic status may be associated with only one of these two forms. The assays can be performed using conventional protocols, such as radioimmunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and enzyme assay. Methods for treating diabetes comprise administering pharmaceutical compositions including the purified ligand, particularly when coupled to an immunoglobulin or lymphoid cell to induce tolerance. Alternatively, tolerance may be induced by administering attenuated T-helper cells, or isolated T-cell receptors, where the T-helper cells have been isolated based on their reactivity with GAD or equivalent ligand. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 25, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/452053 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
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| US 07718394 | Giulian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jacobus Pharmaceuticals Company, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana J. Giulian (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Encephalotoxin produced by activated mononuclear phagocytes is present in individuals having neurological disease including neurodegenerative and neuro-inflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), HIV-1-associated dementia (HAD), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, prion disease, minor cognitive/motor dysfunction, acute stroke, acute trauma, or neuro-AIDS. Biochemical detection of encephalotoxin according to the methods of the invention will allow diagnosis of neurological disease in early, presymptomatic stages, thereby allowing early intervention in disease progression as well as identification of subjects or populations at risk for developing neurodegenerative disease. The methods of the invention also provide a mechanism for monitoring progression and treatment of neurological disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970587 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
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| US 07718410 | Deiters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Deiters (Raleigh, North Carolina); Peter Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that can incorporate alkynyl amino acids such as para-propargyloxyphenylalanine into proteins produced in a eubacteria host such as E. coli. The invention provides novel orthogonal synthetases, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing alkynyl amino acids, and cellular translation systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/232425 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
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| US 07718421 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IQuum, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuqi Chen (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bertrand Lemieux (Brighton, Massachusetts); Zihua Wang (Newton, Massachusetts); Kevin R. Kopczynski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lingjun Chen (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A sample processing tubule may include a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment. Each segment may be defined by the tubule, may be fluidly isolated, at least in part by a breakable seal, may be so expandable as to receive a volume of fluid expelled from another segment, and may be so compressible as to contain substantially no fluid when so compressed. Each segment may contain at least one reagent. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/773775 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718424 | Chiorini 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) | John A. Chiorini (Silver Springs, Maryland); Robert M. Kotin (Rockville, Maryland); Brian Safer (Silver Springs, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an adeno-associated virus 4 (AAV4) virus and vectors and particles derived therefrom. In addition, the present invention provides methods of delivering a nucleic acid to a cell using the AAV4 vectors and particles. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719311 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07718435 | Bogen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DAKO Denmark A/S (Glostrup, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Bogen (Sharon, Massachusetts); Herbert H. Loeffler (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a cartridge pump and dispensing assembly for applications where cartridges containing liquid reagents are interchanged often. The cartridge pump has a reagent reservoir which directly empties into a metering chamber. A valve is at each end of the metering chamber. The two valves are aligned in the same direction so as to allow unidirectional liquid flow. The metering chamber is made of a compressible material, such as flexible tubing, so that when an external compression is applied to the chamber, the liquid contained therein is forcibly expelled. As the compression is removed, the metering chamber resumes its former shape and draws liquid into the chamber from the reagent reservoir. A dispensing assembly with electromechanical actuators for compression of the metering chamber and a sensor for sensing the amount of liquid contained within the reagent reservoir are also shown. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/702298 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718600 | McLendon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George McLendon (Durham, North Carolina); Rachael A. Kipp (Bridgewater, Massachusetts); Martin Case (Essex Junction, Vermont); Yigong Shi (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Martin F. Semmelhack (Princeton, New Jersey); Philip A. Albiniak (Muncie, Indiana); Aislyn D. Wist (West Orange, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that bind cellular IAPs (inhibitor of apoptosis proteins) are disclosed. The compounds are mimetics of the N-terminal tetrapeptide of IAP-binding proteins, such as Smac/DIABOLO, IIid, Grim and Reaper, which interact with a specific surface groove of IAP. Also disclosed are methods of using these compounds for therapeutic, diagnostic and assay purposes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521723 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07718603 | Wipf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Wipf (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jingbo Xiao (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Valerian E. Kagan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yulia Y. Tyurina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Kanai (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a composition and related methods for delivering cargo to a mitochondria which includes (a) a membrane active peptidyl fragment having a high affinity with the mitochondria and (b) cargo. The cargo may be selected from a wide variety of desired cargos which are to be delivered to the mitochondria for a specific purpose. Compositions and methods are disclosed for treating an illness that is caused or associated with cellular damage or dysfunction which is caused by excessive mitochondrial production of reaction oxygen species (ROS). Compositions which act as mitochondria-selective targeting agents using the structural signaling of the β-turn recognizable by cells as mitochondria) targeting sequences are discussed. Mitochondria and cell death by way of apoptosis is inhibited as a result of the ROS-scavenging activity, thereby increasing the survival rate of the patient. In a preferred embodiment, the compositions and methods may be administered therapeutically in the field to patients with profound hemorrhagic shock so that survival could be prolonged until it is feasible to obtain surgical control of the bleeding vessels. In further preferred embodiments, the composition for scavenging radicals in a mitochondria membrane includes a radical scavenging agent and a membrane active compound having a high affinity with said mitochondrial membrane and associated methods. In another embodiment, the cargo transported by mitochondrial-selective targeting agents may include an inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzyme activity. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565779 |
