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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 09, 2010
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| US 07827961 | Cooke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Peter Cooke (Gillingham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump is provided for pumping two or more different fluids. The pump comprises a body having a longitudinal bore and at least first and second inlets selectively communicating with and providing passage to the bore via non-return valves. A plunger is mounted for reciprocation within the bore and at least one piston is also mounted for reciprocation within the bore so as to permit at least one type of fluid to pass into the bore through one or both inlets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291014 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828249 | Ritter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | First and second releasably connectable portions of a docking system are moved together. A relatively central concave element of the second portion of the docking system contacts a corresponding relatively central mating convex element of the first portion of the docking system. A plurality of relatively distal coupling elements rigidly connected to one of the first and second portions of the docking system are inserted into a corresponding plurality of relatively distal sockets of the other of the first and second portions of the docking system. The plurality of relatively distal coupling elements are captured with a corresponding plurality of relatively distal latch mechanisms associated with the plurality of relatively distal sockets responsive to inserting the plurality of relatively distal coupling elements into the corresponding plurality of relatively distal sockets. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409456 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828495 | Drucker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Scott Drucker (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A supplemental fluid adjustable depth air sparging system which is used to remediate contaminants from groundwater within the soil. An adjustable depth air injection point injects compressed air mixed with a chemical oxidizer or nutrient into saturated or groundwater regions of the soil's subsurface to remove contaminants including chlorinated solvents from the soil's subsurface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852729 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/128.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828982 | Full et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Full (Concord, California); Ronald S. Fearing (El Cerrito, California); Thomas Kenny (San Carlos, California); Kellar Autumn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an adhesive force includes removing a seta from a living specimen, attaching the seta to a substrate, and applying the seta to a surface so as to establish an adhesive force between the substrate and the surface. The seta is applied to the surface with a force perpendicular to the surface. The seta is then pulled with a force parallel to the surface so as to preload the adhesive force of the seta. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811882 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829050 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhaoning Yu (Mountain View, California); Zhiyong Li (Palo Alto, California); Wei Wu (Mountain View, California); Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); R. Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods of forming single-crystal metal-silicide nanowires and resulting nanowire structures. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of fabricating nanowires is disclosed. In the method, a number of nanowire-precursor members are formed. Each of the nanowire-precursor members includes a substantially single-crystal silicon region and a polycrystalline-metallic region. The substantially single-crystal silicon region and the polycrystalline-metallic region of each of the nanowire-precursor members is reacted to form corresponding substantially single-crystal metal-silicide nanowires. In another embodiment of the present invention, a nanowire structure is disclosed. The nanowire structure includes a substrate having an electrically insulating layer. A number of substantially single-crystal metal-silicide nanowires are positioned on the electrically insulating layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707601 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829139 | Reeves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Reeves (Arlington, Virginia); Jiajie Diao (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new method of making self-assembled nanoparticle wires involves: (1) at about ambient temperature and at or near atmospheric pressure, immersing a hydrophilic solid substrate at a non-horizontal angle (e.g., vertically) into a suspension of nanoparticles in a solvent, the suspension having a negative meniscus, the immersion forming a solid-liquid-air interface at the meniscus of the suspension; (2) gradually exposing the immersed substrate to air by gradually removing (preferably evaporating) the suspension, thereby causing deposition of the nanoparticles at a first location on the substrate at the meniscus, thereby forming a first nanoparticle wire on the substrate; (3) after a first deposition time period, rapidly removing a portion of the suspension, thereby causing deposition to stop and then re-start at a second location on the substrate at the meniscus; (4) continuing to gradually expose the immersed substrate to air by gradually removing the suspension for a second deposition period, thereby forming a second nanoparticle wire on the substrate; and optionally (5) repeating steps (3) and (4) one or more times to form one or more successive nanoparticle wires on the substrate. The above method can also be used to form integrated nanoparticle wire arrays. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/886464 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829185 | Cuppoletti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Cuppoletti (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A selectively permeable film supported membrane comprises a selectively permeable film comprising at least one ionomer; a bilayer formed on the film; and at least one transport substance incorporated into the bilayer. Methods for forming a selectively permeable film supported membrane comprise the steps of forming a bilayer on a selectively permeable film comprising at least one ionomer and incorporating at least one transport substance into the bilayer. Fuel cells, toxins detectors and protective devices comprise a selectively permeable film supported membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/569694 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/304.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829215 | Cardenas-Valencia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (Tampa, Florida); Jay Dlutowski (Safety Harbor, Florida); Melynda C. Calves (Riverview, Florida); John Bumgarner (Clearwater, Florida); Larry Langebrake (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to the fabrication of thin aluminum anode batteries using a highly reproducible process that enables high volume manufacturing of the galvanic cells. In the present invention, semiconductor fabrication methods are used to fabricate aluminum galvanic cells, wherein a catalytic material to be used as the cathode is deposited on a substrate and an insulating spacing material is deposited on the cathode and patterned using photolithography. The spacing material can either be used as a sacrificial layer to expose the electrodes or serve as a support for one of the electrodes. Similarly, the aluminum anode may be deposited and patterned on another substrate and bonded to the first substrate, or can be deposited directly on the insulating material prior to patterning. The cell is packaged and connected to a delivery system to provide delivery of the electrolyte when activation of the cell is desired. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/468115 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/162 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829409 | Onishi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shinzo Onishi (Seminole, Florida); Lawrence C. Langebrake (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, a novel method to fabricate topological capacitors is provided. The fabrication method of the instant invention is based upon a reversed surface topology utilizing deep reactive ion etching to establish conductive capacitive elements and non-conductive capacitive element groups. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/679580 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829519 | Wagner |
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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) | George W. Wagner (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A decontamination composition and method for detoxifying chemical warfare agents on surfaces, wherein said composition comprises mixtures of household cleaners and chemicals such as ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, isopropyl alcohol, baking soda and washing soda. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933607 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829520 | Lawson 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) | Glenn E. Lawson (Springfield, Virginia); Richard C. Hodge (King George, Virginia); Jerry S. Brown (Woodford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention encompasses a microemulsion having environmentally safe components, the microemulsion exhibiting optical clarity and stability over a wide range of temperatures. The microemulsion also forms a part of a decontaminant solution for treating chemical and biological contaminant agents, the solution preferably containing peroxycarboxylic acids generated from solids as the primary decontamination agent. The solution is a single phase emulsion that is both stable and effective over a broad range of temperatures, the range extending well below 0° C. There is also disclosed a microemulsion decontaminate solution having components that stabilize the included solid and peroxycarboxylic acids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798171 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829557 | Brueggemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Brueggemeier (Dublin, Ohio); Young-Woo Kim (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides 2-heterosubstituted 3-aryl-4H-benzopyran-4-one compounds for the treatment of cancers, namely breast cancer. This invention further provides a method of synthesis of 2-(alkylthio)isoflavones that can be carried out at ambient conditions. This invention further provides a method of synthesis of the 2-heterosubstituted 3-aryl-4H-benzopyran-4-one from a 2-(alkylthio)isoflavone. The invention further provides methods of using the 2-heterosubstituted 3-aryl-4H-benzopyran-4-one compounds for the treatment of breast cancer in mammals. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/511192 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/233.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829660 | Irvin 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) | David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California); David L. Witker (Saginaw, Michigan); John D. Stenger-Smith (Ridgecrest, California); Jennifer A. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention demonstrates the synthesis of a new pyrazole-containing monomer by means of an easily implemented two-step process. This monomer can be electropolymerized to yield a stable n-doping polymer that may easily be electrochemically characterized. It is demonstrated that the electrochemical behavior of the polymer films produced is dependent upon the conditions applied during electrodeposition. Films deposited by cycling only at relatively positive potentials (0 to 2000 mV) show less intense n-doping responses than those films obtained by scanning the applied potential throughout a wider range (−2000 mV to 2000 mV). |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178972 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829735 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evansion, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Robert Elghanian (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Reagents useful for attaching biomolecules (e.g., proteins, oligonucleotides, and other biomolecules) to a surface, processes of attaching molecules to a surface to form modified surfaces using these reagents, and methods of detecting a target compound using these modified surfaces are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/258640 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 558/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829917 | Thomas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Thomas (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a layout for a self-aligned semiconductor device, comprising an emitter mesa structure having an emitter electrode, and a base region that is comprised of a base electrode, with the base electrode deposited along crystal planes of the emitter mesa structure that undercut when the emitter mesa structure is etched, while avoiding depositing of the base electrode along crystal planes of the emitter mesa structure that do not undercut when the emitter mesa structure is etched. This allows the emitter electrode and the base electrode to self-align along the crystal planes that the emitter mesa structure undercuts when etched, and be isolated along the crystal planes that the emitter mesa structure does not undercut when etched. The present invention further provides dual interconnects mechanism and for connecting external circuitry to various semiconductor layers. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818658 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/198 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830074 | Kubena et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall L. Kubena (Oak Park, California); David T. Chang (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An oscillator having a quartz resonator, and a base wafer containing active electronics, wherein the quartz resonator is bonded directly to the base wafer and subsequently hermetically capped. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881461 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/361 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830164 | Earle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry R. Earle (Kenneth City, Florida); Timothy Pursel (Land O Lakes, Florida); Lance LeRoy Sundstrom (Pinellas Park, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A ducted test socket for thermally testing a device under test (DUT) is provided that can accommodate a large DUT and will improve the thermal transfer efficiency between a precision temperature forcing system (PTFS) and the DUT. The ducted test socket comprises a carrier and a base with opposing, mated cavities and holes. These cavities and holes channel airflow around the entire DUT body and out outlet ports. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107404 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830249 | Dorneich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Dorneich (St. Paul, Minnesota); Stephen D. Whitlow (St. Louis Park, Minnesota); Patricia M. Ververs (Ellicott City, Maryland); James C. Carciofini (Centerville, Minnesota); Janet Creaser (St. Anthony, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications system is provided that includes a communications scheduler adapted to receive messages from a plurality of message sources and sensors. The messages comprise human and generated messages. The sensors comprise situational, neurophysiological and physiological sensors. The cognitive state profile processing unit receives sensor data and produces a current cognitive state profile for the user. The communications scheduler includes a context manager that receives outputs from the plurality of sensors, monitors a current user's tasks, and retains information about the user's environment, a message characterization unit that characterizes the messages using the attributes of the message, outputs from the sensors, and the user's specific baseline profile data and a presentation unit that receives the characterized messages, the cognitive state profile, and context information and queues the characterized messages into a prioritized message list and presents the message list to the user via the display unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/148537 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830302 | Smith, Jr. |
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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) | Jerry R. Smith, Jr. (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A narrowband radar arrangement having a radar transmitter and a radar receiver mounted above a targeted water surface to monitor and determine a sea state of the targeted water surface. Fixed frequency signals are transmitted by the transmitter and received by the receiver, via a direct path and via a forward scattered path off the targeted water surface. An interference pattern of interfering direct path signals and forward scattered signals is used to determine an instantaneous height of the water surface and also to determine the sea state of the targeted water surface. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152127 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830509 | Haddock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Translume, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas F. Haddock (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Mark A. Dugan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ali Said (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Philippe Bado (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method continuously monitors variations in the size of particles present in a fluid on a real time basis. The method includes passing one or more optical signal through the fluid such as engine oil. The variation (attenuation or enhancement) in the intensity of the optical signal is continuously measured with respect to time. In an embodiment, the method enables monitoring of the amount, size and onset of particle agglomeration using single or multiple wavelengths as interrogating optical signal(s). An exemplary embodiment is provided for monitoring of the amount, size and onset of soot particle agglomeration in engine oil using single or multiple wavelengths as interrogating optical signal(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/641264 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/335 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830596 | Di Teodoro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabio Di Teodoro (Everett, Washington); Christopher D. Brooks (Kenmore, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus use a photonic-crystal fiber having a very large core while maintaining a single transverse mode. In some fiber lasers and amplifiers having large cores problems exist related to energy being generated at multiple-modes (i.e., polygamy), and of mode hopping (i.e., promiscuity) due to limited control of energy levels and fluctuations. The problems of multiple-modes and mode hopping result from the use of large-diameter waveguides, and are addressed by the invention. This is especially true in lasers using large amounts of energy (i.e., lasers in the one-megawatt or more range). By using multiple small waveguides in parallel, large amounts of energy can be passed through a laser, but with better control such that the aforementioned problems can be reduced. An additional advantage is that the polarization of the light can be maintained better than by using a single fiber core. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/420748 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830781 | Zogg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott J. Zogg (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Stephen M. Clark (Marion, Iowa); Richard S. Haendel (Iowa City, Iowa); Ronald R. Meyer (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Brian L. Aanderud (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio is disclosed. The radio system includes radio system nodes that are configured with a transceiver to transmit and receive information over more than one frequency. Each radio system node also includes a processor, the processor being any of a variety of processing elements, including but not limited to general purpose processors, coders, decoders, and the like. The processor is configured to gather a block of information and configured to format the block of information into a plurality of sub blocks. Each sub block of information includes message synchronization information. The sub blocks are dispersed in time and over the more than one frequency and substantially simultaneous transmission and reception of multiple transmissions in the same frequency band is enabled. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/217731 |
| ART UNIT | 2468 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830923 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyuan Wang (Clifton, Virginia); Shiping Chen (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An interval centroid-based watermark encoder encodes a watermark into a packet flow. Intervals are defined for the packet flow. Some of the intervals are selected as group A intervals while other intervals are selected as group B intervals. Group A and group B intervals are paired and assigned to watermark bits. A first or second value may be encoded by increasing the relative packet time between packets in either the group A (for the first bit value) or group B (for the second bit value) interval(s) of the interval pair(s) assigned to the watermark bits that are to represent the first or second bit value and the beginning of the same group interval(s). The relative packet times may be measured by a decoder and used to calculate a centroid difference for each interval pair. The centroid differences may be used to reconstruct the watermark. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758053 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830982 | Mesecher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Keith Mesecher (Melville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises a plurality of antenna elements, a plurality of digital signal processing devices for supplying phase-and-amplitude-weighted digital baseband signals, a beamforming processor for processing the weighted digital baseband signals to adaptively form a plurality of beam patterns for the antenna elements, a plurality of digital modulators for converting the digital baseband signals into intermediate frequency digital signals, and a modulator for modulating in-phase and quadrature components of the intermediate frequency digital signals to produce composite radio frequency output signals for the antenna elements. Receiving apparatus, and methods of transmitting and receiving a plurality of signals on a plurality of antenna elements are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433695 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830991 | Dishman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Dishman (Melbourne, Florida); Edward R. Beadle (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital signal processing-based receiver architecture performs automatic gain control (AGC) for a frequency hopping spread-spectrum communications receiver that may be subjected to one or more sources of interference or jamming. Rather than set the AGC gain at a fixed, best hoped for value, and then attempt to rely on decoding or interleaving to interpolate lost or degraded data, the present invention, through repeated but aperiodic transitions or hops across a plurality of frequency bins of interest, develops a gain profile for the plurality of frequency bins, and uses the gain profile to adjust, on a hop-by-hop basis, the gain for the channel/bin to which the receiver is listening, so as to maintain the average aggregate input signal power at an optimal ADC loading factor. |
| FILED | Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/243289 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831050 | Barbosa |
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| ABSTRACT | A key distribution scheme comprising a generation and reception system and a specific operation protocol is described. This system allows fast and secure key distribution in optical channels by two stations A and B. One or two true-random physical sources are used to generate random bits and a random sequence received provides the cipher to the following one to be sent. A starting shared secret key is used and the method can be described as a one-time-pad unlimited extender. The minimum probability of error in signal determination by an eavesdropper can be set arbitrarily close to the pure guessing level of one-half and the security of the method comes from the quantum noise of light as well as from the starting secret key. This system allows for optical amplification without security degradation within its operational boundaries. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/000662 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831119 | Khurgin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morton Photonics (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a tunable delay of an optical signal having multiple frequency components. The delay comprises at least a first and a second integrated resonators coupled sequentially to a waveguide; the resonators have angular resonant frequencies ω1=ω0−Δω and ω2=ω0+Δω respectively, ω0 is a median frequency of an input optical signal and Δω is a tunable deviation from the median frequency. The device is providing a nearly equal true time delay to all frequency components in the output signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/205368 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831123 | Sparacin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel K. Sparacin (Washington, District of Columbia); Anuradha M. Agarwal (Weston, Massachusetts); Pradip K. Roy (Orlando, Florida); Lionel C. Kimerling (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a waveguide with a waveguide core having longitudinal sidewall surfaces, a longitudinal top surface, and a longitudinal bottom surface that is disposed on a substrate. An interface layer is disposed on at least one longitudinal sidewall surface of the waveguide core. A waveguide cladding layer is disposed on at least the waveguide core sidewall and top surfaces, over the interface layer. The waveguide of the invention can be produced by forming a waveguide undercladding layer on a substrate, and then forming a waveguide core on the undercladding layer. An interface layer is then formed on at least a longitudinal sidewall surface of the waveguide core, and an upper cladding layer is formed on a longitudinal top surface and on longitudinal sidewall surfaces of the waveguide core, over the interface layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/899234 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831214 | Stockmann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter H. Stockmann (Jamesville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A T/R module utilizes a low noise amplifier in both the transmit and receive modes. In this manner the low noise amplifier enables one to provide a T/R module which has reduced prime power and lower weight and particularly useful in airship radar systems and spaced based radar systems. The low noise amplifier is switched between a receive and a transmit mode by switching mechanism which in the receive mode enables the antenna to be directed to the input of the low noise amplifier with the output of the low noise amplifier directed to a phase shifter and attenuator. The switching operates in a transmit mode where the output of the low noise amplifier is connected to the input of the antenna while the input of the low noise amplifier is now connected to the phase shifter and attenuator for providing a transmit signal. The invention has an additional benefit of enabling linear Class A operation in the transmit mode in both radar and communication systems supporting beam shaping and waveform shaping capabilities. A 100% transmit duty cycle for communications is also supported. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361388 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831397 | Earlywine |
