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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 03, 2010
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| US 07765731 | Liebig |
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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) | Michael T Liebig (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The quick release gun sight adapter includes a scope adapter, a red dot sight adapter, a locking block, a spring loaded ramped blade, and a spring loaded latch piston. The red dot sight adapter is attachable to a red dot sight and the ramped blade is attached to the red dot sight adapter. The ramped blade is rotatably attachable to the scope adapter, and the scope adapter is rotatably adapted to hold the ramped blade such that when the ramped blade is attached to the scope adapter, and the ramped blade and the red dot sight adapter are rotated the ramped blade engages the locking block and locks the ramped blade into place. The piston communicates with the locking block such that when actuated the piston engages the locking block such that the ramped blade and red dot sight adapter may be rotated and unattached from the scope adapter. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/392895 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07765885 | Fjerstad |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik A. Fjerstad (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed system, device and method for providing a low aspect rack and pinion assembly includes a rack engaged with a ball screw and a pinion. The rack is generally responsive to the rotation of the ball screw and the pinion is generally responsive to the movement of the rack. The separating forces generated by the engagement of the rack and pinion are suitably reacted by one or more stabilizer bearings engaged with the structure of the rack and pinion to prevent the rack and pinion from disengaging while maintaining a low aspect profile. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/277547 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766090 | Mohr |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Anthony Mohr (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fire fighting system for fighting forest and brush fires under dry, hot and windy conditions which includes a jet engine for generating a high speed air stream, a water source for supplying water to a cooling system which lowers the water temperature to between forty and fifty degrees fahrenheit, a nozzle for injecting cold water into the air steam and a filter which provides very fine particles of cold water within the stream. The stream of cold water is directed to a forest or brush fire dropping the temperature of the fire which eventually extinguishes the fire. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821474 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fire extinguishers 169/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766615 | Spangler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technlogies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon W. Spangler (Vernon, Connecticut); Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr. (West Hartford, Connecticut); Michael F. Blair (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine component has an airfoil portion having a pressure side and a suction side, a trailing edge discharge slot, and a suction side lip downstream of an exit of the trailing edge slot. The suction side lip is provided with negative features for increasing local heat transfer coefficient in the region of the suction side lip. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708738 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766640 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duncan R. Stewart (Menlo Park, California); Wei Wu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A contact lithography apparatus, system and method use a deformation to facilitate pattern transfer. The apparatus, system and method include a spacer that provides a spaced apart parallel and proximal orientation of lithographic elements, such as a mask and a substrate, when in mutual contact with the spacer. One or more of the mask, the substrate and the spacer is deformable, such that deformation thereof facilitates the pattern transfer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203551 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766751 | Christensen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J. Christensen (Phoenix, Arizona); Brian Jardine (Scottsdale, Arizona); Don L. Mittendorf (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A torque limiting includes first and second rotational plates, first and second springs, and a slip device. The first rotational plate is coupled to a torque input device. The second rotational plate is coupled to a drive shaft, and is configured to be movable along an axial direction thereof. The first spring has a first free length, and exerts a first spring force against the second rotational plate toward the first rotational plate. The second spring has a second free length, smaller than the first free length, and selectively exerts a second spring force against the second rotational plate toward the first rotational plate. The slip device, disposed at least partially within or between the first and second rotational plates, causes relative motion between the first and second rotational plates when torque overcomes the combined first and second spring forces exerted against the second rotational plate. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/858709 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for rotary shafts 464/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766827 | Balkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Balkin (Ellicott City, Maryland); Gregory L. Belenky (Kensington, Maryland); Stanley W. Hall (Silver Spring, Maryland); Gary H. Kamimori (Laurel, Maryland); Daniel P. Redmond (Silver Spring, Maryland); Helen C. Sing (Takoma Park, Maryland); Maria L. Thomas (Columbia, Maryland); David R. Thorne (Washington, District of Columbia); Nancy Jo Wesensten (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method for predicting cognitive performance of an individual based on factors including preferably sleep history and the time of day. The method facilitates the creation of predicted cognitive performance curves that allow an individual to set his/her sleep times to produce higher levels of cognitive performance. The method also facilitates the reconstruction of past cognitive performance levels based on sleep history. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/757480 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766870 | Dabbs |
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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) | Clifton R. Dabbs (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A safety adaptor having attachment components and reservoir components for use with balloon anchored catheters such that if the catheter is forcibly removed the reservoir components will act as a safety valve and allow the anchoring balloon to deflate. The safety adaptor acts to minimize damage caused to a patient due to the removal of an inflated anchor balloon of a catheter. The safety adaptor attaches to any existing catheter having a fluid balloon and does not require re-engineering or re-tooling of the catheter or adaptor. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/379558 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/99.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766984 | Lucas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick D. Lucas (St. Clairsville, Ohio); Thomas M. Matviya (McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for increasing the yield of carbon foam is described. The method includes placing a foaming sheet over the top surface of the material to be foamed. In certain embodiments, the foaming sheet is placed over the top surface of particulate coal prior to and during the foaming process. In some embodiments the foaming sheet is a smooth, continuous sheet, such as aluminum foil or the like. The resulting carbon product includes an increased amount of usable carbon foam. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082342 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fuel and related compositions 044/620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766993 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); The Board of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shouheng Sun (Millwood, New York); Heng Yu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dumbbell-shaped or flower-shaped nanoparticles and a process of forming the same, wherein the process comprises forming a mixture of a nanoparticle with a precursor in a first solvent, wherein the nanoparticle comprises a hydrophobic outer coating; heating the mixture; cooling the mixture to room temperature; modifying the hydrophobic outer coating into a hydrophilic outer coating; precipitating a solid product from the mixture, and dispersing the product in a second solvent. The nanoparticles comprise any of a semiconducting, magnetic, and noble metallic material, wherein the nanoparticles comprise a first portion comprising any of PbSe, PbS, CdSe, CdS, ZnS, Au, Ag, Pd, and Pt, and wherein the precursor comprises any of a cationic, neutral or particulate Au, Ag, Pd, Pt, or transition metal (Fe, Co, Ni) precursors of Fe(CO)5, Co(CO)8, Ni(CO)4 or their analogues. The first and second solvents comprise any of alkanes, arenes, ethers, nitrites, ketones, and chlorinated hydrocarbons. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830870 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767183 | Matviya |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Matviya (McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the production of carbon foam from swelling coals that do not require the use of high process pressures, oxidized coal, devolatized coal, or high-strength, foam expansion confining molds are described. In some embodiments, a comminuted swelling bituminous coal is heated to a first elevated temperature sufficient to result in the coal particles softening and melting together to form a substantially homogeneous open cell plastic carbon material. The substantially homogeneous open cell plastic carbon material may then be heated to a second elevated temperature at a slow rate to form carbon foam. In some embodiments, the resulting carbon foam may be heated to a higher third elevated temperature. The resulting carbon foam may be subsequently heated to elevated temperatures as great as 3200° C. or more. |
| FILED | Monday, November 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561521 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767213 | Shenoy 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) | Devanand K Shenoy (McLean, Virginia); Enrico Dalcanale (Parma, Italy); Sander Willems (Parma, Italy); Marco Busi (Parma, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound and methods of making thereof having the structure shown below is disclosed. Each Ar is an aromatic group. Each M is palladium, platinum, or rhenium. At least one X in the compound has an aliphatic having at least 1 carbon atom. Each x, each y, and each z is an integer greater than or equal to zero. Each m is an integer greater than or equal to one. n is an integer greater than or equal to three. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/357557 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767216 | Baker, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Baker, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tarek Hamouda (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Amy Shih (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Andrzej Myc (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for decreasing the infectivity, morbidity, and rate of mortality associated with a variety of pathogenic organisms and viruses. The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for decontaminating areas colonized or otherwise infected by pathogenic organisms and viruses. Moreover, the present invention relates to methods and compositions for decreasing the infectivity of pathogenic organisms in foodstuffs. In particular, decreased pathogenic organism infectivity, morbidity, and mortality is accomplished by contacting the pathogenic organism with an oil-in-water nanoemulsion comprising an oil, an organic solvent, and a surfactant dispersed in an aqueous phase. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/751059 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767296 | Elsworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sharon A. Elsworth (Mason, New Hampshire); Marvin I. Fredberg (Stoughton, Massachusetts); William H. Fossey, Jr. (Arlington, Massachusetts); Stuart Press (Guilford, Connecticut); Thad H. Fredrickson (Frederica, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A high strength, high modulus structural fabric product and the method of manufacturing the product are disclosed. The incorporation of a specific fiber/fabric treatment coupled with a resin impregnation and coating process produces a composite material. This composite material comprises high strength and modulus fibers embedded in and linked to a matrix. The resulting fabric product is useable in the formation of seamed structures, which carry and distribute high-level loads under extreme environmental conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199360 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767301 | Galaitsis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Galaitsis (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for accumulating mechanical energy comprising a carrier fluid and a plurality of porous particles distributed in the carrier fluid is disclosed. The plurality of particles are broken fragments of a lyophilic starting material having at least one pore open to an exterior of the starting material and defined by an interior surface of the starting material, wherein the exterior and interior surfaces of the lyophilic starting material comprise a coating that is lyophobic with respect to the carrier fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222140 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767323 | Cardenas-Valencia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (Tampa, Florida); Michelle L. Cardenas (Tampa, Florida); Larry Langebrake (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified microbial fuel cell with a halogen salt or salt water oxidizer. The fuel cell is a batch cell, but flow-through cell embodiments are also envisioned. The cathode and anode are separated by a cation exchange membrane or saline bridge. The anode contains microorganisms in media or various water bed sediments. The cathode contains water and a halogenated salt oxidizer. The fuel cells operated continuously for over 3 months, providing approximately 10 times more power than those