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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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| US 07779733 | Dumback |
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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) | Christopher F. Dumback (Scranton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of removing a glow plug from a combustion engine utilizing a hand tool includeing two interconnected arms each being movable with respect to one another and each having a working end and an opposing handle portion. The hand tool may further include an extension body that has a generally tubular configuration. The extension body may have a first body portion and a second body portion wherein the first body portion extends from one of the interconnected arms and wherein the second body portion extends from the other of the interconnected arms and wherein each of the first body portion and the second body portion includes an interior surface that is threaded. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287160 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools 081/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07779740 | Holmes 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) | Edward Holmes (Valley Falls, New York); Lee Bennett (Voorheesville, New York); Donald Forkas (Rexford, New York); George Hathaway, IV (Sprakers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A revolving firing pin system is mechanically linked to a screw-block in a breech-loading mortar system, wherein the revolver firing pin assembly rotates on a centerline that is offset from the centerline of the screw-block assembly. When the revolver firing pin assembly is rotated, the firing pin assembly also rotates. However, until the screw-block assembly is locked, the firing pin is in a safety position that is not in line with the primer of the munition loaded into the mortar system. Only when the screw-block is rotated into a locked position does the firing pin align with the primer of the munition to thus be able to strike the primer when the solenoid is electronically actuated. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008782 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/27.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07779759 | Paulic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Paulic (Manassas, Virginia); Alex Fu (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A water-entry projectile capable of supercavitation and spin-stabilization comprises a forward section having one or more forward stepped sections, each stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about an axis and having a radius at an aft end that is different from a radius of a front end of an adjacent rearwardly located stepped section; an aft section having an aft stepped section, the aft stepped section being symmetrical in rotation about the axis and having a maximum radius larger than a maximum radius of the forward section; and wherein the aft section is located substantially aft of a center of gravity of the projectile. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/275630 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07779772 | Wallin |
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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) | C. Roger Wallin (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a launch system of an affixed lower section of launch tubing and an upper section of launch tubing configured to telescope vertically from a stowed position within the hull of a submarine to a position just above the ocean surface for a launch operation of a projectile, with the upper section returning to a stowed position after the launch operation. The launch system is capable of launching a projectile to engage air contacts by the discharge of high pressure fluid air, through the length of the upper and lower sections to impact the projectile for launch. The launch system includes surveillance, command and control elements as well as operational connection to additional projectile stowage and a supply of high pressure fluid. The projectile in use with the launch system can support surveillance and communications operations. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879528 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780026 | Zuckerman |
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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) | Edward S. Zuckerman (Denville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A stackable container includes top and bottom surfaces; opposing side surfaces; opposing end surfaces; and interlock mechanisms on at least one of 1) the top and bottom surfaces, 2) the opposing side surfaces and 3) the opposing end surfaces. Because of the interlock mechanisms, a plurality of the containers may be stacked and shipped, such as on a pallet, without the use of support bands. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689695 |
| ART UNIT | 3781 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/23.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780409 | Kismarton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max U. Kismarton (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Rotor apparatus and methods for vertical lift aircraft are disclosed. In one embodiment, a bearing assembly adapted for rotatably coupling a rotor blade to a support member includes an inner housing annularly disposed about a portion of the support member, an outer housing annularly disposed about at least part of the inner housing and is rotatably coupled to the inner housing by an annular bearing device, and a flexible member adapted to be coupled to the support member and including an engagement portion adapted to engage the outer housing and to at least partially relax a side force exerted on the annular bearing device by a bending of at least one of the rotor blade and the support member. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/241420 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780966 | Oaks 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) | Edwin V. Oaks (Gambrills, Maryland); Kevin R. Turbyfill (Odenton, Maryland); Robert W. Kaminski (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial invasin complex is prepared from purified or recombinantly prepared invasins and gram negative bacteria lipopolysaccharides. Typically, IpaB is mixed with IpaC to form a IpaB:IpaC complex. This invasin protein complex is then mixed with the lipopolysaccharide to form an artificial invasin complex. Additional bioactive molecules can be incorporated into the complex during manufacture. This artificial invasin complex is similar in function to native Invaplex 24 or Invaplex 50. The artificial invasin complex has superior immunogenicity properties relative to the native complex and can be tailor made. Its method of preparation lends itself to scale up. The artificial invasin complex can facilitate transport of biomolecules, therapeutics and antibiotics across cell membranes in a manner similar to native Shigella Invaplex. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/727486 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/203.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781058 | Vontell, Sr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Vontell, Sr. (Manchester, Connecticut); Kellee R. Brownlee (Wethersfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for manufacturing a composite structure includes the steps of disposing a removable adhesive material in contact with a first surface of a reusable composite structure; disposing a first surface of an expendable composite structure in contact with the removable adhesive material to form a composite structure assembly; and curing the composite structure assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/494830 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781162 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California); Stanley T. Crooke (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of: identifying pathogens in biological samples from humans and animals, resolving a plurality of etiologic agents present in samples obtained from humans and animals, determining detailed genetic information about such pathogens or etiologic agents, and rapid detection and identification of bioagents from environmental, clinical or other samples. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/660122 |
| 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 07781183 | Bavari 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) | Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); Rekha G. Panchal (Frederick, Maryland); Ann Hermone (Frederick, Maryland); Tam Nguyen (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Rick Gussio (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a pharmacophore model for inhibiting anthrax lethal factor protease activity which comprises a first aromatic center A, a second aromatic center B, a first polar center C, a second polar center D, a third polar center E, and a neutral linker F. Also disclosed are small molecules fitting the pharmacophore model and compositions and methods of using thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/017771 |
| 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: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781186 | Prachumsri 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) | Jetsumon Prachumsri (Samutprakarn, Thailand); Nongnuch Yimamnuaychok (Thonburi BKK, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described the establishment and maintenance of a normal human hepatocyte cell line able to support complete development of malaria parasite development in vitro. The cell line can be used in methods for screening compounds affecting normal human liver cells or normal human cells infected with malaria parasites, measuring uptake of drugs or chemicals into normal human liver cells, and measuring metabolism of a drug in a normal human liver cell. Other advantages and uses of the cell line are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335352 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781217 | Armani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea M. Armani (Pasadena, California); Rajan P. Kulkarni (Loma Linda, California); Scott E. Fraser (Pasadena, California); Kerry J. Vahala (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Resonant sensors and methods of detecting specific molecules with enhanced sensitivity. Optical energy is introduced into a microcavity, such as a silica toroid-shaped microcavity. The microcavity sensor has a functionalized outer surface and a sufficiently high Q value to generate an evanescent optical field with increased intensity. A molecule bound to the functionalized outer surface interacts with the external optical field, thereby heating the microcavity and generating a detectable resonant wavelength shift, which indicates a small number of molecules, even a single molecule, without the use of fluorescent or metal labels. Resonant sensors and methods can also be used to detect specific molecules, even a single molecule, within an environment. One application is detecting very small quantities or a single molecule of heavy water in ordinary water. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733480 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781228 | Menon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Menon and Associates, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh M. Menon (San Diego, California); David E. Newman (Poway, California); Terry J. Henderson (Baltimore, Maryland); J. Manuel Perez (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided to detect target analytes based on magnetic resonance measurements. Magnetic structures produce distinct magnetic field regions having a size comparable to the analyte. When the analyte is bound in those regions, magnetic resonance signals from the sample are changed, leading to detection of the analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335995 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781356 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Radek Roucka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure and fabrication method is provided for integrating wide bandgap nitrides with silicon. The structure includes a substrate, a single crystal buffer layer formed by epitaxy over the substrate and a group III nitride film formed by epitaxy over the buffer layer. The buffer layer is reflective and conductive. The buffer layer may comprise B an element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Hf, Al. For example, the buffer layer may comprise ZrB2, AlB2 or HfB2. The buffer layer provides a lattice match with the group III nitride layer. The substrate can comprise silicon, silicon carbide (SiC), gallium arsenide (GaAs), sapphire or Al2O3. The group III nitride material includes GaN, AlN, InN, AlGaN, InGaN or AlInGaN and can form an active region. In a presently preferred embodiment, the buffer layer is ZrB2 and the substrate is Si(111) or Si(100) and the group III nitride layer comprises GaN. The ZrB2 buffer layer provides a reflective and conductive buffer layer that has a small lattice mismatch with GaN. The semiconductor structure can be used to fabricate active microelectronic devices, such as transistors including field effect transistors and bipolar transistors. The semiconductor structure also can be used to fabricate optoelectronic devices, such as laser diodes and light emitting diodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/545484 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781565 | Pasqualini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas); Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Mikhail Kolonin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are described for classifying cells and/or peptides that associate or bind with a particular characteristic pattern to a plurality of cells or cell lines. Aspects of the invention also include the use of peptide(s) having an appropriate binding characteristic to deliver a drug to a cell or cell population. