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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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| US 07849581 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Bo Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ryan J. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Eric N. Ervin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gangli Wang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are fabrication, characterization and application of a nanodisk electrode, a nanopore electrode and a nanopore membrane. These three nanostructures share common fabrication steps. In one embodiment, the fabrication of a disk electrode involves sealing a sharpened internal signal transduction element (“ISTE”) into a substrate, followed by polishing of the substrate until a nanometer-sized disk of the ISTE is exposed. The fabrication of a nanopore electrode is accomplished by etching the nanodisk electrode to create a pore in the substrate, with the remaining ISTE comprising the pore base. Complete removal of the ISTE yields a nanopore membrane, in which a conical shaped pore is embedded in a thin membrane of the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744154 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/593 |
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| US 07850956 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts Medical Center (Worcester, Massachusetts); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harriet L. Robinson (Atlanta, Georgia); Ellen F. Fynan (Sterling, Massachusetts); Robert G. Webster (Memphis, Tennessee); Shan Lu (Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of immunizing a vertebrate, comprising introducing into the vertebrate a DNA transcription unit which comprises DNA encoding a desired antigen or antigens. The uptake of the DNA transcription unit by a host vertebrate results in the expression of the desired antigen or antigens, thereby eliciting humoral or cell-mediated immune responses or both humoral and cell-mediated responses. The elicited humoral and cell-mediated immune response can provide protection against infection by pathogenic agents, provide an anti-tumor response, or provide contraception. The host can be any vertebrate, avian or mammal, including humans. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/763049 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07850958 | Hone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Hone (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A recombinant double stranded RNA (dsRNA) nucleocapsid useful for the expression of dsRNA expression cassettes encoding passenger genes, such as, but not restricted to, vaccine antigens, bioactive proteins, immunoregulatory proteins, antisense RNAs, and catalytic RNAs, replicates in bacterial hosts and includes a P8 protein shell and three dsRNA segments where one of the segments includes a cap independent translation enhancer (CITE) operationally linked to a passenger gene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/495985 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07850959 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Li (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Jue-Lon Shie (Acton, Massachusetts); Roger J. Laham (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods and compositions for preventing, reducing, or treating hypoxia and pathological disorders involving abnormal angiogenesis (e.g., conditions involving decreases or increases in blood flow, respectively). Where an increase in angiogenesis is desired, the mammal being treated for an ischemic condition is provided with Related Transcriptional Enhancer Factor-1 (RTEF-1; as a recombinant polypeptide or as an expression vector) sufficient to increase expression of VEGF, FGFR, or COX-2. This results in a concomitant increase in angiogenesis. Conversely, a mammal being treated for a hypervascular condition is administered a composition that reduces the levels of RTEF-1, thereby reducing the expression of VEGF, FGFR, or COX-2, which results in a decrease in angiogenesis. Also disclosed are screening methods that make use of RTEF-1 for the identification of novel therapeutics for the treatment, prevention, or reduction of pathological disorders involving hypoxia or abnormal angiogenesis, namely, ischemic or hypervascular conditions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575127 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 07850961 | Clarke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael F. Clarke (Palo Alto, California); Sean J. Morrison (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Max S. Wicha (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Muhammad Al-Hajj (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A small percentage of cells within an established solid tumor have the properties of stem cells. These solid tumor stem cells give rise both to more tumor stem cells and to the majority of cells in the tumor that have lost the capacity for extensive proliferation and the ability to give rise to new tumors. Thus, solid tumor heterogeneity reflects the presence of tumor cell progeny arising from a solid tumor stem cell. We have developed a xenograft model in which we have been able to establish tumors from primary tumors via injection of tumors in the mammary gland of severely immunodeficient mice. These xenograft assay have allowed us to do biological and molecular assays to characterize clonogenic solid tumor stem cells. We have also developed evidence that strongly implicates the Notch pathway, especially Notch 4, as playing a central pathway in carcinogenesis. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529869 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07850974 | Hook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas); Inhibitex, Inc. (Alpharetta, Georgia); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Magnus Hook (Houston, Texas); Yi Xu (Houston, Texas); Jouko V. Sillanpaa (Houston, Texas); Narayana Sthanam (Birmingham, Alabama); Karthe Ponnuraj (Birmingham, Alabama); Joseph M. Patti (Cumming, Georgia); Jeff T. Hutchins (Cumming, Georgia); Andrea Hall (Acworth, Georgia); Maria G. Bowden (Sugarland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioinformatic method for identifying and isolating proteins and peptides with MSCRAMM®-like characteristics from Gram positive bacteria, such as Enterococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus and Bacillus bacteria, and proteins and peptides obtained thereby are provided which can be utilized in methods to prevent and treat infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria. The method involves identifying from sequence information those proteins with a putative C-terminal LPXTG (SEQ ID NO:1) cell wall sorting signal and other structural similarities to MSCRAMM® proteins having the LPXTG-anchored cell wall proteins. The MSCRAMM® proteins and immunogenic regions therein that are identified and isolated using the present invention may be useful in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of Gram positive bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/575909 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/190.100 |
