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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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07752835 — Pulsed combustion engine

US 07752835	Jones et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	James E. Jones (Palm City, Florida); Gary M. Perkins (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Marsha E. Perkins, legal representative (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Gary D. Roberge (Tolland, Connecticut); Douglas A. Thonebe (Glastonbury, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A turbine engine has a case with an axis. A fan is mounted for rotation about the axis. A turbine is mechanically coupled to the fan to drive rotation of the fan about the axis. A number of compressor/turbine units are downstream of the fan and upstream of the turbine along a core flowpath. A number of compressors are coupled to the compressor/turbine units to receive air and deliver combustion gas to drive the turbine.
FILED	Thursday, June 01, 2006
APPL NO	11/445977
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/247
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07752916 — Apparatus and method for material testing of microscale and nanoscale samples

US 07752916	Han et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Jong H. Han (Pataskala, Ohio); M. Taher A. Saif (Champaign, Illinois); Michael D. Uchic (Dayton, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus for testing a microscale or nanoscale sample. A testing stage comprises a frame having first and second laterally opposing ends and first and second side beams. At least one deformable force sensor beam is disposed near the first opposing end and extends laterally between the first and second side beams. A first longitudinal beam, having a free end, bisects the at least one force sensor beam, and a second longitudinal beam has a free end facing the free end of the first longitudinal beam to define a gap therebetween. A support structure comprises a plurality of laterally extending beams disposed such that the second longitudinal beam bisects the plurality of laterally extending beams. Each of a pair of slots disposed at each of the free ends of the first and second longitudinal beams comprises a tapered portion leading to a generally longitudinal portion aligned with the central longitudinal beam. The slots provide a seat for a dogbone-shaped sample.
FILED	Friday, August 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/897927
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/789
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07752952 — Dynamic barrier system

US 07752952	Hohil et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Myron Hohil (Montville, New Jersey); Victor N. Kokodis (Wharton, New Jersey); Mark Mellini (Denville, New Jersey); Brian Peltzer (Fair Lawn, New Jersey); Anthony Sebasto (Budd Lake, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A dynamic barrier system including a number of sensors that monitor a barrier area to determine specific types of objects approaching, within, or exiting the barrier area. Depending upon the type of object(s), the dynamic barrier system initiates an appropriate action, both lethal and non-lethal. The barrier system may advantageously deactivate after its intended period of operation eliminating difficult and/or dangerous removal.
FILED	Wednesday, March 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/308288
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/1.110
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07752954 — Electromagnetic gun launcher

US 07752954	Littlefield et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew Littlefield (Troy, New York); Joshua Root (Watervliet, New York)
ABSTRACT	An electromagnetic launcher having a longitudinal axis includes a pair of longitudinally extending rails; a pair of longitudinally extending insulators disposed between the rails; a bore defined by interior surfaces of the rails and the insulators; and a jacket extending around exterior surfaces of the rails and the insulators; wherein the exterior surfaces of the insulators are substantially flat and further wherein a distance between the exterior surfaces of the insulators is substantially equal to or less than a maximum thickness of the rails.
FILED	Monday, December 18, 2006
APPL NO	11/612165
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/8
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07752955 — Methods and systems for fabrication of composite armor laminates by preform stitching

US 07752955	Engelbart
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Roger W. Engelbart (St. Louis, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	Methods and systems for an armor system are provided. The system includes a first face sheet and a shaped preform extending from the first face sheet. The preform includes a first edge proximate the first face sheet, a sidewall extending from the first edge to a flange extending substantially perpendicularly from the sidewall. The preform circumscribes an area of the first face sheet. The system also includes a tile of armor material complementarily-shaped to fit within the area circumscribed by the preform. The tile is positioned within the preform such that at least a portion of the tile is between the first face sheet and the flange. The system includes a second face sheet covering the preform and the tile on a side opposite from the first face sheet.
FILED	Monday, September 17, 2007
APPL NO	11/856161
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/36.20
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07752972 — Low reaction rate, high blast shaped charge waveshaper

US 07752972	Baker et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ernest L. Baker (Wantage, New Jersey); James D. Pham (Randolph, New Jersey); Arthur S. Daniels (Rockaway, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A shaped charge warhead having a longitudinal axis includes a casing; a liner disposed in the casing; an explosive disposed behind the liner; a wave shaper disposed in the explosive, the wave shaper comprising a low reaction rate high blast reactive material; and a detonator disposed adjacent the explosive. Preferably, the wave shaper is symmetrical about the longitudinal axis. The low reaction rate, high-blast material may be, for example, one of powdered silicon or boron and powdered silicon or boron in a plastic matrix.
FILED	Friday, September 21, 2007
APPL NO	11/858978
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 12/309
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07752975 — Insensitive munitions barrier

US 07752975	Yousef et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Amin Yousef (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Khawla Yousef, legal representative (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Crane Robinson (Oxford, New Jersey); Gould Gibbons, Jr. (Finksburg, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	A sympathetic detonation barrier for a munition includes a generally cylindrical polyethylene sleeve disposed over the munition. Preferably, the sleeve comprises HDPE. The sleeve may include vent openings in a side wall. In one embodiment, the sleeve extends from substantially a rear end of the munition to substantially a rear end of a fuze well of the munition.
FILED	Thursday, March 22, 2007
APPL NO	11/689553
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 12/481
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07752977 — Deceleration apparatus for projectile

US 07752977	Babcock et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Wade Babcock (Waldorf, Maryland); Jeff Guthrie (Rome, New York)
ABSTRACT	A decelerating apparatus includes a sleeve having a forward end and a rear end. A plurality of helical grooves formed in the sleeve. Each helical groove begins at the forward end of the sleeve and has a depth that decreases from the forward end of the sleeve towards the rear end. The depth of each helical groove at the forward end of the sleeve is large enough so that the helical groove cuts completely through the sleeve at the forward end. The plurality of helical grooves define deformable petals therebetween.
FILED	Wednesday, September 19, 2007
APPL NO	11/973989
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ammunition and explosives 12/501
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07753145 — Virtual-wheeled vehicle

US 07753145	Hillis et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Applied Minds, Inc. (Glendale, California)
INVENTOR(S)	W. Daniel Hillis (Encino, California); Bran Ferren (Beverly Hills, California); Luke Khanlian (Grenada Hills, California); Mark Setrakian (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	A virtual wheel provides a leg pair as a conveyance mechanism for a land vehicle. The virtual wheel propels the vehicle across a surface using a repetitive motion of the legs that contact the ground as would a wheel, due to their geometry. Vehicle embodiments include at least two-, three-, four- and six-wheeled vehicles, both transverse and in-line. Additionally, the invention provides a bipedal walking robot. One embodiment provides a robotic mule—a payload-carrying vehicle. The invention combines the flexible mobility of bipedal vehicles with the stability and functionality of very large-wheeled vehicles. Additionally, a bimodal conveyance mechanism readily converts between walking and rolling modes
FILED	Tuesday, April 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/103652
ART UNIT	3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Motor vehicles 180/8.100
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07753222 — Container, and related methods

US 07753222	Heinrichs
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark Anthony Heinrichs (Brielle, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A container is provided including a support base, side panels having guide tracks, front and rear panels, and a top cover. The front panel includes track followers releasably received in the front guide tracks. The front panel is pivotal outwardly away from the container compartment about the track followers, while the top cover is closed, from a substantially vertical orientation to an angled orientation in which the front panel upper edge is exposed from under the closed top cover. From this angled orientation, and while the cover remains closed, the track followers are slidable along and out of engagement with the respective front guide tracks to detach the front panel from the side panel, thereby providing front access to the container compartment.
FILED	Monday, November 20, 2006
APPL NO	11/645256
ART UNIT	3781 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising
CURRENT CPC	Receptacles 220/4.280
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07753319 — Adjustable cable hanger for securing cables externally

US 07753319	Updegrove et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Darryl Updegrove (Panama City, Florida); Brian Stout (Panama City, Florida)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method suspends cables from the top and sides of a shipping and stowage container having separated block-shaped fittings with top and side openings. A cross bar with rounded support structure suspends the cables and extends past the block-shaped fittings. First twist-lock fittings are mounted on a first side of the cross bar in the same spaced-apart relationship as the openings on the sides of the separated block-shaped fittings. Bayonets in the twist-lock fittings can be inserted into the side and top openings and rotated to secure the apparatus to the block-shaped fittings. Rotatable end hangers support cables beyond the container. Second twist-lock fittings are mounted on a second side of the cross bar in the same spaced-apart relationship as the openings on the tops of the separated block-shaped fittings.
FILED	Monday, December 10, 2007
APPL NO	12/001594
ART UNIT	3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Supports 248/67.700
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07753647 — Lightweight cast inner diameter vane shroud for variable stator vanes

US 07753647	Giaimo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	John A. Giaimo (Weston, Florida); John P. Tirone, III (Moodus, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	An inner diameter vane shroud for use in a gas turbine engine is comprised of lightweight cast forward and aft shroud components. The forward and aft shroud components are made with an investment casting technique that creates a hollow cavity that runs in a circumferential direction through each component. The forward and aft shroud components are matable to form sockets that receive inner diameter ends of variable stator vanes.
FILED	Wednesday, July 20, 2005
APPL NO	11/185956
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/160
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07753888 — Method and/or apparatus for puncturing a surface for extraction, in situ analysis, and/or substance delivery using microneedles

US 07753888	Mukerjee et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (, None)
INVENTOR(S)	Erik V. Mukerjee (San Ramon, California); Rosemary L. Smith (Bangor, Maine)
ABSTRACT	A method and apparatus for puncturing a surface for extraction, in situ monitoring, and/or substance delivery uses microneedles with improved properties. Applications include easy to handle glucose monitoring using a group of hollow out-of-plane silicon microneedles to sample substances in interstitial fluid from the epidermal skin layer.
FILED	Monday, November 22, 2004
APPL NO	10/995570
ART UNIT	3767 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 64/173
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07754008 — Method of forming dislocation-free strained thin films

US 07754008	Xie et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ya-Hong Xie (Beverly Hills, California); Jeehwan Kim (Los Angeles, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of forming a stressed thin film on a substrate includes forming a plurality of islands on a viscous layer that is present on a surface of a substrate. Adjacent islands are bridged with a stressor layer. The structure is annealed at an elevated temperature above the glass flow temperature of the viscous layer to transfer at least a portion of the stress from the stressor layer to the underlying islands. The bridges are then removed to expose the stressed islands of thin film on the substrate.
FILED	Wednesday, July 19, 2006
APPL NO	11/458628
ART UNIT	1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/2
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07754036 — Thermobaric explosives and compositions, and articles of manufacture and methods regarding the same

US 07754036	Newman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Kirk E. Newman (Yorktown, Virginia); Virgil Riffe (Gloucester, Virginia); Steven L. Jones (Toano, Virginia); Mark D. Lowell (Gloucester, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A pressable explosive composition is provided. The composition includes at least 40 weight percent of substantially uncoated fuel particles, a nitramine mechanically blended with the substantially uncoated fuel particles, and a binder coating the nitramine. The binder constitutes about 1 to about 6 weight percent of the pressable explosive composition. Also provided are a pressed thermobaric explosive, weapons containing the pressed thermobaric explosive, and methods for making the composition and thermobaric explosive.
FILED	Wednesday, December 03, 2003
APPL NO	10/729264
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/38
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07754085 — Magnetomechanical deformations of nonuniform porous magnetic architectures

US 07754085	Long et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey W Long (Alexandria, Virginia); Debra R Rolison (Arlington, Virginia); Michael S. Logan (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method for controlling pore size of a membrane that includes providing a porous magnetic architecture and magnetizing the porous magnetic architecture. The porous magnetic architecture changes pore size when magnetized. A method for inhibiting the mobility of a solute through a membrane includes magnetizing a porous magnetic architecture in a flow stream that includes a solute. A membrane system for a solute includes a porous magnetic architecture disposed within a flow stream that also includes a solute, and a magnetic source disposed such that the nonuniform porous magnetic architecture is selectively magnetized.
FILED	Friday, August 25, 2006
APPL NO	11/467288
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Liquid purification or separation 210/695
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07754126 — Interlaminar tensile reinforcement of SiC/SiC CMC's using fugitive fibers

US 07754126	Subramanian et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Suresh Subramanian (Mason, Ohio); James Dale Steibel (Mason, Ohio); Douglas Melton Carper (Trenton, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method of manufacturing a turbine engine component is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of ceramic cloth plies, each ply having woven ceramic fiber tows and at least one fugitive fiber tow, laying up the plurality of plies in a preselected arrangement to form a turbine engine component shape, oxidizing the fugitive fibers to produce fugitive fiber void regions in the ply, rigidizing the component shape to form a coated component preform using chemical vapor infiltration, partially densifying the coated component preform using carbon-containing slurry, and further densifying the coated component preform with at least silicon to form a ceramic matrix composite turbine engine component having matrix rich regions.
FILED	Friday, June 17, 2005
APPL NO	11/155190
ART UNIT	1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/258
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07754145 — Fluorphore embedded/incorporating/bridged periodic mesoporous organosilicas as recognition photo-decontamination catalysts

US 07754145	White et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Brandy J White (Alexandria, Virginia); Mazyar Zeinali (Columbia, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Provided photo-decontamination catalyst material comprising an optically active molecule embedded/incorporated/bridged in a periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO). The optically active molecule is a typically a fluorophore or chromophore, more specifically, a porphyrin or phthalocyanine. The periodic mesoporous organosilica can be a template directed molecularly imprinted periodic mesoporous organosilica. The PMO material incorporating an optically active molecule is useful as a catalyst in photo-decontamination applications, as well as a detection element for stand-off point detection system.
FILED	Thursday, August 17, 2006
APPL NO	11/465355
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/57
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07754267 — Polymeric antioxidants