| 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 07718610 | Lehrer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert I. Lehrer (Santa Monica, California); Alan J. Waring (Irvine, California); Alexander M. Cole (Orlando, Florida); Teresa B. Hong (El Monte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Retrocyclin peptides are small antimicrobial agents with potent activity against bacteria and viruses. The peptides are nonhemolytic, and exhibit minimal in vitro cytotoxicity. A pharmaceutical composition comprising retrocyclin as an active agent is administered therapeutically to a patient suffering from a bacterial and/or viral infection, or to an individual facing exposure to a bacterial and/or viral infection, especially one caused by the HIV-1 retrovirus or other sexually-transmitted pathogens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/968178 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9 |
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| US 07718618 | Gallo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Gallo (San Diego, California); Masamoto Murakami (Hokkaido, Japan); Donald Y.M. Leung (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are peptide and peptide consensus sequences, which inhibit bacterial growth and/or viral growth and mimic the activity of LL-37, CRAMP, and/or FALL-39. The peptides are useful as antimicrobials, anti-inflammatories and anti-viral agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575552 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07718620 | Szeto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York); Kesheng Zhao (Jackson Heights, New York); Peter W. Schiller (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating or preventing ischemia-reperfusion injury of the kidney in a mammal. The method comprises administering an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide having at least one net positive charge; a minimum of four amino acids; a maximum of about twenty amino acids; a relationship between the minimum number of net positive charges (pm) and the total number of amino acid residues (r) wherein 3pm is the largest number that is less than or equal to r+1; and a relationship between the minimum number of aromatic groups (a) and the total number of net positive charges (pt) wherein 2 a is the largest number that is less than or equal to pt+1, except that when a is 1, pt may also be 1. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427804 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
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| US 07718626 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yue-xing Zhang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Anne W. Hamburger (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of repressing a cell-cycle gene, which is regulated by an E2F transcription factor, in a cell, wherein the method comprises contacting the cell with a cell-cycle gene-repressing amount of ErbB3 binding protein (Ebp1); a method of inhibiting prostate cancer in a mammal, wherein the method comprises administering to the mammal a prostate cancer-inhibiting amount of Ebp1; a composition comprising an Ebp1-expressing viral vector that expresses a cell-cycle gene-repressing amount of Ebp1; and a composition comprising polymer-packaged DNA comprising and expressing a cell-cycle gene-repressing amount of Ebp1. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/357295 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07718644 | Marks 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) | Andrew Robert Marks (Larchmont, New York); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Shixian Deng (White Plains, New York); Zhen Zhuang Cheng (Elmhurst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for limiting or preventing a decrease in the level of RyR2-bound FKBP12.6 in a subject. The present invention further provides methods for treating and preventing atrial and ventricular cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, and exercise-induced sudden cardiac death in a subject. Additionally, the present invention provides use of JTV-519 in a method for limiting or preventing a decrease in the level of RyR2-bound FKBP12.6 in a subject who has, or is a candidate for, atrial fibrillation. Also provided are uses of 1,4-benzothiazepine derivatives in methods for treating and preventing atrial and ventricular cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure in a subject, and for preventing exercise-induced sudden cardiac death. The present invention also provides methods for identifying agents for use in treating and preventing atrial fibrillation and heart failure, and agents identified by these methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/809089 |
| 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 514/211.50 |
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| US 07718677 | Quik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Parkinson's Institute (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maryka Quik (Palo Alto, California); Donato Di Monte (Cupertino, California); J. William Langston (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods utilizing a nicotinic receptor modulator, e.g., to reduce or eliminate a side effect associated with dopaminergic agent treatment. In some embodiments, the invention provides compositions and methods utilizing a combination of a dopaminergic agent and a nicotinic receptor modulator that reduces or eliminates a side effect associated with dopaminergic agent treatment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061587 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/343 |
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| US 07718680 | Pellecchia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurizio Pellecchia (San Diego, California); Alex Strongin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that efficiently and specifically inhibit lethal factor (LF) protease activity of anthrax toxin. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233924 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/369 |
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| US 07718683 | Charvat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Cheng Hu (Menlo Park, California); Anita Melikian (San Francisco, California); Aaron Novack (San Jose, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California); Edward J. Sullivan (San Jose, California); Xuefei Tan (Union City, California); William D. Thomas (San Jose, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 or CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2 and CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, CCR9-mediated diseases, as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775585 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/383 |
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| US 07718694 | Fischer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Horst Fischer (Albany, California); Beate Illek (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for therapy of cystic fibrosis, asthma, and other conditions characterized by defective chloride transport are provided. The compositions comprise one or more compounds such as flavones and/or isoflavones, ascorbate and/or derivatives thereof capable of stimulating chloride transport in epithelial tissues. Therapeutic methods involve the administration (e.g., orally or via inhalation) of such compositions to a patient afflicted with cystic fibrosis, asthma, and/or another condition responsive to stimulation of chloride transport. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/769619 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/474 |
