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Patent Details for Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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| US 07757476 | Coste |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Coste (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalytically activated transient decomposition propulsion system provides thrust by decomposing flow controlled propellant in contact with a catalyzing agent using a fixed volume of liquid propellant that is placed in contact with the catalyst within the decomposition chamber by a calibrated flow control valve. After injecting the liquid propellant into the decomposition chamber, the valve returns to the closed position while surface tension holds the liquid within the decomposition chamber until complete decomposition and exhaust of the warm gaseous products through a converging and diverging nozzle occurs. The increasing and decreasing transient pressure in the decomposition chamber changes each cycle in response to flow control valve actuation as the decomposition process is repeated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/624754 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07757477 | Kehret et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debora F. Kehret (Manchester, Connecticut); Jorge I. Farah (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle system includes a multitude of circumferentially distributed convergent flaps and seals that circumscribe an engine centerline. A cooling liner body cooperates with a cooling liner panel attached to respective convergent flaps and convergent seals to define an annular cooling airflow passageway which is movable therewith. Each cooling liner panels includes an arcuate cooling liner leading edge with a multiple of openings to distribute cooling airflow over both the inner “cold-side” and outer “hot-side” surfaces thereof. Through this backside cooling, thermal gradients are controlled at the attachment interface between the arcuate cooling liner leading edge and the main cooling liner body. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676595 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07757539 | Szabo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nomadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Joseph Szabo (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Matthew Laurence Dock (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Craig Allen Aker (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention provides a modulated pressure wave vapor generator suitable for use outside of the laboratory. The vapor generator of the current invention produces a controlled analyte vapor sample without using bulk movement of gas. Additionally, the current invention compensates for changes in the environment to ensure discharge of the preferred volume of analyte from the vapor generator. Finally, the current invention provides a method for generating a controlled volume of analyte vapor suitable for calibrating vapor sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789049 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07757716 | Welle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Welle (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A valve apparatus includes a fluid-bearing module and an actuation module. The fluid-bearing module includes a substrate and a channel formed in the substrate, the channel having microfluidic dimensions. The actuation module is detachably secured to the fluid-bearing module and includes a heating/cooling element adjacent to the channel. The heating/cooling element is controllable to generate or absorb sufficient energy to cause the a material in the valve apparatus to transition from a solid phase to a liquid phase, or from a solid phase to a liquid phase, or to expand or contract, thereby providing a phase-change valve. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877602 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/828 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07757717 | Welle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Welle (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid transport/containment apparatus includes a fluid-bearing module and an actuation module. The fluid-bearing module includes a substrate and fluid transport/containment elements distributed therein, with one or more of the fluid transport/containment elements having microfluidic dimensions. The actuation module is detachably secured to the fluid-bearing module such that the actuation elements are operatively interfaced with the fluid transport/containment elements. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877691 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/828 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758189 | Hammer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel X. Hammer (Bedford, New Hampshire); R. Daniel Ferguson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Nicusor V. Iftimia (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Teoman E. Ustun (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system provides an optical image of an object. A first module tracks a reference feature of the object. A second module includes a source for an imaging beam, a scanning device to move the imaging beam along a portion of the object and a detection device receives a signal associated with an image of the portion of the object. The first module controls the position of the imaging beam relative to the reference feature to correct for the motion of the object. A third module detects a distortion of the object and compensates for the distortion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789800 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758303 | Wadia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aspi Rustom Wadia (Loveland, Ohio); Alan Glen Turner (Cincinnati, Ohio); Aaron Michael Dziech (Cincinnati, Ohio); Peter Nicholas Szucs (West Chester, Ohio); John Jared Decker (Cypress, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A FLADE fan assembly includes radially inner and outer airfoils extending radially inwardly and outwardly respectively from an annular shroud circumferentially disposed about a centerline. Inner and outer chords extend between inner and outer leading and trailing edges of inner and outer airfoil cross-sections of the radially inner and outer airfoils respectively. Inner and outer stagger angles between the inner and outer chords respectively at the shroud and the centerline are different. The radially outer airfoils may outnumber the radially inner airfoils and particularly by a ratio in a range of 1.5:1 to about 4:1. Load paths or radii may extend radially through the inner and outer airfoils and through the rotating shroud between the inner and outer airfoils and may pass near or through the inner and outer leading edges and through the inner and outer trailing edges. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/496676 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758312 | Leahy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin P. Leahy (Naugatuck, Connecticut); Richard Joseph Simkulak (Meriden, Connecticut); Wonsub Kim (Orange, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A main rotor blade assembly includes a tip spar which defines a tip spar non-straight form, an upper blade skin which defines an upper blade skin non-straight form adjacent to the tip spar non-straight form and a lower blade skin which defines a lower blade skin non-straight form adjacent to the tip spar non-straight form. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/062822 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758316 | Bonne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ulrich Bonne (Hopkins, Minnesota); Paul Bauhahn (Fridley, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for pumping a gas. The method includes the steps of ionizing the gas, separating the ionized gas into groups of positive and negative ions using positive and negative electric fields and separately pulling the groups of positive and negative ions along a channel using the negative and positive electric fields. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394131 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758794 | Chou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Y. Chou (Princeton, New Jersey); Zhaoning Yu (Levittown, Pennsylvania); Wei Wu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, an article comprising a nanoscale surface pattern, such as a grating, is provided with a nanoscale patterns of reduced edge and/or sidewall roughness. Smooth featured articles, can be fabricated by nanoimprint lithography using a mold having sloped profile molding features. Another approach uses a mold especially fabricated to provide smooth sidewalls of reduced roughness, and a third approach adds a post-imprint smoothing step. These approaches can be utilized individually or in various combinations to make the novel articles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/732038 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758841 | Billups et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Edward Billups (Houston, Texas); Anil K. Sadana (Houston, Texas); Feng Liang (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to novel processes for the functionalization (derivatization) of carbon nanotubes and, as an extension, to fullerenes and other carbon surfaces. Generally, such processes involve reductive pathways. In some embodiments, carbon nanotubes are reacted with alkali metal and organic halides in anhydrous liquid ammonia. In other embodiments, polymers are grown from carbon nanotube sidewalls by reacting carbon nanotubes with alkali metal and monomer species in anhydrous liquid ammonia. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/592463 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758846 | Dagle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Dagle (Richland, Washington); Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Jianli Hu (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing hydrogen via the water-gas shift reaction utilizing a palladium-zinc on alumina catalyst are described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305840 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/656 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759106 | Ranallo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan T. Ranallo (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Malabi M. Venkatesan (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | With the goal of creating a combination vaccine against Shigella and other diarrheal pathogens we have constructed a prototype vaccine strain of Shigella flexneri 2a (SC608) that can serve as a vector for the expression and delivery of heterologous antigens to the mucosal immune system. SC608 is an asd derivative of SC602, a well-characterized vaccine strain, which has recently undergone several phase 1 and 2 trials for safety and immunogenicity. Using non-antibiotic asd-based plasmids, we have created novel constructs for the expression of antigens from enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), including CFA/I (CfaB and CfaE) and the B-subunit from heat-labile enterotoxin (LTB) in Shigella vaccine strain SC608. Heterologous protein expression levels and cellular localization are critical to immune recognition and have been verified by immunoblot analysis. Following intranasal immunization (SC608(CFAI) and SC608(CFAI/LTB) of guinea pigs, serum IgG and IgA immune responses to both the Shigella LPS and ETEC antigens can be detected by ELISA. In addition, ELISPOT analysis for ASCs from cervical lymph nodes and spleen showed similar responses. All vaccine strains conferred high levels of protection against challenge with wild-type S. flexneri 2a using the Sereny test. Furthermore, serum from guinea pigs immunized with SC608 expressing CfaB and LTB contained antibodies capable of neutralizing the cytological affects of heat-labile toxin (HLT) on Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. These initial experiments demonstrate the validity of a multivalent invasive Shigella strain that can serve as a vector for the delivery of pathogen-derived antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132199 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759113 | Vacanti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Vacanti (Winchester, Massachusetts); Young-Moon Michael Shin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jennifer Ogilvie (San Francisco, California); Alexander Sevy (Houston, Texas); Tomoyuki Maemura (Belmont, Massachusetts); Osamu Ishii (Arlington, Massachusetts); Mohammad Reza Kaazempur-Mofrad (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Newton, Massachusetts); Kevin R. King (Western Springs, Illinois); Chiao-Chun Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Eli Weinberg (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and materials for making complex, living, vascularized tissues for organ and tissue replacement, especially complex and/or thick structures, such as liver tissue is provided. Tissue lamina is made in a system comprising an apparatus having (a) a first mold or polymer scaffold, a semi-permeable membrane, and a second mold or polymer scaffold, wherein the semi-permeable membrane is disposed between the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds have means defining microchannels positioned toward the semi-permeable membrane, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds are fastened together; and (b) animal cells. Methods for producing complex, three-dimensional tissues or organs from tissue lamina are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187247 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/284.