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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07797875 | Carrier 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) | Donald J. Carrier (FPO, None); Bruce B. Leaman (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Nathan D. Joswiak (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Scott I. Jack (College Park, Maryland); Craig A. Keicher (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An interface device is provided for securing a range finder to a Picatinny rail. The device has a longitudinal direction with first and second mounts, which are pivotably connected to open and closed configurations. The mounts are in substantially parallel and coaxial mutual positions along the longitudinal direction while in the closed configuration, and instead rotated along a first axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction in the open configuration. The device further includes a stock onto which the Picatinny rail attaches along the longitudinal direction, the stock being pivotably connecting to the first mount along a second axis substantially parallel to the first axis to one of a lock configuration to be substantially parallel to the first mount and a release configuration to pitch said stock relative to the first mount. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152121 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798043 | Malakian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kourken Malakian (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); Stephen J. Salvatore (Mount Laurel, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | When a kinetic kill vehicle is launched against an incoming ballistic object and the two objects collide, by measuring the deflection angle of the trajectory of the merged object and comparing the deflection angle against a threshold value, a determination is made as to the relative weight of the incoming ballistic object and whether or not the incoming ballistic object is a decoy and not the warhead. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107522 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798046 | Burkholder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel E. Burkholder (Maurepas, Louisiana); William A. Kaplan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas W. Hensley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An orifice entry diverging multi vane conical venturi diffuser for a mortar tube that provides a surface at the discharge end of a mortar tube for measuring or sensing instruments. The internal,vanes comprise the primary surface and the conical venturi wall comprises the secondary surface. This apparatus allows a solid object of the equivalent diameter of the entry orifice when propelled by gas pressure to travel through the diffuser into the open atmosphere while at the same time providing an increasing volumetric flow path for the discharge of the propellant gas. The vanes axial parallel primary surface area is used to provide a port for instrumentation. The area between the primary and secondary surfaces of circumferentially spaced vanes provides the gas flow channels when the center section formed by the vanes primary surfaces is obstructed by a solid object with the equivalent diameter of the entry orifice. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385464 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/14.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798164 | Adleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Adleman (Pasadena, California); David A. Boyd (Pasadena, California); David G. Goodwin (Pasadena, California); Demetri Psaltis (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of microfluidic control via localized heating includes providing a microchannel structure with a base region that is partially filled with a volume of liquid being separated from a gas by a liquid-gas interface region. The base region includes one or more physical structures. The method further includes supplying energy input to a portion of the one or more physical structures within the volume of liquid in a vicinity of the liquid-gas interface region to cause localized heating of the portion of the one or more physical structures. The method also includes transferring heat from the portion of the one or more physical structures to surrounding liquid in the vicinity of the liquid-gas interface region and generating an interphase mass transport at the liquid-gas interface region or across a gas bubble while the volume of liquid and the gas remain to be substantially at ambient temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/020504 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798479 | Meeks 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) | Daniel Gath Meeks (Imperial Beach, California); Wendy Marie Massey (La Jolla, California); William George Cheyne (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for horizontal assembly of a high-voltage feed-through bushing includes vertically-assembling a field shaper assembly of a high-voltage feed-through bushing on a field shaper fixture. The field shaper assembly is then rotated within the field shaper fixture such that the field shaper assembly is oriented on a horizontal axis. Next, an insulator tube fixture supporting an insulator tube assembly is positioned adjacent to the field shaper fixture. The insulator tube assembly, being oriented on the same horizontal axis as the field shaper assembly, is then affixed to field shaper assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/292175 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Work holders 269/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798765 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy S. Snyder (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Francisco J. Cunha (Avon, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A cooled turbine exhaust case assembly includes a plenum defined at least in part by a forward outer diameter flowpath ring and a turbine case, a probe positioned at a probe opening formed in the forward outer diameter flowpath ring, and an inlet opening in the turbine case for introducing cooling air to the plenum. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786672 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798775 | Kammel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raafat A. Kammel (Peabody, Massachusetts); Humphrey W. Chow (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael Peter Kulyk (Kittery, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A flange for supporting arcuate components comprising at least one arcuate rail, each arcuate rail having an inner radius, a first taper location, a first taper region, a second taper location, a second taper region, wherein the thickness of at least a portion of the first taper region is tapered and wherein the thickness of at least a portion of the second taper region is tapered. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/643237 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/209.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798801 | Babbs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Babbs (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Anshuman Cherala (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards a chucking system, including, inter alia, a body having a surface with a pin extending therefrom having a throughway defined therein, and a land surrounding the protrusions defining a channel between the pin and the land. In a further embodiment, the body comprises a plurality of protrusions. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/047428 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798873 | Dai 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) | Charles M. Dai (Potomac, Maryland); Carol L. Tseng (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention's methodology for designing a fluid propulsion intake configuration of a marine vessel considers the integral geometry of the inlet together with a portion of the hull, with respect to which the inlet's entrance opening is flush. The inventive methodology typically includes definition of an inlet reference line (an “axial” description, straight and/or curved, of the inlet), cross-planes (each of which perpendicularly intersects the inlet reference line), a footprint (a planar outline of the inlet's entrance opening), an inlet shaping line (a projection of the footprint onto the hull portion), inlet flow lines (angularly spaced about the circumference of the inlet shaping line, each connecting the cross-planes), two fairing reference curves (one at the inlet's entrance opening and the other on the hull portion, thereby demarcating a fairing therebetween that is consistent with the inlet flow lines), and a lip nose (at the inlet's entrance opening). |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/169262 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Marine propulsion 440/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799046 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Keane White (Brookline, Massachusetts); James Sidney Titus (Sharon, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A perfusion cannula constructed of a wire mesh or other structure having an expandable portion capable of expanding from a constricted state to an expanded state such that a vessel is stented open while permitting fluid flow through a cannula into the vessel. |
| FILED | Monday, December 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/498442 |
| ART UNIT | 3734 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799251 | Therriault et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Therriault (Rimouski, Canada); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois); Scott R. White (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices that include hosts having internal microcapillary networks are disclosed. The microcapillary networks are formed from interconnected passageways. The interconnected passageways may be formed by removing a fugitive material from a cured host material that forms the host. The resultant host material has many applications, including use as a microfluidic device in applications ranging from fluid mixing to structural repair. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/558084 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799260 | Goat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Goat (Offham, United Kingdom); Michael P. Cooke (Gillingham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of poling a ferroelectric sample suitable for use in a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, the method comprising providing a ferroelectric sample having a stack of ferroelectric layers, wherein adjacent layers are separated by internal electrodes, forming a first group and a second group of electrodes; applying a multiaxial pressure to the ferroelectric sample; and generating an electric field between the first and second group of electrodes to pole the ferroelectric sample. The multiaxial pressure is ideally applied by means of a fluid, and the fluid may be an dielectric fluid or fuel. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521183 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799290 | Hammerstrom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MesoSystems Technology, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J. Hammerstrom (West Richland, Washington); Joseph G. Birmingham (Richland, Washington); James S. Millar (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-thermal plasma or corona discharge is generated at multiple points and distributed to decontaminate surfaces and objects contaminated with chemical or biological agents. The corona discharge can be generated using very short high voltage pulses. The pulsed corona discharge can be directed at a contaminated surface through the unbraided strands at an end of a dielectric covered conductor. Another pulsed discharge embodiment incorporates a primary coil surrounding a chamber having a void filled with a plurality of secondary coils. A silent corona discharge can be generated using a variety of different configurations of a dielectric coated electrode and a bare electrode. The silent discharge is produced at all intersections between the dielectric covered electrode and the bare electrode. In one embodiment the apparatus comprises a blanket-like structure that is useful for decontaminating surfaces or decontaminating a fluid passing between spaced-apart bare electrodes. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337321 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/186.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799422 | Tischler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Tischler (Sharon, Massachusetts); Michael Scott Bradley (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vladimir Bulovic (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A high oscillator strength thin film has an absorption constant greater than or equal to 106 cm−1. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265109 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799434 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Abdullah Ekin (Imperial, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Polysiloxanes terminated with one or more hydroxy functional carbamate groups are provided. The polymers may have the formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently hydrogen, C1-C10 alkyl, C1-C10 fluoro-substituted alkyl; cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, benzyl, toluoyl, xylyl and/or phenyl; R5 and R6 are linking groups; R15 and R16 are independently hydrogen, C1-C10 alkyl, cyclopentyl, cyclohexyl, benzyl, toluoyl, xylyl or phenyl; and L1 and L2 are linking groups. Typically, x is such that the polymer has a molecular weight of about 1,000 to 100,000. Other polymeric materials produced by reacting with an isocyanate functional compound or a lactone and coating compositions containing such polymeric materials are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/989496 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07799467 — Solid polymer electrolytes from ethylene oxide-containing, layer-by-layer assembled films