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/684379 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781635 | Sutto 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) | Thomas E. Sutto (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Karen A. McGrady (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixture and method of using such mixture is provided for purifying carbon nanotubes. A substituted imidazolium cation is utilized to suspend carbon nanotubes in a nonpolar liquid. A polar solvent immiscible with the nonpolar liquid is mixed in to remove soot from the suspension, allowing recovery of the nanotubes. The relative gentleness of the separation provides nanotubes that are undamaged and unoxidized. The components of the mixture are economically advantageous for this use and the method is simple compared to other nanotube purification methods. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/500090 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/836 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781673 | Gaudiana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Konarka Technologies, Inc. (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell Gaudiana (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Richard Kingsborough (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts); David Waller (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to a polymer containing a first comonomer repeat unit and a second comonomer repeat unit. The first comonomer repeat unit includes a cyclopentadithiophene moiety. The second comonomer repeat unit includes a thienothiophene moiety, a thienothiophene tetraoxide moiety, a dithienothiophene moiety, a dithienothiophene dioxide moiety, a dithienothiophene tetraoxide moiety, or a tetrahydroisoindole moiety. The polymer can be used as a photoactive material in a photovoltaic cell. This disclosure also relates to such photovoltaic cells, as well as modules containing such photovoltaic cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/450521 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781754 | Loss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MagiQ Technologies, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Loss (Basel, Switzerland); Hans-Andreas Engel (Binningen, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The Bell-state analyzer includes a semiconductor device having quantum dots formed therein and adapted to support Fermions in a spin-up and/or spin-down states. Different Zeeman splittings in one or more of the quantum dots allows resonant quantum tunneling only for antiparallel spin states. This converts spin parity into charge information via a projective measurement. The measurement of spin parity allows for the determination of part of the states of the Fermions, which provides the states of the qubits, while keeping the undetermined part of the state coherent. The ability to know the parity of qubit states allows for logic operations to be performed on the qubits, i.e., allows for the formation of (two-qubit) quantum gates, which like classical logic gates, are the building blocks of a quantum computer. Quantum computers that perform a parity gate and a CNOT gate using the Bell-state analyzer of the invention are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825808 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782092 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Jente B. Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung C. Ngo (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A cascaded pass-gate test circuit including interposed split-output drive devices provides accurate measurement of critical timing parameters of pass gates. The rise time and fall time of signals passed through the pass gate can be separately measured in a ring oscillator or one-shot delay line configuration. Inverters or other buffer circuits are provided as drive devices to couple the pass gates in cascade. The final complementary tree in each drive device is split so that the only one of the output pull-down transistor or pull-up transistor is connected to the next pass gate input, while the other transistor is connected to the output of the pass gate. The result is that the state transition associated with the device connected to the pass gate input is dominant in the delay, while the other state transition is propagated directly to the output of the pass gate, bypassing the pass gate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762257 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782265 | Horner 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) | Rob Horner (San Diego, California); Rod Cozad (San Diego, California); Hale Simonds (San Diego, California); Robbi Mangra (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Variable Aspect Ratio Tapered Slot Antenna For Extended Low Frequency Response (NC #98541). The apparatus includes a tapered slot antenna having a length and a height, and having an aspect ratio less than or equal to 1 to 2.16. The tapered slot antenna includes a first antenna element comprising conductive material and configured to receive and transmit RF signals; and a second antenna element comprising conductive material, operatively coupled to said first antenna element, configured to receive and transmit RF signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/726196 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/767 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782459 | Holve |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Process Metrix (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald John Holve (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses, methods, and systems for measuring mean particle size and concentration of a polydispersion of agglomerates are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatuses include a light source; a focusing lens to form a probe volume; a first light detector positioned at a first angular position from the beam of light; and a second light detector positioned at a second angular position from the first direction of the beam of light, the mean particle size and concentration being determined using nearly invariant functions of a ratio of the light scattered measured by the first and second detectors. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143081 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782527 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher D. Brooks (Kenmore, Washington); Fabio Di Teodoro (Everett, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus use a photonic-crystal fiber having a very large core while maintaining a single transverse mode. In some fiber lasers and amplifiers having large cores problems exist related to energy being generated at multiple-modes (i.e., polygamy), and of mode hopping (i.e., promiscuity) due to limited control of energy levels and fluctuations. The problems of multiple-modes and mode hopping result from the use of large-diameter waveguides, and are addressed by the invention. This is especially true in lasers using large amounts of energy (i.e., lasers in the one-megawatt or more range). By using multiple small waveguides in parallel, large amounts of energy can be passed through a laser, but with better control such that the aforementioned problems can be reduced. An additional advantage is that the polarization of the light can be maintained better than by using a single fiber core. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420749 |
| 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 07782573 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shengli Zhou (Mansfield, Connecticut); Baosheng Li (Storrs, Connecticut); Peter Willett (Coventry, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Trellis-based methods for reducing feedback while maintaining performance in a Multiple Input, Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system. The methods involve: receiving a plurality of symbols from a plurality of sub-carriers at a receiver; selecting a plurality of indices of codewords corresponding to a codebook of pre-coding weighting matrices for the sub-carriers based on vector quantization compression of the codewords, including selecting a plurality of indices based on trellis-based feedback encoding; and transmitting the selected indices over a wireless channel to a transmitter. Optimal precoding matrices are selected at the same time for all subcarriers by searching for the optimum choice of matrices along a trellis. Selecting a plurality of indices based on trellis-based feedback encoding includes constructing a trellis by specifying a state transition table. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599830 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782712 | Keith 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) | William L. Keith (Ashaway, Rhode Island); Kimberly M. Cipolla (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A towed array is provided with hot-film sensors and anemometer circuitry to calculate the angle of inclination of the towed array in real time during deployment of the towed array in a sea water environment. The hot-film sensors are arranged in pairs along the length of the towed array to increase the sensitivity of the inclination angle determinations and are located flush with an exterior surface of the towed array to minimize interference with the operation of the towed array. The pairs of hot-film sensors determine the local sheer stresses on the towed array, and these measurements are converted to inclination angles using an empirically derived look-up table. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133896 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/154 |
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| US 07782758 | Wydrowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bartek Wydrowski (Altadena, California); Sanjay A. Hegde (Pasadena, California); Cheng Jin (Pasadena, California); Steven H. Low (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method and apparatus for decoupling loss recovery from congestion and window control. The system provides improved performance in high loss environments such as wireless links. The system avoids unnecessary window adjustment in response to packet losses. Transmission rates can be maintained without compromising loss recovery. The invention uses just-in-time Packet Expiration, Transmission Order Queue, a Forward Retransmission Algorithm and Window Control to provide improved performance. The invention maintains a queue of packets in flight called the Transmission Order Queue (TOQ). When an acknowledgement is received for a packet in the in-flight queue, that packet is removed from the queue. If a packet is still in the queue for a certain threshold time, the invention assumes that it is lost. At that point, the packet is removed from the in-flight queue and the packet is retransmitted. |
| FILED | Monday, May 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/382213 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783089 | Kaufhold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Kaufhold (Altamont, New York); Bernhard E. H. Claus (Niskayuna, New York); Jeffrey W. Eberhard (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | At least one metric for a mammographic image is computed by a workstation, and provided on a workstation display along with the mammographic image. A clinician can select one or more different metrics to be computed for an image, as well as where they are to be shown and the manner in which they are to be shown on the display. Speech (may also be an audible sound which is not speech) may also be used in the workstation to audibly provide metrics information to the clinician. |
| FILED | Monday, April 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/063353 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783183 | Garg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kshitiz Garg (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for reducing the visibility of rain in acquired images are provided. One or more inputs relating the scene desired to be acquired by the user are used to retrieve camera settings that will reduce the visibility of rain in acquired images. Additionally, features relating to the scene may be automatically determined and used alone, or in combination with user inputs, to retrieve camera settings. The acquired images may be part of a video. Another feature of the invention is its use as a rain gauge. The camera settings are adjusted to enhance the visibility of rain, then one or more images are acquired and analyzed for the amount and size of raindrops. From this analysis the rain rate can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644296 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photography 396/77 |
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| US 07783459 | Rozell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John Rozell (El Cerrito, California); Don Herrick Johnson (Houston, Texas); Richard Gordon Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Bruno A. Olshausen (San Francisco, California); Robert Lowell Ortman (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel dynamical system for computing sparse representations of data, i.e., where the data can be fully represented in terms of a small number of non-zero code elements, and for reconstructing compressively sensed images. The system is based on the principles of thresholding and local competition that solves a family of sparse approximation problems corresponding to various sparsity metrics. The system utilizes Locally Competitive Algorithms (LCAs), nodes in a population continually compete with neighboring units using (usually one-way) lateral inhibition to calculate coefficients representing an input in an over complete dictionary. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/035424 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783633 | Florian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radu Florian (Danbury, Connecticut); Martin Franz (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jeffrey Scott McCarley (Brewster, New York); Robert Todd Ward (Croton on Hudson, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions displaying search results. A query is received in a first language. A snippet in the document containing the word is selected in response to identifying a document in a second language in which the document contains a word matching a query word in the query. This snippet is translated into the first language. |