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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) | Kenneth G. Earlywine (Vancouver, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for ascertaining absolute fluid flow in a passage way comprises: a force beam that is inserted into a fluid; a carriage to support the beam, the carriage enabling the beam to move vertically in a fixed plane; one or more load cells incorporated with the beam to measure force applied to the beam by the fluid flow; a data recorder and processor for integrating the measurements and for running algorithms that convert the integrated measurements into a value of absolute flow and a controller to operate the system. In some embodiments the force beam may be light and neutrally buoyant in the fluid. Measurements are taken at pre-specified intervals while moving the beam in a vertical plane perpendicular to the direction of fluid flow. One application is the calibration of Winter-Kennedy piezometers in the barrels of large water turbines. A method of use is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/009573 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07832007 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Pau-Chen Cheng (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Genady Grabarnik (Scarsdale, New York); Shai Halevi (Elmsford, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Trent R. Jaeger (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Paul Ashley Karger (Chappaqua, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Ronald Perez (Mount Kisco, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York); Pankaj Rohatgi (New Rochelle, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland); Michael Steiner (New York, New York); Grant M. Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary method is provided for managing and mitigating security risks through planning. A first security-related information of a requested product is received. A second security-related information of resources that are available for producing the requested product is received. A multi-stage process with security risks managed by the first security-related information and the second security-related information is performed to produce the requested product. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328589 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhengyan Wang (N. Canton, Ohio); Steven J. Plummer (Hudson, Ohio); Jacin C. Barnes (Willowick, Ohio); Matthew D. Fleischhauer (Mentor, Ohio); Michael G. Ambrosia (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Dennis K. Everett (Seven Hills, Ohio); Robert G. Henderson (Wickliffe, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A subject loading system is provided for moving a subject disposed in an isolation zone into and out of a diagnostic system disposed outside the isolation zone. A tube extends away from the isolation zone. The tube has an inner volume open to the isolation zone and operatively coupled with the diagnostic system. An elongated subject support pallet is disposed in the isolation zone and dimensioned to fit into the tube. A base including a mechanical drive is disposed in the isolation zone and is configured to align the elongated subject support pallet with the tube and to move the elongated subject support pallet into and out of the tube. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845199 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Beds 05/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828539 | Beachley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vince Beachley (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Xuejun Wen (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of forming three dimensional arrays of aligned nanofibers in an open, loose structure of any desired depth. The arrays are formed according to an electrospinning process utilizing two parallel conducting plates to align the fibers and rotating tracks to distribute the fibers throughout the array. Arrays can be used as formed, for instance in tissue engineering applications as three dimensional scaffolding constructs. As-formed arrays can be combined with other materials to form a composite 3-D structure. For instance, composite polymeric materials can be electrospun to form composite nanofibers within the array. Multiple polymeric materials can be electrospun at different areas of the array to form a composite array including materially different nanofibers throughout the array. The arrays can be loaded with other fibrous or non-fibrous materials to form a composite array. Arrays can also be rolled to form a uniaxial fiber bundle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054668 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828762 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ekos Corporation (Bothell, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard R. Wilson (Seattle, Washington); Robert L. Wilcox (Bothell, Washington); Curtis Genstler (Snohomoish, Washington); Tim Abrahamson (Seattle, Washington); Wm. Gerrit Barrere (Lake Forest Park, Washington); Amy Cohen (Seattle, Washington); George Keilman (Seattle, Washington); Leonard R. Oliver (Seattle, Washington); Natalya Peskin (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter for delivering ultrasonic energy and therapeutic compounds to a treatment site within a patient's vasculature comprises a tubular body. The tubular body has a proximal region and a distal region opposite the proximal region. The catheter further comprises a plurality of fluid delivery lumens formed into the tubular body. The catheter further comprises an inner core configured for insertion into the tubular body. The inner core comprises an elongate electrical conductor having a plurality of flattened regions, each flattened region having a first flat side and a second flat side opposite the first flat side. The inner core further comprises a plurality of ultrasound radiating members mounted in pairs to the flattened regions of the elongate electrical conductor. A first ultrasound radiating member is mounted to the first flat side of the elongate electrical conductor, and a second ultrasound radiating member is mounted to the second flat side of the elongate electrical conductor. The catheter further comprises control electronics configured to apply a driving signal to at least two, but fewer than all, of the ultrasound radiating members. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/643417 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829086 | Hilbert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medimmune, LLC (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Aeres Biomedical, Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Hilbert (Bethesda, Maryland); Tarran Jones (Radlett, United Kingdom); David G. Williams (Epsom, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides chimeric and humanized versions of anti-CD22 mouse monoclonal antibody, HB22.7. The anti-CD22 antibodies of the invention comprise four human or humanized framework regions of the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region (“VH”) and four human or humanized framework regions of the immunoglobulin light chain variable region (“VK”). The invention further comprises heavy and/or light chain FW regions that contain one or more backmutations in which a human FW residue is exchanged for the corresponding residue present in the parental mouse heavy or light chain. Human or humanized VH framework regions of antibodies of the invention may comprise one or more of the following residues: a valine (V) at position 24 of framework region 1, a glycine (G) at position 49 of framework region 2, and an asparagine (N) at position 73 of framework region 3, numbered according to Kabat. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions, immunotherapeutic compositions, and methods using therapeutic antibodies that bind to the human CD22 antigen and that preferably mediate human ADCC, CDC, and/or apoptosis for: the treatment of B cell diseases and disorders in human subjects, such as, but not limited to, B cell malignancies, for the treatment and prevention of autoimmune disease, and for the treatment and prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), humoral rejection, and post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder in human transplant recipients. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715308 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 07829097 | Tsung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan Tsung (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Timothy R. Billiar (Presto, Pennsylvania); Mitchell P. Fink (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kevin J. Tracey (Old Greenwich, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are disclosed for protecting an organ or tissue from inflammation and organ injury following ischemia, reperfusion, and trauma through the administration of an HMGB1 protein within a time period sufficient to protect the organ or tissue from injury. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671932 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829102 | Buchholz 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) | Ursula Buchholz (Silver Spring, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Silver Spring, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Stephen S. Whitehead (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Christine D. Krempl (Wuerzburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Chimeric human-bovine respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are infectious and attenuated in humans and other mammals and useful in vaccine formulations for eliciting an anti-RSV immune response. Also provided are isolated polynucleotide molecules and vectors incorporating a chimeric RSV genome or antigenome which includes a partial or complete human or bovine RSV “background” genome or antigenome combined or integrated with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) of a different RSV strain. Chimeric human-bovine RSV of the invention include a partial or complete “background” RSV genome or antigenome derived from or patterned after a human or bovine RSV strain or subgroup virus combined with one or more heterologous gene(s) or genome segment(s) of a different RSV strain or subgroup virus to form the human-bovine chimeric RSV genome or antigenome. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/097946 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/211.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829277 | Rodriguez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond Rodriguez (Davis, California); Mark Jesus Mendoza Magbanua (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Gene expression profiles produced in response to lunasin exposure, wherein such gene expression profiles correlate with anti-neoplastic activity, methods for using such expression profiles for screening potential anti-neoplastic agents, and methods for treatment and monitoring of a subject having a neoplastic disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/591097 |
| 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 07829278 | Selvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Selvin (Urbana, Illinois); Matthew Gordon (Urbana, Illinois); Pui-Yan Kwok (San Francisco, California); Ming Xiao (Pacifica, California); Ting-Fung Chan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polynucleotide is barcoded using a method whereby an isolated, individual polynucleotide is immobilized on a solid phase and stretched, targets are labeled using target-specific hybridization probes, and an individual label of an unamplified probe at each of the labeled targets is optically detected. The order of the labels is determined to form a barcode representation of the polynucleotide wherein the targets and their relative positions are represented. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976546 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829279 | Delgado-Escueta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta (Malibu, California); Kazuhiro Yamakawa (Saitama, Japan); Toshimitsu Suzuki (Saitama, Japan); Marco Tulio Medina-Hernandez (Tegucigalpa, Honduras); Maria Elisa Alonso Vilatela (Delegacion Coyoacan, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1, EFHC1 agonists, or EFHC1 analogs are provided. Compositions and methods for diagnosis or treatment of epilepsy disease with EFHC1a, EFHC1a agonists, or EFHC1a analogs are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/572201 |
| 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 07829282 | Rieder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Rieder (Seattle, Washington); Allan Rettie (Langley, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for predicting drug responses. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for determining individualized Warfarin dosages based on genotype of DNA polymorphisms and haplotypes derived from them in the VKORC1 gene. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687123 |