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| US 07850977 | Kamrud et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alphavax, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt I. Kamrud (Apex, North Carolina); Jonathan F. Smith (Cary, North Carolina); Maureen Maughan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated RNA molecule comprising: a) an alphavirus 5′ replication recognition sequence, wherein at least one initiation codon has been removed from the 5′ replication recognition sequence; b) a nucleotide sequence encoding an alphavirus structural protein; and c) an alphavirus 3′ replication recognition sequence, with the proviso that the RNA molecule does not contain a promoter that directs transcription of the nucleotide sequence of (b), and wherein the alphavirus 5′ and 3′ replication recognition sequences of (a) and (c) direct replication of the RNA molecule in the presence of alphavirus nonstructural proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143320 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
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| US 07850984 | Tilly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Tilly (Windham, New Hampshire); Richard N. Kolesnick (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for protecting the female reproductive system against natural and artificial insults by administering to women a composition comprising an agent that antagonizes one or more acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase) gene products. Specifically, methods disclosed herein serve to protect women's germline from damage resulting from cancer therapy regimens including chemotherapy or radiotherapy. In one aspect, the method preserves, enhances, or revives ovarian function in women, by administering to women a composition containing sphingosine-1-phosphate, or an analog thereof. Also disclosed are methods to prevent or ameliorate menopausal syndromes and to improve in vitro fertilization techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, August 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/217259 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
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| US 07851144 | Brentnall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa A. Brentnall (Seattle, Washington); Ru Chen (Seattle, Washington); Katherine L. Pogue-Geile (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); David C. Whitcomb (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Mary Patricia Bronner (Moreland Hills, Ohio); Carol A. Otey (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions involving detecting the presence of and/or assessing the risk of cancer in a subject. These methods include methods of detecting and diagnosing cancer in an individual; methods of identifying individuals at risk of developing a cancer; and methods of staging a cancer. The methods generally involve detecting a palladin gene nucleotide sequence alteration that has been found to be associated with cancer and/or detecting a level of a palladin mRNA and/or protein in a biological sample. The present invention further provides nucleic acid probes, nucleic acid primers, and antibodies, as well as kits comprising one or more of the same, for use in a subject method. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840112 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 07851154 | Spivack et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Simon Daniel Spivack (Nassau, New York); James Gordon Herman (Lutherville, Maryland); Weiguo Han (Menands, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a tag-modified bisulfite genomic sequencing (tBGS) method developed for simplified evaluation of DNA methylation sites. The method employs direct cycle sequencing of PCR products at kilobase scale, without conventional DNA fragment cloning. The method entails subjecting bisulfite-modified genomic DNA to a second-round PCR amplification employing GC-tagged primers. The invention also relates to a method for identifying a patient at risk for lung cancer using the tBGS technique disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/492288 |
| 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 |
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| US 07851161 | Hoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancer Institute (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California); Michiel de Maat (Rotterdam, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses methods of using the methylation status of the COX-2 gene promoter region as a biomarker for a gastric cancer patient to determine a prognosis and a treatment regimen, and to monitor the progress of a treatment regimen. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139415 |
| 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 07851169 | Marinkovich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of The General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting and inhibiting squamous cell carcinoma using agents that target the laminin 5 alpha 3 G4-G5 domain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943486 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07851171 | Handfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Handfield (Gainesville, Florida); Jeffrey Daniel Hillman (Gainesville, Florida); Ann Progulske-Fox (Keystone Heights, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies, polypeptides, and polynucleotides are provided for the detection, prevention, amelioration and treatment of diseases caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetecomitans. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/351032 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
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| US 07851184 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Y. Paik (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a droplet-based nucleic acid amplification method and apparatus. According to one embodiment, a method of amplifying a nucleic acid in a biological sample is provided, wherein the method includes: (a) providing a system comprising a droplet microactuator electronically coupled to and controlled by a processor capable of executing instructions, the droplet microactuator comprising: (i) a sample potentially comprising a target nucleic acid; (ii) a substrate comprising electrodes for conducting droplet operations; and (iii) one or more temperature control means arranged in proximity with one or more of the electrodes for heating a region of the droplet microactuator such that a droplet can be transported into the region for heating; (b) using droplet operations to combine on the droplet microactuator one or more amplification reagent droplets and one or more sample droplets to yield an amplification-ready droplet; and (c) thermal cycling the amplification-ready droplet sufficient to result in amplification of a target nucleic acid when present in the amplification-ready droplet. |