| US 07799467 | DeLongchamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean M. DeLongchamp (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Paula T. Hammond (Newton, Massachusetts); Hiroaki Tokuhisa (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid polymer electrolyte produced using a layer-by layer (LBL) assembly process. The solid electrolyte is assembled on a substrate by alternating exposure to dilute solutions of polycation and polyanion or hydrogen-bonding donor and hydrogen-bonding acceptor. Ethylene oxide content is introduced into the LBL film by 1) covalent grafting onto a polyionic species, 2) inclusion of an ethylene oxide (e.g. PEO) polymer as one of the two component species of a LBL assembly, or 3) the addition of ethylene oxide-containing small molecule, oligomer, or polymer to a fully assembled LBL polymer matrix. The prepared films were to be ultrathin SPE films with sound mechanical properties and ion conductivity to meet the needs of current applications, such as batteries, fuels cells, sensors and electrochromic devices. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/409670 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799516 | Kohl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); SueAnn Bidstrup Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Xiaoqun Wu (Wilmington, Delaware); Clifford Lee Henderson (Douglasville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymers, methods of use thereof, and methods of decomposition thereof, are provided. One exemplary polymer, among others, includes, a photodefinable polymer having a sacrificial polymer and a photoinitiator. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686697 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799536 | Dave 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) | Jitendra Ramanlal Dave (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Changping Yao (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Anthony Joseph Williams (Middletown, Maryland); Xi-Chun May (Laurel, Maryland); Frank Casper Tortella (Columbia, Maryland); Ka-Wang Kevin Wang (Gainsville, Florida); Ronald Lawrence Hayes (Gainsville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A diagnostic tool and method of diagnosing brain injury and brain injury type (traumatic vs. ischemic) by detecting the level of expression of endothelial monocyte-activating polypeptide II (EMAP-II) and comparing to a control. An increase of EMAP-II indicates the presence of traumatic brain injury and a decrease of EMAP-II indicates the presence of ischemic brain injury. Detection of EMAP-II can be done in brain tissue, biofluids such as cerebrospinal fluid or blood (including plasma and serum). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290174 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799552 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiep-Hoa T. Nguyen (Santa Ana, California); Sunney I. Chan (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Among the inventions disclosed herein are: nucleic acid expression systems for bacteria having an intracytoplasmic membrane system, including, for example, methanotrophic bacteria; recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising a pmo promoter operably linked to an expressible nucleic acid; cloning vectors suitable for making recombinant nucleic acid constructs and methods for the production of proteins such as membrane proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, July 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210895 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/253.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799554 | Mazumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debapriya Mazumdar (Urbana, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Urbana, Illinois); Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An analytical test for an analyte comprises (a) a base, having a reaction area and a visualization area, (b) a capture species, on the base in the visualization area, comprising nucleic acid, and (c) analysis chemistry reagents, on the base in the reaction area. The analysis chemistry reagents comprise (i) a substrate comprising nucleic acid and a first label, and (ii) a reactor comprising nucleic acid. The analysis chemistry reagents can react with a sample comprising the analyte and water, to produce a visualization species comprising nucleic acid and the first label, and the capture species can bind the visualization species. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686601 |
| 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 435/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799699 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois); Keon Jae Lee (Tokyo, Japan); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Westmont, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Champaign, Illinois); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota); Heung Cho Ko (Urbana, Illinois); Shawn Mack (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a high yield pathway for the fabrication, transfer and assembly of high quality printable semiconductor elements having selected physical dimensions, shapes, compositions and spatial orientations. The compositions and methods of the present invention provide high precision registered transfer and integration of arrays of microsized and/or nanosized semiconductor structures onto substrates, including large area substrates and/or flexible substrates. In addition, the present invention provides methods of making printable semiconductor elements from low cost bulk materials, such as bulk silicon wafers, and smart-materials processing strategies that enable a versatile and commercially attractive printing-based fabrication platform for making a broad range of functional semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421654 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799710 | Tan |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Seng Tan (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A foamed composite armor laminate comprising interleaved combinations of ballistic resistant fabrics, and ceramic and/or metallic plates or sheets in a polymeric foam matrix. The foamed composite armor can be fabricated by inserting polymer powder or sheets between layers of fabric and/or ceramic or metallic sheets to form a laminated structure, heating this laminated structure under pressure to form a consolidated panel, and then foaming the polymeric portion of the consolidated panel in an autoclave or pressure vessel by saturating the polymeric portion with inert gas at elevated temperature, rapidly releasing the pressure and controllably cooling the laminated structure to ambient. Alternatively, pre-foamed panels can be laminated to fabric, ceramic and/or metallic sheets using adhesives or the like. Through proper selection of the various elements of the laminate, i.e. the foamed polymer matrix, the polymeric fabric(s) and the ceramic and metallic sheet(s), a wide variety of ballistic, flame retardance, stiffness and other properties can be custom designed into the product for specific end use applications. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079057 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800066 | Talghader |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota Office for Technology Commercialization (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph J. Talghader (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides thermal detectors having an optical cavity that is optimized to couple light into a sensor. Light that is on resonance is coupled with the sensor with as high as 100% efficiency, while light off resonance is substantially reflected away. Light that strikes the sensor from the sides (i.e. not on the optical cavity axis) only interacts minimally with sensor because of the reduced absorption characteristics of the sensor. Narrowband sensors in accordance with the present invention can gain as much as 100% of the signal from one direction and spectral band, while receiving only a fraction of the normal radiation noise, which originates from all spectral bands and directions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999739 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800073 | Clothier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent Allen Clothier (Niskayuna, New York); Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani (Clifton Park, New York); Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro (Saratoga Springs, New York); Adrian Ivan (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Moldable neutron sensitive compositions containing an inorganic scintillating component, and neutron capture component, and a moldable resin component, are described. They are prepared with optimized compositions for maximized thermal neutron sensitivity. Methods for preparing such compositions, and articles and radiation detectors made from them are described as well. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949423 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800132 | Smorchkova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ioulia Smorchkova (Lakewood, California); Carol Namba (Walnut, California); Po-Hsin Liu (Anaheim, California); Robert Coffie (Camarillo, California); Roger Tsai (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device includes a T-gate disposed between drain and source regions and above a barrier layer to form a Schottky contact to the channel layer. A first inactive field mitigating plate is disposed above a portion of the T-gate and a second active field plate is disposed above the barrier layer and in a vicinity of the T-gate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/976590 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800278 | Ujihara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Motoki Ujihara (Tokyo, Japan); Dong Gun Lee (Los Angeles, California); Gregory P. Carman (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An inventive energy harvesting apparatus may include a ferromagnetic material and/or a shape memory alloys to convert thermal energy to mechanical energy to electrical energy. The apparatus is subjected to a thermal gradient to cause beams to bend thus creating stress/strain in a piezoelectric material, or creating magnetic flux in a magnetic path. The charges created in this process can be transferred to electrical batteries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162082 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800282 | Ayazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Integrated Device Technology, inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Reza Abdolvand (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Seyed Hossein Miri Lavasani (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Oscillators include a resonator having first and second electrodes and configured to resonate at a first frequency at which the first and second electrodes carry in-phase signals and at a second frequency at which the first and second electrodes carry out-of-phase signals. A driver circuit is configured to selectively sustain either the in-phase signals on the first and second electrodes or the out-of-phase signals on the first and second electrodes so that the resonator selectively resonates at either the first frequency or the second frequency, respectively. Related oscillator operating methods are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233395 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800403 | Marshall, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Marshall, Jr. (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A universal support device for supporting a reconfigurable electronics device is disclosed. The universal support device includes an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) module coupled to multiple non-volatile memory devices. The ASIC module is capable of interfacing with an external reconfigurable electronics device via a set of load/read-back interface lines and sense mitigation lines. The load/read-back interface lines are capable of being programmed to provide a parallel or a serial load and/or store protocols. The sense mitigation line can sense conditions that indicate a single-event functional interrupt or a radiation-induced event occurred within the reconfigurable electronics device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/991024 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800412 | Dutton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin E. Dutton (Clearwater, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting signal faults comprises sampling at least three redundant signals; calculating a difference signal for each unique pair-wise comparison of the at least three sampled redundant signals; comparing each difference signal to an expected distribution for the difference signals; and determining if one of the at least three redundant signals is faulty based on the comparison of each difference signal to the expected distribution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/029642 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800537 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Denny D. Pidhayny (Los Angeles, California); Don J. Hinshilwood (Carson, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes determining if a dynamics requirement for an antenna positioner is exceeded, and employing a combination of mechanical and electronic beam steering techniques to steer a single antenna beam if the dynamics requirement is exceeded. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404945 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/359 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800672 | Graham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger W. Graham (Santa Barbara, California); John T. Caulfield (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit includes a compression sub-circuit having an input and an output for dumping excess current, a voltage bucket, and a current source. The voltage bucket, such as a capacitor, and the current source, such as a photodetector, are coupled in parallel to the input of the compression sub-circuit. Preferably, the compression sub-circuit is a single FET having a gate voltage selected to allow current to bleed off or be dumped through the FET as the capacitor approaches being full, and dumps excess photocurrent when the capacitor is full. The capacitor is nearly full when it is at least three quarters full, and is substantially full or approaching being full when it is at least 90% of capacity. In a photodetector embodiment, one plate of the capacitor is coupled to the FET and the opposed second plate is coupled to a ramping voltage circuit. |