| 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 07829283 | Hoon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancer Institute (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of cancer based on the methylation status of the ER-α gene promoter are disclosed. Methylation of the ER-α gene promoter is indicative of cancer and unfavorable prognosis. The cancer can be treated with a demethylation agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/693673 |
| 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 |
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| US 07829287 | Borer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip N. Borer (Chittenango, New York); Bruce S. Hudson (Syracuse, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention relate to a branched or multichain nucleic acid switch adapted to switch from a first conformation to a second conformation upon ligand binding. The switch includes a probe strand, P, which includes the ligand binding domain; a switching framework which includes a cover strand (C), and a tether that holds P and C together and a signaling apparatus. Some embodiments include a toggle strand (T) where now the tether holds P, C, T, and the signaling apparatus together. As the switch changes between the first and second conformations; the signaling apparatus reports the state of the switch. The signaling entity is typically a lumiphore and a quencher located along the switching framework. Nucleic acid switches have applications in real time assays for diverse agents including infectious agents, environmental toxins, and terrorist agents, as well as screening methods for such agents. Further applications are found for nanoelectronics, nanofabrication and nanomachines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401498 |
| 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 07829292 | Carey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Carey (Dexter, Michigan); Thankam S. Nair (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jennifer Gray-Beckman (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of diagnosing the presence of an autoimmune disease in a patient, methods of predicting the response of an autoimmune diseased patient to therapeutic treatment, and methods of monitoring an autoimmune patient's response to therapy. In particular, these methods comprise the use of a glycoprotein from the inner-ear organ of Corti reactive with a KHRI-3 monoclonal antibody. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/406156 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07829304 | Appella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel H. Appella (Rockville, Maryland); Michael C. Myers (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Ketoamine compounds and related methods for reactivation of tumor suppressor protein p53. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/029128 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829332 | Goldman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); New York Medical College (Valhalla, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Goldman (Webster, New York); Maiken Nedergaard (Webster, New York); Jane Lin (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of inhibiting differentiation of a population of neural stem cells by contacting a purinergic receptor agonist and a population of neural stem cells under conditions effective to inhibit differentiation of the population of neural stem cells. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of producing neurons and/or glial cells from a population of neural stem cells by culturing a population of neural stem cells with a purinergic receptor antagonist under conditions effective to cause the neural stem cells to differentiate into neurons and/or glial cells. The purinergic receptor agonist can also be used in a method of inducing proliferation and self-renewal of neural stem cells in a subject and a method of treating a neurological disease or neurodegenerative condition in a subject. The purinergic receptor antagonist can also be used in treating a neoplastic disease of the brain or spinal cord in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/054919 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829336 | Fuchs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elaine Fuchs (New York, New York); Tudorita Tumbar (Ithaca, New York); Cedrick Blanpain (Lasne, Belgium); William E. Lowry (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for isolating infrequently-dividing, slow-cycling cells, a feature which is typical of stem cells in their niche. The methods of the present invention are advantageously used as classical stem cells can be isolated. Further provided are methods for generating clonal populations and inhibiting the differentiation of these cells. In addition markers for distinguishing these cells from progenitor cells are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/580511 |
| 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 435/378 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829338 | Nicolaides et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Nicolaides (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth Kinzler (BelAir, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Dominant negative alleles of human mismatch repair genes can be used to generate hypermutable cells and organisms. By introducing these genes into cells and transgenic animals, new cell lines and animal varieties with novel and useful properties can be prepared more efficiently than by relying on the natural rate of mutation. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/907338 |
| 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 435/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829527 | Wellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Wellman (Jeffersonville, Vermont); Masanori Ishiguro (Chou-ku, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and products for treatment of a neurological defect such as a subarachnoid hemorrhage or cerebral vasospasm. Specifically, R-type voltage-gated calcium channel inhibitors and related compositions and kits are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/346614 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07829530 | Bachovchin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts); New England Medical Center Hospitals (Boston, Massachusetts); 1149336 Ontario, Inc. (Toronto, ON, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Bachovchin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Andrew G. Plaut (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Drucker (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for treating Type II diabetes in an animal, comprising conjointly administering to the animal metformin and an inhibitor of dipeptidylpeptidase IV or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in an amount sufficient to treat Type II diabetes of the animal but not sufficient to suppress the animal's immune system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323751 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07829536 | Ferrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vegenics Limited (Toorak, Victoria, Australia); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Ferrell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kari Alitalo (Helsinki, Finland); David N. Finegold (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Marika Karkkainen (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides materials and methods for screening for and treating hereditary lymphedema in human subjects. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366359 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829553 | Arnold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amulet Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernst V. Arnold (Hagerstown, Maryland); Blaine G. Doletski (Elkridge, Maryland); Robert E. Raulli (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions comprising carbon-based diazeniumdiolates attached to hydrophobic polymers that releases nitric oxide (NO). The carbon-based diazeniumdiolated polymers release NO spontaneously under physiological conditions without subsequent nitrosamine formation. The present invention also relates to methods of preparing the carbon-based diazeniumdiolated polymers, compositions comprising such polymers, methods of using such compositions, and devices employing such polymer compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/588718 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829662 | Korsmeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley J. Korsmeyer (Weston, Massachusetts); Luca Scorrano (Padova, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel polypeptides and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them. Also disclosed are antibodies that immunospecifically bind to the polypeptide, as well as derivatives, variants, mutants, or fragments of the novel polypeptide, polynucleotide, or antibody specific to the polypeptide. Vectors, host cells, antibodies and recombinant methods for producing the polypeptides and polynucleotides, as well as methods for using same are also included. The invention further discloses therapeutic, diagnostic and research methods for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of apoptosis associated disorders involving these novel human nucleic acids and proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818915 |
| 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 07829687 | Georgiou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Laura Segatori (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides artificial enzymes comprising, e.g., an N-terminal domain derived from E. coli FkpA that allows for dimerization and provides a substrate binding region, and a C-terminal thioredoxin domain derived from E. coli DsbA. Similar to DsbC, such de novo designed chimeric (hybrid) FkpA-DsbA enzymes function, as disulfide reductases, oxidases, or isomerases, and chaperones in vivo and in vitro, despite lacking similarity to DsbC-related polypeptide sequence. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/697114 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829688 | Garry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Garry (Dallas, Texas); Ilya Bezprozvanny (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides of CaV2.2 and their use in the treatment of pain. The sequence of the peptides is derived from the C-terminus of CaV2.2. and is believed to inhibit the interaction of CaV2.2 with Mint1-PDZ1. The invention is related to use of this peptide to treat pain and to use of this peptide in binding reaction with int-PDZ to screen for small molecules that can inhibit pain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/190459 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830525 | Buckland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioptigen, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, North Carolina); Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina); Seungbum Woo (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Michael E. Sullivan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Some embodiments of the present invention provide adapters for use in posterior imaging systems. The adapters include lens set configured to adapt the posterior imaging system to operate as an anterior imaging system. Related optical coherence tomography systems and anterior imaging systems are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930865 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831088 | Frakes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Harold Frakes (Atlanta, Georgia); Joseph Wilson Monaco (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark J. T. Smith (West LaFayette, Indiana); Ajit P. Yoganathan (Tucker, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Approaches to three-dimensional (3D) data reconstruction are presented. The 3D data comprises 2D images. In some embodiments, the 2D images are directionally interpolated to generate directionally-interpolated 3D data. The directionally-interpolated 3D data are then segmented to generate segmented directionally-interpolated 3D data. The segmented directionally-interpolated 3D data is then meshed. In other embodiments, a 3D data set, which includes 2D flow images, is accessed. The accessed 2D flow images are then directionally interpolated to generate 2D intermediate flow images. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/865084 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
