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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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| US 07735186 | Vogel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Hans E. Vogel (Palmer, Alaska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for cleaning large surface areas. The method and vehicle clean large surface areas such as streets, runways, aircraft carrier decks, and the like, wherein a substantial portion of the soiled water is recaptured, processed, and reused. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/301462 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning 015/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735311 | Eidelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California); U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (Hunsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shmuel Eidelman (Rockville, Maryland); Dimitrios Lianos (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Pulsed detonation engines (PDEs), or various components thereof, such as the detonation chamber and/or nozzle, can be economically constructed from materials having low thermal stability, such as plastics, composites, and light metals. During operation, the intermittent injection and detonation of reactants produces a motive force (e.g., thrust) over relatively short intervals useful in orbit control and the like. The relatively short intervals of operation prevent temperatures of the PDE components from reaching temperatures that would result in their dimensional failure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/730020 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735408 | Becker 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) | Richard Becker (Gloversville, New York); Mark Witherell (Wynantskill, New York); Jose Santiago (Dover, New Jersey); George E. Hathaway, IV (Sprakers, New York); Steve Tauscher (Schuylerville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooling fin for a mortar tube comprises a plurality of discrete nibs disposed on an external surface of the mortar tube wherein the nibs are arranged in longitudinal rows spaced circumferentially around the mortar tube. Preferably, the number of longitudinal rows of nibs is thirty-six. The nibs have a substantially square cross-section. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162740 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/37.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735423 | Gold |
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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) | Kenneth Gold (Allamuchy, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A munition has an external surface. The munition may be of any type. The external surface includes a coating on at least part of it. Coatings may be, for example, paints, tapes, appliqués or other materials. The coating on the munition includes one or more of reflective material, phosphorescent material and fluorescent material. The reflective, phosphorescent and/or fluorescent coatings are applied to the munition prior to its being deployed. The reflective, phosphorescent and/or fluorescent materials in the coatings are visible at a safe distance from the munition and help to identify unexploded ordnance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/308189 |
| 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 12/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735781 | Moritz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elan Moritz (Lynn Haven, Florida); Helmut Portmann (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for in-air deployment of objects utilizes an aircraft having a hatch that can be opened while the aircraft is in mid-flight. An air and pressure tight container stowed within the aircraft has a doorway that is sealed to and about the hatch from within the aircraft. Mounted within the container is an expulsion system for expelling objects from the container through its doorway and the aircraft's hatch. The container may be coupled and sealed to other containers to define a contiguous volume for storing the objects and allowing movement of the objects between containers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/183148 |
| 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 244/137.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735850 | Curran |
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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) | Eugene M. Curran (Madison Township, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A trailer quick disconnect ball mount assembly provides a more secure, less cumbersome, more visible and better-fitting connection between the towing vehicle and trailer. The trailer quick disconnect ball mount assembly features a receiver housing with an angled sidewall that defines a tapered opening for rapid and precise alignment of the ball inside the receiver housing. The receiver housing, angled sidewall and fastening pins only cooperate only when the ball is correctly seated inside the receiver housing and also prevents accumulations of dust and dirt. The need for correctly seating the ball allows the user to instantly determine that the ball is securely connected to the receiver housing. A trailer quick disconnect ball mount system and a method for securely hitching a trailer with a quick disconnect ball mount assembly are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900140 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736063 | Reitz 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) | Ronald P. Reitz (Nottingham, Maryland); Gus F. Plangetis (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, as variously practiced, implements electrorheological fluid (ERF) as a bearing lubricant. Various modes of an inventive rolling element bearing apparatus provide for electrification of inventive electrode components, viz: (first mode) two annular disk electrodes, opposite each other and perpendicular to the two raceway surfaces; or, (second mode) electrically conductive inner and outer races, having an electrically conductive spacer therebetween; or, (third mode) plural electrodes, radially embedded in a race. An ERF lubricative coating remains on one or both raceway surfaces in accordance with Winslow effect principle (first and second modes) or edge effect principle (third mode). An inventive journal bearing apparatus provides for electrification of electrodes that are axially-longitudinally embedded in a journal bearing member, resulting in establishment of edge effect electric flux lines between adjacent electrode pairs, an ERF lubricative coating thereby remaining on the journal bearing member's inward facing surface, contiguous to the shaft. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890105 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Bearings 384/462 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736094 | Bianchi 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) | Josh Bianchi (San Diego, California); Timothy J. Keenan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a body portion having rear portion having a fluid intake port and a nose portion having a fluid discharge port. The body portion contains an omni-directional vibratory device, a pump, a fluid conduit that is coupled to the pump and the fluid discharge port, and a power source that is electrically connected to the vibratory device and the pump. The body portion may also contain control circuitry and two end caps rigidly fixed therein, wherein the fluid conduit passes through each end cap. The vibratory device and the pump may be activated by a sensor such as a hydrostatic pressure sensor, an accelerometer, or an altimeter. The body portion may also contain communications circuitry that remotely controls the vibratory device and the pump. The body portion is configured to house a payload such as a sensor system, a battery pack, or a ballast for anchoring. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391986 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/224.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736124 | Bauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Charles Bauer (Loveland, Ohio); Gregory Terrence Garay (West Chester, Ohio); Matthew Mark Weaver (Loveland, Ohio); James Robert Bailey (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bruce Clark Busbey (Greer, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine rotor blade includes a hollow airfoil joined to a platform and dovetail. A main flow channel extends longitudinally in span through the blade and is bound chordally by opposite partitions transversely bridging opposite sidewalls of the airfoil. A damper rib and transversely opposite damper pad are arranged together in a plurality of pairs spaced longitudinally apart in the airfoil and chordally positioned intermediate to the partitions to provide unobstructed forward and aft portions of the flow channel for channeling a coolant therethrough. The damper ribs and pads are configured to receive a wire damper through the channel to locally dampen vibration while minimizing obstruction of the coolant flow therethrough. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733252 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736314 | Beach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk W. Beach (Seattle, Washington); Yongmin Kim (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Siddhartha Sikdar (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time signal processing technique for ultrasonic imaging of tissue vibrations for localizing the source of a bruit in a 2D image with respect to the anatomy and/or for obtaining simultaneous information about vibrations and the underlying blood flow. The bruit can be quantitatively assessed using an ensemble of ultrasound echoes. Signal processing enables estimation of wall displacement and the display of time-resolved vibration spectrum. Vibrations are detected and color-coded according to their amplitude and frequency and overlaid on the B-mode and/or color-flow image in real time. Proposed vibration imaging algorithms use data acquired during conventional ultrasonic color-flow imaging and the clutter signal, normally suppressed in color-flow imaging, to detect and characterize tissue vibrations. Three vibration imaging algorithms based on parametric modeling of vibrations and other criteria distinguish between clutter, blood flow, and vibrations. The techniques are usable to detect, locate, image, and quantitatively grade stenoses in blood vessels. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218292 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736471 | Hazlebeck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Hazlebeck (El Cajon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for treating a feedstock for the purposes of waste destruction, energy generation, or the production of useful chemicals is disclosed and includes a reactor vessel. A heating lance is configured to outflow the products of a partial oxidation reaction into a reaction chamber in the vessel. The hot reaction products heat and pyrolyze the feedstock in the chamber generating a process effluent which typically includes gases (e.g. syn-gas) and carbon solids. Glasses and metals in the feedstock accumulate in the chamber in a molten state. The molten materials store thermal energy and provide thermal stability to the treatment system. A recycle loop uses carbon solids from the process effluent as an input to the lance for reaction with an oxidant therein. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119642 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Distillation: Apparatus 22/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736652 | Penichet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel L. Penichet (Los Angeles, California); Jay Dela Cruz (Inglewood, California); Lisan Peng (Tuscon, Arizona); Sherie L. Morrison (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of use of various antibody-immunostimulant fusion proteins as adjuvants of antigenic protein vaccinations to elicit humoral and/or cellular immune responses in vaccinated subjects. Compositions which include these fusion proteins and innate and/or exogenous antigenic proteins are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118473 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736656 | Hart 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) | Mary Kate Hart (Frederick, Maryland); Gene Garrard Olinger, Jr. (Frederick, Maryland); Michael Adam Bailey (Montgomery Village, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Using CTL epitopes to the Ebola GP, NP, VP24, VP30, VP35 and VP40 virion proteins, a method and composition for use in inducing an immune response which is protective against infection with Ebola virus is described. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/068179 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/186.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736729 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan C. Chang (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania); Douglas J. Merriman (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A blast energy mitigating composite useful for protecting a surface or an object from a blast, shock waves, or stress waves caused by a sudden, violent release of energy is described. Certain configurations of the blast energy mitigating composite may include a energy mitigating units contained in an energy mitigating matrix. The energy mitigating units may comprise a porous energy mitigating material such as carbon foam. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165580 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/304.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736745 | Hong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hontek Corporation (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shek C. Hong (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of protecting a substrate against damage comprising disposing on a substrate one or more coatings, wherein one coating comprises an isocyanate-terminated polyurethane prepolymer and a curing agent; wherein the curing agents comprise polyaspartic esters, ketimines, aldimines, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing curing agents; reacting the isocyanate-terminated polyurethane prepolymer with a curing agent; wherein the reacting can optionally be carried out in the presence of moisture or heat; and curing the isocyanate-terminated polyurethane prepolymer to form the coating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/136827 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/423.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736889 | Rife 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) | Jack C. Rife (Washington, District of Columbia); Lloyd J. Whitman (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes a method of using controlled fluidic forces to improve the performance of a biochemical binding assay where a target molecule is captured by specific molecular recognition onto a substrate surface with an affinity coating, and then labeled with a detectable micrometer-scale particle using a second specific molecular recognition reaction with the target. By using specific ranges of label sizes and laminar flow conditions, controlled fluidic forces can be applied to the label particles in order to selectively remove molecules bound to a surface according to their binding strength, and thereby increase the ratio of specifically bound labels to more weakly attached non-specifically bound labels. This method can be used with a wide variety of label types and associated detection methods, improving the sensitivity and selectivity of a broad range of binding assays. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/457705 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/286.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736934 | Carothers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Carothers (Oro Valley, Arizona); Craig M. Hill (Warrenton, Virginia); Andrew T. S. Pomerene (Leesburg, Virginia); Vu A. Vu (Falls Church, Virginia); Joe Giunta (Warrenton, Virginia); Jonathan N. Ishii (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method for manufacturing a vertical germanium detector is disclosed. Initially, a detector window is opened through an oxide layer on a single crystalline substrate. Next, a single crystal germanium layer is grown within the detector window, and an amorphous germanium layer is grown on the oxide layer. The amorphous germanium layer is then polished and removed until only a portion of the amorphous germanium layer is located around the single crystal germanium layer. A tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) layer is deposited on the amorphous germanium layer and the single crystal germanium layer. An implant is subsequently performed on the single crystal germanium layer. After an oxide window has been opened on the TEOS layer, a titanium layer is deposited on the single crystal germanium layer to form a vertical germanium detector. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/517712 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736979 | Farrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald Conway Farrow (Somerset, New Jersey); Amit Goyal (Harrison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanotube field effect transistor and a method of fabrication are disclosed. The method includes electrophoretic deposition of a nanotube to contact a region of a conductive layer defined by an aperture. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of depositing nanotubes in a region defined by an aperture, with control over the number of nanotubes to be deposited, as well as the pattern and spacing of nanotubes. For example, electrophoretic deposition, along with proper configuration of the aperture, allows at least one nanotube to be deposited in a target region with nanometer scale precision. Pre-sorting of nanotubes, e.g., according to their geometries or other properties, may be used in conjunction with embodiments of the present disclosure to facilitate fabrication of devices with specific performance requirements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765788 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737045 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Champaign, Illinois); Kee Ryu (Urbana, Illinois); David Bullen (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid delivery system including a first substrate having a micro-channel and a well both formed through the first substrate. The fluid delivery system also includes a second substrate and a delivery channel. The second substrate is on the first substrate and the delivery channel is formed between the first and second substrates. The delivery channel provides fluid communication between the micro-channel and the well. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/682687 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/738 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737225 | Touchet 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) | Paul Touchet (Woodbridge, Virginia); Alan R. Teets (Middletown, Delaware); David P. Flanagan (Alexandria, Virginia); Charles G. Pergantis (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | An elastomer composition includes a polymer system made up of a majority of HNBR polymer and an optional polymer additive such as carboxylated nitrile, ethylene-propylene-diene rubber, isoprene rubber, chloroprene rubber, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, butyl rubber, isoprene rubber, natural rubber and hydrogenated carboxylated butadiene acrylonitrile terpolymer, and combinations thereof. The polymer system totals 100 parts by weight. A cure system for the elastomer composition includes 1.5 to 30 parts by weight of zinc, magnesium or calcium oxide, 15 to 50 parts by weight of an α,β-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and an organoperoxide. Under vulcanization conditions, the elastomer composition cures through the in situ formation of a metal carboxylate. A degradation inhibitor for an elastomer composition that includes an amine and an imidazole along with an optional polymerized quinoline is noted to be particularly effective. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/302326 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737308 | Straessler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas A. Straessler (Plain City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of nitrating compounds, such as phloroglucinol or a methoxy derivative thereof, are disclosed. For example, a reaction mixture may be formed by combining sulfuric acid and at least one nitrate salt. A nitratable aromatic compound, such as phloroglucinol or a methoxy derivative thereof, may then be exposed to the reaction mixture to nitrate the phloroglucinol or methoxy derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484960 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/706 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737399 | Carrieri 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) | Arthur H. Carrieri (Abingdon, Maryland); David J. Owens (Kingsville, Maryland); Jonathan C. Schultz (Perryville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An analog Mueller matrix data acquisition system (AMMS) acquiring middle-infrared Mueller (M) matrices of backscattering surfaces. The M-elements are measured by means of an active photopolarimetric sensor. The AMMS records nine M-elements simultaneously in groups of four modulo 2 incident continuous-wave CO2 laser beams—one incident beam is tuned to a fundamental molecular absorption cross-section by the aerosol of detection interest (analytic wavelength λa) while the other beam is detuned off that resonance band (reference wavelength λr) and in the closest vicinity to λa. Accordingly, those ΔM elements exhibiting susceptible behavior to the aerosol analyte, driven on-then-off its molecular vibrational resonance band, cues an identification event thus providing detection decision information. The AMMS is comprised of PEM reference frequency synthesizer, optical power regulation, data digitizer, and computer interface components in an interfaced and integrated framework that governs all operations of M-elements production by the photopolarimetric sensor. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256936 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737476 | Sriram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saptharishi Sriram (Cary, North Carolina); Jason Henning (Carrboro, North Carolina); Keith Wieber (Siler City, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETS) are provided. A MESFET is provided having a source region, a drain region and a gate. The gate is between the source region and the drain region. A p-type conductivity layer is provided beneath the source region, the p-type conductivity layer being self-aligned to the gate. Related methods of fabricating MESFETs are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/706762 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737789 | Eisenstadt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Richard Eisenstadt (Gainesville, Florida); Kooho Jung (Beaverton, Oregon); Robert M. Fox (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadband active balun configuration is provided. According to embodiments, the subject active balun can include a cascade and cascade transistor pair using a shared input transistor. In a further implementation, a low-pass bias-feedback mechanism for maintaining stable bias conditions can be provided. |
| FILED | Sunday, October 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253979 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737883 | Dark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Dark (Camarillo, California); James Buscemi (Camarillo, California); Scott Burkholder (Moorpark, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The method generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the method is a software program that will dynamically provide the EA flight crew situational awareness regarding a threat emitter's coverage relative to the position of the EA aircraft and to the position of any number of protected entities (PE). The software program generates information to provide visual cues representing a Jam Acceptability Region (JAR) contour, a Jam Assessment Strobe (JAS) and text for display on a number of flexibly configurable display formats posted on display units. The JAR and JAS graphics and text will aid the EA aircrew in rapidly assessing the effectiveness of a given jamming approach. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of the claims. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040452 |
| 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 342/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737905 | Meloling 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) | John Harold Meloling (San Diego, California); David Carlos Dawson (Lemon Grove, California); Peder Meyer Hansen (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferrite-loaded broadband loop antenna having nearly comparable transmit/receive characteristics is disclosed. The antenna contains a low loss ferrite core having a width-to-height ratio of approximately 24 and a depth-to-height ratio of approximately 6, and an antenna feed plate assembly centered about the long axis of the ferrite core, having a width-to-height ratio of approximately 6 and a width-to-depth ratio of approximately 1, and a balanced feed located at the center of the antenna feed plate assembly, positioned on the radiating side of the antenna, and a low loss center element in the ferrite core, the center element having at least one of a loss tangent and a permeability that is lower than the ferrite core, and a grounding surface coupled to the antenna feed plates. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/200425 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/788 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737906 | Adamski |
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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) | Piotr Roman Adamski (Port Hueneme, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna design, having two symmetrical phased array blade antenna elements which provide improved lateral target coverage with an increased effective radiated power and exhibits smooth null-free unidirectional antenna patterns. The direction of the unidirectional antenna pattern is dictated by a switching command under control of a user. Each blade antenna element is coupled to a 90-degree hybrid coupler and an RF switching device by a semi-rigid RF cable. Each blade antenna element is also connected to a sub-resonant choke balun for improved impedance matching and resultant distortion-less antenna patterns. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018873 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/814 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737928 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent Displays Incorporated (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-Yang Huang (Stow, Ohio); Asad A. Khan (Kent, Ohio); Nick M. Miller, IV (Rootstown, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A stacked color liquid crystal display uses shared electrode addressing including a plurality of liquid crystal layers each sandwiched between electrically conductive layers. Adjacent liquid crystal layers share one or two electrode layers located between the adjacent liquid crystal layers. A driving scheme is provided that allows the display to be driven by updating the liquid crystal layers sequentially, concurrently, or some combination of the two. Further, a method of manufacturing the display using a deposition process is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/587632 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738047 | Yelleswarapu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandra S. Yelleswarapu (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Sri Rajasekhar Kothapalli (St. Louis, Missouri); D. V. Gopal L. N. Rao (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Under one aspect, a phase contrast imaging system includes a coherent light source emitting a coherent beam directed toward a sample area; a lens arranged to collect at least part of the beam from the sample area; an element Fourier transforming the collected beam in a Fourier plane; a liquid crystal cell in the Fourier plane that transmits at least part of the transformed beam, wherein the cell includes liquid crystal molecules having a phase transition temperature, and wherein at temperatures exceeding the phase transition temperature, light transmitted through the liquid crystal molecules obtains a different phase than light transmitted through the liquid crystal molecules obtains at temperatures below the phase transition temperature; and an element inversely Fourier transforming the transmitted beam to provide an image. Part of the transformed beam has an intensity sufficient to heat a portion of the liquid crystal molecules above the phase transition temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935910 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738129 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Oktay Gunluk (New York, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to the priority threshold based on importance values assigned to all jobs. System constraints are applied to ensure jobs meet set criteria. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/374399 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Facsimile and static presentation processing 358/1.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738284 | Kim |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory cell includes double-gate first and second access devices configured to selectively interconnect cross-coupled inverters with true and complementary bit lines. Each access device has a first gate connected to a READ word line and a second gate connected to a WRITE word line. During a READ operation, the first and second access devices are configured to operate in a single-gate mode with the READ word line “ON” and the WRITE word line “OFF” while the double-gate pull-down devices are configured to operate in a double gate mode. During a WRITE operation, the first and second access devices are configured to operate in a double-gate mode with the READ word line “ON” and the WRITE word line also “ON.” |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130408 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738545 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Liuqing Yang (Gainesville, Florida); Xiliang Luo (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter and various techniques for generating digitally filtered UWB pulses that substantially maximize power and bandwidth in one or more frequency bands while allowing narrow-band interference (NBI) to be avoided, e.g. interference to and from wireless local area networks (WLANs). In particular, the UWB transmitter utilizes a digital filter to generate digitally filtered UWB pulses to substantially maximize power and bandwidth in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) spectral mask for UWB communications. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method comprising generating digitally filtered ultra-wide band (UWB) pulses to substantially maximize power in one or more frequency bands of a UWB spectrum and to substantially reduce power in one or more NBI frequency bands of the UWB spectrum. The invention may be implemented without modifying the analog components of existing UWB transmitters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/952713 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738944 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (Bethesda, Maryland); United States of America Department of Defense (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent B. Ho (North Bethesda, Maryland); Thomas K. F. Foo (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method and apparatus for high sensitivity whole body scanning using MR imaging. The invention includes acquiring MR data as the patient moves through the iso-center of the magnet while providing interactive control for the operator to change scan parameters and table motion and direction. The technique allows efficient whole body scanning for fast screening of abnormalities while allowing operator control during the screening process to interrupt table motion and redirect the speed and direction of the table while also allowing control over the acquisition plane, number of sections imaged, inter-section spacing, and the scan location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/907883 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739211 | Coffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 21st Century Technologies, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thayne Richard Coffman (Austin, Texas); Braxton Eastham Thomason (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for enabling dynamic detection of anomalies occurring within an input graph representing a social network. More specifically, the invention provides an automated computer simulation technique that implements the combination of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and statistical pattern classification for detecting abnormal social patterns or events through the expanded use of SNA Metrics. The simulation technique further updates the result sets generated, based on observed occurrences, to dynamically determine what constitutes abnormal behavior, within the overall context of observed patterns of behavior. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/557584 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739284 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for processing a data stream includes the following steps/operations. A cluster structure representing one or more clusters in the data stream is maintained. A set of projected dimensions is determined for each of the one or more clusters using data points in the cluster structure. Assignments are determined for incoming data points of the data stream to the one or more clusters using distances associated with each set of projected dimensions for each of the one or more clusters. Further, the cluster structure maybe used for classification of data in the data stream. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110079 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739286 | Sethy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhinav Sethy (Los Angeles, California); Panayiotis Georgiou (La Crescenta, California); Shrikanth Narayanan (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Forming and/or improving a language model based on data from a large collection of documents, such as web data. The collection of documents is queried using queries that are formed from the language model. The language model is subsequently improved using the information thus obtained. The improvement is used to improve the query. As data is received from the collection of documents, it is compared to a rejection model, that models what rejected documents typically look like. Any document that meets the test is then rejected. The documents that remain are characterized to determine whether they add information to the language model, whether they are relevant, and whether they should be independently rejected. Rejected documents are used to update the rejection model; accepted documents are used to update the language model. Each iteration improves the language model, and the documents may be analyzed again using the improved language model. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/384226 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739331 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for performing load diffusion to process data stream pairs. A data stream pair is received for correlation. The data stream pair is partitioned into portions to meet correlation constraints for correlating data in the data stream pair to form a partitioned data stream pair. The partitioned data stream pair is sent to a set of nodes for correlation processing to perform the load diffusion. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054207 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739497 | Fink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell Andrew Fink (Columbia, Maryland); Edward A. Bubnis, Jr. (Catonsville, Maryland); Thomas E. Keller (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, system and computer program are provided for concealing the identity of a network device transmitting a datagram having a network layer header. A unique local identifier and broadcast address are determined in accordance with a next-hop address. A partially encrypted network layer header is determined by encrypting a plurality of identifying portions of the network layer header, where one portion of the network layer header is the unique local identifier. The datagram is encapsulated with another network layer header whose address is set to the broadcast address. The encapsulated datagram can be received and detunneled, and an address of a recipient can be extracted from the network layer header. The datagram is then admitted into a network domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/103424 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/162 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739501 | Kimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InfoAssure, Inc. (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald D. Kimmel (Stevensville, Maryland); Ersin L. Domangue (Woodbine, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer program product, for producing a cryptographic key label for use in exchanging information between first and second organizations of members, resides on a computer-readable medium includes computer-readable instructions configured to cause a computer to: produce a read-write cryptographic key using at least one base value; produce a write-only cryptographic key using the read-write cryptographic key; combine a first identifier, uniquely associated with the first organization, and a second identifier, uniquely associated with the key label to be produced, using a one-way function to produce a pedigree; and associate the pedigree with the read-write key and the write-only key to form the cryptographic key label. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193911 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739537 | Albonesi et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David Albonesi (Lima, New York); Greg Semeraro (Fairport, New York); Grigorios Magklis (08024, Barcelona, Spain); Michael L. Scott (Rochester, New York); Rajeev Balasubramonian (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sandhya Dwarkadas (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple clock domain (MCD) microarchitecture uses a globally-asynchronous, locally-synchronous (GALS) clocking style. In an MCD microprocessor each functional block operates with a separately generated clock, and synchronizing circuits ensure reliable inter-domain communication. Thus, fully synchronous design practices are used in the design of each domain. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389023 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739737 | Christodorescu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mihai Christodorescu (Madison, Wisconsin); Somesh Jha (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for finding malicious code such as viruses in an executable binary file converts the executable binary to a function unique form to which function unique forms of virus code may be compared. By avoiding direct comparison of the expression of the viral code but looking instead at its function, obfuscation techniques intended to hide the virus code are substantially reduced in effectiveness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/629292 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Labrador Research, LLC (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Peterman (Jackson, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A transfer sheet placed between a vacuum chuck and a stamp in a soft lithography aligner facilitates three dimensional manufacturing with elastomeric materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/600947 |
| ART UNIT | 2854 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Printing 11/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736104 | Hobson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh–of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Hobson (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A docking device for use with a wheeled mobility device having a device interface on a rear thereof includes a securing mechanism to dock with the device interface. The securing mechanism is adapted to dock with the device interface upon rearward motion of the wheeled mobility device relative to the docking device regardless of the horizontal position of the mobility device over a range of horizontal positions of the mobility device. The securing device can also be adapted to dock with the device interface regardless of the angle of the device interface relative to the docking device over a range of angles of the device interface. Further, the securing device can be adapted to dock with the device interface regardless of the vertical position of the device interface relative to the docking device over a range of vertical positions of the device interface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518975 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736357 | Lee, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred T. Lee, Jr. (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas Charles Winter, III (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Dieter Georg Haemmerich (Vienna, Austria); Lisa Ann Sampson (Cambria, Wisconsin); S. Nahum Goldberg (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiofrequency ablation system provides multiple ground pads and active control of current flow through the ground pads to provide improved power sharing at the tissue near the ground pads reducing risk of patient skin burns for higher power ablation generators. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/214398 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736361 | Palanker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stamford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California); Alexander B. Vankov (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards an electrosurgical cutting system. The system comprises an electrically conductive blade, having an uninsulated cutting edge that is surrounded by an insulator. A source of pulsed electrical energy may be coupled to the electrically conductive blade to provide a substantially uniform and highly enhanced electric field along a cutting portion of the blade edge. The blade may have a uniform rate of erosion during use, so that both the conductive metal edge and the surrounding insulation layer erode at approximately the same rate. Also described are methods of fabricating insulated cutting electrodes, particularly blade electrodes. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787500 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736622 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry C. Lin (Manhattan Beach, California); Mark Pimentel (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of treating small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) or a SIBO-caused condition in a human subject. SIBO-caused conditions include irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, impaired mentation, impaired memory, halitosis, tinnitus, sugar craving, autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, drug sensitivity, an autoimmune disease, and Crohn's disease. Also disclosed are a method of screening for the abnormally likely presence of SIBO in a human subject and a method of detecting SIBO in a human subject. A method of determining the relative severity of SIBO or a SIBO-caused condition in a human subject, in whom small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) has been detected, is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348995 |
| 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 07736624 | Marnett et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence J. Marnett (Nashville, Tennessee); Md. Jashim Uddin (Nashville, Tennessee); Brenda C. Crews (Franklin, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed subject matter provides compositions that selectively bind cyclooxygenase-2 and comprise a therapeutic and/or diagnostic moiety. Also provided are methods for using the disclosed compositions for diagnosing (i.e., by imaging) a target cell and/or treating a disorder associated with a cyclooxygenase-2 biological activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820481 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736640 | Lorence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wellstat Biologics Corporation (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Lorence (Chicago, Illinois); Kirk W. Reichard (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating cancer in a mammal comprising administering to the mammal an effective amount of virus, particularly Newcastle Disease Virus or other Paramyxovirus. The invention also provides a method of treating cancer in a mammal comprising administering such viruses to the mammal in combination with another agent such as a chemotherapeutic compound, immunoadjuvant, cytokine, or immunosuppressive agent. The invention further provides a method of detecting cancer cells in a mammal using Paramyxovirus as an imaging agent and as an indicator of cancer cell growth in the mammal. The invention further provides genetically engineered Paramyxoviruses, and kits containing the viral compositions disclosed by the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, May 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/441201 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736646 | Krieg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Krieg (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods of inhibiting angiogenesis or tumorigenesis with compositions that inhibit the apelin/APJ signaling pathway are provided. Also provided are methods of promoting angiogenesis or tumorigenesis with compositions comprising an apelin polypeptide or small molecule agonist. The present invention further provides methods for identifying therapeutic agents that affect angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799417 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736652 | Penichet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel L. Penichet (Los Angeles, California); Jay Dela Cruz (Inglewood, California); Lisan Peng (Tuscon, Arizona); Sherie L. Morrison (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of use of various antibody-immunostimulant fusion proteins as adjuvants of antigenic protein vaccinations to elicit humoral and/or cellular immune responses in vaccinated subjects. Compositions which include these fusion proteins and innate and/or exogenous antigenic proteins are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 05, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/118473 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
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| US 07736655 | Klagsbrun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Klagsbrun (Newton, Massachusetts); Shay Soker (Greensboro, North Carolina); Michael Gagnon (Brighton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cDNA encoding a soluble neuropilin protein (sNP) which is isolated from neuropilin (NP) producing cells or is recombinantly engineered from NP-encoding DNA. NP-1 and NP-2 are preferred NPs but any neuropilin or VEGF receptor (VEGFR), where the constituents share at least about 85% homology with either of the above VEGF165R/NP-1 and NP-2. More preferably, such constituent shares at least 90% homology. Still more preferably, each constituent shares at least 95% homology. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/893633 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 07736665 | Patel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh A. Patel (Redwood City, California); Louis R. Bucalo (Miami Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions, methods, and kits for treatment of opiate addiction and pain. The invention provides a biocompatible nonerodible polymeric device which releases buprenorphine continuously with generally linear release kinetics for extended periods of time. Buprenorphine is released through pores that open to the surface of the polymeric matrix in which it is encapsulated. The device may be administered subcutaneously to an individual in need of continuous treatment with buprenorphine. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/453377 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736848 | Daniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rene Daniel (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Anna Marie Skalka (Princeton, New Jersey); Gary D. Kao (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Giuseppe Nunnari (Cantania, Italy); Roger J. Pomerantz (Chalfont, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Cellular targets for anti-retroviral drug development are disclosed. The cellular targets comprise ATR kinase and its relevant substrates, based on the identification of the ATR kinase as required for the final step of retroviral DNA integration. Assays for identifying modulators of retroviral integration via the ATR kinase pathway are disclosed, as well as modulators identified by such assays. Pharmaceutical preparations and methods of their use in treating retroviral infection are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093692 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07736852 | Berrettini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade Berrettini (Haverford, Pennsylvania); Falk Lohoff (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides: methods of determining a predisposition or susceptibility of a subject to a mood disorder, a schizophrenia, or a neuro-psychiatric disease or disorder, comprising detecting a presence of a polymorphism in a vesicular monoamine transporter 1 (VMAT1) gene or a haplotype comprising the polymorphism, and methods of treating a mood disorder, a schizophrenia, or a neuro-psychiatric disease or disorder in a subject, comprising contacting the subject with a composition that encodes a VMAT protein or modulates an expression or activity of same. |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/299311 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736860 | Rock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Univeristy of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Rock (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Chun-Jen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods and compositions that inhibit IL-1 signalling for the treatment of acute inflammatory response to cell necrosis, and the attendant collateral tissue damage. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937949 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736890 | Sia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel K. Sia (New York, New York); Vincent Linder (Renens, Switzerland); Babak Amir-Parviz (Seattle, Washington); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay method is described, which comprises the steps of immobilizing a binding partner (e.g., an antigen or antibody) for an analyte to be detected (e.g., an antibody or antigen) on a portion (140) of a surface (130) of a microfluidic chamber (120,122,124); passing a fluid sample over the surface and allowing the analyte to bind to the binding partner; allowing a metal colloid, e.g., a gold-conjugated antibody, to associate with the bound analyte; flowing a metal solution, e.g., a silver solution, over the surface such as to form an opaque metallic layer; and detecting the presence of said metallic layer, e.g., by visual inspection or by measuring light transmission through the layer, conductivity or resistance of the layer, or metal concentration in the metal solution after flowing the metal solution over the surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/584819 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736891 | Nelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kjell E. Nelson (Seattle, Washington); Paul Yager (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a microfluidic assay system and methods that apply flow injection analysis to permit dispersion monitoring. A solution containing a reagent that binds an analyte and a tracer is delivered via pressure-driven flow into the receiving end of the injection channel of the system of the invention. A sample fluid suspected of containing the analyte is delivered into the upstream end of the input channel under conditions permitting flow of the sample fluid toward the downstream end of the assay channel and permitting dispersion of the reagent into the sample fluid. The amount of tracer present in the fluid as it passes over the reference region and the capture region and the amount of binding between the analyte and the capture region are detected. The amount of binding detected between the analyte and the capture region is correlated to the amount of tracer detected in the reference region. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209155 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736909 | Kodadek |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kodadek (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for detecting a substance using mixed or multiple element capture agents (MECA). The affinity of a MECA for a target is produced by the concomitant binding of at least two low to moderate affinity capture agents providing a high affinity interaction with a capture target. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754457 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736911 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong-Yin Zhang (Scarsdale, New York); Sanjai Kumar (Middleton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compounds capable of covalently binding to a protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP). The compounds comprise Formula A: Also provided are compositions comprising one of the above compounds covalently bound to a member of the PTP superfamily, methods of labeling a PTP using the compounds, methods of isolating a PTP from a mixture of proteins using the compounds, methods of evaluating whether a substance is an inhibitor of a PTP using the compounds, methods of evaluating the specificity of an inhibitor of a PTP using the compounds, methods of identifying a PTP involved in a disease in a mammal using the compounds, and methods of diagnosing a disease in a mammal using the compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107545 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/546 |
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| US 07737108 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan S. Hoffman (Seattle, Washington); Patrick S. Stayton (Seattle, Washington); Niren Murthy (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for transport or release of therapeutic and diagnostic agents or metabolites or other analytes from cells, compartments within cells, or through cell layers or barriers are described. The compositions include a membrane barrier transport enhancing agent and are usually administered in combination with an enhancer and/or exposure to stimuli to effect disruption or altered permeability, transport or release. In a preferred embodiment, the compositions include compounds which disrupt endosomal membranes in response to the low pH in the endosomes but which are relatively inactive toward cell membranes (at physiologic pH, but can become active toward cell membranes if the environment is acidified below ca. pH 6.8), coupled directly or indirectly to a therapeutic or diagnostic agent. Other disruptive agents can also be used, responsive to stimuli and/or enhancers other than pH, such as light, electrical stimuli, electromagnetic stimuli, ultrasound, temperature, or combinations thereof. The compounds can be coupled by ionic, covalent or H bonds to an agent to be delivered or to a ligand which forms a complex with the agent to be delivered. Agents to be delivered can be therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents. Treatments which enhance delivery such as ultrasound, iontopheresis, and/or electrophereis can also be used with the disrupting agents. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/755701 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07737114 | Joullié et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Madeleine M. Joullié (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bo Liang (Glenolden, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to macrocyclic depsipeptides, including didemnin analogs and fragments thereof, which are useful as anti-cancer agents and for other purposes. The invention includes numerous didemnin analogs and fragments and methods of making them. Methods of using these compounds as inhibitors of protein synthesis, cell growth, and tumorigenesis and as enhancers of apoptosis are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/580239 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737124 | Lois-Caballe 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) | Carlos Lois-Caballe (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Baltimore (Pasadena, California); Xiao-Feng Qin (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). Small interfering RNA (siRNA) can be expressed using the methods of the invention within a cell. In a further aspect, the invention provides methods for producing siRNA encoding lentivirus where the siRNA activity may interfere with the lentiviral life cycle. In yet a further aspect, the invention provides methods for expression of a small RNA molecule within a cell, such as an siRNA capable of downregulating CCR5, wherein expression of the small RNA molecule is relatively non-cytotoxic to the cell. The invention also includes small RNA molecules, such as an siRNA capable of downregulating CCR5, that are relatively non-cytotoxic to cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/683962 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737131 | Kiick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristi L. Kiick (Rising Sun, Maryland); Nori Yamaguchi (Newburgh, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a biologically active functionalized electrospun matrix to permit immobilization and long-term delivery of biologically active agents. In particular the invention relates to a functionalized polymer matrix comprising a matrix polymer, a compatibilizing polymer and a biomolecule or other small functioning molecule. In certain aspects the electrospun polymer fibers comprise at least one biologically active molecule functionalized with low molecular weight heparin. Examples of active molecules that may be used with the multicomponent polymer of the invention include, for example, a drug, a biopolymer, for example a growth factor, a protein, a peptide, a nucleotide, a polysaccharide, a biological macromolecule or the like. The invention is further directed to the formation of functionalized crosslinked matrices, such as hydrogels, that include at least one functionalized compatibilizing polymer capable of assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/395902 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737134 | Romo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Romo (College Station, Texas); Jun Liu (Clarksville, Maryland); Nam Song Choi (Chenonam, South Korea); Zonggao Shi (Columbia, Missouri); Woon-Kai Low (Baltimore, Maryland); Yongjun Dang (Baltimore, Maryland); Tilman Schneider-Poetsch (Erfstadt, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions, all related stereoisomers as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts provided as simplified analogs of pateamine A, in which the analogs generally are devoid of the C3-amino and C5-methyl groups, also referred to as desmethyl, desamino-pateamine A. Suitable analogs provide anticancer and antiproliferative effects in vivo and in vitro by a novel drug mechanism of action described herein for pateamine A, including inhibition of eIF4A-dependent translation initiation. As with pateamine A, as described herein, suitable analogs cause cell cycle arrest or induce apoptosis in transformed cells. However, toxicity of such compounds to slow growing normal cells is low. In addition, such analogs, like pateamine A, target translation initiation factors and are useful as anticancer and antiproliferative agents in subjects in need thereof. Moreover, the analogs, like pateamine A, are valuable molecular probes for evaluation of eukaryotic translation initiation and as lead compounds for development of improved anticancer agents. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/544474 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737172 | Halperin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | José A. Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Amarnath Natarajan (Texas City, Texas); Huseyin Aktas (Newton, Massachusetts); Yun-Hua Fan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Han Chen (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for inhibiting translation using 3-(5-tert-Butyl-2-Hydroxy-phenyl)-3-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one and/or its derivatives are provided. Compositions, methods and kits for treating (1) cellular proliferative disorders, (2) non-proliferative, degenerative disorders, (3) viral infections, and/or (4) disorders associated with viral infections, using 3-(5-tert-butyl-2-hydroxy-phenyl)-3-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one and/or its derivatives are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/463421 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/418 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737178 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Clary B. Clish (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspirin triggered lipid mediators (ATLMs) are disclosed which are useful for the treatment of prevention of inflammation associated with various diseases, including ischemia. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338240 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737183 | Mukherjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jogeshwar Mukherjee (Irvine, California); Elizabeth Head (Irvine, California); Crystal Wang (La Palma, California); Pooja C. Patel (Stockton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods are contemplated in which senile plaques and/or neurofibrillary tangles are labeled using compounds with improved permeability across the blood brain barrier and improved selective binding to senile plaques and/or neurofibrillary tangles. Contemplated compounds are derivatives of FDDNP or curcumin, which most preferably have improved solubility in aqueous solvents. Labeling is typically performed using a PET detectable label, and especially 11C and 18F. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/873941 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737250 | Felsenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan P. Felsenfeld (New York, New York); Maria A. Diverse-Pierluissi (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to methods to promote outgrowth of, or extension across a substrate of, neuronal cells by inhibiting the interaction between the cytoplasmic tail of the L1-CAM cell surface adhesion molecule and the cytoskeletal protein ankyrin. The invention also pertains to a method to treat diseases characterized by axonal damage such as spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and neurodegenerative disease by administration of novel peptides that inhibit the binding of the L1-CAM cytoplasmic tail to ankyrin, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such peptides. The invention further pertains to a method of blocking calcium flux to protect against neural cell death following stroke or traumatic head injury. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561015 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07737253 | Robins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BresaGen, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan J. Robins (Athens, Georgia); Thomas C. Schulz (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for the culture and maintenance of cancer stem cells. More particularly, the present invention provides the identification of cancer stem cell specific markers and methods of recognizing the same for the detection of tumors, for facilitating the prognosis of a patient with a tumor, and for the treatment of various cancers. The invention also provides antibodies that specifically recognize the disulfide linked Erbb2Δ16 homodimer, an Erbb2Δ16/Erbb3 heterodimer, or post-translational modifications of Erbb2 that are specific to Erbb2 of variant hESCs. In addition, the invention provides a modified defined media useful in the absence of a feeder layer and in the absence of serum or serum replacement, that comprises a basal salt nutrient solution, bFGF, IGF-I, and Activin A, and wherein the composition does not comprise heregulin. The invention further relates to the use of an Erbb2 variant isoform to generate robust cell cultures that are independent of heregulin. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/764752 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07737258 | Cheung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nai-Kong V. Cheung (Purchase, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a composition comprising an effective amount of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof and a suitable carrier. This invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. This invention also provides an antibody other than the monoclonal antibody 8H9 comprising the complementary determining regions of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof, capable of binding to the same antigen as the monoclonal antibody 8H9. This invention provides a substance capable of competitively inhibiting the binding of monoclonal antibody 8H9. This invention also provides an isolated scFv of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof. This invention also provides the 8H9 antigen. This invention also provides a method of inhibiting the growth of tumor cells comprising contacting said tumor cells with an appropriate amount of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/097558 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 07737266 | Soutschek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juergen Soutschek (Sulgen, Switzerland); Pamela Tan (Kulmbach, Germany); Jay D. Horton (Plano, Texas); Michael S. Brown (Dallas, Texas); Joseph L. Goldstein (Dallas, Texas); Young-Ah Moon (Irving, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of a SCAP gene (Human SCAP gene), comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 30 nucleotides in length, generally 19-25 nucleotides in length, and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of a SCAP gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by Human SCAP expression and the expression of a SCAP gene using the pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of a SCAP gene in a cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857120 |