US 07754267	Cholli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ashok L. Cholli (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vijayendra Kumar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Javant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Virinder Singh Parmar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Lynne Ann Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Antioxidant polymers of the present invention comprise repeat units that include one or both of Structural Formulas (I) and (II): wherein: R is —H or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, acyl or aryl group; Ring A is substituted with at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group; Ring B is substituted with at least one —H and at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group; Rings A and B are each optionally substituted with one or more groups selected from the group consisting of —OH, —NH, —SH, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxycarbonyl group; n is an integer equal to or greater than 2; and p is an integer equal to or greater than 0. The invention also includes methods of using and preparing these polymers.
FILED	Tuesday, February 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/711395
ART UNIT	1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/541
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07754351 — Epitaxial (001) BiFeO₃membranes with substantially reduced fatigue and leakage

US 07754351	Eom et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Chang-Beom Eom (Madison, Wisconsin); Ho Won Jang (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides free-standing heterostructures including a layer of BiFeO₃and a layer comprising a perovskite over which the BiFeO₃is epitaxially grown. The layer comprising the perovskite has been released from a substrate upon which it was originally grown. Also provided are methods for forming the free-standing heterostructures, which may include transferring the free-standing heterostructures to other host substrates.
FILED	Thursday, May 08, 2008
APPL NO	12/117464
ART UNIT	1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701
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07754461 — Large-scale production of human serum butyrylcholinesterase as a bioscavenger

US 07754461	Doctor et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Bhupendra P. Doctor (Potomac, Maryland); Ashima Saxena (Fairfax, Virginia); Wei Sun (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Chunyuan Luo (North Potomac, Maryland); Prasanthi Tipparaju (Rockville, Maryland); Irwin Koplovitz (Bel Air, Maryland); David E. Lenz (Belcamp, Maryland); Michelle C. Ross (Edgewood, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are methods for the large-scale preparation of human butyrylcholinesterase (HuBChE) preparations from Cohn Fraction IV-4. As disclosed, the methods provide HuBChE preparations that are about 99% or more pure with recovery yields of about 60%. Also disclosed are the pharmacokinetics, safety and toxicity, stability and efficacy of the HuBChE preparations.
FILED	Tuesday, April 10, 2007
APPL NO	11/733246
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196
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07754498 — Self-encoding sensor with microspheres

US 07754498	Walt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	David R. Walt (Boston, Massachusetts); Todd A. Dickinson (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	A microsphere-based analytic chemistry system is disclosed in which self-encoding microspheres having distinct characteristic optical response signatures to specific target analytes may be mixed together while the ability is retained to identify the sensor type and location of each sensor in a random dispersion of large numbers of such sensors in a sensor array using an optically interrogatable encoding scheme. An optical fiber bundle sensor is also disclosed in which individual microsphere sensors are disposed in microwells at a distal end of the fiber bundle and are optically coupled to discrete fibers or groups of fibers within the bundle. The identities of the individual sensors in the array are self-encoded by exposing the array to a reference analyte while illuminating the array with excitation light energy. A single sensor array may carry thousands of discrete sensing elements whose combined signal provides for substantial improvements in sensor detection limits, response times and signal-to-noise ratios.
FILED	Friday, January 21, 2005
APPL NO	11/040504
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/523
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07754818 — Gap fill materials and bottom anti-reflective coatings comprising hyperbranched polymers

US 07754818	Devadoss et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri)
INVENTOR(S)	Chelladurai Devadoss (Hillsboro, Oregon); Mandar Bhave (Austin, Texas); Runhui Huang (Rolla, Missouri)
ABSTRACT	New anti-reflective or fill compositions having improved flow properties are provided. The compositions comprise a dendritic polymer dispersed or dissolved in a solvent system, and preferably a light attenuating compound, a crosslinking agent, and a catalyst. The inventive compositions can be used to protect contact or via holes from degradation during subsequent etching in the dual damascene process. The inventive compositions can also be applied to substrates (e.g., silicon wafers) to form anti-reflective coating layers having high etch rates which minimize or prevent reflection during subsequent photoresist exposure and developing.
FILED	Tuesday, January 11, 2005
APPL NO	11/032930
ART UNIT	1796 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/326.100
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07754837 — Flourinated aryl ether polymers exhibiting dual fluoroolefin functionality and methods of forming same

US 07754837	Smith, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Clemson University Research Foundation (Anderson, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis W. Smith, Jr. (Seneca, South Carolina); Scott T. Iacono (Greenville, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are telechelic fluoropolymers and methods for forming the polymers. The fluoropolymers can be formed via step-growth polymerization of bis(trifluorovinyloxy)biphenyls with bisphenols. The formed telechelic polymers possess fluoroolefin functionality at the trifluorovinyl aromatic ether endgroups. Internal groups can include difluorodioxyvinylene groups and trifluoroethyl groups. Formation methods of the telechelic polymers can be controlled so as to control molecular weight and degree of unsaturation of the polymers. The end groups and the internal groups can be further reacted independently of each other, e.g., under different temperature conditions, to form a variety of polymers and/or crosslinked polymeric networks.
FILED	Friday, March 07, 2008
APPL NO	12/044447
ART UNIT	1796 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/247
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07754842 — Elastomeric polymers

US 07754842	Wagener et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth B. Wagener (Gainesville, Florida); John C. Sworen (Gainesville, Florida); Hector F. Zuluaga (Cali, Colombia); Piotr Matloka (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) has been utilized in the synthesis of carbosilane and carbosiloxane polymers bearing a latent reactive methoxy-functional group on each repeat unit. The polymerization results in a linear thermoplastic polymer. The latent reactive methoxy groups remain inert during polymerization; however, exposure to moisture triggers hydrolysis and the formation of a chemically cross-linked thermoset. The thermoset's properties can be modified by varying the ratio of carbosilane and carbosiloxane repeat units in the final material. Also, increasing cross-link density by using cross-linkable chain-end groups and increasing the run length of the soft phase, maximizing phase separation and elasticity, allows for the synthesis of elastic thermosets exhibiting good tensile strength. Adding a trifunctional ADMET active chain-end cross-linker to the system improved the mechanical behavior of the resulting polymer.
FILED	Monday, July 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/176831
ART UNIT	1796 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/35
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07754850 — Chimeric disintegrin domain

US 07754850	Minea et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Pivotal BioSciences, Inc. (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Radu O. Minea (Arcadia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to methods of expressing eukaryotic proteins in prokaryotic hosts, particularly eukaryotic proteins that require formation of disulfide bridges for biological activity. Various approaches are used including fusion to thioredoxin, cytoplasmic expression of disulfide isomerases, deficiencies in thioredoxin and/or glutathione reductases, deficiencies in proteases, and the like. The method is applicable to express monomeric and dimeric forms of the eukaryotic protein with biological activity such as monomeric and dimeric forms of a disintegrin or a disintegrin domain. Included are the vectors, host cells expressing the proteins, the expressed proteins and methods of using the proteins.
FILED	Thursday, February 09, 2006
APPL NO	11/351311
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300
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07754907 — Allosterically catalyzed signal amplification in chemical and biological sensing

US 07754907	Mirkin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Nathan C. Gianneschi (San Diego, California); Jungseok Heo (Glenview, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Coordination complexes having at least two structural conformations are disclosed. The coordination complexes contain at least one metal center and at least one hemi-labile ligand, and change structural conformations due to the presence or absence of allosteric effectors. Methods of detecting an analyte using the coordination complexes are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, August 18, 2005
APPL NO	11/658606
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 556/14
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07754964 — Apparatus and methods for solar energy conversion using nanocoax structures

US 07754964	Kempa et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Krysztof J. Kempa (Billerica, Massachusetts); Michael J. Naughton (Norwood, Massachusetts); Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Yang Wang (Allston, Massachusetts); Jakub A. Rybczynski (Allston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus and method for solar conversion using nanocoax structures are disclosed herein. A nano-optics apparatus for use as a solar cell comprising a plurality of nano-coaxial structures comprising an internal conductor surrounded by a semiconducting material coated with an outer conductor; a film having the plurality of nano-coaxial structures; and a protruding portion of the an internal conductor extending beyond a surface of the film. A method of fabricating a solar cell comprising: coating a substrate with a catalytic material; growing a plurality of carbon nanotubes as internal cores of nanocoax units on the substrate; oxidizing the substrate; coating with a semiconducting film; and filling with a metallic medium that wets the semiconducting film of the nanocoax units.
FILED	Monday, April 10, 2006
APPL NO	11/401606
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255
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07755041 — Optical and laser differential absorption remote detection of TATP peroxide based explosives

US 07755041	Killinger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); University of Central Florida Research Foundation (Orlando, Florida); NEWTEC Service Group, Inc. (Edgefield, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis K. Killinger (Temple Terrace, Florida); Michael Sigman (Orlando, Florida); Michael Maston (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Keith Williams (Edgefield, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A triacetone triperoxide cloud associated with a triacetone triperoxide explosive attached to a hard target is remotely detected by operating differential-absorption lidar lasers to transmit a laser beam toward the hard target at differing wavelengths. A backscattered laser beam reflected from the lidar target (hard target, person, aerosols, clouds, buildings) is detected because a cloud of triacetone triperoxide in front of the lidar target and between the lidar target and the differential-absorption lidar system produces a differential-absorption signal having characteristics that identify the triacetone triperoxide. In a second embodiment, a triacetone triperoxide cloud that is absorbing optical radiation from its ambient environment and which is attached to a hard target is detected from a location remote from the triacetone triperoxide explosive by detecting an optical radiation absorption signature characterized by triacetone triperoxide absorption lines.
FILED	Wednesday, November 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/560192
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/300
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07755068 — Laser-accelerated proton therapy units and superconducting electromagnet systems for same

US 07755068	Ma et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Chang Ming Ma (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania); Eugene S Fourkal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jinsheng Li (Maple Glen, Pennsylvania); Wei Luo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Compact particle selection and collimation devices are disclosed for delivering beams of ions with desired energy spectra. These devices are useful with laser-accelerated ion therapy systems, in which the initial ions have broad energy and angular distributions. Superconducting electromagnet systems produce a desired magnetic field configuration to spread the ions with different energies and emitting angles for particle selection. The simulation of ion transport in the presence of the magnetic field shows that the selected ions are successfully refocused on the beam axis after passing through the magnetic field. Dose distributions are also provided using Monte Carlo simulations of the laser-accelerated ion beams for radiation therapy applications.
FILED	Wednesday, December 21, 2005
APPL NO	11/720873
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/492.300
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07755326 — Battery monitoring and charging system

US 07755326	Thivierge
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel P. Thivierge (Warren, Rhode Island)
ABSTRACT	A battery monitoring device for a battery having cells grouped in modules. The device includes a monitoring circuit for each module which monitors the voltage in each cell and the overall module voltage. The monitoring circuits can also detect module temperatures. The monitoring circuits are networked to a control computer. The device can be used with a power supply and relays for each module to interrupt charging when a fault condition is detected by the monitoring circuits. Other features of the device allow equalization of cells having excessive voltages.
FILED	Tuesday, July 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/831197
ART UNIT	2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Battery or capacitor charging or discharging 320/116
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07755825 — Method of fabricating an optical modulator

US 07755825	Padilla et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Rudy S. Padilla (San Diego, California); Michael G. Lovern (Chula Vista, California); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Randy L. Shimabukuro (Kapolei, Hawaii)
ABSTRACT	A method of fabricating an optical modulator on a silicon substrate, comprising: forming a silicon nitride layer on the silicon substrate; forming a first polycrystalline silicon layer (PSL) on the silicon nitride layer; patterning the first PSL; forming a first silicon dioxide layer (SDL) on the first patterned PSL; patterning the first SDL; forming a second PSL on the first patterned SDL; patterning the second PSL; forming a second SDL on the second patterned PSL; patterning the second SDL; forming a third PSL on the second patterned SDL; patterning the third PSL; forming a metal layer on the third patterned PSL; patterning the metal layer; removing the first and second SDLs to effect release of first and second side reflectors; forming an active layer on the metal layer; and patterning the active layer or stack to form a base reflector and associated conductive traces for biasing.
FILED	Wednesday, June 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/762166
ART UNIT	2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/237
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07755828 — Method for optical control of microwave phase

US 07755828	Currie et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Marc Currie (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Igor Vurgaftman (Odenton, Maryland); Janet W Lou (Alexandria, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for modifying the detected phase of a signal by driving a photodetector into saturation. This system and method differs from current manual and electrical microwave phase modification by using saturation means for modifying the phase. The system and method may use a plurality of the signal generators for saturating the photodetector.
FILED	Friday, December 14, 2007
APPL NO	11/956626
ART UNIT	2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/279
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07756175 — Pumped semiconductor laser systems and methods

US 07756175	Hoffman
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert C. Hoffman (Woodstock, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method for emitting laser radiation includes: emitting first laser radiation using a first laser, wherein said first laser is a laser diode; receiving the first laser radiation by a second laser comprising CdSe_(1-x)S_x(cadmium selenium sulfide, cadmium selenium, or cadmium sulfide), wherein x is between 0 and 1, inclusively; and responsive to receiving the first laser radiation by the second laser, emitting second laser radiation by the second laser via the CdSe_(1-x)S_x; wherein the second laser radiation has a wavelength between 487 nm and 690 nm; and wherein the wavelength of the second laser radiation is responsive to the value of x, which represents the relative concentration of selenium and/or sulfur.
FILED	Thursday, October 30, 2008
APPL NO	12/261391
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/39
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07756185 — Hardened pump laser and method of making the same