| FILED | Friday, December 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/639490 |
| 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 07851190 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhihao Hu (Castro Valley, California); Ralph C. Reid (San Rafael, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Polypeptides and domains of leptomycin polyketide synthase and the nucleic acids encoding them are provided. Methods to prepare leptomycin, leptomycin analogs, and leptomycin derivatives are described, as are methods to prepare other polyketides using the nucleic acids encoding leptomycin polyketide synthase domains or modifying enzymes. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/895327 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
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| US 07851194 | Markoff 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) | Lewis Markoff (Bethesda, Maryland); Li Yu (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides West Nile (WN) viruses and chimeric WN viruses having one or more mutations in the 3′ terminal stem loop secondary structure (3′SL) that results in decreased neurovirulence, methods of making such WN viruses, and methods for using these WN viruses to prevent or treat WN virus infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629560 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
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| US 07851228 | Dewji et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nazneen Dewji (San Diego, California); S. Jonathan Singer (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates generally to neurodegenerative disorders and more specifically to a group of presenilin/G-protein/c-src binding polypeptides and methods of use for modulating signaling and progression of Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/693926 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/501 |
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| US 07851436 | Sandell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Sandell (St. Louis, Missouri); Zhepeng Wang (Ballwin, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides combinations and methods for inducing cell death, inhibiting angiogenesis, and inhibiting cell migration. In particular, the present invention provides methods for inducing cell death in a cell expressing an αvβ3 and/or an αvβ5 integrin. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/098942 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 07851445 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Kanya Rajangam (Wilmette, Illinois); James F. Hulvat (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide amphiphiles and related compositions comprising sulfated polysaccharides, such as but not limited to sulfated glycosaminoglycans, and methods of use relating to the encapsulation and/or controlled release of angiogenic growth factor(s). |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368582 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
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| US 07851447 | Muir |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Muir (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to compositions and methods for promoting repair of damaged nerve tissue. The compositions and methods of the subject invention can be employed to restore the continuity of nerve interrupted by disease, traumatic events or surgical procedures. Compositions of the subject invention comprise one or more chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG)-degrading enzymes that promote axonal penetration into damaged nerve tissue. The invention also concerns methods for promoting repair of damaged nerve tissue using the present compositions and nerve tissue treated according to such methods. The invention also pertains to kits for nerve repair. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/218316 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.700 |
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| US 07851452 | Gewirtz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M. Gewirtz (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of inducing apoptosis in a bcl-6-expressing cell and methods of treating a subject with a cancer comprising a bcl-6-expressing cell, comprising administration of a composition that reduces the amount of the bcl-6 protein or of an mRNA molecule encoding same, a composition comprising a nucleic acid molecule complementary to or corresponding to a region of the mRNA molecule, or a vector expressing the nucleic acid molecule. In another embodiment, the present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule having a sequence corresponding to or complementary to accessible regions of bcl-6 mRNA, and vectors, cells, compositions, and kits comprising same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/593578 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 07851457 | Hecht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Biologics, Inc. (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sidney Hecht (Charlottesville, Virginia); Vladimir Karginov (Ashburn, Virginia); Noureddine Fahmi (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides low molecular weight compounds that block the pore formed by protective antigen and inhibit anthrax toxin action. Structures of the compounds are derivatives of β-cyclodextrin. Per-substituted alkylamino derivates displayed inhibitory activity, and they were protective against anthrax lethal toxin action at low micromolar concentrations. Also, the addition of one of the alkylamino derivatives to the bilayer lipid membrane with multiple PA channels caused a significant decrease in membrane conductance. Thus, the invention also provides methods for protection against anthrax toxicity. |
| FILED | Friday, January 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/045423 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/58 |
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| US 07851487 | Davies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York); Chakra Biotech Pte Ltd. (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huw M. L. Davies (E. Amherst, New York); Anil K. Ratty (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for alleviating symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorders using tetrahydropyridine derivatives bearing aromatic substituents. The method comprises administering to an individual a tetrahydropyridine derivative bearing aromatic substituents in an amount effective to alleviate symptoms of the neuropsychiatric disorder. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/716815 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/317 |