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| US 07831106 | Elsner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann E. Elsner (Bloomington, Indiana); Benno Petrig (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight digital imaging device uses a slit scanning arrangement to obtain an image of the eye, in particular the retina. The scanning arrangement reduces the amount of target area illuminated at a time, thereby reducing the amount of unwanted light scatter and providing a higher contrast image. A detection arrangement receives the light remitted from the retinal plane and produces an image. The device is operable under battery power and ambient light conditions, such as outdoor or room lighting. The device is noncontact and does not require that the pupil of the eye be dilated with drops. The device can be used by personnel who do not have specialized training in the eye, such as emergency personnel, pediatricians, general practitioners, or volunteer or otherwise unskilled screening personnel. Images can be viewed in the device or transmitted to a remote location. The device can also be used to provide images of the anterior segment of the eye, or other small structures. Visible wavelength light is not required to produce images of most important structures in the retina, thereby increasing the comfort and safety of the device. Flexible and moderate cost confocal and fluorescent imaging, multiply scattered light images, and image sharpening are further functionalities possible with the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/302531 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason M. Ortega (Pacifica, California); Kambiz Salari (Livermore, California); Rose McCallen (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle underbody fairing apparatus for reducing aerodynamic drag caused by a vehicle wheel assembly, by reducing the size of a recirculation zone formed under the vehicle body immediately downstream of the vehicle wheel assembly. The fairing body has a tapered aerodynamic surface that extends from a front end to a rear end of the fairing body with a substantially U-shaped cross-section that tapers in both height and width. Fasteners or other mounting devices secure the fairing body to an underside surface of the vehicle body, so that the front end is immediately downstream of the vehicle wheel assembly and a bottom section of the tapered aerodynamic surface rises towards the underside surface as it extends in a downstream direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255906 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/181.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith D Kimmel (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine airfoil, such as a rotor blade or a stator vane, for a gas turbine engine, the airfoil formed as a shell and spar construction with a plurality of hook shaped struts each mounted within channels extending in a spanwise direction of the spar and the shell to allow for relative motion between the spar and shell in the airfoil chordwise direction while also fanning a seal between adjacent cooling channels. The struts provide the seal as well as prevent bulging of the shell from the spar due to the cooling air pressure. The hook struts have a hooked shaped end and a rounded shaped end in order to insert the struts into the spar. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/468349 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicolas Serres (Epinal, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine assembly for a variable-geometry turbocharger includes a turbine housing defining a divided volute having first and second scrolls, wherein the first scroll has a substantially smaller volume than the second scroll. The first scroll feeds exhaust gas to a first portion of a turbine wheel upstream of the throat of the wheel, while the second scroll feeds gas to a second portion of the wheel at least part of which is downstream of the throat. Flow from the second scroll is regulated by a sliding piston. The first scroll can be optimized for low-flow conditions such that the turbocharger can operate effectively like a small fixed-geometry turbocharger when the piston is closed. The turbine housing defines an inlet that is divided by a dividing wall into two portions respectively feeding gas to the two scrolls, a leading edge of the dividing wall being downstream of the inlet mouth. |
| FILED | Monday, August 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/834115 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828883 | Aines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger D. Aines (Livermore, California); William L. Bourcier (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method and system of separating carbon dioxide from flue gas is introduced. Instead of relying on large temperature or pressure changes to remove carbon dioxide from a solvent used to absorb it from flue gas, the ion pump method, as disclosed herein, dramatically increases the concentration of dissolved carbonate ion in solution. This increases the overlying vapor pressure of carbon dioxide gas, permitting carbon dioxide to be removed from the downstream side of the ion pump as a pure gas. The ion pumping may be obtained from reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, thermal desalination methods, or an ion pump system having an oscillating flow in synchronization with an induced electric field. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/657682 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828948 | Hatch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anson Hatch (Tracy, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California); Amy E. Herr (Fremont, California); Daniel J. Throckmorton (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods and devices for preconcentrating and separating analytes such as proteins and polynucleotides in microchannels. As disclosed, at least one size-exclusion polymeric element is adjacent to processing area or an assay area in a microchannel which may be porous polymeric element. The size-exclusion polymeric element may be used to manipulate, e.g. concentrate, analytes in a sample prior to assaying in the assay area. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536753 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828990 | Cordaro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Gabriel Cordaro (Oakland, California); Robert W. Bradshaw (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-melting point, heat transfer fluid made of a mixture of five inorganic salts including about 29.1-33.5 mol % LiNO3, 0-3.9 mol % NaNO3, 2.4-8.2 mol % KNO3, 18.6-19.9 mol % NaNO2, and 40-45.6 mol % KNO2. These compositions can have liquidus temperatures below 80° C. for some compositions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336657 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/71 |
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| US 07829012 | Bischoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worldwide Energy, Inc. of Delaware (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Bischoff (Knoxville, Tennessee); Theodore G. Sutton (Kingston, Tennessee); Roddie R. Judkins (Knoxville, Tennessee); Timothy R. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee); Kenneth D. Adcock (Harriman, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating a porous item constructed of metal powder, such as a powder made of Series 400 stainless steel, involves a step of preheating the porous item to a temperature of between about 700 and 900° C. degrees in an oxidizing atmosphere and then sintering the body in an inert or reducing atmosphere at a temperature which is slightly below the melting temperature of the metal which comprises the porous item. The thermal stability of the resulting item is enhanced by this method so that the item retains its porosity and metallic characteristics, such as ductility, at higher (e.g. near-melting) temperatures. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305974 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/7 |
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| US 07829020 | Pagoria et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip F. Pagoria (Livermore, California); Alexander R. Mitchell (Livermore, California); Richard E. Whipple (Livermore, California); M. Leslie Carman (San Ramon, California); John G. Reynolds (San Ramon, California); Peter Nunes (Livermore, California); Sharon J. Shields (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A simple and effective system for the colorimetric determination of organic peroxides and hydrogen peroxide. A peroxide pen utilizing a swipe material attached to a polyethylene tube contains two crushable vials. The two crushable vials contain a colorimetric reagent separated into dry ingredients and liquid ingredients. After swiping a suspected substance or surface the vials are broken, the reagent is mixed thoroughly and the reagent is allowed to wick into the swipe material. The presence of organic peroxides or hydrogen peroxide is confirmed by a deep blue color. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/183210 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829035 | Ceyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sylvia T. Ceyer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David L. Lahr (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to catalyst systems and methods for oxidation of carbon monoxide. The invention involves catalyst compositions which may be advantageously altered by, for example, modification of the catalyst surface to enhance catalyst performance. Catalyst systems of the present invention may be capable of performing the oxidation of carbon monoxide at relatively lower temperatures (e.g., 200 K and below) and at relatively higher reaction rates than known catalysts. Additionally, catalyst systems disclosed herein may be substantially lower in cost than current commercial catalysts. Such catalyst systems may be useful in, for example, catalytic converters, fuel cells, sensors, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335865 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829194 | Brady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael P. Brady (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Bing Yang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Philip J. Maziasz (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A corrosion resistant electrically conductive component that can be used as a bipolar plate in a PEM fuel cell application is composed of an alloy substrate which has 10-30 wt. % Cr, 0.5 to 7 wt. % V, and base metal being Fe, and a continuous surface layer of chromium nitride and vanadium nitride essentially free of base metal. A oxide layer of chromium vanadium oxide can be disposed between the alloy substrate and the continuous surface nitride layer. A method to prepare the corrosion resistant electrically conductive component involves a two-step nitridization sequence by exposing the alloy to a oxygen containing gas at an elevated temperature, and subsequently exposing the alloy to an oxygen free nitrogen containing gas at an elevated temperature to yield a component where a continuous chromium nitride layer free of iron has formed at the surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/582034 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/457 |
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| US 07829213 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig P. Jacobson (Lafayette, California); Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Lutgard C. De Jonghe (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pre-fabricated electrochemical device having a dense electrolyte disposed between an anode and a cathode preferably deposited as thin films is bonded to a porous electrically conductive support. A second porous electrically conductive support may be bonded to a counter electrode of the electrochemical device. Multiple electrochemical devices may be bonded in parallel to a single porous support, such as a perforated sheet to provide a planar array. Planar arrays may be arranged in a stacked interconnected array. A method of making a supported electrochemical device is disclosed wherein the method includes a step of bonding a pre-fabricated electrochemical device layer to an existing porous metal or porous metal alloy layer. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796659 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829278 | Selvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Selvin (Urbana, Illinois); Matthew Gordon (Urbana, Illinois); Pui-Yan Kwok (San Francisco, California); Ming Xiao (Pacifica, California); Ting-Fung Chan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polynucleotide is barcoded using a method whereby an isolated, individual polynucleotide is immobilized on a solid phase and stretched, targets are labeled using target-specific hybridization probes, and an individual label of an unamplified probe at each of the labeled targets is optically detected. The order of the labels is determined to form a barcode representation of the polynucleotide wherein the targets and their relative positions are represented. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976546 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829314 | Prudent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Third Wave Technologies, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Prudent (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeff G. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Victor I. Lyamichev (Madison, Wisconsin); Mary Ann D. Brow (Madison, Wisconsin); James E. Dahlberg (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to means for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences, as well as variations in nucleic acid sequences. The present invention also relates to methods for forming a nucleic acid cleavage structure on a target sequence and cleaving the nucleic acid cleavage structure in a site-specific manner. The structure-specific nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave the target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476912 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
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| US 07829603 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhen-Yu Yang (Hockessin, Delaware); Mark Gerrit Roelofs (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorinated ion exchange polymer prepared by grafting at least one grafting monomer on to at least one base polymer, wherein the grafting monomer comprises structure 1a or 1b: wherein Z comprises S, SO2, or POR wherein R comprises a linear or branched perfluoroalkyl group of 1 to 14 carbon atoms optionally containing oxygen or chlorine, an alkyl group of 1 to 8 carbon atoms, an aryl group of 6 to 12 carbon atoms or a substituted aryl group of 6 to 12 carbon atoms; RF comprises a linear or branched perfluoroalkene group of 1 to 20 carbon atoms, optionally containing oxygen or chlorine; Q is chosen from F, —OM, NH2, —N(M)SO2R2F, and C(M)(SO2R2F)2, wherein M comprises H, an alkali cation, or ammonium; R2F groups comprises alkyl of 1 to 14 carbon atoms which may optionally include ether oxygens or aryl of 6 to 12 carbon atoms where the alkyl or aryl groups may be perfluorinated or partially fluorinated; and n is 1 or 2 for 1a, and n is 1, 2, or 3 for 1b. These ion exchange polymers are useful in preparing catalyst coated membranes and membrane electrode assemblies used in fuel cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/547239 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