| FILED | Monday, May 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/125510 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800753 | Hug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photon Systems (Covina, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Hug (Covina, California); Ray D. Reid (Covina, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Spectroscopic chemical analysis methods and apparatus are disclosed which employ deep ultraviolet (e.g. in the 200 nm to 300 nm spectral range) electron beam pumped wide bandgap semiconductor lasers, incoherent wide bandgap semiconductor light emitting devices, and hollow cathode metal ion lasers to perform non-contact, non-invasive detection of unknown chemical analytes. These deep ultraviolet sources enable dramatic size, weight and power consumption reductions of chemical analysis instruments. Chemical analysis instruments employed in some embodiments include capillary and gel plane electrophoresis, capillary electrochromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, flow cytometry, flow cells for liquids and aerosols, and surface detection instruments. In some embodiments, Raman spectroscopic detection methods and apparatus use ultra-narrow-band angle tuning filters, acousto-optic tuning filters, and temperature tuned filters to enable ultra-miniature analyzers for chemical identification. In some embodiments Raman analysis is conducted simultaneously with native fluorescence spectroscopy to provide high levels of sensitivity and specificity in the same instrument. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399743 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800755 | Poirier 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) | Peter M. Poirier (San Diego, California); Michael G. Lovern (Spring Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarimeter includes a multi-wavelength source for generating electromagnetic waves having at least two different wavelengths, means for separating electromagnetic waves, the electromagnetic waves including electromagnetic waves generated by the multi-wavelength source and electromagnetic waves received from a sample contacted by the electromagnetic waves generated by the multi-wavelength source, a fixed waveplate, wherein the fixed waveplate is configured to convert one polarization state to multiple polarization states that allow for calculations of linear and circular polarization components of the electromagnetic waves, a free space coupler, a beam splitter, and more than one detector. The polarimeter may be used in a method for high-speed measurement of linear and circular polarization components of electromagnetic waves. |
| FILED | Monday, July 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772364 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800763 | Gee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sangyoun Gee (Orlando, Florida); Peter Delfyett (Geneva, Florida); Sarper Ozharar (Orlando, Florida); Franklyn Quinlan (Winter Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, apparatus and devices for using a modified PDH technique to measure the FSR of an etalon with one part per 104 precision. An embodiment of the method for measuring the free spectral range of an etalon can include generating a laser light from a laser source, generating a RF source signal, RF modulating the laser light with the RF source signal to produce an RF modulated laser signal, coupling the RF modulated laser signal through a circulator to the etalon, coupling a reflected RF signal from the etalon through the circulator to photo detector, converting the reflected RF signal to an electrical signal at the photo detector, amplifying the electrical signal, mixing the amplified electrical signal with a RF delayed source signal, linearly scanning a frequency of the RF source signal, and monitoring a peak-to-peak mixer voltage Vmixer during the linear scanning of the RF source signal frequency to detect a peak-to-peak minimum voltage when the RF modulation frequency is tuned approximately to a free spectral range of the etalon, the result having a precision greater than one part per 104 without the use of a high resolution optical spectrum analyzer or a tunable laser. This method is especially useful for etalons with small FSR (less than 10 GHz) because this method does not require a high resolution OSA or tuneable laser. As the ITU grid for DWDM becomes denser, this method will have a larger impact on the FSR measurement of etalons. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762404 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/519 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800978 | Bernecky |
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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) | W. Robert Bernecky (Mystic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for utilizing a matched field-processing algorithm employing a number of sensors wherein the sensor output is the measured acoustic data as the first input and is translated to a frequency by applying a Fourier transform to a set of time samples as a data vector output. A replica vector is the second data input as a predicted quantity which is computed by an acoustic model with an assumed acoustic location. The output is an ambiguity surface ranging between zero and one with the highest values indicating the likely position of an acoustic location. The matched field response is generalized by averaging the response over multiple frequencies. A response for an array may be computed by forming beams and then combining them by multiplying each by an eigenray factor before summing. The computation of the response may be further defined by voxel interpolation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/699246 |
| 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 367/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801073 | Lau et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Lau (Morganville, New Jersey); Heechang Kim (Marlboro, New Jersey); Bruce Siegell (Shrewsbury, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for optimizing the efficiency of data sharing among a set of radio nodes in a radio environment is provided. The technique includes identifying a data unit and assigning it a class, identifying a connectivity type, computing a significance factor based on connectivity type and assigned class, mapping the significance factor to a priority factor, and scheduling output of the data unit based on the priority factor. A scheduler algorithm can be used for scheduling output. The class can be assigned based on which nodes of the set of radio nodes possess copies of the data unit at a given time. An arbitration process can be used to determine the priority factor. A significance factor weighting algorithm, based on how many nodes will be receiving the data and on how much a node needs the data, can be used to determine the significance factor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986845 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801153 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Powerwave Cognition, Inc. (Santa Ana, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur E. Anderson (Placentia, California); Wendell Y. Kishaba (San Diego, California); Timothy J. Hughes (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a method to schedule network communications in a network having nodes connected by links includes sending a bandwidth value of a first node for each link connected to the first node to neighbors of the first node, receiving bandwidth values from the neighbors of the first node; and determining node weight values of the first node and the neighbors of the first node based on the bandwidth values received from the neighbors of the first node and the bandwidth value of the first node. The method also includes sending the node weight values of the first node to the neighbors of the first node, receiving the node weight values from the neighbors of the first node, determining access values for each node based on a fair access technique and determining network scheduling based on the access values and the node weight values. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/947928 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/395.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801255 | Rasmussen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald John Rasmussen (Fort Wayne, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for synchronization (SYNC) detection of a received serial offset quadrature pulse shaped waveform modulated by a symbol SYNC sequence are provided. The waveform is serially demodulated into a serial baseband signal and serially correlated with segments of the symbol SYNC sequence. Correlation strength estimates of each of the serially correlated output signal are computed and combined to detect a coarse SYNC. The serially correlated output signals are phase corrected based upon phase change conditions and the phase corrected signals are used to detect a fine SYNC. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314608 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ky-Hien Do (Kihei, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-coupler system for isolating radio signals in a transceiver, that includes a transmitter and a receiver, to permit simultaneous transmit by the transmitter and receive by the receiver through a single antenna in the exact same or nearby frequency ranges. This is done so that in-coming receive signals, transmitted from a remotely located radio, being detected by the receiver is much stronger than the portion of the transmit signal unintentionally coupled over by the co-site (or co-located) transmitter. The invention uses a special electronic circuit, termed the quasi-circulator, to couple the antenna to both the co-located receiver and the transmitter. The invention can also be used to couple several transceivers to a single antenna. The quasi-circulator circuit includes a simulated antenna load with an impedance matched to the antenna impedance. The circuit also includes a transformer with its primary side fed asymmetrically by the antenna so that it can pass the desired receive signal with minimum attenuation. The transformer's primary is on the other hand fed symmetrically from both sides by equally small portions of the transmit power from the co-site transmitter, but these signals are 180 degrees out of phase and cancel almost completely in the transformer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603582 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801841 | Mishra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhubaneswar Mishra (Great Neck, New York); Marco Antoniotti (New York, New York); Naren Ramakrishnan (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and software arrangement in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention are provided to extract descriptive narrative from numerical experimental data augmented with ontological controlled vocabulary. One exemplary application of such system, method and software arrangement is in organizing gene-expression time course data in terms of biological processes that may be activated and deactivated as the biological system responds to its normal or perturbed environment. The present invention may also have biological applications to drug-or-vaccine discovery, understanding behavior of a cell in an altered diseased state (e.g., cancer, neuro-degeneration or auto-immune disease, etc.), genetically modifying a natural wild-type organism, genetic-engineering, etc. Other exemplary applications may include understanding neural behavior, market behavior of a population of users interacting on the Internet, etc. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471913 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801842 | Dalton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SPADAC Inc. (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason R. Dalton (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Behavioral influences are determined and real-world variables modified according to the present invention. A forecasting engine and method assists in forecasting occurrences of identifiable events and/or results based on signature and/or pattern matching. The present invention derives signature for event-types based on a comparison of actual event data with pre-established representational surfaces. The surfaces represent functional measurements and analysis associated with elements of the geospatial boundary being considered. In one embodiment, the present invention assists in the determination of possible real-world factor influence opportunities in order to influence desired behavior. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978450 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07802236 | Calder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad Calder (San Diego, California); Timothy Sherwood (Santa Barbara, California); Erez Perelman (Cupertino, California); Gregory Hamerly (Poway, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and architecture for analyzing a computer program by finding similar sections of execution of the computer program. Code of the computer program is run over a plurality of intervals of execution, and during the execution of the program, a statistic is tracked for a component. Using the tracked statistic, behavior of the computer program is identified over each of the plurality of intervals of execution, and at least one identified behavior of at least one interval of execution is compared to the behavior of another interval of execution to find similar sections of behavior. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/659066 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D624150 | Trybulski 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) | Mark Trybulski (Hopatcong, New Jersey); Diep Ho (Yuma, Arizona); Brian McAbee (Portland, Pennsylvania); Michael Hollis (Flanders, New Jersey); Donald Carlucci (Sparta, New Jersey) |
