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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 08, 2010
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| US 07731739 | Schock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Life-Recovery Systems HD, LLC (Alexandria, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Schock (Sparta, New Jersey); Marc Cote (Cornwall, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus for altering the body temperature of a patient comprises an inflatable mattress defining an interior space for receiving at least a portion of a patient's body therein. The inflatable mattress is constructed to conduct a heat transfer liquid into direct contact with the portion of the patient's body. The inflatable mattress includes a first zone inflatable to a first pressure and a second zone inflatable to a second pressure greater than the first air pressure. The inflatable mattress in an inflated condition defines a well for receiving the portion of the patient therein. A head positioner positions the patient's head so that the patient's breathing passageway remains out of contact with the heat transfer fluid. A method of adjusting the body temperature of a patient comprises filling the first and second zones, positioning the portion of the patient's body on the mattress, and directing the heat transfer liquid to contact the patient's body. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/466955 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/107 |
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| US 07731867 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Animas Technologies, LLC (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huawen Li (Camarillo, California); Michael J. Tierney (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to conductive polymer compositions, catalytic ink compositions (e.g., for use in screen-printing), electrodes produced by deposition of an ink composition, as well as methods of making, and methods of using such compositions and electrodes. An exemplary ink material comprises a metal catalyst (e.g., platinum black and/or platinum-on-carbon), graphite as a conducting material, a polymer binding material, and an organic solvent. In one aspect, the polymer binding material comprises a polymer binder blend comprising first and second polymers, wherein the first polymer has a glass transition temperature higher than the second polymer. In a second aspect, the polymer binding material comprises a hydrophilic acrylic polymer, copolymer, or terpolymer. The conductive polymer compositions of the present invention may be used, for example, to make electrochemical sensors. Such sensors may be used, for example, in a variety of devices to monitor analyte amount or concentrations in subjects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/656675 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/514 |
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| US 07731940 | Mukherjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jogeshwar Mukherjee (Irvine, California); Neil Saigal (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contemplated substituted arylpiperazinyl compounds, and most preferably 18F-Mefway, exhibit desirable in vitro and in vivo binding characteristics to the 5-HT1A receptor. Among other advantageous parameters, contemplated compounds retain high binding affinity, display optimal lipophilicity, and are radiolabeled efficiently with 18F-fluorine in a single step. Still further, contemplated compounds exhibit high target to non-target ratios in receptor-rich regions both in vitro and in vivo, and selected compounds can be effectively and sensitively displaced by serotonin, thus providing a quantitative tool for measuring 5-HT1A receptors and serotonin concentration changes in the living brain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626797 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.400 |
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| US 07731946 | Grusby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth LLC (Madison, New Jersey); The President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Grusby (Newton, Massachusetts); Andrea Wurster (Arlington, Massachusetts); Deborah Young (Melrose, Massachusetts); Mary Collins (Natick, Massachusetts); Matthew Whitters (Hudson, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for modulating T helper (Th) cell development and function using modulators of IL-21, e.g., human IL-21, activity or level. |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938618 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
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| US 07731952 | Mohr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Mohr (New York, New York); Matthew Mulvey (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an avirulent, oncolytic herpes simplex virus modified from a wild-type herpes simplex virus so that both γ134.5 genes of the virus have been deleted and each replaced with an interferon-resistance gene that is expressed as an immediate-early gene. The present invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition that includes the modified herpes simplex virus of the present invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle for in situ administration to tumor cells. Also provided in the present invention are methods for killing tumor cells in a subject and for immunizing a subject against an infectious disease, cancer, or an autoimmune disease that involve administering to a subject the modified avirulent, oncolytic herpes simplex virus of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/166438 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07731953 | Leonard 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); Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren J. Leonard (Bethesda, Maryland); Akhilesh Pandey (Pikesville, Maryland); Amin Al-Shami (Bethesda, Maryland); Rosanne Spolski (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed herein for specifically inducing proliferation of CD4+ T cells. The methods are of use in treating immunodeficiencies, such as an immunodeficiency produced by infection with an immunodeficiency virus, such as infection with a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The methods include contacting isolated mammalian CD4+ T cells with an effective amount of a thymic stromal derived lymphopoietin (TSLP) polypeptide or a therapeutically effective amount of nucleic acid encoding the TSLP polypeptide, thereby inducing proliferation of the T cells. Methods are also disclosed for treating an IgE mediated disorder, such as asthma. The methods include administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a TSLP antagonist. Transgenic mice are also disclosed herein. The somatic and germ cells of these mice include a disrupted thymic stromal lymphopoietin receptor (TSLP) gene, the disruption being sufficient to inhibit the interaction of TSLP with its receptor, and a disrupted γc gene, the disruption being sufficient to reduce signaling through the γc. The mice exhibit diminished thymic cellularity. Methods of using these mice for drug screening are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762357 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.710 |
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| US 07731957 | Zhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang-Guo Zhan (Lexington, Kentucky); Hoon Cho (Lexington, Kentucky); Hsin-Hsiung Tai (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel computational method and generation of mutant butyrylcholinesterase for cocaine hydrolysis is provided. The method includes molecular modeling a possible BChE mutant and conducting molecular dynamics simulations and hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations thereby providing a screening method of possible BChE mutants by predicting which mutant will lead to a more stable transition state for a rate determining step. Site-directed mutagenesis, protein expression, and protein activity is conducted for mutants determined computationally as being good candidates for possible BChE mutants, i.e., ones predicted to have higher catalytic efficiency as compared with wild-type BChE. In addition, mutants A199S/A328W/Y332G, A199S/F227A/A328W/Y332G, A199S/S287G/A328W/Y332G, A199S/F227A/S287G/A328W/Y332G, and A199S/F227A/S287G/A328W/E441D all have enhanced catalytic efficiency for (−)-cocaine compared with wild-type BChE. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192394 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.600 |
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| US 07731959 | Klagsbrun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Klagsbrun (Newton, Massachusetts); Shay Soker (Brookline, Massachusetts); Hua-Quan Miao (Brookline, Massachusetts); Seiji Takashima (Osaka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antagonists of neuropilin receptor fuction and use thereof in the treatment of cancer, particularly metastatic cancer, and angiogenic diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, March 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/104440 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07731971 | Berzofsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Takahiro Okazaki (Yokohama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides peptides and proteins for use in second generation HIV vaccines and as diagnostic tools in the treatment and control of HIV infection. The antiviral protection shown by compositions of the present invention has not been previously achieved with an HLA epitope-enhanced vaccine. These findings define a critical balance between MHC affinity and receptor crossreactivity required for effective epitope enhancement and also demonstrate construction and efficacy of such a component of a new generation vaccine. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/551405 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
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| US 07731979 | Bann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wichita State University (Wichita, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Bann (Wichita, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The unnatural amino acid analogue 2-fluorohistidine (2-FHis) was incorporated into protective antigen to produce a protein which resists protonation at physiological pH by reducing the side-chain pKa. The protein structure was unperturbed by the incorporation of fluorinated histidine residues, and the heptameric (2-FHisPA63)7 could form ion conducting channels, and bind to the PA-binding domain of LF (LFN), but translocation of LFN in planar lipid bilayers was blocked. Further, while (2-FHisPA63)7 could bind to host cells and in vitro to the host cellular receptor, pore formation in the presence of the receptor was blocked, and LFN-DTA mediated cytotoxicity in CHO-K1 cells was blocked. The modified PA is useful as both a vaccine and an antitoxin, providing epitopes for the production of antibodies against PA, but preventing key steps in pathogenesis (pore formation, translocation). |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/939249 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/246.100 |
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| US 07732135 | Hershey et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey (Cincinnati, Ohio); Amal Assa'ad (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ranajit Chakraborty (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A genetic marker of food allergy is disclosed. The marker comprises variants of IL-4 receptor alpha, IL13 and CD14. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/566903 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07732157 | Baron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tumor Biology Investment Group (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre T. Baron (Rochester, Minnesota); Nita J. Maihle (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of soluble isoforms of an Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, or sErbB 1/HER1 variants, the provision of the sequences of nucleic acids encoding these isoforms, purified recombinant proteins, novel antibodies specific for these isoforms, and the use of immunoassay and gene expression assay techniques to measure the concentration of these gene products in a patient biological sample. The present invention also provides methods for determining the presence of an ovarian carcinoma in the patient by assaying the concentration of soluble EGFR/ErbB1 variants in a biological sample from a patient. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/676380 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
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| US 07732169 | Linnen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gen-Probe Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Linnen (Poway, California); Reinhold P. Pollner (San Diego, California); Wen Wu (Carlsbad, California); Geoffrey G. Dennis (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting flavivirus nucleic acids. Particularly described are methods for detecting very low levels of West Nile virus nucleic acids in the 5′ non-coding/capsid region. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/519359 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
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| US 07732193 | Lois-Caballe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos Lois-Caballe (South Pasadena, California); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Xiao-Feng Qin (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the expression of small RNA molecules within a cell using a lentiviral vector. The methods can be used to express doubles stranded RNA complexes. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be expressed using the methods of the invention within a cell, which are capable of down regulating the expression of a target gene through RNA interference. A variety of cells can be treated according to the methods of the invention including embryos, embryogenic stem cells, allowing for the generation of transgenic animals or animals constituted partly by the transduced cells that have a specific gene or a group of genes down regulated. |
| FILED | Friday, September 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/243816 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