US 07756185	Fay et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Josiah W. Fay (Highland Park, New Jersey); Joseph Leone (Oak Ridge, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A hardened pump laser comprises a hardened pump chamber that combines the functions of a conventional flash lamp and a conventional laser cavity flow tube. The hardened pump chamber comprises a hardened filter tube and electrodes. The electrodes are sealed to the hardened filter tube. A chamber in the hardened filter tube is filled with gas through the electrodes, then sealed. The hardened pump chamber performs the laser pumping function while further performing filtering and diffusion functions.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/998979
ART UNIT	2828 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Coherent light generators 372/90
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07756342 — Method for image data processing

US 07756342	Bachmann et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles M Bachmann (Burke, Virginia); Thomas L Ainsworth (Burke, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A method for exploiting the nonlinear structure of hyperspectral imagery employs a manifold coordinate system that preserves geodesic distances in the high-dimensional hyperspectral data space. Data representing physical parameters such as a scene is divided into a set of smaller tiles. The manifolds derived from the individual tiles are then aligned and stitched together to complete the scene. Coordinates are derived for a very large although not complete representative subset of the data termed the “backbone”. Manifold coordinates are derived for this representative backbone and then the remaining samples inserted into the backbone using a reconstruction principle using the property of local linearity everywhere on the manifold to reconstruct the manifold coordinates for the samples not originally belonging to the backbone. The output is a global manifold coordinate system, which for topographical image data depicts clearer detail of land and water portions of a scene.
FILED	Tuesday, September 20, 2005
APPL NO	11/239447
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/224
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07756557 — AC-tolerant HTS coated conductor with transposed filaments

US 07756557	Barnes et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul N. Barnes (West Milton, Ohio); Milan Polak (Bratislava, Slovakia); Chakrapani Varanasi (Dayton, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	An AC-tolerant high temperature superconductor tape with transposed filaments having two layers of high temperature superconducting material with striations and corresponding filaments and an insulating layer positioned therebetween.
FILED	Thursday, November 30, 2006
APPL NO	11/565037
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/231
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07756685 — Method for automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data

US 07756685	Zhang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Zhongfei Zhang (Vestal, New York); John J. Salerno (Utica, New York)
ABSTRACT	Method for automatic community model generation based on uni-parity data. Correlation analysis is employed to identify links within the community. Method may be particularized for solving specific problems such as determining the activities between individuals within a money laundering ring.
FILED	Monday, March 15, 2004
APPL NO	10/800489
ART UNIT	2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2
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07756689 — Numerical modeling of six-degree-freedom ship motion

US 07756689	Lin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ray-Qing Lin (Clarksville, Maryland); Weijia Kuang (Columbia, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention's new calculative methodology models the motion of a seagoing vessel in six dimensions, uniquely employing a total velocity potential as the sole parameterization for taking into consideration all linear and nonlinear dynamical effects involved in interaction between the vessel and environmental water. The solid-body rotational motion of the vessel about the vessel's center of mass is determined in three dimensions (roll, pitch, yaw) by calculating the pressure torque and the buoyancy torque. The solid-body translational motion of the vessel's center of mass is determined in three dimensions (heave, surge, sway) by calculating the pressure force and the buoyancy force. The pressure torque and the pressure force are each associated with pressure (e.g., non-hydrostatic pressure) of water on the vessel's surface. The buoyancy torque and the buoyancy force are each associated with the displacement of the vessel with respect to the vessel's equilibrium position in the water.
FILED	Thursday, February 22, 2007
APPL NO	11/713838
ART UNIT	2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2
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07756710 — Method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications

US 07756710	Franco et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	SRI International (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Horacio Franco (Menlo Park, California); Gregory Myers (San Francisco, California); Jing Zheng (Sunnyvale, California); Federico Cesari (Menlo Park, California); Cregg Cowan (Mountain View, California)
ABSTRACT	In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for error correction in speech recognition applications. In one embodiment, a method for recognizing user speech includes receiving a first utterance from the user, receiving a subsequent utterance from the user, and combining acoustic evidence from the first utterance with acoustic evidence from the subsequent utterance in order to recognize the first utterance. It is assumed that, if the first utterance has been incorrectly recognized on a first attempt, the user will repeat the first utterance (or at least the incorrectly recognized portion of the first utterance) in the subsequent utterance.
FILED	Thursday, July 13, 2006
APPL NO	11/486266
ART UNIT	2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/255
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07756722 — Clinical management system from chronic illnesses using telecommunication

US 07756722	Levine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Betty A. Levine (Bethesda, Maryland); Stephen C. Clement (McLean, Virginia); Seong Ki Mun (McLean, Virginia); Adil Alaoui (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Tang Ming-Jye Hu (Springfield, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Patients with chronic illnesses resist using conventional automated healthcare management systems to supply necessary clinical data because such systems feel impersonal, preferring to actually visit a clinic where the patient interacts with various healthcare practitioners. In this invention, the patient interacts with a clinical management system via a series of initial GUI screens that replicate the experience of actually visiting the clinic. Additional screens allow the patient to submit clinical information, to communicate with that patient's healthcare practitioner and other healthcare practitioners, to access management information that aids the patient in managing that patient's chronic illness, and to access educational information regarding that chronic illness. The clinical management system may be used to manage a plurality of different chronic illnesses while providing a consistent look and feel to the screens. At least one appearance characteristic can be altered to indicate the particular chronic illness to which a screen applies.
FILED	Tuesday, October 02, 2001
APPL NO	09/967923
ART UNIT	3687 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/2
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07756907 — Computer systems and methods for visualizing data

US 07756907	Stolte et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for forming a visual plot using a hierarchical structure of a dataset. The dataset comprises a measure and a dimension. The dimension consists of a plurality of levels. The plurality of levels form a dimension hierarchy. The visual plot is constructed based on a specification. A first level from the plurality of levels is represented by a first component of the visual plot. A second level from the plurality of levels is represented by a second component of the visual plot. The dataset is queried to retrieve data in accordance with the specification. The data includes all or a portion of the dimension and all or a portion of the measure. The visual plot is populated with the retrieved data in accordance with the specification.
FILED	Tuesday, September 16, 2003
APPL NO	10/667194
ART UNIT	2158 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/805
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07757049 — Method and system for file access using a shared memory

US 07757049	Hastings et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew B. Hastings (Eagan, Minnesota); Anton B. Rang (Houlton, Wisconsin); Alok N. Choudhary (Chicago, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	A method for processing using a shared file that includes allocating a first working buffer between the shared file and a plurality of address spaces, wherein each of the plurality of address spaces is associated with one of a plurality of processors, copying first data from the shared file to the first working buffer by a first aggregator copying the first data from the first working buffer to the plurality of address spaces by the first aggregator, processing the first data, in parallel, by the plurality of processors to obtain a result, wherein the plurality of processors access data from the plurality of address spaces, and storing the result in the shared memory.
FILED	Friday, November 17, 2006
APPL NO	11/601517
ART UNIT	2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/148
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07757083 — Integrated circuit that uses a dynamic characteristic of the circuit

US 07757083	Devadas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Srinivas Devadas (Lexington, Massachusetts); Blaise Gassend (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	An integrated circuit has a first component that has a dynamic characteristic that varies among like integrated circuits, for example, among integrated circuits fabricated using the same lithography mask. Operating the first component produces an output that is dependent on the dynamic characteristic of the first component. A digital value associated with the integrated circuit is generated using the output of the first component, and then the generated digital value is used in operation of the integrated circuit.
FILED	Thursday, June 01, 2006
APPL NO	11/421577
ART UNIT	2431 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168
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07757272 — Method and apparatus for dynamic mapping

US 07757272	Dean
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc. (New York, New York); BBN Technologies Corp. (New York, New York); Level 3 Communications, LLC (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael Anthony Dean (Liberty Lake, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A system for mapping and translating address information in a network is provided. The system includes a client-side address translator (120) and a server-side address translator (140). The client-side address translator (120) is configured to receive a data packet from a client (110). The data packet includes a first destination address representing the real destination address. The client-side address translator (120) maps the first destination address to another address using a mapping algorithm and transmits the data packet with the via the network (160). The server-side address translator (140) receives the data packet, translates the mapped address information back to the real destination address and forwards the data packet using the real destination address.
FILED	Wednesday, June 14, 2000
APPL NO	09/594100
ART UNIT	2435 — Cryptography and Security
CURRENT CPC	Information security 726/2
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

07752898 — Devices for probe microscopy

US 07752898	Degertekin
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia)
INVENTOR(S)	Fahrettin L. Degertekin (Atlanta, Georgia)
ABSTRACT	An atomic force microscope sensing structure includes a substrate, a flexible membrane and an actuating element. The flexible membrane has a first end that is clamped to the substrate and an opposite second end that is clamped to the substrate. A central portion of the membrane and the substrate define a first gap width therebetween. A peripheral portion of the membrane and the substrate define a second gap width therebetween. The first gap width is different from the second gap width. The actuating element is disposed at least adjacent to the first end and the second end and is configured to displace the membrane relative to the substrate.
FILED	Tuesday, August 14, 2007
APPL NO	11/838833
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/105
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07753840 — Tissue material process for forming bioprosthesis

US 07753840	Simionescu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Clemson University (, None)
INVENTOR(S)	Dan T. Simionescu (Central, South Carolina); Narendra Vyavahare (Easley, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A biomaterial useful for bioprostheses such as bioprosthetic heart valves is provided in which the fixed tissue has improved elastic properties. The high elastin-containing biomaterial is further characterized by having anisotropic properties wherein the biological material has a greater stiffness in one direction and a greater elasticity in a cross direction. For instance, the biological material has an elastin content of about 30% by weight. In one embodiment, the biological material is vena cava tissue.
FILED	Tuesday, September 05, 2006
APPL NO	11/515963
ART UNIT	3774 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/36
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07753847 — Ultrasound vibrometry

US 07753847	Greenleaf et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	James Fowler Greenleaf (Rochester, Minnesota); Shigao Chen (Rochester, Minnesota); Yi Zheng (Cold Spring, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	A method for measuring a mechanical property of a subject includes using an ultrasonic transducer to apply ultrasonic vibration pulses to a vibration origin in the subject in an on-off time sequence in order to impart a harmonic motion at a prescribed frequency to the subject, and when the vibration pulses are off, using the same transducer to apply ultrasonic detection pulses to a motion detection point and to receive echo signals therefrom in order to sense the harmonic motion on the subject at the motion detection point. From the harmonic signal information, a harmonic signal is detected and a characteristic such as amplitude or phase of the detected harmonic signal is measured. The mechanical property is calculated using the measured characteristic using for example a wave speed dispersion method.
FILED	Thursday, September 28, 2006
APPL NO	11/536330
ART UNIT	3768 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/438
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07754010 — Microfabricated elastomeric valve and pump systems

US 07754010	Unger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Markus M. Enzelberger (Pasadena, California); Mark L. Adams (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate.
FILED	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/932171
ART UNIT	1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68
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07754206 — Method for treating cancer using a Notch4 ligand antagonist

US 07754206	Clarke et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael F. Clarke (Palo Alto, California); Max S. Wicha (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Muhammad Al-Hajj (La Jolla, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods for treating cancer via administering to a patient having a solid tumor a therapeutically effective amount of an antibody against Delta-like ligand 4 (D114). The solid tumor may comprise solid tumor stem cells.
FILED	Friday, December 01, 2006
APPL NO	11/607780
ART UNIT	1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100
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07754219 — Methods of delivery of exogenous proteins to the cytosol and uses thereof

US 07754219	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Yichen Lu (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Huyen Cao (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to a method for delivering exogenous proteins to the cytosol, by binding a target antigen (such as a protein) to a transport factor that contains a fragment of a bipartite protein exotoxin, but not the corresponding protective antigen. Preferably, the target antigen is fused to the transport factor. Preferred transport factors include the protective antigen binding domain of lethal factor (LFn) from B. anthracis, consisting of amino acids 1-255, preferably a fragment of at least 80 amino acids that shows at least 80% homology to LFn, and a fragment of about 105 amino acids from the carboxy portion that does not bind PA. The target antigen can include any molecule for which it would be desirable to elicit a CMI response, including viral antigens and tumor antigens.
FILED	Thursday, March 28, 2002
APPL NO	10/473190
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100
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07754224 — P153 and p156 antigens for the immunodiagnosis of canine and human ehrlichioses and uses thereof

US 07754224	McBride et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada)
INVENTOR(S)	Jere W. McBride (League City, Texas); David H. Walker (Galveston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Sequences encoding two immunoreactive glycoproteins were cloned from Ehrlichia canis (p153 gene) and Ehrlichia chaffeensis (p156 gene). These two glycoproteins are species-specific immunoreactive orthologs that are useful as subunit vaccines and for serologic and molecular diagnostics for E. canis and E. chaffeensis.
FILED	Monday, March 12, 2007
APPL NO	11/684832
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100
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07754227 — Method of immunizing humans against Salmonella typhi using a Vi-rEPA conjugate vaccine

US 07754227	Kossaczka et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Zuzana Kossaczka (Bethesda, Maryland); Shousun Chen Szu (Bethesda, Maryland); John B. Robbins (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Rachel Schneerson (Bethesda, Maryland); Joseph Shiloach (Rockville, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to conjugates of the Vi polysaccharide of S. typhi with the carrier Pseudomonas aeruginosa recombinant exoprotein A (rEPA), and compositions thereof, and to methods of using of these conjugates and/or compositions thereof for eliciting an immunogenic response in humans, including responses which provide protection against, or reduce the severity of, S. typhi bacterial infections. The conjugates, and compositions thereof, are useful as vaccines to induce serum antibodies against S. typhi and are useful to prevent and/or treat illnesses caused by S. typhi.
FILED	Tuesday, March 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/726304
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/258.100
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07754420 — Methods of using cyanovirins to inhibit viral infection