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| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 29/344220 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Arms, pyrotechnics, hunting and fishing equipment D22/199 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE41748 | Jain et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ravinder Jain (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Balaji Srinivasan (R.A. Puram, Chennai 600 028, India) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to electro-optically active waveguide segments, and more particularly to the use of a selective voltage input to control the phase, frequency and/or amplitude of a propagating wave in the waveguide. Particular device structures and methods of manufacturing are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/440782 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hysitron, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oden L. Warren (New Brighton, Minnesota); S. A. Syed Asif (Bloomington, Minnesota); Edward Cyrankowski (Woodbury, Minnesota); Kalin Kounev (Shoreview, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuatable capacitive transducer including a transducer body, a first capacitor including a displaceable electrode and electrically configured as an electrostatic actuator, and a second capacitor including a displaceable electrode and electrically configured as a capacitive displacement sensor, wherein the second capacitor comprises a multi-plate capacitor. The actuatable capacitive transducer further includes a coupling shaft configured to mechanically couple the displaceable electrode of the first capacitor to the displaceable electrode of the second capacitor to form a displaceable electrode unit which is displaceable relative to the transducer body, and an electrically-conductive indenter mechanically coupled to the coupling shaft so as to be displaceable in unison with the displaceable electrode unit. - |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672489 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798220 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); John Stanecki (Blanco, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating a tar sands formation includes providing a drive fluid to a hydrocarbon containing layer of the tar sands formation to mobilize at least some hydrocarbons in the layer. At least some first hydrocarbons from the layer are produced. Heat is provided to the layer from one or more heaters located in the formation. At least some second hydrocarbons are produced from the layer of the formation. The second hydrocarbons include at least some hydrocarbons that are upgraded compared to the first hydrocarbons produced by using the drive fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106035 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798441 | Stelzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (Palm Pay, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald Stelzer (Palm Bay, Florida); Rainer Meinke (Melbourne, Florida); Paul Bruton (West Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductor assembly and method for constructing an assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, induces a voltage. In one embodiment the method includes forming a structure comprising layers of material extending along a first aperture path. The structure includes multiple concentric layer surfaces. A channel is formed in each of the layers of the material and along each of the multiple surfaces. Conductive material is positioned in each channel to provide a spiral configuration. The surfaces of multiple ones of the layers are of tubular shape. The layers of material are sequentially positioned one over another and about an axis along which first and second opposing coil end regions are formed. The layers are formed with a region of a first thickness and a shoulder region. The shoulder region is alternately formed in the sequence at one coil end region or at the other coil end region. Each shoulder region has a greater thickness than the first thickness. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061870 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Winding, tensioning, or guiding 242/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard K. Dickson (Stockton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A quick insert and release laser beam guard panel clamping apparatus having a base plate mountable on an optical table, a first jaw affixed to the base plate, and a spring-loaded second jaw slidably carried by the base plate to exert a clamping force. The first and second jaws each having a face acutely angled relative to the other face to form a V-shaped, open channel mouth, which enables wedge-action jaw separation by and subsequent clamping of a laser beam guard panel inserted through the open channel mouth. Preferably, the clamping apparatus also includes a support structure having an open slot aperture which is positioned over and parallel with the open channel mouth. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809704 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/316.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798496 | Dietle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kalsi Engineering, Inc. (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lannie L. Dietle (Houston, Texas); John E. Schroeder (Richmond, Texas); Manmohan S. Kalsi (Houston, Texas); Patricio D. Alvarez (Richmond, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary shaft sealing assembly in which a first fluid is partitioned from a second fluid in a housing assembly having a rotary shaft located at least partially within. In one embodiment a lip seal is lubricated and flushed with a pressure-generating seal ring preferably having an angled diverting feature. The pressure-generating seal ring and a hydrodynamic seal may be used to define a lubricant-filled region with each of the seals having hydrodynamic inlets facing the lubricant-filled region. Another aspect of the sealing assembly is having a seal to contain pressurized lubricant while withstanding high rotary speeds. Another rotary shaft sealing assembly embodiment includes a lubricant supply providing a lubricant at an elevated pressure to a region between a lip seal and a hydrodynamic seal with a flow control regulating the flow of lubricant past the lip seal. The hydrodynamic seal may include an energizer element having a modulus of elasticity greater than the modulus of elasticity of a sealing lip of the hydrodynamic seal. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/982821 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798833 | Holbrook |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meghan Ann Holbrook (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A busbar assembly for electrically coupling first and second busbars to first and second contacts, respectively, on a power module is provided. The assembly comprises a first terminal integrally formed with the first busbar, a second terminal integrally formed with the second busbar and overlapping the first terminal, a first bridge electrode having a first tab electrically coupled to the first terminal and overlapping the first and second terminals, and a second tab electrically coupled to the first contact, a second bridge electrode having a third tab electrically coupled to the second terminal, and overlapping the first and second terminals and the first tab, and a fourth tab electrically coupled to the second contact, and a fastener configured to couple the first tab to the first terminal, and the third tab to the second terminal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352983 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799185 | Willit |
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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) | James L. Willit (Batavia, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved process and device for the recovery of the minor actinides and the transuranic elements (TRU's) from a molten salt electrolyte. The process involves placing the device, an electrically non-conducting barrier between an anode salt and a cathode salt. The porous barrier allows uranium to diffuse between the anode and cathode, yet slows the diffusion of uranium ions so as to cause depletion of uranium ions in the catholyte. This allows for the eventual preferential deposition of transuranics present in spent nuclear fuel such as Np, Pu, Am, Cm. The device also comprises an uranium oxidation anode. The oxidation anode is solid uranium metal in the form of spent nuclear fuel. The spent fuel is placed in a ferric metal anode basket which serves as the electrical lead or contact between the molten electrolyte and the anodic uranium metal. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/530573 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/243.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799225 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois); Yupo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Jamie A. Hestekin (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Michael P. Henry (Batavia, Illinois); Peter Pujado (Kildeer, Illinois); Anil Oroskar (Oak Brook, Illinois); Santi Kulprathipanja (Inverness, Illinois); Sarabjit Randhava (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a membrane contactor assisted extraction system and method for extracting a single phase species from multi-phase working solutions. More specifically one preferred embodiment of the invention relates to a method and system for membrane contactor assisted water (MCAWE) extraction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) from a working solution. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536905 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799280 | Manginell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald P. Manginell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick R. Lewis (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Douglas R. Adkins (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David R. Wheeler (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert J. Simonson (Cedar Crest, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-planar, tortuous path chemical preconcentrator has a high internal surface area having a heatable sorptive coating that can be used to selectively collect and concentrate one or more chemical species of interest from a fluid stream that can be rapidly released as a concentrated plug into an analytical or microanalytical chain for separation and detection. The non-planar chemical preconcentrator comprises a sorptive support structure having a tortuous flow path. The tortuosity provides repeated twists, turns, and bends to the flow, thereby increasing the interfacial contact between sample fluid stream and the sorptive material. The tortuous path also provides more opportunities for desorption and readsorption of volatile species. Further, the thermal efficiency of the tortuous path chemical preconcentrator is comparable or superior to the prior non-planar chemical preconcentrator. Finally, the tortuosity can be varied in different directions to optimize flow rates during the adsorption and desorption phases of operation of the preconcentrator. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355480 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799293 | Peterman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean R. Peterman (Idaho Falls, Idaho); John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mason K. Harrup (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Richard D. Tillotson (Moore, Idaho); Jack D. Law (Pocatello, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of separating actinides from lanthanides are disclosed. A regio-specific/stereo-specific dithiophosphinic acid having organic moieties is provided in an organic solvent that is then contacted with an acidic medium containing an actinide and a lanthanide. The method can extend to separating actinides from one another. Actinides are extracted as a complex with the dithiophosphinic acid. Separation compositions include an aqueous phase, an organic phase, dithiophosphinic acid, and at least one actinide. The compositions may include additional actinides and/or lanthanides. A method of producing a dithiophosphinic acid comprising at least two organic moieties selected from aromatics and alkyls, each moiety having at least one functional group is also disclosed. A source of sulfur is reacted with a halophosphine. An ammonium salt of the dithiophosphinic acid product is precipitated out of the reaction mixture. The precipitated salt is dissolved in ether. The ether is removed to yield the dithiophosphinic acid. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/530508 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799299 | Heldebrant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Batelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Heldebrant (Richland, Washington); Clement R. Yonker (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Reversible acid-gas binding organic liquid systems that permit separation and capture of one or more of several acid gases from a mixed gas stream, transport of the liquid, release of the acid gases from the ionic liquid and reuse of the liquid to bind more acid gas with significant energy savings compared to current aqueous systems. These systems utilize acid gas capture compounds made up of strong bases and weak acids that form salts when reacted with a selected acid gas, and which release these gases when a preselected triggering event occurs. The various new materials that make up this system can also be included in various other applications such as chemical sensors, chemical reactants, scrubbers, and separators that allow for the specific and separate removal of desired materials from a gas stream such as flue gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/360717 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799548 | Arora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michelle B. Arora (Woodridge, Illinois); Jamie A. Hestekin (Morton Grove, Illinois); YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Edward J. St. Martin (Libertyville, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous solid ion exchange wafer having a combination of a biomolecule capture-resin and an ion-exchange resin forming a charged capture resin within said wafer. Also disclosed is a porous solid ion exchange wafer having a combination of a biomolecule capture-resin and an ion-exchange resin forming a charged capture resin within said wafer containing a biomolecule with a tag. A separate bioreactor is also disclosed incorporating the wafer described above. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732992 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799554 | Mazumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debapriya Mazumdar (Urbana, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Urbana, Illinois); Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An analytical test for an analyte comprises (a) a base, having a reaction area and a visualization area, (b) a capture species, on the base in the visualization area, comprising nucleic acid, and (c) analysis chemistry reagents, on the base in the reaction area. The analysis chemistry reagents comprise (i) a substrate comprising nucleic acid and a first label, and (ii) a reactor comprising nucleic acid. The analysis chemistry reagents can react with a sample comprising the analyte and water, to produce a visualization species comprising nucleic acid and the first label, and the capture species can bind the visualization species. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686601 |
