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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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| US 07810317 | Gomez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Precision Combustion, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Gomez (Orange, Connecticut); Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalytic burner wherein a liquid fuel is evaporated prior to catalytic combustion by employing an electrosprayer. The catalytic burner can be made into an electrical generator by the use of a thermal to electrical energy conversion (TEEC) module. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/401226 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07810326 | Taya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Minoru Taya (Mercer Island, Washington); Taishi Wada (Isezakichoujya-machi, Japan); Hsiu-hung Chen (Seattle, Washington); Masahiro Kusaka (Hyogo, Japan); Victor Cheng (Chandler, Arizona); Chiyuan Wang (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple embodiments of ferromagnetic shape memory alloy (FSMA) based torque actuators are described. These torque actuators include a magnetic trigger and an FSMA member, which when actuated by the magnetic trigger, produces a torque for rotating a member. Examples of magnetic triggers include hybrid magnetic triggers having at least one electromagnet and at least one permanent magnet. The FSMA member can be configured as a coil (or plate) spring and can be fabricated of a true FSMA alloy (i.e., an alloy that exhibits both ferromagnetic and shape memory properties) or of an FSMA composite that includes a ferromagnetic portion and an SMA portion. Several embodiments include a central orifice in which the FSMA member and an axial rod configured to rotate when actuated are disposed; the magnetic trigger system is disposed about the periphery of the orifice. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205794 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/527 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07810429 | Buckley 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) | Michael E. Buckley (Dahlgren, Virginia); Donald R. McClure (King George, Virginia); Jesse L. East, Jr. (Dahlgren, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A consumable flash tube for encapsulating igniter material in the propellant beds of propelling charges or rocket motors. The flash tube is constructed of a combustible, plastic material such as cellulose nitrate plastic or ethyl cellulose plastic. The combustible material is furnished with a filler of electrical charge dissipating material which renders the flash tube conductive. The conductive flash tube functions as an environmental housing and additionally as a grounded electrical conductor or Faraday shield so as to bleed off any inadvertent electrical charge presented to the flash tube and thus limit the charge transferred to the igniter material. Formation of the flash tube is by continuous extrusion of a mixture of the plastic material and electrical charge dissipating material into the shape of a hollow tube. After curing of the extruded tube, one end of the tube is flared to allow joining of the tube to a primer after the igniter material is positioned in the flash tube. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 1982 |
| APPL NO | 06/358131 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07810498 | Patterson |
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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 Patterson (Lynn Haven, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A volume expansion system increases the storage volume for breathing gas in a closed-circuit breathing gas apparatus. A flow controller is coupled to an inhalation side of the closed-circuit breathing gas apparatus and is also coupled to an expandable reservoir. The flow controller defines a first flow path that allows breathing gas in the inhalation side to automatically flow into the expandable reservoir when pressure in the inhalation side exceeds a threshold. The flow controller can also include the means to define a second flow path that allows on-demand return of the breathing gas in the expandable reservoir to the inhalation side of the breathing gas apparatus. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729087 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/204.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07810861 | Heinrichs |
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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) | Mark Heinrichs (Brielle, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A hoisting device includes a sling and first and second fork-pocket adaptors interconnected to the sling for engaging first and second fork pocket sets on opposite sides of a palletized structure. The first fork-pocket adaptor includes a first locking mechanism for mating with a corresponding locking feature of the first fork pocket set. In an exemplary embodiment, the first locking mechanism includes a retractable first engagement member at one end of the first fork-pocket adaptor for engaging a corresponding first locking feature of the first fork pocket set. The opposite end of the first fork-pocket adaptor includes a second locking mechanism with a second engagement member for engaging a corresponding second locking feature of the first fork pocket set. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973983 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/67.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811024 | Vendetti |
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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) | Vincent J. Vendetti (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An alignment and locking system includes a dovetailed male portion having partial female threads formed in a surface thereof, a housing having a dovetailed notch for slidingly receiving the male portion, and a screw assembly coupled to the housing. The screw assembly includes a rotatable rod having a threaded region that partially extends into the housing's notch. The threaded region includes a partially threaded portion and a fully threaded portion. The partially threaded portion is defined by (i) a first region that cannot engage the partial female threads of the male portion as it slides in the notch, and (ii) a second region that can engage the partial female threads of the male portion as it slides in the notch. The system is further configured to impart a biased rotational movement to the rod to align the first region of the partially threaded portion with the notch when the male portion is not engaged in the notch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250699 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Joints and connections 43/381 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811092 | Brown 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) | Christopher Allen Brown (Bloomington, Indiana); John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary electrical contact device includes a stationary member configured to be coupled to a base, and a rotatable member supported for rotation relative to the stationary member and defining a center opening. A raceway includes a plurality of axially spaced annular contact rings supported by one of the stationary member and the rotatable member. A blade tower includes a plurality of axially spaced blade assemblies and is supported by the other of the rotatable member and the stationary member. Each blade assembly includes a radially extending contact blade in electrical communication with one of the axial spaced contact rings of the raceway. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546068 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811132 | Carpenter 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) | Bruce M. Carpenter (Bloomington, Indiana); William J. Fegan (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A backshell for providing electromagnetic interference shielding between a shielded cable and an electrical connector. The backshell includes a housing defined by a first housing member coupled to a second housing member by a releasable coupler. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/469074 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/607.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811374 | Osborne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Osborne (Tacoma, Washington); Ronald R. Stephenson (Auburn, Washington); Kenneth A. Krienke (Seattle, Washington); Larry K. Olli (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for coating a surface includes a carrier and an indicator distributed throughout the carrier. The indicator is configured to modify an appearance of the coating. The indicator facilitates determining a thickness of the coating in response to the appearance of the coating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/213707 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/287.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811391 | Matzdorf 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) | Craig A. Matzdorf (California, Maryland); William C. Nickerson, Jr. (Hughesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention comprises an acidic aqueous solution for treating metal substrates to improve the adhesion bonding and corrosion protection of the metal surface which comprises effective amounts of water soluble trivalent chromium compounds, fluorozirconates, effective amounts of at least one corrosion inhibitors such as benzotriazole, fluorometallic compounds, zinc compounds, thickeners, surfactants, and at least about 0.001 mole per liter of the acidic solution of a polyhydroxy and/or carboxylic compound as a stabilizing agent for the aqueous solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116165 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811438 | Lean et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Armin R. Völkel (Mountain View, California); Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, California); Oliver Schmidt (Palo Alto, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); H. Ben Hsieh (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow cell is disclosed for collecting and concentrating a sample dispersed in a flowing medium. The collected sample can be selectively manipulated within the cell by the use of one or more traveling wave grids. The cells are particularly useful as bio-enrichment devices and can be utilized upstream of conventional analytical or detection instruments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/007121 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811443 | Bachman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Bachman (Irvine, California); Guann-Pyng Li (Irvine, California); Liang Wu (Rowland Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic dynamic vapor control system adapted to change the chemistry of small drops by dynamically controlling the vapor content surrounding the drops. The small volume surface area ratio makes this an efficient mechanism for controlling chemistry in nanovolumes. The system uses small reservoirs of material that can produce vapor on demand, and microfluidic channels that direct the vapor into a small chamber that holds a drop of the solution of interest. By changing the vapors that enter the chamber, the chemical composition of the drop can be modified. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/967913 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/687 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811479 | Drndic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sandra Zivanovic (Ruston, Louisiana); Difei Qi (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions including semiconducting polymers and quantum dot nanocrystals. Also disclosed are optoelectronic devices prepared from semiconducting polymers and quantum dot nanocrystals. Also are disclosed methods of increasing the quantum efficiency in optoelectronic devices and methods of generating a photocurrent. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348039 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/519.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811493 | Fanucci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael McAleenan (Georgetown, Maine); Andrew F. Paddock (Billerica, Massachusetts); Bradley L. Paquin (Dracut, Massachusetts); Richard Balonis (Harbour Island, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A joiner panel system is formed from a composite material and includes a panel attached to a deck by a coaming or shoe and attached at its upper edge by a curtain plate that fits around obstructions at the ceiling area. The shoe can be readily installed to an uneven steel deck by stud welding to reduce installation time or attached to a composite material deck. A curtain plate fabrication method uses a laser scan or close range photogrammetry of the overhead area to optimize and automate the cutting of curtain plate sections. The curtain plate sections can then be readily installed in the overhead area. A composite material panel to provide good flame, smoke and toxicity properties and good mechanical properties is formed from a phenolic resin foam material, micro-balloons to reduce the weight and density, and reinforcing fibers and powder material to improve the mechanical properties. The panel can be formed by a method in which the core and face skins are co-cured to provide a good bond. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947977 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/171.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811529 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Energy, Inc. (Long Beach, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Powell (Kennewick, Washington); Charles J. Call (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact hydrogen generator for use with fuel cells and other applications includes a hydrogen membrane reactor having a combustion chamber and a reaction chamber. The two chambers are have a fluid connection and a heat exchange relationship with one another. The hydrogen generation apparatus also includes a fuel supply, a fuel supply line for transporting fuel from the fuel supply to the reaction chamber, an oxygen supply, an oxygen supply line for transporting oxygen form the oxygen supply to the combustion chamber, as well as a tail gas supply line for transporting tail gas supply line for transporting tail gases form the reaction chamber, a combustion by-product line for transporting combustion by-products for the combustion chamber, and a reaction product line for transporting hydrogen from the reaction chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 23, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/476015 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811550 | Carpenter 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) | Everett E. Carpenter (Silver Spring, Maryland); Vincent Carpenter (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention comprises nanoparticles for use with biosensors. The nanoparticles have core/shell architecture. The nanoparticles can be detected by two means, magnetic and optical by virtue of the nanoparticles magnetic core and fluorescent semiconductor shell. Methods of making the nanoparticles and their composition are described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444818 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811558 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cellphire, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ho (Fairfax, Virginia); Cindy S. Orser (McLean, Virginia); Alan S. Rudolph (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions comprising freeze-dried platelets, microparticles, or both for use as a hemostat, such as for treating bleeding or injuries associated with bleeding. It also provides methods of treating injuries or wounds, and methods of causing blood to clot. Likewise, it provides methods of promoting healing of wounds or of healing wounds. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/202376 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811592 | Johnston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama); Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Johnston (Dallas, Texas); Katherine Stemke-Hale (Dallas, Texas); Kathryn F. Sykes (Dallas, Texas); Bernhard Kaltenboeck (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention relates to antigens and nucleic acids encoding such antigens obtainable by screening a Chlamydia genome. In more specific aspects, the invention relates to methods of isolating such antigens and nucleic acids and to methods of using such isolated antigens for producing immune responses. The ability of an antigen to produce an immune response may be employed in vaccination or antibody preparation techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/023437 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811635 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Vinayak P. Dravid (Glenview, Illinois); Ming Su (Evanston, Illinois); Xiaogang Liu (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method of fabricating organic/inorganic composite nanostructures on a substrate comprising depositing a solution having a block copolymer and an inorganic precursor on the substrate using dip pen nanolithography. The nanostructures comprises arrays of lines and/or dots having widths/diameters less than 1 micron. The present invention also includes a device comprising an organic/inorganic composite nanoscale region chemically bonded to a substrate, wherein the nanoscale region, wherein the nanoscale region has a nanometer scale dimension other than height. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847263 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811811 | Niehaus |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (Rootstown, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Niehaus (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to self-contained assay cassette for detecting a ligand in a sample. The assay cassette provides for turbulent flow and mixing of the sample with assay components, including receptors that bind to a ligand, optional microspheres capable of binding the receptors or to which other secondary receptors are attached, and liquid crystalline materials. The assay cassette also provides for laminar flow of the mixed sample into a detection chamber where complexes between a receptor, ligand, and optional microspheres, is detected as transmission of polarized light through the detection chambers. The invention also relates to methods for detecting a ligand in a sample using turbulent flow to mix the sample with assay components, including liquid crystalline materials, and laminar flow of the mixed sample such that the liquid crystalline material assumes an ordered conformation in absence of a ligand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422828 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811821 | Slukvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); Maryna E. Gumenyuk (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the culture of dendritic cells from human embryonic stem (ES) cells. Human ES cells are first cultured into hematopoietic cells by co-culture with stromal cells. The cells now differentiated into the hematopoietic lineage are then cultured with GM-CSF to create a culture of myeloid precursor cells. Culture of the myeloid precursor cells with the cytokines GM-CSF and IL-4 causes functional dendritic cells to be generated. The dendritic cells have a unique phenotype, as indicated by their combination of cell surface markers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/443608 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811844 | Carothers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Carothers (Oro Valley, Arizona); Craig M. Hill (Warrenton, Virginia); Andrew T. S. Pomerene (Leesburg, Virginia); Timothy J. Conway (Gainesville, Virginia); Rick L. Thompson (Amherst, New Hampshire); Vu A. Vu (Falls Church, Virginia); Robert Kamocsai (Manassas, Virginia); Joe Giunta (Warrenton, Virginia); Jonathan N. Ishii (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating photonic and electronic devices on a substrate is disclosed. Multiple slabs are initially patterned and etched on a layer of a substrate. An electronic device is fabricated on a first one of the slabs and a photonic device is fabricated on a second one of the slabs, such that the electronic device and the photonic device are formed on the same layer of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201943 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811906 | Bol et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ageeth A. Bol (Yorktown Heights, New York); Jack O. Chu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alfred Grill (Yorktown Heights, New York); Conal E. Murray (Yorktown Heights, New York); Katherine L. Saenger (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An in-place bonding method in which a metal template layer under a carbon layer is removed while the carbon layer is still attached to a substrate is described for forming a carbon-on-insulator substrate. In one embodiment of the in-place bonding method, at least one layered metal/carbon (M/C) region is formed on an insulating surface layer of an initial substrate structure. The at least one layered M/C region has edges that are bordered by exposed regions of the insulating surface layer. Some edges of the at least one layered M/C region are then secured to a base substrate of the initial structure via a securing structure, while other edges are left exposed. A selective metal etchant removes the metal layer under the carbon layer using the exposed edges for access. After metal etching, the now-unsupported carbon layer bonds to the underlying insulating surface layer by attraction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612331 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811918 | Dutta |
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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) | Indranath Dutta (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A conformal metallic layer is applied to a selected region of a substrate by forming a pattern of electrically conductive lines on the substrate, placing a bead of a selected metal on the substrate at an edge of the region selected for coating, and passing an electric current through the bead and through conductive lines that extend over the region of the substrate selected for coating with the electric current having a current density sufficient to melt the bead so that metallic material therefrom flows over the conductive lines to form the coating. A pair of electrically conductive connectors is placed in contact with the electrically conductive lines, and an electric power supply is connected to the pair of electrically conductive connectors such that electric current passes through the bead, melts the bead to form a liquid metal, and carries the liquid metal in a continuous stream along the conductive lines, coating the conductive lines conformally in the process. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/351614 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811943 | Carter, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin H. Carter, Jr. (Durham, North Carolina); Jason R. Jenny (Wake Forest, North Carolina); David P. Malta (Raleigh, North Carolina); Hudson M. Hobgood (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Valeri F. Tsvetkov (Durham, North Carolina); Mrinal K. Das (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is described for producing silicon carbide crystals having increased minority carrier lifetimes. The process includes the steps of heating and slowly cooling a silicon carbide crystal having a first concentration of minority carrier recombination centers such that the resultant concentration of minority carrier recombination centers is lower than the first concentration. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052679 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812069 | Costanzo 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) | Philip J. Costanzo (San Luis Obispo, California); Frederick L. Beyer, III (Rising Sun, Maryland); Robert E. Jensen (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A reversible viscosity reducing polymer is provided that has a crosslinkage between subunits inclusive of a single Diels-Alder Such a reversible viscosity reducing polymer is particularly well suited as a matrix material for a heterogeneous propellant. A process for forming a reversible viscosity reducing polymer inclusive of a single Diels-Alder linkage includes reacting a native crosslinkable moiety with a crosslinker moiety having a Diels-Alder reactive moiety of a diene or dienophile to form a Diels-Alder reactive moiety capped polymer subunit. The Diels-Alder reactive moiety capped polymer subunit is then exposed to a Diels-Alder reactant inclusive of a complementary Diels-Alder reactive moiety where the reactant also includes at least one conventional crosslinkable moiety to form a crosslinkable moiety capped polymer subunit. Reaction of the crosslinkable moiety capped polymer subunit is then reacted with a conventional multifunctional crosslinking agent. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254214 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812249 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard R. King (Thousand Oaks, California); James H. Ermer (Burbank, California); Peter C. Colter (Canyon Country, California); Chris Fetzer (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a photovoltaic cell comprising a GaInP subcell comprising a disordered group-III sublattice, a Ga(In)As subcell disposed below the GaInP subcell, and a Ge substrate disposed below the Ga(In)As subcell comprising a surface misoriented from a (100) plane by an angle from about 8 degrees to about 40 degrees toward a nearest (111) plane. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/413906 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812282 | Kuhn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terrel E. Kuhn (Mesa, Arizona); Sossity A. Flamand (Phoenix, Arizona); Gregory O. Woodcock (Mesa, Arizona); Rodolphe Dudebout (Phoenix, Arizona); Lowell Frye (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided of forming a plurality of fan-shaped effusion holes on a combustor having a surface, each hole having an outlet on the combustor surface. The method may include rotating the combustor relative to a laser beam, and positioning the combustor to a first position where the laser beam is at a first predetermined angle relative to the combustor surface. The laser beam is pulsed at the combustor surface to form a first plurality of trepan cuts. The first predetermined angle is adjusted to a second position where the laser beam is at a second predetermined angle relative to the combustor surface. The laser beam is pulsed at each trepan cut of the first plurality of trepan cuts, to thereby form a cut for at least a portion of the fan shape of each effusion hole outlet, wherein each cut overlaps a trepan cut of the first plurality of trepan cuts. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835137 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812303 | Meyers 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) | Ronald E. Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith S. Deacon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment comprises a method and system for generating an image of a subject or area comprising a processor; at least one incoherent light source which illuminates the subject or area; a first receiver for receiving light reflected from the subject or area operatively connected to the processor; a second receiver for receiving light from at least one incoherent light source operatively connected to the processor; the first receiver collecting the amount of light reflected from the subject and transmit a value at specific intervals of time; the second receiver comprising a second detector which detects and transmits spatial information regarding the incoherent light source independent of any data concerning the subject at specific intervals of time; wherein the processor correlates the value transmitted by the first receiver with the spatial information derived from the second receiver at correlating intervals of time to create an image of the subject or area. Alternatively, sound or quantum particles may replace the incoherent light source. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330401 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812353 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao-Chih Yuan (Madison, Wisconsin); Guogong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark A. Eriksson (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul G. Evans (Madison, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for fabricating thin film electronic devices with both front- and backside processing capabilities. Using these methods, high temperature processing steps may be carried out during both frontside and backside processing. The methods are well-suited for fabricating back-gate and double-gate field effect transistors, double-sided bipolar transistors and 3D integrated circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/042066 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812366 | Sampath 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) | Anand Venktesh Sampath (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Charles J. Collins (Austin, Texas); Gregory Alan Garrett (Kensington, Maryland); H. Paul Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Michael Wraback (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An AlGaN composition is provided comprising a group III-Nitride active region layer, for use in an active region of a UV light emitting device, wherein light-generation occurs through radiative recombination of carriers in nanometer scale size, compositionally inhomogeneous regions having band-gap energy less than the surrounding material. Further, a semiconductor UV light emitting device having an active region layer comprised of the AlGaN composition above is provided, as well as a method of producing the AlGaN composition and semiconductor UV light emitting device, involving molecular beam epitaxy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376453 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812369 | Chini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Chini (Modena, Italy); Umesh K. Mishra (Santa Barbara, California); Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Yifeng Wu (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for fabricating single or multiple gate field plates using consecutive steps of dielectric material deposition/growth, dielectric material etch and metal evaporation on the surface of a field effect transistors. This fabrication process permits a tight control on the field plate operation since dielectric material deposition/growth is typically a well controllable process. Moreover, the dielectric material deposited on the device surface does not need to be removed from the device intrinsic regions: this essentially enables the realization of field-plated devices without the need of low-damage dielectric material dry/wet etches. Using multiple gate field plates also reduces gate resistance by multiple connections, thus improving performances of large periphery and/or sub-micron gate devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/570964 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812495 | Shiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sam Shiao (Cerritos, California); Dave Elpern (Los Angeles, California); Terry Morris (Garden Grove, California); Bob Dietrich (Montebello, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent magnet rotor for an electric motor may include a rotor assembly that will hold the magnets in place. A pair of rings is added to the sleeve to tightly engage and press against the end plates and the magnets. This configuration provides additional securement against axial and radially shifting of the magnets. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122353 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/156.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812932 | Bedwell 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) | Larry G. Bedwell (Dugger, Indiana); Michael E. Zimmer (Springville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A test station for testing a laser range finder is disclosed. The test station may be a mobile test station. The test station may include an optical system having a first portion which aligns an eyepiece of the test station to the laser range finder, a second portion which aligns the eyepiece to a first range target spaced apart from the test station, and a third portion which aligns the laser range finder to the first range target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/247742 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/4.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812946 | Killinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis K. Killinger (Temple Terrace, Florida); Anna Sharikova (Tampa, Florida); Vasanthi Sivaprakasam (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting trace levels of dissolved organic compounds and leached plastic compounds in drinking water includes the steps of employing deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode induced fluorescence at sensitivity levels of several parts per trillion in real time so that a more compact and inexpensive excitation source, relative to a deep UV laser-induced fluorescence, for fluorescence detection of dissolved organic compounds in water is provided. The deep UV light-emitting diode is operated at an excitation near 265 nm and the laser induced fluorescence is detected at an emission near 450 nm to 500 nm for the dissolved organic compounds and near 310 nm for leached plastic compounds. Optical absorption filters and optical bandpass filters are employed to reduce out-of-band light emitting diode emissions and to eliminate second order optical interference signals for the detection of a fluorescence signal near 450 nm to near 500 nm. The system can measure water contained within a quartz optical cell, within bottled water containers, or in a flowing stream of water. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926196 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813016 | Pu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ye Pu (Pasadena, California); Demetri Psaltis (St-Sulpice, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A harmonic holography (H2) technique and system that combines holography and nonlinear optics that enables holographic recording of 3D images with femtosecond framing time are provided. The H2 technique records holograms with second harmonic (SH) signals scattered off specialized nanocrystals that are functionalized to label specific protein or other biomolecules in a living organism. The capability of generating second harmonic radiations is specific to materials with noncentrosymmetric crystalline structures only, and χ(2) vanishes for all other types of materials. Therefore, a sharp contrast is formed when particles of noncentrosymmetric structures are dispersed in a medium of other species, pumped at a fundamental frequency, and imaged at the second harmonic frequency. The new scheme described herein provides a sound basis for a new type of contrast microscopy with enormous potential in molecular biomedical imaging. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/944068 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813160 | Drndic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Fischbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Memory devices and recordable media are disclosed that take advantage of memory effects in the electronic transport in CdSe nanocrystal (NC) quantum dot arrays. Conduction through a NC array can be reduced with a negative voltage and then restored with a positive voltage. Light can also be used to restore or even increase the NC array conduction. The switching of the conduction in CdSe NC arrays and found the behavior to be highly sensitive to the value and duration of the laser and voltage pulses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329471 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813223 | Snow 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) | Trevor Snow (Bloomington, Indiana); Jeffrey M. Snow (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to a method and system for finding and physically altering underground targets. Multiple nodes are dispersed into the ground and determine their spatial orientation using seismic waves, and then operate as an array to locate and properly time kinetic pulses to focus seismic waves on the target. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568452 |