US 07754420	Boyd
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael R. Boyd (Mobile, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods of treating a viral infection of a host using antiviral proteins (collectively referred to as cyanovirins).
FILED	Friday, May 14, 2004
APPL NO	10/846265
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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07754432 — Methods for determining oligosaccharide binding

US 07754432	Rosenberg et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert D. Rosenberg (Staten Island, New York); Zhengliang Wu (Edina, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to methods for detecting and characterizing enzymatic modifications of oligosaccharides, such as heparan sulfate, and their interaction with binding partners, such as proteins, using an oligosaccharide-binding partner binding assay, such as a gel mobility shift assay. The instant invention relates to a rapid, convenient, sensitive and inexpensive method for identifying or studying oligosaccharide-binding partner interactions, identifying and characterizing structural features on oligosaccharides, identifying and characterizing binding partners, identifying agents capable of interfering with, enhancing, or facilitating the binding of an oligosaccharide to its binding partner, diagnosing conditions associated with altered oligosaccharide-binding partner binding, and generating oligosaccharide libraries and kits therefor.
FILED	Tuesday, October 01, 2002
APPL NO	10/263338
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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07754435 — Prostate cancer-related compositions, methods, and kits based on DNA macroarray proteomics platforms

US 07754435	Stearns et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark Stearns (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Youji Hu (Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania); Min Wang (Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to novel nucleic acids encoding a mammalian PCADM-1 gene, and proteins encoded thereby, whose expression is increased in certain diseases, disorders, or conditions, including, but not limited to, prostate cancer. The invention further relates to methods of detecting and treating prostate cancer, comprising modulating or detecting PCADM-1 expression and/or production and activity of PCADM-1 polypeptide. Further, the invention relates to novel assays for the identification of DNA-binding proteins and the double-stranded oligonucleotide sequences that specifically bind with them. Finally, the invention relates to DNAZYMs or DNA enzymes which specifically bind PCADM-1 mRNA to inhibit PCADM-1 gene expression and thereby destroy tumor cells and tumor tissue.
FILED	Tuesday, November 02, 2004
APPL NO	10/979976
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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07754463 — Inhibitors of USP1 Deubiquitinating Enzyme Complex

US 07754463	D'Andrea
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Alan D'Andrea (Winchester, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions and methods used to inhibit USP1 deubiquitinase activity and to identify new inhibitors of USP1 deubiquitinase. The inhibitors can be used to treat or prevent cancer, bone marrow failure, and damage to cells or DNA resulting from genotoxic agents such as antineoplasic agents, including chemotherapeutic agents and radiation. The inhibitors include siRNA directed at inhibiting the expression of USP1 or UAF1, a protein which forms a heterodimeric complex with USP1. The inhibitors can be used to enhance cell survival if administered either before or after radiation exposure. Methods are also provided to enhance chemotherapy or radiotherapy of cancer and to enhance DNA repair. Transgenic knockout animals and knockdown cells are provided, whose USP1 expression is impaired.
FILED	Wednesday, June 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/820674
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/226
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07754467 — Surface expression of biologically active proteins in bacteria

US 07754467	Chang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Osel, Inc. (Santa Clara, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Chia-Hwa Chang (Mountain View, California); Xiaowen Liu (Cupertino, California); John A. Lewicki (Los Gatos, California); Qiang Xu (Cupertino, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and compositions for targeting heterologous polypeptides to bacterial cell walls are provided.
FILED	Wednesday, January 28, 2004
APPL NO	10/766993
ART UNIT	1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300
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07754480 — Method of isolating stem cells

US 07754480	Smith et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Clayton A. Smith (Tampa, Florida); Michael Colvin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Robert W. Storms (Durham, North Carolina); Susan M. Ludeman (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates, in general, to stem cells, and in particular, to a method of isolating stem cells and to reagents suitable for use in such a method. The invention further relates to stem cell populations isolatable in accordance with the present method.
FILED	Tuesday, October 11, 2005
APPL NO	11/247764
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372
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07754482 — Artificial antigen presenting cells and uses therefor

US 07754482	Riley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	James L. Riley (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Carl H. June (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Robert H. Vonderheide (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Nicole Aqui (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Megan M. Suhoski (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to novel artificial antigen presenting cells (aAPCs). The aAPC comprises at least one stimulatory ligand and at least one co-stimulatory ligand where the ligands each specifically bind with a cognate molecule on a T cell of interest, thereby mediating expansion of the T cell. The aAPC of the invention can further comprise additional molecules useful for expanding a T cell of interest. The aAPC of the invention can be used as an “off the shelf” APC that can be readily designed to expand a T cell of interest. Also, the aAPC of the invention can be used identify the stimulatory, co-stimulatory, and any other factors that mediate growth and expansion of a T cell of interest. Thus, the present invention provides powerful tools for development of novel therapeutics where activation and expansion of a T cell can provide a benefit.
FILED	Wednesday, May 25, 2005
APPL NO	11/137807
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375
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07754676 — Defensin-antigen fusion proteins

US 07754676	Kwak et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Larry W. Kwak (Frederick, Maryland); Arya Biragyn (Frederick, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a vaccine for increasing the immunogenicity of a tumor antigen thus allowing treatment of cancer, as well as a vaccine that increases the immunogenicity of a viral antigen, thus allowing treatment of viral infection, including immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In particular, the present invention provides a fusion protein comprising a defensin fused to either a tumor antigen or viral antigen which is administered as either a protein or nucleic acid vaccine to elicit an immune response effective in treating cancer or effective in treating or preventing viral infection.
FILED	Monday, September 17, 2001
APPL NO	10/380926
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2
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07754703 — Cycloalkane-containing sphingosine 1-phosphate agonists

US 07754703	Lynch et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottseville, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides sphingosine-1-phosphate analogs that are potent, and selective agonists at one or more S1P receptors, specifically the S1P₁receptor type. The compounds invention include compounds having a phosphate moiety as well as compounds with hydrolysis-resistant phosphate surrogates such as phosphonates, alpha-substituted phosphonates, and phosphothionates.
FILED	Tuesday, February 14, 2006
APPL NO	11/816258
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/114
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07754705 — Cationic steroid antimicrobial compositions and methods of use

US 07754705	Savage et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul B. Savage (Mapleton, Utah); Donald Y Leung (Englewood, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods for decreasing or inhibiting poxvirus infection or pathogenesis of a cell in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo, a symptom or pathology associated with poxvirus infection or pathogenesis in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo, or an adverse side effect of poxvirus infection or pathogenesis in vitro, ex vivo or in vivo. In one embodiment, a method of the invention includes treating a subject with an invention compound (e.g., cationic steroid antimicrobial or CSA).
FILED	Wednesday, January 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/669866
ART UNIT	1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/182
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07754718 — Antiviral helioxanthin analogs

US 07754718	Yeo et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Hosup Yeo (Daegu, South Korea); David J. Austin (New York, New York); Ling Li (Bellaire, Texas); Yung-chi Cheng (Woodbridge, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to novel antiviral helioxanthin analogs. These compounds may particularly be used alone or in combination with other drugs for the treatment of the following: hepadnaviruses, flaviviruses, herpesviruses and human immunodeficiency virus. In addition, compounds according to the present invention can be used to prevent or reduce the likelihood of the occurrence of tumors secondary to virus infection as well as other infections or disease states that are secondary to the virus infection.
FILED	Monday, May 02, 2005
APPL NO	11/579284
ART UNIT	1626 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/248
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07754773 — Composition and synthesis of new reagents for inhibition of HIV replication

US 07754773	Rana et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Tariq M. Rana (San Diego, California); Mario Stevenson (Worcester, Massachusetts); Robin Scott Nathans (Norfolk, Massachusetts); Hong Cao (Westborough, Massachusetts); Akbar Ali (Worcester, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compounds and compositions for inhibiting Vif and methods for treating viral infection, e.g., HIV infection.
FILED	Friday, October 06, 2006
APPL NO	11/544068
ART UNIT	1624 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/721
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07754850 — Chimeric disintegrin domain

US 07754850	Minea et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Pivotal BioSciences, Inc. (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Radu O. Minea (Arcadia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to methods of expressing eukaryotic proteins in prokaryotic hosts, particularly eukaryotic proteins that require formation of disulfide bridges for biological activity. Various approaches are used including fusion to thioredoxin, cytoplasmic expression of disulfide isomerases, deficiencies in thioredoxin and/or glutathione reductases, deficiencies in proteases, and the like. The method is applicable to express monomeric and dimeric forms of the eukaryotic protein with biological activity such as monomeric and dimeric forms of a disintegrin or a disintegrin domain. Included are the vectors, host cells expressing the proteins, the expressed proteins and methods of using the proteins.
FILED	Thursday, February 09, 2006
APPL NO	11/351311
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300
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07754852 — Natriuretic polypeptides

US 07754852	Burnett, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota); Candace Y. W. Lee (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	This document provides natriuretic polypeptides. For example, this document provides polypeptides having a natriuretic activity. In some cases, a polypeptide provided herein can have natriuretic activities, while lacking the ability to lower blood pressure. This document also provides methods and materials for inducing natriuretic activities within a mammal.
FILED	Friday, July 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/175779
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324
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07754865 — Compositions and methods for enhancing the identification of prion protein PrP^Sc

US 07754865	Supattapone et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)
INVENTOR(S)	Surachai Supattapone (Hanover, New Hampshire); Nathan R. Deleault (Lyme, New Hampshire)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compositions, methods and kits for enhancing the amplification of PrP^scfor use in increasing the sensitivity of identifying the presence of PrP^scin a sample.
FILED	Wednesday, May 05, 2004
APPL NO	10/553591
ART UNIT	1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/23.100
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07754874 — Neoglycorandomization and digitoxin analogs

US 07754874	Thorson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Jon S. Thorson (Middleton, Wisconsin); Joseph M. Langenhan (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods of producing libraries of compounds with enhanced desirable properties and diminished side effects as well as the compounds produced by the methods. In preferred embodiments, methods of the present invention use a universal chemical glycosylation method that employs reducing sugars and requires no protection or activation. In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides a library of neoglycoside digitoxin analogs that includes compounds with significantly enhanced cytotoxic potency toward human cancer cells and tumor-specificity, but are less potent Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase inhibitors in a human cell line than digitoxin.
FILED	Friday, June 24, 2005
APPL NO	11/166881
ART UNIT	1623 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 536/29.100
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07755038 — Nanostructured thin films and their uses

US 07755038	Niu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Chunming Niu (Palo Alto, California); Robert Hugh Daniels (Mountain View, California); Robert S. Dubrow (San Carlos, California); Jay L. Goldman (Mountain View, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention generally discloses the use of a nanostructured non-silicon thin film (such as an alumina or aluminum thin film) on a supporting substrate which is subsequently coated with an active layer of a material such as silicon or tungsten. The base, underlying non-silicon material generates enhanced surface area while the active layer assists in incorporating and transferring energy to one or more analytes adsorbed on the active layer when irradiated with a laser during laser desorption of the analyte(s). The present invention provides substrate surfaces that can be produced by relatively straightforward and inexpensive manufacturing processes and which can be used for a variety of applications such as mass spectrometry, hydrophobic or hydrophilic coatings, medical device applications, electronics, catalysis, protection, data storage, optics, and sensors.
FILED	Thursday, May 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/121008
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/288
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07755068 — Laser-accelerated proton therapy units and superconducting electromagnet systems for same

US 07755068	Ma et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Chang Ming Ma (Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania); Eugene S Fourkal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jinsheng Li (Maple Glen, Pennsylvania); Wei Luo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Compact particle selection and collimation devices are disclosed for delivering beams of ions with desired energy spectra. These devices are useful with laser-accelerated ion therapy systems, in which the initial ions have broad energy and angular distributions. Superconducting electromagnet systems produce a desired magnetic field configuration to spread the ions with different energies and emitting angles for particle selection. The simulation of ion transport in the presence of the magnetic field shows that the selected ions are successfully refocused on the beam axis after passing through the magnetic field. Dose distributions are also provided using Monte Carlo simulations of the laser-accelerated ion beams for radiation therapy applications.
FILED	Wednesday, December 21, 2005
APPL NO	11/720873
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/492.300
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07756563 — Guidance method based on 3D-2D pose estimation and 3D-CT registration with application to live bronchoscopy

US 07756563	Higgins et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	William E. Higgins (State College, Pennsylvania); Scott A. Merritt (State College, Pennsylvania); Lav Rai (State College, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	A method provides guidance to the physician during a live bronchoscopy or other endoscopic procedures. The 3D motion of the bronchoscope is estimated using a fast coarse tracking step followed by a fine registration step. The tracking is based on finding a set of corresponding feature points across a plurality of consecutive bronchoscopic video frames, then estimating for the new pose of the bronchoscope. In the preferred embodiment the pose estimation is based on linearization of the rotation matrix. By giving a set of corresponding points across the current bronchoscopic video image, and the CT-based virtual image as an input, the same method can also be used for manual registration. The fine registration step is preferably a gradient-based Gauss-Newton method that maximizes the correlation between the bronchoscopic video image and the CT-based virtual image. The continuous guidance is provided by estimating the 3D motion of the bronchoscope in a loop. Since depth-map information is available, tracking can be done by solving a 3D-2D pose estimation problem. A 3D-2D pose estimation problem is more constrained than a 2D-2D pose estimation problem and does not suffer from the limitations associated with computing an essential matrix. The use of correlation-based cost, instead of mutual information as a registration cost, makes it simpler to use gradient-based methods for registration.
FILED	Friday, May 19, 2006
APPL NO	11/437229
ART UNIT	3768 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/407
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07756674 — Methods of calculating differences of binding affinities between congeneric pairs of ligands by way of a displaced solvent functional