in the current literature for batch cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/959981 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767329 | Crumm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Materials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron T. Crumm (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Christopher J. Reilly (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jonathan R. Rice (Whitmore Lake, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid oxide fuel cell comprises a plurality of tubes, each having an anode, electrolyte and cathode. Anode and cathode current collectors are mounted on the tubes. The anode current collector electrically connects to the anode and can have a contact with the anode. The cathode current collector electrically connects to the cathode and can have a contact with the cathode. An electrically conductive sealant may be positioned between the anode of one tube and the cathode current collector of another tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/991268 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767335 | Sharrow 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) | Joseph F. Sharrow (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Frank E. Peterkin (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery assembly is provided for electrical concatenation in series. The battery assembly includes a plurality of battery packs; a switch; a receiver; and an actuator. Each battery pack includes a plurality of rechargeable battery cells electrically connected in series. The switch electrically connects and disconnects first and second battery packs together. The receiver transmits power from the switch. The actuator operates the switch to connect and disconnect the battery packs. In preferred embodiments, the switch includes first and second buses and a deflector. The first bus electrically contacts the first battery pack. The second bus electrically contacts the second battery pack. The deflector moves the first bus electrically connect and disconnect with the second bus in response to communication with the actuator. An electrical connector is further provided for mechanical engagement and disengagement of electrical conduction to a terminal. The connector includes a block and a plurality of contacts. The block includes a plurality of openings. Each contact is disposed into a corresponding opening in the block. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447514 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767433 | Kuthi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andras Kuthi (Thousand Oaks, California); Martin A. Gundersen (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulse generator circuit may include a diode configured to operate as an opening switch, a tank circuit in series with the diode having an admittance that is switchable from a first value to a second value that is different from the first value, and a switching system configured to cause the tank circuit to switch between the first value and the second value. The diode may saturate in less than 100 nanoseconds. A saturable core transformer may operate as a switch that controls the opening of the diode. The pulse generator may generate a plurality of pulses, each having a length of no more than 3 nanoseconds and an amplitude of at least 1 kilovolt. Electrodes may be connected to the pulse generator to deliver the plurality of pulses to biological cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279697 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/285.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767480 | Pickrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Opticomp Corporation (Zephyr Cove, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Pickrell (Carson City, Nevada); Duane A. Louderback (Zephyr Cove, Nevada); Peter Guilfoyle (Zephyr Cove, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) in group III-V semiconductor compounds with improved optical and electrical characteristics is provided. A selected DBR structure is achieved by sequential exposure of a substrate to predetermined combinations of the elemental sources to produce a pair of DBR layers of compound alloys and a graded region including one or more discrete additional layers between the DBR layers of intermediate alloy composition. Exposure durations and combinations of the elemental sources in each exposure are predetermined by DBR design characteristics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/063230 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767483 | Waters |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a dual-suspension system for MEMS-based devices includes: etching the geometry of an upper spring system, a lower spring system, and a proof mass into a substrate; applying a protective barrier to cover at least the exposed portions of the first layer of silicon; etching through portions of the protective barrier and handle wafer to define the shapes of the upper spring system, lower spring system, and proof mass; removing the remainder of the protective barrier; and removing the first layer of oxide from the areas in contact with the upper spring system and removing the second layer of oxide from the areas in contact with the lower spring system. Electrical contacts may be created on the substrate. A wafer may be bonded to the support structure on a side of the substrate. A MEMS-based device fabricated from the method is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780420 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767745 | Thottupurathu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Co. (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gopakumar Thottupurathu (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for making a mixture used in the production of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane including metal oxide(s). The mixture includes PTFE resin, a lubricating agent, and a metal oxide. The mixture may be further processed to form a PTFE membrane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/037404 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767788 | Loh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Loh (Manlius, New York); Mark C. Butler (Clearance, New York); Jeung-Hoi Ha (Manlius, New York); Tracy L. Radley (Liverpool, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a two-domain, bi-functional fusion protein that functions as a molecular switch wherein the free energy released by the folding of a first domain of the fusion protein drives an unfolding of a second domain of the fusion protein, and vice versa. The molecular structure of the fusion protein is engineered so that, at any time, the folding of the first domain necessarily unfolds the other domain, and vice versa, thereby making the folded and unfolded states of the first and second domains mutually exclusive. This is accomplished by the insertion of ubiquitin insert protein into a surface loop of barnase target protein subject to the structural design criterion that the N-C terminal length of the ubiquitin insert protein is at least two-times greater than the Cα-Cα alpha-carbon-alpha-carbon length of the surface loop of the barnase target protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802516 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767789 | Gorodeski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Hopitals of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio); The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Gorodeski (Beachwood, Ohio); Ying-Hong Feng (Germantown, Maryland); Xin Li (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods/reagents for detecting and/or treating cancers or potential cancers are disclosed. In one embodiment, methods and reagents for detecting truncated forms of P2X7 protein in cells are described. In one embodiment, methods and reagents for increasing the amount and/or activity of full-length P2X7 in cells are described. In one embodiment, methods and reagents for decreasing the amount and/or activity of truncated P2X7 in cells are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446420 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767821 | Pitner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Becton, Dickinson and Company (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Bruce Pitner (Durham, North Carolina); Douglas B. Sherman (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph Thomas (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive fluorescent dyes compositions and methods of using same are disclosed. Squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus dyes are disclosed having thiol-reactive groups. Squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus dyes are disclosed that exhibit a fluorescence emission of at least about 575 nm. Biosensors are disclosed having a binding protein and a squaraine nucleus, Nile Red nucleus, benzodioxazole nucleus, coumarin nucleus or aza coumarin nucleus. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489078 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Matthew C. Davis (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A product-by-process and method of manufacturing 2,4,6-trichloroanailine intermediates. The method of manufacturing 2,4,6-trichloroanailine intermediates by utilizing solvents and N-chlorinating reagents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415776 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768050 | Rappe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Marshall Rappe (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Na Sai (Austin, Texas); Alexie Michelle Kolpak (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Ferroelectric structures and methods of making the structures are presented. The ferroelectric structures can include an electrode in contact with a ferroelectric thin film. The contact can be arranged so that a portion of the atoms of the ferroelectric thin film are in contact with at least a portion of the atoms of the electrode. The electrode can be made of metal, a metal alloy, or a semiconducting material. A second electrode can be used and placed in contact with the ferroelectric thin film. Methods of making and using the ferroelectric structures are also presented. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774793 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768366 | Patton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven T. Patton (Springfield, Ohio); Jeffrey H. Sanders (Vandalia, Ohio); Andrey A. Voevodin (Dayton, Ohio); Mark Pender (Mauldin, South Carolina); Richard A. Vaia (Beavercreek, Ohio); Robert I. MacCuspie (Beavercreek, Ohio); Steve J. Diamanti (Xenia, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A life and electrical properties enhanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switch apparatus in which a combined nanoparticle and ionic fluid lubricant is used to prolong switch elements operating lifetime and desirable electrical characteristics during this lifetime. Nanoparticle materials such as noble metal particles are combined with ionic corona producing liquid organic materials to achieve a desirable contact lubricant material serving to delay the onset of several disclosed classic contact failure mechanisms. Improvement over other contact lubricant materials and favorable contact testing results are included. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998975 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768624 | Cherala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anshuman Cherala (Austin, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Ecron D. Thompson (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards a method for determining deformation parameters that a patterned device would undergo to minimize dimensional variations between a recorded pattern thereon and a reference pattern, the method including, inter alia, comparing spatial variation between features of the recorded pattern with respect to corresponding features of the reference pattern; and determining deformation forces to apply to the patterned device to attenuate the dimensional variations, with the forces having predetermined constraints, wherein a summation of a magnitude of the forces is substantially zero and a summation of moment of the forces is substantially zero. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695469 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768628 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California); Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); Duncan R. Stewart (Palo Alto, California); R. Stanley Williams (Palo Alto, California); Zhaoning Yu (Palo Alto, California); Inkyu Park (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A contact lithography apparatus and a method use one or both of spacers and a mesa to facilitate pattern transfer. The apparatus and the method include one or both of a spacer that provides a spaced apart orientation of lithographic elements, such as a patterning tool and a substrate, when in mutual contact with the spacer and a mesa between the patterning tool and the substrate. The mesa supports a contact surface of one or both of the mold and the substrate. One or both of the spacers and the mesa may be non-uniform. One or more of the patterning tool, the substrate and the spacer is deformable, such that deformation thereof facilitates the pattern transfer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/548823 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768654 | Cui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiquan Cui (Pasadena, California); Xin Heng (Pasadena, California); Changhuei Yang (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Demetri Psaltis (Saint Sulpice, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential interference contrast (DIC) determination device and method utilizes an illumination source, a layer having a pair of two apertures that receive illumination from the illumination source, and a photodetector to receive Young's interference from the illumination passing through the pair of two apertures. In addition, a surface plasmon assisted optofluidic microscope and method utilize an illumination source, a fluid channel having a layer with at least one aperture as a surface, and a photodetector that receives a signal based on the illumination passing through the aperture. The layer is corrugated (e.g., via fabrication) and parameters of the corrugation optimize the signal received on the photodetector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/743581 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/521 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768700 | Savage-Leuchs |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias P. Savage-Leuchs (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for amplifying laser signals using segments of fibers of differing core diameters and/or differing cladding diameters to suppress amplified spontaneous emission and non-linear effects such as four-wave mixing (FWM), self-phase modulation, and stimulated Brillouin and/or Raman scattering (SBS/SRS). In some embodiments, different core sizes have different sideband spacings (spacing between the desired signal and wavelength-shifted lobes). Changing core sizes and providing phase mismatches prevent buildup of non-linear effects. Some embodiments further include a bandpass filter to remove signal other than the desired signal wavelength and/or a time gate to remove signal at times other than during the desired signal pulse. Some embodiments include photonic-crystal structures to define the core for the signal and/or the inner cladding for the pump. Some embodiments include an inner glass cladding to confine the signal in the core and an outer glass cladding to confine pump light in the inner cladding. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565619 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768910 | Neidhardt et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Arnold L. Neidhardt (Middletown, New Jersey); Brian A. Coan (Morris Plains, New Jersey); Balakrishnan Dasarathy (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to on-line admission-control decisions. Specifically, the invention concerns general delay bounds for both deterministic and statistical cases for Differentiated Services (DiffServ) networks. More specifically, a detailed method of calculation in each case is followed by simpler methods of calculation that are more appropriate for on-line admission-control decisions. Relatively involved occupancy bound calculations for various service classes take place only at the time of network configuration or reconfiguration. At the time of admission control only simple occupancy threshold compliance calculations need to be performed. Concrete illustrations are provided for deriving bounds for the EF and AF classes provided by DiffServ. These results are applicable to both layer-3 networks that support DiffServ and layer-2 networks that support the more restricted class of service functions. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/346655 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768933 | Chang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk K. Chang (Morganville, New Jersey); John M. Sucec (Piscataway, New Jersey); Harshad Tanna (Princeton, New Jersey); John Lee (Howell, New Jersey); Sunil Samtani (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those packets which do not experience any queuing delay in the network, are identified. Fast packets are identified to resolve end-to-end packet delay into its constituent components (deterministic, transmission and queuing delays), estimate path utilization and eliminate the uncertainty (false alarms) that causes the prior art method to lose its effectiveness. An estimation algorithm computes end-to-end transmission delay and end-to-end deterministic delay of fast packets traveling along a path in a network. Examples of deterministic delay include satellite propagation delays and clock effects. Then, based on the results of the fast packet identifying algorithm, two logic branches are followed. A first branch calculates utilization and a second branch calculates narrow link bandwidth. The narrow link bandwidth is determined from the packet pair dispersion. The available bandwidth is obtained from the narrow link bandwidth and the utilization. Estimation of available bandwidth for an end-to-end network path allows traffic sources to judiciously regulate the volume of application traffic injected into the network. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/251224 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768989 | Nerses et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Annita Nerses (Arlington, Virginia); Robert M. Wetstein (Nanuet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention protocol offers guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) for concurrent calls in a highly dynamic, scalable network. The invention employs a TDMA reservation technique to transmit voice traffic to multiple destinations and a CSMA/CA contention scheme to support data traffic. The present invention operates over a link-state based routing protocol that reliably floods routing and resource reservation information to network nodes. The present invention is suitable for general networking applications that require QoS for multimedia traffic in a mobile, Ad-Hoc network and enables conference calls to be established and operated in that type of network under various conditions. Moreover, the present invention capitalizes on certain properties of a radio, such as a RAKE type receiver, that sums up multiple, identical transmissions from multiple sources. In addition, the present invention enables roaming between and/or within a group or island of network nodes during the lifetime of a call. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071588 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769071 | Vahala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry J. Vahala (San Gabriel, California); Lan Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Silica sol gel micro-lasers and methods of fabricating micro-lasers on a chip or a wafer. A silica sol gel micro-laser includes a silica sol gel optical micro-cavity, a substrate, and a support member or pillar that extends between the micro-cavity and the substrate. An outer surface or periphery of the micro-cavity extends beyond a top of the sol gel support member or is overhanging with respect to the underlying support member. Optical energy travels along an inner surface of the silica sol gel micro-cavity. Undoped silica sol gel micro-cavities can be used for Raman lasers. Sol gel micro-cavities can be doped with, for example, erbium, and can be used for erbium-doped micro-lasers that have ultra narrow line widths, for example, less than 100 Hz. Undoped and doped silica sol gel micro-lasers can have Q factors greater than 107. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985593 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guotong Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a spectrally efficient multicarrier modulation technique for high speed data transmission over multipath fading channels, but has low power efficiency. OFDM signals have large crest factors, or peak-to-average power ratios (PARs) which lead to power inefficiency in the RF portion of the transmitter. Selected mapping (SLM) is a distortionless technique that has good PAR reduction capability. However, the biggest limitation of SLM is the need to transmit side information. Disclosed is a technique or algorithm using constant modulus (i.e., phase shift keying, PSK) inputs that implements SLM without having to transmit any side information and without causing any distortion. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487566 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769108 | Tsui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Y. Tsui (Dayton, Ohio); David M. Lin (Beavercreek, Ohio); Stephen L. Hary (Dayton, Ohio); Nicholas A. Pequignot (Dayton, Ohio); Keith M. Graves (Springfield, Ohio); John M. Emmert (Concord, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A moderate cost and complexity digital radio receiver system having enhanced instantaneous dynamic range response to the receipt of simultaneous signals and also providing large single signal dynamic range. Multiple signal instantaneous dynamic range improvement is achieved through use of a suppressed zero signal amplitude representation arrangement having a selected number of signal amplitude representing digital bits rather than the larger entire array of digital output bits of the receiver system's analog to digital converter. Digital apparatus for accomplishing the selection of desired high order bits from the analog to digital converter output is also disclosed in detail. Use of a “Monobit” and related simplified Fourier transformation radio receivers as disclosed in identified previous patents of the recited inventors and colleagues is preferred for embodying the digital radio receiver circuit included in a present system. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/014456 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769115 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Liuqing Yang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described that provide noncoherent demodulation via correlating “dirty” templates in wireless communication systems. In particular, the described techniques cross-correlate dirty templates that are adjacent symbol-long segments of the received noisy waveform. Unlike transmitted reference (TR) and differential templates that are noisy, i.e., propagate through the wireless communication channel, these dirty templates are both noisy and offset in time and, thus, are dirty. As a result, the described techniques enable noncoherent demodulation without timing synchronization and channel estimation. Symbol demodulation may be performed utilizing a maximum likelihood (ML) sequence detector or, alternatively, conditional ML demodulation may be performed to reduce receiver complexity. The described techniques may also be applied to a TR scheme to improve performance in the presence of mistiming. In any case, the techniques may be applied to narrowband, wideband, or ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems and remain operational without timing synchronization or channel estimation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242623 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769347 | Louberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A Louberg (San Diego, California); Paul A Johnson (Kihei, Hawaii); Eric Korevaar (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication system providing wireless communication among wireless users through a number of cellular base stations. The system includes a connecting station with a millimeter wave wireless transceiver in communication with a fiber optic or high-speed cable communication network. The transceiver is adapted to communicate at millimeter wave frequencies higher than 60 GHz with another millimeter wave transceiver at one of the cellular base stations. Each of the base stations serves a separate communication cell. Each base station is equipped with a low frequency wireless transceiver for communicating with the wireless users within the cell at a radio frequency lower than 6 GHz. In preferred embodiments the system a part of a telephone system, an Internet system or a computer network. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327816 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/41.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769423 | Viglianti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Viglianti (Durham, North Carolina); Mark W. Dewhirst (Durham, North Carolina); Ana M. Ponce (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions useful for detecting an in vivo blood pool, monitoring the distribution of a compound of interest to a desired site in an organism by magnetic resonance imaging, monitoring the accumulation of a compound of interest at a desired site in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging, and monitoring the release of liposomal contents to an external stimulus at a desired site in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging are disclosed. Some compositions comprise envirosensitive or non-sensitive liposomes. Contrast agents, such as manganese-based compounds, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/648148 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769487 | Ayers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Ayers (Nahant, Massachusetts); Jan Witting (Nahant, Massachusetts); Stephane Ryder (Del Mar, California); Christopher Olcott (Lynn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic architecture for capturing the autonomous performance advantages the animal models enjoy in the natural environment is disclosed. A biomimesis process is employed to allow selective utilization of basic physical components and adaptation of a common control paradigm for each of different vehicle types. The biomimetic architecture involves five functional elements: a basic biomorphic plant for capturing the biomechanical advantages of the model organism; a neural circuit-based controller consisting of a finite state machine; myomorphic actuators producing linear graded force in response to trains of current pulses for mediating movements; labeled line code output by neuromorphic sensors; and a reactive behavioral sequencer executing command sequences defined within a behavioral library. |
| FILED | Friday, July 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/898673 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769502 | Herman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl R. Herman (Owego, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for suggesting a course of action for a vehicle engaged in a situation includes a portion for identifying condition data that corresponds to conditions sensed from the situation. The system also includes a portion for selecting parameters associated with the condition data. The system further includes a portion for determining a suggested course of action based on the selected parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/137915 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — 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 71/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769568 | Marrano 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) | Lance R. Marrano (Champaign, Illinois); Donald R. Uzarski (Champaign, Illinois); Michael N. Grussing (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Initial assumptions related to the service life of a particular item, such as a component section of a building, are mathematically modeled to construct an initial lifecycle condition relationship as condition index (CI) v. time. To update the model, empirical data may be input at any time. As modeled in an engineering management system, for example, inspections are performed on the item to verify actual condition with that predicted. Quantitative inspection data are then used to update the initial curve. As inspections are performed and data recorded, the curve is updated to accurately capture observed condition and provide realistic estimates of predicted condition, and expected service life. In select embodiments of the present invention, empirical data, such as that from inspections, are weighted, e.g., inspection data may be weighted based on type, level of detail, time in service, time since last inspection and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/223251 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769703 | Calise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Calise (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Venkatesh K. Madyastha (Karnataka, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A system in accordance with the invention uses an adaptive element to augment a filter for tracking an observed system. The adaptive element only requires a single neural network and does not require an error observer. The adaptive element provides robustness to parameter uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics present in the observed system for improved tracking performance over the filter alone. The adaptive element can be implemented with a linearly parameterized neural network, whose weights are adapted online using error residuals generated from the Filter. Boundedness of the signals generated by the system can be proven using Lyapunov's direct method and a backstepping argument. A related apparatus and method are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561391 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769891 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer program product, and system are provided for selecting, from a plurality of routes through the data processing system, a direct route for transmitting data. Data that includes address information is received at a first processor that is to be transmitted to a destination processor. Using routing table data structures, direct route entries are identified that correspond to direct routes for transmitting data. An accessed priority table data structure comprises a priority entry for each entry in the routing table data structures. The priority entry specifies a priority of a corresponding entry in the routing table data structures. A direct route entry is selected that corresponds to a direct route from the routing table data structures, based on specified priorities. Then the data is transmitted from the first processor to the destination processor using a path corresponding to the selected direct route entry. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845217 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769892 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer program product, and system are provided for selecting, from a plurality of routes through the data processing system, an indirect route for transmitting data. Data that includes address information is received at a first processor that is to be transmitted to a destination processor. Using routing table data structures, indirect route entries are identified that correspond to indirect routes for transmitting data. An accessed priority table data structure comprises a priority entry for each entry in the routing table data structures. The priority entry specifies a priority of a corresponding entry in the routing table data structures. An indirect route entry is selected that corresponds to an indirect route from the routing table data structures, based on specified priorities. Then the data is transmitted from the first processor to the destination processor using a path corresponding to the selected indirect route entry. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845221 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07770077 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for using a cache that is embedded in a memory hub device to replace failed memory cells. A memory module comprises an integrated memory hub device. The memory hub device comprises an integrated memory device data interface that communicates with a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device and a cache integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub device also comprises an integrated memory hub controller that controls the data that is read or written by the memory device data interface to the cache based on a determination whether one or more memory cells within the set of memory devices has failed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/019141 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07770087 | Laprade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Laprade (Palm Bay, Florida); Matthew C. Cobb (West Melbourne, Florida); Timothy F. Dyson (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A serial concatenated convolutional code (SCCC) decoder is provided. The SCCC decoder is comprised of an input buffer memory (102), one or more processing loop modules (120), and an output buffer memory (112). Each processing loop module is comprised of a permutation module (110), an inner decoder module (104), a depermutation module (106), and an outer decoder module (108). The inner decoder module is subdivided into two (2) or more inner decoding engines (2021-202N) configured for concurrently performing a decoding operation based on an inner convolutional code. The outer decoder module is subdivided into two (2) or more outer decoding engines (4021-402N) configured for concurrently performing a decoding operation based on an outer convolutional code. The inner convolutional code and the outer convolutional code are designed in accordance with a maximum aposteriori probability based decoding algorithm. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624904 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07770157 | Arnold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew R. Arnold (Ossining, New York); Vadakkedathu T. Rajan (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Adam Welc (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and computer readable medium, for automatically improving performance of, and optimizing, a program based on on-line profile data of the program and profile data (302) collected across multiple runs of the program and stored in a persistent off-line repository (114). The method includes executing a program in an execution environment. Profile data (302) is collected for the program across multiple runs thereof. The performance of the program is improved, such as by optimization of the program, based on on-line profile data of the executing program and the collected profile data in the persistent off-line repository. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199455 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US H2247 | Medve |
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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) | Robert Frank Medve (Orange Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable medical equipment suite that includes a case, a power distribution system, a physiological monitoring and defibrillation system, a portable suction unit, a medical information management system and an oxygen dispenser. The case has a door and an interior, the door allows access to the interior of the case; the case is self contained and waterproof when the door is closed. The power distribution system, the physiological monitoring and defibrillation system, the portable suction unit, the medical information management system, and the oxygen dispenser are disposed within the interior of the case. The power distribution system powers the physiological monitoring and defibrillation system, the portable suction unit, and the medical information management system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/481227 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Rhodes (Richfield, Minnesota); Brian C. Krafthefer (Stillwater, Minnesota); David B. Kittleson (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Hongbin Ma (Falcon Heights, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system having a particulate matter sensor in an exhaust stream of an engine upstream from a particulate filter and another such sensor downstream from the filter. There may also be an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) control on the engine. The amount of particulate matter in or loading of the filter may be determined by the upstream filter. The working condition of the filter may be determined by the downstream sensor. The filter may have a heater and control for providing operational and particulate matter burn-off temperatures to the filter. A processor may be connected to the sensors, the EGR control and the filter heater control. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/163546 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766172 | Spangenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Spangenberger (Plainfield, Illinois); Edward J. Daniels (Orland Park, Illinois); Bassam J. Jody (Tinley Park, Illinois); Joseph A. Pomykala, Jr. (Shorewood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for separating elastomeric materials from mixed material streams. A separator includes a bank of parallel rollers extending longitudinally between a first end and a second end. The bank of parallel rollers having a predefined inclination with the first end elevated higher than the second end. Mixed material streams are fed onto a top surface of the high end of the inclined parallel rollers. A material having less friction and elasticity slides down the inclined roller bank top surface are collected into a collection bin positioned adjacent the second, lower end of the roller bank. Other materials having a higher friction coefficient grip the rollers more and are lifted out of the valley due to friction migrating perpendicular to the rotating rollers and are collected in a collection bin positioned adjacent one side of the roller bank parallel to the longitudinal roller axis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/356564 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/691 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766251 | Mao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delavan Inc (West Des Moines, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chien-Pei Mao (Clive, Iowa); John Short (Norwalk, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injection and mixing system is provided. The system includes an injector body having a fuel inlet and a fuel outlet, and defines a fuel flow path between the inlet and outlet. The fuel flow path may include a generally helical flow passage having an inlet end portion disposed proximate the fuel inlet of the injector body. The flow path also may include an expansion chamber downstream from and in fluid communication with the helical flow passage, as well as a fuel delivery device in fluid communication with the expansion chamber for delivering fuel. Heating means is also provided in thermal communication with the injector body. The heating means may be adapted and configured for maintaining the injector body at a predetermined temperature to heat fuel traversing the flow path. A method of preheating and delivering fuel is also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/317119 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766649 | Abbasi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hamid A. Abbasi (Naperville, Illinois); Harry Kurek (Dyer, Indiana); Yaroslav Chudnovsky (Skokie, Illinois); Vladimir G. Lisienko (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation); German K. Malikov (Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct flame impingement method and apparatus employing at least one multi-ported, internally recuperated burner. The burner includes an innermost coaxial conduit having a first fluid inlet end and a first fluid outlet end, an outermost coaxial conduit disposed around the innermost coaxial conduit and having a combustion products outlet end proximate the first fluid inlet end of the innermost coaxial conduit and a combustion products inlet end proximate the first fluid outlet end of the innermost coaxial conduit, and a coaxial intermediate conduit disposed between the innermost coaxial conduit and the outermost coaxial conduit, whereby a second fluid annular region is formed between the innermost coaxial conduit and the intermediate coaxial conduit and a combustion products annular region is formed between the intermediate coaxial conduit and the outermost coaxial conduit. The intermediate coaxial conduit has a second fluid inlet end proximate the first fluid inlet end of the innermost coaxial conduit and a second fluid outlet end proximate the combustion products inlet end of the outermost coaxial conduit. |
| FILED | Monday, March 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/073950 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07766986 | Toseland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Allen Toseland (Coopersburg, Pennsylvania); Guido Peter Pez (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Pushpinder Singh Puri (Emmaus, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an improved process for the storage and delivery of hydrogen by the reversible hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of an organic compound wherein the organic compound is initially in its hydrogenated state. The improvement in the route to generating hydrogen is in the dehydrogenation step and recovery of the dehydrogenated organic compound resides in the following steps: introducing a hydrogenated organic compound to a microchannel reactor incorporating a dehydrogenation catalyst; effecting dehydrogenation of said hydrogenated organic compound under conditions whereby said hydrogenated organic compound is present as a liquid phase; generating a reaction product comprised of a liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound and gaseous hydrogen; separating the liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound from gaseous hydrogen; and, recovering the hydrogen and liquid phase dehydrogenated organic compound. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/211585 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767000 | Siriwardane |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washignton, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranjani Siriwardane (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel regenerable composition for removing hydrogen chloride and hydrogen sulfide from a gas stream, the sorbent comprising a mixture containing from about 5 wt % manganese oxide to about 99 wt. % manganese oxides where manganese can exist in various oxidation states. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/951608 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767078 | Sullivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enid J. Sullivan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Lynn Katz (Austin, Texas); Kerry Kinney (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Bowman (Lemitar, New Mexico); Soondong Kwon (Kyungbuk, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method were used to treat produced water. Field-testing demonstrated the removal of contaminants from produced water from oil and gas wells. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/202007 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767610 | Coker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Coker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal nanocluster composite material for use as a conductive catalyst. The metal nanocluster composite material has metal nanoclusters on a carbon substrate formed within a porous zeolitic material, forming stable metal nanoclusters with a size distribution between 0.6-10 nm and, more particularly, nanoclusters with a size distribution in a range as low as 0.6-0.9 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788017 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767616 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Junbing Yang (Westmont, Illinois); Xiaoping Wang (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst for an electro-chemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of a bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes having a catalytically active transition metal incorporated longitudinally in said nanotubes. A method of making an electro-chemical catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) having a bundle of longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes, where a substrate is in a first reaction zone, and 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 the first reaction zone which is maintained at a first reaction temperature for a time sufficient to vaporize material therein. The vaporized material is then introduced to a second reaction zone maintained at a second reaction temperature for a time sufficient to grow longitudinally aligned carbon nanotubes over the substrate with a catalytically active transition metal incorporated throughout the nanotubes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368120 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767627 | Goldwasser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Symyx Solutions, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isy Goldwasser (Palo Alto, California); Debra A. Ross (Mountain Ranch, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Xiao-Dong Xiang (Danville, California); Gabriel Briceño (Baldwin Park, California); Xian-Dong Sun (Fremont, California); Kai-An Wang (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for the preparation and use of a substrate having an array of diverse materials in predefined regions thereon. A substrate having an array of diverse materials thereon is generally prepared by delivering components of materials to predefined regions on a substrate, and simultaneously reacting the components to form at least two materials or, alternatively, allowing the components to interact to form at least two different materials. Materials which can be prepared using the methods and apparatus of the present invention include, for example, covalent network solids, ionic solids and molecular solids. More particularly, materials which can be prepared using the methods and apparatus of the present invention include, for example, inorganic materials, intermetallic materials, metal alloys, ceramic materials, organic materials, organometallic materials, nonbiological organic polymers, composite materials (e.g., inorganic composites, organic composites, or combinations thereof), etc. Once prepared, these materials can be screened for useful properties including, for example, electrical, thermal, mechanical, morphological, optical, magnetic, chemical, or other properties. Thus, the present invention provides methods for the parallel synthesis and analysis of novel materials having useful properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 1997 |
| APPL NO | 08/847967 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767637 | Simandl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald F. Simandl (Knoxville, Tennessee); John D. Brown (Harriman, Tennessee); Jerrid S. Holt (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A solvent for urethane adhesives and coatings, the solvent having a carbaldehyde and a cyclic amide as constituents. In some embodiments the solvent consists only of miscible constituents. In some embodiments the carbaldehyde is benzaldehyde and in some embodiments the cyclic amide is N-methylpyrrolidone (M-pyrole). An extender may be added to the solvent. In some embodiments the extender is miscible with the other ingredients, and in some embodiments the extender is non-aqueous. For example, the extender may include isopropanol, ethanol, tetrahydro furfuryl alcohol, benzyl alcohol, Gamma-butyrolactone or a caprolactone. In some embodiments a carbaldehyde and a cyclic amide are heated and used to separate a urethane bonded to a component. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749234 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Elliott (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprising contacting an alcohol, a feed comprising one or more glycerides and equal to or greater than 2 wt % of one or more free fatty acids, and a solid acid catalyst, a nanostructured polymer catalyst, or a sulfated zirconia catalyst in one or more reactors, and recovering from the one or more reactors an effluent comprising equal to or greater than about 75 wt % alkyl ester and equal to or less than about 5 wt % glyceride. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744693 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767867 | Cortright |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent Energy Systems, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycal and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800671 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767931 | Welle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Welle (Niceville, New Mexico); Alexander S. Tappan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeremy A. Palmer (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for generating nanoscale particles of energetic materials, such as explosive materials, using ultrashort-pulse laser irradiation. The use of ultrashort laser pulses in embodiments of this invention enables one to generate particles by laser ablation that retain the chemical identity of the starting material while avoiding ignition, deflagration, and detonation of the explosive material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761658 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767943 | Ripley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for heat treating manufactured components using microwave energy and microwave susceptor material. Heat treating medium such as eutectic salts may be employed. A fluidized bed introduces process gases which may include carburizing or nitriding gases. The process may be operated in a batch mode or continuous process mode. A microwave heating probe may be used to restart a frozen eutectic salt bath. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566988 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768194 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yiru Sun (Princeton, New Jersey); Noel Giebink (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), and more specifically to OLEDS that emit light using a combination of fluorescent emitters and phosphorescent emitters for the efficient utilization of all of the electrically generated excitons. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446022 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768210 | Shiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Anil Raj Duggal (Niskayuna, New York); Joseph Darryl Michael (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid electroluminescent (EL) device comprises at least one inorganic diode element and at least one organic EL element that are electrically connected in series. The absolute value of the breakdown voltage of the inorganic diode element is greater than the absolute value of the maximum reverse bias voltage across the series. The inorganic diode element can be a power diode, a Schottky barrier diode, or a light-emitting diode. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753770 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/185.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768639 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Y. Chan (Bloomington, Indiana); Gary M. Hieftje (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting and correcting inaccurate results in inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). ICP-AES analysis is performed across a plurality of selected locations in the plasma on an unknown sample, collecting the light intensity at one or more selected wavelengths of one or more sought-for analytes, creating a first dataset. The first dataset is then calibrated with a calibration dataset creating a calibrated first dataset curve. If the calibrated first dataset curve has a variability along the location within the plasma for a selected wavelength, errors are present. Plasma-related errors are then corrected by diluting the unknown sample and performing the same ICP-AES analysis on the diluted unknown sample creating a calibrated second dataset curve (accounting for the dilution) for the one or more sought-for analytes. The cross-over point of the calibrated dataset curves yields the corrected value (free from plasma related errors) for each sought-for analyte. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/212915 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768649 | Heebner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Heebner (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one general embodiment, a method for ultrafast optical signal detecting is provided. In operation, a first optical input signal is propagated through a first wave guiding layer of a waveguide. Additionally, a second optical input signal is propagated through a second wave guiding layer of the waveguide. Furthermore, an optical control signal is applied to a top of the waveguide, the optical control signal being oriented diagonally relative to the top of the waveguide such that the application is used to influence at least a portion of the first optical input signal propagating through the first wave guiding layer of the waveguide. In addition, the first and the second optical input signals output from the waveguide are combined. Further, the combined optical signals output from the waveguide are detected. In another general embodiment, a system for ultrafast optical signal recording is provided comprising a waveguide including a plurality of wave guiding layers, an optical control source positioned to propagate an optical control signal towards the waveguide in a diagonal orientation relative to a top of the waveguide, at least one optical input source positioned to input an optical input signal into at least a first and a second wave guiding layer of the waveguide, and a detector for detecting at least one interference pattern output from the waveguide, where at least one of the interference patterns results from a combination of the optical input signals input into the first and the second wave guiding layer. Furthermore, propagation of the optical control signal is used to influence at least a portion of the optical input signal propagating through the first wave guiding layer of the waveguide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/193841 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769201 | Sun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiangang Sun (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and computer program product provides automated analysis of thermal imaging data for multi-layer materials based upon a theoretical model of a multi-layer material system, which is solved numerically. The computer-implemented method effectively processes the volume heating effect for thermal barrier coatings (TBCs), since quantitative evaluation of TBC thickness and conductivity is particularly important. TBC thickness is a processing parameter and required to be monitored. TBC conductivity is a measure of TBC quality because it is directly related with TBC density/porosity, microcracking and interface cracks. Because this method is an imaging technology, it can be used for fast and 100% area inspection of larger TBC surfaces, such as combustor liners. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/452052 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Unger (South San Francisco, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); Markus M. Enzelberger (Pasadena, California); Mark L. Adams (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932107 |
| ART UNIT | 3751 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 141/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767393 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Mark A. Rubin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arun Sreekumar (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnostics, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention provides gene expression profiles associated with prostate cancers. Genes identified as cancer markers using the methods of the present invention find use in the diagnosis and characterization of prostate cancer. In addition, the genes provide targets for cancer drug screens and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/343797 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767410 | Weissman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irving L. Weissman (Stanford, California); Naoki Hosen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (AMLSC) are identified. The cells can be prospectively isolated or identified from patient samples, and are shown to possess the unique properties of cancer stem cells in functional assays for cancer stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, and in cancer diagnosis. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999809 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767417 | Philips et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark R. Philips (New York, New York); Trever G. Bivona (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of identifying compounds as candidate drugs for treatment of cancer by providing a cell expressing a GTPase protein that is regulated by a prenyl-electrostatic switch, contacting the cell with compounds to be evaluated, and selecting compounds able to regulate charge at the prenyl-electrostatic switch in the GTPase protein as candidate drugs for treatment of cancer. Also disclosed are methods of treating cancer in a patient. An isolated antibody which binds to a phosphorylated prenyl-electrostatic switch on a K-Ras4B protein is also disclosed, as is a kit for detecting phosphorylation of a prenyl-electrostatic switch in a K-Ras4B protein which includes a labeled antibody and a device to detect the label. Also disclosed is a method of detecting phosphorylation of a prenyl-electrostatic switch on a K-Ras4B protein in a biological sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109262 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767421 | Gee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle R. Gee (Springfield, Oregon); Brian Agnew (Eugene, Oregon); Adrian Salic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Timothy J. Mitchison (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in vitro and in vivo. Certain methods are provided that include a [3+2] cycloaddition between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent attached to a label. Other methods are provided that include a Staudinger ligation between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent comprising a substituted triarylphosphine attached to a label. Such methods do not require fixation and denaturation and therefore can be applied to the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in living cells and in organisms. Also provided are methods for measuring cellular proliferation. In these methods, the amount of label incorporated into the DNA is measured as an indication of cellular proliferation. The methods of the invention can be used in a wide variety of applications including clinical diagnosis of diseases and disorders in which cellular proliferation is involved, toxicity assays, and as a tool for the study of chromosomes' ultrastructures. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588697 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767435 | Chiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Bingyun Sun (Seattle, Washington); James Patrick Shelby (Bellevue, Washington); John Scott Edgar (Seattle, Washington); Gavin Jeffries (Seattle, Washington); Robert M. Lorenz (Seattle, Washington); Jason S. Kuo (Seattle, Washington); Mingyan He (Lynnwood, Washington); Peter B. Allen (Seattle, Washington); Sarah Mutch (Seattle, Washington); Christopher L. Kuyper (Seattle, Washington); Gina S. Fiorini (Redmond, Washington); David S. W. Lim (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for performing biochemical detection or analysis on micro- and nano-scale subcellular component within a single biological cell is provided. An integrated platform device and method to perform the biochemical analysis is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926656 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/286.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767645 | Burke, Jr. 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) | Terrence R. Burke, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Zhen-Dan Shi (Frederick, Maryland); Sang-Uk Kang (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds represented by the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or isomer thereof, wherein R1-R6 are as defined in the specification. These compounds are targeted for use as inhibitors of SH2 domain binding with a phosphoprotein, and are contemplated for use in a number of diseases including cancer. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932424 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767689 | Moon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (South Planfield, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young-Choon Moon (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Liangxian Cao (Parlin, New Jersey); Nadarajan Tamilarasu (Edison, New Jersey); Hongyan Qi (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Soongyu Choi (Skillman, New Jersey); William Joseph Lennox (South Plainfield, New Jersey); Donald Thomas Corson (Annandale, New Jersey); Seongwoo Hwang (Edison, New Jersey); Thomas Davis (South Orange, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, compounds that inhibit the expression of VEGF post-transcriptionally have been identified, and methods for their use provided. In one aspect of the invention, compounds useful in the inhibition of VEGF production, in the treatment of solid tumor cancer, and in reducing plasma and/or tumor VEGF levels, are provided. In another aspect of the invention, methods are provided for the inhibition of VEGF production, the treatment of cancer, and the reduction of plasma and/or tumor VEGF levels, using the compounds of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/107783 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767788 | Loh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Loh (Manlius, New York); Mark C. Butler (Clearance, New York); Jeung-Hoi Ha (Manlius, New York); Tracy L. Radley (Liverpool, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a two-domain, bi-functional fusion protein that functions as a molecular switch wherein the free energy released by the folding of a first domain of the fusion protein drives an unfolding of a second domain of the fusion protein, and vice versa. The molecular structure of the fusion protein is engineered so that, at any time, the folding of the first domain necessarily unfolds the other domain, and vice versa, thereby making the folded and unfolded states of the first and second domains mutually exclusive. This is accomplished by the insertion of ubiquitin insert protein into a surface loop of barnase target protein subject to the structural design criterion that the N-C terminal length of the ubiquitin insert protein is at least two-times greater than the Cα-Cα alpha-carbon-alpha-carbon length of the surface loop of the barnase target protein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/802516 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767791 | Halperin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves assays, diagnostics, kits, and assay components for determining levels of K41-glycated CD59 in subjects. Treatments for subjects based upon levels of K41-glycated CD59 also are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/413130 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767811 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Deng (Newton, Massachusetts); Jianfeng Hang (Champaign, Illinois); Liang Tang (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for the kinetic resolution of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of chiral compounds. The critical elements of the method are: a non-racemic chiral tertiary-amine-containing catalyst; a racemic or diastereomeric mixture of a chiral substrate, e.g., a cyclic carbonate or cyclic carbamate; and a nucleophile, e.g., an alcohol, amine or thiol. A preferred embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for achieving the kinetic resolution of racemic and diastereomeric mixtures of derivatives of α- and β-amino, hydroxy, and thio carboxylic acids. In certain embodiments, the methods of the present invention achieve dynamic kinetic resolution of a racemic or diastereomeric mixture of a substrate, i.e., a kinetic resolution wherein the yield of the resolved enantiomer or diastereomer, respectively, exceeds the amount present in the original mixture due to the in situ equilibration of the enantiomers or diastereomers under the reaction conditions prior to the resolution step. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447237 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767817 | Wang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Binghe Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Xingming Gao (Atlanta, Georgia); Wenqian Yang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Hao Fang (Atlanta, Georgia); Jun Yan (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are boronic acid fluorescent compounds and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570807 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767880 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia McGrath (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chuenlei Parng (Lexington, Massachusetts); George N. Serbedzija (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of screening an agent for activity using teleosts. Methods of screening an agent for angiogenesis activity, toxic activity and an effect cell death activity in teleosts are provided. Methods of screening an agent for an activity in the brain or central nervous system in zebrafish are provided. The invention further provides high throughput methods of screening agents in multi-well plates. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/927473 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767885 | Daniell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Daniell (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of transforming plant plastids and regenerating fertile transplastomic plants by somatic embryogenesis is disclosed. The method involves transforming a plant plastid in a plant cell capable of being regenerated through somatic embryogenesis with a plastid expression cassette comprising one or more selectable marker genes that express in both green and non-green tissue and in light and dark conditions wherein the selectable marker gene product provides resistance of the plant cell to a selection agent. The transplastomic plant cell is cultured in the presence of the selection agent under conditions to cause the formation of a somatic embryo. The somatic embryo is grown into a fertile transplastomic plant. Preferably, the expression cassette contains two different selectable marker genes that express different proteins that provide plant cell resistance to the same selection agent. |
| FILED | Monday, July 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/190122 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768264 | Brau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford, Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anja C. S. Brau (Menlo Park, California); Philip James Beatty (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for parallel imaging is disclosed that generates linear combination coefficient weights by solving systems of linear equations formulated with correlation values. An MRI apparatus includes a computer programmed to acquire MR data from an imaging volume for a plurality of encoding locations using an array of RF receiver coils. Correlation values are calculated from the MR data. From these calculated correlation values, synthesis weights are generated. An image is then reconstructed based on an application of the synthesis weights to at least a portion of the MR data acquired from the array of RF receiver coils. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744329 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769068 | Hersman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. William Hersman (Durham, New Hampshire); Jan Distelbrink (Peabody, Massachusetts); Hongguo Zhu (Meriden, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system to increase the brightness of, and control gaps in, the light from an external cavity, spectrally narrowed, stack of diode laser bars employing a stepped mirror and transparent plates in the external cavity. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809157 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769214 | Wehrli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Felix W. Wehrli (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); Punam K. Saha (Coralville, Iowa); Bryon Gomberg (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are fuzzy distance transform-based methods, and an algorithm therefor, for analyzing digital images defining a volumetric region of an object from a digital image comprising finding a set of points in the image to generate a fuzzy subset, and calculating the fuzzy distance transform (FDT) of the fuzzy subset. The methods deal with the extraction of object features from digital images acquired at low resolution, specifically, the measurement of structural thickness distribution along an object. Targeted applications comprise, but are not limited to, the measurement of trabecular bone thickness in magnetic resonance or computed tomography images. Also provided are systems and device for utilizing the disclosed methods and algorithm to extract the object features from the digital images. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/728496 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769219 | Zahniser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytyc Corporation (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Zahniser (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining the quality of focus of a digital image of a biological specimen includes obtaining a digital image of a specimen using a specimen imaging apparatus. A measure of image texture is calculated at two different scales, and the measurements are compared to determine how much high-resolution data the image contains compared to low-resolution data. The texture measurement may, for example, be a Brenner auto-focus score calculated from the means of adjacent pairs of pixels for the high-resolution measurement and from the means of adjacent triples of pixels for the low-resolution measurement. A score indicative of the quality of focus is then established based on a function of the low-resolution and high-resolution measurements. This score may be used by an automated imaging device to verify that image quality is acceptable. The device may adjust the focus and acquire new images to replace any that are deemed unacceptable. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609274 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769423 | Viglianti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Viglianti (Durham, North Carolina); Mark W. Dewhirst (Durham, North Carolina); Ana M. Ponce (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions useful for detecting an in vivo blood pool, monitoring the distribution of a compound of interest to a desired site in an organism by magnetic resonance imaging, monitoring the accumulation of a compound of interest at a desired site in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging, and monitoring the release of liposomal contents to an external stimulus at a desired site in vivo by magnetic resonance imaging are disclosed. Some compositions comprise envirosensitive or non-sensitive liposomes. Contrast agents, such as manganese-based compounds, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/648148 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07767114 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Damon B. Farmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for functionalizing a carbon nanotube surface, the nanotube surface is exposed to at least one vapor including at least one functionalization species that non-covalently bonds to the nanotube surface, providing chemically functional groups at the nanotube surface, producing a functionalized nanotube surface. A functionalized nanotube surface can be exposed to at least one vapor stabilization species that reacts with the functionalization layer to form a stabilization layer that stabilizes the functionalization layer against desorption from the nanotube surface while providing chemically functional groups at the nanotube surface, producing a stabilized nanotube surface. The stabilized nanotube surface can be exposed to at least one material layer precursor species that deposits a material layer on the stabilized nanotube surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/703375 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767260 | Peng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaogang Peng (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Jianqing Li (Los Angeles, California); David Battaglia (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Y. Andrew Wang (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Yunjun Wang (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new compositions containing nearly monodisperse colloidal core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals with high photoluminescence quantum yields (PL QY), as well as other complex structured semiconductor nanocrystals. This invention also provides new synthetic methods for preparing these nanocrystals, and new devices comprising these compositions. In addition to core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals, this patent application also provides complex semiconductor nanostructures, quantum shells, quantum wells, doped nanocrystals, and other multiple-shelled semiconductor nanocrystals. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/763068 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767388 | Berkowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NUtech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Berkowitz (Lincoln, Nebraska); Sangeeta Dey (Lincoln, Nebraska); Kannan R. Karukurichi (Lincoln, Nebraska); Weijun Shen (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for monitoring the stereoselectivity of at least one organic chemical reaction and the relative rate of at least one organic chemical reaction, wherein the reaction produces a product that can exist as at least two stereoisomers, is provided herein. Also disclosed are methods for identifying and preparing catalysts for the above reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434247 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767435 | Chiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Bingyun Sun (Seattle, Washington); James Patrick Shelby (Bellevue, Washington); John Scott Edgar (Seattle, Washington); Gavin Jeffries (Seattle, Washington); Robert M. Lorenz (Seattle, Washington); Jason S. Kuo (Seattle, Washington); Mingyan He (Lynnwood, Washington); Peter B. Allen (Seattle, Washington); Sarah Mutch (Seattle, Washington); Christopher L. Kuyper (Seattle, Washington); Gina S. Fiorini (Redmond, Washington); David S. W. Lim (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for performing biochemical detection or analysis on micro- and nano-scale subcellular component within a single biological cell is provided. An integrated platform device and method to perform the biochemical analysis is also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926656 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/286.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767453 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chengcheng Zhang (Arlington, Massachusetts); Harvey Lodish (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Hematopoietic stem cells and methods for ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells are provided. The methods comprise culturing the cells in a media containing an effective amount insulin-like growth factor (IGF), fibroblast growth factor (FGF), thrombopoietin (TPO), and stem cell factor (SCF), under conditions sufficient for expansion of said cells. Methods for identifying expanded hematopoeitc stem cells and kits for ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255191 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767841 | Nolan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation, Inc. (New Orleans, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Nolan (Tarragona, Spain); Pierre de Fremont (Tarragona, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | A number of cationic gold(I) and neutral gold(III) complexes have been synthesized and found to be stabilized by the use of N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. These species are often employed as in situ-generated reactive intermediates in gold catalyzed organic transformations. An isolated, well-defined cationic species was tested in gold mediated carbene transfer reactions from ethyl diazoacetate. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/098863 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/112 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768050 | Rappe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Marshall Rappe (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Na Sai (Austin, Texas); Alexie Michelle Kolpak (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Ferroelectric structures and methods of making the structures are presented. The ferroelectric structures can include an electrode in contact with a ferroelectric thin film. The contact can be arranged so that a portion of the atoms of the ferroelectric thin film are in contact with at least a portion of the atoms of the electrode. The electrode can be made of metal, a metal alloy, or a semiconducting material. A second electrode can be used and placed in contact with the ferroelectric thin film. Methods of making and using the ferroelectric structures are also presented. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774793 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768640 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois); Nikhil Ganesh (Champaign, Illinois); Patrick C. Mathias (Orlando, Florida); Ian D. Block (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Enhancement of fluorescence emission from fluorophores bound to a sample and present on the surface of two-dimensional photonic crystals is described. The enhancement of fluorescence is achieved by the combination of high intensity near-fields and strong coherent scattering effects, attributed to leaky photonic crystal eigenmodes (resonance modes). The photonic crystal simultaneously exhibits resonance modes which overlap both the absorption and emission wavelengths of the fluorophore. A significant enhancement in fluorescence intensity from the fluorophores on the photonic crystal surface is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986156 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768694 | Rodriguez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alejandro Rodriguez (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Steven G. Johnson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A doubly-resonant cavity structure includes at least one cavity structures so as to allow total frequency conversion for second or third-harmonic generation using χ(2) and χ(3) nonlinearities between the at least one cavity structures. The total frequency conversion is efficiently optimized by determining a critical power allowing for such total frequency conversion to occur depending on the cavity parameters of the at least one cavity structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/030459 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768800 | Mazumder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudip K. Mazumder (Chicago, Illinois); Rongjun Huang (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An ac/ac converter for accepting a pulsating dc input with encoded sinusoidal modulation and providing a multiphase modulated output. The converter comprises a bridge including a plurality of switches having switch legs for modulating the pulsating dc input at a carrier frequency over a plurality of phases. The bridge is coupled at one end to a pulsating dc source and coupled at another end to a modulated signal output. A controller is provided for the plurality of switches for causing, for each of the plurality of phases, under unity power factor, one of the switch legs to modulate the pulsating dc input at the carrier frequency while the other switch legs do not modulate the pulsating dc input at the carrier frequency. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334273 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769071 | Vahala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry J. Vahala (San Gabriel, California); Lan Yang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Silica sol gel micro-lasers and methods of fabricating micro-lasers on a chip or a wafer. A silica sol gel micro-laser includes a silica sol gel optical micro-cavity, a substrate, and a support member or pillar that extends between the micro-cavity and the substrate. An outer surface or periphery of the micro-cavity extends beyond a top of the sol gel support member or is overhanging with respect to the underlying support member. Optical energy travels along an inner surface of the silica sol gel micro-cavity. Undoped silica sol gel micro-cavities can be used for Raman lasers. Sol gel micro-cavities can be doped with, for example, erbium, and can be used for erbium-doped micro-lasers that have ultra narrow line widths, for example, less than 100 Hz. Undoped and doped silica sol gel micro-lasers can have Q factors greater than 107. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985593 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769099 | Parhi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Yongru Gu (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to techniques for implementing high-speed precoders, such as Tomlinson-Harashima (TH) precoders. In one aspect of the invention, look-ahead techniques are utilized to pipeline a TH precoder, resulting in a high-speed TH precoder. These techniques may be applied to pipeline various types of TH precoders, such as Finite Impulse Response (FIR) precoders and Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) precoders. In another aspect of the invention, parallel processing multiple non-pipelined TH precoders results in a high-speed parallel TH precoder design. Utilization of high-speed TH precoders may enable network providers to for example, operate 10 Gigabit Ethernet with copper cable rather than fiber optic cable. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225383 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769115 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Liuqing Yang (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described that provide noncoherent demodulation via correlating “dirty” templates in wireless communication systems. In particular, the described techniques cross-correlate dirty templates that are adjacent symbol-long segments of the received noisy waveform. Unlike transmitted reference (TR) and differential templates that are noisy, i.e., propagate through the wireless communication channel, these dirty templates are both noisy and offset in time and, thus, are dirty. As a result, the described techniques enable noncoherent demodulation without timing synchronization and channel estimation. Symbol demodulation may be performed utilizing a maximum likelihood (ML) sequence detector or, alternatively, conditional ML demodulation may be performed to reduce receiver complexity. The described techniques may also be applied to a TR scheme to improve performance in the presence of mistiming. In any case, the techniques may be applied to narrowband, wideband, or ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems and remain operational without timing synchronization or channel estimation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242623 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769183 | Bharitkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Bharitkar (Los Angeles, California); Chris Kyriakakis (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and a method for correcting, simultaneously at multiple-listener positions, distortions introduced by the acoustical characteristics includes intelligently weighing the room acoustical responses to form a room acoustical correction filter. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/465644 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07766902 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Michael J. MacDonald (Madison, Wisconsin); David T. Eddington (Madison, Wisconsin); Glennys A. Mensing (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device is provided for delivering a drug to an individual. The microfluidic device includes a body that defines a reservoir for receiving the drug therein. A valve interconnects the reservoir to an output needle that is insertable into the skin of an individual. A pressure source urges the drug from the reservoir toward the needle. The valve is movable between a closed position preventing the flow of the drug from the reservoir to the output needle and an open position allowing for the flow of the drug from the reservoir to the output needle in response to a predetermined condition in the physiological fluids of the individual. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762664 |
| ART UNIT | 3767 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/890.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767270 | Khare 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) | Bishun N. Khare (Fremont, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for functionalizing a collection of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). A selected precursor gas (e.g., H2 or NH3 or NF3 or F2 or CF4 or CnHm) is irradiated to provide a cold plasma of selected target particles, such as atomic H or F, in a first chamber. The target particles are directed toward an array of CNTs located in a second chamber while suppressing transport of ultraviolet radiation to the second chamber. A CNT array is functionalized with the target particles, at or below room temperature, to a point of saturation, in an exposure time interval no longer than about 30 sec. The predominant species that are deposited on the CNT array vary with the distance d measured along a path from the precursor gas to the CNT array; two or three different predominant species can be deposited on a CNT array for distances d=d1 and d=d2>d1 and d=d3>d2. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/387503 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767305 | Stewart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Stewart (Santa Cruz, California); Daniel B. Leiser (San Jose, California); Robert R. DiFiore (Fremont, California); Victor W. Katvala (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Tantalum-based ceramics are suitable for use in thermal protection systems. These composite structures have high efficiency surfaces (low catalytic efficiency and high emittance), thereby reducing heat flux to a spacecraft during planetary re-entry. These ceramics contain tantalum disilicide, molybdenum disilicide and borosilicate glass. The components are milled, along with a processing aid, then applied to a surface of a porous substrate, such as a fibrous silica or carbon substrate. Following application, the coating is then sintered on the substrate. The composite structure is substantially impervious to hot gas penetration and capable of surviving high heat fluxes at temperatures approaching 3000° F. and above. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/758611 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/428 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767746 | Gajiwala |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himansu M. Gajiwala (Layton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulation composition that comprises at least one nitrile butadiene rubber, basalt fibers, and nanoclay is disclosed. Further disclosed is an insulation composition that comprises polybenzimidazole fibers, basalt fibers, and nanoclay. The basalt fibers may be present in the insulation compositions in a range of from approximately 1% by weight to approximately 6% by weight of the total weight of the insulation composition. The nanoclay may be present in the insulation compositions in a range of from approximately 5% by weight to approximately 10% by weight of the total weight of the insulation composition. Rocket motors including the insulation compositions and methods of insulating a rocket motor are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431387 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/442 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768641 | Bearman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory H. Bearman (Pasadena, California); Daniel W. Wilson (Montrose, California); William R. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Computed tomography imaging spectrometers (“CTIS”s) having patterns for imposing spatial structure are provided. The pattern may be imposed either directly on the object scene being imaged or at the field stop aperture. The use of the pattern improves the accuracy of the captured spatial and spectral information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657936 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769135 | Park 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) | Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang Hyouk Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Glen C. King (Yorktown, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Yorktown, Virginia); Albert L. Dimarcantonio (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new X-ray diffraction (XRD) method is provided to acquire XY mapping of the distribution of single crystals, poly-crystals, and twin defects across an entire wafer of rhombohedral super-hetero-epitaxial semiconductor material. In one embodiment, the method is performed with a point or line X-ray source with an X-ray incidence angle approximating a normal angle close to 90°, and in which the beam mask is preferably replaced with a crossed slit. While the wafer moves in the X and Y direction, a narrowly defined X-ray source illuminates the sample and the diffracted X-ray beam is monitored by the detector at a predefined angle. Preferably, the untilted, asymmetric scans are of {440} peaks, for twin defect characterization. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288380 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769488 | Curtis |
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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) | Steven A. Curtis (Dayton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A reconfigurable structure includes a plurality of selectively extensible and retractable limbs, at least one node pivotably receiving respective ends of at least two limbs, and an actuator associated with each limb for extending and retracting the limb. The structure may further include an addressable module associated with each actuator to control the actuator. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/108627 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07769507 | Volponi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan J. Volponi (West Simsbury, Connecticut); C. Bruce Wood (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for assessing health of a device comprising a data alignment module for receiving a plurality of sensory outputs and outputting a synchronized data stream, an analysis module for receiving the synchronized data stream and outputting at least one device health feature, and a high level diagnostic feature information fusion module for receiving the at least one device health feature and outputting a device health assessment. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926464 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07770093 | Divsalar et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Samuel J. Dolinar (Sunland, California); Fabrizio Pollara (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Serial concatenated trellis coded modulation (SCTCM) includes an outer coder, an interleaver, a recursive inner coder and a mapping element. The outer coder receives data to be coded and produces outer coded data. The interleaver permutes the outer coded data to produce interleaved data. The recursive inner coder codes the interleaved data to produce inner coded data. The mapping element maps the inner coded data to a symbol. The recursive inner coder has a structure which facilitates iterative decoding of the symbols at a decoder system. The recursive inner coder and the mapping element are selected to maximize the effective free Euclidean distance of a trellis coded modulator formed from the recursive inner coder and the mapping element. The decoder system includes a demodulation unit, an inner SISO (soft-input soft-output) decoder, a deinterleaver, an outer SISO decoder, and an interleaver. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514295 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/794 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07767867 | Cortright |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent Energy Systems, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycal and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800671 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/861 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767999 | Ong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Lu Jiang (Oakville, Canada); Yu Qi (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561032 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07768624 | Cherala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anshuman Cherala (Austin, Texas); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Ecron D. Thompson (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards a method for determining deformation parameters that a patterned device would undergo to minimize dimensional variations between a recorded pattern thereon and a reference pattern, the method including, inter alia, comparing spatial variation between features of the recorded pattern with respect to corresponding features of the reference pattern; and determining deformation forces to apply to the patterned device to attenuate the dimensional variations, with the forces having predetermined constraints, wherein a summation of a magnitude of the forces is substantially zero and a summation of moment of the forces is substantially zero. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695469 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07770231 | Prater et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Veeco Instruments, Inc. (Plainview, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig Prater (Goleta, California); Chanmin Su (Ventura, California); Nghi Phan (Santa Barbara, California); Jeffrey M. Markakis (Santa Barbara, California); Craig Cusworth (Redding, California); Jian Shi (Goleta, California); Johannes H. Kindt (Santa Barbara, California); Steven F. Nagle (Santa Barbara, California); Wenjun Fan (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided that have the capability of rapidly scanning a large sample of arbitrary characteristics under force control feedback so has to obtain a high resolution image. The method includes generating relative scanning movement between a probe of the SPM and a sample to scan the probe through a scan range of at least 4 microns at a rate of at least 30 lines/sec and controlling probe-sample interaction with a force control slew rate of at least 1 mm/sec. A preferred SPM capable of achieving these results has a force controller having a force control bandwidth of at least closed loop bandwidth of at least 10 kHz. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832881 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07765733 | Liu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Biao Liu (Salinas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one exemplary embodiment the invention provides methods for post harvest disinfection of agricultural commodities. The methods are practiced on agricultural commodities without damaging or otherwise injuring the commodities by way of the treatment. In other exemplary embodiments, the invention provides containers appropriate for carrying out the disclosed methods of disinfective treatment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/591724 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 043/132.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07767837 | Elliott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Elliott (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprising contacting an alcohol, a feed comprising one or more glycerides and equal to or greater than 2 wt % of one or more free fatty acids, and a solid acid catalyst, a nanostructured polymer catalyst, or a sulfated zirconia catalyst in one or more reactors, and recovering from the one or more reactors an effluent comprising equal to or greater than about 75 wt % alkyl ester and equal to or less than about 5 wt % glyceride. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744693 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP21179 | McGranahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gale McGranahan (Davis, California); Charles Leslie (Davis, California); Wesley Hackett (Davis, California); Gregory Browne (Davis, California); James McKenna (West Lafayette, Indiana); Thomas Buzo (Reedley, California); Stephanie Kaku (Fresno, California); Michael McKenry (Selma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of walnut rootstock denominated ‘VX211’ is described. This new variety, ‘VX211’, can be propagated through standard tissue culture micropropagation or rooted cuttings. ‘VX211’ has vigor and survivability in the nursery and in the orchard. It has reduced susceptibility to damage from nematodes (Pratylenchus vulnus) compared to other ‘Paradox’ rootstock. ‘VX211’ also has reduced susceptibility to damage from Phytophthora citricola in greenhouse screens and in the field compared to other ‘Paradox’ rootstock. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821844 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07769803 | Birdwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger D. Horn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Puneet Yadav (Fremont, California); David J. Icove (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles. A search engine utilizes hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel computer architecture, allowing scale up past to previously feasible limits. Key benefits of the new method are logarithmic scale up and parallelization. These benefits are achieved by identification and utilization of naturally occurring patterns and clusters within stored data. The patterns and clusters enable the stored data to be partitioned into subsets of roughly equal size. The method can be applied recursively, resulting in a database tree that is balanced, meaning that all paths or branches through the tree have roughly the same length. The method achieves high performance by exploiting the natural structure of the data in a manner that maintains balanced trees. Implementation of the method maps naturally to parallel computer architectures, allowing scale up to very large databases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/968364 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07767837 | Elliott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Elliott (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprising contacting an alcohol, a feed comprising one or more glycerides and equal to or greater than 2 wt % of one or more free fatty acids, and a solid acid catalyst, a nanostructured polymer catalyst, or a sulfated zirconia catalyst in one or more reactors, and recovering from the one or more reactors an effluent comprising equal to or greater than about 75 wt % alkyl ester and equal to or less than about 5 wt % glyceride. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744693 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07769583 | Chaudhari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Upendra V. Chaudhari (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Hsin I. Tseng (Los Angeles, California); Deepak S. Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Frameries, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and computer program product for classification of an analog electrical signal using statistical models of training data. A technique is described to quantize the analog electrical signal in a manner which maximizes the compression of the signal while simultaneously minimizing the diminution in the ability to classify the compressed signal. These goals are achieved by utilizing a quantizer designed to minimize the loss in a power of the log-likelihood ratio. A further technique is described to enhance the quantization process by optimally allocating a number of bits for each dimension of the quantized feature vector subject to a maximum number of bits available across all dimensions. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/383199 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07769778 | Snapp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Snapp (Memphis, Tennessee); James Daniel Self (Millington, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and software determine whether a field of an input digital representation of information, such as the street name field in an address, is correct by quickly comparing the field to a list of valid choices for that field. The list of valid choices is generated based on information from the input digital representation, such as a character string. If an exact match is not found, a fuzzy match comparison determines the most closely matching valid choice. If a suitable fuzzy match is not found, then the input information is invalid. Otherwise, another field of the input information, such as the building number field of an address, is tested for validity. If the second field passes the validity check, then the fuzzy match (or exact match) for the field is valid. A fuzzy matching field may replace the input field, thereby correcting the input information. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/819905 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07767449 | Paoletti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Incorporated (Menands, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enzo Paoletti (Delmar, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for producing a protein involving infecting a culture of eukaryotic cells with a recombinant vaccinia virus. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/228926 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 03, 2010.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
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?
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HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2010/fedinvent-patents-20100803.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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