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| US 07718700 | Sebti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Guildford, Connecticut); Rishi Jain (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Growth factor binding compounds having a plurality of acyclic isophthalic acid groups attached to a non-peptide organic scaffold and pharmaceutical compositions of the same are disclosed. Methods of administering and using the growth factor binding compounds or the growth factor binding compositions are also taught. These novel growth factor binding compounds are useful for treating angiogenesis, excessive cellular proliferation, tumor growth, and a combination thereof as well as inhibiting growth factor binding to cells and phosphorylation. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338588 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/563 |
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| US 07718762 | Coggin, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | South Alabama Medical Science Foundation (Mobile, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Coggin, Jr. (Mobile, Alabama); James W. Rohrer (Wilmer, Alabama); Adel L. Barsoum (Mobile, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are fragments of oncofetal antigen, otherwise known as immature laminin receptor protein that specifically stimulate one T cell subclass. The fragments may be formulated into compositions for potentiating T cell-mediated responses in mammalian cancer patients. They also have therapeutic uses in vitro. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/523277 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07719668 | Ilev |
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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) | Ilko Ilev (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A lens power measuring system has a light source and a fiber-optic light delivery system optically coupled to the light source to receive illumination light from the light source. The fiber-optic light delivery system has a transmit/receive end. The lens power measurement system also has a microscope objective optically coupled to the fiber-optic light delivery system through the transmit/receive end of the fiber-optic light delivery system, a movable mirror arranged to intercept at least a portion of light after having passed through the microscope objective, and an optical detection system optically coupled to the fiber-optic light delivery system to receive light after having been reflected from said movable mirror. The optical detection system is constructed to be able to determine a substantially maximum signal of light reflected from the movable mirror in correspondence with a relative position of the movable mirror to a lens to be measured. Methods of measurement include methods using such a lens system. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/885544 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719692 | Izatt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina); William J. Brown (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and computer program products for generating parameters for software dispersion compensation in optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems are provided. Raw spectral interferogram data is acquired for a given lateral position on a sample and a given reference reflection. A trial spectral phase corresponding to each wavenumber sample of the acquired spectral interferogram data is postulated. The acquired raw spectral data and the postulated trial spectral phase data are assembled into trial complex spectrum data. Trial A-scan data is computed by performing an inverse Fourier transform on the trial complex spectrum data and determining the magnitude of a result. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796399 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gilbert M. Brown (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical suspended element-based sensor system includes a solution cell for holding an electrolyte comprising solution including at least one electrochemically reducible or oxidizable species. A working electrode (WE), reference electrode (RE) and a counter electrode (CE) are disposed in the solution. The CE includes an asymmetric suspended element, wherein one side of the suspended element includes a metal or a highly doped semiconductor surface. The suspended element bends when current associated with reduction or oxidation of the electrochemically reducible or oxidizable species at the WE passes through the suspended element. At least one measurement system measures the bending of the suspended element or a parameter which is a function of the bending. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588542 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.200 |
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| US 07717171 | Stegemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Leo Stegemeier (Houston, Texas); Ramesh Raju Mudunuri (Houston, Texas); Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); John Michael Karanikas (Houston, Texas); Namit Jaiswal (Houston, Texas); Weijian Mo (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating a tar sands formation is disclosed. The method includes heating a first portion of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from one or more heaters located in the first portion. The heat is controlled to increase a fluid injectivity of the first portion. A drive fluid and/or an oxidizing fluid is injected and/or created in the first portion to cause at least some hydrocarbons to move from a second portion of the hydrocarbon layer to a third portion of the hydrocarbon layer. The second portion is between the first portion and the third portion. The first, second, and third portions are horizontally displaced from each other. The third portion is heated from one or more heaters located in the third portion. Hydrocarbons are produced from the third portion of the formation. The hydrocarbons include at least some hydrocarbons from the second portion of the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975679 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/261 |
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| US 07717826 | Cox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daryl F. Cox (Knoxville, Tennessee); Charles D. Hochanadel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Howard D. Haynes (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a human and animal performance data acquisition, analysis, and diagnostic system for fitness and therapy devices having an interface box removably disposed on incoming power wiring to a fitness and therapy device, at least one current transducer removably disposed on said interface box for sensing current signals to said fitness and therapy device, and a means for analyzing, displaying, and reporting said current signals to determine human and animal performance on said device using measurable parameters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/688893 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/8 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dimerond Technologies, LLC (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dieter M. Gruen (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | One provides (101) disperse ultra-nanocrystalline diamond powder material that comprises a plurality of substantially ordered crystallites that are each sized no larger than about 10 nanometers. One then reacts (102) these crystallites with a metallic component. The resultant nanowire is then able to exhibit a desired increase with respect to its ability to conduct electricity while also substantially preserving the thermal conductivity behavior of the disperse ultra-nanocrystalline diamond powder material. The reaction process can comprise combining (201) the crystallites with one or more metal salts in an aqueous solution and then heating (203) that aqueous solution to remove the water. This heating can occur in a reducing atmosphere (comprising, for example, hydrogen and/or methane) to also reduce the salt to metal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/674810 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/4 |