| FILED | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/992919 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/729 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783899 | Golle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Golle (San Francisco, California); Jessica Nicola Staddon (Redwood City, California); Brent Waters (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing a conjunctive keyword search over encrypted data is presented. A plurality of encrypted data is maintained. Each encrypted data includes a plurality of keyword fields that each contain a keyword. The keywords for the keyword fields are encrypted for each encrypted data. A capability is generated for two or more such encrypted keywords that includes a plurality of parameters defining a conjunctive keyword search. The capability is sent from a requestor to a server. The capability is applied to the encrypted keywords with the server to generate a result and the result is provided to the requestor. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/008003 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783920 | Mall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Mall (Round Rock, Texas); Bruce Mealey (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computer program product, and data processing system for providing optional exception recovery features in operating system kernel code are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a segment of mainline code may designate a recovery routine for that segment by calling a kernel service provided for that purpose. The kernel service pushes the address of the designated recovery routine, context, and re-entry point information corresponding to the segment to a recovery stack. An additional “footprint” region is also allocated on the recovery stack and used to store other state information needed for recovery. A mask value or barrier count value is also stored on the recovery stack to allow recovery to be disabled for non-recoverable routines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/676546 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D622182 | Parimi 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) | Sanjay Parimi (Chester, New Jersey); Thomas J. Kiel (Bernardsville, New Jersey) |
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| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 29/353340 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Transportation D12/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard M. Pella (Martinez, Georgia); Philip D. Smith (North Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A tool for removing the lid of a metal drum wherein the lid is clamped over the drum rim without protruding edges, the tool having an elongated handle with a blade carried by an angularly positioned holder affixed to the midsection of the handle, the blade being of selected width to slice between lid lip and the drum rim and, when the blade is so positioned, upward motion of the blade handle will cause the blade to pry the lip from the rim and allow the lid to be removed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152556 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools 081/3.570 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780436 | Soupos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vasilios Soupos (Chicago, Illinois); Serguei Zelepouga (Hoffman Estates, Illinois); David M. Rue (Chicago, Illinois); Hamid A. Abbasi (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustion method and apparatus which produce a hybrid flame for heating metals and metal alloys, which hybrid flame has the characteristic of having an oxidant-lean portion proximate the metal or metal alloy and having an oxidant-rich portion disposed above the oxidant lean portion. This hybrid flame is produced by introducing fuel and primary combustion oxidant into the furnace chamber containing the metal or metal alloy in a substoichiometric ratio to produce a fuel-rich flame and by introducing a secondary combustion oxidant into the furnace chamber above the fuel-rich flame in a manner whereby mixing of the secondary combustion oxidant with the fuel-rich flame is delayed for a portion of the length of the flame. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141765 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780749 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parag Prakash Kulkarni (Tustin, California); Zhe Cui (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are unmixed fuel processors and methods for using the same. In one embodiment, an unmixed fuel processor comprises: an oxidation reactor comprising an oxidation portion and a gasifier, a CO2 acceptor reactor, and a regeneration reactor. The oxidation portion comprises an air inlet, effluent outlet, and an oxygen transfer material. The gasifier comprises a solid hydrocarbon fuel inlet, a solids outlet, and a syngas outlet. The CO2 acceptor reactor comprises a water inlet, a hydrogen outlet, and a CO2 sorbent, and is configured to receive syngas from the gasifier. The regeneration reactor comprises a water inlet and a CO2 stream outlet. The regeneration reactor is configured to receive spent CO2 adsorption material from the gasification reactor and to return regenerated CO2 adsorption material to the gasification reactor, and configured to receive oxidized oxygen transfer material from the oxidation reactor and to return reduced oxygen transfer material to the oxidation reactor. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609124 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780912 | Farmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California); James L. Brunk (Martinez, California); Sumner Daniel Day (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A paint that warns of radiological or chemical substances comprising a paint operatively connected to the surface, an indicator material carried by the paint that provides an indication of the radiological or chemical substances, and a thermo-activation material carried by the paint. In one embodiment, a method of warning of radiological or chemical substances comprising the steps of painting a surface with an indicator material, and monitoring the surface for indications of the radiological or chemical substances. In another embodiment, a paint is operatively connected to a vehicle and an indicator material is carried by the paint that provides an indication of the radiological or chemical substances. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/293657 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livemore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for warning of corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. The system comprises painting a surface with a paint or coating that includes an indicator material and monitoring the surface for indications of the corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/293675 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781067 | Findikoglu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alp T. Findikoglu (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconducting structure having a glass substrate. In one embodiment, the glass substrate has a softening temperature of at least about 750° C. The structure includes a nucleation layer formed on a surface of the substrate, a template layer deposited on the nucleation layer by one of ion assisted beam deposition and reactive ion beam deposition, at least on biaxially oriented buffer layer epitaxially deposited on the template layer, and a biaxially oriented semiconducting layer epitaxially deposited on the buffer layer. A method of making the semiconducting structure is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/581978 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/428 |
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| US 07781102 | Graetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.) (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason A. Graetz (Upton, New York); Brent T. Fultz (Pasadena, California); Channing Ahn (Pasadena, California); Rachid Yazami (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrodes comprising an alkali metal, for example, lithium, alloyed with nanostructured materials of formula SizGe(z-1), where 0<z≦1; formula SizGe(z-1), where 0<z<1; and/or germanium exhibit a combination of improved capacities, cycle lives, and/or cycling rates compared with similar electrodes made from graphite. These electrodes are useful as anodes for secondary electrochemical cells, for example, batteries and electrochemical supercapacitors. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/829598 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Karl J. Gross (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrogen is stored in materials that absorb and desorb hydrogen with temperature dependent rates. A housing is provided that allows for the storage of one or more types of hydrogen-storage materials in close thermal proximity to a fuel cell stack. This arrangement, which includes alternating fuel cell stack and hydrogen-storage units, allows for close thermal matching of the hydrogen storage material and the fuel cell stack. Also, the present invention allows for tailoring of the hydrogen delivery by mixing different materials in one unit. Thermal insulation alternatively allows for a highly efficient unit. Individual power modules including one fuel cell stack surrounded by a pair of hydrogen-storage units allows for distribution of power throughout a vehicle or other electric power consuming devices. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934340 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781111 | Dentinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Dentinger (Sunol, California); Jeffrey A. W. Crowell (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for storing and generating hydrogen generally and, in particular, a system for storing and generating hydrogen for use in an H2/O2 fuel cell. The hydrogen storage system uses the beta particles from a beta particle emitting material to degrade an organic polymer material to release substantially pure hydrogen. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, beta particles from 63Ni are used to release hydrogen from linear polyethylene. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/045884 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne Lundberg (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating an atmospheric-pressure solid oxide fuel cell generator (6) in combination with a gas turbine comprising a compressor (1) and expander (2) where an inlet oxidant (20) is passed through the compressor (1) and exits as a first stream (60) and a second stream (62) the first stream passing through a flow control valve (56) to control flow and then through a heat exchanger (54) followed by mixing with the second stream (62) where the mixed streams are passed through a combustor (8) and expander (2) and the first heat exchanger for temperature control before entry into the solid oxide fuel cell generator (6), which generator (6) is also supplied with fuel (40). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693608 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781123 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Keller (Grand Blanc, Michigan); Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Subhasish Mukerjee (Rochester, New York); Diane M. England (Bloomfield, New York); Gary F. Reisdorf (Penfield, New York); Steven L. Cooper (Flint, Michigan); Willem Vilders, III (Holly, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical interconnect for a solid-oxide fuel cell stack assembly, including a novel sintering paste and an improved manufacturing process for an anode and cathode electrical contacts is disclosed. On the anode side, the paste contains a metallic oxide such as NiO, and an amount of sacrificial pore-forming particles, such as carbon particles or polymer spheres, which are vaporized during sintering of the paste, resulting in a very porous connection having good electrical conductivity and good adhesion. A preferred level of pore-former in the paste is about 40 volume percent. On the cathode side, the paste contains a noble metal such as for example, gold, platinum, palladium or rhodium, and an amount of the sacrificial pore-forming particles. The paste may be applied to the surfaces in a grid pattern or, because the resulting contact is porous after sintering, it may be applied as a continuous layer. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/145647 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/533 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781191 | Dunson, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Alliance For Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Dunson, Jr. (Newark, Delaware); Melvin P. Tucker, III (Lakewood, Colorado); Richard T. Elander (Evergreen, Colorado); Susan Marie Hennessey (Avondale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Target chemicals were produced using biocatalysts that are able to ferment sugars derived from treated biomass. Sugars were obtained by pretreating biomass under conditions of high solids and low ammonia concentration, followed by saccharification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/403087 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781220 | Owen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Owen (Helotes, Texas); Michael A. Miller (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the amount of nitrogen in a gas mixture. The constituent gases of the mixture are dissociated and transformed to create a substance that may measured using nondispersive infrared adsorption techniques. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613278 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781224 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sue I. Martin (Berkeley, California); David P. Fergenson (Alamo, California); Abneesh Srivastava (Santa Clara, California); Michael J. Bogan (Dublin, California); Vincent J. Riot (Oakland, California); Matthias Frank (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A human-safe fluorescence particle that can be used for fluorescence detection instruments or act as a safe simulant for mimicking the fluorescence properties of microorganisms. The particle comprises a non-biological carrier and natural fluorophores encapsulated in the non-biological carrier. By doping biodegradable-polymer drug delivery microspheres with natural or synthetic fluorophores, the desired fluorescence can be attained or biological organisms can be simulated without the associated risks and logistical difficulties of live microorganisms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/502301 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781364 | Zelenay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jong-Ho Choi (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Nicolas Alonso-Vante (France, France); Andrzej Wieckowski (Champaign, Illinois); Dianxue Cao (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A methanol-tolerant cathode catalyst and a membrane electrode assembly for fuel cells that includes such a cathode catalyst. The cathode catalyst includes a support having at least one transition metal in elemental form and a chalcogen disposed on the support. Methods of making the cathode catalyst and membrane electrode assembly are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536198 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781589 | McCleskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | T. Mark McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Deborah S. Ehler (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kevin D. John (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gavin E. Collis (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Edel M. Minogue (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining beryllium or a beryllium compound thereof in a sample, includes providing a sample suspected of comprising beryllium or a compound thereof, extracting beryllium or a compound thereof from the sample by dissolving in a solution, adding a fluorescent indicator to the solution to thereby bind any beryllium or a compound thereof to the fluorescent indicator, and determining the presence or amount of any beryllium or a compound thereof in the sample by measuring fluorescence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/591315 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781709 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Jones (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brian A. Kast (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marc W. Kniskern (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Scott E. Rose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brandon R. Rohrer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James W. Woods (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald W. Greene (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-spinning projectile that is self-guided to a laser designated target and is configured to be fired from a small caliber smooth bore gun barrel has an optical sensor mounted in the nose of the projectile, a counterbalancing mass portion near the fore end of the projectile and a hollow tapered body mounted aft of the counterbalancing mass. Stabilizing strakes are mounted to and extend outward from the tapered body with control fins located at the aft end of the strakes. Guidance and control electronics and electromagnetic actuators for operating the control fins are located within the tapered body section. Output from the optical sensor is processed by the guidance and control electronics to produce command signals for the electromagnetic actuators. A guidance control algorithm incorporating non-proportional, “bang-bang” control is used to steer the projectile to the target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/241410 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781730 | Funsten |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herbert O. Funsten (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Time-of-flight mass spectrometer comprising a first drift region and a second drift region enclosed within an evacuation chamber; a means of introducing an analyte of interest into the first drift region; a pulsed ionization source which produces molecular ions from said analyte of interest; a first foil positioned between the first drift region and the second drift region, which dissociates said molecular ions into constituent atomic ions and emits secondary electrons; an electrode which produces secondary electrons upon contact with a constituent atomic ion in second drift region; a stop detector comprising a first ion detection region and a second ion detection region; and a timing means connected to the pulsed ionization source, to the first ion detection region, and to the second ion detection region. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/150576 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781856 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); James E. Carey, III (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention provides a silicon photodetector having a surface layer that is doped with sulfur inclusions with an average concentration in a range of about 0.5 atom percent to about 1.5 atom percent. The surface layer forms a diode junction with an underlying portion of the substrate. A plurality of electrical contacts allow application of a reverse bias voltage to the junction in order to facilitate generation of an electrical signal, e.g., a photocurrent, in response to irradiation of the surface layer. The photodetector exhibits a responsivity greater than about 1 A/W for incident wavelengths in a range of about 250 nm to about 1050 nm, and a responsivity greater than about 0.1 A/W for longer wavelengths, e.g., up to about 3.5 microns. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365492 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781904 | Stahlhut et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Deere and Company (Moline, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronnie Dean Stahlhut (Bettendorf, Iowa); Carl Thomas Vuk (Denver, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The system and method manages an electrical output of a turbogenerator in accordance with multiple modes. In a first mode, a direct current (DC) bus receives power from a turbogenerator output via a rectifier where turbogenerator revolutions per unit time (e.g., revolutions per minute (RPM)) or an electrical output level of a turbogenerator output meet or exceed a minimum threshold. In a second mode, if the turbogenerator revolutions per unit time or electrical output level of a turbogenerator output are less than the minimum threshold, the electric drive motor or a generator mechanically powered by the engine provides electrical energy to the direct current bus. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430683 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782471 | Maris |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Humphrey J. Maris (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for characterizing a sample having a structure disposed on or within the sample, comprising the steps of applying a first pulse of light to a surface of the sample for creating a propagating strain pulse in the sample, applying a second pulse of light to the surface so that the second pulse of light interacts with the propagating strain pulse in the sample, sensing from a reflection of the second pulse a change in optical response of the sample, and relating a time of occurrence of the change in optical response to at least one dimension of the structure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381640 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782530 | Krumel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie J. Krumel (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Jeffrey W. Martin (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A deployable thin-film mirror telescope comprises a base structure and a metering structure. The base structure houses a thin-film mirror, which can be rolled for stowage and unrolled for deployment. The metering structure is coupled to the base structure and can be folded for stowage and unfolded for deployment. In the deployed state, the unrolled thin-film mirror forms a primary minor for the telescope and the unfolded metering structure positions a secondary minor for the telescope. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/767607 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782555 | Ayers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marion Jay Ayers (Brentwood, California); Shannon Lee Ayers (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A large optics stand provides a risk free means of safely tilting large optics with ease and a method of safely tilting large optics with ease. The optics are supported in the horizontal position by pads. In the vertical plane the optics are supported by saddles that evenly distribute the optics weight over a large area. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492999 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/811 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782995 | Gara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid counter array device for counting events with interrupt indication includes a first counter portion comprising N counter devices, each for counting signals representing event occurrences and providing a first count value representing lower order bits. An overflow bit device associated with each respective counter device is additionally set in response to an overflow condition. The hybrid counter array includes a second counter portion comprising a memory array device having N addressable memory locations in correspondence with the N counter devices, each addressable memory location for storing a second count value representing higher order bits. An operatively coupled control device monitors each associated overflow bit device and initiates incrementing a second count value stored at a corresponding memory location in response to a respective overflow bit being set. The incremented second count value is compared to an interrupt threshold value stored in a threshold register, and, when the second counter value is equal to the interrupt threshold value, a corresponding “interrupt arm” bit is set to enable a fast interrupt indication. On a subsequent roll-over of the lower bits of that counter, the interrupt will be fired. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130724 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: Circuits and systems 377/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783450 | Hively et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee M. Hively (Philadelphia, Tennessee); Robert K. Abercrombie (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system (10, 23) for determining vehicle weight to a precision of <0.1%, uses a plurality of weight sensing elements (23), a computer (10) for reading in weighing data for a vehicle (25) and produces a dataset representing the total weight of a vehicle via programming (40-53) that is executable by the computer (10) for (a) providing a plurality of mode parameters that characterize each oscillatory mode in the data due to movement of the vehicle during weighing, (b) by determining the oscillatory mode at which there is a minimum error in the weighing data; (c) processing the weighing data to remove that dynamical oscillation from the weighing data; and (d) repeating steps (a)-(c) until the error in the set of weighing data is <0.1% in the vehicle weight. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/072309 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783459 | Rozell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John Rozell (El Cerrito, California); Don Herrick Johnson (Houston, Texas); Richard Gordon Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Bruno A. Olshausen (San Francisco, California); Robert Lowell Ortman (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel dynamical system for computing sparse representations of data, i.e., where the data can be fully represented in terms of a small number of non-zero code elements, and for reconstructing compressively sensed images. The system is based on the principles of thresholding and local competition that solves a family of sparse approximation problems corresponding to various sparsity metrics. The system utilizes Locally Competitive Algorithms (LCAs), nodes in a population continually compete with neighboring units using (usually one-way) lateral inhibition to calculate coefficients representing an input in an over complete dictionary. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/035424 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783739 | Weigle |
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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) | Eric H. Weigle (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for the high-speed and high-fidelity collection of network traffic. The system can collect traffic at gigabit-per-second (Gbps) speeds, scale to terabit-per-second (Tbps) speeds, and support additional functions such as real-time network intrusion detection. The present system uses a dedicated operating system for traffic collection to maximize efficiency, scalability, and performance. A scalable infrastructure and apparatus for the present system is provided by splitting the work performed on one host onto multiple hosts. The present system simultaneously addresses the issues of scalability, performance, cost, and adaptability with respect to network monitoring, collection, and other network tasks. In addition to high-speed and high-fidelity network collection, the present system provides a flexible infrastructure to perform virtually any function at high speeds such as real-time network intrusion detection and wide-area network emulation for research purposes. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/393264 |