| 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 367/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813326 | Kelm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bluetronix Inc. (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathon C. Kelm (Shaker Hts, Ohio); Mark J. Heiferling (Burton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A Swarm Autonomous Routing Algorithm (SARA) is performed by simple communication node devices for node to node communications in a network, especially a Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET). Each node maintains a table of pheromone values for known neighbor nodes. Pheromone values are dynamic for adapting to a dynamic arrangement of nodes, and are updated either passively or actively. Routing tables are not used. When a node receives a packet, it uses the pheromone table to simply determine whether or not to forward (rebroadcast) the packet to a neighbor node, and if possible, determines and indicates the best neighbor node for next forwarding the packet. Destination Zone Routing (DZR) and Swarm Location Service (SLS) are alternative enhancements of SARA that can be used for more efficient routing when nodes are location aware/knowledgeable. SLS may also be used to improve routing algorithms other than SARA. |
| FILED | Monday, November 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561634 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813341 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fu-Chung Chang (Rhinebech, New York); Carol L. Soto (Highland, New York); Jian Xiao (LaGrangeville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, computing node, and computer program storage product maintain network routing information. A first node receives a route status request from a second node. A status is stored at the first node indicating that a route from the second node to the first node is valid only in response to receiving the route status request. The first node transmits a route status reply to the second node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/021871 |
| ART UNIT | 2467 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813401 | Scherer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a photonic crystal laser including a photonic crystal slab laser cavity including InGaP/InGaAlP crystalline layers, the InGaP/InGaAlP crystalline layers having a relaxed strain at one or more etched surfaces and a higher strain at a plurality of quantum wells and at a distance from the one or more etched surfaces. The photonic crystal laser also includes electrical pads configured to receive an electrical signal the electrical pads attached to the photonic crystal slab laser cavity via an insulating layer, the photonic crystal laser configured to emit a laser light in response to the electrical signal. In another aspect, the invention features a photonic crystal detector including a photonic crystal slab cavity including InGaP/InGaAlP crystalline layers. In yet another aspect, the invention features a process to fabricate a photonic crystal laser cavity. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777904 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07813529 — Optical 3-d surface tomography using depth from focus of partially overlapping 2-d images
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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) | Meir Gershenson (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of reconstructing a three-dimensional image of an object is provided. The system includes a single camera including a pinhole lens and having a surface defining an image plane. The single camera can be arranged to move along a linear path relative to the object and is configured to capture images at predetermined locations along the linear path such that at least a portion of the captured adjacent images overlap. The system includes a processor that can be programmed with an image processing logic that enables the processor to create a three-dimensional image of the object. |
| FILED | Friday, November 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645269 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813581 | Fitzpatrick et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ben G. Fitzpatrick (Marina del Rey, California); Allen Robert Tannenbaum (Smyrna, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methodology for image processing and object tracking that, inter alia, reduces noise. In one embodiment, the methodology is applied to moving targets, and comprises processing sequences of images that have been corrupted by one or more noise sources (e.g., sensor noise, medium noise, and/or target reflection noise). A likelihood or similar logical construct (e.g., Bayes' rule) is applied to the individual images (or aggregations thereof) of an image sequence in order to generate a posterior image for each observed image. The posterior images are fed-forward to the determination of the posterior image for one or more subsequent images (after smoothing), thereby making these subsequent determinations more accurate. The net result is a more accurate and noise-reduced representation (and location) of the target in each image. |
| FILED | Friday, May 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/123445 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813918 | Muslea et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Language Weaver, Inc. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ion Muslea (El Segundo, California); Kevin Knight (Marina del Rey, California); Daniel Marcu (Hermosa Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A training system for text to text application. The training system finds groups of documents, and identifies automatically similar documents in the groups which are similar. The automatically identified documents can then be used for training of the text to text application. The comparison uses reduced size versions of the documents in order to minimize the amount of processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197744 |
| 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 |
| US 07814348 | Krajcovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Materials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason B. Krajcovic (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Timothy LaBreche (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Aaron Crumm (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, there is disclosed a power management device that includes a housing, at least one input port, and at least one output port. Also included is a CPU and a user interface. Electrical circuitry connects the ports, CPU and user interface. The CPU includes a real-time operating system and programs actively controlling a power usage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/739742 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07814462 | Husbands et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parry Jones Reginald Husbands (Albany, California); Long Yin Choy (Hong Kong, China PRC); Alan Edelman (Newton, Massachusetts); Eckart Jansen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Viral B. Shah (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a process may be performed in parallel on a parallel server by defining a data type that may be used to reference data stored on the parallel server and overloading a previously-defined operation, such that when the overloaded operation is called, a command is sent to the parallel server to manipulate the data stored on the parallel server. In some embodiments, the previously-defined operation that is overloaded may be an operation of an operating system. Further, in some embodiments, when the data stored on the parallel server is no longer needed, a command may be sent to the parallel server to reallocate the memory used to store the data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217114 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07814546 | Strayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts); Christine Elaine Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington); Isidro Marcos Castineyra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Regina Rosales Hain (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining the point of entry of a malicious packet into a network is disclosed. An intrusion detection system detects entry of the malicious packet into the network (500). A stepping stone detection system identifies stepping stones in extended connections within the network (524). A traceback engine isolates the malicious packet in response to operation of the intrusion detection system (528), wherein the traceback engine utilizes the identified stepping stones to determine the point of entry of the malicious packet. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077400 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Dam Soerensen (Smyrna, Georgia); Lakshmi Prasad Dasi (Atlanta, Georgia); Keren Pekkan (Athens, Georgia); Diane De Julien de Zelicourt (Atlanta, Georgia); Ajit P. Yoganathan (Tucker, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for use in the total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) in order to optimize its hemodynamics. Although the current procedure of choice for single ventricle heart repairs, the TCPC has reduced the post-operative mortality to the level of simpler types of congenital heart disease repairs, Fontan patients are still subjected to serious long-term complications. The TCPC procedure, which restores the vital separation between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, also leads to an increased workload for the remaining single ventricle, as it is now responsible for pumping the blood through both the systemic and pulmonary circulation. The present device reduces this workload by altering the surgically created design of the TCPC. Improved fluid mechanics and reduced energy dissipation at the connection site translates into less work for the single ventricle and improved transport of deoxygenated blood to the lungs, which may in turn contribute to improved post-operative results and quality of life. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/593855 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811437 | Kern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Faster Better Media LLC (Hunt Valley, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott E. Kern (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Jonathan R. Brody (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of low molarity conductive media based on non-buffering univalent cations, such as sodium chloride-sodium acetate (SCA), sodium boric acid (SB), lithium boric acid, and lithium acetate mitigate the “runaway” positive feedback heating loop produced by conventional media containing biological amine buffers and permit improved DNA electrophoresis under the conditions of low salt concentration. These media serve well in ultra-fast DNA electrophoresis and in high-resolution separations of RNA and DNA fragments. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543925 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/606 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811439 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Vincent R. Hill (Decatur, Georgia); Yolanda Fintschenko (Livermore, California); Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for monitoring sources of public water supply for a variety of pathogens by using a combination of ultrafiltration techniques together dielectrophoretic separation techniques. Because water-borne pathogens, whether present due to “natural” contamination or intentional introduction, would likely be present in drinking water at low concentrations when samples are collected for monitoring or outbreak investigations, an approach is needed to quickly and efficiently concentrate and separate particles such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites in large volumes of water (e.g., 100 L or more) while simultaneously reducing the sample volume to levels sufficient for detecting low concentrations of microbes (e.g., <10 mL). The technique is also designed to screen the separated microbes based on specific conductivity and size. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499371 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811559 | Lobel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Lobel (Highland Park, New Jersey); David Sleat (Scotch Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for treating a patient having disorder characterized by a deficient amount of functional CLN2 protein in the affected cells, which comprises administering to the patient an amount of CLN2 protein effective to reduce or eliminate the symptoms caused by the deficiency in CLN2 protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/507945 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811563 | Acton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Merck and Co., Inc. (Rahway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Acton (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); Zhiqiang An (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Bett (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Robert Breese (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); Elizabeth Chen Dodson (Souderton, Pennsylvania); Gene Kinney (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); William L Klein (Winetka, Illinois); Mary P. Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Xiaoping Liang (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Paul Shughrue (West Chester, Pennsylvania); William R. Strohl (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Kirsten Viola (Chicago, Illinois); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antibodies that differentially recognize multi-dimensional conformations of Aβ-derived diffusible ligands, also known as ADDLs. The antibodies of the invention can distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease and control human brain extracts and are useful in methods of detecting ADDLs and diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. The present antibodies also block binding of ADDLs to neurons, assembly of ADDLs, and tauphosphorylation and are there useful in methods for the preventing and treating diseases associated with soluble oligomers of amyloid β 1-42. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/577426 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811576 | Milich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Milich (Escondido, California); Jean-Noel Billaud (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to hepatitis virus core proteins and nucleic acids. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods comprising recombinant hepatitis virus core proteins or nucleic acids for use in vaccine formulations. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008059 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/189.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811578 | Eckert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Debra M. Eckert (Salt Lake City, Utah); Tara R. Suntoke (Pasadena, California); Peter S. Kim (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are chimeric peptides comprising a soluble trimeric coiled-coil and all or a portion of the N-peptide region of HIV gp41. These molecules are stable, trimeric coiled-coils that inhibit HIV entry into cells, such as human cells. Such peptides can be further assessed to demonstrate their ability to serve as potent anti-HIV therapeutic molecules and thus, as therapeutic molecules or drugs. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786764 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/192.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811580 | Barnett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Barnett (San Francisco, California); Indresh Srivastava (Benicia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Env-CD4 complexes and hybrids are disclosed that expose cryptic epitopes that are important in virus neutralization. Methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention using the polynucleotides and polypeptides are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/514055 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811750 | Shaughnessy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Shaughnessy (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | To identify molecular determinants of lytic bone disease in multiple myeloma, the expression profiles of ˜12,000 genes in CD138-enriched plasma cells from newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients exhibiting no radiological evidence of lytic lesions (n=28) were compared to those with ≧3 lytic lesions (n=47). Two secreted WNT signaling antagonists, soluble frizzled related protein 3 (SFRP-3/FRZB) and the human homologue of Dickkopf-1 (DKK1), were expressed in 40 of 47 with lytic bone lesions, but only 16 of 28 lacking bone lesions (P<0.05). DKK1 and FRZB were not expressed in plasma cells from 45 normal bone marrow donors or 10 Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, a related plasma cells malignancy that lacks bone disease. These data indicate that these factors are important mediators of multiple myeloma bone disease, and inhibitors of these proteins may be used to reduce tumor burden in multiple myeloma and to block bone disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588008 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 07811754 | Herron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James N. Herron (Salt Lake City, Utah); Samuel Tolley (Salt Lake City, Utah); Hsu-Kun Wang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes of interest are disclosed. A plurality of probes is immobilized on a planar waveguide. The probes comprise sequences complementary to a wildtype sequence of the gene of interest and complementary to a sequence of a known SNP in the gene of interest. A fluorescently-labeled analyte is flowed over the planar waveguide. The binding between the labeled analyte and each of the probes causes a change in the fluorescence signal. The SNP is detected by comparing the hybridization kinetics of the analyte with each of the probes. A method of detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms in a gene of interest by sequencing by hybridization is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/941289 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811755 | Bazan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Bin Liu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods, articles and compositions for the detection and analysis of biomolecules in a sample. Provided assays include those determining the presence of a target biomolecule in a sample or its relative amount, or the assays may be quantitative or semi-quantitative. The methods can be performed in an array format on a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329861 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811762 | Zuchner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan Zuchner (Pinecrest, Florida); Margaret Pericak-Vance (Coral Gables, Florida); Allison Ashley-Koch (Cary, North Carolina); Corey Braastad (Southampton, Massachusetts); Narasimhan Nagan (South Grafton, Massachusetts); Hui Zhu (Belmont, Massachusetts); Jeffrey G. Jones (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of identifying polymorphisms associated with hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG), are described. The polymorphisms associated with SPG include specific mutations in the receptor expression enhancing protein 1 (REEP1) gene. Also described are methods of diagnosis of SPG. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/729422 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811765 | Iovannisci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Iovannisci (Oakland, California); Edward J. Lammer (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for detecting a predisposition to an inflammation-mediated cardiovascular disease in a human subject by detecting a level of leukotriene C4 synthase (LTC4S) gene product in a sample from a human subject indicative of a predisposition to an inflammation-mediated cardiovascular disease or detecting the presence or absence of an allele of LTC4S indicative of a predisposition to an inflammation-mediated cardiovascular disease. In addition, the present invention also provides kits for practicing the methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871082 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811772 | Semmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | O. John Semmes (Newport News, Virginia); Gunjan Malik (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Ward (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a protein-based biomarker, ApoA-II isoform, that is useful in determining prostate cancer status in a patient. In particular, the biomarker of this invention is useful to classify a biological sample as prostate cancer or non-prostate cancer. The ability of ApoA-II to detect disease in patients with a normal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) makes the biomarker of this invention useful in identifying indolent disease. The biomarker can be detected by SELDI mass spectrometry, HPLC, PAGE and Western blotting. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/794838 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811778 | Goldenring |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashiville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Goldenring (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosing an upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancer in a subject by determining an amount of one or more biomarkers in a biological sample from the subject are provided. Methods for determining whether to initiate or continue prophylaxis or treatment of an upper GI cancer in a subject by determining any measurable change in the amounts of the at least one biomarker in each of a series of biological samples provided over a time period are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850555 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811801 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317034 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811803 | Madura |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiran Madura (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for rapidly and efficiently purifying proteasomes using fusion proteins having homology to ubiquitin. Also disclosed are methods for assessing aberrant cell growth utilizing fusion proteins have homology to ubiquitin and a signal producing moiety. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/442840 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811809 | Heyduk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri); Ling Tian (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally provides molecular biosensors. The molecular biosensors are useful in competition assays to detect the presence of a target molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836339 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811812 | Dubensky, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc. (Emeryville, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Dubensky, Jr. (Del Mar, California); John M. Polo (Encinitas, California); Barbara A. Belli (San Diego, California); Sondra Schlesinger (St. Louis, Missouri); Sergey A. Drvga (Fort Collins, Colorado); Ilya Frolov (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated nucleic acid molecules are disclosed, comprising an alphavirus nonstructural protein gene which, when operably incorporated into a recombinant alphavirus particle, eukaryotic layered vector initiation system, or RNA vector replicon, has a reduced level of vector-specific RNA synthesis, as compared to wild-type, and the same or greater level of proteins encoded by RNA transcribed from the viral junction region promoter, as compared to a wild-type recombinant alphavirus particle. Also disclosed are RNA vector replicons, alphavirus vector constructs, and eukaryotic layered vector initiation systems which contain the above-identified nucleic acid molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/391441 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811813 | Garren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Bayhill Therapeutics, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hideki Garren (Palo Alto, California); Peggy P. Ho (Cupertino, California); Lawrence Steinman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating or preventing disease comprising the administration of immune modulatory nucleic acids having one or more immune modulatory sequences (IMSs). The invention further relates to the means and methods for the identification of the IMSs for preventing or treating disease, more particularly the treatment and prevention of autoimmune or inflammatory diseases. The invention also relates to the treatment or prevention of disease comprising the administration of the immune modulatory nucleic acids alone or in combination with a polynucleotide encoding self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s). The present invention also relates to methods and compositions for treating diseases in a subject associated with one or more self-protein(s), -polypeptide(s) or -peptide(s) that are present in the subject and involved in a non-physiological state. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/524643 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811814 | Bohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha C. Bohn (Chicago, Illinois); Lixin Jiang (Guangdong, China PRC); Neva C. West (Chicago, Illinois); Elio F. Vanin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A vector and a method are provided for delivering a nucleic acid to a nervous system cell. The vector includes a first nucleic acid, a second nucleic acid, inverted terminal repeats of adeno-associated virus, and a tetracycline-off regulatable promoter system that includes a first promoter operably linked to the first nucleic acid and a second promoter operably linked to the second nucleic acid. The promoters drive expression in opposite directions and away from the inverted terminal repeats. The method includes providing a recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) vector and administering the vector to a nervous system cell. Expression of a product from the first nucleic acid is regulatable by the promoter system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/211409 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811832 | Zacks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Zacks (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Joan W. Miller (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for maintaining the viability of photoreceptor cells following retinal detachment. The viability of photoreceptor cells can be preserved by administering an apoptosis inhibitor to a mammal having an eye with retinal detachment. The apoptosis inhibitor maintains the viability of the photoreceptor cells until such time that the retina becomes reattached to the underlying retinal pigment epithelium and choroid. The treatment minimizes the loss of vision, which otherwise may occur as a result of retinal detachment. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/892787 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811983 | Fu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yang-Xin Fu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutant LIGHT expressed in a tumor environment elicited high levels of chemokines and adhesion molecules, accompanied by massive infiltration of naïve T lymphocytes. Methods and compositions to elicit immune responses against tumors including tumor volume reduction and eradication of metastasis using mutant LIGHT are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/500177 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811987 | Szeto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hazel H. Szeto (New York, New York); Shaoyl Liu (Palisades Park, New Jersey); Sunghee Cho (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for reducing CD36 expression in a cell. The method comprises contacting the cell with an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide having at least one net positive charge; a minimum of four amino acids; a maximum of about twenty amino acids; a relationship between the minimum number of net positive charges (pm) and the total number of amino acid residues (r) wherein 3 pm is the largest number that is less than or equal to r+1; and a relationship between the minimum number of aromatic groups (a) and the total number of net positive charges (pt) wherein 2a is the largest number that is less than or equal to pt+1, except that when a is 1, pt may also be 1. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/434216 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811993 | Herlyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dorothee Herlyn (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Rajasekaran Somasundaram (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Laszlo Otvos, Jr. (Audubon, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel BRAFV600E mutant peptides or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, that induce MHC Class I-dependent cytotoxic T cell responses in mammals are useful in prophylactic, diagnostic and therapeutic treatments for melanoma. Such compounds are also useful in drug development for non-peptide mimics of the compounds described herein and in the development of therapeutic or diagnostic antibodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/922467 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael David (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions and methods for reducing one or more symptoms of an autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease, and/or transplant rejection, by the administration to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutically effective amount of a purified compound of any one of Formulae A-E. The invention's methods are useful for the prevention, amelioration, and treatment of autoimmune disease, inflammatory disease, and/or transplant rejection. |
| FILED | Friday, November 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/494452 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
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| US 07811998 | Blagg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. Blagg (Lawrence, Kansas); Len Neckers (Bethesda, Maryland); Xiao Ming Yu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel analogues and derivatives of novobiocin are provided, including compounds having modifications to the amide side chain, coumarin ring, and sugar moieties. The compounds of the present invention are useful as heat shock protein 90 inhibitors, and may be used as anticancer and neuroprotective agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571899 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/27 |
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| US 07812001 | Sullenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce A. Sullenger (Durham, North Carolina); Christopher P. Rusconi (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | RNA aptamers and methods for identifying the same are disclosed. The RNA aptamers selectively bind coagulation factors, E2F family members, Ang1 or Ang2, and therapeutic and other uses for the RNA aptamers are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925641 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812003 | Safe et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen H. Safe (College Station, Texas); Sudhakar Chintharlapalli (Houston, Texas); Susanne U. Talcott (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods to suppress specificity protein (Sp) activity in a cell associated with a cell proliferative disease. The methods are effective to inhibit a microRNA in the cell using an antisense microRNA oligonucleotide which results in an increase in expression of a specificity protein (Sp) suppressor gene thereby inducing Sp degradation, apoptosis or growth arrest by releasing inhibitors of G2/M (Myt-1) or inhibition. Also provided are methods of treating a cancer using the antisense microRNA oligonucleotide. In addition the present invention provides antisense microRNA-27a oligonucleotides useful in the methods described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221266 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Van Dyke (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California); Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides new lipoxin analogs, compositions containing analogs, and methods of using these compounds and compositions for treating and preventing oral inflammation, including gingivitis, periodontitis, and other forms of periodontal disease. The invention also provides for methods of treating and preventing oral inflammation, including gingivitis, periodontitis, and other forms of periodontal disease with compositions containing COX-2 inhibitors. Further, the invention provides methods for preventing systemic diseases beyond theoral cavity that are related to periodontal disease using the composition containing lipoxin analogs, COX-2 inhibitors, or both. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539728 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/549 |