US 07756674	Young et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas Young (New York, New York); Robert Abel (Davie, Florida); Richard A. Friesner (New York, New York); Bruce J. Berne (Irvington, New York)
ABSTRACT	Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid.
FILED	Monday, November 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/982783
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/172
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07756722 — Clinical management system from chronic illnesses using telecommunication

US 07756722	Levine et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Betty A. Levine (Bethesda, Maryland); Stephen C. Clement (McLean, Virginia); Seong Ki Mun (McLean, Virginia); Adil Alaoui (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Tang Ming-Jye Hu (Springfield, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Patients with chronic illnesses resist using conventional automated healthcare management systems to supply necessary clinical data because such systems feel impersonal, preferring to actually visit a clinic where the patient interacts with various healthcare practitioners. In this invention, the patient interacts with a clinical management system via a series of initial GUI screens that replicate the experience of actually visiting the clinic. Additional screens allow the patient to submit clinical information, to communicate with that patient's healthcare practitioner and other healthcare practitioners, to access management information that aids the patient in managing that patient's chronic illness, and to access educational information regarding that chronic illness. The clinical management system may be used to manage a plurality of different chronic illnesses while providing a consistent look and feel to the screens. At least one appearance characteristic can be altered to indicate the particular chronic illness to which a screen applies.
FILED	Tuesday, October 02, 2001
APPL NO	09/967923
ART UNIT	3687 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/2
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Department of Energy (DOE)

07752850 — Controlled pilot oxidizer for a gas turbine combustor

US 07752850	Laster et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida); Ramarao V. Bandaru (Greer, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A combustor (22) for a gas turbine (10) includes a main burner oxidizer flow path (34) delivering a first portion (32) of an oxidizer flow (e.g., 16) to a main burner (28) of the combustor and a pilot oxidizer flow path (38) delivering a second portion (36) of the oxidizer flow to a pilot (30) of the combustor. The combustor also includes a flow controller (42) disposed in the pilot oxidizer flow path for controlling an amount of the second portion delivered to the pilot.
FILED	Friday, July 01, 2005
APPL NO	11/173655
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/794
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07752890 — Method and apparatus for continuous fluid leak monitoring and detection in analytical instruments and instrument systems

US 07752890	Weitz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Karl K. Weitz (Pasco, Washington); Ronald J. Moore (West Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method and device are disclosed that provide for detection of fluid leaks in analytical instruments and instrument systems. The leak detection device includes a collection tube, a fluid absorbing material, and a circuit that electrically couples to an indicator device. When assembled, the leak detection device detects and monitors for fluid leaks, providing a preselected response in conjunction with the indicator device when contacted by a fluid.
FILED	Thursday, November 08, 2007
APPL NO	11/936989
ART UNIT	2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/40.5R0
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07752899 — Spin microscope based on optically detected magnetic resonance

US 07752899	Berman et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Triad National Security, LLC (TRIAD) at Los Alamos, NM
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Gennady P. Berman (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Boris M. Chernobrod (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	The invention relates to scanning magnetic microscope which has a photoluminescent nanoprobe implanted in the tip apex of an atomic force microscope (AFM), a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) or a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) and exhibits optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) in the vicinity of unpaired electron spins or nuclear magnetic moments in the sample material. The described spin microscope has demonstrated nanoscale lateral resolution and single spin sensitivity for the AFM and STM embodiments.
FILED	Tuesday, August 28, 2007
APPL NO	11/845865
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/105
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07753656 — Magnetohydrodynamic pump with a system for promoting flow of fluid in one direction

US 07753656	Lemoff et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Asuncion V. Lemoff (Union City, California); Abraham P. Lee (Irvine, California)
ABSTRACT	A magnetohydrodynamic pump for pumping a fluid. The pump includes a microfluidic channel for channeling the fluid, a MHD electrode/magnet system operatively connected to the microfluidic channel, and a system for promoting flow of the fluid in one direction in the microfluidic channel. The pump has uses in the medical and biotechnology industries for blood-cell-separation equipment, biochemical assays, chemical synthesis, genetic analysis, drug screening, an array of antigen-antibody reactions, combinatorial chemistry, drug testing, medical and biological diagnostics, and combinatorial chemistry. The pump also has uses in electrochromatography, surface micromachining, laser ablation, inkjet printers, and mechanical micromilling.
FILED	Thursday, June 20, 2002
APPL NO	10/176942
ART UNIT	3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Pumps 417/50
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07754077 — Dialysis membrane for separation on microchips

US 07754077	Singh et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Anup K. Singh (San Francisco, California); Brian J. Kirby (San Francisco, California); Timothy J. Shepodd (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	Laser-induced phase-separation polymerization of a porous acrylate polymer is used for in-situ fabrication of dialysis membranes inside glass microchannels. A shaped 355 nm laser beam is used to produce a porous polymer membrane with a thickness of about 15 μm, which bonds to the glass microchannel and forms a semi-permeable membrane. Differential permeation through a membrane formed with pentaerythritol triacrylate was observed and quantified by comparing the response of the membrane to fluorescein and fluorescently tagging 200 nm latex microspheres. Differential permeation was observed and quantified by comparing the response to rhodamine 560 and lactalbumin protein in a membrane formed with SPE-methylene bisacrylamide. The porous membranes illustrate the capability for the present technique to integrate sample cleanup into chip-based analysis systems.
FILED	Thursday, July 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/825590
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Liquid purification or separation 210/321.600
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07754144 — High Nb, Ta, and Al creep- and oxidation-resistant austenitic stainless steel

US 07754144	Brady et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael P Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael L Santella (Knoxville, Tennessee); Yukinori Yamamoto (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Chain-tsuan Liu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	An austenitic stainless steel HTUPS alloy includes, in weight percent: 15 to 30 Ni; 10 to 15 Cr; 2 to 5 Al; 0.6 to 5 total of at least one of Nb and Ta; no more than 0.3 of combined Ti+V; up to 3 Mo; up to 3 Co; up to 1 W; up to 0.5 Cu; up to 4 Mn; up to 1 Si; 0.05 to 0.15 C; up to 0.15 B; up to 0.05 P; up to 1 total of at least one of Y, La, Ce, Hf, and Zr; less than 0.05 N; and base Fe, wherein the weight percent Fe is greater than the weight percent Ni wherein said alloy forms an external continuous scale comprising alumina, nanometer scale sized particles distributed throughout the microstructure, said particles comprising at least one composition selected from the group consisting of NbC and TaC, and a stable essentially single phase fcc austenitic matrix microstructure, said austenitic matrix being essentially delta-ferrite-free and essentially BCC-phase-free.
FILED	Wednesday, April 16, 2008
APPL NO	12/103837
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Alloys or metallic compositions 420/49
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07754170 — Method for scavenging mercury

US 07754170	Chang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Shih-ger Chang (El Cerrito, California); Shou-heng Liu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Zhao-rong Liu (Bejing, China PRC); Naiqiang Yan (Burkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a method for removing mercury from a gas stream comprising contacting the gas stream with a getter composition comprising bromine, bromochloride, sulphur bromide, sulphur dichloride or sulphur monochloride and mixtures thereof. In one preferred embodiment the getter composition is adsorbed onto a sorbent. The sorbent may be selected from the group consisting flyash, limestone, lime, calcium sulphate, calcium sulfite, activated carbon, charcoal, silicate, alumina and mixtures thereof. Preferred is flyash, activated carbon and silica.
FILED	Friday, January 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/355151
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210
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07754179 — Lower pressure synthesis of diamond material

US 07754179	Lueking et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Angela Lueking (State College, Pennsylvania); Humberto Gutierrez (State College, Pennsylvania); Deepa Narayanan (Redmond, Washington); Caroline E. Burgess Clifford (State College, Pennsylvania); Puja Jain (King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	Methods of synthesizing a diamond material, particularly nanocrystalline diamond, diamond-like carbon and bucky diamond are provided. In particular embodiments, a composition including a carbon source, such as coal, is subjected to addition of energy, such as high energy reactive milling, producing a milling product enriched in hydrogenated tetrahedral amorphous diamond-like carbon compared to the coal. A milling product is treated with heat, acid and/or base to produce nanocrystalline diamond and/or crystalline diamond-like carbon. Energy is added to produced crystalline diamond-like carbon in particular embodiments to produce bucky diamonds.
FILED	Wednesday, December 20, 2006
APPL NO	11/613968
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/446
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07754279 — Article coated with flash bonded superhydrophobic particles

US 07754279	Simpson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	John T Simpson (Clinton, Tennessee); Craig A Blue (Knoxville, Tennessee); James O Kiggans, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A method of making article having a superhydrophobic surface includes: providing a solid body defining at least one surface; applying to the surface a plurality of diatomaceous earth particles and/or particles characterized by particle sizes ranging from at least 100 nm to about 10 μm, the particles being further characterized by a plurality of nanopores, wherein at least some of the nanopores provide flow through porosity, the particles being further characterized by a plurality of spaced apart nanostructured features that include a contiguous, protrusive material; flash bonding the particles to the surface so that the particles are adherently bonded to the surface; and applying a hydrophobic coating layer to the surface and the particles so that the hydrophobic coating layer conforms to the nanostructured features.
FILED	Tuesday, February 05, 2008
APPL NO	12/025932
ART UNIT	1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/203
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07754281 — Preparation of membranes using solvent-less vapor deposition followed by in-situ polymerization

US 07754281	O'Brien et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin C. O'Brien (San Ramon, California); Stephan A. Letts (San Ramon, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Jeffrey C. Morse (Pleasant Hill, California); Steven R. Buckley (Modesto, California); Larry E. Fischer (Los Gatos, California); Keith B. Wilson (San Ramon, California)
ABSTRACT	A system of fabricating a composite membrane from a membrane substrate using solvent-less vapor deposition followed by in-situ polymerization. A first monomer and a second monomer are directed into a mixing chamber in a deposition chamber. The first monomer and the second monomer are mixed in the mixing chamber providing a mixed first monomer and second monomer. The mixed first monomer and second monomer are solvent-less vapor deposited onto the membrane substrate in the deposition chamber. The membrane substrate and the mixed first monomer and second monomer are heated to produce in-situ polymerization and provide the composite membrane.
FILED	Friday, July 14, 2006
APPL NO	11/486669
ART UNIT	1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/248.100
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07754305 — High Mn austenitic stainless steel

US 07754305	Yamamoto et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Yukinori Yamamoto (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Michael L Santella (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael P Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Philip J Maziasz (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Chain-tsuan Liu (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	An austenitic stainless steel alloy includes, in weight percent: >4 to 15 Mn; 8 to 15 Ni; 14 to 16 Cr; 2.4 to 3 Al; 0.4 to 1 total of at least one of Nb and Ta; 0.05 to 0.2 C; 0.01 to 0.02 B; no more than 0.3 of combined Ti+V; up to 3 Mo; up to 3 Co; up to 1W; up to 3 Cu; up to 1 Si; up to 0.05 P; up to 1 total of at least one of Y, La, Ce, Hf, and Zr; less than 0.05 N; and base Fe, wherein the weight percent Fe is greater than the weight percent Ni, and wherein the alloy forms an external continuous scale including alumina, nanometer scale sized particles distributed throughout the microstructure, the particles including at least one of NbC and TaC, and a stable essentially single phase FCC austenitic matrix microstructure that is essentially delta-ferrite-free and essentially BCC-phase-free.
FILED	Tuesday, July 29, 2008
APPL NO	12/181718
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/49
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07754352 — Amorphous semiconducting and conducting transparent metal oxide thin films and production thereof

US 07754352	Perkins et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	John Perkins (Boulder, Colorado); Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria Van Hest (Lakewood, Colorado); David Ginley (Evergreen, Colorado); Matthew Taylor (Golden, Colorado); George A. Neuman (Holland, Michigan); Henry A. Luten (Holland, Michigan); Jeffrey A. Forgette (Hudsonville, Michigan); John S. Anderson (Holland, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Metal oxide thin films and production thereof are disclosed. An exemplary method of producing a metal oxide thin film may comprise introducing at least two metallic elements and oxygen into a process chamber to form a metal oxide. The method may also comprise depositing the metal oxide on a substrate in the process chamber. The method may also comprise simultaneously controlling a ratio of the at least two metallic elements and a stoichiometry of the oxygen during deposition. Exemplary amorphous metal oxide thin films produced according to the methods herein may exhibit highly transparent properties, highly conductive properties, and/or other opto-electronic properties.
FILED	Friday, April 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/738344
ART UNIT	1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/702
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07754367 — Solid bonded interconnect system in a lightweight solid oxide fuel cell stack

US 07754367	Haltiner, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan); Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Subhasish Mukerjee (Pittsford, New York); Lawrence A. Chick (West Richland, Washington); Kerry D. Meinhardt (Kennewick, Washington); Vincent L. Sprenkle (Richland, Washington); Kenneth Scott Weil (Richland, Washington); Jin Yong Kim (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	An interconnect system including: a separator plate to provide an anode gas flow space; a first metal interconnect disposed between the separator plate and an anode surface; a nickel oxide paste applied in a pattern over the surface of the anode and adjacent surface of the separator plate which when sintered results in a first conductive layer bonded to the anode and the first interconnect, and a second conductive layer bonded to the first interconnect and the separator plate; a second metal interconnect disposed between a cathode surface of the cell and the separator plate of an adjacent cell cassette; and a silver-containing paste applied over the surface of the cathode and the separator plate which when sintered results in a third conductive layer bonded to the cathode and the second interconnect, and a fourth conductive layer bonded to the second interconnect and the separator plate.
FILED	Thursday, June 28, 2007
APPL NO	11/823591
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/38
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07754393 — Modular fuel-cell stack assembly