| ART UNIT | 2456 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783865 | Burdick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Joseph Burdick (Austin, Texas); Basu Vaidyanathan (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and computer program product for managing a conditional data watchpoint in a set of instructions being traced is shown in accordance with illustrative embodiments. In one particular embodiment, the method comprises initializing a conditional data watchpoint and determining the watchpoint has been encountered. Upon that determination, examining a current instruction context associated with the encountered watchpoint prior to completion of the current instruction execution, further determining a first action responsive to a positive context examination; otherwise, determining a second action. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832418 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783933 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt W. Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian P. Wallenfelt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, parallel computers, and products are provided for identifying failure in a tree network of a parallel computer. The parallel computer includes one or more processing sets including an I/O node and a plurality of compute nodes. For each processing set embodiments include selecting a set of test compute nodes, the test compute nodes being a subset of the compute nodes of the processing set; measuring the performance of the I/O node of the processing set; measuring the performance of the selected set of test compute nodes; calculating a current test value in dependence upon the measured performance of the I/O node of the processing set, the measured performance of the set of test compute nodes, and a predetermined value for I/O node performance; and comparing the current test value with a predetermined tree performance threshold. If the current test value is below the predetermined tree performance threshold, embodiments include selecting another set of test compute nodes. If the current test value is not below the predetermined tree performance threshold, embodiments include selecting from the test compute nodes one or more potential problem nodes and testing individually potential problem nodes and links to potential problem nodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/531787 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07779692 | Righetti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raffaella Righetti (Houston, Texas); Jonathan Ophir (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed toward a new method for estimating and imaging the spatial and temporal mechanical behavior of materials in responses to a mechanical stimulus. This method is designed to work in inherently noisy applications, such as the imaging of the time-dependent mechanical behavior of biological tissues in vivo and using a preferred hand-held configuration of scanning. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/436129 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07779707 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Anna Markidou (Souni-Limassol, Greece); Steven T. Sweczyk (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Hakki Yengingil (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A PEFS (Piezoelectric Finger Sensor) acts as an “electronic finger” capable of accurately and non-destructively measuring both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus of tissues with gentle touches to the surface. The PEFS measures both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus variations in tissue generating a less than one-millimeter spatial resolution up to a depth of several centimeters. This offers great potential for in-vivo early detection of diseases. A portable hand-held device is also disclosed. The PEF offers superior sensitivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/328639 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780950 | Hazen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A diagnostic method of monitoring anti-inflammatory and/or antioxidant actions of therapeutic agents comprises determining the level of at least one systemic marker indicative of inflammation or oxidation in a bodily sample taken from a subject at base line or following administration of the therapeutic agent. The marker includes at least one of MPO activity, MPO mass, select MPO-generated oxidation products, and combinations thereof. The level of the systemic marker is compared with a predetermined value to monitor the anti-inflammatory and/or antioxidant actions of the therapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/417838 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780963 | Acton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck and Co., Inc. (Rahway, New Jersey); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Acton (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); Zhiqiang An (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Bett (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Robert Breese (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois); Elizabeth Chen Dodson (Souderton, Pennsylvania); Gene Kinney (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); William Klein (Winetka, Illinois); Mary P. Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Xiaoping Liang (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Paul Shughrue (West Chester, Pennsylvania); William R. Strohl (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Kirsten Viola (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antibodies that differentially recognize multi-dimensional conformations of Aβ-derived diffusible ligands, also known as ADDLs. The antibodies of the invention can distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease and control human brain extracts and are useful in methods of detecting ADDLs and diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. The present antibodies also block binding of ADDLs to neurons, assembly of ADDLS, and tau phosphorylation and are there useful in methods for the preventing and treating diseases associated with soluble oligomers of amyloid β1-42. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/256332 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780969 | Tarleton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick L. Tarleton (Watkinsville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Molecular targets are identified in T. cruzi suitable for use in diagnosis of Chagas disease, drug development, and vaccines, including live vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/486710 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780978 | Maurer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry J. Maurer (Sylmar, California); Charles Patrick Reynolds (Sherman Oaks, California); David W. Yesair (Byfield, Massachusetts); Robert Travis McKee (Jacksonville, Florida); Stephen W. Burgess (Chelsea, Alabama); Walter A. Shaw (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an edible composition for oral delivery of an active agent such as paclitaxel or a retinide. The composition comprises, in the form of a dry flowable powder: (a) an active agent such as a retinide; (b) lipid matrix composition; (c) optionally sweetener; (d) flour. Compositions of the invention may be administered per se or mixed with a solid or liquid food carrier, for direct oral consumption by a subject or administration through a feeding tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/170561 |
| 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 424/439 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781161 | Sidransky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Sidransky (Baltimore, Maryland); Stephen B Baylin (Baltimore, Maryland); James Herman (Lutherville, Maryland); Hiromu Suzuki (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of genomic screening to identify epigenetically silenced genes, including epigenetically silenced tumor suppressor genes are provided. Also provided are methods of detecting a cancer, for example, an esophageal squamous cell carcinoma or a head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, as are methods of treating a subject having such a cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383864 |
| 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 07781164 | Hart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Hart (Potomac, Maryland); Patricia Suzanne Hart (Potomac, Maryland); Michael Gorry (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Bleyer (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of diagnosing a disease or a predisposition to contract a disease by assaying for mutations of uromodulin (UMOD) within a test subject or patient. The presence of a mutation in the UMOD supports a diagnosis of a disease or a predisposition to contract a disease within the patient. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/112327 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781177 | Tanzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolph E. Tanzi (Hull, Massachusetts); Giuseppina Tesco (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and products for diagnosing, preventing, and treating Alzheimer's disease and abnormal production of amyloid β. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/827445 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781212 | Rock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Rock (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Dancella Fernandes (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies that bind to a 40 kDa protein which is expressed on tumors, but is not expressed on normal adult hemopoietic cells are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for production and the use of such antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491506 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781215 | Ingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Imperial Cancer Research Technology Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip W. Ingham (Summertown, United Kingdom); Andrew P. McMahon (Lexington, Massachusetts); Clifford J. Tabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the discovery that proteins encoded by a family of vertebrate genes, termed here hedgehog-related genes, comprise morphogenic signals produced by embryonic patterning centers, and are involved in the formation of ordered spatial arrangements of differentiated tissues in vertebrates. The present invention makes available compositions and methods that can be utilized, for example to generate and/or maintain an array of different vertebrate tissue both in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634358 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781216 | Thomson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified preparation of primate embryonic stem cells is disclosed. This preparation is characterized by the following cell surface markers: SSEA-1 (−); SSEA-4 (+); TRA-1-60 (+); TRA-1-81 (+); and alkaline phosphatase (+). In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the cells of the preparation are human embryonic stem cells, have normal karyotypes, and continue to proliferate in an undifferentiated state after continuous culture for eleven months. The embryonic stem cell lines also retain the ability, throughout the culture, to form trophoblast and to differentiate into all tissues derived from all three embryonic germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm). A method for isolating a primate embryonic stem cell line is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/047135 |
| 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 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781219 | Hazen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley L. Hazen (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Michael Kinter (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Marc S. Penn (Beachwood, Ohio); Jonathan Smith (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Lemin Zheng (Richmond Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein methods for determining whether a subject, particularly a human subject, is at risk of developing, having, or experiencing a complication of cardiovascular disease, and methods of treating subjects who are identified by the current methods of being at risk for cardiovascular disease. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining levels of one or more oxidized apolipoprotien A-I related biomolecules in a bodily sample from the subject. Also, provided are kits and reagents for use in the present methods. Also provided are methods for monitoring the status of cardiovascular disease in a subject or the effects of therapeutic agents on subjects with cardiovascular disease. Such method comprising determining levels of one or more oxidized apolipoprotein A-I related molecules in bodily samples taken from the subject over time or before and after therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/005563 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781238 | Wodnicki et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Gideon Wodnicki (Niskayuna, New York); Stacey Joy Kennerly (Albany, New York); Wei-Cheng Tian (Clifton Park, New York); Kevin Matthew Durocher (Waterford, New York); David Martin Mills (Niskayuna, New York); Charles Gerard Woychik (Niskayuna, New York); Lowell Scott Smith (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a testable sensor assembly is provided. The method includes forming a first sensor array on a first substrate having a first side and a second side, wherein the first sensor array is formed on the first side of the first substrate, coupling a first semiconductor wafer having a first side and a second side to the first sensor array, wherein the first side of the first semiconductor wafer is coupled to the first sensor array, thinning one of the second side of the first substrate or the second side of the first semiconductor wafer, and testing the first sensor array to identify operational and non-operational units in the testable sensor assembly before integration of the sensor assembly with interface electronics. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/951360 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781397 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Stern (San Francisco, California); Gregory I. Frost (San Francisco, California); Anthony Csoka (San Francisco, California); Tim M. Wong (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based on the discovery of methods for purification of an acid active hyaluronidase found in human plasma (hpHAse), including both biochemical and immunoaffinity purification methods. The method of immunoaffinity purification of the invention is based on the discovery of a method for identifying antibodies that specifically bind native hpHAse (anti-native hpHAse antibodies), and anti-native hpHAse antibodies identified by this screening method. The invention also features an assay for sensitive detection of HAse activity using biotinylated hyaluronic acid (bHA). Purification and characterization of hpHAse lead to the inventors' additional discovery that hpHAse is encoded by the LuCa-1 gene, which gene is present in the human chromosome at 3p21.3, a region associated with tumor suppression. The invention additionally features methods of treating tumor-bearing patients by administration of hpHAse and/or transformation of cells with hpHAse-encoding DNA. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538246 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for reducing oxidative damage in a mammal, a removed organ, or a cell in need thereof. The method comprises administering an effective amount of an aromatic cationic peptide. The aromatic cationic peptide has (a) at least one net positive charge; (b) a minimum of three amino acids; (c) a maximum of about twenty amino acids, (d) a relationship between the minimum number of net positive charges (pm) and the total number of amino acid residues (r) wherein 3pm is the largest number that is less than or equal to r+1; (e) a relationship between the minimum number of aromatic groups (a) and the total number of net positive charges (pt) wherein 3a or 2a is the largest number that is less than or equal to pt+1, except that when a is 1, pt may also be 1; and (f) at least one tyrosine or tryptophan amino acid. |