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| US 07732200 | Muir |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Muir (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to compositions and methods for culturing nerve tissue in vitro and nerve grafts produced using such methods. The compositions and methods of the subject invention can be employed to restore the continuity of nerve interrupted by disease, traumatic events or surgical procedures. The invention also concerns methods for promoting repair of damaged nerve tissue using the present compositions and nerve tissue treated according to such methods. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/812776 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/368 |
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| US 07732206 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Anderson (Altadena, California); Qiao Zhou (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and reagents for promoting the differentiation of oligodendrocytes from stem cells, by co-activating the Olig genes and the Nkx2.2 genes, and the use of the differentiated oligodendrocytes thus obtained in treating diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The invention also relates to the use of OLPs and oligodendrocytes thus obtained for drug screening. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/397200 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 07732207 | Qin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Feng Qin (Pasadena, California); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Irvin S. Y. Chen (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Dong Sung An (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention provides methods and compositions for the expression of small RNA molecules within a cell using a retroviral vector (FIG. 1A). The methods can be used to express double stranded RNA complexes. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be expressed using the methods of the invention within a cell, that interfere with a viral life cycle by down regulating either the viral genome, a viral genome transcript, or a host cell that. In another aspect the invention provides methods for treating patients having suffering from infection, particularly infection with HIV. In a further aspect, the invention provides methods for producing siRNA encoding lentivirus where the siRNA activity may interfere with the lentiviral life cycle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689407 |
| 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 435/465 |
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| US 07732215 | Geddes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris D. Geddes (Bel-Air, Maryland); Ramachandram Badugu (Baltimore, Maryland); Joseph R. Lakowicz (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a cyanide detection method using fluorescence and cyanide sensitive boronic acid containing fluorophores, wherein a change in a measured fluorescent property correlates to the concentration of the cyanide compound in a biological or environmental test sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/572344 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/109 |
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| US 07732365 | Hartwig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Hartwig (Durham, Connecticut); Chutian Shu (Danbury, Connecticut); Toshimichi Ohmura (Nagaokakyo, Japan); Christoph Kiener (Weisenheim am Sand, Germany); Fernando Garcia Lopez (A Estrada Pontevedra, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a catalyst composition, comprising: (1) a catalyst precursor having the general structure MSXn wherein M is a transition metal selected from the group consisting of iridium, molybdenum, and tungsten; S is a coordinating ligand; X is a counterion; and n is an integer from 0 to 5; and (2) a phosphoramidite ligand having the structure wherein O—Cn—O is an aliphatic or aromatic diolate and wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl groups, substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic groups, and combinations thereof, with the proviso that at least one of R1, R2, R3, or R4 must be a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl group. The present invention is also directed to activated catalysts made from the above catalyst composition, as well as methods of allylic amination and etherification using the above catalysts. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/527899 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/150 |
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| US 07732398 | Szeto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel Szeto (New York, New York); Peter W. Schiller (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for stimulating mu-opioid receptors with agonist peptides in a mammal in need thereof. The methods comprise administering to the mammal an effective amount of a selective mu-opioid receptor agonist peptide that comprises at least two α-amino acid residues. At least one of the amino acid residues has a positive charge. The amino acid residue in the first position is a tyrosine or tyrosine derivative. The amino acid in the second position is a D-α-amino acid. The present invention also provides methods of treating a mammal suffering from conditions or diseases by administering to the mammal an effective amount of the peptides. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427606 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — 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 07732409 | Leong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Leong (Newton, Massachusetts); Kenneth G. Campellone (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are EspFU (EspF-like polypeptide encoded by a gene of the cryptic prophage CP-933U of enterohemorrhagic E. coli) polypeptides, fragments thereof, nucleic acids that encode EspFU polypeptides, or fragments thereof, and cells including the polypeptides, fragments, and/or nucleic acids. Also disclosed are model systems, kits, and methods for screening that use, for example, EspFU polypeptides and nucleic acids. Also included are pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions and methods of diagnosis and treatment of EHEC infections. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782479 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07732411 | Carney |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orthologic Corp. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell H. Carney (Dickinson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for promoting cardiac tissue repair comprising administering to the cardiac tissue a therapeutically effective amount of an angiogenic thrombin derivative peptide and/or inhibiting or reducing vascular occlusion or restenosis. The invention also relates to methods of stimulating revascularization. In yet another embodiment, the invention relates to the use of thrombin derivative peptides in the manufacture of a medicament for the methods described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787114 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07732417 | Beach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Beach (Boston, Massachusetts); Emily Bernstein (Huntington, New York); Amy Caudy (Melville, New York); Scott Hammond (Huntington, New York); Gregory Hannon (Huntington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for attenuating gene expression in a cell using gene-targeted double stranded RNA (dsRNA). The dsRNA contains a nucleotide sequence that hybridizes under physiologic conditions of the cell to the nucleotide sequence of at least a portion of the gene to be inhibited (the “target” gene). |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/858862 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07732420 | MacDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. MacDonald (Evanston, Illinois); Li Wang (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides optimized transfection reagents comprising mixtures of cationiclipoids. In particular, the present invention provides DNA delivery vehicles based on identifying the optimal hydrophobicity of novel cationic phospholipid derivatives that, alone or in combination, form complexes with DNA (lipoplexes) and exhibit enhanced transfection activity. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/957977 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 07732445 | Watterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Martin Watterson (Chicago, Illinois); Linda J. Van Eldik (Chicago, Illinois); Heather Behanna (Chicago, Illinois); Hantamalala Ralay Ranaivo (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Pyridazinyl compounds, compositions and related methods of use. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880541 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/247 |
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| US 07732470 | Imig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Georgia Research Institute (Augusta, Georgia); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Imig (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); John R. Falck (University Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Derivative compounds of 11-nonyloxy-undec-8(Z)-eonic acid that mimic epoxide metabolites are provided. Also provided are compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of the derivative compounds. The present invention further provides methods for the use of such compositions for the treatment of renal or cardiovascular disease and/or related conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040502 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732478 | Engebretson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Engebretson (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for facilitating metabolic control in a subject by decreasing the level of Il-1β in the GCF. The present invention further provides methods for decreasing the level of circulating TNF in a subject. Also provided are uses of anti-inflammatory agents in these methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/031438 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732490 | Richon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck HDAC Research, LLC (Boston, Massachusetts); Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victoria M. Richon (Rye, New York); Judy H. Chiao (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); William Kevin Kelly (Scotch Plains, New Jersey); Thomas A. Miller (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selectively inducing terminal differentiation, cell growth arrest and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, and/or inhibiting histone deacetylase (HDAC) by administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising potent HDAC inhibitors. The oral bioavailability of the active compounds in the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention is surprisingly high. Moreover, the pharmaceutical compositions unexpectedly give rise to high, therapeutically effective blood levels of the active compounds over an extended period of time. The present invention further provides a safe, daily dosing regimen of these pharmaceutical compositions, which is easy to follow, and which results in a therapeutically effective amount of the HDAC inhibitors in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/853700 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732539 | Shull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Science Foundation (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Shull (Evanston, Illinois); Murat Guvendiren (Evanston, Illinois); Phillip B Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Bruce P Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an acrylic block copolymer comprising hydrophobic poly (lower alkyl methacrylate), hydrophilic poly (lower alkyl methacrylic acid), and hydrophobic poly (lower alkyl methacrylate) is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676099 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732572 | Cox, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bolder Biotechnology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The growth hormone supergene family comprises greater than 20 structurally related cytokines and growth factors. A general method is provided for creating site-specific, biologically active conjugates of these proteins. The method involves adding cysteine residues to non-essential regions of the proteins or substituting cysteine residues for non-essential amino acids in the proteins using site-directed mutagenesis and then covalently coupling a cysteine-reactive polymer or other type of cysteine-reactive moiety to the proteins via the added cysteine residue. Disclosed herein are preferred sites for adding cysteine residues or introducing cysteine substitutions into the proteins, and the proteins and protein derivatives produced thereby. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/866540 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732577 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Thomas Boyd (Chester, United Kingdom); Dale Stewart Haines (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Nikolina Vlatkovic (Chester, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding mammalian MDM2 binding protein and polypeptide sequences for the mammalian MDM2 binding protein are provided. Also provided are vectors containing these nucleic acid sequences, host cells which express these proteins and antibodies targeted to these proteins. In addition, methods and compositions for modulating the G1 phase of the cell cycle via altering expression and/or activity of a mammalian MDM2 binding protein are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/876901 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arrowsmith Technology Licensing LLC (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jefferson Foote (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for humanizing antibodies based on selecting variable region framework sequences from human antibody genes by comparing canonical CDR structure types for CDR sequences of the variable region of a non-human antibody to canonical CDR structure types for corresponding CDRs from a library of human antibody sequences, preferably germline antibody gene segments. Human antibody variable regions having similar canonical CDR structure types to the non-human CDRs form a subset of member human antibody sequences from which to select human framework sequences. The subset members may be further ranked by amino acid similarity between the human and the non-human CDR sequences. Top ranking human sequences are selected to provide the framework sequences for constructing a chimeric antibody that functionally replaces human CDR sequences with the non-human CDR counterparts using the selected subset member human frameworks, thereby providing a humanized antibody of high affinity and low immunogenicity without need for comparing framework sequences between the non-human and human antibodies. Chimeric antibodies made according to the method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054669 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732585 | Calos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele Pamela Calos (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes methods of identifying altered recombinases and compositions thereof, wherein at least one amino acid is different from a parent, wild-type recombinase and the altered recombinase has improved recombination efficiency towards wild-type and/or pseudo att site sequences relative to the parent, wild-type recombinase. The present invention also includes methods of modifying the genomes of cells using the altered recombinases, including methods of site-specifically integrating a polynucleotide sequence of interest in a genome of a eucaryotic cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/582836 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732592 | Inghirami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giorgio Inghirami (Mt. Vernon, New York); Roberto Chiarie (Savigliano, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a transgenic animal model that constitutively expresses a protein encoded by the NPM-ALK gene in lymphoid tissue, and exhibits enhanced and accelerated development of a T cell lymphoproliferative disorder or B cell plasma cell tumor, together with the identification of cells transduced with the ALK tyrosine kinase gene or fusion proteins thereof, and methods for using this animal model and cells for screening compounds or treatments for antitumor activity. In preferred embodiments, the animal is a transgenic mouse that expresses a human NPM-ALK gene operably linked to human regulatory sequences, and the cells of the mouse have at least one copy of the NPM-ALK transgene, whereby the mouse constitutively expresses a protein encoded by the NPM-ALK transgene. The animals and cells of the invention are useful in the study of NPM-ALK-dependent lymphomagenesis and plasma cell tumors and in the development of treatments for these conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901487 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 07732593 | Zamore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip D. Zamore (Northboro, Massachusetts); Guiliang Tang (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Based at least in part on an understanding of the mechanisms by which small RNAs (e.g., naturally-occurring miRNAs) mediate RNA silencing in plants, rules have been established for determining, for example, the degree of complementarity required between an RNAi-mediating agent and its target, i.e., whether mismatches are tolerated, the number of mismatches tolerated, the effect of the position of the mismatches, etc. Such rules are useful, in particular, in the design of improved RNAi-mediating agents which allow for more exact control of the efficacy of RNA silencing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139072 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 07732658 | Livingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Livingston (Brookline, Massachusetts); Andrew L. Kung (Walpole, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions containing a polynucleotide encoding for a reporter gene, a selectable marker and a regulatory element, that provide a method for imaging cells in vivo. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/218042 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733479 | Shew et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chwen-Yang Shew (Flushing, New York); Godfrey Gumbs (Jamaica Estates, New York); Takafumi Iwaki (Okayama-shi, Okayama 700-0015, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to charged single-wall carbon nanotubes and their use in sensing and monitoring devices. The charged single-wall carbon nanotubes, have been found to have spectral shifts in certain regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The charged single wall nanotubes are very sensitive to environmental perturbations and the nanotube's optical properties will be affected by these perturbations. Accordingly, the charged single wall carbon nanotubes can be used as sensors for a wide variety of applications, such as salt concentrations and pH, signal generators, measuring length of DNA molecules, as well as optical tags for biological detection and mapping of malignant cell activity. Optimal sensor devices are achieved in the present invention when the charged single-wall carbon nanotube carries a linear charge density close to that of DNA. The invention further describes an optical pH sensor comprising at least one charged carbon nanotube in solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/443341 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734078 | Prince et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin R. Prince (New York, New York); Ramin Zabih (New York, New York); Yi Wang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Richard Watts (Christchurch, New Zealand); Junhwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Jeff Bezanson (Scarsdale, New York); Hale Ersoy (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In time-resolved contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography, a measure quantifying image quality provides a basis for generating a linear filtered composite image by facilitating selection of a mask and an arterial phase image for subtraction. Filtering of individual pixels of a temporal series of images provides enhanced contrast in a single image by allowing the temporal behavior of the pixel intensity to denote representation as an artery, vein or background tissue. Motion artifacts are suppressed by re-registering sequential images, adjusting weighting before averaging and subtraction and filtering the Fourier data to eliminate data corrupted by motion or other phenomena. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/475797 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734352 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In order to generate the smallest phosphenes possible, it is advantageous to selectively stimulate smaller cells. By hyperpolarizing the somas of the large cells selectively with sub-threshold anodic ‘pre-pulse’ stimuli (making them more difficult to stimulate) and then selectively depolarize the smaller cells one can selectively stimulate smaller cells. Alternatively, one can hyperpolarize the dendrites of the cells with larger dendritic fields by applying sub-threshold anodic currents on surrounding electrodes and then depolarizing the smaller cells in the center. Further, one can manipulate the phases of an individual biphasic wave to affect selective stimulation resulting in more focal responses. It is possible to increase resolution with the ‘pre-pulse’ described above. One can also effect resolution by modifying the pulse order of the cathodic and anodic phases. Further, one can isolate the effect of the phases by separating them in time (long inter-phase interval) or by making one of the phases long and low amplitude—always keeping equal total charge for the two phases. As an example, one can preferentially stimulate smaller ganglion cells by providing a longer sub-threshold anodic pulse balanced with a shorter supra-threshold cathodic pulse. Preferentially stimulating the smaller ganglion cells will allow stimulation of different brightness levels while maintaining high spatial resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/523897 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734424 | Rogan |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Peter K. Rogan (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Single copy sequences suitable for use as DNA probes can be defined by computational analysis of genomic sequences. The present invention provides an ab initio method for identification of single copy sequences for use as probes which obviates the need to compare genomic sequences with existing catalogs of repetitive sequences. By dividing a target reference sequence into a series of shorter contiguous sequence windows and comparing these sequences with the reference genome sequence, one can identify single copy sequences in a genome. Probes can then be designed and produced from these single copy intervals. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/324102 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony L. Schmitz (Gainesville, Florida); Lonnie A. Houck, III (Stuart, Florida); Brian P. Mann (Columbia, Missouri); Kevin S. Smith (Huntersville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable tuned holder for machine tools that attaches to a machine tool to act in a manner similar to a dynamic absorber while the machine tool is used during machining. The natural frequency of the holder may be matched to the natural frequency of the machine tool as the tool is in use to reduce the amplitude of vibration at the cutting end of tool with a workpiece. The present invention is designed to provide an impedance match between the machine tool and the holder such that the cutting energy may escape and/or be dissipated. The flexible holder may be used as one part of an overall system. The system may be designed to be used with tools of different shapes and/or lengths. As the shape and/or length of the machine tool changes, the system may be easily modified to change the natural frequency of the flexible holder to enable the dynamic absorber effect of the flexible holder to occur. The flexible holder may be included in a kit that may be used with a wide range of lengths and/or shapes of machine tools. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571788 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning 082/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07730839 | Bender 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) | James M. Bender (Bel Air, Maryland); James M. Sands (Kingsville, Maryland); Robert B. Dooley (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An article and a process are provided for reducing the shear stress on an interface of a structural member in intimate contact with a compressive load. The article is in the form of a wedge that is forcibly placed against the sidewall of one end or both ends of the structural member. The wedge may take the form of a ring that can be placed on the inside or outside surface of a hollow cylindrical structural member. The process of forcibly placing a wedge against the sidewall at one or both ends of the structural member produces a transverse compressive stress upon the sidewall. The transverse compressive stress upon the sidewall attenuates the tendency of said sidewall to deflect when the structural member is subjected to a compressive load. A reduction in the deflection of the sidewall reduces the shear stress generated proximal to the interface of the structural member in intimate contact with a compressive load and increases the structural member load bearing capacity. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/709734 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07730843 | Sovel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Sovel (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A line retrieve-release system is provided for mounting on the hull of a boat. First and second jaw mechanisms coupled to the hull face substantially forward and aft, respectively, relative to the boat's bow. Each jaw mechanism is capable of movement between a partially open position and a fully open position. First and second latches are coupled to the first and second jaw mechanisms, respectively. Each latch is biased to cooperate with its respective jaw mechanism in the partially open position thereof to thereby define a corresponding enclosed region. Each latch permits one-way entry to its associated enclosed region when a force is applied thereto from outside of the enclosed region. Each jaw mechanisms' partially open position defines a “ready-to-retrieve” and “line capture” position of the system, while each jaw mechanisms' fully open position defines a “line release” position of the system. Additional mechanism(s) are provide to (i) move each of the jaw mechanisms to their respective fully open position to thereby open the associated enclosed regions to facilitate the release of a captured line, and (ii) reset the retrieve-release system to its “ready-to-retrieve” and “line capture” position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973984 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731588 | Templeman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James N Templeman (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for remotely controlling the movements of a vehicle includes a user input means, such as a gamepad with a plurality of joystick-controlled and button-controlled outputs, a tracker, and optional sliding foot pedals; a processor for running a control mapping algorithm; and a remote vehicle controller. A control mapping algorithm maps the outputs to the remote-controlled vehicle's course, heading, displacement, and camera view, with the joysticks mapped to provide open loop directional control over the vehicle's course and heading, the tracker providing open loop control over the camera view, and the optional sliding foot pedals providing open loop control over the vehicle's displacement. The remote vehicle controller sends commands to on-board controls to direct the vehicle's movement. A video stream from an on-board camera is transmitted back to the operator station for viewing on a computer desktop display or a head mountable display. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/528646 |