US 07754393	Patel
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Pinakin Patel (Danbury, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A fuel cell assembly having a plurality of fuel cells arranged in a stack. An end plate assembly abuts the fuel cell at an end of said stack. The end plate assembly has an inlet area adapted to receive an exhaust gas from the stack, an outlet area and a passage connecting the inlet area and outlet area and adapted to carry the exhaust gas received at the inlet area from the inlet area to the outlet area. A further end plate assembly abuts the fuel cell at a further opposing end of the stack. The further end plate assembly has a further inlet area adapted to receive a further exhaust gas from the stack, a further outlet area and a further passage connecting the further inlet area and further outlet area and adapted to carry the further exhaust gas received at the further inlet area from the further inlet area to the further outlet area.
FILED	Monday, January 07, 2008
APPL NO	11/970411
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/459
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07754470 — Nitroreductase enzymes for bioremediation

US 07754470	Matin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	A. C. Matin (Stanford, California); Yoram Barak (Menlo Park, California); David F. Ackerley (Wellington, New Zealand)
ABSTRACT	Compositions and methods are provided for bioremediation of toxic metals.
FILED	Wednesday, December 20, 2006
APPL NO	11/643199
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500
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07754641 — Hydrogen storage material and related processes

US 07754641	Soloveichik et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Grigorii Lev Soloveichik (Latham, New York); Matthew John Andrus (Cape Canaveral, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a complex hydride and a borohydride catalyst wherein the borohydride catalyst comprises a BH₄group, and a group IV metal, a group V metal, or a combination of a group IV and a group V metal. Also disclosed herein are methods of making the composition.
FILED	Thursday, February 14, 2008
APPL NO	12/031336
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/114
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07754664 — Lubricants or lubricant additives composed of ionic liquids containing ammonium cations

US 07754664	Qu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Jun Qu (Knoxville, Tennessee); John J. Truhan, Jr. (Cookeville, Tennessee); Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Huimin Luo (Knoxville, Tennessee); Peter J. Blau (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A lubricant or lubricant additive is an ionic liquid alkylammonium salt. The alkylammonium salt has the structure R_xNH_(4-x)⁺,[F₃C(CF₂)_yS(O)₂]₂N⁻ where x is 1 to 3, R is independently C₁to C₁₂straight chain alkyl, branched chain alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkyl substituted cycloalkyl, cycloalkyl substituted alkyl, or, optionally, when x is greater than 1, two R groups comprise a cyclic structure including the nitrogen atom and 4 to 12 carbon atoms, and y is independently 0 to 11. The lubricant is effective for the lubrication of many surfaces including aluminum and ceramics surfaces.
FILED	Tuesday, September 19, 2006
APPL NO	11/533098
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/547
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07755015 — Real-time multiplicity counter

US 07755015	Rowland et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark S. Rowland (Alamo, California); Raymond A. Alvarez (Berkeley, California)
ABSTRACT	A neutron multi-detector array feeds pulses in parallel to individual inputs that are tied to individual bits in a digital word. Data is collected by loading a word at the individual bit level in parallel. The word is read at regular intervals, all bits simultaneously, to minimize latency. The electronics then pass the word to a number of storage locations for subsequent processing, thereby removing the front-end problem of pulse pileup.
FILED	Wednesday, March 12, 2008
APPL NO	12/047297
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/207
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07755054 — Lutetium gadolinium halide scintillators

US 07755054	Shah et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Kanai S. Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); William M Higgins (Westborough, Massachusetts); Edgar V Van Loef (Allston, Massachusetts); Jaroslaw Glodo (Allston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Lutetium gadolinium halide scintillators, devices and methods, including a composition having the formula Lu_xGd_(1-x)Halide and a dopant.
FILED	Friday, December 12, 2008
APPL NO	12/334351
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/361.R00
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07755069 — Ultra-bright pulsed electron beam with low longitudinal emittance

US 07755069	Zolotorev
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by University of California (UC BERKELEY) at Berkeley, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Max Zolotorev (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	A high-brightness pulsed electron source, which has the potential for many useful applications in electron microscopy, inverse photo-emission, low energy electron scattering experiments, and electron holography has been described. The source makes use of Cs atoms in an atomic beam. The source is cycled beginning with a laser pulse that excites a single Cs atom on average to a band of high-lying Rydberg nP states. The resulting valence electron Rydberg wave packet evolves in a nearly classical Kepler orbit. When the electron reaches apogee, an electric field pulse is applied that ionizes the atom and accelerates the electron away from its parent ion. The collection of electron wave packets thus generated in a series of cycles can occupy a phase volume near the quantum limit and it can possess very high brightness. Each wave packet can exhibit a considerable degree of coherence.
FILED	Wednesday, May 16, 2007
APPL NO	11/749747
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/493.100
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07755079 — Strained-layer superlattice focal plane array having a planar structure

US 07755079	Kim et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Jin K. Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Malcolm S. Carroll (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Aaron Gin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Phillip F. Marsh (Lowell, Massachusetts); Erik W. Young (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael J. Cich (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	An infrared focal plane array (FPA) is disclosed which utilizes a strained-layer superlattice (SLS) formed of alternating layers of InAs and In_xGa_1−xSb with 0≦x≦0.5 epitaxially grown on a GaSb substrate. The FPA avoids the use of a mesa structure to isolate each photodetector element and instead uses impurity-doped regions formed in or about each photodetector for electrical isolation. This results in a substantially-planar structure in which the SLS is unbroken across the entire width of a 2-D array of the photodetector elements which are capped with an epitaxially-grown passivation layer to reduce or eliminate surface recombination. The FPA has applications for use in the wavelength range of 3-25 μm.
FILED	Friday, August 17, 2007
APPL NO	11/840263
ART UNIT	2826 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/18
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07755109 — Bonded semiconductor substrate

US 07755109	Atwater, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Harry A. Atwater, Jr. (South Pasadena, California); James M. Zahler (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	Ge/Si and other nonsilicon film heterostructures are formed by hydrogen-induced exfoliation of the Ge film which is wafer bonded to a cheaper substrate, such as Si. A thin, single-crystal layer of Ge is transferred to Si substrate. The bond at the interface of the Ge/Si heterostructures is covalent to ensure good thermal contact, mechanical strength, and to enable the formation of an ohmic contact between the Si substrate and Ge layers. To accomplish this type of bond, hydrophobic wafer bonding is used, because as the invention demonstrates the hydrogen-surface-terminating species that facilitate van der Waals bonding evolves at temperatures above 600° C. into covalent bonding in hydrophobically bound Ge/Si layer transferred systems.
FILED	Tuesday, May 09, 2006
APPL NO	11/430160
ART UNIT	2818 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/200
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07755838 — Optical devices

US 07755838	Chaves et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (Altadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Julio C. Chaves (Santa Ana, California); Waqidi Falicoff (Newport Beach, California); Juan C. Minaño (Madrid, Spain); Pablo Benitez (Madrid, Spain); Oliver Dross (Madrid, Spain); William A. Parkyn, Jr. (Lomita, California)
ABSTRACT	An optical manifold for efficiently combining a plurality of blue LED outputs to illuminate a phosphor for a single, substantially homogeneous output, in a small, cost-effective package. Embodiments are disclosed that use a single or multiple LEDs and a remote phosphor, and an intermediate wavelength-selective filter arranged so that backscattered photoluminescence is recycled to boost the luminance and flux of the output aperture. A further aperture mask is used to boost phosphor luminance with only modest loss of luminosity. Alternative non-recycling embodiments provide blue and yellow light in collimated beams, either separately or combined into white.
FILED	Monday, August 06, 2007
APPL NO	11/890601
ART UNIT	2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/636
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07756237 — Absolute nuclear material assay

US 07756237	Prasad et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (LLNS) at Livermore, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Manoj K. Prasad (Pleasanton, California); Neal J. Snyderman (Berkeley, California); Mark S. Rowland (Alamo, California)
ABSTRACT	A method of absolute nuclear material assay of an unknown source comprising counting neutrons from the unknown source and providing an absolute nuclear material assay utilizing a model to optimally compare to the measured count distributions. In one embodiment, the step of providing an absolute nuclear material assay comprises utilizing a random sampling of analytically computed fission chain distributions to generate a continuous time-evolving sequence of event-counts by spreading the fission chain distribution in time.
FILED	Tuesday, October 04, 2005
APPL NO	11/244088
ART UNIT	3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/159
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07756646 — Method for predicting peptide detection in mass spectrometry

US 07756646	Kangas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Lars Kangas (West Richland, Washington); Richard D. Smith (Richland, Washington); Konstantinos Petritis (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method of predicting whether a peptide present in a biological sample will be detected by analysis with a mass spectrometer. The method uses at least one mass spectrometer to perform repeated analysis of a sample containing peptides from proteins with known amino acids. The method then generates a data set of peptides identified as contained within the sample by the repeated analysis. The method then calculates the probability that a specific peptide in the data set was detected in the repeated analysis. The method then creates a plurality of vectors, where each vector has a plurality of dimensions, and each dimension represents a property of one or more of the amino acids present in each peptide and adjacent peptides in the data set. Using these vectors, the method then generates an algorithm from the plurality of vectors and the calculated probabilities that specific peptides in the data set were detected in the repeated analysis. The algorithm is thus capable of calculating the probability that a hypothetical peptide represented as a vector will be detected by a mass spectrometry based proteomic platform, given that the peptide is present in a sample introduced into a mass spectrometer.
FILED	Friday, March 31, 2006
APPL NO	11/394839
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 72/22
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07756682 — System and method for statistically monitoring and analyzing sensed conditions

US 07756682	Pebay et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporationed (Livermore, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Philippe P. Pebay (Livermore, California); James M. Brandt (Dublin, California); Ann C. Gentile (Dublin, California); Youssef M. Marzouk (Oakland, California); Darrian J. Hale (San Jose, California); David C. Thompson (Livermore, California)
ABSTRACT	A system and method of monitoring and analyzing a plurality of attributes for an alarm condition is disclosed. The attributes are processed and/or unprocessed values of sensed conditions of a collection of a statistically significant number of statistically similar components subjected to varying environmental conditions. The attribute values are used to compute the normal behaviors of some of the attributes and also used to infer parameters of a set of models. Relative probabilities of some attribute values are then computed and used along with the set of models to determine whether an alarm condition is met. The alarm conditions are used to prevent or reduce the impact of impending failure.
FILED	Thursday, September 21, 2006
APPL NO	11/526283
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/187
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07756907 — Computer systems and methods for visualizing data

US 07756907	Stolte et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for forming a visual plot using a hierarchical structure of a dataset. The dataset comprises a measure and a dimension. The dimension consists of a plurality of levels. The plurality of levels form a dimension hierarchy. The visual plot is constructed based on a specification. A first level from the plurality of levels is represented by a first component of the visual plot. A second level from the plurality of levels is represented by a second component of the visual plot. The dataset is queried to retrieve data in accordance with the specification. The data includes all or a portion of the dimension and all or a portion of the measure. The visual plot is populated with the retrieved data in accordance with the specification.
FILED	Tuesday, September 16, 2003
APPL NO	10/667194
ART UNIT	2158 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/805
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

07752931 — Nanopatterned surfaces and related methods for selective adhesion, sensing and separation

US 07752931	Santore et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Maria M. Santore (Sunderland, Massachusetts); Natalia Kozlova (Belmont, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A surface comprises a surface member and a plurality of components thereon. Such heterogenous surface compositions and configurations, related systems and methods for sensing particle or analyte interaction therewith can selectively and/or differentially interact with a range of particles/analytes, in lieu of specific molecular sensor-analyte interactions for each particle.
FILED	Friday, November 03, 2006
APPL NO	11/592454
ART UNIT	2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Measuring and testing 073/866.500
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07754180 — Ultrahard diamonds and method of making thereof

US 07754180	Hemley et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Geosciences (GEO) Division of Earth Sciences (EAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Russell J. Hemley (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Ho-Kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Chih-shiue Yan (Washington, District of Columbia)
ABSTRACT	A single crystal diamond grown by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition annealed at pressures in excess of 4.0 GPa and heated to temperature in excess of 1500 degrees C. that has a hardness of greater than 120 GPa. A method for manufacture a hard single crystal diamond includes growing a single crystal diamond and annealing the single crystal diamond at pressures in excess of 4.0 GPa and a temperature in excess of 1500 degrees C. to have a hardness in excess of 120 GPa.
FILED	Wednesday, November 07, 2007
APPL NO	11/979699
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/446
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07754183 — Process for preparing carbon nanostructures with tailored properties and products utilizing same

US 07754183	Keskar et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Clemson University Research Foundation (Anderson, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Gayatri D. Keskar (Clemson, South Carolina); Wei Wang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Apparao M. Rao (Anderson, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	The present invention discloses a relatively simple CVD method for forming specifically tailored carbon-based nanostructures. In general, the method is a chemical vapor deposition method in which at least a portion of the precursor materials are provided as a liquid at atmospheric conditions. The precursor materials include at least one carbon source and at least one catalyst source. Optionally, the precursor materials can also include one or more dopant sources. The carbon source and the optional dopant source can be injected as liquids into the system, and the liquid catalyst source can be either injected into the system or located on a substrate in the reactor prior to the process. Very high yield of nanostructures exhibiting particular characteristics can be attained by the process. Control of electrical characteristics as well as structural characteristics of the products are possible via control of process parameters including the particular precursors used as well as the relative amounts of the precursors used.
FILED	Friday, May 20, 2005
APPL NO	11/134052
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300
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07754241 — Macromonomer for preparation of a degradable hydrogel