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| US 07829644 | Golova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia Golova (Burr Ridge, Illinois); Boris Chernov (Burr Ridge, Illinois); Alexander Perov (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New gel-forming reagents including monomers and cross-linkers, which can be applied to gel-drop microarray manufacturing by using co-polymerization approaches are disclosed. Compositions for the preparation of co-polymerization mixtures with new gel-forming monomers and cross-linker reagents are described herein. New co-polymerization compositions and cross-linkers with variable length linker groups between unsaturated C═C bonds that participate in the formation of gel networks are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550730 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829652 | Hung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce Hung (Auburn, Alabama); Daniel Joseph Brunelle (Burnt Hills, New York); Marianne Elisabeth Harmon (Redondo Beach, California); David Roger Moore (Albany, New York); Joshua James Stone (Worcester, New York); Hongyi Zhou (Niskayuna, New York); Joseph Anthony Suriano (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition including a polyarylether copolymer is provided. The copolymer includes a polyarylether backbone; and a sulfonated oligomeric group bonded to the polyarylether suitable for use as a cation conducting membrane. Method of bonding a sulfonated oligomeric group to the polyarylether backbone to form a polyarylether copolymer. The membrane may be formed from the polyarylether copolymer composition. The chain length of the sulfonated oligomeric group may be controlled to affect or control the ion conductivity of the membrane. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/183488 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830040 | McDonald |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sci-Eng Solutions, LLC (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Fox McDonald (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for fabricating and constructing solid dielectric “Coiled Transmission Line” pulse generators in radial or axial coiled geometries. The pour and cure fabrication process enables a wide variety of geometries and form factors. The volume between the conductors is filled with liquid blends of monomers, polymers, oligomers, and/or cross-linkers and dielectric powders; and then cured to form high field strength and high dielectric constant solid dielectric transmission lines that intrinsically produce ideal rectangular high voltage pulses when charged and switched into matched impedance loads. Voltage levels may be increased by Marx and/or Blumlein principles incorporating spark gap or, preferentially, solid state switches (such as optically triggered thyristors) which produce reliable, high repetition rate operation. Moreover, these Marxed pulse generators can be DC charged and do not require additional pulse forming circuitry, pulse forming lines, transformers, or an a high voltage spark gap output switch. The apparatus accommodates a wide range of voltages, impedances, pulse durations, pulse repetition rates, and duty cycles. The resulting mobile or flight platform friendly cylindrical geometric configuration is much more compact, light-weight, and robust than conventional linear geometries, or pulse generators constructed from conventional components. Installing additional circuitry may accommodate optional pulse shape improvements. The Coiled Transmission Lines can also be connected in parallel to decrease the impedance, or in series to increase the pulse length. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749043 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830928 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corp (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoshi Zhang (Superior, Colorado); Amy L. Lytle (Boulder, Colorado); Oren Cohen (Boulder, Colorado); Henry C. Kapteyn (Boulder, Colorado); Margaret M. Murnane (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | All-optical quasi-phase matching (QPM) uses a train of counterpropagating pulses to enhance high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in a hollow waveguide. A pump pulse enters one end of the waveguide, and causes HHG in the waveguide. The counterpropagation pulses enter the other end of the waveguide and interact with the pump pulses to cause QPM within the waveguide, enhancing the HHG. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888916 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830946 | Erlandson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alvin C. Erlandson (Livermore, California); Jerald A. Britten (Clayton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel method and apparatus for suppressing ASE and parasitic oscillation modes in a high average power laser is introduced. Such an invention, as disclosed herein, uses diffraction gratings to increase gain, stored energy density, and pumping efficiency of solid-state laser gain media, such as, but not limited to rods, disks and slabs. By coupling predetermined gratings to solid-state gain media, such as crystal or ceramic laser gain media, ASE and parasitic oscillation modes can be effectively suppressed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394957 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831133 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Chester Ledlie Sandberg (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A heating system for a subsurface formation is described. The heating system includes a first heater, a second heater, and a third heater placed in an opening in the subsurface formation. Each heater includes: an electrical conductor; an insulation layer at least partially surrounding the electrical conductor; and an electrically conductive sheath at least partially surrounding the insulation layer. The electrical conductor is electrically coupled to the sheath at a lower end portion of the heater. The lower end portion is the portion of the heater distal from a surface of the opening. The first heater, the second heater, and the third heater are electrically coupled at the lower end portions of the heaters. The first heater, the second heater, and the third heater are configured to be electrically coupled in a three-phase wye configuration. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409523 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831134 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); William George Coit (Bellaire, Texas); Peter Terry Griffin (Brixham, United Kingdom); Paul Taylor Hamilton (Houston, Texas); Chia-Fu Hsu (Granada Hills, California); Stanley Leroy Mason (Allen, Texas); Allan James Samuel (Kular Lumpar, Malaysia); Ronnie Wade Watkins (Cypress, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for treating a hydrocarbon containing formation is described. The system includes two or more groups of elongated heaters. The group includes two or more heaters placed in two or more openings in the formation. The heaters in the group are electrically coupled below the surface of the formation. The openings include at least partially uncased wellbores in a hydrocarbon layer of the formation. The groups are electrically configured such that current flow through the formation between at least two groups is inhibited. The heaters are configured to provide heat to the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409525 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831866 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Mark G. Megerian (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for link failure detection in a parallel computer including compute nodes connected in a rectangular mesh network, each pair of adjacent compute nodes in the rectangular mesh network connected together using a pair of links, that includes: assigning each compute node to either a first group or a second group such that adjacent compute nodes in the rectangular mesh network are assigned to different groups; sending, by each of the compute nodes assigned to the first group, a first test message to each adjacent compute node assigned to the second group; determining, by each of the compute nodes assigned to the second group, whether the first test message was received from each adjacent compute node assigned to the first group; and notifying a user, by each of the compute nodes assigned to the second group, whether the first test message was received. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832940 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07828735 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Holmes (New York, New York); Kevin D. Costa (New York, New York); Susan L. Herz (New York, New York); Christopher M. Ingrassia (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for providing diagnostic information using endocardial surface data for a patient's heart are described herein. In some embodiments, endocardial surface data for the left ventricle of a heart is received. The endocardial surface data represents the endocardial surface of the left ventricle at multiple times over a heartbeat and is obtained using a volumetric imaging application. A representation in prolate spheroidal coordinates of the endocardial surface of the left ventricle at least a portion of the multiple times is generated using the endocardial surface data. The prolate spheroidal coordinates include a longitudinal angular coordinate μ, a circumferential angular coordinate θ, and a coordinate λ as a function of longitudinal angular coordinate μ and circumferential angular coordinate θ. A measure that provides diagnostic information related to the left ventricle is computed based at least on part on the value of coordinate λ. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801457 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829140 | Zhong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuan-Jian Zhong (Endwell, New York); Lingyan Wang (Binghamton, New York); Jin Luo (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming mono-disperse iron-oxide core metal shell nanoparticles is disclosed. Particle size of the oxide core seeds is controlled and capped seeds are formed. The capping layer is desorbed by a thermally activated process and metal such as gold is chemically deposited on the core seeds in situ. This process can be repeated to produce multi-metal or different metal shells. A second capping layer is applied on the core/shell composite nanoparticles. In another step, the particles are sized by centrifuging to obtain a tightly controlled and narrow particle size distribution. The water-dispersibility of the particles is achieved by a thiol exchange reaction on the gold shell of the core/shell nanoparticles or by deposition of gold on ferritin-derived iron oxide cores in aqueous solution. Mono and multilayer thin films are assembled on different substrates using the core/shell particles and linking molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/391883 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829150 | Engstrom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Engstrom (Ithaca, New York); Aravind S. Killampalli (Beaverton, Oregon); Paul F. Ma (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for preparing inorganic-organic interfaces using organo-transition metal complexes and self-assembled monolayers as organic surfaces. In one embodiment, a silicon wafer is cleaned and reacted with stabilized pirhana etch to provide an oxide surface. The surface is reacted with the trichlorosilyl end of alkyltrichlorosilanes to prepare self assembling monomers (SAMs). The alkyltrichlorosilanes have the general formula R1-R—SiCl3, where R1 is —OH, —NH2, —COOH, —SH, COOCH3, —CN, and R is a conjugated hydrocarbon, such as (CH2)n where n is in the range of 3 to 18. The functionalized end of the SAM can optionally modified chemically as appropriate, and is then reacted with metal-bearing species such as tetrakis(dimethylamido)titanium, Ti[N(CH3)2]4, (TDMAT) to provide a titanium nitride layer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155453 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/419.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829155 | Pinkhassik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Memphis Research Foundation (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgueni Pinkhassik (Memphis, Tennessee); Larry Todd Banner (Cordova, Tennessee); Benjamin T. Clayton (Pikeville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a new monomer and methods of using the monomer to fabricate robust polymer surface coatings with controlled thicknesses between 1 and 5 nanometers. The coatings are composed of a new material containing polymerized monomers of 4-vinylbenzenepropanethiol. The polymer surface coating may be applied to metal and silicon. The method includes exposing a metal substrate to a solution of the monomer in hexanes in order to deposit a monolayer of the monomer onto the metal surface. The substrate is then irradiated with ultraviolet radiation in order to graft a thin polymer coating onto the surface. The procedure can be repeated in order to control the thickness of the coating between about 1 nm and 5 nm. Alternatively, thermally initiated polymerization or deposition of partially oligomerized monomers onto the surface provides nanothin coatings with identical performance. The coating provides complete surface coverage, is extremely robust, and exhibits excellent insulating and anti-corrosive properties. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871669 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829278 | Selvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Selvin (Urbana, Illinois); Matthew Gordon (Urbana, Illinois); Pui-Yan Kwok (San Francisco, California); Ming Xiao (Pacifica, California); Ting-Fung Chan (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polynucleotide is barcoded using a method whereby an isolated, individual polynucleotide is immobilized on a solid phase and stretched, targets are labeled using target-specific hybridization probes, and an individual label of an unamplified probe at each of the labeled targets is optically detected. The order of the labels is determined to form a barcode representation of the polynucleotide wherein the targets and their relative positions are represented. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976546 |