| ART UNIT | 3714 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Amusement devices: Games 463/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731837 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chunshan Song (State College, Pennsylvania); Xiaoliang Ma (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Shingo Watanabe (State College, Pennsylvania); Fuxia Sun (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and processes are disclosed for removing sulfur and sulfur compounds from hydrocarbon fuel feedstocks. The feedstock is contacted with a regenerable sorbent such as a compound of the formula TixCeyO2 where 0<x/y≦1 and where 0<x≦1 and 0<y≦1 capable of selectively adsorbing sulfur compounds present in the hydrocarbon feedstock at about 0° C. to about 100° C. such as at about 25° C. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/899964 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/208.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731975 | Grogan 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) | Case C. Grogan (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Michael C. Hevey (Frederick, Maryland); Alan L. Schmaljohn (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric GP molecules were constructed which contain portions of both the EBOV and MBGV GP proteins by swapping the subunits between EBOV and MBGV. The chimeric molecules were cloned into an alphavirus replicon which offers the advantage of high protein expression levels in mammalian cells and is a proven vaccine vector. These chimeric molecules fully protected guinea pigs from MBGV challenge, and conversely protected the animals from EBOV challenge. These results indicate that a protective epitope resides within the GP2 subunit of the MBGV GP protein and at least partially within the GP2 subunit of the EBOV GP protein. Additionally these results show that a construction of a single-component bivalent vaccine protective in guinea pigs is achievable. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/066506 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/202.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732033 | Van Aken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Van Aken (Rolla, Missouri); Yoshihide Kato (Aichi, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermoplastic sealants and methods for forming a joint, such as a weld joint, between one or more structural members using thermoplastic sealants are provided. The thermoplastic sealants have melting temperatures lower than the melting temperature of at least one of the structural members. The thermoplastic sealants may further include fillers, and are disposed between faying surfaces of the structural members. The sealants can fill the spaces between the structural members to prevent the entry of chemicals, moisture, debris and other substances. |
| FILED | Friday, August 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/213444 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07732119 — Photosensitive self-assembled monolayer for selective placement of hydrophilic structures
| US 07732119 | Afzali-Ardakani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Afzali-Ardakani (Ossining, New York); Teresita O. Graham (Irvington, New York); James B. Hannon (Mahopac, New York); George S. Tulevski (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A photosensitive monolayer is self-assembled on an oxide surface. The chemical compound of the photosensitive monolayer has three components. A first end group provides covalent bonds with the oxide surface for self assembly on the oxide surface. A photosensitive group that dissociates upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation is linked to the first end group. A second end group linked to the photosensitive group provides hydrophobicity. Upon exposure to the ultraviolet radiation, the dissociated photosensitive group is cleaved and forms a hydrophilic derivative in the exposed region, rendering the exposed region hydrophilic. Carbon nanotubes or nanocrystals applied in an aqueous dispersion are selectively attracted to the hydrophilic exposed region to from electrostatic bonding with the hydrophilic surface of the cleaved photosensitive group. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/870167 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732287 | Fechner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Fechner (Plymouth, Minnesota); Gordon A. Shaw (Plymouth, Minnesota); Eric E. Vogt (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a body-tie. The method includes forming the body-tie during an STI scheme of an SOI process. During the STI scheme, a first trench is formed. The first trench stops before a buried oxide layer of the SOI substrate. The first trench may determine a height of body tie that is shared between at least two FETs. A second trench may also be formed within the first trench. The second trench stops in the SOI substrate. The second trench defines the location and shape of a body-tie. Once the location and shape of the body-tie are defined, an oxide is deposited above the body-tie. The deposited oxide prevents certain implants from entering the body tie. By preventing these implants, a source and a drain implant may be self-aligned to the source and drain areas without requiring the use of the photoresist mask to shield the body tie regions from the source and drain implant. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/415703 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732642 | Tan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); David H. Wang (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Functionalized detonation nanodiamond particulates of the formula: wherein Ar is selected from the group consisting of: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of H, H3C—(CH2)n— and wherein n has a value of 0-10. Also provided is a process for functionalizing detonation nanodiamonds particulates. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322956 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732741 | Whitham |
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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) | Kent G. Whitham (Inyokern, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A locking mechanism for securing an articulated folding wing assembly in a fully extended position by means of a tapered locking plunger urged by a coiled compression spring to contact a complementary mating surface formed on the wing assembly. The spring urged locking plunger is released from a retracted position by rotation of the wing assembly from the folded position to the extended position. A folding mechanism for rotating the wing assembly through a compound angle from the folded position to a rigid and positively locked fully extended position is provided wherein the extended wing may be rotated about its longitudinal axis to provide directional control to the vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518734 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732770 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Han (Birmingham, Alabama); Sushma Kotru (Tuscaloosa, Alabama); Raghvendra Kumar Pandey (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects described herein provide for the design and fabrication of a device with an enhanced pyroelectric response signal comprised of multi-capacitors that are connected in series. These capacitors are fabricated using multi-layers of materials such as lead zirconate titanate (PZT), BaxSr1-xTiO3 (barium strontium titanate) and Bi4Ti3O12 (bismuth titanate) films that exhibit pyroelectric affect and belong to the class of polar materials. By controlling the poling direction of the multi-layer integrated structure, the pyroelectric voltage can be aligned in one direction, and as a result, the voltage output from the single element is the total contribution from each capacitor. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135810 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732798 | Elmegreen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce G. Elmegreen (Golden Bridge, New York); Lia Krusin-Elbaum (Dobbs Ferry, New York); Chung Hon Lam (Peekskill, New York); Dennis M. Newns (Yorktown Heights, New York); Matthew R. Wordeman (Kula, Hawaii); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable link structure for use in three dimensional integration (3DI) semiconductor devices includes a via filled at least in part with a phase change material (PCM) and a heating device proximate the PCM. The heating device is configured to switch the conductivity of a transformable portion of the PCM between a lower resistance crystalline state and a higher resistance amorphous state. Thereby, the via defines a programmable link between an input connection located at one end thereof and an output connection located at another end thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178921 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732810 | Truong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nugent Truong (Ventura, California); Charles Douglas Macpherson (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device having a substrate structure having an undercut region is provided and further included is a method for forming an undercut region of a substrate structure. The method includes forming a patterned protective layer over a first electrode. The method also includes forming the substrate structure over the patterned protective layer. An opening within the substrate structure overlies an exposed portion of the substrate structure. The method further includes removing the exposed portion of the patterned protective layer, thereby exposing a portion of the first electrode and forming an undercut region of the substrate structure. The method still further includes depositing a liquid over the first electrode after removing the exposed portion of the patterned protective layer, and solidifying the liquid to form a solid layer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840392 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733125 | Murotake |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SCA Technica, Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David K Murotake (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention in the simplest form is a programmable logic device consisting of gate arrays, external I/O endpoints, and an embedded switch fabric configurable for connecting gates to gates, endpoints to endpoints and gates to endpoints. The architecture may employ a fabric interface of non-blocking crossbar switches for making complex bus connections of multiple devices to facilitate high speed processing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177175 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733263 | Kirtchik |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyman Kirtchik (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A camouflage coating system for application to the surfaces of jet engine components in order to reduce their level of emitted energy there by rendering them undetectable by infrared detection systems. The camouflage coating comprises a multilayer system having a first diffusion barrier of nickel aluminide applied to the substrate surface. A second silver reflective layer superimposed on the diffusion barrier layer and a glass-ceramic protective overlay superimposed on the silver reflective layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 1978 |
| APPL NO | 05/924406 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733484 | Gupta 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) | Neelam Gupta (Bethesda, Maryland); Ronald G. Driggers (Davidsonville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of hyperspectral scene projection/generation systems and methods are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises dispersing a beam of light at one of a plurality of selectable wavelengths, the beam of light corresponding to a scene, and displaying a spectral image of the scene corresponding to the dispersed beam of light at one of the plurality of selectable wavelengths. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/239460 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733492 | Szarmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Szarmes (Honolulu, Hawaii); Huan Ma (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed for a modified Sagnac interferometer having a plurality of gratings that can be reflective or transmissive. The gratings allow measurement of wavelength spectra in counter-circulating beams of the interferometer. In one embodiment, diffraction geometries at each pair of neighboring gratings are configured so that diffractive and angular contributions reinforce each other at the second of the pair of gratings. In one embodiment, diffraction geometries at the gratings are configured so that the exiting beams of the interferometer satisfy the crossing condition wherein the exiting beams are on the opposite sides of a reference beam axis for a design wavelength input beam. Also disclosed are techniques for restoring the reinforcement and/or crossing conditions when these conditions are not otherwise met. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431936 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733980 | Beukema et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy James Beukema (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Alberto Valdes Garcia (White Plains, New York); Scott Kevin Reynolds (Amawalk, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A quadrature modulation circuit includes a mixer circuit including an integrated sign modulation control circuit and a plurality of mixer ports. The mixer ports include a first input port, a second input port, an output port and a sign modulation control port. The modulation circuit generates a modulated signal by operation of the mixer circuit multiplying a modulating signal applied to the first input port with a carrier signal applied to the second input port to generate a mixed signal output from the output port, and by operation of the integrated sign modulation control circuit controlling polarity switching of a signal at one of the mixer ports in response to a sign modulation control signal input to the sign modulation control port. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486539 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734101 | Rash 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) | Clarence E Rash (Enterprise, Alabama); Thomas H Harding (Enterprise, Alabama); Sheng-Jen Hsieh (College Station, Texas); Howard H Beasley (Louisville, Alabama); John S Martin (Daleville, Alabama); Ronald W Reynolds (Bellwood, Alabama); Robert M. Dillard (Ozark, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system and method for allowing quality of an image to be tested. For example, the present invention may be utilized to test the quality of an image produced by a helmet-mounted display such as an Integrated Helmet and Display Sighting System (IHADSS). In at least one embodiment, after the image is captured by a camera, for example, at least one measurable aspect of the image is analyzed in an objective manner to determine at least one possible difference in the measurable aspect of the image and a corresponding measurable aspect of a recalled representation of the image and presenting the difference via a visual display device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988404 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734122 | Mackie |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of Americas as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Mackie (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A multimode interference device and a method of configuring the same comprises a multimode interference region having a major axis; and a plurality of ports connected to a side portion of the multimode interference region, wherein the side portion is positioned in a direction other than perpendicular to the major axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363997 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734129 | Rodgers 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) | J. Scott Rodgers (San Diego, California); Randall B. Olsen (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photonic processor having a high spectral resolution which separates an input optic signal into numerous channels and a method of constructing same are provided. The photonic processor includes an optical delay line spiral having dips to compensate for path length differences between the various paths such that each path is an integer multiple of a fixed path length. Straight segments are included in the spiral design to offset the dips in the spiral such that they do not overlap. A number of waveguide taps are included that may launch the channelized light signals into a photonic lens. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/146613 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734375 | Buehler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Dynamics (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Buehler (Watertown, Massachusetts); Aaron Saunders (Montreal, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A robot with a body, at least one leg on each side of the body, and a hip connecting the leg to the body. The hip is configured to abduct and adduct the leg. A linkage is configured to rotate the leg along a predetermined path. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/864715 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734406 | Oppenheimer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Oppenheimer (Beavercreek, Ohio); David B. Doman (Springfield, Ohio); Aleksander B. Hac (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer usable medium including a program, and a system for braking a vehicle during brake failure. The method and computer usable medium include the steps of determining a brake force lost corresponding to a failed brake, and determining a brake force reserve corresponding to at least one non-failed brake. At least one commanded brake force is determined based on the brake force lost and the brake force reserve. Then at least one command brake force is applied to the at least one non-failed brake wherein at least one of an undesired yaw moment and a yaw moment rate of change are limited to predetermined values. The system includes a plurality of brake assemblies wherein a commanded brake force is applied to at least one non-failed brake. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489811 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734423 | Crowley, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crowley Davis Research, Inc. (Eagle, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Crowley, Jr. (Eagle, Idaho); Ullysses A. Eoff (Meridian, Idaho); Cap C. Petschulat (Boise, Idaho); Mason E. Vail (Nampa, Idaho); Richard D. Newman (Meridian, Idaho); Timothy L. Andersen (Boise, Idaho); Timothy Otter (Caldwell, Idaho); Robert W. Davis (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method system, and apparatus for virtual modeling of biological tissue yields virtual multicellular individuals that exhibit adaptive emergent functionality in response to environmental stimuli. Virtual environmental parameters and cells with genomes are generated, and modified by genetic operations. Cells are developed into generations of multicellular individuals, which are evaluated and selected via evolutionary search according to fitness criteria, and individuals exhibiting adaptive emergent functionality, such as self-repair, are developed and identified. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/234413 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734449 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray-Qing Lin (Clarksville, Maryland); Weijia Kuang (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The hydrodynamics of a seagoing vessel are numerically modeled through the present invention's new calculative methodology, which uniquely combines vessel boundary characteristics and pseudo-spectral environmental characteristics. Solutions are obtained through mutual transformations between the vessel boundary's irregular grid and the environment's regular pseudo-spectral grid. The pressure at the vessel boundary, an important component of the vessel boundary itself, can be determined via either (i) finite element analysis (which has a Cartesian framework) or (ii) the present invention's new vessel normal vector analysis (which has a non-Cartesian framework); the latter approach avoids the singularity problem that generally besets hydrodynamics-related mathematics. Typical inventive practice implements a computer processing unit and succeeds in finding superior solutions in shorter CPU durations. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518740 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734467 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo (Pleasantville, New York); Bowen Zhou (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for assisting in translation are provided A speech recognition hypothesis is obtained, corresponding to a source language utterance. Information retrieval is performed on a supplemental database, based on a situational context, to obtain at least one word string that is related to the source language utterance. The speech recognition hypothesis and the word string are then formatted for display to a user, to facilitate an appropriate selection by the user for translation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/125102 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734488 | Grussing 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) | Michael N. Grussing (Champaign, Illinois); Donald R. Uzarski (Champaign, Illinois); Lance R. Marrano (Champaign, Illinois); Jason M. Schneider (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A top-down tiered process establishes an objective measure of the functional capacity of an asset to address a specified use. The process comprises: developing Issue Categories and lists of functional impact Sub-issue Types and specific issues under each type that may impact functionality of the asset for a specified use; providing the list to evaluators; employing evaluators to evaluate functionality, evaluators assigning a numerical Severity measure to each Sub-issue Type present during the evaluation; recording occurrences of issues under each Sub-issue Type discovered, summing occurrences to determine a Density of each Sub-issue Type; recording the evaluation in one or more engineering management systems (EMS); and using the recorded evaluation, calculating a value to be inserted on a numerical scale as a functionality index, FI. In select embodiments of the present invention, a numerical scale is used with values from 0-100. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/194655 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734755 | Bianco 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) | Richard A. Bianco (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas Laureanno (Tiverton, Rhode Island); Felix A. Morales (Middletown, Rhode Island); Christopher A. Ekholm (Middletown, Rhode Island); Kevin C. Mattos (Middletown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An interactive system is provided to help an operator locate the source of a data fault in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network. A database stores information related to data types and subsystems used by the ATM network. A processor coupled to the database uses the information stored therein to formulate a series of queries related to a selected one of the subsystems using the data type experiencing a data fault. The series of queries have a hierarchal order that sequentially inquire about operational status of the various subsystems having a relationship with the data type experiencing the data fault. A graphical user interface (GUI) coupled to the processor displays each query in accordance with the hierarchal order thereof. The GUI simultaneously displays identification of the various subsystems having a relationship with the data type experiencing the data fault. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328487 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734895 | Agarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anant Agarwal (Weston, Massachusetts); David Wentzlaff (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit includes a plurality of processor core. Processing instructions in the integrated circuit includes: managing a plurality of sets of processor cores, each set including one or more processor cores assigned to a function associated with executing instructions; and reconfiguring the number of processor cores assigned to at least one of the sets during execution based on characteristics associated with executing the instructions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/414421 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734970 | Drake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan J. Drake (Round Rock, Texas); AJ KleinOsowski (Austin, Texas); Andrew K. Martin (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A latch circuit having three latch stages generates a majority output value from the stages, senses when the latch stage outputs are not all equal, and feeds the majority output value back to inputs of the latch stages to reload the latch stages. The latch circuit uses a not-equal gate whose output is an error signal that can be monitored to determine when a single-event upset has occurred. A master stage is controlled by a first multiplexer which receives one system clock signal, while a slave stage is controlled by a second multiplexer which receives another system clock signal, and the latch stage outputs are connected to respective inputs of the not-equal gate, whose output is connected to second inputs of the multiplexers. The latch circuit is part of a latch control system, and reloading of the latch stages takes less than one cycle of the system clock (less than 500 picoseconds). |
| FILED | Sunday, July 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168142 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735141 | Noel et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Noel (Woodbridge, Virginia); Eric B. Robertson (Vienna, Virginia); Sushil Jajodie (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system for correlating intrusion events using attack graph distances. The system includes an attack graph generator, an exploit distance calculator, an intrusion detector, an event report/exploit associator, an event graph creator, an event graph distance calculator, a correlation value calculator, and a coordinated attack analyzer. An attack graph is constructed for exploits and conditions in a network. The exploit distance calculator determines exploit distances for exploit pair(s). The intrusion detector generates event. Events are associated with exploits. Event graph distances are calculated. Correlation values are calculated for event pair(s) using event graph distances. The correlation values are analyzed using a correlation threshold to detect coordinated attacks. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/371938 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roelof Pieterson (Houston, Texas); Joseph Michael Boyles (Houston, Texas); Peter Ulrich Diebold (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using geothermal energy to treat subsurface formations are described herein. Methods for using geothermal energy to treat a subsurface treatment area containing or proximate to hydrocarbons may include producing geothermally heated fluid from at least one subsurface region. Heat from at least a portion of the geothermally heated fluid may be transferred to the subsurface treatment area to heat the subsurface treatment area. At least some hydrocarbon fluids may be produced from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975736 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07730946 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); John Michael Karanikas (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a tar sands formation are described herein. The tar sands formation may include dolomite and hydrocarbons. Methods may include providing heat at less than the decomposition temperature of dolomite from one or more heaters to at least a portion of the formation. At least some of the hydrocarbon fluids are mobilized in the formation. At least some of the hydrocarbon fluids may be produced from the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975677 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07730947 | Stegemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Leo Stegemeier (Houston, Texas); Gary Lee Beer (Houston, Texas); Etuan Zhang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treating a tar sands formation are described herein. Methods for treating a tar sands may include heating a portion of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from one or more heaters located in the portion. The heat may be controlled to increase the permeability of at least part of the portion to create an injection zone in the portion with an average permeability sufficient to allow injection of a fluid through the injection zone. A drive fluid and/or an oxidizing fluid may be provided into the injection zone. At least some hydrocarbons are produced from the portion. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975738 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731783 | Sprouse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth M. Sprouse (Northridge, California); David R. Matthews (Simi Valley, California); Terry Langowski (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous pressure letdown system connected to a hopper decreases a pressure of a 2-phase (gas and solid) dusty gas stream flowing through the system. The system includes a discharge line for receiving the dusty gas from the hopper, a valve, a cascade nozzle assembly positioned downstream of the discharge line, a purge ring, an inert gas supply connected to the purge ring, an inert gas throttle, and a filter. The valve connects the hopper to the discharge line and controls introduction of the dusty gas stream into the discharge line. The purge ring is connected between the discharge line and the cascade nozzle assembly. The inert gas throttle controls a flow rate of an inert gas into the cascade nozzle assembly. The filter is connected downstream of the cascade nozzle assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657254 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731866 | Cella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Elliott West Shanklin (Altamont, New York); Paul Michael Smigelski (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyfluorene polymers and copolymers having substantial amounts (10-100%) of fluorenes coupled at the 2 and 5 positions of fluorene are useful as active layers in OLED devices where triplet energies >2.10 eV are required. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250826 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731920 | Fthenakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vasilis Fthenakis (Dix Hills, New York); Wenming Wang (Ridge, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and system for recovery of waste. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421343 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731940 | Mukherjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jogeshwar Mukherjee (Irvine, California); Neil Saigal (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Contemplated substituted arylpiperazinyl compounds, and most preferably 18F-Mefway, exhibit desirable in vitro and in vivo binding characteristics to the 5-HT1A receptor. Among other advantageous parameters, contemplated compounds retain high binding affinity, display optimal lipophilicity, and are radiolabeled efficiently with 18F-fluorine in a single step. Still further, contemplated compounds exhibit high target to non-target ratios in receptor-rich regions both in vitro and in vivo, and selected compounds can be effectively and sensitively displaced by serotonin, thus providing a quantitative tool for measuring 5-HT1A receptors and serotonin concentration changes in the living brain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626797 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732080 | Sandi-Tapia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Argonne, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giselle Sandi-Tapia (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Kathleen Carrado Gregar (Naperville, Illinois); Riza Kizilel (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen permeable membrane, which includes a polymer stable at temperatures of about 200 C having clay impregnated with Pt or Au or Ru or Pd particles or mixtures thereof with average diameters of less than about 10 nanometers (nms) is disclosed. The membranes are useful in fuel cells or any device which requires hydrogen to be separated from carbon monoxide. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/113739 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732084 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Jie Guan (Torrance, Illinois); Nguyen Minh (Fountain Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyzed interconnect for an SOFC electrically connects an anode and an anodic current collector and comprises a metallic substrate, which provides space between the anode and anodic current collector for fuel gas flow over at least a portion of the anode, and a catalytic coating on the metallic substrate comprising a catalyst for catalyzing hydrocarbon fuel in the fuel gas to hydrogen rich reformate. An SOFC including the catalyzed anodic inter-connect, a method for operating an SOFC, and a method for making a catalyzed anodic interconnect are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/708042 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732086 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); Alan Jankowski (Livermore, California); Robert T. Graff (Modesto, California); Kerry Bettencourt (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are processes for fabricating microfluidic fuel cell systems with embedded components in which micron-scale features are formed by bonding layers of DuPont Kapton™ polyimide laminate. A microfluidic fuel cell system fabricated using this process is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153692 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732096 | Thackeray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); Christopher S. Johnson (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An uncycled preconditioned electrode for a non-aqueous lithium electrochemical cell including a lithium metal oxide having the formula xLi2−yHyO.xM′O2.(1−x)Li1−zHzMO2 in which 0<x<1, 0<y<1 and 0<z<1, M is anon-lithium metal ion with an average trivalent oxidation state selected from two or more of the first row transition metals or lighter metal elements in the periodic table, and M′ is one or more ions with an average tetravalent oxidation state selected from the first and second row transition metal elements and Sn. The xLi2−yHy.xM′O2.(1−x)Li1−zHzMO2 material is prepared by preconditioning a precursor lithium metal oxide (i.e., xLi2M′O3.(1−x)LiMO2) with a proton-containing medium with a pH<7.0 containing an inorganic acid. Methods of preparing the electrodes are disclosed, as are electrochemical cells and batteries containing the electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/378145 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732174 | Kosourov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Kosourov (Pushchino, Russian Federation); Maria L. Ghirardi (Lakewood, Colorado); Michael Seibert (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of using sequential chemostat culture vessels to provide continuous H2 production, in which photosynthetic O2 evolution and H2 photoproduction are separated physically into two separate bioreactors, comprising: a) growing a microorganism culture able to continuously generate H2 by photosynthetically producing cells at about the early-to-late log state in a first photobioreactor operating as a sulfur chemostat under aerobic and/or conditions; b) continuously feeding cells from the first photobioreactor to a second photobioreactor operating under anaerobic conditions and sulfur deprivation conditions resulting from constant uptake of sulfate in the first bioreactor and a low rate of culture flow between the first and second bioreactors, for induction of hydrogenase and H2 photoproduction to allow for continuous cultivation of the microorganism's cells in the first photobioreactor and constant H2 production in the second photobioreactor, and c) H2 gas from the second photobioreactor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/543866 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732773 | Mihailescu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucian Mihailescu (Pleasanton, California); Kai M. Vetter (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Gamma-ray tracking methods for use with granular, position sensitive detectors identify the sequence of the interactions taking place in the detector and, hence, the position of the first interaction. The improved position resolution in finding the first interaction in the detection system determines a better definition of the direction of the gamma-ray photon, and hence, a superior source image resolution. A PET system using such a method will have increased efficiency and position resolution. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/649081 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732774 | Majewski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaw Majewski (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly efficient PET breast imager for detecting lesions in the entire breast including those located close to the patient's chest wall. The breast imager includes a ring of imaging modules surrounding the imaged breast. Each imaging module includes a slant imaging light guide inserted between a gamma radiation sensor and a photodetector. The slant light guide permits the gamma radiation sensors to be placed in close proximity to the skin of the chest wall thereby extending the sensitive region of the imager to the base of the breast. Several types of photodetectors are proposed for use in the detector modules, with compact silicon photomultipliers as the preferred choice, due to its high compactness. The geometry of the detector heads and the arrangement of the detector ring significantly reduce dead regions thereby improving detection efficiency for lesions located close to the chest wall. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284287 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732781 | Burks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morgan Thomas Burks (Oakland, California); Joel Del Eckels (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a radiation detection system is provided including a radiation detector and a first enclosure encapsulating the radiation detector, the first enclosure including a low-emissivity infra-red (IR) reflective coating used to thermally isolate the radiation detector. Additionally, a second enclosure encapsulating the first enclosure is included, the first enclosure being suspension mounted to the second enclosure. Further, a cooler capable of cooling the radiation detector is included. Still yet, a first cooling interface positioned on the second enclosure is included for coupling the cooler and the first enclosure. Furthermore, a second cooling interface positioned on the second enclosure and capable of coupling the first enclosure to a cooler separate from the radiation detection system is included. Other embodiments are also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105503 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732785 | Roybal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lyle Gene Roybal (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Radiation analysis devices include circuitry configured to determine respective radiation count data for a plurality of sections of an area of interest and combine the radiation count data of individual of sections to determine whether a selected radioactive material is present in the area of interest. An amount of the radiation count data for an individual section is insufficient to determine whether the selected radioactive material is present in the individual section. An article of manufacture includes media comprising programming configured to cause processing circuitry to perform processing comprising determining one or more correction factors based on a calibration of a radiation analysis device, measuring radiation received by the radiation analysis device using the one or more correction factors, and presenting information relating to an amount of radiation measured by the radiation analysis device having one of a plurality of specified radiation energy levels of a range of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943369 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/393 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733039 | Su |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gui Jia Su (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system that provides power between an energy storage device, an external charging-source/load, an onboard electrical power generator, and a vehicle drive shaft. The power system has at least one energy storage device electrically connected across a dc bus, at least one filter capacitor leg having at least one filter capacitor electrically connected across the dc bus, at least one power inverter/converter electrically connected across the dc bus, and at least one multiphase motor/generator having stator windings electrically connected at one end to form a neutral point and electrically connected on the other end to one of the power inverter/converters. A charging-sourcing selection socket is electrically connected to the neutral points and the external charging-source/load. At least one electronics controller is electrically connected to the charging-sourcing selection socket and at least one power inverter/converter. The switch legs in each of the inverter/converters selected by the charging-source/load socket collectively function as a single switch leg. The motor/generators function as an inductor. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859006 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733198 | Olsson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy H. Olsson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ihab F. El-Kady (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frederick McCormick (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James G. Fleming (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carol Fleming, legal representative (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated bulk wave acoustic bandgap device comprises a periodic two-dimensional array of scatterers embedded within the matrix material membrane, wherein the scatterer material has a density and/or elastic constant that is different than the matrix material and wherein the periodicity of the array causes destructive interference of the acoustic wave within an acoustic bandgap. The membrane can be suspended above a substrate by an air or vacuum gap to provide acoustic isolation from the substrate. The device can be fabricated using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies. Such microfabricated bulk wave phononic bandgap devices are useful for acoustic isolation in the ultrasonic, VHF, or UHF regime (i.e., frequencies of order 1 MHz to 10 GHz and higher, and lattice constants of order 100 μm or less). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748832 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733788 | Michalski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Michalski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas D. Tarman (Edgewood, New Mexico); Stephen P. Black (Littleton, Colorado); Mark D. Torgerson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer network control plane tampering monitor that detects unauthorized alteration of a label-switched path setup for an information packet intended for transmission through a computer network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/053737 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733924 | Wysocki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Wysocki (Houston, Texas); Frank K. Tittel (Houston, Texas); Robert F. Curl (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A widely tunable, mode-hop-free semiconductor laser operating in the mid-IR comprises a QCL laser chip having an effective QCL cavity length, a diffraction grating defining a grating angle and an external cavity length with respect to said chip, and means for controlling the QCL cavity length, the external cavity length, and the grating angle. The laser of claim 1 wherein said chip may be tuned over a range of frequencies even in the absence of an anti-reflective coating. The diffraction grating is controllably pivotable and translatable relative to said chip and the effective QCL cavity length can be adjusted by varying the injection current to the chip. The laser can be used for high resolution spectroscopic applications and multi species trace-gas detection. Mode-hopping is avoided by controlling the effective QCL cavity length, the external cavity length, and the grating angle so as to replicate a virtual pivot point. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203785 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733925 | Pushkarsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Daylight Solutions, Inc. (Poway, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Pushkarsky (San Diego, California); David F. Amone (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser source (10) for generating a continuously wavelength tunable light (12) includes a gain media (16), an optical output coupler (36F), a cavity collimator (38A), a diffraction grating (30), a grating beam (54), and a beam attacher (56). The diffraction grating (30) is spaced apart from the cavity collimator (38A) and the grating (30) cooperates with the optical output coupler (36F) to define an external cavity (32). The grating (30) includes a grating face surface (42A) that is in a grating plane (42B). The beam attacher (56) retains the grating beam (54) and allows the grating beam (54) and the grating (30) to effectively pivot about a pivot axis (33) that is located approximately at an intersection of a pivot plane (50) and the grating plane (42B). As provided herein, the diffraction grating (30) can be pivoted about the unique pivot axis (33) to move the diffraction grating (30) relative to the gain media (16) to continuously tune the lasing frequency of the external cavity (32) and the wavelength of the output light (12) so that the output light (12) is mode hop free. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168693 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734706 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Jeremy E. Berg (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for line-plane broadcasting in a data communications network of a parallel computer, the parallel computer comprising a plurality of compute nodes connected together through the network, the network optimized for point to point data communications and characterized by at least a first dimension, a second dimension, and a third dimension, that include: initiating, by a broadcasting compute node, a broadcast operation, including sending a message to all of the compute nodes along an axis of the first dimension for the network; sending, by each compute node along the axis of the first dimension, the message to all of the compute nodes along an axis of the second dimension for the network; and sending, by each compute node along the axis of the second dimension, the message to all of the compute nodes along an axis of the third dimension for the network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/843090 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07730714 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter John Wood (Loveland, Ohio); Ruby Lasandra Zenon (Sharonville, Ohio); Donald George LaChapelle (Cincinnati, Ohio); Mark Joseph Mielke (Blanchester, Ohio); Carl Grant (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbofan gas turbine engine includes a forward fan section with a row of fan rotor blades, a core engine, and a fan bypass duct downstream of the forward fan section and radially outwardly of the core engine. The forward fan section has only a single stage of variable fan guide vanes which are variable fan outlet guide vanes downstream of the forward fan rotor blades. An exemplary embodiment of the engine includes an afterburner downstream of the fan bypass duct between the core engine and an exhaust nozzle. The variable fan outlet guide vanes are operable to pivot from a nominal OGV position at take-off to an open OGV position at a high flight Mach Number which may be in a range of between about 2.5-4+. Struts extend radially across a radially inwardly curved portion of a flowpath of the engine between the forward fan section and the core engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/290247 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07731929 | Clarke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. F. Clarke (Seabrook, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of aligning single walled carbon nanotube structures into selected orientations for a variety of different applications are achieved by initially dispersing the nanotube structures in aqueous solutions utilizing a suitable dispersal agent. The dispersal agent coats each individual nanotube structure in solution. The dispersal agent may be substituted with a suitable functional group that reacts with a corresponding binding site. Dispersed nanotube structures coated with substituted dispersal agents are exposed to a selected array of binding sites such that the nanotubes align with the binding sites due to the binding of the substituted functional groups with such binding sites. Alternatively, crystalline nanotube material is formed upon deposition of dispersed nanotube structures within solution into channels disposed on the surface of the substrate. Combining dispersal agent chemical modification techniques with deposition of the nanotubes into substrate channels is also utilized to produce useful structures. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943018 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732496 | Leventis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio Aerospace Institute (Cleveland, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Leventis (Westlake, Ohio); Mary Ann B. Meador (Strongsville, Ohio); James C. Johnston (Euclid, Ohio); Eve F. Fabrizio (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ulvi F. Ilhan (North Olmsted, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Structurally stable and mechanically strong ceramic oxide aerogels are provided. The aerogels are cross-linked via organic polymer chains that are attached to and extend from surface-bound functional groups provided or present over the internal surfaces of a mesoporous ceramic oxide particle network via appropriate chemical reactions. The functional groups can be hydroxyl groups, which are native to ceramic oxides, or they can be non-hydroxyl functional groups that can be decorated over the internal surfaces of the ceramic oxide network. Methods of preparing such mechanically strong ceramic oxide aerogels also are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266025 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732706 | Mardesich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nick Mardesich (San Pedro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a novel manufacturing method for making multi-junction solar cell circuits that addresses current problems associated with such circuits by allowing the formation of integral diodes in the cells and allows for a large number of circuits to readily be placed on a single silicon wafer substrate. The standard Ge wafer used as the base for multi-junction solar cells is replaced with a thinner layer of Ge or a II-V semiconductor material on a silicon/silicon dioxide substrate. This allows high-voltage cells with multiple multi-junction circuits to be manufactured on a single wafer, resulting in less array assembly mass and simplified power management. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229782 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732998 | Allison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney G. Allison (Williamsburg, Virginia); Qamar A. Shams (Yorktown, Virginia); Robert L. Fox (Hayes, Virginia); Christopher L. Fox, legal representative (Yorktown, Virginia); Melanie L. Fox Chattin, legal representative (Hayes, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A telescoping actuator assembly includes a plurality of cylindrical actuators in a concentric arrangement. Each cylindrical actuator is at least one piezoelectric fiber composite actuator having a plurality of piezoelectric fibers extending parallel to one another and to the concentric arrangement's longitudinal axis. Each cylindrical actuator is coupled to concentrically-adjacent ones of the cylindrical actuators such that the plurality of cylindrical actuators can experience telescopic movement. An electrical energy source coupled to the cylindrical actuators applies actuation energy thereto to generate the telescopic movement. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/462114 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733924 | Wysocki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Wysocki (Houston, Texas); Frank K. Tittel (Houston, Texas); Robert F. Curl (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A widely tunable, mode-hop-free semiconductor laser operating in the mid-IR comprises a QCL laser chip having an effective QCL cavity length, a diffraction grating defining a grating angle and an external cavity length with respect to said chip, and means for controlling the QCL cavity length, the external cavity length, and the grating angle. The laser of claim 1 wherein said chip may be tuned over a range of frequencies even in the absence of an anti-reflective coating. The diffraction grating is controllably pivotable and translatable relative to said chip and the effective QCL cavity length can be adjusted by varying the injection current to the chip. The laser can be used for high resolution spectroscopic applications and multi species trace-gas detection. Mode-hopping is avoided by controlling the effective QCL cavity length, the external cavity length, and the grating angle so as to replicate a virtual pivot point. |
| FILED | Monday, August 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203785 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734063 | Fink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang Fink (Montrose, California); James Dohm (Chandler, Arizona); Mark A. Tarbell (Walnut, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-agent autonomous system for exploration of hazardous or inaccessible locations. The multi-agent autonomous system includes simple surface-based agents or craft controlled by an airborne tracking and command system. The airborne tracking and command system includes an instrument suite used to image an operational area and any craft deployed within the operational area. The image data is used to identify the craft, targets for exploration, and obstacles in the operational area. The tracking and command system determines paths for the surface-based craft using the identified targets and obstacles and commands the craft using simple movement commands to move through the operational area to the targets while avoiding the obstacles. Each craft includes its own instrument suite to collect information about the operational area that is transmitted back to the tracking and command system. The tracking and command system may be further coupled to a satellite system to provide additional image information about the operational area and provide operational and location commands to the tracking and command system. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/261549 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07730813 | Schmitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony L. Schmitz (Gainesville, Florida); Lonnie A. Houck, III (Stuart, Florida); Brian P. Mann (Columbia, Missouri); Kevin S. Smith (Huntersville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable tuned holder for machine tools that attaches to a machine tool to act in a manner similar to a dynamic absorber while the machine tool is used during machining. The natural frequency of the holder may be matched to the natural frequency of the machine tool as the tool is in use to reduce the amplitude of vibration at the cutting end of tool with a workpiece. The present invention is designed to provide an impedance match between the machine tool and the holder such that the cutting energy may escape and/or be dissipated. The flexible holder may be used as one part of an overall system. The system may be designed to be used with tools of different shapes and/or lengths. As the shape and/or length of the machine tool changes, the system may be easily modified to change the natural frequency of the flexible holder to enable the dynamic absorber effect of the flexible holder to occur. The flexible holder may be included in a kit that may be used with a wide range of lengths and/or shapes of machine tools. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571788 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning 082/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732152 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeffrey C. Mohr (Madison, Wisconsin); Christopher J. Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Elise Huang (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Juan J. De Pablo (Madison, Wisconsin); Sean P. Palecek (Madison, Wisconsin); Nathan A. Lockwood (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to liquid crystalline substrates useful in the culture of cells and methods of their use. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods and devices for imaging changes (e.g., reorganization) of extracellular matrix components by living cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565363 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732539 | Shull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Science Foundation (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Shull (Evanston, Illinois); Murat Guvendiren (Evanston, Illinois); Phillip B Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Bruce P Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an acrylic block copolymer comprising hydrophobic poly (lower alkyl methacrylate), hydrophilic poly (lower alkyl methacrylic acid), and hydrophobic poly (lower alkyl methacrylate) is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676099 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733183 | Komijani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abbas Komijani (Los Angeles, California); Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reconfigurable distributed active transformers are provided. The exemplary embodiments provided allow changing of the effective number and configuration of the primary and secondary windings, where the distributed active transformer structures can be reconfigured dynamically to control the output power levels, allow operation at multiple frequency bands, maintain a high performance across multiple channels, and sustain desired characteristics across process, temperature and other environmental variations. Integration of the distributed active transformer power amplifiers and a low noise amplifier on a semiconductor substrate can also be provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/069263 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733479 | Shew et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chwen-Yang Shew (Flushing, New York); Godfrey Gumbs (Jamaica Estates, New York); Takafumi Iwaki (Okayama-shi, Okayama 700-0015, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to charged single-wall carbon nanotubes and their use in sensing and monitoring devices. The charged single-wall carbon nanotubes, have been found to have spectral shifts in certain regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The charged single wall nanotubes are very sensitive to environmental perturbations and the nanotube's optical properties will be affected by these perturbations. Accordingly, the charged single wall carbon nanotubes can be used as sensors for a wide variety of applications, such as salt concentrations and pH, signal generators, measuring length of DNA molecules, as well as optical tags for biological detection and mapping of malignant cell activity. Optimal sensor devices are achieved in the present invention when the charged single-wall carbon nanotube carries a linear charge density close to that of DNA. The invention further describes an optical pH sensor comprising at least one charged carbon nanotube in solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/443341 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735066 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad A. Myers (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Ko (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A software tool and method is provided in which a user can ask questions about their computer programs. As the subject program is executed, information is collected about the units of code that are executed and the changes to data. The user can pause the program, for example by pressing a button labeled “Why”, which will prompt the user to select what they want to ask about. For example, the user can ask about why units of code did or did not get executed. The tool and method provide answers that can be in the form of prepared statements and interactive data and control flow visualizations that show the values of data and the particular units of code that caused the execution to occur or not occur. The user can ask further questions using the visualization. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/246331 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07731939 | Miller 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) | Lowell A. Miller (Greeley, Colorado); Jack C. Rhyan (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The immune response of an animal to a target immunogen may be enhanced by use of a novel adjuvant which includes low concentrations of killed cells of Mycobacterium avium subspecies avium in combination with mineral oil. The adjuvant may be used in vaccine compositions for the immunization of an animal against any target immunogen, and is particularly preferred for use with immunocontraceptive vaccines such as GnRH and PZP immunocontraceptive vaccines. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/893464 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07732579 | Stanker 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) | Larry H Stanker (Livermore, California); Luisa W Cheng (San Francisco, California); Miles C Scotcher (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | High affinity antibodies for binding epitopes of BoNT/Aand hybridomas that produce such antibodies are described. The antibodies may be used in a kit for detecting BoNT/A in a sample. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/138415 |
| 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 07732666 | Baerson 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) | Scott R. Baerson (Oxford, Mississippi); Agnes M. Rimando (Oxford, Mississippi); Franck E. Dayan (Oxford, Mississippi); Zhiqiang Pan (Oxford, Mississippi); James J. Polashock (Hainesport, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an O-methyltransferase gene cloned from sorghum, the sorghum O-methyltransferase-3 gene, SbOMT3. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR and recombinant enzyme studies with putative O-methyltransferase sequences obtained from an EST data set from sorghum have led to the identification of the novel root hair-specific O-methyltransferase designated SbOMT3. Transgenic plants which express SbOMT3 can convert resveratrol into pterostilbene in planta. SbOMT3 is also involved in the biosynthesis of sorgoleone. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514512 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07734671 | Ferguson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Ferguson (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of sorting text for memory efficient searching is disclosed. A FM-index is created on received text, and a number of rows are marked. The locations of the marked rows are stored in data buckets as well as the last column of the FM-index, which is stored as a wavelet tree. Data blocks containing the data buckets are created; containing the number of times each character appears in the data block before each data bucket. A header block is created comprising an array of the number of times each character appears in the last column of the FM-index before each data blocks, the location of the end of the data blocks and the location of the end of the data, and appended to the data block. The header and data blocks are stored. The search process loads data buckets into memory as needed to find the required text. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973585 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/999.102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734991 | Newhart |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Newhart (Elkridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of encoding a communication signal by selecting a cyclic code, establishing a generator polynomial, generating a polynomial using the generator polynomial, forming a matrix from the generated polynomial, receiving data to be encoded, appending zeros to the received data, calculating a syndrome of the matrix, calculating check values from the syndrome, appending the check values to the received data, and encoding the received data with appended check values using the generator polynomial. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/650760 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/781 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07732186 | Julien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Julien (Oakland, California); Leonard Katz (Hayward, California); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Li Tang (Foster City, California); Rainer Ziermann (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant nucleic acids that encode all or a portion of the epothilone polyketide synthase (PKS) are used to express recombinant PKS genes in host cells for the production of epothilones, epothilone derivatives, and polyketides that are useful as cancer chemotherapeutics, fungicides, and immunosuppressants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932927 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07733961 | O'Hara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation (Mississippi, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. O'Hara (Columbus, Mississippi); Anil Cheriyadat (Troy, New York); Suyoung Seo (Starkville, Mississippi); Bijay Shrestha (Starkville, Mississippi); Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj (Knoxville, Tennessee); Nicolas H. Younan (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing a resolution of an image by fusing images includes applying a principal component analysis to a multispectral image to obtain a plurality of principal components, and replacing a first component in the plurality of principal components by a panchromatic image. The method further includes resampling remaining principal components to a resolution of the panchromatic image, and applying an inverse principal analysis to the panchromatic image and the remaining principal components to obtain a fused image of the panchromatic image and the multispectral image. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279982 |
| ART UNIT | 2621 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/240.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07731973 | Offner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of ameliorating a Th1-mediated immune pathology in a mammal. The method is practiced by administering a low dose of estrogen to the mammal. Optionally, an immunotherapeutic agent can also be administered to the mammal. Also provided are kits containing a low dose of estrogen and an immunotherapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/103633 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07732126 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Zhang (Boyds, Maryland); Yasuo Miura (Kyoto, Japan); Songtao Shi (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a new bone marrow stromal stem cell (BMSSC) marker, CD18, for use in selecting a population of cells enriched in BMSSCs, from bone marrow cells, adipose cells, or peripheral blood. The invention is further directed to methods for selecting a population of cells enriched in BMSSCs based on the selective expression of CD18 on their surface, using techniques known in the art such as fluorescent assisted cell sorting, an immunomagnetic method, flow microfluorimetry, immunofluorescence, immunoperoxidase staining, radioimmunoassay and immunoaffinity chromatography. The invention is further directed to the BMSSCs isolated based on CD18 expression, and their use to treat various diseases. In one aspect, the HMSSCs are transformed with a vector having a normal gene for CD18, and the transformed BMSSCs are administered to treat bone degenerative diseases and diseases of bone involving abnormal expression of CD18 expression of CD18. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/574581 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07735064 | Hunt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles B. Hunt (Keiser, Arkansas); Harry D. Jamieson (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for evaluating software includes generating a test deck (310), where the test deck is formulated to test the software for compliance with delivery system operation procedures (315), processing the test deck with the software, and grading the performance of the software for compliance with delivery system operation procedures (320). |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/450497 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07731517 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kang Lee (Woodland Hills, California); Thomas Forrester (Hacienda Heights, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California); Andrew Kostrzewski (Garden Grove, California); Eugene Levin (Houghton, Michigan); Gajendra Savant (Rolling Hills Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An entirely wearable electrical connector for power/data connectivity. The principal element of a modular network is the wearable electrical connector, which is integrated into a personal area network with USB compatibility. An embodiment comprises a non-conductive elastomeric environmental seal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323321 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07734334 | Mietus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph E. Mietus (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chung-Kang Peng (Sharon, Massachusetts); Robert J. Thomas (Newton, Massachusetts); Ary L. Goldberger (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing is determined from cardiopulmonary coupling between two physiological data series. An R-R interval series is derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The normal beats from the R-R interval series are extracted to produce a normal-to-normal interval series. The amplitude variations in the QRS complex are used to extract a surrogate respiration signal (i.e., ECG-derived respiration) associated with the NN interval series. The two series are corrected to remove outliers, and resampled. The cross-spectral power and coherence of the two resampled signals are calculated over a plurality of coherence windows. For each coherence window, the product of the coherence and cross-spectral power is used to calculate coherent cross-power. Using the appropriate thresholds for the coherent cross-power, the proportion of sleep spent in CAP, non-CAP, and wake and/or REM are determined. Coherent cross-power can be applied to differentiate obstructive from non-obstructive disease, and admixtures of the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178990 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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