| 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 435/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799570 | Schabacker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel S. Schabacker (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining if proteins have been transferred from liquid-phase protein fractions to an array comprising staining the array with a total protein stain and imaging the array, optionally comparing the staining with a standard curve generated by staining known amounts of a known protein on the same or a similar array; a method of characterizing proteins transferred from liquid-phase protein fractions to an array including staining the array with a post-translational modification-specific (PTM-specific) stain and imaging the array and, optionally, after staining the array with a PTM-specific stain and imaging the array, washing the array, re-staining the array with a total protein stain, imaging the array, and comparing the imaging with the PTM-specific stain with the imaging with the total protein stain; stained arrays; and images of stained arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/693320 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799699 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois); Keon Jae Lee (Tokyo, Japan); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Westmont, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Champaign, Illinois); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota); Heung Cho Ko (Urbana, Illinois); Shawn Mack (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a high yield pathway for the fabrication, transfer and assembly of high quality printable semiconductor elements having selected physical dimensions, shapes, compositions and spatial orientations. The compositions and methods of the present invention provide high precision registered transfer and integration of arrays of microsized and/or nanosized semiconductor structures onto substrates, including large area substrates and/or flexible substrates. In addition, the present invention provides methods of making printable semiconductor elements from low cost bulk materials, such as bulk silicon wafers, and smart-materials processing strategies that enable a versatile and commercially attractive printing-based fabrication platform for making a broad range of functional semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/421654 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799943 | Shah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rohm and Haas Company (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pankaj V. Shah (Crystal Lake, Illinois); David E. Vietti (Cary, Illinois); David William Whitman (Harleysville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Homogeneously dispersed solid reaction promoters having an average particle size from 0.01 μm to 500 μm are disclosed for preparing curable mixtures of at least one Michael donor and at least one Michael acceptor. The resulting curable mixtures are useful as coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444778 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800063 | van de Water et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FEI Company (Hillsboro, Oregon); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeroen van de Water (Breugel, Netherlands); Johannes van den Oetelaar (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Raymond Wagner (Gorinchem, Netherlands); Hendrik Nicolaas Slingerland (Venlo, Netherlands); Jan Willem Bruggers (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Adriaan Huibert Dirk Ottevanger (Malden, Netherlands); Andreas Schmid (Berkeley, California); Eric A. Olson (Champaign, Illinois); Ivan G. Petrov (Champaign, Illinois); Todor I. Donchev (Urbana, Illinois); Thomas Duden (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A manipulator for use in e.g. a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) is described, said manipulator capable of rotating and translating a sample holder (4). The manipulator clasps the round sample holder between two members (3A, 3B), said members mounted on actuators (2A, 2B). Moving the actuators in the same direction results in a translation of the sample holder, while moving the actuators in opposite directions results in a rotation of the sample holder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861721 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800439 | Riedel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Riedel (Knoxville, Tennessee); Alan L. Wintenberg (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lloyd G. Clonts (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ronald G. Cooper (Oakridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A preamplifier circuit for processing a signal provided by a radiation detector includes a transimpedance amplifier coupled to receive a current signal from a detector and generate a voltage signal at its output. A second amplification stage has an input coupled to an output of the transimpedance amplifier for providing an amplified voltage signal. Detector electronics include a preamplifier circuit having a first and second transimpedance amplifier coupled to receive a current signal from a first and second location on a detector, respectively, and generate a first and second voltage signal at respective outputs. A second amplification stage has an input coupled to an output of the transimpedance amplifiers for amplifying the first and said second voltage signals to provide first and second amplified voltage signals. A differential output stage is coupled to the second amplification stage for receiving the first and second amplified voltage signals and providing a pair of outputs from each of the first and second amplified voltage signals. Read out circuitry has an input coupled to receive both of the pair of outputs, the read out circuitry having structure for processing each of the pair of outputs, and providing a single digital output having a time-stamp therefrom. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588996 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800751 | Silver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico); David S. Bomse (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical cell and a method of operating an optical cell comprising employing a first mirror comprising a first hole therein at approximately a center of the first mirror and through which laser light enters the cell, employing a second mirror comprising a second hole therein at approximately a center of the second mirror and through which laser light exits the cell, and forming a Lissajous pattern of spots on the mirrors by repeated reflection of laser light entering the cell. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678943 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801077 | Rentel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos H. Rentel (Sussex, Wisconsin); Luis R. Pereira (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Jose A. Gutierrez (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication system includes a wireless master node having a plurality of channels, and a number of wireless slave nodes having a plurality of the channels. The master node and the slave nodes are structured to wirelessly communicate over a particular channel. The master node and the slave nodes are structured to decide to hop to a different channel. The master node and the slave nodes are structured to select: (a) the different channel, in order to be as far away as possible from a number of the channels, which are known to cause interference to wireless communications between the master node and the slave nodes, or (b) the different channel, in order to be as close as possible to one of the channels of a different master node, which is compatible with the former master node, but without the different channel being employed by the different master node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857607 |
| ART UNIT | 2475 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801644 | Bruemmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Bruemmer (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Douglas A. Few (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for a generic robot architecture providing a framework that is easily portable to a variety of robot platforms and is configured to provide hardware abstractions, abstractions for generic robot attributes, environment abstractions, and robot behaviors. The generic robot architecture includes a hardware abstraction level and a robot abstraction level. The hardware abstraction level is configured for developing hardware abstractions that define, monitor, and control hardware modules available on a robot platform. The robot abstraction level is configured for defining robot attributes and provides a software framework for building robot behaviors from the robot attributes. Each of the robot attributes includes hardware information from at least one hardware abstraction. In addition, each robot attribute is configured to substantially isolate the robot behaviors from the at least one hardware abstraction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428729 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801850 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reagan W. Moore (San Diego, California); Arcot Rajasekar (Del Mar, California); Michael Y. Wan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of and method for maintaining data objects in containers across a network of distributed heterogeneous resources in a manner which is transparent to a client. A client request pertaining to containers is resolved by querying meta data for the container, processing the request through one or more copies of the container maintained on the system, updating the meta data for the container to reflect any changes made to the container as a result processing the request, and, if a copy of the container has changed, changing the status of the copy to indicate dirty status or synchronizing the copy to one or more other copies that may be present on the system. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751554 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801988 | Baumann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Baumann (Riverside, California); Alexandre V. Beloussov (San Bernardino, California); Julide Bakir (Alta Loma, California); Deganit Armon (Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Howard B. Olsen (Irvine, California); Dana Salem (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tiered communications architecture for managing network traffic in a distributed system. Communication between client or control computers and a plurality of hardware devices is administered by agent and monitor devices whose activities are coordinated to reduce the number of open channels or sockets. The communications architecture also improves the transparency and scalability of the distributed system by reducing network mapping dependence. The architecture is desirably implemented in a proton beam therapy system to provide flexible security policies which improve patent safety and facilitate system maintenance and development. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167893 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07802025 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Croton on Hudson, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Esslingen, Germany); Pavlos Vranas (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A parallel computer system is constructed as a network of interconnected compute nodes to operate a global message-passing application for performing communications across the network. Each of the compute nodes includes one or more individual processors with memories which run local instances of the global message-passing application operating at each compute node to carry out local processing operations independent of processing operations carried out at other compute nodes. Each compute node also includes a DMA engine constructed to interact with the application via Injection FIFO Metadata describing multiple Injection FIFOs where each Injection FIFO may containing an arbitrary number of message descriptors in order to process messages with a fixed processing overhead irrespective of the number of message descriptors included in the Injection FIFO. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768795 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07802193 | McDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. McDonald (Albuquerque, New Mexico); T. Scott Gladwell (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert J. Anderson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Machine motion is directed using a graphical interface by establishing an icon in an image, displaying the icon in images having perspectives such that the icon is rendered in a corresponding relative position in the second images and moving the icons in the second images when the icon is moved in the first image, the movement being constrained along a line projected from a camera point associated with the first image and a target destination. Actions are defined using the icon and a set of action descriptors. The dominant motion space is constrained to a spherical coordinate frame centered on a vision locus and machine motions are mapped to coincide therewith based on a graphical interface view. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/758139 |