| 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 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829690 | Johnson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Monsanto Technology LLC (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan J. Johnson (New London, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from a nopaline synthase gene and vitopine synthase gene of Agrobacterium vitis are useful for expressing transgenes in plants. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747432 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830208 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Guogong Wang (Tempe, Arizona); Guoxuan Qin (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A common-base amplifier for a bipolar junction transistor or a heterojunction bipolar transistor employs an active current source output biasing to provide for improved power output in a power saturation region providing increased power for a given transistor area such as may be advantageous in mobile radio transmitters or the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233307 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830561 | Zomet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Asaf Zomet (New York, New York); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a lensless optical device for acquiring an image. The device can include a light attenuating layer having a plurality of elements, where transmittance of each of the plurality of elements is controllable, and an image detector disposed at a distance from the light attenuating layer, the image detector configured to acquire an image with light that passes through the light attenuating layer. The device also can include a light attenuating layer controller configured to simultaneously control transmittance of each of the plurality of elements independent of each other. Methods of detecting and tracking an object in a scene are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377742 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Facsimile and static presentation processing 358/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830923 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyuan Wang (Clifton, Virginia); Shiping Chen (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An interval centroid-based watermark encoder encodes a watermark into a packet flow. Intervals are defined for the packet flow. Some of the intervals are selected as group A intervals while other intervals are selected as group B intervals. Group A and group B intervals are paired and assigned to watermark bits. A first or second value may be encoded by increasing the relative packet time between packets in either the group A (for the first bit value) or group B (for the second bit value) interval(s) of the interval pair(s) assigned to the watermark bits that are to represent the first or second bit value and the beginning of the same group interval(s). The relative packet times may be measured by a decoder and used to calculate a centroid difference for each interval pair. The centroid differences may be used to reconstruct the watermark. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758053 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830928 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corp (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoshi Zhang (Superior, Colorado); Amy L. Lytle (Boulder, Colorado); Oren Cohen (Boulder, Colorado); Henry C. Kapteyn (Boulder, Colorado); Margaret M. Murnane (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | All-optical quasi-phase matching (QPM) uses a train of counterpropagating pulses to enhance high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in a hollow waveguide. A pump pulse enters one end of the waveguide, and causes HHG in the waveguide. The counterpropagation pulses enter the other end of the waveguide and interact with the pump pulses to cause QPM within the waveguide, enhancing the HHG. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/888916 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07828042 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naiyi Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ronald Cooper (Canton, Michigan); Jim deVries (Canton, Michigan); Nanda Gopal (Troy, Michigan); Christopher Lee (Beverly, Massachusetts); Tom Scholten (Holland, Michigan); Raymond Silva (Maumee, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for the casting of metal components is disclosed. The apparatus includes a gooseneck 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 hot runner tip positioned adjacent the mold cavity, and a machine nozzle inserted between the gooseneck and the hot runner assembly. The gooseneck is fitted with a one-way check valve to allow for molten metal to be drawn into the plunger but to stop its passage out of the gooseneck when the metal is forced through the system into the die. A thermal valve is formed within the hot runner tip to provide a metal blockage from the molten metal which prevents the back-flow of molten metal back into the hot runner assembly. Both temperature and flow rate are carefully monitored and controlled. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/560416 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829314 | Prudent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Third Wave Technologies, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Prudent (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeff G. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Victor I. Lyamichev (Madison, Wisconsin); Mary Ann D. Brow (Madison, Wisconsin); James E. Dahlberg (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to means for the detection and characterization of nucleic acid sequences, as well as variations in nucleic acid sequences. The present invention also relates to methods for forming a nucleic acid cleavage structure on a target sequence and cleaving the nucleic acid cleavage structure in a site-specific manner. The structure-specific nuclease activity of a variety of enzymes is used to cleave the target-dependent cleavage structure, thereby indicating the presence of specific nucleic acid sequences or specific variations thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476912 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829625 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Oakville, Canada); Hadi K. Mahabadi (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (04-02 Park Oasis, Singapore); Paul F. Smith (Oakville, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for fabricating an electronic device including: depositing a layer comprising a semiconductor; liquid depositing a dielectric composition comprising a lower-k dielectric material, a higher-k dielectric material, and a liquid, wherein the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material are not phase separated prior to the liquid depositing; and causing phase separation of the lower-k dielectric material and the higher-k dielectric material to form a phase-separated dielectric structure wherein the lower-k dielectric material is in a higher concentration than the higher-k dielectric material in a region of the dielectric structure closest to the layer comprising the semiconductor, wherein the depositing the layer comprising the semiconductor is prior to the liquid depositing the dielectric composition or subsequent to the causing phase separation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/436975 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07829727 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device including a compound comprising at least one type of an optionally substituted indolocarbazole moiety and at least one divalent linkage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/280795 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830923 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyuan Wang (Clifton, Virginia); Shiping Chen (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An interval centroid-based watermark encoder encodes a watermark into a packet flow. Intervals are defined for the packet flow. Some of the intervals are selected as group A intervals while other intervals are selected as group B intervals. Group A and group B intervals are paired and assigned to watermark bits. A first or second value may be encoded by increasing the relative packet time between packets in either the group A (for the first bit value) or group B (for the second bit value) interval(s) of the interval pair(s) assigned to the watermark bits that are to represent the first or second bit value and the beginning of the same group interval(s). The relative packet times may be measured by a decoder and used to calculate a centroid difference for each interval pair. The centroid differences may be used to reconstruct the watermark. |
| FILED | Monday, April 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/758053 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07828451 | Cash |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Webster Cash (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are disclosed for occulting light. The occulter shape suppresses diffraction at any given size or angle and is practical to build because it can be made binary to avoid scatter. Binary structures may be fully opaque or fully transmitting at specific points. The diffraction suppression is spectrally broad so that it may be used with incoherent white light. An occulter may also include substantially opaque inner portion and an at least partially transparent outer portion. Such occulters may be used on the ground to create a deep shadow in a short distance, or may be used in space to suppress starlight and reveal exoplanets. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781143 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/613 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828525 | Stamps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank B. Stamps (Colleyville, Texas); Michael R. Smith (Colleyville, Texas); Christopher M. Bothwell (Grapevine, Texas); Lawrence M. Corso (Keller, Texas); James L. Braswell, Jr. (Colleyville, Texas); David A. Popelka (Colleyville, Texas); Ernst C. Schellhase (Benbrook, Texas); Charles L. Hollimon (North Richland Hills, Texas); Thomas J. Newman (Midlothian, Texas); Bryan Baskin (Arlington, Texas); Thomas C. Campbell (Keller, Texas); Daniel B. Robertson (Southlake, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotor hub assembly for a rotary-wing aircraft has a central member and a plurality of blade grips adapted for attaching rotor blades to the central member. The blade grips are pivotally attached to the central member and are capable of pivoting about a pivot axis generally normal to a plane of rotation of the blades. The pivoting allows for in-plane motion of the blades relative to the central member. A damper is operably connected to each blade grip for damping the in-plane motion of the associated blade, each damper being selectively switchable between at least two spring rates. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/567886 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/134.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830224 | U-Yen 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) | Kongpop U-Yen (Alexandria, Maryland); Edward J. Wollack (Clarksville, Maryland); Terence Doiron (Annapolis, Maryland); Samuel H. Moseley (University Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The design of a compact low-loss Magic-T is described. The planar Magic-T incorporates a compact microstrip-slotline tee junction and small microstrip-slotline transition area to reduce slotline radiation. The Magic-T produces broadband in-phase and out-of-phase power combiner/divider responses, has low in-band insertion loss, and small in-band phase and amplitude imbalance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877102 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07830527 | Chen |