| FILED | Friday, June 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428188 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781412 | Charlier, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry A. Charlier, Jr. (Boise, Idaho); Christopher K. Ewing (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of matter and methods of treating cancer patients may prevent or limit cardiotoxicity during or after chemotherapy, and/or may prevent or lower resistance to anthracycline drugs, both of which are believed to be caused by the human enzyme carbonyl reductase. Thus, the compositions and methods may be used to reduce the dosages of anthracycline anti-cancer drugs necessary to produce a desired cancer-cell-killing performance. Preferred embodiments comprise treating cancer patients with a pharmaceutical composition comprising biphenyl compounds having two halogenated (or pseudo-halogenated) and/or hydroxylated, aryl groups that are linked by a bridging atom. The preferred composition of biphenyl compound(s) may be administered in a pharmaceutical composition also comprising at least one anthracycline compound, or may be administered separately than the at least one anthracycline compound. Especially-preferred biphenyl compounds include triclosan, hexachlorophene, and dichlorophene. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863243 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781413 | Minna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Minna (Dallas, Texas); Yoshio Tomizawa (Takasaki, Japan); Yoshitaka Sekido (Nagoya, Japan); Michael Lerman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention identifies the semaphorin polypeptide SEMA3B as a tumor suppressor. This molecule can inhibit tumor growth and induce apoptosis of tumor cells when produced internally in a cancer cell via gene transfer, or when applied extracellularly. These observations permit new methods for treatment and diagnosis of cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/285351 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781421 | Covey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas F. Covey (Ballwin, Missouri); Xin Jiang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel pentacyclic steroids and pentacyclic D-homosteroids comprising: (i) the tetracyclic steroid ring system or tetracyclic D-homosteroid ring system, respectively; (ii) a C(3) substituent selected from the group consisting of (a) a hydroxyl or carboxyl in the α-configuration and (b) a sulfate or other negatively charged moiety; and (iii) a fused fifth ring, the fused fifth ring comprising a hydrogen bond acceptor, and (a) in the case of the pentacyclic steroid the C(13) and C(17) carbons, or (b) in the case of the pentacyclic D-homosteroid the C(13) and C(17a) carbons, having utility as anesthetics and in the treatment of disorders relating to GABA function and activity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/856314 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781445 | Cushman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alexandra S. Ioanoviciu (San Francisco, California); Yves G. Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Substituted indenoisoquinolinium compounds, and pharmaceutical formulations of substituted indenoisoquinolinium compounds are described. Also described are processes for preparing substituted indenoisoquinolinium compounds. Also described are methods for treating cancer in mammals using the described substituted indenoisoquinolinium compounds or pharmaceutical formulations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/592849 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781478 | Karp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (South Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary M. Karp (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Peter Seongwoo Hwang (Edison, New Jersey); James J. Takasugi (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Hongyu Ren (Dayton, New Jersey); Richard Gerald Wilde (Somerville, New Jersey); Anthony A. Turpoff (Edison, New Jersey); Alexander Arefolov (Newton, Massachusetts); Guangming Chen (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Jeffrey Allen Campbell (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); Chunshi Li (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Steven Paget (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Nanjing Zhang (Princeton, New Jersey); Jin Zhu (Raritan, New Jersey); Xiaoyan Zhang (Belle Mead, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such compounds or compositions for treating infection by a virus, or for affecting viral IRES activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653450 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781565 | Pasqualini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas); Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Mikhail Kolonin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are described for classifying cells and/or peptides that associate or bind with a particular characteristic pattern to a plurality of cells or cell lines. Aspects of the invention also include the use of peptide(s) having an appropriate binding characteristic to deliver a drug to a cell or cell population. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/684379 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781568 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fox Chase Cancer Center (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory P. Adams (Hatboro, Pennsylvania); Heidi H. Simmons (Willow Grove, Pennsylvania); Qing-an Yuan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Wayne Marasco (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Smita Mehta (Spartanburg, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for detecting and treating cancers expressing Mullerian inhibiting substance Type II receptor (MISIIR) are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/327917 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781645 | Barbas, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syngenta Participations AG (Basel, Switzerland); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos F. Barbas, III (Solana Beach, California); Justin T. Stege (San Diego, California); Xueni Guan (San Diego, California); Bipin Dalmia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the field of plant and agricultural technology. More specifically, the invention relates to the use of zinc finger proteins and fusions of said proteins to regulate gene expression and metabolic pathways in plants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127763 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782237 | Ronaghi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mostafa Ronaghi (Los Altos Hills, California); Ali Agah (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An error-corrected representation of an input signal, such as a bioluminescence signal, is generated. An analog representation of the input signal is oversampled and quantized to provide a first-stage digital output and a residual error. The residual error is provided as a second-stage digital output using successive approximation. The first-stage and second-stage digital outputs are used to generate an error-corrected representation of the bioluminescence signal. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139299 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783431 | Khan 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) | Javed Khan (Derwood, Maryland); Markus Ringner (Lund, Sweden); Carsten Peterson (Lund, Sweden); Paul Meltzer (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of diagnosing, predicting, or prognosticating about a disease that includes obtaining experimental data, wherein the experimental data is high dimensional data, filtering the data, reducing the dimensionality of the data through use of one or more methods, training a supervised pattern recognition method, ranking individual data points from the data, wherein the ranking is dependent on the outcome of the supervised pattern recognition method, choosing multiple data points from the data, wherein the choice is based on the relative ranking of the individual data points, and using the multiple data points to determine if an unknown set of experimental data indicates a diseased condition, a predilection for a diseased condition, or a prognosis about a diseased condition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/928901 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Sides (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); James D. Hoggard (Carnegie, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for measuring streaming metrics. A method for measuring a streaming metric corresponding to a rotating surface is characterized by rotating the surface around an axis of rotation and measuring the streaming metric at a location within one radius from the axis of rotation and within three radii from the surface, wherein the location does not contact the surface. Apparatus for measuring a streaming metric corresponding to a rotating surface are characterized by a working electrode which does not contact the surface, a counter electrode, a meter connected to the working electrode and the counter electrode, a rotatable spindle on which the surface is mounted, and a container for holding electrolyte, wherein the working electrode, counter electrode, and surface are located within the container. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629236 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/790.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780939 | Margrave et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Edward T. Mickelson (Pearland, Texas); Robert Hauge (Houston, Texas); Peter Boul (Houston, Texas); Chad Huffman (Houston, Texas); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to chemical derivatives of carbon nanotubes wherein the carbon nanotubes have a diameter up to 3 nm. In one embodiment, this invention also provides a method for preparing carbon nanotubes having substituents attached to the side wall of the nanotube by reacting single-wall carbon nanotubes with fluorine gas and recovering fluorine derivatized carbon nanotubes, then reacting fluorine derivatized carbon nanotubes with a nucleophile. Some of the fluorine substituents are replaced by nucleophilic substitution. If desired, the remaining fluorine can be completely or partially eliminated to produce carbon nanotubes having substituents attached to the side wall of the nanotube. The substituents are dependent on the nucleophile, and preferred nucleophiles include alkyl lithium species such as methyl lithium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408520 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781356 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Ignatius S. T. Tsong (Tempe, Arizona); John Tolle (Gilbert, Arizona); Radek Roucka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure and fabrication method is provided for integrating wide bandgap nitrides with silicon. The structure includes a substrate, a single crystal buffer layer formed by epitaxy over the substrate and a group III nitride film formed by epitaxy over the buffer layer. The buffer layer is reflective and conductive. The buffer layer may comprise B an element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Hf, Al. For example, the buffer layer may comprise ZrB2, AlB2 or HfB2. The buffer layer provides a lattice match with the group III nitride layer. The substrate can comprise silicon, silicon carbide (SiC), gallium arsenide (GaAs), sapphire or Al2O3. The group III nitride material includes GaN, AlN, InN, AlGaN, InGaN or AlInGaN and can form an active region. In a presently preferred embodiment, the buffer layer is ZrB2 and the substrate is Si(111) or Si(100) and the group III nitride layer comprises GaN. The ZrB2 buffer layer provides a reflective and conductive buffer layer that has a small lattice mismatch with GaN. The semiconductor structure can be used to fabricate active microelectronic devices, such as transistors including field effect transistors and bipolar transistors. The semiconductor structure also can be used to fabricate optoelectronic devices, such as laser diodes and light emitting diodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/545484 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781378 | Orth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reid N. Orth (Ithaca, New York); David M. Lin (Ithaca, New York); Theodore G. Clark (Ithaca, New York); Yung-Fu Chang (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Jose Manuel Moran-Mirabal (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An array is formed with a protective cover on a substrate. The protective cover is patterned to produce an array of openings to the substrate. Desired material is deposited on the substrate through the openings. The protective cover may then be removed. In one embodiment, the protective cover is a conformal polymer, such as di-para-xylylene. It may be removed by mechanical peeling. The material may be biological material such as DNA. The protective cover may be used to prevent non-specific hybridization in inter-spot regions by performing hybridization with the cover still in place. Hybridization that occurs in such regions between the spots may be removed with removal of the protective cover. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/939121 |