| ART UNIT | 2173 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/757 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bazhang Yu (Tampa, Florida); Francis Moussy (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a polymer membrane enhanced with cured epoxy resin for use as the outer membrane of biosensors. The membrane includes approximately 30-80% epoxy resin adhesives, 10-60% polymer such as poly(vinyl chloride), polycarbonate and polyurethane and 0-30% plasticizers and 5-15% surface modifier reagent such as polyethylene oxide-containing block copolymers. Utilizing the polymer membrane of the present invention, a three-layered sensing element has been developed. This sensing element will be particularly useful for miniaturized biosensors used for in vitro blood measurements or for continuous in vivo monitoring such as implantable biosensors. This element includes an enzyme layer, an interference-eliminating layer and the novel polymer member of the present invention as the outer polymer layer. This novel sensing element shows excellent response characteristics in solutions and has an extremely long lifetime. This technology is particularly useful for improving the lifetime of implantable biosensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015614 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799519 | Caprioli |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Caprioli (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a proteomic approach to grading gliomas, and for predicting patient survival. In addition to employing global protein expression patterns, such as by mass spectrometry, particular target proteins whose expression is altered in various gliomas can be used to predict the stage/classification of a glioma, as well as to indicate whether a given patient will be a short- or long-term survivor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/428755 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799521 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chen and Chen, LLC (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuqi Chen (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for processing a biological sample includes a processing unit having at least one opening to receive a sample vessel and a plurality of processing stations positioned along the opening. The processing stations each have a compression member adapted to compress the sample vessel within the opening and thereby move a substance within the sample vessel among the processing stations. An energy transfer element can be coupled to one or more of the processing stations for transferring thermal energy to the content at a processing station. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/241816 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Howe (Essex Junction, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A phosphoprotein detection reagent that selectively binds phosphoamino acids. Methods of generating and employing the reagent are also provided, as are methods of detecting modulation of protein phosphorylation are disclosed. Methods of detecting a change in state of a cell are also disclosed. Additionally, a kit for the detection of phosphoproteins is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719990 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 07799535 | Lindquist |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ARCH Development Corporation (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Lindquist (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a yeast cell based system for determining factors that control the folding of amyloid proteins of diverse origins. Further the present invention provides methods of using such a system to screen for reagents that affect amyloid formation, a process that is integral to several devastating human disease including Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), Gertsmann-Straussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome, and kuru. The system of the present invention provides a rapid screening system to quickly and cheaply identify reagents that affect the folding and aggregation properties of the target protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/207649 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799538 | Lienhard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gustav E. Lienhard (Hanover, New Hampshire); Susan Kane (Beverly, Massachusetts); Cristinel P. Miinea (Whitehall, Pennsylvania); Hiroyuki Sano (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for identifying agents that modulate the GTPase activity of AS160. In the instant assay, AS160 or the GAP domain thereof is contacted with a test agent, in the presence of GTP-bound Rab (2A, 8A, 8B, 10, or 14), and the AS160 GAP domain-mediated hydrolysis of GTP to GDP is monitored. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/817819 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
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| US 07799539 | Farb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Farb (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Nader Yaghoubi (Boston, Massachusetts); Terrell T. Gibbs (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Cellular physiology workstations for automated data acquisition and perfusion control are described. The cellular physiology workstation may be used for physiological and electrophysiological experiments. Methods for employing such cellular physiology workstations in physiological and electrophysiological experiments are also disclosed. The cellular physiology workstations comprise one or more recording chambers each for holding one or more cells to be measured. One or more cells are place in each recording chamber. Perfusions means, such as an automatic perfusion system is connected to the recording chamber to perfuse the cells with a plurality of solutions containing different concentration of one or more agents to be tested. Biosensors, such as patch clamps, electrodes, or microscopes are positioned to detect a response from the cell. The cellular physiology workstation may optionally comprise injecting means for introducing an injection solution into the cell before and during analysis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/824829 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799553 | Mathies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Mathies (Moraga, California); Robert Blazej (Berkeley, California); Chung Liu (Albany, California); Palani Kumaresan (Berkeley, California); Stephanie H. I. Yeung (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for genome analysis are provided. A microfabricated structure including a microfluidic distribution channel is configured to distribute microreactor elements having copies of a sequencing template into a plurality of microfabricated thermal cycling chambers. A microreactor element may include a microcarrier element carrying the multiple copies of the sequencing template. The microcarrier element may comprise a microsphere. An autovalve at an exit port of a thermal cycling chamber, an optical scanner, or a timing arrangement may be used to ensure that only one microsphere will flow into one thermal cycling chamber wherein thermal cycling extension fragments are produced. The extension products are captured, purified, and concentrated in an integrated oligonucleotide gel capture chamber. A microfabricated component separation apparatus is used to analyze the purified extension fragments. The microfabricated structure may be used in a process for performing sequencing and other genetic analysis of DNA or RNA. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/139018 |
| 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 435/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799560 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wilson Wolf Manufacturing Corporation (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Wilson (New Brighton, Minnesota); Daniel P. Welch (New Brighton, Minnesota); Alison Robeck (New Brighton, Minnesota); Douglas A. Page (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A versatile compartmentalized cell culture device, with a selectively permeable membrane separating the compartments, provides many attributes relative to traditional devices. It can be configured for high-density cell culture, co-culture, and sample dialysis while rolling or standing still. It can also be configured for continuous movement of liquid between compartments. The wide combination of attributes not found in other membrane based cell culture and bioprocessing devices includes more cell capacity, more cell secreted product capacity, higher cell and product density, increased medium capacity, minimized use of exogenous growth factors, compatibility with standard cell culture equipment and protocols, increased scale up efficiency, capacity to function when rolling or standing still, capacity for perfusion without the need for pumps, and more efficient sample dialysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985339 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/297.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799755 | Harn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald A. Harn (Pembroke, Massachusetts); Palanivel Velupillai (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modulating immune responses are provided. The methods involve contacting an immune cell with an agent that modulates interaction of a compound comprising a Lewis antigen with the immune cell such that production by the immune cell of at least one cytokine that regulates development of a T helper type 1 or T helper type 2 response is modulated. In one embodiment, the agent is a stimulatory form of a compound comprising a Lewis antigen, such as a Lewisy, Lewisx or Lewisa oligosaccharide, or a derivative thereof. In another embodiment, the agent is an inhibitory form of a compound comprising a Lewis antigen, such as a Lewisy, Lewisx or Lewisa oligosaccharide, or a derivative thereof. In various embodiments, the immune cell is a human immune cell, a macrophage or a T cell. Pharmaceutical compositions for modulating immune responses are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484840 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799757 | Chorev et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Chorev (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Michael Rosenblatt (Newton Centre, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel parathyroid hormone analogs and parathyroid hormones-related protein analogs are described. Further, methods of using these analogs to treat osteoporosis, promote the formation of bone, and inhibit bone loss are described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/516224 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799794 | Kivlighn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. (Rahway, New Jersey); University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Salah Kivlighn (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Richard Johnson (Bellaire, Texas); Marilda Mazzali (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for treating and preventing hypertension by administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agent capable of reducing uric acid levels in a patient in need of such treatment. Additionally, the scope of the invention includes a method of treating coronary heart disease by administering a therapeutically effective amount of an agent capable of reducing uric acid levels in a patient in need of such treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/892505 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/262.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799826 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Smith (San Diego, California); Fumiko Axelrod (San Diego, California); Steven J. Kridel (Clemmons, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods of treating a cancer in a subject by administering an effective amount of a beta-lactone to the subject. The invention also features methods of inhibiting angiogenesis in a subject by administering an effective amount of an inhibitor of fatty acid synthase to the subject. These methods can be used to treat a variety of cancers and other diseases and conditions. The invention also features methods of identifying beta-lactones and other compounds that can be used in the methods of the invention for the treatment of tumors, inhibition of angiogenesis, and the treatment of diseases and conditions that involve pathological angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/418513 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/449 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799896 | Costa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Costa (Oak Park, Illinois); Pradip Raychaudhuri (Oak Park, Illinois); Xinhe Wang (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Vladimir Kalinichenko (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Michael Major (Chicago, Illinois); I-Ching Wang (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor cell proliferation by inhibiting FoxM1B activity, expression, or nuclear localization in a tumor cell. The invention also provides methods for preventing tumor progression in an animal comprising inhibiting FoxM1B activity, expression, or nuclear localization. Furthermore, the invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor cell growth in an animal comprising inhibiting FoxM1B activity, expression, or nuclear localization in tumor cells in the animal. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/150756 |