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| US 07718033 | Kostic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milivoje Kostic (Chicago, Illinois); Mihajlo Golubovic (Chicago, Illinois); John R. Hull (Downers Grove, Illinois); Stephen U. S. Choi (Napersville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A one step method and system for producing nanofluids by a particle-source evaporation and deposition of the evaporant into a base fluid. The base fluid such (i.e. ethylene glycol) is placed in a rotating cylindrical drum having an adjustable heater-boat-evaporator and heat exchanger-cooler apparatus. As the drum rotates, a thin liquid layer is formed on the inside surface of the drum. A heater-boat-evaporator having an evaporant material (particle-source) placed within its boat evaporator is adjustably positioned near a portion of the rotating thin liquid layer, the evaporant material being heated thereby evaporating a portion of the evaporant material, the evaporated material absorbed by the liquid film to form nanofluid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/456944 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Concentrating evaporators 159/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718051 | Ginosar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lucia M. Petkovic (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the invention include methods to produce jet fuel from biological oil sources. The method may be comprised of two steps: hydrocracking and reforming. The process may be self-sufficient in heat and hydrogen. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856607 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/113 |
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| US 07718087 | Chichak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Kyle Erik Litz (Ballston Spa, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Qing Ye (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions comprising at least one novel polymeric organic iridium compound which comprises at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The polymeric organic iridium compositions of the present invention are referred to as Type (2) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that at least one ligand of the novel organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (2) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “polymeric organic iridium complexes”. The novel organic iridium compositions are useful in optoelectronic electronic devices such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In one aspect, the invention provides novel organic iridium compositions useful in the preparation of OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504552 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.350 |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Hu (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved process for deacidizing a gaseous mixture using phase enhanced gas-liquid absorption is described. The process utilizes a multiphasic absorbent that absorbs an acid gas at increased rate and leads to reduced overall energy costs for the deacidizing operation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250257 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/220 |
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| US 07718153 | Sobolevskiy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoly Sobolevskiy (Orlando, Florida); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); Michael J. Knapke (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A selective catalytic reduction process with a palladium catalyst for reducing NOx in a gas, using hydrogen as a reducing agent. A zirconium sulfate (ZrO2)SO4 catalyst support material with about 0.01-2.0 wt. % Pd is applied to a catalytic bed positioned in a flow of exhaust gas at about 70-200° C. The support material may be (ZrO2—SiO2)SO4. H2O and hydrogen may be injected into the exhaust gas upstream of the catalyst to a concentration of about 15-23 vol. % H2O and a molar ratio for H2/NOx in the range of 10-100. A hydrogen-containing fuel may be synthesized in an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle power plant for combustion in a gas turbine to produce the exhaust gas flow. A portion of the fuel may be diverted for the hydrogen injection. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122116 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/239.100 |
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| US 07718277 | Chichak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Kyle Erik Litz (Ballston Spa, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Qing Ye (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides electronic devices comprising novel polymeric organic iridium compositions which provide for enhanced device performance. The polymeric organic iridium compositions employed comprise a polymeric organic iridium compound comprising at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The polymeric organic iridium compositions employed are referred to as Type (2) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that at least one ligand of the polymeric organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (2) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “polymeric organic iridium complexes”. In one aspect, the present invention provides optoelectronic devices, such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In another aspect, the invention provides OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504870 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
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| US 07718319 | Manthiram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arumugam Manthiram (Austin, Texas); Wonchang Choi (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods of making cation-substituted and fluorine-substituted spinel cathode compositions by firing a LiMn2−y−zLiyMzO4 oxide with NH4HF2 at low temperatures of between about 300 and 700° C. for 2 to 8 hours and a η of more than 0 and less than about 0.50, mixed two-phase compositions consisting of a spinel cathode and a layered oxide cathode, and coupling them with unmodified or surface modified graphite anodes in lithium ion cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861252 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.950 |
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| US 07718321 | Yoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang Young Yoon (Saugus, California); Hiroshi Nakahara (Santa Clarita, California); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The battery includes an electrolyte activating one or more cathodes and one or more anodes. The electrolyte includes one or more mono[bidentate]borate salts in a solvent. The solvent includes a silane or a siloxane. The mono[bidentate]borate salt can include a lithium dihalo mono[bidentate]borate such as lithium difluoro oxalatoborate (LiDfOB). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/971912 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/302 |