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759127 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aimee Rose (Brookline, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Conor F. Madigan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to polymers with lasing characteristics that allow the polymers to be useful in detecting analytes. In one aspect, the polymer, upon an interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in a lasing characteristic that can be determined in some fashion. For example, interaction of an analyte with the polymer may affect the ability of the polymer to reach an excited state that allows stimulated emission of photons to occur, which may be determined, thereby determining the analyte. In another aspect, the polymer, upon interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in stimulated emission that is at least 10 times greater with respect to a change in the spontaneous emission of the polymer upon interaction with the analyte. The polymer may be a conjugated polymer in some cases. In one set of embodiments, the polymer includes one or more hydrocarbon side chains, which may be parallel to the polymer backbone in some instances. In another set of embodiments, the polymer may include one or more pendant aromatic rings. In yet another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially encapsulated in a hydrocarbon. In still another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially resistant to photobleaching. In certain aspects, the polymer may be useful in the detection of explosive agents, such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT). |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005631 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759129 | Sailor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Manuel M. Orosco (La Jolla, California); Claudia Pacholski (Stuttgart, Germany); Gordon M. Miskelly (Avondale, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an optical sensor for detecting chemical reaction activity, including, e.g., enzyme activity and catalytic or reactive molecule activity. An optical sensor of the invention includes a porous photonic film that produces a predetermined spectral reflectance response. In preferred embodiments, the film has a chemical coating (such as a hydrophobic layer) within its pores with an affinity for the reaction product(s) of the catalytic or otherwise reactive analyte A coating can also act as a protective layer in preferred embodiment. A thin substrate susceptible to reaction by at least one analyte of interest is on the surface of the thin film to block pores of the thin film. A method of detecting chemical reaction activity of the invention exposes the optical sensor to an analyte of interest, such as an enzyme or otherwise catalytic or reactive molecule. The optical sensor is subjected to light and the reflectivity spectrum of the optical sensor is monitored for a change indicative of reaction activity. Monitoring can include observation for a visible change or data acquisition via instruments such as a spectrometer for monitoring for a change in interferometric reflectance spectra. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/087691 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759132 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Richard B. Fair (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for performing microfluidic sampling are provided. The method includes providing a substrate including an arrangement of first, second and third electrodes, wherein the second electrode is interposed between the first and third electrodes. The method additionally includes causing a fluid input to continuously flow to the first electrode and biasing the first, second and third electrodes to a first voltage to cause a portion of the fluid input to spread across the second and third electrodes. The method further includes biasing the second electrode to a second voltage different from the first voltage to form a droplet on the third electrode, the droplet being separate from the fluid input. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/585491 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759138 | Beaulieu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arradiance, Inc. (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Beaulieu (Groton, Massachusetts); Neal T. Sullivan (Lunenburg, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a microchannel plate includes forming a plurality of pores in a silicon substrate. The plurality of pores is oxidized, thereby consuming silicon at surfaces of the plurality of pores and forming a silicon dioxide layer over the plurality of pores. At least a portion of the silicon dioxide layer is stripped, which reduces a surface roughness of the plurality of pores. A semiconducting layer can be deposited onto the surface of the silicon dioxide layer. The semiconducting layer is then oxidized, thereby consuming at least some of the polysilicon or amorphous silicon layer and forming an insulating layer. Resistive and secondary electron emissive layers are then deposited on the insulating layer by atomic layer deposition. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/234641 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759186 | Imhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene A. Imhoff (Washington, District of Columbia); Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing a junction termination extension surrounding the edge of a cathode or anode junction in a semiconductor substrate, where the junction termination extension has a controlled arbitrary lateral doping profile and a controlled arbitrary lateral width, are provided. A photosensitive material is illuminated through a photomask having a pattern of opaque and clear spaces therein, the photomask being separated from the photosensitive material so that the light diffuses before striking the photosensitive material. After processing, the photosensitive material so exposed produces a laterally tapered implant mask. Dopants are introduced into the semiconductor material and follow a shape of the laterally tapered implant mask to create a controlled arbitrary lateral doping profile and a controlled lateral width in the junction termination extension in the semiconductor. |
| FILED | Monday, July 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497721 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759413 | Winey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen I. Winey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Fangming Du (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania); Reto Haggenmueller (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of dispersing discrete fillers in a polymer matrix to form a composite. Also disclosed are composites having discrete fillers dispersed in a polymer matrix. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/977641 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759419 | Stoffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Stoffer (Rolla, Missouri); Thomas O'Keefe (Rolla, Missouri); Eric Morris (Irvine, California); Pu Yu (Rolla, Missouri); Scott A. Hayes (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating composition comprising an effective corrosion-inhibiting amount of a rare earth compound, a neutral to slightly acidic generating extender or an acidic generating extender, or combinations thereof is provided. In one embodiment, the corrosion-inhibiting components are combined with other components such as extenders, amino acids and amino acid derivatives, gelatin and gelatin derivatives, organic-based exchange resins, and combinations thereof, to enhance the corrosion resistance of the resultant coating film. The coating compositions have good adhesion to substrates such as metals, including aluminum and aluminum alloys. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758972 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759639 | Schlaf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudiger Schlaf (Tampa, Florida); Daniel V. Lim (Tampa, Florida); Marianne F. Brannon (Gray, Tennessee); Anthony J. Cascio (Land O'Lakes, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospray (ES)-based deposition system enabling the coating an impervious substrate, such as a glass slide, with biological materials in a vacuum. Distilled water or a buffer is used as the solvent; no other solvents are used thereby eliminating hazardous waste from the process. Movement across differential pumping stages causes evaporation of the solvent occurs resulting in shrinkage of the remaining constituents with an increase of the charge density. The resulting ion beam enters a vacuum chamber and the beam impinges on the substrate, whereby a thin layer is deposited thereon. The spray can be focused to a specific area allowing patterning of the substrate if desired. The amount of coating can be controlled and a specified number of coats of the same or different molecules can be added to the surface. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/841236 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759924 | Shekhawat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gajendra Shekhawat (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Vinayak P Dravid (Glenview, Illinois); Soo-Hyun Tark (Evanston, Illinois); Arvind K Srivastava (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for detecting mechanical perturbations represented by a change in an electrical signal includes a structure such as a cantilever, membrane, etc. and a field effect transistor such as a MOSFET embedded in the structure. The drain current of the embedded transistor changes with mechanical perturbations in the structure caused, for example, by a biochemical interaction being sensed. A scanning probe microscope utilizes the embedded MOSFET with a BiMOS actuator. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566557 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760032 | Ardehali |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tialinx, Inc. (Newport Beach, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Ardehali (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is provided that includes: a plurality of differential inverter stages coupled to form a loop, each differential inverter stage having including a switched capacitor circuit configured to control a signal delay through the differential inverter stage responsive to a control circuit, whereby an output frequency for the VCO is inherently compensated against changes in semiconductor process variations and thermal variations. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/738333 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760354 | Grun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Grun (Silver Spring, Maryland); Sergei Nikitin (Springfield, Virginia); Charles K Manka (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectroscopic detector includes a tunable light source, such as a continuously tunable, optical parametric oscillator laser; means for measuring the emitted radiation at a plurality of emission wavelengths to obtain a plurality of spectral measurement data; and a processor for processing the spectral measurement data, where the processor includes a multispectral data processing algorithm or is configured for 1) combining the plurality of spectral measurement data into a composite spectrum, and 2) applying the algorithm to the composite spectrum. The spectra such as resonant and near-resonant Raman Spectra that are acquired are more complete and contain more information. A powerful multispectral analysis code such as IHPS, CHOMPS, or ENN analyzes the acquired data points, examining details of the spectra that could not be handled by traditional methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248272 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760412 | Goossen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Goossen (Howell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A modulator for modulating an optical signal is disclosed having a substrate, a support mounted to the substrate, and membrane attached to the support and defining an airgap between the substrate and the membrane. The membrane has at least three layers including a central layer having an index of refraction which is the square root of the index of refraction of the substrate. The thickness of the layers and the size of the airgap are optimized to maximize differential reflectivity of light incident on the membrane at a non-normal angle of incidence to the membrane when the membrane is either in an unbiased state or biased state. In one embodiment, the first, central, and third layers have corresponding thicknesses approximately equal to one-quarter, one-quarter, and on-half of a wavelength of the optical signal, respectively. In another embodiment, the thickness of the layers and the airgap are designed according to formulas such that the modulator can operate over wider angles of incidence up to about 55 degrees. In a third embodiment, the modulator can operate at an angle of incidence-up to about 85 degree with TE-only polarization of the incident light. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368899 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760438 | Suiter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold Suiter (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A full or partial air-to-water de-anamorphoser and method of air-to-water de-anamorphosis is provided. A housing has a planar transparent window in one end thereof adjacent to a defined air space. The housing is placed under the water's surface with an acute angle being formed between the window and the water's surface to thereby define a virtual prism whose center leads its apex. An optical prism having an apex and a center is positioned in the housing's air space and is spaced apart from the housing's window such that the prism's apex leads its center as measured along a line parallel to light exiting the prism. The light exiting the prism was originally incident on the water's surface, subsequently traveled through the water, and then was passed sequentially through the housing's window, the housing's air space and the prism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900145 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/669 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760535 | Parkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Parkin (San Jose, California); Luc Thomas (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and structure for depinning a domain wall that is in spatial confinement by a pinning potential to within a local region of a magnetic device. At least one current pulse applied to the domain has a pulse length sufficiently close to a precession period of the domain wall motion and the current pulses are separated by a pulse interval sufficiently close to the precession period such that: the at least one current pulse causes a depinning of the domain wall such that the domain wall escapes the spatial confinement; and each current pulse has an amplitude less than the minimum amplitude of a direct current that would cause the depinning if the direct current were applied to the domain wall instead of the at least one current pulse. The pulse length and pulse interval may be in a range of 25% to 75% of the precession period. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/124306 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760585 | Ortiz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert Ortiz (Chalfont, Pennsylvania); Donald Dalessandro (Williamstown, New Jersey); Qing Dong (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for transmitting radio frequency signals and associated information through a plurality of compartments and associated bulkhead walls in a water vessel. The method and apparatus includes a through-the-bulkhead repeater system, in which one or more bi-directional repeater units are mounted on bulkhead walls in each compartment. The bi-directional units communicate with each other to transfer signals throughout the vessel. In operation, a bi-directional unit converts radio frequency signals into energy forms such as ultrasonic waves, which are propagated from one compartment to an adjacent compartment through the thick bulkhead walls. The propagated energy forms are received in the adjacent compartment by another bi-directional unit, which eventually converts the energy form into an output radio frequency signal, which is then transmitted by the bi-directional unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906800 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760587 | Abbot et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems (OASIS), Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip A. Abbot (Lexington, Massachusetts); Charles J. Gedney (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Chris J. Emerson (Manchester, Massachusetts); David W. Morton (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of and system for monitoring the acoustic transmission conditions in underwater areas using an unmanned, mobile, submersible vehicle of the type including a source of acoustic signals. The submersible vehicle is controlled so that the vehicle traverses a desired path through the water of an area of interest. As the submersible vehicle traverses the desired path, a time-synchronized acoustic signal is transmitted from the acoustic source to at least one receiver spaced from the submersible vehicle so as to generate data representing the acoustic properties of the environment in the water between the acoustic source and the at least one receiver as the submersible vehicle traverses the desired path. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/649635 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760970 | Baehr-Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom Baehr-Jones (Seattle, Washington); Michael J. Hochberg (Seattle, Washington); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A single-photon absorption all-optical modulator, systems employing the same, and methods of making and using the same. An illustrative example is provided based on silicon semiconductor technology that employs rectangular waveguides. In some embodiments, it is observed that the waveguides operate with an absorption density of less than 1017 cm−1s−1mW−1 to provide a single-photon absorption operation mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251032 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760976 | Tidwell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven C. Tidwell (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for directing a laser beam at an object. Some embodiments include generating direction-control information, based on the direction-control information, directing laser energy into a first fiber at a first end of a first fiber bundle during a first time period, forming an output beam of the laser energy from the second end of the first fiber bundle, and steering the output beam of the laser energy from the first fiber in a first selected direction of a plurality of directions during the first time period, and optionally modulating an intensity of the laser energy according to a predetermined pattern. The direction-control information is based on sensing electromagnetic radiation from a scene. Some embodiments use a remote camera wire-connected to the image processor to obtain scene information, while other embodiments use a second fiber bundle to convey image information from an external remote lens to a local camera. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/637398 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760979 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chao-Kun Lin (Fremont, California); Kostadin Djordjev (San Jose, California); Michael Renne Ty Tan (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, there is disclosed a waveguide medium using total internal reflection to create a relatively sharp (approximately 90°) bend for optical signals traversing the waveguide. A discontinuity of the medium (such as air) is used to create a turning mirror within the waveguide path. By curving the discontinuity, the entire input optical signal is focused into the output portion of the waveguide, thereby compensating for the diffraction loss of the optical signal at the bend. In one embodiment in order to facilitate proper alignment of the masks certain portions of the waveguide on a first mask are extended (widened) beyond their optimum physical size. This extended portion is then used to position an edge of a second mask, such that optical signal scatter caused by the extended portions of the waveguide are compensated for by adjusting the curvature. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060338 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760992 | Wendt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Global Solar Energy, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Wendt (Tucson, Arizona); Scott Wiedeman (Tucson, Arizona); Jeffrey S. Britt (Tucson, Arizona); Douglas G. Mason (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725975 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/388 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761125 | Agassi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yehoshua Dan Agassi (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel E. Oates (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Intermodulation distortion (IMD) is known to be an impediment to progress in superconductor-based filter technology. The present invention's methodology for reducing IMD can open doors to heretofore unseen practical applications involving high temperature superconductor (HTS) filters. Typical inventive practice includes (a) increasing the thickness d, and/or (b) changing the operation temperature T, of the filter's HTS film. The film's thickness d is increased in such a way as to decrease the IMD power PIMD in accordance with the material-independent proportionate relationship PIMD∝1/d1.5-6. The film's operation temperature T is bettered or optimized in accordance with the material-independent proportionate relationship PIMD∝(λO(T))10(K(2)(T))2/(ΔO(T))6, and further in accordance with three individual material-dependent relationships, namely, between operation temperature T and each of linear penetration depth λO, gap maximum ΔO, and kernel K(2). Some inventive embodiments include oxygen overdoping of the film as an additional/alternative IMD-reductive measure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/240786 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761226 | Rashid |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fazal A. Rashid (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention's network-based directions-provision methodology typically features the establishment of two ranking schemes that reversely parallel each other. The “personal” ranking scheme ranks all permitted persons in terms of the degree of access permission with respect to the variously ranked regions of a facility; the lower the personal rank, the fewer the regional ranks to which the person is permitted access. The “regional” ranking scheme ranks all accessible regions in terms of the degree of access permission with respect thereto by the variously ranked permitted persons; the higher the regional rank, the fewer the personal ranks that are permitted access to the region. According to typical inventive practice, a permitted person logs in to request directions, within the facility, from an original location to a destination location; the directions given (textual and/or graphical) are the optimal directions that are consistent with the personal rank of the requestor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193657 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761265 | Regli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Regli (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Vincent A. Cicirello (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a similarity of a first solid model to a second solid model is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: selecting a set of features for representing the first solid model; extracting features corresponding to the selected set of features from the first solid model; constructing an undirected model dependency graph of the first solid model based on the selected set of features; extracting features corresponding to the selected set of features from the second solid model; constructing an undirected model dependency graph of the second solid model based on the selected set of features; comparing the undirected model dependency graph of the first solid model with the undirected model dependency graph of the second solid model; and outputting a numerical measure indicative of the similarity of the first solid model to the second solid model. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430046 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761296 | Bakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raimo Bakis (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Ellen M. Eide (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for rescoring the N-best hypotheses from an automatic speech recognition system by comparing an original speech waveform to synthetic speech waveforms that are generated for each text sequence of the N-best hypotheses. A distance is calculated from the original speech waveform to each of the synthesized waveforms, and the text associated with the synthesized waveform that is determined to be closest to the original waveform is selected as the final hypothesis. The original waveform and each synthesized waveform are aligned to a corresponding text sequence on a phoneme level. The mean of the feature vectors which align to each phoneme is computed for the original waveform as well as for each of the synthesized hypotheses. The distance of a synthesized hypothesis to the original speech signal is then computed as the sum over all phonemes in the hypothesis of the Euclidean distance between the means of the feature vectors of the frames aligning to that phoneme for the original and the synthesized signals. The text of the hypothesis which is closest under the above metric to the original waveform is chosen as the final system output. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/286099 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761463 | Wheeler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary A. Wheeler (Fort Irwin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical check-in and data communication kiosk for efficiently checking-in patients at a medical facility and/or exchanging relevant data with the patient. A patient automatically provides initial identification information by swiping, scanning, etc., an I.D. card and the kiosk then accesses various legacy database systems to gather all relevant medical data corresponding to the particular patient. The patient is requested to verify and/or update any third party payer information, such as insurance information, and is also informed of suggested preventive healthcare actions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133361 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/769 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761782 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | XSB, Inc. (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Warren (Stony Brook, New York); Iyer Venkat Ramakrishnan (Setauket, New York); Coimbatore Rajamani Ramakrishnan (Mount Sinai, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A user programmable deductive spreadsheet is implemented as an add-in to an existing mathematical spreadsheet program and allows the use of a logic programming language such as Prolog via a familiar spreadsheet interface. A syntax is provided whereby a set of multiple values can be stored in a cell and can be operated on recursively by an expression in another cell. Rows and columns can be given user defined names and cells can be referenced by row and column name. Cells can reference cells in other spreadsheets or can reference an entire spreadsheet in one cell. A cell expression can reference itself. Logical, arithmetic, and lifted operators are provided. Spreadsheets can be defined as a transformation of another spreadsheet. When no negative or aggregate operators are used in the cell expressions, the meaning of the spreadsheet is given in terms of least fixed points. Otherwise, the meaning is given in terms of perfect models. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257923 |
| ART UNIT | 2178 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761784 | Parks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Accenture Global Services GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Parks (Norwood, Massachusetts); Steven B. Petchon (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A presentation generator may access one or more data sources structured into data fields. The user may create or modify a template by inserting one or more tags corresponding to data fields in the template. The template may also have one or more processing instructions for indicating the data sources and how the data sources should be queried. The processing instructions may also indicate how the data is to be grouped across various slides, pages, sections, etc. The generator may build the presentation based on the template, its tags, and its processing instructions. The resulting presentation may be accessed by a user-friendly application, such as a word processor, slide program, spreadsheet, report viewer, or other application. The user may update part or all of the presentation using information on the queries and data sources embedded in the presentation itself. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/037181 |
| ART UNIT | 2176 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Saur (Dearborn, Michigan) |