| 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 07799910 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Lianhe Yu (Highpoint, North Carolina); Patchanita Thamyongkit (Bangkok, Thailand); Anil D. Bhise (Pune, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a compound of Formula I′ comprises reacting a compound of the formula DLCHO, with a compound of the formula to produce the compound of Formula I′. Methods of using the compounds are also described, particularly as intermediates for the synthesis of porphyrin rods, which porphyrin rods are in turn useful for (among other things) the production of molecular memory devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/324719 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800368 | Vaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Thomas Vaughan (Stillwater, Minnesota); Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lance DelaBarre (St. Anthony, Minnesota); Christopher C. Olson (Minneapols, Minnesota); Heather Orser (Farmington, Minnesota); Anand Gopinath (Wayzata, Minnesota); Kamil Ugurbil (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Carl Snyder (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Gregor Adiany (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Can E. Akgun (Woodbury, Minnesota); Jinfeng Tian (Minneapolis, Minnesota); John Strupp (Coon Rapids, Minnesota); Peter M. Andersen (Maple Plain, Minnesota); Xiaoping Wu (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance system is disclosed. The system includes a transceiver having a multichannel receiver and a multichannel transmitter, where each channel of the transmitter is configured for independent selection of frequency, phase, time, space, and magnitude, and each channel of the receiver is configured for independent selection of space, time, frequency, phase and gain. The system also includes a magnetic resonance coil having a plurality of current elements, with each element coupled in one to one relation with a channel of the receiver and a channel of the transmitter. The system further includes a processor coupled to the transceiver, such that the processor is configured to execute instructions to control a current in each element and to perform a non-linear algorithm to shim the coil. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707560 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800616 | Said et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasmin H. Said (Clarksburg, Maryland); Edward J. Wegman (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Using stochastic directed graphs, a social network stochastic directed graph model allows for policy analysis and action. An activity generator may be used for creating agents that represent a population stratum. Agents may be proportionally selected to the size of the population stratum and representative activities that are associated with said population stratum. Agents have one or more conditional probabilities attached to the activities, which indicate the likelihood of interaction between agents and one or more agents or actors. Outcomes for the interactions may be accumulated. Based on these outcomes, which include benign and acute, a multinomial probability distribution may be estimated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/679403 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800746 | Backman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Yang Liu (Somerset, New Jersey); Young Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Michael Goldberg (Highland Park, Illinois); Randall Brand (Highland Park, Illinois); Prabhakar Pradhan (Evanston, Illinois); Hariharan Subramanian (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for identifying refractive-index fluctuations of a target are described in this application. One embodiment includes identifying one or more properties of emergent light, the emergent light to be emergent from a target, and determining refractive-index fluctuations of the target based on the one or more properties of the emergent light. The determining refractive-index fluctuations further comprises determining one or more of the variance of the refractive-index fluctuations and the spatial correlation length of the refractive-index fluctuations. The determining refractive-index fluctuations further comprises determining one or more of the variance of the refractive-index fluctuations and the spatial correlation length of the refractive-index fluctuations. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891877 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800750 | Bustamante et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos J. Bustamante (Berkeley, California); Steven B. Smith (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical trap (and alignment device) having a light source for generating first and second light beams, and a pair of lenses for focusing the light beams to a trap region in a counter-propagating manner for trapping a particle in the trap region. A light source illuminates the trap region with a third beam of light, and a camera is positioned for capturing a portion of each of the first, second and third light beams. Actuators exert forces on generally rigid portions of optical fiber used to deliver the first and second light beams to the trap region, such that the generally rigid portions pivot about pivot points located at supported members from which the optical fibers extend. Position sensitive detectors measure the position of the beams leaving the optical fibers, and feed position signals back to the actuator drivers to ensure proper positioning of the beams. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840875 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd W. Murray (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Claire Prada (Paris, France); Oluwaseyi Balogun (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser-based ultrasonic technique for the inspection of thin plates and membranes employs an amplitude-modulated laser source to excite narrow bandwidth Lamb waves. The dominant feature in the acoustic spectrum is a sharp resonance peak that occurs at the minimum frequency of the first-order symmetric Lamb mode, where the group velocity of the Lamb wave goes to zero while the phase velocity remains finite. Experimental results with the laser source and receiver on epicenter demonstrate that the zero group velocity resonance generated with a low power modulated excitation source can be detected using an optical probe such as a Michelson interferometer coupled to a lock-in amplifier. This resonance peak is sensitive to the thickness and mechanical properties of plates and may be suitable, for example, for the measurement and mapping of nanoscale thickness variations. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588823 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/597 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799243 | Mather et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick T. Mather (Chagrin Falls, Ohio); Ingrid A. Rousseau (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Haihu Qin (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Shape memory main-chain smectic-C elastomers are described, as are methods for their preparation and monomers used in such methods. The elastomers are prepared by hydrosilylation of a reaction mixture including a liquid crystalline diene, a crosslinking agent, and a bis(silyl hydride) compound. The elastomers exhibit shape-memory properties and spontaneously reversible shape changes. They are useful for fabrication of shape memory articles including, for example, implantable medical devices, contact lenses, reversible embossing media, and Fresnel lenses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420090 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799251 | Therriault et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Therriault (Rimouski, Canada); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois); Scott R. White (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices that include hosts having internal microcapillary networks are disclosed. The microcapillary networks are formed from interconnected passageways. The interconnected passageways may be formed by removing a fugitive material from a cured host material that forms the host. The resultant host material has many applications, including use as a microfluidic device in applications ranging from fluid mixing to structural repair. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/558084 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799423 | Majidi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmel Majidi (Berkeley, California); Richard Groff (Berkeley, California); Ronald S. Fearing (Orinda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are fabricated microstructures to adhere in shear to a contact surface. A fabricated microstructure comprises a substrate and a plurality of nano-fibers attached to the substrate. The nano-fibers have an elasticity modulus E, an interfacial energy per unit length of contact w, a length L, a radius R, and are oriented at an angle θo relative to the substrate. The length L of the nano-fibers is greater than 0.627θoR2(E/w)1/2 with θo in radians. Also described herein is a method of forming a fabricated microstructure to adhere in shear to a contact surface and a method of adhering in shear a fabricated microstructure to a contact surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/281768 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/343 |
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| US 07799516 | Kohl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia); SueAnn Bidstrup Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Xiaoqun Wu (Wilmington, Delaware); Clifford Lee Henderson (Douglasville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymers, methods of use thereof, and methods of decomposition thereof, are provided. One exemplary polymer, among others, includes, a photodefinable polymer having a sacrificial polymer and a photoinitiator. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/686697 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/330 |
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| US 07799552 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiep-Hoa T. Nguyen (Santa Ana, California); Sunney I. Chan (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Among the inventions disclosed herein are: nucleic acid expression systems for bacteria having an intracytoplasmic membrane system, including, for example, methanotrophic bacteria; recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising a pmo promoter operably linked to an expressible nucleic acid; cloning vectors suitable for making recombinant nucleic acid constructs and methods for the production of proteins such as membrane proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, July 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210895 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/253.100 |
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| US 07799554 | Mazumdar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debapriya Mazumdar (Urbana, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Urbana, Illinois); Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An analytical test for an analyte comprises (a) a base, having a reaction area and a visualization area, (b) a capture species, on the base in the visualization area, comprising nucleic acid, and (c) analysis chemistry reagents, on the base in the reaction area. The analysis chemistry reagents comprise (i) a substrate comprising nucleic acid and a first label, and (ii) a reactor comprising nucleic acid. The analysis chemistry reagents can react with a sample comprising the analyte and water, to produce a visualization species comprising nucleic acid and the first label, and the capture species can bind the visualization species. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686601 |
| 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 435/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07799903 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Luo (Ithaca, New York); Yougen Li (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the design and use of nucleic acid molecules to create novel materials. The present invention further related to the use of DNA as building block for DNA-materials that are of high yield and purity and that can be incorporated into larger structures. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/738849 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07800746 | Backman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Yang Liu (Somerset, New Jersey); Young Kim (West Lafayette, Indiana); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Michael Goldberg (Highland Park, Illinois); Randall Brand (Highland Park, Illinois); Prabhakar Pradhan (Evanston, Illinois); Hariharan Subramanian (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for identifying refractive-index fluctuations of a target are described in this application. One embodiment includes identifying one or more properties of emergent light, the emergent light to be emergent from a target, and determining refractive-index fluctuations of the target based on the one or more properties of the emergent light. The determining refractive-index fluctuations further comprises determining one or more of the variance of the refractive-index fluctuations and the spatial correlation length of the refractive-index fluctuations. The determining refractive-index fluctuations further comprises determining one or more of the variance of the refractive-index fluctuations and the spatial correlation length of the refractive-index fluctuations. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891877 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800750 | Bustamante et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos J. Bustamante (Berkeley, California); Steven B. Smith (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical trap (and alignment device) having a light source for generating first and second light beams, and a pair of lenses for focusing the light beams to a trap region in a counter-propagating manner for trapping a particle in the trap region. A light source illuminates the trap region with a third beam of light, and a camera is positioned for capturing a portion of each of the first, second and third light beams. Actuators exert forces on generally rigid portions of optical fiber used to deliver the first and second light beams to the trap region, such that the generally rigid portions pivot about pivot points located at supported members from which the optical fibers extend. Position sensitive detectors measure the position of the beams leaving the optical fibers, and feed position signals back to the actuator drivers to ensure proper positioning of the beams. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840875 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801804 | Peters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Peters (San Francisco, California); Yinyu Ye (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A convex parimutuel call auction implemented at a central market organizer computer includes receiving orders from market participants, calculating a quantity of accepted bids for each of the orders, and communicating to the participants the calculated quantity of accepted bids for each of the orders. Each order includes a specification by a participant of contingent claims on outcomes of a future event, a limit bid price, and a limit bid quantity. The calculation involves maximizing an objective function given by an approximate profit to the market organizer plus a weighted logarithmic penalty function. Because the formulation is convex, the solution may be computed in polynomial time using standard techniques, such as a path-following algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/974169 |