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| US 07718432 | Scales et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles W. Scales (San Ramon, California); Faqing Huang (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Charles L. McCormick (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel non-immunogenic, hydrophilic/cationic block copolymers comprising a neutral-hydrophilic polymer and a cationic polymer, wherein both polymers have well-defined chain-end functionality. A representative example of such a block copolymer comprises poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide) (PHPMA) and poly(N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]methacrylamide) (PDMAPMA). Also provided is a synthesis method thereof in aqueous media via reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Further provided are uses of these block copolymers as drug delivery vehicles and protection agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725964 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 07718957 | Belov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail E. Belov (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for multiplexed analysis using ion mobility spectrometer in which the effectiveness and efficiency of the multiplexed method is optimized by automatically adjusting rates of passage of analyte materials through an IMS drift tube during operation of the system. This automatic adjustment is performed by the IMS instrument itself after determining the appropriate levels of adjustment according to the method of the present invention. In one example, the adjustment of the rates of passage for these materials is determined by quantifying the total number of analyte molecules delivered to the ion trap in a preselected period of time, comparing this number to the charge capacity of the ion trap, selecting a gate opening sequence; and implementing the selected gate opening sequence to obtain a preselected rate of analytes within said IMS drift tube. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132303 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
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| US 07719153 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus in which a stator (11) and a rotor (12) define a primary air gap (20) for receiving AC flux and at least one source (23, 40), and preferably two sources (23, 24, 40) of DC excitation are positioned for inducing DC flux at opposite ends of the rotor (12). Portions of PM material (17, 17a) are provided as boundaries separating PM rotor pole portions from each other and from reluctance poles. The PM poles (18) and the reluctance poles (19) can be formed with poles of one polarity having enlarged flux paths in relation to flux paths for pole portions of an opposite polarity, the enlarged flux paths communicating with a core of the rotor (12) so as to increase reluctance torque produced by the electric machine. Reluctance torque is increased by providing asymmetrical pole faces. The DC excitation can also use asymmetric poles and asymmetric excitation sources. Several embodiments are disclosed with additional variations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642232 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/156.580 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719186 | Valentine et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Valentine (Hornell, New York); Doreen D. Edwards (Wellsville, New York); William John Walker, Jr. (Alfred, New York); Lyle H. Slack (Wellsville, New York); Wayne Douglas Brown (Williamsburg, West Virginia); Cathy Osborne (Kieffer, West Virginia); Michael Norton (Huntington, West Virginia); Richard Begley (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A light-emitting ceramic based panel, hereafter termed “electroceramescent” panel, is herein claimed. The electroceramescent panel is formed on a substrate providing mechanical support as well as serving as the base electrode for the device. One or more semiconductive ceramic layers directly overlay the substrate, and electrical conductivity and ionic diffusion are controlled. Light emitting regions overlay the semiconductive ceramic layers, and said regions consist sequentially of a layer of a ceramic insulation layer and an electroluminescent layer, comprised of doped phosphors or the equivalent. One or more conductive top electrode layers having optically transmissive areas overlay the light emitting regions, and a multi-layered top barrier cover comprising one or more optically transmissive non-combustible insulation layers overlay said top electrode regions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/964583 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/509 |
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| US 07719318 | Nordquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher D. Nordquist (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David A. Czaplewski (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switch is formed on a substrate with a source electrode containing a suspended electrically-conductive beam which is anchored to the substrate at each end. This beam, which can be formed of ruthenium, bows laterally in response to a voltage applied between a pair of gate electrodes and the source electrode to form an electrical connection between the source electrode and a drain electrode located near a midpoint of the beam. Another pair of gate electrodes and another drain electrode can be located on an opposite side of the beam to allow for switching in an opposite direction. The NEM switch can be used to form digital logic circuits including NAND gates, NOR gates, programmable logic gates, and SRAM and DRAM memory cells which can be used in place of conventional CMOS circuits, or in combination therewith. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/265200 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/104 |
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| US 07720321 | Vartuli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Scott Vartuli (Rexford, New York); Kenneth Sherwood Bousman (Albany, New York); Kung-Li Deng (Waterford, New York); Kevin Paul McEvoy (Ballston Spa, New York); Hua Xia (Altamont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic sensor including a fiber having a modified surface integral with the fiber wherein the modified surface includes an open pore network with optical agents dispersed within the open pores of the open pore network. Methods for preparing the fiber optic sensor are also provided. The fiber optic sensors can withstand high temperatures and harsh environments. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780701 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720361 | Felix et al. |
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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 (Westover, Alabama); Todd Robert Snyder (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for fluid transport at elevated temperatures having a conduit having a fluid inlet end and a fluid outlet end and at least one heating element disposed within the conduit providing direct heating of a fluid flowing through the conduit. The system is particularly suited for preventing condensable constituents of a high temperature fluid from condensing out of the fluid prior to analysis of the fluid. In addition, operation of the system so as to prevent the condensable constituents from condensing out of the fluid surprisingly does not alter the composition of the fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544969 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07718130 | Shinar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruth Shinar (Ames, Iowa); Joseph Shinar (Ames, Iowa); Vikram L. Dalal (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated photoluminescence (PL)-based chemical and biological sensors are provided comprising a photodetector (PD), a long-pass filter, an excitation source, and a sensing element, all based on thin films or structures. In one embodiment the light source is an organic light emitting device (OLED) and the sensing element is based on thin films or solutions in microfluidic channels or wells. The PD and optical filters are based on thin film amorphous or nanocrystalline silicon and related materials. In another embodiment, sensor components are fabricated on transparent substrates, which are attached back-to-back to generate a compact, integrated structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401274 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718279 | Loloee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reza Loloee (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An epitaxial Ni3FeN film with unique magnetic properties such as single magnetic domain (even in a large scale 0.5″×0.5″), which rotates coherently in response to the desired switching field with a very sharp transition is described. The magnetic hysteresis loop of this new magnetic nitride is close to the perfect ideal square with the same value of saturation magnetization, remnant magnetization, and magnetization right before switching (domain reversal). The switching field is tunable which make this material more attractive for magneto-resistive devices such as MRAM's, read heads and magnetic sensors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/072420 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/692.