| 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 07737692 | Sasisekharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Istituto di Ricerche Chimiche e Biochimiche G. Ronzoni (Milan, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts); Rahul Raman (Arlington, Massachusetts); Benito Casu (Milan, Italy); Giangiacomo Torri (Milan, Italy); Marco Guerrini (Varese, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for analyzing polysaccharides. In particular, compositional and sequence information about the polysaccharides are derived. Some methods use NMR in conjunction with another experimental method, such as, capillary electrophoretic techniques for the analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/261000 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738086 | Shepard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Shepard (Ossining, New York); Rastislav Levicky (Irvington, New York); George Patounakis (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An active CMOS biosensor chip for fluorescent-based detection is provided that enables time-gated, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. In one embodiment, analytes are loaded with fluorophores that are bound to probe molecules immobilized on the surface of the chip. Photodiodes and other circuitry in the chip are used to measure the fluorescent intensity of the fluorophore at different times. These measurements are then averaged to generate a representation of the transient fluorescent decay response unique to the fluorophores. In addition to its low-cost, compact form, the biosensor chip provides capabilities beyond those of macroscopic instrumentation by enabling time-gated operation for background rejection, easing requirements on optical filters, and by characterizing fluorescence lifetime, allowing for a more detailed characterization of fluorophore labels and their environment. The biosensor chip can be used for a variety of applications including biological, medical, in-the-field applications, and fluorescent lifetime imaging applications. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800468 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
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| US 07738096 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Richard A. Dluhy (Athens, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Watkinsville, Georgia); Stephen Chaney (Athens, Georgia); Saratchandra Shanmukh (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems including nanostructures and capable of detecting analytes, in particular biomolecules, of interest are provided. Methods of making the SERS systems and methods for detection of a biomolecule of interest, such as a virus or other infectious agent are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376661 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738962 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Ione Fine (Del Mar, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of automatically adjusting an electrode array to the neural characteristics of an individual patient. The perceptual response to electrical neural stimulation varies from patient to patient and The response to electrical neural stimulation varies from patient to patient and the relationship between current and perceived brightness is often non-linear. It is necessary to determine this relationship to fit the prosthesis settings for each patient. It is advantageous to map the perceptual responses to stimuli. The method of mapping of the present invention is to provide a plurality of stimuli that vary in current, voltage, pulse duration, frequency, or some other dimension; measuring and recording the response to those stimuli; deriving a formula or equation describing the map from the individual points; storing the formula; and using that formula to map future stimulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/357680 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739056 | Landfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Landfield (Lexington, Kentucky); Eric Blalock (Lexington, Kentucky); Kuey-Chu Chen (Lexington, Kentucky); Thomas Foster (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A statistical and functional correlation strategy to identify changes in cellular pathways specifically linked to impaired cognitive function with aging. Analyses using the strategy identified multiple groups of genes expressed in the hippocampi of mammals, where the genes were expressed at different levels for several ages. The aging changes in expression began before mid-life. Many of the genes were involved in specific neuronal and glial pathways with previously unrecognized relationships to aging and/or cognitive decline. These identified genes and the proteins they encode can be used as novel biomarkers of brain aging and as targets for developing treatment methods against age-related cognitive decline, Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/379520 |
| 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) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Audie (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of predicting the binding affinity between a first molecular entity and a second molecular entity. The method includes (1) calculating the free energy of binding ΔGbind between the first molecular entity and the second molecular entity according to the equation (17): ΔGbind=−0.82ΔX+/−+0.064ΔXc/s−0.6Xsb−0.93Xhb−0.0007Xgap−0.06ΔXtor−0.36 (17) where X+/− is the total number of exposed charged groups; Xc/s is the total number of exposed hydrophobic groups; Xsb is the total number of salt bridges; Xhb is the total number of hydrogen bonds; Xgap is the gap volume at the interface of the first molecular entity and the second molecular entity; Xtor is the total number of exposed side chain torsions; and where Δ refers to the difference between the bound and unbound states; and (2) evaluating the free energy of binding to predict the binding affinity between the first and second molecular entities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726266 |
| 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: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D617731 | Starck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PHS General Design Services B.V. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Starck (Paris, France) |
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| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 29/345562 |
| ART UNIT | 2912 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for production, distribution, or transformation of energy D13/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Florin Arsene (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for constructing a tower having a length along a longitudinal axis defined by the tower includes assembling a first tower section including three first legs. Each first leg diverges from the longitudinal axis along a length of the first leg. A second tower section is assembled. The second tower section includes three second legs each extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The three second legs at least partially define a passage through the second tower section. The second tower section is coupled to the first tower section. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/249202 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/651.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735323 | Bennett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar thermal power generator includes an inclined elongated boiler tube positioned in the focus of a solar concentrator for generating steam from water. The boiler tube is connected at one end to receive water from a pressure vessel as well as connected at an opposite end to return steam back to the vessel in a fluidic circuit arrangement that stores energy in the form of heated water in the pressure vessel. An expander, condenser, and reservoir are also connected in series to respectively produce work using the steam passed either directly (above a water line in the vessel) or indirectly (below a water line in the vessel) through the pressure vessel, condense the expanded steam, and collect the condensed water. The reservoir also supplies the collected water back to the pressure vessel at the end of a diurnal cycle when the vessel is sufficiently depressurized, so that the system is reset to repeat the cycle the following day. The circuital arrangement of the boiler tube and the pressure vessel operates to dampen flow instabilities in the boiler tube, damp out the effects of solar transients, and provide thermal energy storage which enables time shifting of power generation to better align with the higher demand for energy during peak energy usage periods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/030065 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/641.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736125 | Bagepalli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharat Sampathkumaran Bagepalli (Niskayuna, New York); Patrick Lee Jansen (Scotia, New York); Aniruddha Dattatraya Gadre (Rexford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A wind generator having removable change-out bearings includes a rotor and a stator, locking bolts configured to lock the rotor and stator, a removable bearing sub-assembly having at least one shrunk-on bearing installed, and removable mounting bolts configured to engage the bearing sub-assembly and to allow the removable bearing sub-assembly to be removed when the removable mounting bolts are removed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/074629 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736273 | Cox et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daryl F. Cox (Knoxville, Tennessee); Charles D. Hochanadel (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Howard D. Haynes (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a human and animal performance data acquisition, analysis, and diagnostic system for fitness and therapy devices having an interface box removably disposed on incoming power wiring to a fitness and therapy device, at least one current transducer removably disposed on said interface box for sensing current signals to said fitness and therapy device, and a means for analyzing, displaying, and reporting said current signals to determine human and animal performance on said device using measurable parameters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401139 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736438 | Storer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Storer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Vladimir Matias (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for depositing ceramic materials, such as nitrides and oxides, including high temperature superconducting oxides on a tape substrate. The system includes a tape support assembly that comprises a rotatable drum. The rotatable drum supports at least one tape substrate axially disposed on the surface of the drum during the deposition of metals on the tape and subsequent oxidation to form the ceramic materials. The drum is located within a stator having a slot that is axially aligned with the drum. A space exists between the drum and stator. The space is filled with a predetermined partial pressure of a reactive gas. The drum, stator, and space are heated to a predetermined temperature. To form the ceramic material on the tape substrate, the drum is first rotated to align the tape substrate with the slot, and at least one metal is deposited on the substrate. The drum then continues to rotate, bringing the tape substrate into the space, where the metal deposited on the tape substrate reacts with the reactive gas to form the ceramic material. In one embodiment, the tape support system also includes a pay-out/take-up system that co-rotates with the drum and provides a continuous length of tape substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/443808 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/718 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736531 | Thorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William Tumas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kevin C. Ott (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical system for storing and releasing hydrogen utilizes an endothermic reaction that releases hydrogen coupled to an exothermic reaction to drive the process thermodynamically, or an exothermic reaction that releases hydrogen coupled to an endothermic reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704493 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/183.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736547 | Garzon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fernando Henry Garzon (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Melinda Lou Einsla (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Rangachary Mukundan (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a proton conducting material, comprising adding a pyrophosphate salt to a solvent to produce a dissolved pyrophosphate salt; adding an inorganic acid salt to a solvent to produce a dissolved inorganic acid salt; adding the dissolved inorganic acid salt to the dissolved pyrophosphate salt to produce a mixture; substantially evaporating the solvent from the mixture to produce a precipitate; and calcining the precipitate at a temperature of from about 400° C. to about 1200° C. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075356 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/520.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736609 | Golben |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ergenics Corp. (Ringwood, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Mark Golben (Florida, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a system to purify hydrogen involving the use of a hydride compressor and catalytic converters combined with a process controller. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644692 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736610 | Meikrantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Herbert Meikrantz (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Terry Allen Todd (Aberdeen, Idaho); Troy Joseph Tranter (Idaho Falls, Idaho); E. Philip Horwitz (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A product includes actinium-225 (225Ac) and less than about 1 microgram (μg) of iron (Fe) per millicurie (mCi) of actinium-225. The product may have a radioisotopic purity of greater than about 99.99 atomic percent (at %) actinium-225 and daughter isotopes of actinium-225, and may be formed by a method that includes providing a radioisotope mixture solution comprising at least one of uranium-233 (233U) and thorium-229 (229Th), extracting the at least one of uranium-233 and thorium-229 into an organic phase, substantially continuously contacting the organic phase with an aqueous phase, substantially continuously extracting actinium-225 into the aqueous phase, and purifying the actinium-225 from the aqueous phase. In some embodiments, the product may include less than about 1 nanogram (ng) of iron per millicurie (mCi) of actinium-225, and may include less than about 1 microgram (μg) each of magnesium (Mg), Chromium (Cr), and manganese (Mn) per millicurie (mCi) of actinium-225. |