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| US 07812058 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Sante Fe, California); Maurizio Pellecchia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for treating cancer in a mammal comprising contacting the cancer cells with a compound which is a apogossypol, derivative. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/877781 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/743 |
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| US 07812117 | Tosato et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanna Tosato (Bethesda, Maryland); Sandra E. Pike (North Bethesda, Maryland); Lei Yao (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Specific fragments of vasostatin are disclosed. These fragments are of use in methods of stimulating the proliferation or survival of a hematopoietic cell exposed to a chemotherapeutic agent or irradiation. Methods of stimulating the proliferation or survival of a hematopoietic cell using these fragments are also disclosed. In one embodiment, methods are disclosed for stimulating the growth or survival of a hematopoietic stem cell with a fragment of vasostatin, in the presence of a growth factor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198810 |
| 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 07812118 | May et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. May (North Haven, Connecticut); Sankar Ghosh (Madison, Connecticut); Mark A. Findeis (Belmont, Massachusetts); Kathryn Phillips (Boston, Massachusetts); Gerhard Hannig (Revere, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides anti-inflammatory compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof for treating inflammatory disorders. The present invention also provides methods of identifying anti-inflammatory compounds and methods of inhibiting NF-κB-dependent target gene expression in a cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421488 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812122 | Assadi-Porter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fariba M. Assadi-Porter (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are sweet proteins that are variants of Brazzein, and nucleotide sequences capable of expressing them. Through a replacement of a tyrosine residue at the C terminus in the naturally occurring Brazzein sequence, or the insertion of two residues (at least one being isoleucine, glycine or proline) before the N terminus of wild type Brazzein, sweetness potency, the taste profile and sweetness strength are improved. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/033120 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812132 | Nelsestuen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Nelsestuen (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides vitamin K-dependent polypeptides with enhanced membrane binding affinity. These polypeptides can be used to modulate clot formation in mammals. Methods of modulating clot formation in mammals are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377620 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/384 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812137 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Friedman (New York, New York); Gwo-Hwa Lee (New York, New York); Ricardo Proenca (Astoria, New York); Ella Ioffe (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to identification of a receptor for a satiety factor, which is involved in body weight homeostasis. Mutations in this receptor are associated with obese phenotypes. In particular, the present invention relates to identification and characterization of the receptor for leptin, including a naturally occurring soluble form of the receptor that is expected to modulate leptin activity, in particular to agonize leptin activity. The invention further relates to the nucleic acids encoding the receptor, and to methods for using the receptor, e.g., to identify leptin analogs, therapeutically, such as in gene therapy or in soluble form as an agonist or antagonist of leptin activity, or diagnostically. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/585709 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812150 | Constien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rainer Constien (Kulmbach, Germany); Birgit Bramlage (Kulmbach, Germany); Pamela Tan (Kulmbach, Germany); Hans-Peter Vornlocher (Bayreuth, Germany); William Balch (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of an Aha gene (Aha1 gene), comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 30 nucleotides in length, generally 19-25 nucleotides in length, and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of an Aha gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, methods for treating diseases caused by Aha1 expression and the expression of an Aha gene using the pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of an Aha gene in a cell. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/750553 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812158 | Carpino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Carpino (Amherst, Massachusetts); Jusong Xia (Moore, South Carolina); Chongwu Zhang (Dayton, New Jersey); Calin Dan Sferdean (Riverview, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula (I) and (II) or salts thereof or N-oxides and their use in peptide synthesis. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/577352 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812162 | Gerdes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Gerdes (Coos Bay, Oregon); David B. Bolstad (Stafford Springs, Connecticut); Brian R. Kusche (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Racemic mixtures and individual enantiomers of fluorine-18 or carbon-11 radio-labelled 2′-alkyl-6-nitroquipazine ligands are serotonin transporter (SERT) tracers for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The non-radioactive ligand forms possess therapeutic antidepressant in vitro and in vivo pharmacological binding profiles in rodent brain and cells expressing human serotonin transporter (hSERT). Twelve 2′-alkyl-6-nitroquipazine ligands potently bind in sub-nanomolar concentrations to the pre-synaptic SERT binding site where established antidepressant drugs bind and inhibit the re-uptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT). In vivo tracer studies in rats as well as monkey PET scan trial have demonstrated the fluorine-18 and carbon-11 positron radionuclide labeled tracers perform as quantitative tracers of specific binding the SERT protein in live brain. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796227 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/363 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812190 | Bolskar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Bolskar (Arvada, Colorado); J. Michael Alford (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides improved therapeutic and diagnostic fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes. The fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes of the invention are derivatized with at least two charged functional groups (and preferably more than two charged functional groups) to provide for water-solubility and improved in vivo biodistribution. Improved derivatized fullerenes and endohedral fullerenes carry a plurality of functional groups at least two of which are charged. Preferably at least about ⅙ of the possible derivations sites on the fullerene caged carry derivatives and preferably at least about ½ of the functional groups on the fullerene cage are charged groups. The invention also provides water-soluble endohedral metallofullerene with improved biodistribution which are useful as in vivo imaging agents, including MRI contrast agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/410809 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813796 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Alfred E. Mann (Beverly Hills, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Gaillard R. Nolan (Valenica, California); Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package, that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, such as for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/455028 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813881 | Stein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary S. Stein (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Daniel W. Young (Sutton, Massachusetts); Sayyed K. Zaidi (Worcester, Massachusetts); Amjad Javed (Hoover, Alabama); Andre J. Van Wijnen (Auburn, Massachusetts); Janet L. Stein (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Jane B. Lian (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method useful for analysis of punctate distribution of supramolecular complexes that are compartmentalized in nuclear microenvironments. In preferred embodiments the method provides quantitative analysis of the assembly of regulatory machinery within the context of nuclear architecture and to provide a mechanistic link with biological control. In other embodiments, the invention provides a method of identifying a molecule by parameters of its subnuclear distribution, comprising the steps of quantifying organizational parameters of domains within subnuclear distributions of a molecule; performing factor analysis on the quantified organizational parameters; performing discriminant analysis on the quantified organizational parameters; comparing the results of the factor analysis and the results of the discriminant analysis to one or more standards, thereby identifying a molecule by parameters of its subnuclear distribution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/221166 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Dennis L. Polla (Roseville, Minnesota); Mariam N. Maghribi (Davis, California); Julie Hamilton (Tracy, California); Mark S. Humayun (La Canada, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An image is captured or otherwise converted into a signal in an artificial vision system. The signal is transmitted to the retina utilizing an implant. The implant consists of a polymer substrate made of a compliant material such as poly(dimethylsiloxane) or PDMS. The polymer substrate is conformable to the shape of the retina. Electrodes and conductive leads are embedded in the polymer substrate. The conductive leads and the electrodes transmit the signal representing the image to the cells in the retina. The signal representing the image stimulates cells in the retina. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/545190 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/832 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07810318 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for controlling regeneration of a particulate filter for a hybrid vehicle is provided. The system generally includes a regeneration module that controls current to the particulate filter to initiate regeneration. An engine control module controls operation of an engine of the hybrid vehicle based on the control of the current to the particulate filter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804665 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/295 |
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| US 07810325 | Bennett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar thermal powered aircraft powered by heat energy from the sun. A heat engine, such as a Stirling engine, is carried by the aircraft body for producing power for a propulsion mechanism, such as a propeller. The heat engine has a thermal battery in thermal contact with it so that heat is supplied from the thermal battery. A solar concentrator, such as reflective parabolic trough, is movably connected to an optically transparent section of the aircraft body for receiving and concentrating solar energy from within the aircraft. Concentrated solar energy is collected by a heat collection and transport conduit, and heat transported to the thermal battery. A solar tracker includes a heliostat for determining optimal alignment with the sun, and a drive motor actuating the solar concentrator into optimal alignment with the sun based on a determination by the heliostat. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710391 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/517 |
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| US 07811439 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake A. Simmons (San Francisco, California); Vincent R. Hill (Decatur, Georgia); Yolanda Fintschenko (Livermore, California); Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for monitoring sources of public water supply for a variety of pathogens by using a combination of ultrafiltration techniques together dielectrophoretic separation techniques. Because water-borne pathogens, whether present due to “natural” contamination or intentional introduction, would likely be present in drinking water at low concentrations when samples are collected for monitoring or outbreak investigations, an approach is needed to quickly and efficiently concentrate and separate particles such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites in large volumes of water (e.g., 100 L or more) while simultaneously reducing the sample volume to levels sufficient for detecting low concentrations of microbes (e.g., <10 mL). The technique is also designed to screen the separated microbes based on specific conductivity and size. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499371 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811527 | Robel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wade J. Robel (Peoria, Illinois); James Joshua Driscoll (Dunlap, Illinois); Gerald N. Coleman (Helpston, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of ammonia production for a selective catalytic reduction system is provided. The method includes producing an exhaust gas stream within a cylinder group, wherein the first exhaust gas stream includes NOx. The exhaust gas stream may be supplied to an exhaust passage and cooled to a predetermined temperature range, and at least a portion of the NOx within the exhaust gas stream my be converted into ammonia. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/099831 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/180 |
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| US 07811536 | Lauterbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jochen Lauterbach (Newark, Delaware); Christopher M. Snively (Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania); Rohit Vijay (Annandale, New Jersey); Reed Hendershot (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania); Ben Feist (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitrogen oxides (NOx) storage catalysts comprising cobalt and barium with a lean NOx storage ratio of 1.3 or greater. The NOx storage catalysts can be used to reduce NOx emissions from diesel or gas combustion engines by contacting the catalysts with the exhaust gas from the engines. The NOx storage catalysts can be one of the active components of a catalytic converter, which is used to treat exhaust gas from such engines. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459042 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/213.200 |
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| US 07811632 | Eres |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gyula Eres (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of growing a carbon nanotube includes the step of impinging a beam of carbon-containing molecules onto a substrate to grow at least one carbon nanotube on the catalyst surface. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040919 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
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| US 07811711 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrennce Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Cooper (Oakland, California); Thomas M. Tillotson (Tracy, California); Lawrence W. Hrubesh (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a reinforced rigid anode monolith and fuel and product of such method. The method includes providing a solution of organic aerogel or xerogel precursors including at least one of a phenolic resin, phenol (hydroxybenzene), resorcinol(1,3-dihydroxybenzene), or catechol(1,2-dihydroxybenzene); at least one aldehyde compound selected from the group consisting of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and furfuraldehyde; and an alkali carbonate or phosphoric acid catalyst; adding internal reinforcement materials comprising carbon to said precursor solution to form a precursor mixture; gelling said precursor mixture to form a composite gel; drying said composite gel; and pyrolyzing said composite gel to form a wettable aerogel/carbon composite or a wettable xerogel/carbon composite, wherein said composites comprise chars and said internal reinforcement materials, and wherein said composite is suitable for use as an anode with the chars being fuel capable of being combusted in a molten salt electrochemical fuel cell in the range from 500 C to 800 C to produce electrical energy. Additional methods and systems/compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/118571 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/416 |