| ART UNIT | 3693 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07797808 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Zhang (Schenectady, New York); Sandeep Shrikant Tonapi (Niskayuna, New York); Ryan Christopher Mills (Rexford, New York); Arun Virupaksha Gowda (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for making a thermal interface structure is provided. The method may include disposing a thermal transport layer on a resin layer to form a stacked structure, and slicing the stacked structure to form a cross-sectional slice having a first exposed portion of the thermal transport layer on a first surface of the slice, and a second exposed portion of the thermal transport layer on the second surface of the slice. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/247113 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/458 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07798199 | Forbes Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin M. Forbes Jones (Charlotte, North Carolina); Sterry A. Shaffer (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleated casting apparatus including an atomizing nozzle configured to produce a droplet spray of a metallic material, a mold configured to receive the droplet spray and form a preform therein, and a gas injector which can limit, and possibly prevent, overspray from accumulating on the mold. The gas injector can be configured to produce a gas flow which can impinge on the droplet spray to redirect at least a portion of the droplet spray away from a side wall of the mold. In various embodiments, the droplet spray may be directed by the atomizing nozzle in a generally downward direction and the gas flow may be directed in a generally upward direction such that the gas flow circumscribes the perimeter of the mold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949808 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801126 | Blanton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Blanton (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for encoding packet interdependency in a packet data stream. In one embodiment, the scheme comprises providing, for each packet in the packet data stream, a dependency relationship field associated therewith; and representing dependency of a first packet on a second packet of the packet data stream by a binary code in the dependency relationship field of the first packet, the binary code for describing the dependency as a subset relationship between the first and second packets. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/182234 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801723 | Kaplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Kaplan (Palo Alto, California); Richard Crouch (Cupertino, California); Daniel G. Bobrow (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are presented to determine user-interest sensitive condensations of a passage. One or more passages are selected and user interest information, condensation transformations and optional meaning distortion constraints are identified. The foci of user interest within the selected passages are determined based the similarity of the elements in the selected passages to elements in the user interest information. The condensation transformations are applied to the selected passages to preferentially retain user foci while eliding less salient information. The resultant condensate provides signals the user-interest sensitive meaning of the passage. Meaning distortions constraints are optionally applied in conjunction with the condensation transformations or in creating the condensation transformations to reduce the likelihood of distorting the meaning of the passage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/999792 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07798392 | Potter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas C. Potter (Oak Hill, Virginia); Christopher M. Stratton (Springfield, Virginia); Hernan A. Borja (Merrifield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A one and two-way disc mailer for mailing DVDs, CDs, video game discs, or other discs from a sender to a recipient via first class mail. The disc mailer provides improved protection to the disc during mail processing while weighing less than or equal to 1 ounce, including the weight of the disc, for first-class compatibility. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953452 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes 229/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801925 | Dearing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Dearing (Cordova, Tennessee); David J. Payne (Collierville, Tennessee); James D. Wilson (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for electronically correcting uncoded addresses include collecting uncoded addresses in an uncoded address database, sorting uncoded addresses by postal code, automatically emailing delivery personnel to notify them they have records to resolve, limiting personnel's access to various postal codes, correcting and/or adjusting the address, determining whether the corrected address delivery point validates, and if no match can be made after correcting and/or adjusting the address, sending the address to a delivery unit with Delivery Force Knowledge™ to correct the address and return the correction for delivery point validation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/312390 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/802 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07802093 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia); Jon L. Cook (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital certificate is provided to a customer having an electronic account linked to the customer's physical address. Using the digital certificate, the customer performs electronic transactions with a third party. A proofing workstation receives a request from a third party to validate the digital certificate. The proofing workstation communicates with a proofing server that maintains a list of valid certificates and a list of revoked certificates. The proofing server sends a response to the proofing workstation, where it is received by the third party. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/219269 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07802291 | Campbell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method that establishes a network node containing public and private information related to a plurality of geographic zones or ZIP Codes; receives a request from a user to access the node (1004); enables the user to view the information related to a zone; receives a user selection of private or public informaton (1008). If private information is selected, determines whether the user is a resident of a geographic area corresponding to the zone (1016); and modifies the user information contained in the node for the zone in response to a user request, it is determined that the user resides in the geographic area corresponding to the zone. If the public information is selected (1010), in response to the user's request, searches the public information (1012) and providing the user with general information relevant to the zone (1012). |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/362805 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07800040 | Blacksberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jordana Blacksberg (La Canada, California); Michael Eugene Hoenk (Valencia, California); Shouleh Nikzad (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for growing a back surface contact on an imaging detector used in conjunction with back illumination. In operation, an imaging detector is provided. Additionally, a back surface contact (e.g. a delta-doped layer, etc.) is grown on the imaging detector utilizing a process that is performed at a temperature less than 450 degrees Celsius. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859470 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800753 | Hug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Photon Systems (Covina, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. Hug (Covina, California); Ray D. Reid (Covina, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Spectroscopic chemical analysis methods and apparatus are disclosed which employ deep ultraviolet (e.g. in the 200 nm to 300 nm spectral range) electron beam pumped wide bandgap semiconductor lasers, incoherent wide bandgap semiconductor light emitting devices, and hollow cathode metal ion lasers to perform non-contact, non-invasive detection of unknown chemical analytes. These deep ultraviolet sources enable dramatic size, weight and power consumption reductions of chemical analysis instruments. Chemical analysis instruments employed in some embodiments include capillary and gel plane electrophoresis, capillary electrochromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, flow cytometry, flow cells for liquids and aerosols, and surface detection instruments. In some embodiments, Raman spectroscopic detection methods and apparatus use ultra-narrow-band angle tuning filters, acousto-optic tuning filters, and temperature tuned filters to enable ultra-miniature analyzers for chemical identification. In some embodiments Raman analysis is conducted simultaneously with native fluorescence spectroscopy to provide high levels of sensitivity and specificity in the same instrument. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399743 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07801687 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Li (San Jose, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for using modified single wall carbon nanotubes (“SWCNTs”) to detect presence and/or concentration of a gas component, such as a halogen (e.g., Cl2), hydrogen halides (e.g., HCl), a hydrocarbon (e.g., CnH2n+2), an alcohol, an aldehyde or a ketone, to which an unmodified SWCNT is substantially non-reactive. In a first embodiment, a connected network of SWCNTs is coated with a selected polymer, such as chlorosulfonated polyethylene, hydroxypropyl cellulose, polystyrene and/or polyvinylalcohol, and change in an electrical parameter or response value (e.g., conductance, current, voltage difference or resistance) of the coated versus uncoated SWCNT networks is analyzed. In a second embodiment, the network is doped with a transition element, such as Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ru, Os and/or Au, and change in an electrical parameter value is again analyzed. The parameter change value depends monotonically, not necessarily linearly, upon concentration of the gas component. Two general algorithms are presented for estimating concentration value(s), or upper or lower concentration bounds on such values, from measured differences of response values. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178079 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07799573 | Deans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Normadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Deans (Grafton, Massachusetts); Aimee Rose (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kevin M. Bardon (Marshfield, Massachusetts); Lawrence F. Hancock (North Andover, Massachusetts); Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a series of systems, devices, and methods relating to the determination of explosives, such as peroxides or peroxide precursors, and other species. Embodiments of the invention may allow a sample suspected of containing an explosive (e.g., a peroxide) or other species to interact with a reactant, wherein the sample may react and cause light emission from the reactant. Advantages of the present invention may include the simplification of devices for determination of peroxide-based explosives, wherein the devices are portable and, in some cases, disposable. Other advantages may include relative ease of fabrication and operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/784208 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800073 | Clothier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent Allen Clothier (Niskayuna, New York); Venkat Subramaniam Venkataramani (Clifton Park, New York); Sergio Paulo Martins Loureiro (Saratoga Springs, New York); Adrian Ivan (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Moldable neutron sensitive compositions containing an inorganic scintillating component, and neutron capture component, and a moldable resin component, are described. They are prepared with optimized compositions for maximized thermal neutron sensitivity. Methods for preparing such compositions, and articles and radiation detectors made from them are described as well. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949423 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07799552 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiep-Hoa T. Nguyen (Santa Ana, California); Sunney I. Chan (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Among the inventions disclosed herein are: nucleic acid expression systems for bacteria having an intracytoplasmic membrane system, including, for example, methanotrophic bacteria; recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising a pmo promoter operably linked to an expressible nucleic acid; cloning vectors suitable for making recombinant nucleic acid constructs and methods for the production of proteins such as membrane proteins. |
| FILED | Monday, July 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/210895 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/253.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07800751 | Silver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Sciences Incorporated (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel A. Silver (Santa Fe, New Mexico); David S. Bomse (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical cell and a method of operating an optical cell comprising employing a first mirror comprising a first hole therein at approximately a center of the first mirror and through which laser light enters the cell, employing a second mirror comprising a second hole therein at approximately a center of the second mirror and through which laser light exits the cell, and forming a Lissajous pattern of spots on the mirrors by repeated reflection of laser light entering the cell. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678943 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07799233 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei-Yin Wu (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Jun-Ru Wu (South Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating a target area with an ultrasound wave pattern, including: providing an ultrasound apparatus having an ultrasound wave generator operatively attached to a plurality of transducers, coupled to an immersible support and configured to emit an ultrasound wave; immersing the apparatus into a water environment; positioning the apparatus proximate to a target area to treat at least one in situ organism; and emitting a pattern of ultrasound waves from the transducers, the pattern of ultrasound waves additive in effect and emitted onto the target area to threat an in situ underwater organism. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/103421 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/748.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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