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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) | Jeffrey R. Chen (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulsed laser system includes a modulator module configured to provide pulsed electrical signals and a plurality of solid-state seed sources coupled to the modulator module and configured to operate, responsive to the pulsed electrical signals, in a pulse mode. Each of the plurality of solid-state seed sources is tuned to a different frequency channel separated from any adjacent frequency channel by a frequency offset. The pulsed laser system also includes a combiner that combines outputs from each of the solid state seed sources into a single optical path and an optical doubler and demultiplexer coupled to the single optical path and providing each doubled seed frequency on a separate output path. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102240 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831225 | Sims, III 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) | William Herbert Sims, III (New Market, Alabama); Donald Gregory Chavers (Somerville, Alabama); James J. Richeson (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A radio frequency power load and associated method. A radio frequency power load apparatus includes a container and a fluid having an ion source therein, the fluid being contained in the container. Two conductors are immersed in the fluid. A radio frequency transmission system includes a radio frequency transmitter, a radio frequency amplifier connected to the transmitter and a radio frequency power load apparatus connected to the amplifier. The apparatus includes a fluid having an ion source therein, and two conductors immersed in the fluid. A method of dissipating power generated by a radio frequency transmission system includes the steps of: immersing two conductors of a radio frequency power load apparatus in a fluid having an ion source therein; and connecting the apparatus to an amplifier of the transmission system. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828590 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07830905 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven L. Scott (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Gregory Hubbard (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Kelly Marquardt (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Roger A. Bethard (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Dennis C. Abts (Eleva, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for speculative forwarding of packets received by a router, wherein each packet includes phits and wherein one or more phits include a cyclic redundancy code (CRC). A packet is received and phits of the packet are forwarded to router logic. A cyclic redundancy code for the packet is calculated and compared to the packet's cyclic redundancy code. An error is generated if the cyclic redundancy codes don't match. If the cyclic redundancy codes don't match, a phit of the packet is modified to reflect the error, the CRC is corrected and the corrected CRC is forwarded to the router logic along with the phit reflecting the CRC error. At the router logic, a check is made to see if the packet is still within the router logic. If the packet is still within the router logic and there was a CRC error, the packet is discarded. If, however, the packet is no longer within the router logic and there was a CRC error, the packet is modified so that the next router discards the packet. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107036 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831424 | Chaudhari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Upendra V. Chaudhari (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Juan M. Huerta (Bronx, New York); Ganesh N. Ramaswamy (Mohegan Lake, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is presented which reduces data flow and thereby increases processing capacity while preserving a high level of accuracy in a distributed speech processing environment for speaker detection. The method and system of the present invention includes filtering out data based on a target speaker specific subset of labels using data filters. The method preserves accuracy and passes only a fraction of the data by optimizing target specific performance measures. Therefore, a high level of speaker recognition accuracy is maintained while utilizing existing processing capabilities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/060903 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07832007 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay S. Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Pau-Chen Cheng (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Genady Grabarnik (Scarsdale, New York); Shai Halevi (Elmsford, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Trent R. Jaeger (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Paul Ashley Karger (Chappaqua, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Ronald Perez (Mount Kisco, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York); Pankaj Rohatgi (New Rochelle, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland); Michael Steiner (New York, New York); Grant M. Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary method is provided for managing and mitigating security risks through planning. A first security-related information of a requested product is received. A second security-related information of resources that are available for producing the requested product is received. A multi-stage process with security risks managed by the first security-related information and the second security-related information is performed to produce the requested product. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/328589 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07829762 | Bowran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Department of Agriculture (South Perth, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Bowran (Sawyers Valley, Australia); Iain Barclay (Shelley, Australia); Kevin F. Jose (Greenwood, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to plants having increased resistance to an imidazolinone herbicide. More partitularly, the present invention includes wheat plants and triticale plants containing at least one IMI nucleic acid such as an imidazolinone resistant Brookton BR-8 or Krichauff K-42 cultivar. The present invention also includes seeds produced by these wheat plants and triticale plants and methods of controlling weeds in the vicinity of these wheat plants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/520738 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07829578 | Riscoe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael K. Riscoe (Tualatin, Oregon); Rolf W. Winter (Portland, Oregon); Jane X. Kelly (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Martin J. Smilkstein (Portland, Oregon); David J. Hinrichs (Lake Oswego, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Aromatic ketones having an extended fluoro-alkyl or fluoro-alkoxy moiety are disclosed. In particular aspects, the compounds comprise substituted 9-acridone, 9-xanthone, 4(1H)-quinolone, 4(1H) pyridone, 1,4-naphthoquinone, 9,10-anthraquinone derivatives. These preparations possess potent pharmacological activity for inhibiting malaria and mosquito-borne (Plasmodium) diseases. The haloalkyl/alkoxy aromatic compounds possess significant pharmacological activity, with IC50 values in the nanomolar and sub-nanomolar range, and reduced toxicity against host derived cells and tissues. Methods of using the fluoro-alkyl/alkoxy aromatic compounds in the treatment of malaria and other human and animal diseases are also disclosed. Agricultural uses of the fluoro-alkyl/alkoxy aromatic compounds, such as in control of fungal diseases and in the production of important commercial crops (apples, etc.), are also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633509 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07829047 | Dunham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grant Dunham (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Blaise Mibeck (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Richard Schulz (East Grand Forks, North Dakota); Stephen Wilmoth (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a catalyst, system, and process for oxidizing mercury. The catalyst can include a substrate and a layer attached to at least part of the substrate. The layer contains a noble metal and has an average thickness of less than 100 nanometers. The substrate can be a plurality of glass fibers that provides for a relatively high surface area for the layer to be attached to. In the alternative, the substrate can be a porous substrate that provides for a high surface area for the layer to be attached to. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/468568 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 07831732 | Zilist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ira Zilist (Chicago, Illinois); Daniel Reimann (Mt. Prospect, Illinois); Devin Henkel (Chicago, Illinois); Gurpreet Singh (Clarendon Hills, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is disclosed for masking errors that may occur during a delay of a client connecting with a server on a network. A connection utility requests a connection with the server. The connection utility determines if a timeout error occurred. If the timeout error occurred, a first browser page presented by the client is displayed to indicate a connection is being made. A browser page presented by the server is displayed when the connection is made. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192991 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 07831113 | Minden |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monica Minden (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical pulse position modulator includes a substrate with parallel first and second sides, the substrate including a first waveguide channel and a parallel second waveguide channel orthogonal to the first and second sides, a linear chirped grating orthogonal to and upon the first and second waveguide channels, and at least a first electrode along the first waveguide channel to apply a voltage modulation thereto. A first optical circulator has a first port coupled to a pulsed optical carrier signal, and a second port coupled to the first waveguide channel on the first side of the substrate, and a second optical circulator has a fourth port coupled to the third port of the first optical circulator, and a fifth port coupled to the second waveguide channel on the second side of the substrate. An output of the second waveguide channel is a position modulated optical pulse signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248667 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07831119 | Khurgin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morton Photonics (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Khurgin (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul A. Morton (West Friendship, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a tunable delay of an optical signal having multiple frequency components. The delay comprises at least a first and a second integrated resonators coupled sequentially to a waveguide; the resonators have angular resonant frequencies ω1=ω0−Δω and ω2=ω0+Δω respectively, ω0 is a median frequency of an input optical signal and Δω is a tunable deviation from the median frequency. The device is providing a nearly equal true time delay to all frequency components in the output signal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/205368 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07827630 | Bostelman et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Bostelman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); James Albus (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention disclosed herein is a novel Home Lift Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) apparatus designed to provide stable movement along several critical axes of motion including lift capability. The HLPR apparatus is capable of moving along a desired floor path (“x-axis”), moving on a vertical axis to lift a patient (“z-axis”), rotating the HLPR apparatus itself (along an “outer rotational axis”), and rotating a patient within the HLPR apparatus while the HLPR apparatus itself remains stationary (along an “inner rotational axis”). The telescoping, double-nested C-frame structure of the HLPR apparatus and pivot assembly allow any patient support structure known in the art to be suspended securely and to move in a stable, torque-resistant manner to assist patients in rehabilitation and in independently performing activities of daily living. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336154 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Beds 05/87.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07828299 | van Schoor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MIDE Technology Corporation (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marthinus van Schoor (Medford, Massachusetts); David Gilbert (Andover, Massachusetts); Andrew Cutler (Boston, Massachusetts); Steven Klepper (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods associated with a fluid-activated shaft seal are provided. The systems, which feature multiple components, include a support component defining an exterior surface, a carrier component including an interior surface to slideably engage the exterior surface of the support component, and a seal disposed relative to the carrier component. The seal includes a lip portion and a fluid-responsive gel material that expands when exposed to a fluid to urge the lip portion towards or into contact with a shaft. The gel material contracts in the absence of the fluid to form or increase the size of a gap between the shaft and the lip portion. Methods of assembling and installing such a system are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134848 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07831825 | Milliken 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) | Walter Clark Milliken (Dover, New Hampshire); Gregory Donald Troxel (Stow, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed technology provides a system and method of securely communicating data. An encryptor located at a transmitter can provide encrypted data to the transmitter. The transmitter can maintain a packet number indicating a particular packet for carrying the encrypted data and a sub-packet number indicating a position within the packet where the encrypted data is to be stored. The encryptor can produce the encrypted data using an encryptor seed generated based on the packet number and sub-packet number. A receiver can maintain a receiver packet number indicating a number of previously received packets and can compute a receiver sub-packet number. The receiver can receive a packet containing encrypted data and can decrypt the encrypted data using a decryptor seed generated based on the receiver packet number and sub-packet number. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/076215 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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