| 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 56/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781754 | Loss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MagiQ Technologies, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Loss (Basel, Switzerland); Hans-Andreas Engel (Binningen, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The Bell-state analyzer includes a semiconductor device having quantum dots formed therein and adapted to support Fermions in a spin-up and/or spin-down states. Different Zeeman splittings in one or more of the quantum dots allows resonant quantum tunneling only for antiparallel spin states. This converts spin parity into charge information via a projective measurement. The measurement of spin parity allows for the determination of part of the states of the Fermions, which provides the states of the qubits, while keeping the undetermined part of the state coherent. The ability to know the parity of qubit states allows for logic operations to be performed on the qubits, i.e., allows for the formation of (two-qubit) quantum gates, which like classical logic gates, are the building blocks of a quantum computer. Quantum computers that perform a parity gate and a CNOT gate using the Bell-state analyzer of the invention are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825808 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antal I. Jakli (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to liquid crystal display and electro-optical devices having faster switching times, a wider viewing angle, continuous gray level, improved transmittance of the clear state, approximately no threshold voltage and low power consumption. The aspects of the invention are achieved by a liquid crystal device comprising an orthogonal nematic, smectic or columnar liquid crystal phase, which is uniaxial in absence of electric field, but becomes biaxial when electric field is applied normal to the director (in between electrodes for planar alignment, or in-plane electric field in case of homeotropic alignment). This electric field induced biaxiality (EFIB) mode is provided using any dielectric orthogonal nematic, smectic or columnar bent-core liquid crystal phase. The nature of the switching is dielectric (not piezoelectric) and does not involve variation of layer spacing variation, so as to be mechanically much more stable than prior systems. The high switching speed combined with a large change in the effective birefringence and constant optical axis of the liquid crystal materials provide useful features in various applications, such as liquid crystal television, beam steering, spatial light modulators, and a variety of other applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762501 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07782758 | Wydrowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bartek Wydrowski (Altadena, California); Sanjay A. Hegde (Pasadena, California); Cheng Jin (Pasadena, California); Steven H. Low (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method and apparatus for decoupling loss recovery from congestion and window control. The system provides improved performance in high loss environments such as wireless links. The system avoids unnecessary window adjustment in response to packet losses. Transmission rates can be maintained without compromising loss recovery. The invention uses just-in-time Packet Expiration, Transmission Order Queue, a Forward Retransmission Algorithm and Window Control to provide improved performance. The invention maintains a queue of packets in flight called the Transmission Order Queue (TOQ). When an acknowledgement is received for a packet in the in-flight queue, that packet is removed from the queue. If a packet is still in the queue for a certain threshold time, the invention assumes that it is lost. At that point, the packet is removed from the in-flight queue and the packet is retransmitted. |
| FILED | Monday, May 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/382213 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783085 | Perlmutter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AOL Inc. (Dulles, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keren O. Perlmutter (Pacific Palisades, California); Sharon M. Perlmutter (Pacific Palisades, California); Joshua Alspector (South Riding, Virginia); Mark Everingham (Oxford, United Kingdom); Alex Holub (Pasadena, California); Andrew Zisserman (Jericho, United Kingdom); Pietro Perona (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and presented to the user as sorted search result images. The user may provide explicit or implicit feedback regarding the search result images. Additional feedback may be inferred regarding the search result images based on the user-provided feedback, and the results may be updated based on the user-provided and inferred feedback. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/382671 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783183 | Garg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kshitiz Garg (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for reducing the visibility of rain in acquired images are provided. One or more inputs relating the scene desired to be acquired by the user are used to retrieve camera settings that will reduce the visibility of rain in acquired images. Additionally, features relating to the scene may be automatically determined and used alone, or in combination with user inputs, to retrieve camera settings. The acquired images may be part of a video. Another feature of the invention is its use as a rain gauge. The camera settings are adjusted to enhance the visibility of rain, then one or more images are acquired and analyzed for the amount and size of raindrops. From this analysis the rain rate can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644296 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Photography 396/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783459 | Rozell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John Rozell (El Cerrito, California); Don Herrick Johnson (Houston, Texas); Richard Gordon Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Bruno A. Olshausen (San Francisco, California); Robert Lowell Ortman (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel dynamical system for computing sparse representations of data, i.e., where the data can be fully represented in terms of a small number of non-zero code elements, and for reconstructing compressively sensed images. The system is based on the principles of thresholding and local competition that solves a family of sparse approximation problems corresponding to various sparsity metrics. The system utilizes Locally Competitive Algorithms (LCAs), nodes in a population continually compete with neighboring units using (usually one-way) lateral inhibition to calculate coefficients representing an input in an over complete dictionary. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/035424 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE41587 | McCullough et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. McCullough (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jinsong Liu (Franklin, Massachusetts); Paul C. Ewbank (Norristown, Pennsylvania); Elena E. Sheina (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polythiophenes, particularly regioregular head-to-tail poly(3-alkylthiophenes) (HT-PATs), block copolymers made therefrom, and their methods of formation. The present invention provides HT-PATs with well-defined, specific end-groups, functionalization of the defined HT-PATs, and incorporation of end group functionalized HT-PATs into block copolymers with structural polymers. The intrinsically conductive diblock and triblock copolymers, formed from the HT-PATs, have excellent conductivity and low polydispersities that are useful in a number of applications. The block copolymers of the present invention have been found to exhibit conductivities that range from a low of 10−8 S/cm for certain applications to as high as several hundred S/cm or more. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799760 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07779644 | Decrisantis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angelo A. Decrisantis (Avon, Connecticut); James R. O'Coin (Somers, Connecticut); Edmund P. Taddey (West Springfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ECS system includes an ACM mounted adjacent an air-liquid heat exchanger through a diffuser that contains a diffuser plate. The diffuser plate receives airflow from the ACM which strikes the diffuser plate and flows radially outward and around the diffuser plate and into the air-liquid heat exchanger to provide minimal pressure loss and proper flow distribution into the air-liquid heat exchanger with significantly less packaging space. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/496184 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07779866 | Grammel, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard Paul Grammel, Jr. (Cincinnati, Ohio); David Lance Pennekamp (Hamilton, Ohio); Ralph Henry Winslow, Jr. (Ross, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An annular trapped vortex cavity assembly segment comprising includes a cavity forward wall, a cavity aft wall, and a cavity radially outer wall therebetween defining a cavity segment therein. A cavity opening extends between the forward and aft walls at a radially inner end of the assembly segment. Radially spaced apart pluralities of air injection first and second holes extend through the forward and aft walls respectively. The segment may include first and second expansion joint features at distal first and second ends respectively of the segment. The segment may include a forward subcomponent including the cavity forward wall attached to an aft subcomponent including the cavity aft wall. The forward and aft subcomponents include forward and aft portions of the cavity radially outer wall respectively. A ring of the segments may be circumferentially disposed about an axis to form an annular segmented vortex cavity assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490559 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/808 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780248 | Granadino |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merrick and Company (Aurora, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francisco P. Granadino (Aurora, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A double-glove system for use in a double-walled containment module is provided herein. More specifically, a double-glove system that includes an inner glove and an outer glove that are interconnected to respective glove rings for interconnection to an inner containment module and an outer containment module is provided. An annulus is provided between the gloves wherein purge gasses may flow therebetween. Further, a plurality of detection systems may be employed within containment volumes of the containment module to rapidly detect leaks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/458487 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports: Cabinet structure 312/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07780939 | Margrave et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Margrave (Bellaire, Texas); Edward T. Mickelson (Pearland, Texas); Robert Hauge (Houston, Texas); Peter Boul (Houston, Texas); Chad Huffman (Houston, Texas); Jie Liu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard E. Smalley (Houston, Texas); Ken Smith (Katy, Texas); Daniel T. Colbert (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is directed to chemical derivatives of carbon nanotubes wherein the carbon nanotubes have a diameter up to 3 nm. In one embodiment, this invention also provides a method for preparing carbon nanotubes having substituents attached to the side wall of the nanotube by reacting single-wall carbon nanotubes with fluorine gas and recovering fluorine derivatized carbon nanotubes, then reacting fluorine derivatized carbon nanotubes with a nucleophile. Some of the fluorine substituents are replaced by nucleophilic substitution. If desired, the remaining fluorine can be completely or partially eliminated to produce carbon nanotubes having substituents attached to the side wall of the nanotube. The substituents are dependent on the nucleophile, and preferred nucleophiles include alkyl lithium species such as methyl lithium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408520 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781166 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marshall University Research Corporation (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongwei D. Yu (Huntington, West Virginia); Dongru Qiu (Huntington, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for detecting and controlling the conversion to mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are disclosed. The present invention provides for detecting the switch from nonmucoid to mucoid state of P. aeruginosa by measuring mucE expression or MucE protein levels. The interaction between MucE and AlgW controls the switch to mucoidy in wild type P. aeruginosa. Also disclosed is an alginate biosynthesis heterologous expression system for use in screening candidate substances that inhibit conversion to mucoidy. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/730186 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781366 | Watkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony N. Watkins (Hampton, Virginia); Bradley D. Leighty (Gloucester, Virginia); Donald M. Oglesby (Virginia Beach, Virginia); JoAnne L. Patry (Dulles, Virginia); Jacqueline L. Schryer (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An oxidation catalyst system is formed by particles of an oxidation catalyst dispersed in a porous sol-gel binder. The oxidation catalyst system can be applied by brush or spray painting while the sol-gel binder is in its sol state. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/369932 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781492 | Williams 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) | Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); Trent M. Smith (Melbourne, Florida); James E. Fesmire (Titusville, Florida); Erik S. Weiser (Yorktown, Virginia); Jared P. Sass (Rockledge, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves composite materials containing a polymer foam and an aerogel. The composite materials have improved thermal insulation ability, good acoustic insulation, and excellent physical mechanical properties. The composite materials can be used, for instance, for heat and acoustic insulation on aircraft, spacecraft, and maritime ships in place of currently used foam panels and other foam products. The materials of the invention can also be used in building construction with their combination of light weight, strength, elasticity, ability to be formed into desired shapes, and superior thermal and acoustic insulation power. The materials have also been found to have utility for storage of cryogens. A cryogenic liquid or gas, such as N2 or H2, adsorbs to the surfaces in aerogel particles. Thus, another embodiment of the invention provides a storage vessel for a cryogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/759672 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781724 | Childers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luna Innovations Incorporated (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brooks A. Childers (Christiansburg, Virginia); Dawn K. Gifford (Blacksburg, Virginia); Roger G. Duncan (Christiansburg, Virginia); Matthew T. Raum (Chesapeake, Virginia); Michael E. Vercellino (Gretna, Virginia); Mark E. Froggatt (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a fiber optic position and shape sensing device and the method of use. The device comprises an optical fiber means. The optical fiber means comprises either at least two single core optical fibers or a multicore optical fiber having at least two fiber cores. In either case, the fiber cores are spaced apart such that mode coupling between the fiber cores is minimized. An array of fiber Bragg gratings are disposed within each fiber core and a frequency domain reflectometer is positioned in an operable relationship to the optical fiber means. In use, the device is affixed to an object. Strain on the optical fiber is measured and the strain measurements correlated to local bend measurements. Local bend measurements are integrated to determine position and/or shape of the object. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535438 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783060 | Brooks 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) | Thomas F. Brooks (Seaford, Virginia); William M. Humphreys, Jr. (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for mapping acoustic sources determined from a phased microphone array. A plurality of microphones are arranged in an optimized grid pattern including a plurality of grid locations thereof. A linear configuration of N equations and N unknowns can be formed by accounting for a reciprocal influence of one or more beamforming characteristics thereof at varying grid locations among the plurality of grid locations. A full-rank equation derived from the linear configuration of N equations and N unknowns can then be iteratively determined. A full-rank can be attained by the solution requirement of the positivity constraint equivalent to the physical assumption of statically independent noise sources at each N location. An optimized noise source distribution is then generated over an identified aeroacoustic source region associated with the phased microphone array in order to compile an output presentation thereof, thereby removing the beamforming characteristics from the resulting output presentation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/126518 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783130 | Watson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew B. Watson (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to devices and methods for the measurement and/or for the specification of the perceptual intensity of a visual image, or the perceptual distance between a pair of images. Grayscale test and reference images are processed to produce test and reference luminance images. A luminance filter function is convolved with the reference luminance image to produce a local mean luminance reference image. Test and reference contrast images are produced from the local mean luminance reference image and the test and reference luminance images respectively, followed by application of a contrast sensitivity filter. The resulting images are combined according to mathematical prescriptions to produce a Just Noticeable Difference, JND value, indicative of a Spatial Standard Observer, SSO. Some embodiments include masking functions, window functions, special treatment for images lying on or near borders and pre-processing of test images. |
| FILED | Monday, January 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045041 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07781564 | Ong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Yu Qi (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A polythiophene wherein the monomer segments thereof contain wherein A is a side chain; B is hydrogen or a side chain; and D is a divalent linkage, and wherein the number of A-substituted thienylene units (I) in the monomer segments is from about 1 to about 10, the number of B-substituted thienylene units (II) is from 0 to about 5, and the number of divalent linkages D is 0 or 1. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/565751 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07783149 | Fini |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Furukawa Electric North America, Inc. (Norcross, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Fini (Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In a LMA optical fiber the index of the core region is graded (i.e., as viewed in a radial cross-section) and has a grading depth of Δng, as measured from a central maximum at or near the axis to a lower level that is not greater than the central maximum and not less than the index of the cladding region. When the fiber is to be bent at a bend radius, the grading depth, the radius of the core region, and the difference between the central maximum index and the cladding region index are configured to reduce bend distortion. They may also advantageously be configured to maximize the effective mode-field area of the fundamental mode, suppress higher order modes, and reduce bend loss. In a preferred embodiment, the core region includes a centralized gain region, which in turn includes a dark region that is no more than 30% of the area of the gain region. Also described is a method of making such LMA fibers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/072574 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07781228 | Menon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Menon and Associates, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh M. Menon (San Diego, California); David E. Newman (Poway, California); Terry J. Henderson (Baltimore, Maryland); J. Manuel Perez (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided to detect target analytes based on magnetic resonance measurements. Magnetic structures produce distinct magnetic field regions having a size comparable to the analyte. When the analyte is bound in those regions, magnetic resonance signals from the sample are changed, leading to detection of the analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335995 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07781747 | Klemic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dept. of Homeland Security (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gladys Klemic (Naperville, Illinois); Paul Bailey (Washington, District of Columbia); Cecilia Breheny (Mount Vernon, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel dosimeter filter and a dosimeter incorporating the same. More specifically, one embodiment of the invention relates to a very thin dosimetry device generally comprising: an optically stimulated luminescent material OSLM (i.e. aluminum oxide) sandwiched between at least two novel CEEC filters, wherein each CEEC filter comprises two layers of filtering material: an electronic equilibrium filter layer and an energy compensation filter layer wherein the electronic equilibrium filters comprise steel and wherein the energy compensation filters comprise Tantalum. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201341 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/484.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US PP21222 | NeSmith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation (Athens, Georgia); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Scott NeSmith (Molena, Georgia); Mark Ehlenfeldt (Tabernacle, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The new variety ‘TH-682’ is provided. The new and distinct variety ripens early compared to rabbiteye varieties generally available to homeowners and produces an abundance of attractive, light blue fruit that are generally large and have good flavor. The plant of the new variety ‘TH-682’ is vigorous, produces an attractive fall foliage color and is estimated to have a chilling requirement of approximately 500 to 550 hours below approximately 45° F. The asexually reproduced variety is reliably propagated vegetatively. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380261 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07781350 | Zachariah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Zachariah (Potomac, Maryland); De-Hao Tsai (Silver spring, Maryland); Raymond J. Phaneuf (College Park, Maryland); Timothy D. Corrigan (Laurel, Maryland); Soo H. Kim (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method and system for controllable electrostatic-directed deposition of nanoparticles from the gas phase on a substrate patterned to have p-n junction(s), a bias electrical field is reversely applied to the p-n junction, so that uni-polarly charged nanoparticles are laterally confined on the substrate by a balance of electrostatic, van der Waals and image forces and are deposited on a respective p-doped or n-doped regions of the p-n junction when the applied electric field reaches a predetermined strength. The novel controllable deposition of nanoparticles employs commonly used substrate architectures for the patterning of an electric field attracting or repelling nanoparticles to the substrates and offers the opportunity to create a variety of sophisticated electric field patterns which may be used to direct particles with greater precision. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/360440 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07782976 | Falcone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bedford Signals Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Arthur Falcone (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveform generator for simulating multiple, differently delayed signals. Dynamic signal delays include modulation delay and carrier phase shift, as well as modulation and carrier Doppler shift, acceleration, and jerk. Modulation delays are accurately interpolated in symbol time through symbol shape superresolution. This decouples the symbol rate from the sample rate and allows the generation of multiple source waveforms per digital to analog converter. Symbol shape prefiltering can remove the aliasing introduced by superresolution. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/974205 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07780472 | Lenox |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (Richmond, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl J. Lenox (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive mounting/grounding clip, usable with a photovoltaic (PV) assembly of the type having an electrically conductive frame, comprises an electrically conductive body. The body has a central portion and first and second spaced-apart arms extending from the central portion. Each arm has first and second outer portions with frame surface-disrupting element at the outer portions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/207690 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/567 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07784090 | Lord et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Lord (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Roy R. Gordon (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Wayne A. Wilkerson (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Postage stamps are dispensed by receiving payment from a customer for a postage value at a point of sale terminal. The point of sale terminal requests and receives an authorization key from an authorization system. The authorization key is provided to the customer. Thereafter, the customer provides the authorization key to a postage dispensing machine, which provides postage stamps equivalent to the postage value. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468811 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07783440 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cynthia Lynne Lewis (Webster, New York); Andrew P. Sacco (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for obtaining a modulation transfer function (MTF) of a knife-edge target imaged by an electro-optical device is described. The method includes the steps of: (a) obtaining edge response data points, where a data point includes a perpendicular distance, d, to the knife-edge target; and (b) constructing a sequence of line slopes of the edge response data points, where a line slope includes a spread of edge response data points. The method then selects a line slope that minimizes the spread of edge response data points, and calculates the MTF, based on the edge response data points included in the selected line slope. The MTF is provided to a user. An edge response data point is defined by a pair of values of (d, E) of a pixel, where distance, d, is the shortest distance between the pixel and a line slope and the pixel has an intensity value, E. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880736 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE41557 | Huntington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eclipse Aerospace, Inc. (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Huntington (Monument, Colorado); Peter D. Haaland (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A class of fire suppressant compounds which have labile bromine atoms bound to atoms other than carbon have been discovered to be more effective at suppressing fires than Halon 1211 and Halon 1301. Moreover, this class of fire suppressant compounds hydrolyze or oxidize rapidly in the troposphere and as a consequence thereof, they have minimal ozone depletion potential. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263054 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE41558 | Huntington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eclipse Aerospace, Inc. (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Huntington (Deale, Maryland); Peter D. Haaland (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A class of fire suppressant compounds which have labile bromine atoms bound to atoms other than carbon have been discovered to be more effective at suppressing fires than Halon 1211 and Halon 1301. Moreover, this class of fire suppressant compounds hydrolyze or oxidize rapidly in the troposphere and as a consequence thereof, they have minimal ozone depletion potential. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263122 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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?
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