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| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 29/341668 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Arms, pyrotechnics, hunting and fishing equipment D22/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel X. Hammer (Bedford, New Hampshire); R. Daniel Ferguson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Nicusor V. Iftimia (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Teoman E. Ustun (Malden, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system provides an optical image of an object. A first module tracks a reference feature of the object. A second module includes a source for an imaging beam, a scanning device to move the imaging beam along a portion of the object and a detection device receives a signal associated with an image of the portion of the object. The first module controls the position of the imaging beam relative to the reference feature to correct for the motion of the object. A third module detects a distortion of the object and compensates for the distortion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789800 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758854 | Filutowicz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcin S. Filutowicz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Antimicrobial agents that can serve as replacements to conventional pharmaceutical antibiotics are disclosed. The antimicrobial agents comprise conjugatively transmissible plasmids that kill targeted pathogenic bacteria, but are not harmful to donor bacteria. Two types of lethal transmissible plasmids are disclosed. One type kills recipient bacteria by unchecked (“runaway”) replication in the recipient cells and is prevented from occuring in donor cells. Another type kills recipient bacteria by expressing a gene that produces a product detrimental or lethal to recipient bacterial cells, that gene being prevented from expression in donor cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/250645 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758855 | Kopecko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Kopecko (Silver Spring, Maryland); Manuel Osorio (Bethesda, Maryland); Siba Bhattacharyya (Bethesda, Maryland); Chandrakant P. Giri (Rockville, Maryland); Milan Blake (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to intracellularly induced bacterial DNA promoters and vaccines against Bacillus anthracis. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/378003 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758868 | Cameron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig E. Cameron (State College, Pennsylvania); Christian Castro (State College, Pennsylvania); Jamie J. Arnold (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention encompasses compositions and methods relating to viral polymerases having one or more substitutions of different amino acids at conserved regions of the polymerase yields enzymes with varying rates and fidelity of replication. A universally applicable, polymerase-mechanism-based strategy for production of attenuated viruses and anti-viral vaccines is disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/963930 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/217.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758874 | Jacobs, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Jacobs, Jr. (Pelham, New York); Barry Bloom (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mary K. Hondalus (Crawford, Georgia); Samantha Sampson (Brookline, Massachusetts); Vasan Sambandamurthy (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-naturally occurring mycobacteria in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex are provided. These mycobacteria have a deletion of an RD1 region or a region controlling production of a vitamin, and exhibit attenuated virulence in a mammal when compared to the mycobacteria without the deletion. Also provided are non-naturally occurring mycobacteria that have a deletion of a region controlling production of lysine, and mycobacteria comprising two attenuating deletions. Vaccines comprising these mycobacteria are also provided, as are methods of protecting mammals from virulent mycobacteria using the vaccines. Also provided are methods of preparing these vaccines which include the step of deleting an RD1 region or a region controlling production of a vitamin or the amino acids leucine and lysine from a mycobacterium in the M. tuberculosis complex. Embodiments of these mycobacteria, vaccines and methods, encompassing mycobacteria comprising a leucine auxotrophy and a pantothenate auxotrophy, are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109056 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758876 | Klinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Bruce Ivins (Frederick, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to a method of preventing or treating an infection caused by a bioterrorism agent, specifically to a method of increasing an immune response to a bioterrorism agent using an oligodeoxynucleotide including a CpG motif, and a method of enhancing the immunogenicity of a vaccine against a bioterrorism agent using an oligodeoxynucleotide including a CpG motif. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/533634 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/278.100 |
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| US 07759069 | Noy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noa Noy (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions and methods used for detecting and measuring ligands for nuclear receptors and intracellular lipid binding proteins in both in vitro and in vivo samples. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/294736 |
| 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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| US 07759075 | Wilkes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Wilkes (Indianapolis, Indiana); Michael Klemsz (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments include methods for diagnosing and treating medical conditions that involve an autoimmune response to connective tissue such as collagen found in organs such as the lung. In one method pulmonary disease and disorders such as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) are diagnosed by analyzing fluid or tissue samples obtained from a patient for evidence of an autoimmune response to various types of collagen including, for example, Type V. One type of assay for evidence of an autoimmune response to Type V collagen comprises the steps of obtaining a fluid or tissue sample from a patient, contacting at least a portion of the sample with antigen to anti-Type V collagen antibody and monitoring the mixture of sample and antigen for changes indicative of the presence of anti-Type V collagen in the sample. Another embodiment includes treating pulmonary diseases such as IPF by administering a therapeutically effective dose of epitopes of various collagens including Type V collagen. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/171661 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 07759113 | Vacanti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Vacanti (Winchester, Massachusetts); Young-Moon Michael Shin (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jennifer Ogilvie (San Francisco, California); Alexander Sevy (Houston, Texas); Tomoyuki Maemura (Belmont, Massachusetts); Osamu Ishii (Arlington, Massachusetts); Mohammad Reza Kaazempur-Mofrad (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jeffrey T. Borenstein (Newton, Massachusetts); Kevin R. King (Western Springs, Illinois); Chiao-Chun Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Eli Weinberg (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and materials for making complex, living, vascularized tissues for organ and tissue replacement, especially complex and/or thick structures, such as liver tissue is provided. Tissue lamina is made in a system comprising an apparatus having (a) a first mold or polymer scaffold, a semi-permeable membrane, and a second mold or polymer scaffold, wherein the semi-permeable membrane is disposed between the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds have means defining microchannels positioned toward the semi-permeable membrane, wherein the first and second molds or polymer scaffolds are fastened together; and (b) animal cells. Methods for producing complex, three-dimensional tissues or organs from tissue lamina are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/187247 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/284.100 |
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| US 07759119 | Allbritton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Allbritton (Irvine, California); Christopher E. Sims (Irvine, California); Yuli Wang (Irvine, California); Mark Bachman (Irvine, California); Guann-Pyng Li (Irvine, California); Eric Stanbridge (Corona Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A plate manufactured to enable samples of cells, micro-organisms, proteins, DNA, biomolecules and other biological media to be positioned at specific locations or sites on the plate for the purpose of performing addressable analyses on the samples. Preferably, some or all of the sites are built from a removable material or as pallets so that a subset of the samples of interest can be readily isolated from the plate for further processing or analysis. The plate can contain structures or chemical treatments that enhance or promote the attachment and/or function of the samples, and that promote or assist in their analyses. Use of the plate advantageously enables the selection and sorting of cells based on dynamic phenomena and the rapid establishment of stable tranfectants. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733053 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07759304 | Gilkeson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado); MUSC Foundation For Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Gilkeson (Charleston, South Carolina); Stephen Tomlinson (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina); V. Michael Holers (Denver, Colorado); Baerbel Rohrer (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a CR2-FH molecule comprising a CR2 portion comprising CR2 protein or a fragment thereof and a FH portion comprising a factor H protein or a fragment thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising a CR2-FH molecule. Also provided are methods of using the compositions for treatment diseases in which the alternative complement pathway is implicated, such as age-related macular degeneration, rheumatoid arthritis, and ischemia reperfusion. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821370 |
| 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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| US 07759311 | Castillo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proteotech, Inc. (Kirkland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerardo Castillo (Bothell, Washington); Thomas Lake (Snohomish, Washington); Beth Nguyen (Gurnee, Illinois); Virginia Sanders (San Francisco, California); Alan D. Snow (Lynnwood, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A pharmaceutical composition comprising a peptide consisting of Arg-Val-Ala-Val-Ile-Met-Gly-amide-having at least one D-amino acid. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732226 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16 |
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| US 07759314 | Fallon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin R. Fallon (Harvard, Massachusetts); Michael Rafii (Baltimore, Maryland); Alison Amenta (Pawtucket, Rhode Island); Mark Bowe (Damasus, Maryland); Beth McKechnie (Franklin, Massachusetts); Mary Lynn Mercado (Robbinsville, New Jersey); Hiroki Hagiwara (Bunkyo-Ku, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides, among other aspects, compositions and methods for treating, preventing, and diagnosing diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of biglycan; diseases or conditions associated with an abnormal level or activity of collagen VI; disorders associated with an unstable cytoplasmic membrane, due, e.g., to an unstable dystrophin associated protein complex (DAPC); and disorders associated with abnormal synapses or neuromuscular junctions, including those resulting from an abnormal MuSK activation or acetylcholine receptor (AChR) aggregation. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/486678 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/20 |
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| US 07759320 | Bavari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); Kelly Lyn Warfield (Adamstown, Maryland); Pamela Tan (Kulmbach, Germany); Anna Borodovsky (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Tatiana Novobrantseva (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Antonin de Fougerolles (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of a gene from the Ebola virus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/055295 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07759330 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hyun K. Kim (Bethesda, Maryland); Richard P. Blye (Highland, Maryland); Pemmaraju N. Rao (San Antonio, Texas); James W. Cessac (San Antonio, Texas); Carmie K. Acosta (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the general formula: in which: R1 is a member selected from the group consisting of —OCH3, —SCH3, —N(CH3)2, —NHCH3, —CHO, —COCH3 and —CHOHCH3; R2 is a member selected from the group consisting of halogen, alkyl, acyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, acyloxy, alkyl carbonate, cypionyloxy, S-alkyl and S-acyl; R3 is a member selected from the group consisting of alkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy and acyloxy; R4 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl; and X is a member selected from the group consisting of ═O and ═N—OR5, wherein R5 is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl. In addition to providing the compounds of Formula I, the present invention provides methods wherein the compounds of Formula I are advantageously used, inter alia, to antagonize endogenous progesterone; to induce menses; to treat endometriosis; to treat dysmenorrhea; to treat endocrine hormone-dependent tumors; to treat uterine fibroids; to inhibit uterine endometrial proliferation; to induce labor; and for contraception. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/500627 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/179 |
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| US 07759358 | Crooks et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Crooks (Nicholasville, Kentucky); Mohamed Omer Hamad (Lexington, Kentucky); Audra Lynn Stinchcomb (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to forming duplex prodrugs that provide significant increase in the transdermal flux of drugs across human skin. The prodrugs are prepared by reacting a drug that can form an ester moiety with phosgene to form a carbonate. The drug can be an opiate or an opiate antagonist. When in contact with human skin, the duplex drug is biotransformed by enzymes or by hydrolysis into two drug molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/897428 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/282 |
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| US 07759374 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Alexey Rivkin (New York, New York); Fumikiko Yoshimura (Sapporo, Japan); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ana E. Gabarda (Madrid, Spain); Huajin Dong (Bejing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein. The present invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and provides methods of treating cancer comprising administering a compound of formula (I). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/546715 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