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| US 07811764 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin L. Miller (Penfield, New York); Christopher M. Strohsahl (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor chip that includes: a fluorescence quenching surface; a nucleic acid probe that contains first and second ends with the first end bound to the fluorescence quenching surface, and is characterized by being able to self-anneal into a hairpin conformation; and a first fluorophore bound to the second end of the first nucleic acid molecule. When the first nucleic acid molecule is in the hairpin conformation, the fluorescence quenching surface substantially quenches fluorescent emissions by the first fluorophore; and when the first nucleic acid molecule is in a non-hairpin conformation, fluorescent emissions by the fluorophore are substantially free of quenching by the fluorescence quenching surface. Various nucleic acid probes, methods of making the sensor chip, biological sensor devices that contain the sensor chip, and their methods of use are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/838616 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811799 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl6, and the corresponding EGVI amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVI, recombinant EGVI proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329621 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811801 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317034 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811975 | Erdemir et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Erdemir (Naperville, Illinois); Frank Sykora (Caledon, ON, Canada); Mark Dorbeck (Brighton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved boron-based metal working and machining fluids. Boric acid and boron-based additives that, when mixed with certain carrier fluids, such as water, cellulose and/or cellulose derivatives, polyhydric alcohol, polyalkylene glycol, polyvinyl alcohol, starch, dextrin, in solid and/or solvated forms result in improved metalworking and machining of metallic work pieces. Fluids manufactured with boric acid or boron-based additives effectively reduce friction, prevent galling and severe wear problems on cutting and forming tools. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/532556 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812185 | Burdett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Global Technologies Inc. (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Burdett (Midland, Michigan); Morteza Mokhtarzadeh (Charleston, West Virginia); Francis J. Timmers (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-metathesis process for preparing an α,ω-functionalized olefin, such as methyl 9-decenoate, and an α-olefin having three or more carbon atoms, such as 1-decene. The process involves contacting in a first reaction zone an α-functionalized internal olefin, such as methyl oleate, and an α-olefinic monomer having three or more carbon atoms, such as 1-decene, with a first metathesis catalyst to prepare an effluent stream containing the α,ω-functionalized olefin, such as methyl 9-decenoate, an unfunctionalized internal olefin, such as 9-octadecene, unconverted reactant olefins, and optionally, an α,ω-difunctionalized internal olefinic dimer, such as dimethyl 9-octadecen-1,18-dioate; separating said effluent streams; then contacting in a second reaction zone the unfunctionalized internal olefin with ethylene in the presence of a second metathesis catalyst to obtain a second product effluent containing the α-olefinic monomer having three or more carbon atoms; and cycling a portion of the α-olefinic monomer stream(s) to the first zone. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/915794 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812311 | DeCamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew F. DeCamp (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Preferred embodiments of the invention provide for methods and systems of 2D spectroscopy using ultrafast, first light and second light beams and a CCD array detector. A cylindrically-focused second light beam interrogates a target that is optically interactive with a frequency-dispersed excitation (first light) pulse, whereupon the second light beam is frequency-dispersed at right angle orientation to its line of focus, so that the horizontal dimension encodes the spatial location of the second light pulse and the first light frequency, while the vertical dimension encodes the second light frequency. Differential spectra of the first and second light pulses result in a 2D frequency-frequency surface equivalent to double-resonance spectroscopy. Because the first light frequency is spatially encoded in the sample, an entire surface can be acquired in a single interaction of the first and second light pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607813 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812314 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United Sttes of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter D. Smith (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Thomas N. Claytor (White Rock, New Mexico); Phillip C. Berry (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles R. Hills (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray detector is disclosed that has had all unnecessary material removed from the x-ray beam path, and all of the remaining material in the beam path made as light and as low in atomic number as possible. The resulting detector is essentially transparent to x-rays and, thus, has greatly reduced internal scatter. The result of this is that x-ray attenuation data measured for the object under examination are much more accurate and have an increased dynamic range. The benefits of this improvement are that beam hardening corrections can be made accurately, that computed tomography reconstructions can be used for quantitative determination of material properties including density and atomic number, and that lower exposures may be possible as a result of the increased dynamic range. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040180 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812353 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao-Chih Yuan (Madison, Wisconsin); Guogong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark A. Eriksson (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul G. Evans (Madison, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for fabricating thin film electronic devices with both front- and backside processing capabilities. Using these methods, high temperature processing steps may be carried out during both frontside and backside processing. The methods are well-suited for fabricating back-gate and double-gate field effect transistors, double-sided bipolar transistors and 3D integrated circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/042066 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813817 | Lipner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Electric Co LLC (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melvin H. Lipner (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Roger A. Mundy (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Franusich (Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An online data driven computerized procedures system that guides an operator through a complex process facility's operating procedures. The system monitors plant data, processes the data and then, based upon this processing, presents the status of the current procedure step and/or substep to the operator. The system supports multiple users and a single procedure definition supports several interface formats that can be tailored to the individual user. Layered security controls access privileges and revisions are version controlled. The procedures run on a server that is platform independent of the user workstations that the server interfaces with and the user interface supports diverse procedural views. |
| FILED | Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584769 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07814462 | Husbands et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parry Jones Reginald Husbands (Albany, California); Long Yin Choy (Hong Kong, China PRC); Alan Edelman (Newton, Massachusetts); Eckart Jansen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Viral B. Shah (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a process may be performed in parallel on a parallel server by defining a data type that may be used to reference data stored on the parallel server and overloading a previously-defined operation, such that when the overloaded operation is called, a command is sent to the parallel server to manipulate the data stored on the parallel server. In some embodiments, the previously-defined operation that is overloaded may be an operation of an operating system. Further, in some embodiments, when the data stored on the parallel server is no longer needed, a command may be sent to the parallel server to reallocate the memory used to store the data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217114 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07810704 | Duckham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanofoil Corporation (Utica, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Duckham (Baltimore, Maryland); Jesse E. Newson (Cockeysville, Maryland); Michael V. Brown (Endicott, New York); Timothy Ryan Rude (Salt Lake City, Utah); Omar M. Knio (Timonium, Maryland); Ellen M. Heian (Cockeysville, Maryland); Jai S. Subramanian (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for joining component bodies of material over bonding regions of large dimensions by disposing a plurality of substantially contiguous sheets of reactive composite materials between the bodies and adjacent sheets of fusible material. The contiguous sheets of the reactive composite material are operatively connected by an ignitable bridging material so that an igniting reaction in one sheet will cause an igniting reaction in the other. An application of uniform pressure and an ignition of one or more of the contiguous sheets of reactive composite material causes an exothermic thermal reaction to propagate through the bonding region, fusing any adjacent sheets of fusible material and forming a bond between the component bodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/103484 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/234.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811536 | Lauterbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jochen Lauterbach (Newark, Delaware); Christopher M. Snively (Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania); Rohit Vijay (Annandale, New Jersey); Reed Hendershot (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania); Ben Feist (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitrogen oxides (NOx) storage catalysts comprising cobalt and barium with a lean NOx storage ratio of 1.3 or greater. The NOx storage catalysts can be used to reduce NOx emissions from diesel or gas combustion engines by contacting the catalysts with the exhaust gas from the engines. The NOx storage catalysts can be one of the active components of a catalytic converter, which is used to treat exhaust gas from such engines. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/459042 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/213.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811543 | Didenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Irilliant, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuri T. Didenko (Savoy, Illinois); Yuhua Ni (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing surface stabilized nanometer-sized particles includes the steps of mixing reactants, a surface-stabilizing surfactant, and a high boiling point liquid to form a mixture, continuously passing the mixture through an ultrasonic spray nozzle to form a mist of droplets of the mixture, injecting the mist directly into a furnace to cause a reaction between species of the mixture, and collecting the nanometer-sized products. The ultrasonic nozzle is positioned directly at one end of the heating furnace, preferably the top end, for travel of the droplets through the furnace. The continuous liquid-flow process, along with certain operating parameters, eliminates the need for dilution of the high boiling point liquid with a low boiling point solvent as in the prior art, significantly increases the yield, improves the quality of the product, and makes the process scalable. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287530 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811755 | Bazan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Bin Liu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods, articles and compositions for the detection and analysis of biomolecules in a sample. Provided assays include those determining the presence of a target biomolecule in a sample or its relative amount, or the assays may be quantitative or semi-quantitative. The methods can be performed in an array format on a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329861 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812158 | Carpino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis A. Carpino (Amherst, Massachusetts); Jusong Xia (Moore, South Carolina); Chongwu Zhang (Dayton, New Jersey); Calin Dan Sferdean (Riverview, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula (I) and (II) or salts thereof or N-oxides and their use in peptide synthesis. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/577352 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812311 | DeCamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew F. DeCamp (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Andrei Tokmakoff (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Preferred embodiments of the invention provide for methods and systems of 2D spectroscopy using ultrafast, first light and second light beams and a CCD array detector. A cylindrically-focused second light beam interrogates a target that is optically interactive with a frequency-dispersed excitation (first light) pulse, whereupon the second light beam is frequency-dispersed at right angle orientation to its line of focus, so that the horizontal dimension encodes the spatial location of the second light pulse and the first light frequency, while the vertical dimension encodes the second light frequency. Differential spectra of the first and second light pulses result in a 2D frequency-frequency surface equivalent to double-resonance spectroscopy. Because the first light frequency is spatially encoded in the sample, an entire surface can be acquired in a single interaction of the first and second light pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607813 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812353 | Yuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao-Chih Yuan (Madison, Wisconsin); Guogong Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Mark A. Eriksson (Madison, Wisconsin); Paul G. Evans (Madison, Wisconsin); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for fabricating thin film electronic devices with both front- and backside processing capabilities. Using these methods, high temperature processing steps may be carried out during both frontside and backside processing. The methods are well-suited for fabricating back-gate and double-gate field effect transistors, double-sided bipolar transistors and 3D integrated circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/042066 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812423 | Grawert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Felix Jan Grawert (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Shoji Akiyama (Annaka, Japan); Kazumi Wada (Lexington, Massachusetts); Franz X. Kaertner (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical semiconductor includes a first semiconductor layer and at least one reflective element that is formed on the semiconductor layer. The at least one reflective element comprises alternating layers of high and low index layers. A crystalline semiconductor layer is formed on the at least one reflective element. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/916869 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812502 | Zalalutdinov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Navel Research Laboratory (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maxim Zalalutdinov (Silver Springs, Maryland); Robert B. Reichenbach (Ithaca, New York); Keith Aubin (Freeville, New York); Brian H. Houston (Fairfax, Virginia); Jeevak M. Parpia (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A micromechanical resonator is formed on a substrate. The resonator has a partial spherical shell clamped on an outside portion of the shell to the substrate. In other embodiments, a flat disc or other shape may be used. Movement is induced in a selected portion of the disc, inducing easily detectible out-of-plane motion. A laser is used in one embodiment to heat the selected portion of the disc and induce the motion. The motion may be detected by capacitive or interferometric techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, February 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/358299 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812692 | Ayazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Reza Abdolvand (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are piezoelectrically-transduced micromachined bulk acoustic resonators fabricated on a polycrystalline diamond film deposited on a carrier substrate. Exemplary resonators comprise a substrate having a smooth diamond layer disposed thereon. A piezoelectric layer is disposed on the diamond layer and top and bottom electrodes sandwich the piezoelectric layer. The resonant structure comprising the diamond layer, piezoelectric layer and electrodes are released from the substrate and are free to vibrate. Additionally, one or more sensing platforms may be coupled to the substrate to form a mass sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809748 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813160 | Drndic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael D. Fischbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Memory devices and recordable media are disclosed that take advantage of memory effects in the electronic transport in CdSe nanocrystal (NC) quantum dot arrays. Conduction through a NC array can be reduced with a negative voltage and then restored with a positive voltage. Light can also be used to restore or even increase the NC array conduction. The switching of the conduction in CdSe NC arrays and found the behavior to be highly sensitive to the value and duration of the laser and voltage pulses. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329471 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813438 | Farhang-Boroujeny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny (Salt Lake City, Utah); Haidong Zhu (Salt Lake City, Utah); Zhenning Shi (Braddon, Australia); Stephen Andrew Laraway (Layton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector and method for estimating channel data probability in a multi-user or multiple-input multiple-output communication system includes summing conditional bit probabilities conditioned on hypothetical channel data patterns over stochastically selected hypothetical channel data patterns. Various detailed hardware structures and circuits are also described. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209143 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813538 | Carroll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Carroll (Seattle, Washington); Eric J. Seibel (Seattle, Washington); Steven M. Seitz (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In connection with imaging an inner surface of a body lumen, a mosaiced image is created from discrete images or a video produced with a small camera, as the camera is moved through the lumen. In one embodiment, a tethered capsule with a scanning optical fiber provides the images, although other types of endoscopic cameras can instead be used. A surface model of the lumen and camera pose estimates for each image or frame are required for this task. Camera pose parameters, which define camera alignment, are determined for six degrees-of-freedom. The size of each frame projected as a strip on the surface model depends on the longitudinal movement of the camera. The projected frames are concatenated, and the cylinder is unrolled to produce the mosaic image. Further processing, such as applying surface domain blending, improves the quality of the mosaic image. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749959 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07814113 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Suciu (Seattle, Washington); Christopher Re (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel approach that computes and efficiently ranks the top-k answers to a query on a probabilistic database. The approach identifies the top-k answers, since imprecisions in the data often lead to a large number of answers of low quality. The algorithm is used to run several Monte Carlo simulations in parallel, one for each candidate answer, and approximates the probability of each only to the extent needed to correctly determine the top-k answers. The algorithm is provably optimal and scales to large databases. A more general application can identify a number of top-rated entities of a group that satisfy a condition, based on a criteria or score computed for the entities. Also disclosed are several optimization techniques. One option is to rank the top-rated results; another option provides for interrupting the iteration to return the number of top-rated entities that have thus far been identified. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935230 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07814462 | Husbands et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parry Jones Reginald Husbands (Albany, California); Long Yin Choy (Hong Kong, China PRC); Alan Edelman (Newton, Massachusetts); Eckart Jansen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Viral B. Shah (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a process may be performed in parallel on a parallel server by defining a data type that may be used to reference data stored on the parallel server and overloading a previously-defined operation, such that when the overloaded operation is called, a command is sent to the parallel server to manipulate the data stored on the parallel server. In some embodiments, the previously-defined operation that is overloaded may be an operation of an operating system. Further, in some embodiments, when the data stored on the parallel server is no longer needed, a command may be sent to the parallel server to reallocate the memory used to store the data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217114 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07810549 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan); Intermet Corporation (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naiyi Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Nanda Gopal (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for the casting of metal components is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plunger for drawing molten metal from a crucible of hot metal and for forcing the drawn molten metal through the system, a hot runner assembly having a nozzle tip positioned adjacent the mold cavity, and a machine nozzle disposed between the plunger and the hot runner assembly. An adaptive and universal hot runner manifold having removable hot runner injectors fitted thereto is provided for use with a variety of castings. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/620301 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811638 | Street |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for patterning fine features using multiple jet-printed etch masks includes forming an initial feature through a first jet-printed etch mask and re-shaping the initial feature through at least one additional jet-printed etch mask. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/315713 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812215 | Harvey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex J. Harvey (Athens, Georgia); Markley C. Leavitt (Watkinsville, Georgia); Youliang Wang (Monroe, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing protein using a recombinant ovomucoid gene expression controlling region operably linked to one or more useful amino acid coding sequences. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313064 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812680 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Discera, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew R. Brown (Northville, Michigan); Wan-Thai Hsu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kenneth R. Cioffi (San Jose, California); Didier Lacroix (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are devices and methods for generating a modulated signal with a MEMS resonator, or microresonator. A bias, or polarization, voltage for activating the MEMS resonator is determined by a control signal, or input voltage, indicative of information to be carried by the modulated signal. In some cases, the MEMS resonator may be driven by an oscillator circuit to facilitate operation of the MEMS resonator. The control signal may include an amplitude modulated voltage or a digital data stream such that output signals of the MEMS resonator or oscillator circuit may carry information via frequency modulation, such as frequency shift keying modulation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417833 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812943 | Silver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia); The National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Silver (Darwood, Maryland); Ravikiran Attota (Germantown, Maryland); Robert Larrabee (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of imaging critical dimensions by measuring the zeroeth order of diffracted light. The method involves providing a target, directing light onto the target so as to cause the target to diffract the light. The zeroeth order of the diffracted light is collected and analyzed to determine structural features of the target. The target can be an article of manufacture, such as a semiconductor device, or a separate target that is provided or fabricated on an article of manufacture. One of at least the wavelength and the angle at which the light is directed onto the target can be scanned. The target can fill all or only a portion of the field of view. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/926418 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/237.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813017 | Ihas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | InPhase Technologies, Inc. (Longmont, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin C. Ihas (Superior, Colorado); Samuel Paul Weaver (Boulder, Colorado); Ken E. Anderson (Boulder, Colorado); Aaron Wegner (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is disclosed for increasing the holographic storage capacity of a holographic recording medium using an irradiance-tailoring (e.g., optical) element by changing the irradiance profile of the modulated object beam (e.g., by imparting motion to an irradiance-tailoring element and/or the holographic recording medium and/or by reconfiguring (e.g., periodically) the phase profile of a stationary irradiance-tailoring (e.g., optical) element) to minimize the effects of fixed-pattern noise buildup from occurring in the holographic recording medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/319425 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813993 | Barto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry D. Barto (Austin, Texas); Yiwei Li (Austin, Texas); Steven C. Nettles (Johnson City, Texas); H. Van Dyke Parunak (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes generating a plurality of bid requests for processing a workpiece. Each bid request is associated with one of a plurality of resources capable of processing the workpiece. For each of the bid requests, a commitment window including a kernel specifying a time period required for processing the workpiece is generated. A first committed capacity of the associated resource is determined based on a schedule of engagements compatible with the processing required for the workpiece. A second committed capacity of the associated resource is determined based on a schedule of engagements not compatible with the processing required for the workpiece. A first rate function specifying a processing cost for the associated resource as a function of the first and second committed capacities is provided. The first and second committed capacities and the first rate function are combined to generate a basic cost function associated with the associated resource. A plurality of candidate bids are generated based on the basic cost functions. One of the candidate bids is selected for scheduling the associated resource. |
| FILED | Friday, August 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/231648 |
| 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 |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07810990 | Elliott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Elliott (Scotsborro, Alabama); Roberto DiSalvo (Madison, Alabama); Phillip Shepherd (Fort Payne, Alabama); Ryan Kosier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus for gelling liquid propane and other liquefied gasses. The apparatus includes a temperature controlled churn mixer, vacuum pump, liquefied gas transfer tank, and means for measuring amount of material entering the mixer. The method uses gelling agents such as silicon dioxide, clay, carbon, or organic or inorganic polymers, as well as dopants such as titanium, aluminum, and boron powders. The apparatus and method are particularly useful for the production of high quality rocket fuels and propellants. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584954 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811234 | McGrath |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. McGrath (Monrovia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A remote-detection system is provided for monitoring changes in permittivity associated with physiological activity of a subject that is free to move. The system includes a source containing an oscillator configured to illuminate tissue of the subject with an electromagnetic signal beam. The system further includes a receiver configured to receive reflections of the electromagnetic signal beam from the subject. The reflections include amplitude variations indicative of motion of the illuminated tissue and amplitude variations indicative of time dependent variations in the permittivity of the illuminated tissue associated with electrical activity of the subject's heart. The system further includes a detector connected to the receiver and configured to extract from the reflected signal beam the variations in amplitude indicative of motion of the illuminated tissue or indicative of time dependent variations in the permittivity of the illuminated tissue associated with the electrical activity of the subject's heart. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/897884 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811406 | Pontius |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Pontius (Glenelg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of bonding at least two surfaces together. The methods step of the present invention include applying a strip of adhesive to a first surface along a predefined outer boundary of a bond area and thereby defining a remaining open area there within. A second surface, or gusset plate, is affixed onto the adhesive before the adhesive cures. The strip of adhesive is allowed to cure and then a second amount of adhesive is applied to cover the remaining open area and substantially fill a void between said first and second surfaces about said bond area. A stencil may be used to precisely apply the strip of adhesive. When the strip cures, it acts as a dam to prevent overflow of the subsequent application of adhesive to undesired areas. The method results in a precise bond area free of undesired shapes and of a preferred profile which eliminate the drawbacks of the prior art bonds. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249265 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812601 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); Yanko K. Sheiretov (Waltham, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Robert J. Lyons (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark D. Windoloski (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Christopher A. Craven (Bedford, Massachusetts); Vladimir B. Tsukernik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); David C. Grundy (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Eddy current sensors and sensor arrays are used for process quality and material condition assessment of conducting materials. In an embodiment, changes in spatially registered high resolution images taken before and after cold work processing reflect the quality of the process, such as intensity and coverage. These images also permit the suppression or removal of local outlier variations. Anisotropy in a material property, such as magnetic permeability or electrical conductivity, can be intentionally introduced and used to assess material condition resulting from an operation, such as a cold work or heat treatment. The anisotropy is determined by sensors that provide directional property measurements. The sensor directionality arises from constructs that use a linear conducting drive segment to impose the magnetic field in a test material. Maintaining the orientation of this drive segment, and associated sense elements, relative to a material edge provides enhanced sensitivity for crack detection at edges. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484761 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813406 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Quang-Viet Nguyen (Richmond Heights, Ohio); Jun Kojima (North Olmstead, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical pulse stretcher and a mathematical algorithm for the detailed calculation of its design and performance is disclosed. The optical pulse stretcher has a plurality of optical cavities, having multiple optical reflectors such that an optical path length in each of the optical cavities is different. The optical pulse stretcher also has a plurality of beam splitters, each of which intercepts a portion of an input optical beam and diverts the portion into one of the plurality of optical cavities. The input optical beam is stretched and a power of an output beam is reduced after passing through the optical pulse stretcher and the placement of the plurality of optical cavities and beam splitters is optimized through a model that takes into account optical beam divergence and alignment in the pluralities of the optical cavities. The optical pulse stretcher system can also function as a high-repetition-rate (MHz) laser pulse generator, making it suitable for use as a stroboscopic light source for high speed ballistic projectile imaging studies, or it can be used for high speed flow diagnostics using a laser light sheet with digital particle imaging velocimetry. The optical pulse stretcher system can also be implemented using fiber optic components to realize a rugged and compact optical system that is alignment free and easy to use. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402997 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07813599 | Moore |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason P. Moore (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the shape of an unbound optical fiber includes collecting strain data along a length of the fiber, calculating curvature and bending direction data of the fiber using the strain data, curve-fitting the curvature and bending direction data to derive curvature and bending direction functions, calculating a torsion function using the bending direction function, and determining the 3D shape from the curvature, bending direction, and torsion functions. An apparatus for determining the 3D shape of the fiber includes a fiber optic cable unbound with respect to a protective sleeve, strain sensors positioned along the cable, and a controller in communication with the sensors. The controller has an algorithm for determining a 3D shape and end position of the fiber by calculating a set of curvature and bending direction data, deriving curvature, bending, and torsion functions, and solving Frenet-Serret equations using these functions. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390606 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07810990 | Elliott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Elliott (Scotsborro, Alabama); Roberto DiSalvo (Madison, Alabama); Phillip Shepherd (Fort Payne, Alabama); Ryan Kosier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method and apparatus for gelling liquid propane and other liquefied gasses. The apparatus includes a temperature controlled churn mixer, vacuum pump, liquefied gas transfer tank, and means for measuring amount of material entering the mixer. The method uses gelling agents such as silicon dioxide, clay, carbon, or organic or inorganic polymers, as well as dopants such as titanium, aluminum, and boron powders. The apparatus and method are particularly useful for the production of high quality rocket fuels and propellants. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584954 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811493 | Fanucci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts); Michael McAleenan (Georgetown, Maine); Andrew F. Paddock (Billerica, Massachusetts); Bradley L. Paquin (Dracut, Massachusetts); Richard Balonis (Harbour Island, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A joiner panel system is formed from a composite material and includes a panel attached to a deck by a coaming or shoe and attached at its upper edge by a curtain plate that fits around obstructions at the ceiling area. The shoe can be readily installed to an uneven steel deck by stud welding to reduce installation time or attached to a composite material deck. A curtain plate fabrication method uses a laser scan or close range photogrammetry of the overhead area to optimize and automate the cutting of curtain plate sections. The curtain plate sections can then be readily installed in the overhead area. A composite material panel to provide good flame, smoke and toxicity properties and good mechanical properties is formed from a phenolic resin foam material, micro-balloons to reduce the weight and density, and reinforcing fibers and powder material to improve the mechanical properties. The panel can be formed by a method in which the core and face skins are co-cured to provide a good bond. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/947977 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/171.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811543 | Didenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Irilliant, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuri T. Didenko (Savoy, Illinois); Yuhua Ni (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing surface stabilized nanometer-sized particles includes the steps of mixing reactants, a surface-stabilizing surfactant, and a high boiling point liquid to form a mixture, continuously passing the mixture through an ultrasonic spray nozzle to form a mist of droplets of the mixture, injecting the mist directly into a furnace to cause a reaction between species of the mixture, and collecting the nanometer-sized products. The ultrasonic nozzle is positioned directly at one end of the heating furnace, preferably the top end, for travel of the droplets through the furnace. The continuous liquid-flow process, along with certain operating parameters, eliminates the need for dilution of the high boiling point liquid with a low boiling point solvent as in the prior art, significantly increases the yield, improves the quality of the product, and makes the process scalable. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287530 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811796 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shang-Tian Yang (Dublin, Ohio); Nedim Albayrak (Van, Turkey) |
| ABSTRACT | A multilayer enzyme immobilization process is provided comprising adsorbing a polyethyleneimine (PEI) solution in a fibrous matrix, and adding an enzyme to the fibrous matrix, which comprises a plurality of fibrils. The process further comprises forming at least two layers of PEI-enzyme aggregates on the fibrils, and cross-linking the multilayer PEI-enzyme aggregates. The process can further comprise washing the fibrils containing the cross-linked PEI-enzyme aggregates with distilled water and acetic acid buffer subsequent to cross-linking. However, the PEI-containing matrix is not washed prior to the addition of enzyme. The enzyme can be β-galactosidase and the fibrous matrix can be cotton cloth. The multilayer immobilized enzyme can be employed in a biocatalyst reactor for production of galacto-oligosaccharides from lactose and the hydrolysis of lactose to glucose and galactose. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633559 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07811809 | Heyduk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomasz Heyduk (Ballwin, Missouri); Ling Tian (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally provides molecular biosensors. The molecular biosensors are useful in competition assays to detect the presence of a target molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836339 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07811796 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shang-Tian Yang (Dublin, Ohio); Nedim Albayrak (Van, Turkey) |
| ABSTRACT | A multilayer enzyme immobilization process is provided comprising adsorbing a polyethyleneimine (PEI) solution in a fibrous matrix, and adding an enzyme to the fibrous matrix, which comprises a plurality of fibrils. The process further comprises forming at least two layers of PEI-enzyme aggregates on the fibrils, and cross-linking the multilayer PEI-enzyme aggregates. The process can further comprise washing the fibrils containing the cross-linked PEI-enzyme aggregates with distilled water and acetic acid buffer subsequent to cross-linking. However, the PEI-containing matrix is not washed prior to the addition of enzyme. The enzyme can be β-galactosidase and the fibrous matrix can be cotton cloth. The multilayer immobilized enzyme can be employed in a biocatalyst reactor for production of galacto-oligosaccharides from lactose and the hydrolysis of lactose to glucose and galactose. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633559 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812147 | Oliver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. Oliver (Maryville, Tennessee); Raul A. Almeida (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas A. Luther (Louisville, Tennessee); Hee-Myung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | A polypeptide, designated as “Streptococcus uberis Adhesion Molecule” (SUAM), and fragments of SUAM, prevent internalization and adherence of Streptococcus uberis and other streptococcal pathogens to cells. The SUAM polypeptide and fragments may be used diagnostically and therapeutically. Nucleic acid sequences encoding the SUAM polypeptide and fragments are included in the invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384268 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP21378 | Scorza et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Scorza (Shepherdstown, West Virginia); William R. Okie (Warner Robins, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of peach which is characterized by producing large, yellow, melting-flesh fruit with an excellent sweet, only mildly acidic dessert quality flavor. Fruit are melting flesh freestone with an 80% red over-color (blush) over a golden yellow undercolor and average 71 to 75 mm in diameter, ripening in early mid season. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316078 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/198 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP21379 | Scorza |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Scorza (Shepherdstown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct variety of peach tree which is characterized by an upright tree growth form; producing yellow, melting-flesh fruit of excellent dessert-quality flavor, of large size with approximately 80% red blush over a yellow ground color, ripening in late mid-season. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316077 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/198 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07811460 | Haught et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy C. Haught (Independence, Kentucky); Pratim Biswas (Chesterfield, Missouri); Pramod Kulkami (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Biocolloids, e.g. Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts, are removed from water by filtration using a packed bed of a granular filter medium, preferably MgO, establishing an electric field across the packed bed, perpendicular to the flow of the water through the packed bed. The packed bed is provided in an annular space between two concentric electrodes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368414 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/748.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07814462 | Husbands et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Parry Jones Reginald Husbands (Albany, California); Long Yin Choy (Hong Kong, China PRC); Alan Edelman (Newton, Massachusetts); Eckart Jansen (Belmont, Massachusetts); Viral B. Shah (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a process may be performed in parallel on a parallel server by defining a data type that may be used to reference data stored on the parallel server and overloading a previously-defined operation, such that when the overloaded operation is called, a command is sent to the parallel server to manipulate the data stored on the parallel server. In some embodiments, the previously-defined operation that is overloaded may be an operation of an operating system. Further, in some embodiments, when the data stored on the parallel server is no longer needed, a command may be sent to the parallel server to reallocate the memory used to store the data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217114 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07814546 | Strayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group, Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts); Christine Elaine Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington); Isidro Marcos Castineyra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Regina Rosales Hain (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining the point of entry of a malicious packet into a network is disclosed. An intrusion detection system detects entry of the malicious packet into the network (500). A stepping stone detection system identifies stepping stones in extended connections within the network (524). A traceback engine isolates the malicious packet in response to operation of the intrusion detection system (528), wherein the traceback engine utilizes the identified stepping stones to determine the point of entry of the malicious packet. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077400 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07813896 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Keller (Washington, District of Columbia); Pat V. Laffey (Washington, District of Columbia); Tom G. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing the operation of a delivery system. The method includes: determining a seeding plan; placing a seed piece into the delivery system; tracking the seed piece through the delivery system to generate tracking data; storing the tracking data in a central repository; and analyzing the tracking data to determine one or more faults. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/009225 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07811820 | Schwartz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Schwartz (Houston, Texas); Narasimhaswamy Belaguli (Houston, Texas); Joe Marx (Houston, Texas); David Chang (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to generating a smooth muscle cell from another cell, such as a fibroblast, by delivering to the cell serum response factor, a CRP, and a GATA. In specific embodiments, the methods are utilized to generate vascular tissue and/or to repair vascular tissue. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754861 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07812224 | Weeks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald P. Weeks (Lincoln, Nebraska); Xiao-Zhuo Wang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Patricia L. Herman (Waverly, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated and at least partially-purified dicamba-degrading enzymes, isolated DNA molecules coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes, DNA constructs coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes, transgenic host cells comprising DNA coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes, and transgenic plants and plant parts comprising one or more cells comprising DNA coding for dicamba-degrading enzymes. Expression of the dicamba-degrading enzymes results in the production of dicamba-degrading organisms, including dicamba-tolerant plants. The invention further provides a method of controlling weeds in a field containing the transgenic dicamba-tolerant plants of the invention and a method of decontaminating a material containing dicamba comprising applying an effective amount of a transgenic microorganism or dicamba-degrading enzyme(s) of the invention to the material. Finally, the invention provides a method of selecting transformed plants and plant cells based on dicamba tolerance and a method of selecting or screening transformed host cells, intact organisms and parts of organisms based on the fluorescence of 3,6-dichlorosalicylic acid produced as a result of dicamba degradation. |
| FILED | Friday, December 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/330662 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07814316 | Hughes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Hughes (Herndon, Virginia); Alexander Stewart (Louisville, Colorado); Dwayne A. Edling (Longmont, Colorado); Gregory S. Toles (Erie, Colorado); Bradley E. Whitney (Erie, Colorado); Benjamin J. Baron (Broomfield, Colorado); Howard H. Rather (Boulder, Colorado); Michael E. Foy (Couisville, Colorado); Daniel Dauer (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A data encryption system with encryption integrity verification includes an encryption engine configured to receive an unencrypted data packet and generate an encrypted data packet based at least in part on the unencrypted data packet. The system also includes a decryption engine in electronic communication with the encryption engine, the decryption engine configured to receive the encrypted data packet and generate a decrypted data packet based at least in part on the encrypted data packet. The system further includes a comparator in electronic communication with the encryption engine and the decryption engine, the comparator configured to receive the unencrypted and decrypted data packets, determine whether the unencrypted and decrypted data packets are identical, and present the encrypted data packet as an output when the unencrypted and decrypted data packets are identical. |
| FILED | Monday, August 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/500047 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, October 12, 2010.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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