US 07754241	Webb et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Clemson University Research Foundation (, None)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles K. Webb (Clemson, South Carolina); Naren R. Vyavahare (Easley, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A degradable hydrogel and a method of making a degradable hydrogel is disclosed herein. The method comprises obtaining a hydrophilic polymer having at least two hydroxyl groups, reacting the hydrophilic polymer with a di-functional monomer comprised of an acid halide group and an alkyl halide group to form an intermediate having an ester bond and a terminal alkyl halide group, reacting the terminal alkyl halide group of the intermediate with a metallic salt of a vinyl acid monomer to form a macromonomer comprised of an ester, an alkyl group spacer, and a terminal vinyl group, and polymerizing the macromonomer to form a degradable hydrogel. A method is also disclosed for varying the degradation rate of the hydrogel as a function of the chemical composition of the alkyl group spacer in the terminal linkage of the macromonomer.
FILED	Thursday, November 10, 2005
APPL NO	11/271405
ART UNIT	1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/486
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07754267 — Polymeric antioxidants

US 07754267	Cholli et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Ashok L. Cholli (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vijayendra Kumar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Javant Kumar (Westford, Massachusetts); Virinder Singh Parmar (Lowell, Massachusetts); Lynne Ann Samuelson (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Antioxidant polymers of the present invention comprise repeat units that include one or both of Structural Formulas (I) and (II): wherein: R is —H or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, acyl or aryl group; Ring A is substituted with at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group; Ring B is substituted with at least one —H and at least one tert-butyl group or substituted or unsubstituted n-alkoxycarbonyl group; Rings A and B are each optionally substituted with one or more groups selected from the group consisting of —OH, —NH, —SH, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxycarbonyl group; n is an integer equal to or greater than 2; and p is an integer equal to or greater than 0. The invention also includes methods of using and preparing these polymers.
FILED	Tuesday, February 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/711395
ART UNIT	1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/541
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07754351 — Epitaxial (001) BiFeO₃membranes with substantially reduced fatigue and leakage

US 07754351	Eom et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Chang-Beom Eom (Madison, Wisconsin); Ho Won Jang (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides free-standing heterostructures including a layer of BiFeO₃and a layer comprising a perovskite over which the BiFeO₃is epitaxially grown. The layer comprising the perovskite has been released from a substrate upon which it was originally grown. Also provided are methods for forming the free-standing heterostructures, which may include transferring the free-standing heterostructures to other host substrates.
FILED	Thursday, May 08, 2008
APPL NO	12/117464
ART UNIT	1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701
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07754826 — Copolymers from lactide

US 07754826	Smith, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis W. Smith, Jr. (Seneca, South Carolina); Dahlia Haynes (Central, South Carolina); Nilmini Abayasinghe (Spartanburg, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is a process for producing lactide-based copolymers and copolymers produced by the process. The copolymers are formed by the copolymerization of a lactide monomer with a secondary material. In one embodiment, the secondary material can be derived from renewable resources, providing a product copolymer completely derived from renewable resources. The disclosed materials may display improved hydrolytic and thermal characteristics as compared to previously known lactide-based materials. Exemplary secondary materials that can be copolymerized with lactide can include polyhydroxy alkanoates, long chain primary alcohols, and depsipeptides.
FILED	Wednesday, November 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/599993
ART UNIT	1796 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/450
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07754837 — Flourinated aryl ether polymers exhibiting dual fluoroolefin functionality and methods of forming same

US 07754837	Smith, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Navy (DON) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Clemson University Research Foundation (Anderson, South Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis W. Smith, Jr. (Seneca, South Carolina); Scott T. Iacono (Greenville, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are telechelic fluoropolymers and methods for forming the polymers. The fluoropolymers can be formed via step-growth polymerization of bis(trifluorovinyloxy)biphenyls with bisphenols. The formed telechelic polymers possess fluoroolefin functionality at the trifluorovinyl aromatic ether endgroups. Internal groups can include difluorodioxyvinylene groups and trifluoroethyl groups. Formation methods of the telechelic polymers can be controlled so as to control molecular weight and degree of unsaturation of the polymers. The end groups and the internal groups can be further reacted independently of each other, e.g., under different temperature conditions, to form a variety of polymers and/or crosslinked polymeric networks.
FILED	Friday, March 07, 2008
APPL NO	12/044447
ART UNIT	1796 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/247
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07754907 — Allosterically catalyzed signal amplification in chemical and biological sensing

US 07754907	Mirkin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Nathan C. Gianneschi (San Diego, California); Jungseok Heo (Glenview, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Coordination complexes having at least two structural conformations are disclosed. The coordination complexes contain at least one metal center and at least one hemi-labile ligand, and change structural conformations due to the presence or absence of allosteric effectors. Methods of detecting an analyte using the coordination complexes are also disclosed.
FILED	Thursday, August 18, 2005
APPL NO	11/658606
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 556/14
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07755275 — Cascaded light emitting devices based on mixed conductor electroluminescence

US 07755275	Malliaras et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR) Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Panasonic Corporation (Osaka, Japan); Cornell University (Ithaca, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	George G. Malliaras (Aix en Provence, France); Kiyotaka Mori (Tokyo, Japan); Jason D Slinker (Ithaca, New York); Daniel A. Bernards (Ithaca, New York); Hector D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York)
ABSTRACT	A cascaded light emitting device. The cascaded light emitting device includes: a base electrode formed of a base electrode material and electrically coupled to a base voltage lead; a top electrode layer formed of a top electrode material and electrically coupled to a top voltage lead; a number of electroluminescent layers arranged between and electrically coupled to the base electrode and top electrode layer; and at least one middle electrode layer formed of a middle electrode material. Each of the middle electrodes is coupled between two juxtaposed electroluminescent layers. The electroluminescent layers include a mixed conductor that luminesces with a peak wavelength.
FILED	Monday, March 28, 2005
APPL NO	11/091088
ART UNIT	2889 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503
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07755442 — Receiver with colpitts differential oscillator, colpitts quadrature oscillator, and common-gate low noise amplifier

US 07755442	Li et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Xiaoyong Li (San Diego, California); David J. Allstot (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the present invention include a common-gate amplifier having an input terminal and an output terminal, a transistor having a source, a drain, and a gate, four inductors, and two capacitors, and a negative amplification circuitry. The negative amplification circuitry has an input terminal to receive an RF signal. The negative amplification circuitry applies negative or zero amplification to the RF signal and outputs the negative or zero amplified signal on an output terminal. Alternative embodiments include a Colpitts differential oscillator, which includes two Colpitts single-ended oscillators. Each Colpitts single-ended oscillator includes a transistor. The source of the transistor in one Colpitts single-ended oscillator may be capacitively coupled to the gate of the transistor in the other Colpitts single-ended oscillator.
FILED	Thursday, August 07, 2008
APPL NO	12/188135
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Oscillators 331/167
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07755552 — Space efficient magnetic antenna system

US 07755552	Schantz et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Q-Track Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Hans Gregory Schantz (Huntsville, Alabama); Robert Edward DePierre (Huntsville, Alabama); James David Fluhler (Madison, Alabama); Kazimierez Siwiak (Coral Springs, Florida); Glenn Wolenec (Madison, Alabama); Jerome Sylvester Gabig (Brownsboro, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	A space efficient magnetic antenna is disclosed for use in tracking, positioning and other applications. In a preferred embodiment, a space efficient magnetic antenna system comprises a first magnetic antenna with a first null axis aligned within a predetermined plane and a second magnetic antenna having a second null axis aligned substantially orthogonal to a first null axis. A second magnetic antenna system lies in a minimal coupling orientation with respect to a first magnetic antenna system. Additionally, a first magnetic antenna may further comprise a plurality of interconnected magnetic antenna elements. A space efficient magnetic antenna system may include an RF module. An RF module may alternately utilize a first magnetic antenna and a second magnetic antenna, or an RF module may drive a second magnetic antenna in phase quadrature with respect to a first magnetic antenna. In still further embodiments, a space efficient magnetic antenna system may further include a third mutually orthogonal magnetic antenna.
FILED	Friday, June 23, 2006
APPL NO	11/473595
ART UNIT	2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/718
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07756017 — System and method for scheduling routing table calculation in link state routing protocols

US 07756017	Goyal et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Mukul Goyal (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Seyed H. Hosseini (Mequon, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A method, and a system, called link state advertisement (“LSA”) correlation, for scheduling routing table updates following a topology change. LSA correlation correlates information in the LSAs to identify the topology change that led to their generation. A routing table update is performed when a topology change has been identified.
FILED	Friday, September 07, 2007
APPL NO	11/852025
ART UNIT	2471 — Multiplex and VoIP
CURRENT CPC	Multiplex communications 370/225
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07756305 — Fast 3D cytometry for information in tissue engineering

US 07756305	Price
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Jeffrey H. Price (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus are described for enhancing operator independent image cytometry. Aspects of the invention include enhanced tissue surface tracking which can detect both tissue surfaces. The surface detection can aid cytometry, such as by reducing the amount of image data to be stored. Segmentation is described for 3D images in which 3D least squares filtering is applied to increase contrast for simplifying the delineation of objects from backgrounds. A method of creating 3D FIR image filters based on ideal objects is also described. A data structure is defined by which 3D object data may be organized for image representations if samples. Methods of performing remote segmentation processing are also described toward centralizing the necessary processor power and applications and reducing the burden on researchers and clinicians.
FILED	Thursday, January 23, 2003
APPL NO	10/351455
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/128
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07756365 — Near ultraviolet-wavelength photonic-crystal biosensor with enhanced surface to bulk sensitivity ratio

US 07756365	Cunningham et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); SRU Biosystems, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois); Nikhil Ganesh (Champaign, Illinois); Ian D. Block (Champaign, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Biosensors are disclosed based on one- or two-dimensional photonic-crystal reflectance filters operating at near-ultraviolet wavelengths. The biosensors feature a tightly confined resonant electric field at the surface of this biosensor and provide a high surface-sensitivity to bulk-sensitivity ratio, and therefore enables enhanced detection resolution for biomolecules adsorbed on the biosensor surface. These new biosensors can be fabricated in mass by replica molding. They are especially well suited for applications requiring the detection of small molecules or ultra-low analyte concentrations.
FILED	Monday, July 02, 2007
APPL NO	11/822303
ART UNIT	2874 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical waveguides 385/12
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07756663 — Self-calibration systems and methods

US 07756663	Han et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia); University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Dong Hoon Han (Alpharetta, Georgia); Abhijit Chatterjee (Atlanta, Georgia); Selim Sermet Akbay (Atlanta, Georgia); Soumendu Bhattacharya (Atlanta, Georgia); William R. Eisenstadt (Gainesville, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Various embodiments of self-calibration systems and methods are described. One method embodiment, among others, includes imposing an alternate test to components within the device, responsive to the imposition of the alternate test, providing test responses corresponding to the components, and substantially, simultaneously mapping each of the test responses to corresponding specification values of the components.
FILED	Tuesday, June 27, 2006
APPL NO	11/475684
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/99
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07756674 — Methods of calculating differences of binding affinities between congeneric pairs of ligands by way of a displaced solvent functional

US 07756674	Young et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas Young (New York, New York); Robert Abel (Davie, Florida); Richard A. Friesner (New York, New York); Bruce J. Berne (Irvington, New York)
ABSTRACT	Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid.
FILED	Monday, November 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/982783
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/172
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07756700 — Perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients as the front-end for speech recognition

US 07756700	Rose et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth Rose (Ojai, California); Liang Gu (Elmsford, New York)
ABSTRACT	Pitch estimation and classification into voiced, unvoiced and transitional speech were performed by a spectro-temporal auto-correlation technique. A peak picking formula was then employed. A weighing function was then applied to the power spectrum. The harmonics weighted power spectrum underwent mel-scaled band-pass filtering, and the log-energy of the filter's output was discrete cosine transformed to produce cepstral coefficients. A within-filter cubic-root amplitude compression was applied to reduce amplitude variation without compromise of the gain invariance properties.
FILED	Friday, February 01, 2008
APPL NO	12/012334
ART UNIT	2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/203
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RE041427 — Hybrid nanostructured materials based in II-VI semiconductors

US RE41427	Li et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rutgers, The State University (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Jing Li (Cranbury, New Jersey); Xiaoying Huang (Highland Park, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	Hybrid crystalline organic-inorganic quantum confined systems are disclosed, which contain alternating layers of a bifunctional organic ligand and a II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide, wherein the semiconducting chalcogenide layers contain chalcogenides have the formula MQ, in which M is independently selected from II-VI semiconductor cationic species and Q is independently selected from S, Se and Te; and the bifunctional organic ligands of each organic ligand layer are bonded by a first functional group to an element M of an adjacent II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide layer and by a second functional group to an element M from the adjacent opposing II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide layer, so that the adjacent opposing II-VI semiconducting chalcogenide layers are linked by the bifunctional organic ligands of the organic ligand layers. Optical absorption experiments show that these systems produce a significant blue shift in their optical absorption edges, 1.2-1.5 eV, compared to a shift of 1.0 electron volt by the best grown II-VI or II-V semiconducting quantum colloidal dots. In addition, the II-VI confined layers in these systems possess a perfectly periodic arrangement.
FILED	Friday, May 13, 2005
APPL NO	11/129759
ART UNIT	2818 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/442
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Department of Commerce (DOC)