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| US 07759395 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Bruce D. Levy (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is generally drawn to novel isolated therapeutic agents, termed resolvins, generated from the interaction between a dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), cyclooxygenase-II (COX-2) and an analgesic, such as aspirin (ASA). Surprisingly, careful isolation of compounds generated from the combination of components in an appropriate environment provide di- and tri-hydroxy EPA or DHA compounds having unique structural and physiological properties. The present invention therefore provides for many new useful therapeutic di- or tri-hydroxy derivatives of EPA or DHA (resolvins) that diminish, prevent, or eliminate inflammation or PMN migration, for example. The present invention also provides methods of use, methods of preparation, and packaged pharmaceuticals for use as medicaments for the compounds disclosed throughout the specification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/081203 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/560 |
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| US 07759459 | Lawrence |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Lawrence (Hartsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides fluorescently-labeled peptide substrates for protein kinases; methods using the substrates for identifying compounds that inhibit protein kinases, for determining if particular protein kinases are active in cells, for diagnosing diseases, and for preparing compositions; and compositions comprising the substrates. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/755086 |
| 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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| US 07759463 | Mello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig C. Mello (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Hiroaki Tabara (Worcester, Massachusetts); Andrew Fire (Baltimore, Maryland); Alla Grishok (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Genes involved in double-stranded RNA interference (RNAi pathway genes) are identified and used to investigate the RNAi pathway. The genes and their products are also useful for modulating RNAi pathway activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710152 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
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| US 07759465 | Kurt-Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones (Belmont, Massachusetts); Robert W. Finberg (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been found that Toll-like receptor 1 and Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) physically interact. Antibodies that specifically bind to TLR2 and selectively inhibit induction of cytokines are also described. The invention relates to specific antibodies that selectively bind to TLR2, and to methods of identifying compounds that selectively interfere with signaling through TLR1/TLR2 complexes. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134607 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.220 |
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| US 07759467 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A Williams (Indianapolis, Indiana); Vikram P Patel (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to increase the efficiency of transduction of hematopoietic and other cells by retroviruses includes infecting the cells in the presence of fibronectin or fibronectin fragments. The fibronectin and fibronectin fragments significantly enhance retroviral-mediated gene transfer into the cells, particularly hematopoietic cells including committed progenitors and primitive hematopoietic stem cells. The invention also provides improved methods for somatic gene therapy capitalizing on enhanced gene transfer, hematopoietic cellular populations, and novel constructs for enhancing retroviral-mediated DNA transfer into cells and their use. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/453658 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.350 |
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| US 07759520 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Donghua Yin (Pawcatuck, Connecticut); Yali He (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a synthetic process for the preparation of a novel class of androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA) which demonstrate androgenic and anabolic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. The agents define a new subclass of compounds which are selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM) which are useful for a) male contraception; b) treatment of a variety of hormone-related conditions, for example conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Aging Male (ADAM), such as fatigue, depression, decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, osteoporosis, hair loss, anemia, obesity, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, alterations in mood and cognition and prostate cancer; c) treatment of conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Female (ADIF), such as sexual dysfunction, decreased sexual libido, hypogonadism, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, alterations in cognition and mood, depression, anemia, hair loss, obesity, endometriosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer; d) treatment and/or prevention of chronic muscular wasting; e) decreasing the incidence of, halting or causing a regression of prostate cancer; f) oral androgen relacement and/or other clinical therpauetic and/or diagnostic areas. The process of the present invention is suitable for large-scale preparation, since all of the steps give rise to highly pure compounds, thus avoiding complicated purification procedures which ultimately lower the yield. Thus the present invention provides methods for the synthesis of non-steroidal agonist compounds, that can be used for industrial large-scale synthesis, and that provide highly pure products in high yield. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/062752 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/165 |
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| US 07759645 | Brecher et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Brecher (Watertown, Massachusetts); Vivek Nagarkar (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Scintillation materials having an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, and a variety of second dopants (co-dopants). |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875151 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/361.R00 |
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| US 07759842 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junho Song (North York, Canada); Dale E. Chimenti (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An air-coupled transducer includes a ultrasonic transducer body having a radiation end with a backing fixture at the radiation end. There is a flexible backplate conformingly fit to the backing fixture and a thin membrane (preferably a metallized polymer) conformingly fit to the flexible backplate. In one embodiment, the backing fixture is spherically curved and the flexible backplate is spherically curved. The flexible backplate is preferably patterned with pits or depressions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913921 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/334 |
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| US 07760342 | Zanni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Thomas Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Niels H. Damrauer (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A multidimensional spectrometer for the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and a method for making multidimensional spectroscopic measurements in the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The multidimensional spectrometer facilitates measurements of inter- and intra-molecular interactions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/963123 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/51 |
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| US 07760849 | Zhang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiezhi Zhang (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of imaging an object that includes directing a plurality of x-ray beams in a fan-shaped form towards an object, detecting x-rays that pass through the object due to the directing a plurality of x-ray beams and generating a plurality of imaging data regarding the object from the detected x-rays. The method further includes forming either a three-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography, digital tomosynthesis or Megavoltage image from the plurality of imaging data and displaying the image. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786781 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moonis Raza Ally (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); John Jager Tomlinson (Knoxville, Tennessee); Clifford Keith Rice (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat pump has a refrigerant loop, a compressor in fluid communication with the refrigerant loop, at least one indoor heat exchanger in fluid communication with the refrigerant loop, and at least one outdoor heat exchanger in fluid communication with the refrigerant loop. The at least one outdoor heat exchanger has a phase change material in thermal communication with the refrigerant loop and in fluid communication with an outdoor environment. Other systems, devices, and methods are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/162167 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/271 |
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| US 07758670 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P. Wynn (Redwood City, California); Donald A. Fulton (Fairfield, California); Kaaeid A. Lokhandwala (Fremont, California); Jurgen Kaschemekat (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas-separation membrane assembly, and a gas-separation process using the assembly. The assembly incorporates multiple gas-separation membranes in an array within a single vessel or housing, and is equipped with two permeate ports, enabling permeate gas to be withdrawn from both ends of the membrane module permeate pipes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484547 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/45 |
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| US 07758696 | Stoddard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BP Corporation North America Inc (Warrenville, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan G. Stoddard (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Roger F. Clark (Frederick, Maryland); Tim Kary (Union Bridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for monitoring a solid-liquid interface, including providing a vessel configured to contain an at least partially melted material; detecting radiation reflected from a surface of a liquid portion of the at least partially melted material that is parallel with the liquid surface; measuring a disturbance on the surface; calculating at least one frequency associated with the disturbance; and determining a thickness of the liquid portion based on the at least one frequency, wherein the thickness is calculated based on where g is the gravitational constant, w is the horizontal width of the liquid, and f is the at least one frequency. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233694 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/52 |
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| US 07758708 | Mitlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Governors of the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada); The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Mitlin (Edmonton, Canada); Colin Ophus (Edmonton, Canada); Stephane Evoy (Edmonton, Canada); Velimir Radmilovic (Piedmont, California); Reza Mohammadi (Edmonton, Canada); Ken Westra (Edmonton, Canada); Nathaniel Nelson-Fitzpatrick (Edmonton, Canada); Zonghoon Lee (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin-film composition of nanocrystal molybdenum in an amorphous metallic matrix may be formed by co-sputtering Mo with aluminum or nickel. NEMS cantilevers may be formed from the film. The films exhibit high nanoindentation hardness and a reduction in roughness and intrinsic stress, while maintaining resistivity in the metallic range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831434 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758754 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P. Wynn (Redwood City, California); Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Donald A. Fulton (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a pervaporation process and pervaporation equipment, using a series of membrane modules, and including inter-module reheating of the feed solution under treatment. The inter-module heating is achieved within the tube or vessel in which the modules are housed, thereby avoiding the need to repeatedly extract the feed solution from the membrane module train. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651303 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07758783 — Continious production of exfoliated graphite composite compositions and flow field plates