| FILED | Monday, April 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/278522 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736761 | Foltyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Foltyn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Haiyan Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite structure including a base substrate and a layer of a mixture of strontium titanate and strontium ruthenate is provided. A superconducting article can include a composite structure including an outermost layer of magnesium oxide, a buffer layer of strontium titanate or a mixture of strontium titanate and strontium ruthenate and a top-layer of a superconducting material such as YBCO upon the buffer layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/591269 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736777 | Venkataraman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut); MTU CFC Solutions GmbH (Ottobrunn, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramki Venkataraman (New Milford, Connecticut); George Berntsen (Shelton, Connecticut); Glenn L. Carlson (Bethlehem, Connecticut); Mohammad Farooque (Danbury, Connecticut); Dan Beachy (Gales Ferry, Connecticut); Stefan Peterhans (Gaissach, Germany); Manfred Bischoff (Feldkirchen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell system and method in which the fuel cell system receives and an input oxidant gas and an input fuel gas, and in which a fuel processing assembly is provided and is adapted to at least humidify the input fuel gas which is to be supplied to the anode of the fuel cell of the system whose cathode receives the oxidant input gas via an anode oxidizing assembly which is adapted to couple the output of the anode of the fuel cell to the inlet of the cathode of the fuel cell during normal operation, shutdown and restart of the fuel cell system, and in which a control assembly is further provided and is adapted to respond to shutdown of the fuel cell system during which input fuel gas and input oxidant gas cease to be received by the fuel cell system, the control assembly being further adapted to, when the fuel cell system is shut down: control the fuel cell system so as to enable a purging gas to be able to flow through the fuel processing assembly to remove humidified fuel gas from the processing assembly and to enable a purging gas to be able to flow through the anode of the fuel cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202010 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736887 | Fliermans |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl B. Fliermans (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated and purified bacterium is provided which was isolated from a high-level radioactive waste site of mixed waste. The isolate has the ability to degrade a wide variety of organic contaminants while demonstrating high tolerance to ionizing radiation. The organism is uniquely suited to bioremediation of a variety or organic contaminants while in the presence of ionizing radiation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/642220 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737085 | Arendt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Stephen R. Foltyn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Liliana Stan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Igor O. Usov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Haiyan Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Articles are provided including a base substrate having a layer of an IBAD oriented material thereon, and, a layer of barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate, or a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates upon the layer of an IBAD oriented material. Such articles can further include thin films of high temperature superconductive oxides such as YBCO upon the layer of barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate, or a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486731 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737087 | Driscoll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith L. Driscoll (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Stephen R. Foltyn (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and composition of matter are provided and involve flux pinning in thin films of high temperature superconductive oxides such as YBCO by inclusion of particles including barium and a group 4 or group 5 metal, such as zirconium, in the thin film. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900639 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737190 | Roelofs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Gerrit Roelofs (Hockessin, Delaware); Zhen-Yu Yang (Hockessin, Delaware); Amy Qi Han, legal representative (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorinated ion exchange polymer is prepared by grafting at least one grafting monomer derived from trifluorostyrene on to at least one base polymer in a organic solvent/water mixture. These ion exchange polymers are useful in preparing catalyst coated membranes and membrane electrode assemblies used in fuel cells. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/388272 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737258 | Cheung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nai-Kong V. Cheung (Purchase, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a composition comprising an effective amount of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof and a suitable carrier. This invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. This invention also provides an antibody other than the monoclonal antibody 8H9 comprising the complementary determining regions of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof, capable of binding to the same antigen as the monoclonal antibody 8H9. This invention provides a substance capable of competitively inhibiting the binding of monoclonal antibody 8H9. This invention also provides an isolated scFv of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof. This invention also provides the 8H9 antigen. This invention also provides a method of inhibiting the growth of tumor cells comprising contacting said tumor cells with an appropriate amount of monoclonal antibody 8H9 or a derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 08, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/097558 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737272 | Landis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark R. Landis (Madison, Wisconsin); Wiechang Jin (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonathan S. Owen (Pasadena, California); Thomas P. Clark (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Transition metal complexes include a diazaphosphacycle of formula III and a transition metal. The phosphorus atom of the diazaphosphacycle is bonded to the transition metal and the diazaphosphacycle of formula III has the following structure where the variables have the values set forth herein. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/032350 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737320 | Kaminski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Kaminski (Lockport, Illinois); Martha R. Finck (Naperville, Illinois); Carol J. Mertz (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of decontaminating porous surfaces contaminated with water soluble radionuclides by contacting the contaminated porous surfaces with an ionic solution capable of solubilizing radionuclides present in the porous surfaces followed by contacting the solubilized radionuclides with a gel containing a radionuclide chelator to bind the radionuclides to the gel, and physically removing the gel from the porous surfaces. A dry mix is also disclosed of a cross-linked ionic polymer salt, a linear ionic polymer salt, a radionuclide chelator, and a gel formation controller present in the range of from 0% to about 40% by weight of the dry mix, wherein the ionic polymer salts are granular and the non cross-linked ionic polymer salt is present as a minor constituent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/237365 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737412 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Jin (Berkeley, California); Robert M. Glaeser (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated electron phase shift element is used for modifying the phase characteristics of an electron beam passing though its center aperture, while not affecting the more divergent portion of an incident beam to selectively provide a ninety-degree phase shift to the unscattered beam in the back focal plan of the objective lens, in order to realize Zernike-type, in-focus phase contrast in an electron microscope. One application of the element is to increase the contrast of an electron microscope for viewing weakly scattering samples while in focus. Typical weakly scattering samples include biological samples such as macromolecules, or perhaps cells. Preliminary experimental images demonstrate that these devices do apply a ninety degree phase shift as expected. Electrostatic calculations have been used to determine that fringing fields in the region of the scattered electron beams will cause a negligible phase shift as long as the ratio of electrode length to the transverse feature-size aperture is about 5:1. Calculations are underway to determine the feasibility of aspect smaller aspect ratios of about 3:1 and about 2:1. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/571980 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737570 | Costin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Power Systems, Inc. (Barre, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel P. Costin (Montpelier, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing electrical power from a current turbine is provided. The system includes a floatation device and a mooring. A water turbine structure is provided having an upper and lower portion wherein the lower portion includes a water fillable chamber. A plurality of cables are used to couple the system where a first cable couples the water turbine to the mooring and a second cable couples the floatation device to the first cable. The system is arranged to allow the turbine structure to be deployed and retrieved for service, repair, maintenance and redeployment. |
| FILED | Monday, February 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367994 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737691 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Brookfield, Illinois); Robert J. Klingler (Glenview, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois); Rocio Diaz (Chicago, Illinois); Lela Vukovic (Westchester, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and system for characterizing thin film materials. The method, apparatus, and system includes a container for receiving a starting material, applying a gravitational force, a magnetic force, and an electric force or combinations thereof to at least the starting material, forming a thin film material, sensing an NMR signal from the thin film material and analyzing the NMR signal to characterize the thin film of material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198724 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737874 | Degtiarenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel V. Degtiarenko (Williamsburg, Virginia); Vladimir E. Popov (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for dealing with the problem of simultaneous continuous readout of large number of data channels from the set of multiple sensors in instances where the use of multiple amplitude-to-digital converters is not practical or causes undesirable extra noise and distortion in the data. The new method uses sensor front-end s and subsequent electronics to transform the analog input signals and encode them into a series of short pulses that can be transmitted to a long distance via a high frequency transmission line without information loss. Upon arrival at a destination data decoder and analyzer device, the series of short pulses can be decoded and transformed back, to obtain, store, and utilize the sensor information with the required accuracy. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/215453 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738111 | Bennett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey Vincent Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technique for capturing both the amplitude and phase of an optical waveform is presented. This technique can capture signals with many THz of bandwidths in a single shot (e.g., temporal resolution of about 44 fs), or be operated repetitively at a high rate. That is, each temporal window (or frame) is captured single shot, in real time, but the process may be run repeatedly or single-shot. This invention expands upon previous work in temporal imaging by adding heterodyning, which can be self-referenced for improved precision and stability, to convert frequency chirp (the second derivative of phase with respect to time) into a time varying intensity modulation. By also including a variety of possible demultiplexing techniques, this process is scalable to recoding continuous signals. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/823420 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738443 | Kumar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a mechanism on receiving processors in a parallel computing system for providing order to data packets received from a broadcast call and to distinguish data packets received at nodes from several incoming asynchronous broadcast messages where header space is limited. In the present invention, processors at lower leafs of a tree do not need to obtain a broadcast message by directly accessing the data in a root processor's buffer. Instead, each subsequent intermediate node's rank id information is squeezed into the software header of packet headers. In turn, the entire broadcast message is not transferred from the root processor to each processor in a communicator but instead is replicated on several intermediate nodes which then replicated the message to nodes in lower leafs. Hence, the intermediate compute nodes become “virtual root compute nodes” for the purpose of replicating the broadcast message to lower levels of a tree. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768619 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739082 | Scherrer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad Scherrer (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting one or more anomalies in a plurality of observations is provided. In one illustrative embodiment, the observations are real-time network observations collected from a stream of network traffic. The method includes performing a discrete decomposition of the observations, and introducing derived variables to increase storage and query efficiencies. A mathematical model, such as a conditional independence model, is then generated from the formatted data. The formatted data is also used to construct frequency tables which maintain an accurate count of specific variable occurrence as indicated by the model generation process. The formatted data is then applied to the mathematical model to generate scored data. The scored data is then analyzed to detect anomalies. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423046 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07736315 | Vanderby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Vanderby (Madison, Wisconsin); Hirohito Kobayashi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The variation in acoustic properties in soft tissues, such as biological tissues, as a function of strain may be modeled to improve elastographic measurements and to obtain direct measurements of strain or material properties and pre-stress. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192930 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736669 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miqin Zhang (Bothell, Washington); Zhensheng Li (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides porous structures that each comprise chitosan, alginate and divalent metal cations, wherein: (a) the chitosan is ionically linked to the alginate; and (b) the structure is porous and has a compressive yield strength of at least 0.35 MPa. The present invention also provides methods for making the porous structures, and methods for using the porous structures as substrates to grow living cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002996 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/488 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736724 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paige Lea Johnson (Collinsville, Oklahoma); Dale Teeters (Sand Springs, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a nanobasket and the applications or uses thereof. The method includes the steps of providing a substrate with at least one (1) pore having diameters of about one (1) nanometer to about ten (10) micrometers. Material is deposited by sputter-coating techniques along continuous edges of the pores to form a capped or partially capped nanotube or microtube structure, termed a nanobasket. Either a single material may be used to form nanobaskets over the pores or, alternately, a layered structure may be created wherein an initial material is deposited followed by one or more other materials to form nanobaskets over the pores. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/383146 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736855 | Pernthaler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annelie Pernthaler (Pasadena, California); Victoria J. Orphan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed in this specification is a process for separating a microorganism from a sample by selectively hybridizing the microorganism's nucleic acid with a labeled probe. Suitable labels include antigens as well an enzymes. In one embodiment, an antigen is introduced to the sample which is activated by the enzyme. The labeled microorganism is then exposed to a substrate that is coated with an antibody which is specific to the activated antigen, thus binding the labeled microorganism to the substrate. The substrate may be, for example, a magnetic substrate such as a paramagnetic bead. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746374 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736890 | Sia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel K. Sia (New York, New York); Vincent Linder (Renens, Switzerland); Babak Amir-Parviz (Seattle, Washington); Adam Siegel (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assay method is described, which comprises the steps of immobilizing a binding partner (e.g., an antigen or antibody) for an analyte to be detected (e.g., an antibody or antigen) on a portion (140) of a surface (130) of a microfluidic chamber (120,122,124); passing a fluid sample over the surface and allowing the analyte to bind to the binding partner; allowing a metal colloid, e.g., a gold-conjugated antibody, to associate with the bound analyte; flowing a metal solution, e.g., a silver solution, over the surface such as to form an opaque metallic layer; and detecting the presence of said metallic layer, e.g., by visual inspection or by measuring light transmission through the layer, conductivity or resistance of the layer, or metal concentration in the metal solution after flowing the metal solution over the surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/584819 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737123 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guisheng Zhang (Columbus, Ohio); Lanyan Fang (Columbus, Ohio); Peng George Wang (Columbus, Ohio); Duxin Sun (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Daunorubicin (“DNR”) compounds synthesized with uncommon sugars exhibit enhanced effectiveness in treating various drug-resistant cancers. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/432901 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737127 | Linden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren Jean Murphree (Earlysville, Virginia); Robert Alan Figler (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having the following general formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R7 and Z are as described here. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691374 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737131 | Kiick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristi L. Kiick (Rising Sun, Maryland); Nori Yamaguchi (Newburgh, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a biologically active functionalized electrospun matrix to permit immobilization and long-term delivery of biologically active agents. In particular the invention relates to a functionalized polymer matrix comprising a matrix polymer, a compatibilizing polymer and a biomolecule or other small functioning molecule. In certain aspects the electrospun polymer fibers comprise at least one biologically active molecule functionalized with low molecular weight heparin. Examples of active molecules that may be used with the multicomponent polymer of the invention include, for example, a drug, a biopolymer, for example a growth factor, a protein, a peptide, a nucleotide, a polysaccharide, a biological macromolecule or the like. The invention is further directed to the formation of functionalized crosslinked matrices, such as hydrogels, that include at least one functionalized compatibilizing polymer capable of assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/395902 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737164 | Blackwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen E. Blackwell (Middleton, Wisconsin); Matthew D. Bowman (Vernon, Connecticut); Jennifer C. O'Neill (Madison, Wisconsin); Joseph R. Stringer (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to compounds providing antibacterial therapeutic agents and preparations, and related methods of using and making antibacterial compounds. Antibacterial compounds of the present invention include chalcone, alkylpyrimidine, aminopyrimidine and cyanopyridine compounds and derivatives thereof exhibiting minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) similar to or less than conventional antibacterial compounds in wide use. For example, the present invention provides chalcone and cyanopyridine compounds, and derivatives thereof, exhibiting high antibacterial activities having multiple electron withdrawing group substituents, such as halogens and fluorinated alky groups, and optionally having hydroxyl and/or alkoxyl groups substituents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749573 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737234 | Michl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josef Michl (Boulder, Colorado); Kamesh Vyakaranam (Pearland, Texas); Stefanie Koerbe (Garching, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for polymerizing a polymer precursor, comprising: contacting a polymer precursor with a lithium carborane catalyst and an initiator under polymerizing conditions. A reaction solvent may be used, but is not necessary. Also provided is a method of preparing lithium carborane polymers, comprising: contacting a lithium carborane polymer precursor having a terminal alkenyl or alkynyl group with an initiator and an optional reaction solvent under polymerizing conditions. Functionalized carborane anions are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/997895 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737392 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); SRU Biosystems, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois); Charles Choi (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic crystal (PC) sensors, and sensor arrays and sensing systems incorporating PC sensors are described which have integrated fluid containment and/or fluid handling structures. The PC sensors are further integrated into a sample handling device such as a microwell plate. Sensors and sensing systems of the present disclosure are capable of high throughput sensing of analytes in fluid samples, bulk refractive index detection, and label-free detection of a range of molecules, including biomolecules and therapeutic candidates. The present disclosure also provides a commercially attractive fabrication platform for making photonic crystal sensors and systems wherein an integrated fluid containment structure and a photonic crystal structure are fabricated in a single molding or imprinting processing step amendable to high throughput processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011093 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738086 | Shepard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Shepard (Ossining, New York); Rastislav Levicky (Irvington, New York); George Patounakis (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An active CMOS biosensor chip for fluorescent-based detection is provided that enables time-gated, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. In one embodiment, analytes are loaded with fluorophores that are bound to probe molecules immobilized on the surface of the chip. Photodiodes and other circuitry in the chip are used to measure the fluorescent intensity of the fluorophore at different times. These measurements are then averaged to generate a representation of the transient fluorescent decay response unique to the fluorophores. In addition to its low-cost, compact form, the biosensor chip provides capabilities beyond those of macroscopic instrumentation by enabling time-gated operation for background rejection, easing requirements on optical filters, and by characterizing fluorescence lifetime, allowing for a more detailed characterization of fluorophore labels and their environment. The biosensor chip can be used for a variety of applications including biological, medical, in-the-field applications, and fluorescent lifetime imaging applications. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800468 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738096 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Richard A. Dluhy (Athens, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Watkinsville, Georgia); Stephen Chaney (Athens, Georgia); Saratchandra Shanmukh (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems including nanostructures and capable of detecting analytes, in particular biomolecules, of interest are provided. Methods of making the SERS systems and methods for detection of a biomolecule of interest, such as a virus or other infectious agent are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376661 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739537 | Albonesi et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David Albonesi (Lima, New York); Greg Semeraro (Fairport, New York); Grigorios Magklis (08024, Barcelona, Spain); Michael L. Scott (Rochester, New York); Rajeev Balasubramonian (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sandhya Dwarkadas (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple clock domain (MCD) microarchitecture uses a globally-asynchronous, locally-synchronous (GALS) clocking style. In an MCD microprocessor each functional block operates with a separately generated clock, and synchronizing circuits ensure reliable inter-domain communication. Thus, fully synchronous design practices are used in the design of each domain. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389023 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07735265 | Tinker 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) | Michael L. Tinker (New Market, Alabama); Andrew R. Schnell (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An inflatable and rigidizable structure for use as a habitat or a load bearing structure is disclosed. The structure consists of an outer wall and an inner wall defining a containment member and a bladder. The bladder is pressurized to erect the structure from an initially collapsed state. The containment member is subsequently injected with rigidizable fluid through an arrangement of injection ports. Exhaust gases from the curing rigidizable fluid are vented through an arrangement of exhaust ports. The rate of erection can be controlled by frictional engagement with a container or by using a tether. A method for fabricating a tubular structure is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780610 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/2.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07735385 | Wilson 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) | Andrew Wilson (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Andrew Punnoose (Ashburn, Virginia); Katherine Strausser (Houston, Texas); Neil Parikh (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A joint assembly is provided which includes a drive assembly and a swivel mechanism. The drive assembly features a motor operatively associated with a plurality of drive shafts for driving auxiliary elements, and a plurality of swivel shafts for pivoting the drive assembly. The swivel mechanism engages the swivel shafts and has a fixable element that may be attached to a foundation. The swivel mechanism is adapted to cooperate with the swivel shafts to pivot the drive assembly with at least two degrees of freedom relative to the foundation. The joint assembly allows for all components to remain encased in a tight, compact, and sealed package, making it ideal for space, exploratory, and commercial applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187562 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/89.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736724 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paige Lea Johnson (Collinsville, Oklahoma); Dale Teeters (Sand Springs, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a nanobasket and the applications or uses thereof. The method includes the steps of providing a substrate with at least one (1) pore having diameters of about one (1) nanometer to about ten (10) micrometers. Material is deposited by sputter-coating techniques along continuous edges of the pores to form a capped or partially capped nanotube or microtube structure, termed a nanobasket. Either a single material may be used to form nanobaskets over the pores or, alternately, a layered structure may be created wherein an initial material is deposited followed by one or more other materials to form nanobaskets over the pores. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/383146 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07736751 | Yousefiani |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Yousefiani (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a heretofore-unknown use for zirconium nitride as a hydrogen peroxide compatible protective coating that was discovered to be useful to protect components that catalyze the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide or corrode when exposed to hydrogen peroxide. A zirconium nitride coating of the invention may be applied to a variety of substrates (e.g., metals) using art-recognized techniques, such as plasma vapor deposition. The present invention further provides components and articles of manufacture having hydrogen peroxide compatibility, particularly components for use in aerospace and industrial manufacturing applications. The zirconium nitride barrier coating of the invention provides protection from corrosion by reaction with hydrogen peroxide, as well as prevention of hydrogen peroxide decomposition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/533570 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737131 | Kiick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristi L. Kiick (Rising Sun, Maryland); Nori Yamaguchi (Newburgh, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a biologically active functionalized electrospun matrix to permit immobilization and long-term delivery of biologically active agents. In particular the invention relates to a functionalized polymer matrix comprising a matrix polymer, a compatibilizing polymer and a biomolecule or other small functioning molecule. In certain aspects the electrospun polymer fibers comprise at least one biologically active molecule functionalized with low molecular weight heparin. Examples of active molecules that may be used with the multicomponent polymer of the invention include, for example, a drug, a biopolymer, for example a growth factor, a protein, a peptide, a nucleotide, a polysaccharide, a biological macromolecule or the like. The invention is further directed to the formation of functionalized crosslinked matrices, such as hydrogels, that include at least one functionalized compatibilizing polymer capable of assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/395902 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737411 | Gunapala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarath D. Gunapala (Stevenson Ranch, California); David Z. Ting (Arcadia, California); Cory J. Hill (Pasadena, California); Sumith V. Bandara (Burke, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An nBn detector is described where for some embodiments the barrier layer has a concentration gradient, for some embodiments the absorption layer has a concentration gradient, and for some embodiments the absorption layer is a chirped strained layer super lattice. The use of a graded barrier or absorption layer, or the use of a chirped strained layer super lattice for the absorption layer, allows for design of the energy bands so that the valence band may be aligned across the device. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249749 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737867 | Arthur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jarvis J. Arthur (Williamsburg, Virginia); Randall E. Bailey (Williamsburg, Virginia); Lawrence J. Prinzel, III (Newport News, Virginia); Lynda J. Kramer (Yorktown, Virginia); Steven P. Williams (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for multi-modal cockpit interface during surface operation of an aircraft comprises a head tracking device, a processing element, and a full-color head worn display. The processing element is configured to receive head position information from the head tracking device, to receive current location information of the aircraft, and to render a virtual airport scene corresponding to the head position information and the current aircraft location. The full-color head worn display is configured to receive the virtual airport scene from the processing element and to display the virtual airport scene. The current location information may be received from one of a global positioning system or an inertial navigation system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/696333 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/980 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738084 | Korman 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) | Valentin Korman (Huntsville, Alabama); Don Allen Gregory (Huntsville, Alabama); John T. Wiley (Huntsville, Alabama); Kevin W. Pedersen (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for sensing the mass flow rate of a fluid flowing through a pipe. A light beam containing plural individual wavelengths is projected from one side of the pipe across the width of the pipe so as to pass through the fluid under test. Fiber optic couplers located at least two positions on the opposite side of the pipe are used to detect the light beam. A determination is then made of the relative strengths of the light beam for each wavelength at the at least two positions and based at least in part on these relative strengths, the mass flow rate of the fluid is determined. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543284 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739671 | Hinchey 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) | Michael G. Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); James L. Rash (Davidsonville, Maryland); John D. Erickson (Midland, Texas); Denis Gracinin (Blacksburg, Virginia); Christopher A. Rouff (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments an informal specification is translated without human intervention into a formal specification. In some embodiments the formal specification is a process-based specification. In some embodiments, the formal specification is translated into a high-level computer programming language which is further compiled into a set of executable computer instructions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203590 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07738129 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Oktay Gunluk (New York, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to the priority threshold based on importance values assigned to all jobs. System constraints are applied to ensure jobs meet set criteria. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/374399 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Facsimile and static presentation processing 358/1.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07738504 | Deaner et al. |