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718432 | Scales et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles W. Scales (San Ramon, California); Faqing Huang (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Charles L. McCormick (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel non-immunogenic, hydrophilic/cationic block copolymers comprising a neutral-hydrophilic polymer and a cationic polymer, wherein both polymers have well-defined chain-end functionality. A representative example of such a block copolymer comprises poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide) (PHPMA) and poly(N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]methacrylamide) (PDMAPMA). Also provided is a synthesis method thereof in aqueous media via reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Further provided are uses of these block copolymers as drug delivery vehicles and protection agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725964 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718725 | Starnes, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William H. Starnes, Jr. (Williamsburg, Virginia); Robert D. Pike (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | We describe novel compositions and methods for reducing fire and smoke hazards associated with rigid and flexible PVC. Cone calorimetry studies have identified several copper additives that are highly effective as combustion inhibitors for PVC. Mixed-metal oxides of copper(II) are especially attractive in this regard, some of which are strongly synergistic for smoke suppression when they are combined, in particular CuTi3O7 and Cu3(MoO4)2(OH)2. These novel combinations are useful for PVC applications wherein color is not of primary importance. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761173 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718950 | Saraf |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi F. Saraf (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor to detect and map various mechanical stimuli spatially distributed over the area of contact with the surface of the sensor. The sensor is a thin film including a stack of alternating layers of nanoparticles and dielectric materials sandwiched between electrodes. By applying a bias between the electrodes, the applied stimuli to the sensor is converted to light and/or device-current through the stack. The optical signal may be directly focused on a photo detector, such as a digital camera, to image the distribution of the stimuli. The electronic signal in the form of spatial distribution of device-current over the area of contact may be obtained by patterning top and bottom electrodes and analyzed using standard electronics. The sensor has applications in many fields, including medicine, forensics, basic and applied research, and robotics. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810113 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718969 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Jianming Dai (Troy, New York); Xu Xie (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for generating amplified terahertz radiation includes inducing a first volume of a gas to produce a seed plasma and emit pulsed seed terahertz radiation by focusing an optical seed beam in the first volume. The seed terahertz radiation is then amplified by focusing an optical gain beam to produce a gain plasma in a second volume overlapping with the pulsed seed terahertz radiation remote from the seed plasma. The method may be implemented in a system for detecting and analyzing a remotely-located object such as an explosive material, a biological agent, and a chemical agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/756243 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719170 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eun Sok Kim (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Hongyu Yu (Los Angeles, California); Chuang-Yuan Lee (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, apparatus and systems that use an acoustic transducer with a Fresnel lens to focus an acoustic wave for various applications, including acoustic droplet ejectors. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/013413 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720116 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vescent Photonics, Inc. (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Anderson (Lyons, Colorado); Scott R. Davis (Denver, Colorado); Scott D. Rommel (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable laser for providing a laser beam with a selectable wavelength. In one example, the tunable laser includes a gain medium for generating the laser beam; a waveguide for processing the laser beam, the waveguide having liquid crystal material or other electro-optic material disposed therein; an optical path length control element disposed within said waveguide for controlling an effective optical path length of the laser cavity; and a wavelength selective element for controlling the wavelength of the laser beam. The tunable laser may be designed without any moving mechanical parts if desired. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040549 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720614 | Davidson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric H. Davidson (Pasadena, California); Robert Andrew Cameron (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computational method is described which uses the process of cis-regulatory module evolution to identify conserved sequence patches which exhibit suppression of change by snp/indel occurrence, including determining sequence similarities significantly greater than random expectation on selected genome sequences from two or more species in sequences that lie outside of protein coding regions, sorting the similarities for conserved patches of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertion/deletions (indels). and selecting such patches to identify cis-regulatory modules. Further, the disclosed method is practiced in the absence of having to execute multiple interspecific sequence comparison analysis, where such identified cis-regulatory modules are used to produce libraries and arrays containing such cis-regulatory modules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/297293 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07721182 | Joseph et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); José A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for minimizing the effects of soft errors associated with memory devices that are individually accessible. By way of example, a method of organizing a column in a memory array of a memory device protected by an error correction code comprises the step of maximizing a distance of the error correction code by maximizing a physical distance between memory bits associated with a memory line within the column protected by the error correction code. Other soft error protection techniques may include use of a feed forward error correction code or use of a memory operation (e.g., read or write operation) suppress and retry approach. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140133 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/766 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07718003 | Sachs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emanuel Michael Sachs (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for growing a crystalline or poly-crystalline body from a melt is described, wherein the melt is retained by capillary attachment to edge features of a mesa crucible. The boundary profile of the resulting melt surface results in an effect which induces a ribbon grown from the surface of the melt to grow as a flat body. Further, the size of the melt pool is substantially reduced by bringing these edges close to the ribbon, thereby reducing the materials cost and electric power cost associated with the process. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/945228 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718046 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ross (Silver Spring, Maryland); Peter B. Howell (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Wyatt N. Vreeland (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device are provided for affinity gradient focusing for directing at least one analyte in a solution containing a pseudostationary phase and located in a channel such as a capillary or a microchannel. The method includes establishing a steady-state spatial gradient in a retention factor of the pseudostationary phase for the at least one analyte. The analyte is caused to be moved within the channel whereby the concentration of the at least one analyte changes at one or more positions along the gradient. The pseudostationary phase is charged and the analyte is either neutral or charged or alternatively, the pseudostationary phase is neutral and the analyte is charged. The device may include a fluid channel, a pseudostationary phase having a retention factor gradient, an electrical current source and a pump system for establishing the bulk flow in the solution in the channel. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864485 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718321 | Yoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang Young Yoon (Saugus, California); Hiroshi Nakahara (Santa Clarita, California); Hisashi Tsukamoto (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The battery includes an electrolyte activating one or more cathodes and one or more anodes. The electrolyte includes one or more mono[bidentate]borate salts in a solvent. The solvent includes a silane or a siloxane. The mono[bidentate]borate salt can include a lithium dihalo mono[bidentate]borate such as lithium difluoro oxalatoborate (LiDfOB). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/971912 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07718223 | Delzeit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance D. Delzeit (Sunnyvale, California); John F. Schipper (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling density or tower height of carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays grown in spaced apart first and second regions on a substrate. CNTs having a first density range (or first tower height range) are grown in the first region using a first source temperature range for growth. Subsequently or simultaneously, CNTs having a second density range (or second tower height range), having an average density (or average tower height) in the second region different from the average density (or average tower height) for the first region, are grown in the second region, using supplemental localized heating for the second region. Applications for thermal dissipation and/or dissipation of electrical charge or voltage in an electronic device are discussed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007913 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718283 | Raffaelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York); Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio); Ohio Aerospace Institute (Brook Park, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Phillip Jenkins (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); David Wilt (Bay Village, Ohio); David Scheiman (Cleveland, Ohio); Donald Chubb (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Stephanie Castro (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An alpha voltaic battery includes at least one layer of a semiconductor material comprising at least one p/n junction, at least one absorption and conversion layer on the at least one layer of semiconductor layer, and at least one alpha particle emitter. The absorption and conversion layer prevents at least a portion of alpha particles from the alpha particle emitter from damaging the p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material. The absorption and conversion layer also converts at least a portion of energy from the alpha particles into electron-hole pairs for collection by the one p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196939 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07719029 | Itzler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton Lightwave, Inc. (Cranbury, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allen Itzler (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-photon avalanche detector is disclosed that is operable at wavelengths greater than 1000 nm and at operating speeds greater than 10 MHz. The single-photon avalanche detector comprises a thin-film resistor and avalanche photodiode that are monolithically integrated such that little or no additional capacitance is associated with the addition of the resistor. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/750244 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07719983 | Pendarakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary method of resource allocation is provided. A relationship is estimated between at least one controlled resource and at least one dependent parameter. A resource allocation of the at least one controlled resource is adjusted to effect a desired system goal expressed in terms of the at least one dependent parameter. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327069 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720841 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York); Shu-Ping Chang (Shrub Oak, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing data collection in a distributed processing system. The method includes dynamically collecting at least one statistical query pattern associated with a selected group of information processing nodes. The statistical query pattern is dynamically collected from a plurality of information processing nodes in a distributed processing system. At least one operating attribute distribution associated with an operating attribute that has been queried for the selected group is dynamically monitored. The selected group is dynamically configured, based on the query pattern and the operating attribute distribution, to periodically push a set of attributes associated with the each information processing node in the selected group. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538525 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/721 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07721182 | Joseph et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas J. Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); José A. Tierno (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for minimizing the effects of soft errors associated with memory devices that are individually accessible. By way of example, a method of organizing a column in a memory array of a memory device protected by an error correction code comprises the step of maximizing a distance of the error correction code by maximizing a physical distance between memory bits associated with a memory line within the column protected by the error correction code. Other soft error protection techniques may include use of a feed forward error correction code or use of a memory operation (e.g., read or write operation) suppress and retry approach. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140133 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/766 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07718782 | Zerkowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Zerkowski (Strafford, Pennsylvania); Daniel Solaiman (Dresher, Pennsylvania); Richard D. Ashby (Glenside, Pennsylvania); Thomas A. Foglia (Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A sophorolid produced by a method involving reacting a compound of formula I with a compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are H, C1-C18 alkyl, C3-C18 alkenyl, C3-C10 cycloalkyl, phenyl, or C1 through C18 acyl or alkoxycarbonyl, R1 and R2 are not both acyl, R3 is H, CH3, CH2-phenyl, CH2—C6H4—OH, CH2CO2H, CH2CH2CO2H, CH(CH3)2, CH2CH(CH3)2, CH(CH3)CH2CH3, CH2OH, CH(CH3)OH, CH2CH2CH2CH2NH2, CH2CH2CONH2, CH2CONH2, CH2—C3N2H3(histidine), CH2CH2CH2NHC(NH)NH2, CH2CH2SCH3, R2 and R3 may be joined in a ring, R4 is H, C1-C18 alkyl, C3-C18 alkenyl, C3-C10 cycloalkyl, or phenyl, n is 0-6, R5 and R6 are H, C1-C18 alkyl, C3-C18 alkenyl, C3-C10 cycloalkyl, or phenyl, and X is C1-C18 alkyl or C1-C18 alkenyl; optionally followed by acidolytic (treating with an acid) or hydrogenolytic deprotection (treating with a hydrogenolysis catalyst) which removes one of the groups R1 or R2 and replaces it with hydrogen. Also a sophorolipid containing composition containing a carrier and at least one sophorolipid described above. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484214 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07718183 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvão Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Los Angeles, California); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332464 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07720116 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vescent Photonics, Inc. (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael H. Anderson (Lyons, Colorado); Scott R. Davis (Denver, Colorado); Scott D. Rommel (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable laser for providing a laser beam with a selectable wavelength. In one example, the tunable laser includes a gain medium for generating the laser beam; a waveguide for processing the laser beam, the waveguide having liquid crystal material or other electro-optic material disposed therein; an optical path length control element disposed within said waveguide for controlling an effective optical path length of the laser cavity; and a wavelength selective element for controlling the wavelength of the laser beam. The tunable laser may be designed without any moving mechanical parts if desired. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040549 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07718435 | Bogen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DAKO Denmark A/S (Glostrup, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Bogen (Sharon, Massachusetts); Herbert H. Loeffler (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a cartridge pump and dispensing assembly for applications where cartridges containing liquid reagents are interchanged often. The cartridge pump has a reagent reservoir which directly empties into a metering chamber. A valve is at each end of the metering chamber. The two valves are aligned in the same direction so as to allow unidirectional liquid flow. The metering chamber is made of a compressible material, such as flexible tubing, so that when an external compression is applied to the chamber, the liquid contained therein is forcibly expelled. As the compression is removed, the metering chamber resumes its former shape and draws liquid into the chamber from the reagent reservoir. A dispensing assembly with electromechanical actuators for compression of the metering chamber and a sensor for sensing the amount of liquid contained within the reagent reservoir are also shown. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/702298 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07716987 | Sathish et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shamachary Sathish (Bellbrook, Ohio); Richard Reibel (Dayton, Ohio); John T. Welter (Fairborn, Ohio); Charles Buynak (Tipp City, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact thermo-elastic property measurement and imaging system and method thereof are described. Acoustic energy is incident on a first surface of a specimen under test. The acoustic energy is converted partially into heat by the specimen, causing a slight increase in the temperature in a region of interaction. The temperature increase is imaged using a high sensitivity infrared camera. Presence of defects (surface and subsurface) in the material modifies the distribution of temperature. An image of temperature distribution can be used for nondestructive testing and evaluation of materials. The temperature change in the specimen caused by acoustic excitation is related to thermal and elastic properties of the material. A measurement of the change in the temperature as a function of the amplitude of incident excitation can be used for direct measurement of thermo-elastic property of the specimen. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/496116 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/589 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07718624 | Sitkovsky |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michail V. Sitkovsky (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modulating inflammation by administering HIF-1α inhibitors or compounds affecting HIF-1α expression and/or transcriptional activities are disclosed. HIF-1α affecting compounds include compounds that directly inhibit HIF-1α and/or interfere into expression of other proteins and regulation of biochemical pathways that target HIF-1α for degradation in vivo. Also disclosed are methods to enhance the inflammatory response and the destruction of pathogens (e.g., viruses, bacteria) and thereby preventing or minimizing pathogen-induced tissue injury. Also disclosed are methods to enhance the anti-tumor T cell response and the destruction of cancerous tumors and thereby preventing or minimizing metastasis-induced tissue injury. Also provided are methods to accomplish the opposite goal and decrease collateral damage by overactive T cells and thereby protect tissues of vital organs in a novel anti-inflammatory treatment. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/215224 |
| 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 07719381 | Talbot |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Talbot (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmission line balun comprising a tubular ferrite having a longitudinal passageway concentrically positioned over a conductive sleeve having a longitudinal passageway. The end of a coax feeder is positioned in the longitudinal passageway of the sleeve and the sleeve is grounded at its proximal end to the shield of the coax cable. The sleeve buffers the effects of the parasitic line caused by using ferrite in a balun. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/435360 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07720168 | Su et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weifeng Su (Tonawanda, New York); K. J. Ray Liu (Potomac, Maryland); Zoltan Safar (Budapest, Hungary) |
| ABSTRACT | Maximum diversity in multiple antenna distributed frequency broadband systems such as MIMO-OFDM is achievable through space-frequency (SF) and space-time-frequency (STF) coding. Full-rate full-diversity coding is achieved through a combination of maximal minimum product distance symbol set design and formation of codeword blocks. Full-diversity codes are also achieved which have reduced symbol transmission rates, such as through mapping of space-time (ST) codes to SF codes. The reduction in symbol rate may be offset by the fact that any ST code may be mapped to a full-diversity SF code. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/137589 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 18, 2010.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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