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of continuously producing a more isotropic, electrically conductive composite composition is provided. The process comprises: (a) continuously supplying a compressible mixture comprising exfoliated graphite worms and a binder or matrix material, wherein the binder or matrix material is in an amount of between 3% and 60% by weight based on the total weight of the mixture; (b) continuously compressing the compressible mixture at a pressure within the range of from about 5 psi or 0.035 MPa to about 50,000 psi or 350 MPa in at least a first direction into a cohered graphite composite compact; and (c) continuously compressing the composite compact in a second direction, different from the first direction, to form the composite composition in a sheet or plate form. The process leads to composite plates with exceptionally high thickness-direction electrical conductivity. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901227 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758784 | Chelluri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IAP Research, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhanumathi Chelluri (Dublin, Ohio); Edward Arlen Knoth (Beavercreek, Ohio); Edward John Schumaker (Riverside, Ohio); Ryan D. Evans (N. Canton, Ohio); James L. Maloney, III (Canton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of uniformly dispersing a nano powder throughout a micron powder. Ordinary mixing or agitation does not succeed in attaining uniform dispersal: the nano powder agglomerates into microscopic masses. In one form of the invention, a charge of a micron powder, with fifty weight percent of charge of nanopowder is loaded into a ball mill. The mixture is ball milled for less than two hours, at room temperature in a dry condition, and produces a highly uniform distribution of the nano powder throughout the micron powder. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/531768 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758843 | Bolotnikov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleskey E. Bolotnikov (South Setauket, New York); Ralph B. James (Ridge, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides systems and methods for crystal growth of cadmium zinc tellurium (CZT) and cadmium tellurium (CdTe) crystals with an inverted growth reactor chamber. The inverted growth reactor chamber enables growth of single, large, high purity CZT and CdTe crystals that can be used, for example, in X-ray and gamma detection, substrates for infrared detectors, or the like. The inverted growth reactor chamber enables reductions in the presence of Te inclusions, which are recognized as an important limiting factor in using CZT or CdTe as radiation detectors. The inverted growth reactor chamber can be utilized with existing crystal growth techniques such as the Bridgman crystal growth mechanism and the like. In an exemplary embodiment, the inverted growth reactor chamber is a U-shaped ampoule. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416224 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758921 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Junbing Yang (Willow brook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) having an anode and a cathode and a proton conductive membrane there between. A bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated in the nanotubes forms at least one portion of the MEA and is in contact with the membrane. A combination selected from one or more of a hydrocarbon and an organometallic compound containing an catalytically active transition metal and a nitrogen containing compound and an inert gas and a reducing gas is introduced into a first reaction zone maintained at a first reaction temperature for a time sufficient to vaporize material therein. The vaporized material is transmitted to a second reaction zone maintained at a second reaction temperature for a time sufficient to grow longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes. The nanotubes are in contact with a portion of the MEA at production or being positioned in contact thereafter. Methods of forming a PEMFC are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368116 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758989 | Haltiner, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Curtis D. Lamb (Scottsville, New York); James S. Vordonis (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a modular fuel cell cassette for forming a fuel cell stack, anode openings in the mounting plate and separator plate are separated and connected by modular spacer rings such that the cassette is incompressible at operating temperatures and compressive loads within the stack. The spacer rings are formed in modules wherein all of the rings required for all of the anode supply chimneys or all of the anode exhaust chimneys of any given cassette are ganged together and include a perimeter rail to which the rings are connected which automatically orients and positions the rings within the cassette during assembly thereof. The present invention eliminates the prior art need for individually positioning and spot welding each prior art ring in place prior to assembly of a prior art cassette. Two different structural embodiments for a spacer ring module are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/527908 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758992 | Rieke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Rieke (Pasco, Washington); Gregory W. Coffey (Richland, Washington); Larry R. Pederson (Kennewick, Washington); Olga A. Marina (Richland, Washington); John S. Hardy (Richland, Washington); Prabhaker Singh (Richland, Washington); Edwin C. Thomsen (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells. Also provided are electrochemical devices that include active oxygen reduction electrodes, such as solid oxide fuel cells, sensors, pumps and the like. The compositions comprises a copper-substituted ferrite perovskite material. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using the electrode compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having cathodes comprising the compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/714180 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758993 | Bischoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worldwide Energy, Inc. of Delaware (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Bischoff (Knoxville, Tennessee); Theodore G. Sutton (Kingston, Tennessee); Timothy R. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An internal current collector for use inside a tubular solid oxide fuel cell (TSOFC) electrode comprises a tubular coil spring disposed concentrically within a TSOFC electrode and in firm uniform tangential electrical contact with the electrode inner surface. The current collector maximizes the contact area between the current collector and the electrode. The current collector is made of a metal that is electrically conductive and able to survive under the operational conditions of the fuel cell, i.e., the cathode in air, and the anode in fuel such as hydrogen, CO, CO2, H2O or H2S. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/171655 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759057 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jizhong Zhou (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Liyou Wu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for quantitatively analyzing microbial genes, species, or strains in a sample that contains at least two species or strains of microorganisms. The method involves using an isothermal DNA polymerase to randomly and representatively amplify genomic DNA of the microorganisms in the sample, hybridizing the resultant polynucleotide amplification product to a polynucleotide microarray that can differentiate different genes, species, or strains of microorganisms of interest, and measuring hybridization signals on the microarray to quantify the genes, species, or strains of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/943067 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. William Studier (Stony Brook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A bacterial growth medium for promoting auto-induction of transcription of cloned DNA in cultures of bacterial cells grown batchwise is disclosed. The transcription is under the control of a lac repressor. Also disclosed is a bacterial growth medium for improving the production of a selenomethionine-containing protein or polypeptide in a bacterial cell, the protein or polypeptide being produced by recombinant DNA techniques from a lac or T7lac promoter, the bacterial cell encoding a vitamin B12-dependent homocysteine methylase. Finally, disclosed is a bacterial growth medium for suppressing auto-induction of expression in cultures of bacterial cells grown batchwise, said transcription being under the control of lac repressor. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/062565 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/253.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759229 | Hoffbauer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Hoffbauer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Elshan Akhadov (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A charge-free method of forming a nanostructure at low temperatures on a substrate. A substrate that is reactive with one of atomic oxygen and nitrogen is provided. A flux of neutral atoms of least one of oxygen and nitrogen is generated within a laser-sustained-discharge plasma source and a collimated beam of energetic neutral atoms and molecules is directed from the plasma source onto a surface of the substrate to form the nanostructure. The energetic neutral atoms and molecules in the beam have an average kinetic energy in a range from about 1 eV to about 5 eV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603516 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759280 | Castellano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF Corporation (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Castellano (Ringoes, New Jersey); Ahmad Moini (Princeton, New Jersey); Gerald S. Koermer (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Howard Furbeck (Hamilton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalysts, systems and methods are described to reduce NOx emissions of an internal combustion engine. In one embodiment, an emissions treatment system for an exhaust stream is provided having an SCR catalyst comprising silver tungstate on an alumina support. The emissions treatment system may be used for the treatment of exhaust streams from diesel engines and lean burn gasoline engines. An emissions treatment system may further comprise an injection device operative to dispense a hydrocarbon reducing agent upstream of the catalyst. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/533631 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759713 | Kalinin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergei V. Kalinin (Knoxville, Tennessee); Hans M. Christen (Knoxville, Tennessee); Arthur P. Baddorf (Knoxville, Tennessee); Vincent Meunier (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ho Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunneling element includes a thin film layer of ferroelectric material and a pair of dissimilar electrically-conductive layers disposed on opposite sides of the ferroelectric layer. Because of the dissimilarity in composition or construction between the electrically-conductive layers, the electron transport behavior of the electrically-conductive layers is polarization dependent when the tunneling element is below the Curie temperature of the layer of ferroelectric material. The element can be used as a basis of compact 1R type non-volatile random access memory (RAM). The advantages include extremely simple architecture, ultimate scalability and fast access times generic for all ferroelectric memories. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368550 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760054 | Lewellen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Lewellen (Willowbrook, Illinois); John Noonan (Naperville, Illinois); Terry L. Smith (Plainfield, Illinois); Geoff Waldschmidt (Bolingbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF cavity is provided with a plurality of tubes that are formed into a tubular cage in a predefined shape to define the RF cavity. A selected number of tubes and a selected tube diameter are provided to form a confinement cage for the RF fields within the RF cavity defined by the tubes. The multiple, small metal tubes are selectively bent to form different cavity shapes and sizes as needed to accelerate the particles and function as a confinement cage for the RF fields within the RF cavity defined by the tubes. The cost to fabricate RF cavities using the tubular cage design is significantly lower than the cost of producing a solid cavity using conventional fabrication technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747021 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/227 |
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| US 07760073 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richalnd, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Wayne Scott (Pasco, Washington); Richard M. Pratt (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A modulated backscatter radio frequency identification device includes a diode detector configured to selectively modulate a reply signal onto an incoming continuous wave; communications circuitry configured to provide a modulation control signal to the diode detector, the diode detector being configured to modulate the reply signal in response to be modulation control signal; and circuitry configured to increase impedance change at the diode detector which would otherwise not occur because the diode detector rectifies the incoming continuous wave while modulating the reply signal, whereby reducing the rectified signal increases modulation depth by removing the reverse bias effects on impedance changes. Methods of improving depth of modulation in a modulated backscatter radio frequency identification device are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/029841 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/10.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760128 | Doerry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Freddie E. Heard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); J. Thomas Cordaro (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Motion measurement errors that extend beyond the range resolution of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be corrected by effectively decreasing the range resolution of the SAR in order to permit measurement of the error. Range profiles can be compared across the slow-time dimension of the input data in order to estimate the error. Once the error has been determined, appropriate frequency and phase correction can be applied to the uncompressed input data, after which range and azimuth compression can be performed to produce a desired SAR image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120265 |