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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) | Jeffrey V. Deaner (Columbia, Maryland); John D. Harbaugh (Ft Meade, Maryland); Thomas H. Lotze (College Park, Maryland); Daniel L. Lough (Warrenton, Virginia); Elliott Dorham (Aldie, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of establishing and updating a master node in a computer network by scoring each node in the network as a function of its physical attributes, designating the highest scoring node as the master node, sending a periodic message by the master node with its score and a request for non-master node scores, sending a message by a non-master node to the master node requesting relinquishment of master node status if the non-master node has a higher score, relinquishing master node status to a non-master node with a higher score and returning to the third step, and declaring by a non-master node that it is a master node if it has not received a message from the previously designated master node in a user-definable period of time and returning to the third step. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317293 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739284 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip Shi-Lung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for processing a data stream includes the following steps/operations. A cluster structure representing one or more clusters in the data stream is maintained. A set of projected dimensions is determined for each of the one or more clusters using data points in the cluster structure. Assignments are determined for incoming data points of the data stream to the one or more clusters using distances associated with each set of projected dimensions for each of the one or more clusters. Further, the cluster structure maybe used for classification of data in the data stream. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110079 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07739331 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohui Gu (Chappaqua, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for performing load diffusion to process data stream pairs. A data stream pair is received for correlation. The data stream pair is partitioned into portions to meet correlation constraints for correlating data in the data stream pair to form a partitioned data stream pair. The partitioned data stream pair is sent to a set of nodes for correlation processing to perform the load diffusion. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054207 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07736680 | Lei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingen Lei (Ithaca, New York); Edward J. Mullaney (New Orleans, Louisiana); Abul Ullah (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a mutant phytase and the isolated mutant phytase itself. The present invention further relates to methods of using the isolated nucleic acid molecule and the isolated mutant phytase of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952467 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737121 | Nair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muraleedharan G. Nair (Okemos, Michigan); Bolleddula Jayaprakasam (East Lansing, Michigan); L. Karl Olson (East Lansing, Michigan); Shaiju K. Vareed (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for stimulating insulin secretion by anthocyanidins and anthocyanins is described. The secretion can be in vivo in mammals, including humans, or in vitro. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071929 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07736909 | Kodadek |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kodadek (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for detecting a substance using mixed or multiple element capture agents (MECA). The affinity of a MECA for a target is produced by the concomitant binding of at least two low to moderate affinity capture agents providing a high affinity interaction with a capture target. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754457 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737410 | Rubenstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P. Rubenstein (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital images or the charge from pixels in light sensitive semiconductor based imagers may be used to detect gamma rays and energetic particles emitted by radioactive materials. Methods may be used to identify pixel-scale artifacts introduced into digital images and video images by high energy gamma rays. Statistical tests and other comparisons on the artifacts in the images or pixels may be used to prevent false-positive detection of gamma rays. The sensitivity of the system may be used to detect radiological material at distances in excess of 50 meters. Advanced processing techniques allow for gradient searches to more accurately determine the source's location, while other acts may be used to identify the specific isotope. Coordination of different imagers and network alerts permit the system to separate non-radioactive objects from radioactive objects. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123879 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07738089 | Lange et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corp. (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steve R. Lange (Alamo, Virginia); Paul Frank Marella (San Jose, California); Nat Ceglio (Pleasanton, California); Shiow-Hwei Hwang (Livermore, California); Tao-Yi Fu (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for inspection of a specimen using different parameters are provided. One computer-implemented method includes determining optimal parameters for inspection based on selected defects. This method also includes setting parameters of an inspection system at the optimal parameters prior to inspection. Another method for inspecting a specimen includes illuminating the specimen with light having a wavelength below about 350 nm and with light having a wavelength above about 350 nm. The method also includes processing signals representative of light collected from the specimen to detect defects or process variations on the specimen. One system configured to inspect a specimen includes a first optical subsystem coupled to a broadband light source and a second optical subsystem coupled to a laser. The system also includes a third optical subsystem configured to couple light from the first and second optical subsystems to an objective, which focuses the light onto the specimen. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/933873 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 07736104 | Hobson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh–of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Hobson (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A docking device for use with a wheeled mobility device having a device interface on a rear thereof includes a securing mechanism to dock with the device interface. The securing mechanism is adapted to dock with the device interface upon rearward motion of the wheeled mobility device relative to the docking device regardless of the horizontal position of the mobility device over a range of horizontal positions of the mobility device. The securing device can also be adapted to dock with the device interface regardless of the angle of the device interface relative to the docking device over a range of angles of the device interface. Further, the securing device can be adapted to dock with the device interface regardless of the vertical position of the device interface relative to the docking device over a range of vertical positions of the device interface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518975 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Freight accommodation on freight carrier 410/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07735149 | Jarvis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine W. Jarvis (Six Mile, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is for a composite structure and a garment constructed from the composite structure which can be worn next to the skin or as outerwear as well as a process for making the composite structure and garment. The garment provides microclimate control for the wearer by means of at least one three-dimensional passageway formed by an outer cover material which is secured to a first substrate layer. The passageway contains a filler material which adds support to the walls of the passageways and allows a fluid to flow through the filler material. The passageway provides a thermal insulation by its bulk or by allowing a fluid to be pumped through it. The first substrate layer is breathable to increase the comfort level of the wearer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/405778 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07739501 | Kimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InfoAssure, Inc. (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald D. Kimmel (Stevensville, Maryland); Ersin L. Domangue (Woodbine, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer program product, for producing a cryptographic key label for use in exchanging information between first and second organizations of members, resides on a computer-readable medium includes computer-readable instructions configured to cause a computer to: produce a read-write cryptographic key using at least one base value; produce a write-only cryptographic key using the read-write cryptographic key; combine a first identifier, uniquely associated with the first organization, and a second identifier, uniquely associated with the key label to be produced, using a one-way function to produce a pedigree; and associate the pedigree with the read-write key and the write-only key to form the cryptographic key label. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193911 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07738994 | Rainey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent A. Rainey (Sterling, Virginia); Daryl S. Hamilton (Hyattsville, Maryland); Anthony M. Ferlaino (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Tracking an item through an item delivery system comprises reading a tracking indicia on the item, entering data from the tracking indicia into a management system, providing access to the management system, and updating the management system with information regarding the item passing various points within the item delivery system. In addition, the management system may comprise at least one of a business interface system, a coding strategy system, a surface/air management system, a processing operations information system, an activity-based costing system, and a delivery operations information system. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468301 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07737110 | Slaugenhaupt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan A. Slaugenhaupt (Hingham, Massachusetts); James F. Gusella (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods for altering the splicing of mRNA in cells. In particular, this invention also relates to methods for increasing the ratio of wild type to misspliced forms of mRNA and corresponding encoded proteins in cells possessing a mutant gene encoding either the i) misspliced mRNA corresponding to the mutant protein or ii) a component in the splicing machinery responsible for processing the misspliced mRNA. In addition, this invention relates to treating individuals having a disorder associated with a misspliced mRNA, such as Familial Dysautonomia or Neurofibromatosis 1, by administering to such an individual a cytokinin such as kinetin. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956601 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737726 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhang (Troy, New York); Shu Li (Troy, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid resistor/FET-logic demultiplexer (demux) is provided. According to an embodiment, hybrid nonoelectronics, which incorporate nanodevice crossbars on CMOS backplane circuits, can be implemented using the subject demux as the interface between the nanowires in the nanodevice crossbars and the microwires fabricated in the CMOS domain. Embodiments of the present invention incorporate resistor-logic and FET-logic to realize the demultiplexing function. In various embodiments, a single column of p-type FETs is used to convert the linear voltage output of a resistor-logic demux core into a nonlinear output so that the desired demultiplexing function can be much better approximated. The resistor-logic demux core design can still be optimized using constant weight codes, whereas the optimization constraint on the constant weight code construction is largely relaxed, which can result in a more area efficient demux. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334186 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07737898 | Hanusa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P. (Greenville, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Hanusa (Celeste, Texas); Claude W. Tignor, III (Greenville, Texas); Vincent A. May (Wylie, Texas); Wesley D. Redus (Greenville, Texas); SueAnn Stuart (Greenville, Texas); Paul W. Hein (McKinney, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A line of sight antenna supported in an upturned terminal winglet or similar vertical member of an aircraft is disclosed. An aperture is formed in the conductive winglet or vertical member, and the antenna is supported within the aperture by a support mechanism such that the antenna is exposed to the line of sight transmissions. A non-conductive covering may also be used for the aperture. Using the cover, the antenna within the winglet can be configured so that it does not alter the appearance or aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft. Alternatively, the antenna can be coupled to the outside of the winglet or vertical member if cosmetics are not a concern. The frequency range of the antenna can be tuned to cover desired frequency ranges. The antenna position at the winglet maintains a large physical separation from fuselage-mounted antennas thereby reducing interference. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/712694 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/708 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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