07754510 — Phase-separated dielectric structure fabrication process

US 07754510	Wu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Hadi K Mahabadi (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Paul F Smith (Oakville, Canada)
ABSTRACT	A process for fabricating an electronic device including: depositing a layer comprising a semiconductor; liquid depositing a dielectric composition comprising a lower-k dielectric material, a higher-k dielectric material, and a liquid, wherein the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material are not phase separated prior to the liquid depositing; and causing phase separation of the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material to form a phase-separated dielectric structure wherein the lower-k dielectric material is in a higher concentration than the higher-k dielectric material in a region of the dielectric structure closest to the layer comprising the semiconductor, wherein the depositing the layer comprising the semiconductor is prior to the liquid depositing the dielectric composition or subsequent to the causing phase separation.
FILED	Monday, April 02, 2007
APPL NO	11/695131
ART UNIT	2812 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/30
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07754542 — Printed TFT array

US 07754542	Street
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California)
ABSTRACT	An electronic device and/or component is manufactured using additive processing steps, including additive printing steps. A first layer is printed using additive printing techniques wherein a single first material is used to print the first layer in a single processing step. A second layer is printed in more than a single printing step where a first portion of the second layer is printed using a second material and a second portion of the second layer is printed using a third material, and the second and third materials are different from each other.
FILED	Wednesday, December 19, 2007
APPL NO	11/960160
ART UNIT	2895 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/149
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07754779 — Inks for ink jet printing curable by UV light initiated free radicals

US 07754779	Odell et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter G. Odell (Mississauga, Canada); Adela Goredema (Mississauga, Canada)
ABSTRACT	An ink for an ink jet printer includes an ink vehicle of at least one radically curable, multifunctional acrylate monomer or oligomer, at least one colorant, and at least one photoinitiator. The ink has a low viscosity at low jetting temperatures of 30 to 50° C. and is curable upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
FILED	Thursday, January 13, 2005
APPL NO	11/034257
ART UNIT	1796 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/10
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07755081 — Dielectric materials for electronic devices

US 07755081	Wu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada)
ABSTRACT	A dielectric material prepared from a siloxy/metal oxide hybrid composition, and electronic devices such as thin film transistors comprising such dielectric material are provided herein. The siloxy/metal oxide hybrid composition comprises a siloxy component such as, for example, a siloxane or silsesquioxane. The siloxy/metal oxide hybrid composition is useful for the preparation of dielectric layers for thin film transistors using solution deposition techniques.
FILED	Thursday, November 09, 2006
APPL NO	11/558015
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/40
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07755441 — Frequency and temperature compensation synthesis for a MEMS resonator

US 07755441	Cioffi et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Discera, Inc. (San Jose, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kenneth R. Cioffi (San Jose, California); Didier Lacroix (Los Gatos, California)
ABSTRACT	A signal generation technique is based on a reference frequency provided by a MEMS resonator. The signal generation technique compensates for temperature- and fabrication process-induced frequency variations collectively. In some embodiments, a device implementing the disclosed signal generation technique includes a fractional-N synthesizer, a temperature sensor, calibration data, and a sigma-delta modulator to adjust the reference frequency of the MEMS resonator to a desired frequency value while compensating for the temperature variation of the MEMS resonator.
FILED	Wednesday, September 03, 2008
APPL NO	12/203871
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Oscillators 331/154
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

07752866 — Shape memory thermal conduction switch

US 07752866	Vaidyanathan et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida)
INVENTOR(S)	Rajan Vaidyanathan (Oviedo, Florida); Vinu Krishnan (Hallandale, Florida); William U. Notardonato (Merritt Island, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A thermal conduction switch includes a thermally-conductive first member having a first thermal contacting structure for securing the first member as a stationary member to a thermally regulated body or a body requiring thermal regulation. A movable thermally-conductive second member has a second thermal contacting surface. A thermally conductive coupler is interposed between the first member and the second member for thermally coupling the first member to the second member. At least one control spring is coupled between the first member and the second member. The control spring includes a NiTiFe comprising shape memory (SM) material that provides a phase change temperature <273 K, a transformation range <40 K, and a hysteresis of <10 K. A bias spring is between the first member and the second member. At the phase change the switch provides a distance change (displacement) between first and second member by at least 1 mm, such as 2 to 4 mm.
FILED	Monday, December 08, 2008
APPL NO	12/330350
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Refrigeration 062/383
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07754064 — Methods and apparatus for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide

US 07754064	Buschmann et al.
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Airspace System (NAS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eltron Research and Development (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Wayne E. Buschmann (Boulder, Colorado); Patrick I. James (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Methods, apparatus, and applications for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide are described. An embodiment of the apparatus comprises at least one anolyte chamber coupled to at least one anode, at least one catholyte chamber, wherein the at least one catholyte chamber is coupled to at least one cathode, at least one anode membrane and at least one cathode membrane, wherein the anode membrane is adjacent to the at least one anode, wherein the cathode membrane is adjacent to the at least one cathode, at least one central chamber disposed between the at least one anolyte chamber and the at least one catholyte chamber. Hydrogen peroxide is produced by reduction of an oxygen-containing gas at the cathode.
FILED	Friday, September 29, 2006
APPL NO	11/536973
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/466
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07755292 — Ultraminiature broadband light source and method of manufacturing same

US 07755292	Tuma et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
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)	Margaret L. Tuma (Strongsville, Ohio); Joseph S. Collura (Auburn, Ohio); Henry Helvajian (Pasadena, California); Michael D. Pocha (Livermore, California); Glenn A. Meyer (Danville, California); Charles F. McConaghy (Livermore, California); Barry L. Olsen (Oakdale, California); William W Hansen (Lakewood, California)
ABSTRACT	An ultraminiature light source using a double-spiral shaped tungsten filament includes end contact portions which are separated to allow for radial and length-wise unwinding of the spiral. The double-spiral filament is spaced relatively far apart at the end portions thereof so that contact between portions of the filament upon expansion is avoided. The light source is made by fabricating a double-spiral ultraminiature tungsten filament from tungsten foil and housing the filament in a ceramic package having a reflective bottom and a well wherein the filament is suspended. A vacuum furnace brazing process attaches the filament to contacts of the ceramic package. Finally, a cover with a transparent window is attached onto the top of the ceramic package by solder reflow in a second vacuum furnace process to form a complete hermetically sealed package.
FILED	Monday, January 22, 2007
APPL NO	11/625545
ART UNIT	2879 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/631
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

07753007 — Ear-a-round equipment platform for animals

US 07753007	Anderson
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Dean M. Anderson (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	One or more mechanical, electrical or chemical application devices, chemical agents, and/or identification information may be carried by an apparatus worn on the heads of animals. The apparatus comprises a first 3-dimensional loop-shaped member having first and second opposed inner and outer surfaces, a third outer surface extending between the first and second surfaces, and an interior opening extending therethrough from the first surface to the second surface. The loop-shaped member is of a size sufficient to fit over one ear or horn of the animal with the animal's ear or horn protruding through the opening, the first inner surface facing the head of the animal, and the second outer surface facing away from the head of the animal. The loop-shaped members may be worn by a subject animal individually or in pairs, with one member over each ear or horn, in accordance with the desired application, and a variety of mechanical, electrical or chemical application devices, chemical agents, and/or identification information may be incorporated into or onto the member, or attached thereto, either directly or indirectly.
FILED	Friday, December 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/639537
ART UNIT	3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Animal husbandry 119/721
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07754064 — Methods and apparatus for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide

US 07754064	Buschmann et al.
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Airspace System (NAS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eltron Research and Development (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Wayne E. Buschmann (Boulder, Colorado); Patrick I. James (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Methods, apparatus, and applications for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide are described. An embodiment of the apparatus comprises at least one anolyte chamber coupled to at least one anode, at least one catholyte chamber, wherein the at least one catholyte chamber is coupled to at least one cathode, at least one anode membrane and at least one cathode membrane, wherein the anode membrane is adjacent to the at least one anode, wherein the cathode membrane is adjacent to the at least one cathode, at least one central chamber disposed between the at least one anolyte chamber and the at least one catholyte chamber. Hydrogen peroxide is produced by reduction of an oxygen-containing gas at the cathode.
FILED	Friday, September 29, 2006
APPL NO	11/536973
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/466
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

07754064 — Methods and apparatus for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide

US 07754064	Buschmann et al.
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Airspace System (NAS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eltron Research and Development (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Wayne E. Buschmann (Boulder, Colorado); Patrick I. James (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Methods, apparatus, and applications for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide are described. An embodiment of the apparatus comprises at least one anolyte chamber coupled to at least one anode, at least one catholyte chamber, wherein the at least one catholyte chamber is coupled to at least one cathode, at least one anode membrane and at least one cathode membrane, wherein the anode membrane is adjacent to the at least one anode, wherein the cathode membrane is adjacent to the at least one cathode, at least one central chamber disposed between the at least one anolyte chamber and the at least one catholyte chamber. Hydrogen peroxide is produced by reduction of an oxygen-containing gas at the cathode.
FILED	Friday, September 29, 2006
APPL NO	11/536973
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/466
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07754212 — Contraceptives based on SP22 and SP22 antibodies

US 07754212	Klinefelter
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary R. Klinefelter (Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Oral, topical and injectable contraceptives, which are based on sperm protein 22 kDa (SP22) polypeptides and antibodies and infertility diagnostics are provided.
FILED	Tuesday, May 01, 2007
APPL NO	11/742880
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100
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Department of Education (ED)

07757069 — Configuration steering for a reconfigurable superscalar processor

US 07757069	Veale et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Education (ED)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian F. Veale (Norman, Oklahoma); John K. Antonio (Norman, Oklahoma); Monte P. Tull (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	A reconfigurable processor including a plurality of reconfigurable execution units, a memory, an instruction queue, a configuration selection unit, and a configuration loader. The memory stores a plurality of steering vector processing hardware configurations for configuring the reconfigurable execution units. The instruction queue stores a plurality of instructions to be executed by at least one of the reconfigurable execution units. The configuration selection unit analyzes the instructions stored in the instruction queue and chooses one of the steering vector processing hardware configurations. The configuration loader determines whether one of the reconfigurable slots is available and reconfigures at least one of the reconfigurable slots with at least a part of the chosen steering vector processing hardware configuration responsive to at least one of the reconfigurable slots being available.
FILED	Friday, March 31, 2006
APPL NO	11/395777
ART UNIT	2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/226
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Department of Transportation (USDOT)

07754064 — Methods and apparatus for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide

US 07754064	Buschmann et al.
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Airspace System (NAS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Eltron Research and Development (Boulder, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Wayne E. Buschmann (Boulder, Colorado); Patrick I. James (Boulder, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	Methods, apparatus, and applications for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide are described. An embodiment of the apparatus comprises at least one anolyte chamber coupled to at least one anode, at least one catholyte chamber, wherein the at least one catholyte chamber is coupled to at least one cathode, at least one anode membrane and at least one cathode membrane, wherein the anode membrane is adjacent to the at least one anode, wherein the cathode membrane is adjacent to the at least one cathode, at least one central chamber disposed between the at least one anolyte chamber and the at least one catholyte chamber. Hydrogen peroxide is produced by reduction of an oxygen-containing gas at the cathode.
FILED	Friday, September 29, 2006
APPL NO	11/536973
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/466
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National Security Agency (NSA)

07755536 — Method of signal processing for determining range and velocity of an object

US 07755536	Nelson et al.
FUNDED BY	National Security Agency (NSA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Douglas J. Nelson (Columbia, Maryland); David C. Smith (Columbia, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is a method of finding range and velocity of a target in a radar system using a time scale factor. Specifically, sending at least one signal from at least one transmitter to a target. A return signal is then received from the target at each transmitter and the elapsed time is recorded. The range to the target and velocity of the target are calculated based on a time scale factor of the recorded elapsed times. These values are appropriately output to the user.
FILED	Tuesday, February 06, 2007
APPL NO	11/703042
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 342/109
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Government Rights Acknowledged

07752744 — Cable shielding flaring tool

US 07752744	Foster et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Incorporated (Wilmington, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Monty Jake Foster (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Joe Capobianco (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A flairing device having a handle and a body connected to the handle. The body includes an inner wall forming an open ended chamber in the body. The open ended chamber has an opening at one end of the body. An outer wall forms an edge with the inner wall at the one end of the body.
FILED	Wednesday, October 16, 2002
APPL NO	10/270482
ART UNIT	3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units
CURRENT CPC	Metal working 029/758
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07753685 — Self-identifying electrical connector

US 07753685	Lee et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Physical Optics Corporation (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Kang Lee (Woodland Hills, California); Thomas Forrester (Hacienda Heights, California); Tomasz Jannson (Torrance, California); Andrew Kostrzewski (Garden Grove, California); Eugene Levin (Houghton, Michigan); Gajendra Savant (Rolling Hills Estates, California)
ABSTRACT	An entirely wearable electrical connector for power/data connectivity. The principal element of a modular network is the wearable electrical connector, which is integrated into a personal area network with USB compatibility. Several wearable connector embodiments are disclosed. An enhancement to the wearable connector includes OSI Layer 2 (and potentially Layer 3) functionality. Data Link layer functionality is supported by including electronic serial numbers at wearable snap-connector points.
FILED	Tuesday, November 25, 2008
APPL NO	12/323346
ART UNIT	2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electrical connectors 439/37
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Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:

APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC

APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)

INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.

ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.

FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.

APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.

ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:

3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices

You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.

CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.

The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.

The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.

A61B 1/149 (20130101)
A61B 1/71 (20130101)
A61B 1/105 (20130101)

The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.

VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.

HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?

You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.

HOW DO I GET HERE?

You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.

You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:

https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2010/fedinvent-patents-20100713.html

Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.

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