| 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 342/25.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760342 | Zanni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Thomas Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Niels H. Damrauer (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A multidimensional spectrometer for the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and a method for making multidimensional spectroscopic measurements in the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The multidimensional spectrometer facilitates measurements of inter- and intra-molecular interactions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/963123 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761687 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); George Chiu (Cross River, New York); Thomas M. Cipolla (Katonah, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Shawn Hall (Pleasantville, New York); Rudolf A. Haring (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Gerard V. Kopcsay (Yorktown Heights, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York); Krishnan Sugavanam (Mahopac, New York); Todd Takken (Brewster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A massively parallel supercomputer of petaOPS-scale includes node architectures based upon System-On-a-Chip technology, where each processing node comprises a single Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) having up to four processing elements. The ASIC nodes are interconnected by multiple independent networks that optimally maximize the throughput of packet communications between nodes with minimal latency. The multiple networks may include three high-speed networks for parallel algorithm message passing including a Torus, collective network, and a Global Asynchronous network that provides global barrier and notification functions. These multiple independent networks may be collaboratively or independently utilized according to the needs or phases of an algorithm for optimizing algorithm processing performance. The use of a DMA engine is provided to facilitate message passing among the nodes without the expenditure of processing resources at the node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768905 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Babak Vakili Amini (Marietta, Georgia); Reza Abdolvand (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are moveable microstructures comprising in-plane capacitive microaccelerometers, with submicro-gravity resolution (<200 ng/√Hz) and very high sensitivity (>17 pF/g). The microstructures are fabricated in thick (>100 μm) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrates or silicon substrates using a two-mask fully-dry release process that provides large seismic mass (>10 milli-g), reduced capacitive gaps, and reduced in-plane stiffness. Fabricated devices may be interfaced to a high resolution switched-capacitor CMOS IC that eliminates the need for area-consuming reference capacitors. The measured sensitivity is 83 mV/mg (17 pF/g) and the output noise floor is −91 dBm/Hz at 10 Hz (corresponding to an acceleration resolution of 170 ng/√Hz). The IC consumes 6 mW power and measures 0.65 mm2 core area. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/904804 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/847 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07757992 | Bussom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Bussom (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Michael A. McVeigh (Media, Pennsylvania); Robert P. Narducci (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania); Thomas A. Zientek (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of systems and methods for enhancing the performance of rotary wing aircraft through reduced torque, noise and vibration are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes configuring the rotorcraft in a selected flight condition, communicating input signals to a control system operable to position sails coupled to tips of blades of a rotor assembly, processing the input signals according to a constraint condition to generate sail positional information, and transferring the sail positional information to the sail. Alternately, input signals may be communicated to a control system operable to position a plurality of sails, each sail having an aerodynamic shape and positioned proximate to a tip portion of the rotor blade. The input signals may be configured to rotate each sail about a longitudinal axis into a corresponding pitch angle independently of the other sails. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/752791 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/17.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758927 | Miner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gilda A. Miner (Newport News, Virginia); Diane M. Stoakley (Yorktown, Virginia); Gregory A. Gaddy (Odenton, Maryland); Brent D. Koplitz (New Orleans, Louisiana); Steven M. Simpson (New Orleans, Louisiana); Michael F. Lynch (New Orleans, Louisiana); Samuel C. Ruffner (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-metallizing polyimide films are created by doping polyamic acid solutions with metallic ions and solubilizing agents. Upon creating a film, the film is exposed to coherent light for a specific time and then cured. The resulting film has been found to have a metallic surface layer and a metallic subsurface layer (interlayer). The layer separating the metallic layer has a uniform dispersion of small metal particulates within the polymer. The layer below the interlayer has larger metal particulates uniformly distributed within the polymer. By varying the intensity or time of exposure to the coherent light, three-dimensional control of metal formation within the film is provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956704 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/555 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759127 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aimee Rose (Brookline, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts); Conor F. Madigan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to polymers with lasing characteristics that allow the polymers to be useful in detecting analytes. In one aspect, the polymer, upon an interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in a lasing characteristic that can be determined in some fashion. For example, interaction of an analyte with the polymer may affect the ability of the polymer to reach an excited state that allows stimulated emission of photons to occur, which may be determined, thereby determining the analyte. In another aspect, the polymer, upon interaction with an analyte, may exhibit a change in stimulated emission that is at least 10 times greater with respect to a change in the spontaneous emission of the polymer upon interaction with the analyte. The polymer may be a conjugated polymer in some cases. In one set of embodiments, the polymer includes one or more hydrocarbon side chains, which may be parallel to the polymer backbone in some instances. In another set of embodiments, the polymer may include one or more pendant aromatic rings. In yet another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially encapsulated in a hydrocarbon. In still another set of embodiments, the polymer may be substantially resistant to photobleaching. In certain aspects, the polymer may be useful in the detection of explosive agents, such as 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) and 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT). |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005631 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759842 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Junho Song (North York, Canada); Dale E. Chimenti (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An air-coupled transducer includes a ultrasonic transducer body having a radiation end with a backing fixture at the radiation end. There is a flexible backplate conformingly fit to the backing fixture and a thin membrane (preferably a metallized polymer) conformingly fit to the flexible backplate. In one embodiment, the backing fixture is spherically curved and the flexible backplate is spherically curved. The flexible backplate is preferably patterned with pits or depressions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913921 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759932 | Woodard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant Douglas Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic field response sensor comprises an inductor placed at a fixed separation distance from a conductive surface to address the low RF transmissivity of conductive surfaces. The minimum distance for separation is determined by the sensor response. The inductor should be separated from the conductive surface so that the response amplitude exceeds noise level by a recommended 10 dB. An embodiment for closed cavity measurements comprises a capacitor internal to said cavity and an inductor mounted external to the cavity and at a fixed distance from the cavity's wall. An additional embodiment includes a closed cavity configuration wherein multiple sensors and corresponding antenna are positioned inside the cavity, with the antenna and inductors maintained at a fixed distance from the cavity's wall. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533520 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760339 | Caldwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ophir Corporation (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loren M. Caldwell (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Shoou-yu Tang (Ft. Collins, Colorado); Martin O'Brien (Conifer, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for sensing air outside a moving aircraft are presented. In one embodiment, a system includes a laser for generating laser energy. The system also includes one or more transceivers for projecting the laser energy as laser radiation to the air. Subsequently, each transceiver receives laser energy as it is backscattered from the air. A computer processes signals from the transceivers to distinguish molecular scattered laser radiation from aerosol scattered laser radiation and determines one or more air parameters based on the scattered laser radiation. Such air parameters may include air speed, air pressure, air temperature and aircraft orientation angle, such as yaw, angle of attack and sideslip. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/140186 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/28.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760778 | Stewart |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Stewart (Hayes, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for cooling a crystal rod of a side-pumped laser. A transparent housing receives the crystal rod therethrough so that an annular gap is defined between the housing and the radial surface of the crystal rod. A fluid coolant is injected into the annular gap such the annular gap is partially filled with the fluid coolant while the radial surface of the crystal rod is wetted as a thin film all along the axial length thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/670044 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07757565 | Chakrabartty |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shantanu Chakrabartty (Williamston, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-powered sensor is provided for strain-rate monitoring and other low power requirement applications. The self-powered sensor is comprised of: a piezoelectric transducer; a non-volatile memory comprised of at least one floating gate transistor; a current reference circuit adapted to receive a voltage signal from the piezoelectric transducer and operable to output a reference current into the non-volatile memory; an impact-monitoring circuit having a triggering circuit and a switch; the triggering circuit adapted to receive the voltage signal from the piezoelectric transducer and operable to control the switch based on the rate of change of the voltage signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/273844 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/808 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758755 | Diallo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mamadou S. Diallo (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compositions and methods useful for the purification of water using dendritic macromolecules. The process involves using dendritic macromolecules (dendrimers) to bind to contaminants, and a filtration step to produce water from which contaminants have been removed or modified. Examples of dendrimers that may be used in the process include cation-binding dendrimers, anion-binding dendrimers, organic compound-binding dendrimers, redox-active dendrimers, biological compound-binding dendrimers, catalytic dendrimers, biocidal dendrimers, viral-binding dendrimers, multi-functional dendrimers, and combinations thereof. The process is readily scalable and provides many options for customization. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/343337 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759020 | Grier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Grier (New York, New York); Sang-Hyuk Lee (Rego Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing multi-color holographic optical traps and patterns. The method and system employs a laser beam which interacts with a diffractive optical element with a hologram and for optics which acts to selectively pass or attenuate different light color wavelengths and to position the particular color light at selected different locations to form the different color holographic optical trap patterns and to use these patterns for various commercial purposes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/439865 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759924 | Shekhawat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gajendra Shekhawat (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Vinayak P Dravid (Glenview, Illinois); Soo-Hyun Tark (Evanston, Illinois); Arvind K Srivastava (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for detecting mechanical perturbations represented by a change in an electrical signal includes a structure such as a cantilever, membrane, etc. and a field effect transistor such as a MOSFET embedded in the structure. The drain current of the embedded transistor changes with mechanical perturbations in the structure caused, for example, by a biochemical interaction being sensed. A scanning probe microscope utilizes the embedded MOSFET with a BiMOS actuator. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566557 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/71.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760342 | Zanni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Thomas Zanni (Madison, Wisconsin); Niels H. Damrauer (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A multidimensional spectrometer for the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and a method for making multidimensional spectroscopic measurements in the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The multidimensional spectrometer facilitates measurements of inter- and intra-molecular interactions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/963123 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07761265 | Regli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Regli (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Vincent A. Cicirello (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining a similarity of a first solid model to a second solid model is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: selecting a set of features for representing the first solid model; extracting features corresponding to the selected set of features from the first solid model; constructing an undirected model dependency graph of the first solid model based on the selected set of features; extracting features corresponding to the selected set of features from the second solid model; constructing an undirected model dependency graph of the second solid model based on the selected set of features; comparing the undirected model dependency graph of the first solid model with the undirected model dependency graph of the second solid model; and outputting a numerical measure indicative of the similarity of the first solid model to the second solid model. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/430046 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07758670 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P. Wynn (Redwood City, California); Donald A. Fulton (Fairfield, California); Kaaeid A. Lokhandwala (Fremont, California); Jurgen Kaschemekat (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas-separation membrane assembly, and a gas-separation process using the assembly. The assembly incorporates multiple gas-separation membranes in an array within a single vessel or housing, and is equipped with two permeate ports, enabling permeate gas to be withdrawn from both ends of the membrane module permeate pipes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484547 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758754 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P. Wynn (Redwood City, California); Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Donald A. Fulton (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a pervaporation process and pervaporation equipment, using a series of membrane modules, and including inter-module reheating of the feed solution under treatment. The inter-module heating is achieved within the tube or vessel in which the modules are housed, thereby avoiding the need to repeatedly extract the feed solution from the membrane module train. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/651303 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/640 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07758783 — Continious production of exfoliated graphite composite compositions and flow field plates
| US 07758783 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of continuously producing a more isotropic, electrically conductive composite composition is provided. The process comprises: (a) continuously supplying a compressible mixture comprising exfoliated graphite worms and a binder or matrix material, wherein the binder or matrix material is in an amount of between 3% and 60% by weight based on the total weight of the mixture; (b) continuously compressing the compressible mixture at a pressure within the range of from about 5 psi or 0.035 MPa to about 50,000 psi or 350 MPa in at least a first direction into a cohered graphite composite compact; and (c) continuously compressing the composite compact in a second direction, different from the first direction, to form the composite composition in a sheet or plate form. The process leads to composite plates with exceptionally high thickness-direction electrical conductivity. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901227 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07758784 | Chelluri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IAP Research, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhanumathi Chelluri (Dublin, Ohio); Edward Arlen Knoth (Beavercreek, Ohio); Edward John Schumaker (Riverside, Ohio); Ryan D. Evans (N. Canton, Ohio); James L. Maloney, III (Canton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of uniformly dispersing a nano powder throughout a micron powder. Ordinary mixing or agitation does not succeed in attaining uniform dispersal: the nano powder agglomerates into microscopic masses. In one form of the invention, a charge of a micron powder, with fifty weight percent of charge of nanopowder is loaded into a ball mill. The mixture is ball milled for less than two hours, at room temperature in a dry condition, and produces a highly uniform distribution of the nano powder throughout the micron powder. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/531768 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07759407 | Xu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a composition of adhering together first and second materials. The composition features a multi-functional reactive compound that includes a backbone group and first and second functional groups; a cross-linker, and a catalyst. The first functional group is responsive to a first actinic energy to form cross-linked molecules and to adhere a subset of the cross-linked molecules to the first material. The second functional group is responsive to a second actinic energy, differing from the first actinic energy to adhere to the second material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/187406 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760911 | Xiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiangjian Xiao (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Hui Cheng (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods and systems of the present invention enable the estimation of optical flow by performing color segmentation and adaptive bilateral filtering to regularize the flow field to achieve a more accurate flow field estimation. After creating pyramid models for two input image frames, color segmentation is performed. Next, starting from a top level of the pyramid, additive flow vectors are iteratively estimated between the reference frames by a process including occlusion detection, wherein the symmetric property of backward and forward flow is enforced for the non-occluded regions. Next, a final estimated optical flow field is generated by expanding the current pyramid level to the next lower level and the repeating the process until the lowest level is reached. This approach not only generates efficient spatial-coherent flow fields, but also accurately locates flow discontinuities along the motion boundaries. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521109 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US PP21167 | NeSmith |
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| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott NeSmith (Molena, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The new variety ‘Suziblue’ is provided. The new and distinct variety ripens around the first week of May in southern Georgia. The fruit of the new variety ‘Suziblue’ are generally large, firm, and have good flavor. The new variety ‘Suziblue’ is vigorous with an estimated chilling requirement of about 400 hours at or below approximately 45° F. The asexually reproduced variety is reliably propagated vegetatively. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381064 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07760123 | Rao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naresh Kesavan Rao (Clifton Park, New York); Brian David Yanoff (Niskayuna, New York); Yanfeng Du (Rexford, New York); Jianjun Guo (Ballston Spa, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A data acquisition system including a readout Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) having a plurality of channels, each channel having a time discriminating circuit and an energy discriminating circuit, wherein the ASIC is configured to receive a plurality of signals from a semiconductor radiation detector. The data acquisition system also includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) electrically coupled to the ASIC and configured to provide a reference signal to the ASIC used in the generation of digital outputs from the ASIC, and a controller electrically coupled to the ASIC and to the DAC, the controller configured to instruct the DAC to provide the reference signal to the ASIC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198989 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07758813 | Kominsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Kominsky (Hebron, Kentucky); Fred D. Hall (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A sampling apparatus includes a housing defining a test chamber with an opening for contacting a test surface to expose at least a portion the test surface to the test chamber. A movable agitator within the test chamber contacts the test surface and agitates the test surface to release material from the test surface. The apparatus further includes an inlet and an outlet communicating with the test chamber and defining an air flow path through the chamber. At least one sample cassette may be supported near the outlet to collect a sample from the air flow, including material released from the surface into the test chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/966069 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07761286 | Lawler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nancy Kathleen Lawler (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of database searching. First, a language is selected. Next, elements are received. The system is then searched to identify at least one unit number that is associated with a chosen element, the unit number being linked to a data unit containing morphological variants of the element. If no unit number is identified, the element is compared to a prefix list. If no match is found there, the element is broken into a prefix and suffix, and the prefix and suffix are matched to a prefix list, suffix list or a unit number. This process is repeated for all elements. A unit number associated with each element is then chosen, and the elements contained in the data units linked to the unit numbers are compared to a database. The results are displayed and preferably ranked according to user preferences. If an element is associated with multiple unit numbers, this process is repeated until all data units have been compared to the database. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122206 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07758292 | Close et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Close (Fairfax, Virginia); Robert D. Lundahl (Frederick, Maryland); William D. Finch (New Windsor, Maryland); Robert Cutlip (Millersville, Maryland); Dwight Koogle (Middlletown, Maryland); Mark Bankard (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for unstrapping and unsleeving a tray is provided. The system comprises a tray-transport configured to transport a tray in the system, a strap cutter configured to cut a strap on the tray, a strap-removal portion configured to remove the strap cut by the strap cutter, and an unsleeving station configured to remove a sleeve from the tray. The unsleeving station is configured to remove the sleeve from the tray after the strap-removal portion removes the cut strap. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483735 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Material or article handling 414/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07757757 | Vroblesky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don A. Vroblesky (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A baffle apparatus and method for use in a well to mitigate convective in-well flow. The baffle apparatus includes a baffle member attached to a rod. The baffle member prevents vertical flow of water in the well after the baffle apparatus is deployed in the well. At least one centralizer is attached to the rod to maintain correct orientation of the baffle member within the well. The baffle member and the at least one centralizer allow well water to pass during deployment and recovery of the baffle apparatus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/042029 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759502 | Kung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hank F. Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Ping Zhuang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to labeled compounds, and methods of making labeled compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926319 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07759643 | Lloyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The United States of America (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Lloyd (Germantown, Maryland); Sonja Hess (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A single electrode electrochemical/electrospray ionization source using a corona discharge and a method of analyzing a sample using a corona discharge single electrode electrochemical/electrospray ionization source are provided. In the corona discharge single electrode electrochemical/electrospray ionization technique electrons are removed from the metal tip of the device through gases present in the electrospray ion source resulting in electrochemical ionization of the sample of interest. The resulting odd electron sample cation (positive ion mode) or anion (negative ion mode) can then be analyzed by an appropriate technique, such as, for example, a mass spectrometer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038276 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07760835 | Pratt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Pratt (Richland, Washington); Steven B. Thompson (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication device includes an antenna configured to receive electromagnetic energy corresponding to a wireless communication signal outputted using an interrogator and to output electrical energy corresponding to the received electromagnetic energy, communication circuitry coupled with the antenna and configured to sample the electrical energy to process the wireless communication signal, synchronization circuitry coupled with the antenna and the communication circuitry and configured to generate a clock signal to control sampling of the electrical energy using the communication circuitry, wherein the synchronization circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of transitions within the clock signal responsive to a plurality of transitions of the electrical energy during a first data period and wherein the synchronization circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of transitions within the clock signal during a second data period including generating at least one of the transitions independent of transitions of the electrical energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/263670 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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:
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Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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