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| US 07851488 | Davies |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huw M. L. Davies (E. Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are novel tetrahydropyridine derivatives bearing substituents. These compounds can be used for alleviating the symptoms of CNS disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/716852 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/317 |
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| US 07851508 | Zhu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Potomac, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuren Zhu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new chemical compositions with desirable biological activity and toxicity profiles for the enhanced treatment of malaria. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287198 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/579 |
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| US 07851509 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck HDAC Research, LLC (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Miller (Brookline, Massachusetts); Victoria M. Richon (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selectively inducing terminal differentiation, cell growth arrest and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, and/or inhibiting histone deacetylase (HDAC) by administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising potent HDAC inhibitors. The oral bioavailability of the active compounds in the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention is surprisingly high. Moreover, the pharmaceutical compositions unexpectedly give rise to high, therapeutically effective blood levels of the active compounds over an extended period of time. The present invention further provides a safe, daily dosing regimen of these pharmaceutical compositions, which is easy to follow, and which results in a therapeutically effective amount of the HDAC inhibitors in vivo. The present invention also provides a novel Form I polymorph of SAHA, characterized by a unique X-ray diffraction pattern and Differential Scanning Calorimetry profile, as well a unique crystalline structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077396 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/619 |
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| US 07851586 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Leon E. Chen (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides able to inhibit or activate the translocation or function of δPKC are identified. Administration of the peptides for protection or enhancement of cell damage due to ischemia is described. Therapeutic methods to reduce damage to cells or to enhance damage to cells due to ischemia are also described, as well as methods for screening test compounds for δPKC-selective agonists and antagonists. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799290 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07851587 | Mochly-Rosen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria D. Mochly-Rosen (Melo Park, California); Relly Brandman (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides derived from the C2 regions of εPKC and methods of use, thereof, are described. These peptides modulate the activity of εPKC in an animal model of acute ischemic heart disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906645 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 07851588 | Rivier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean E. F. Rivier (La Jolla, California); Wylie W. Vale, Jr. (La Jolla, California); Marilyn H. Perrin (La Jolla, California); Jozsef Gulyas (Julian, California) |
| ABSTRACT | CRF peptide analogs that bind to CRFR1 with an affinity far greater than they bind to CRFR2. Some of these analogs exhibit CRF agonist activity. One exemplary analog that may be made by solid-phase synthesis is: (cyclo 31-34)[Ac-Pro4,D-Phe12,Nle18,21,Glu31,Lys34]-sucker urotensin(4-41). |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366816 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851620 | Hanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas); Joyant Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gunnar Hanson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Charles Caldwell (Dallas, Texas); Patrick G. Harran (Los Angeles, California); Susan Harran (Dallas, Texas); Qi Wei (Dallas, Texas); Ming Zhou (Coppell, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to novel macrocyclic lactams intermediates useful for the preparation of diazonamide analogs. This invention also relates to a novel electrochemical oxidative cyclization for the preparation of such macrocyclic lactams, and their further elucidation to provide diazonamide analogs. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134984 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851640 | Scheidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Scheidt (Evanston, Illinois); Margaret Marie Biddle (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Various chromanone, flavanone and abyssinone compounds as can be prepared enantioselectively using a chiral thiourea catalyst. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380688 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851658 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Matthew W. Kanan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mary M. Rozenman (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel palladium-mediated carbon-carbon bond forming reaction has been discovered using DNA-templated chemistry. The inventive reaction involves the palladium-mediated coupling of a terminal alkyne with an alkene to form an enone. A catalytic amount of palladium may be used in the reaction if an oxidant is present. The reactions is also compatible with a variety of organic solvent as well as aqueous solution. Both intermolecular and intramolecular reactions have been demonstrated. This novel carbon-carbon bond forming reaction is particularly useful in the synthesis of macrocycles. Kits, reagents, catalysts, solvents, oxidants, salts, acids, instructions, and other materials useful in the practice of the inventive reaction are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205493 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851764 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Direct Electron, LP (San Diego, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Jin (La Jolla, California); Robert B. Bilhorn (San Diego, California); Xuong Nguyen-Huu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of high-energy particle imaging by individual particle counting with an active pixel direct bombardment detector. The method includes the step of providing an active pixel direct bombardment detector including an array of pixels. Each pixel is characterized by a reset time constant. The method further includes sampling the pixel voltage of each pixel at a first time. The method further includes applying a pixel reset voltage to each pixel for a reset time interval less than the reset time constant. The method further includes sampling the pixel voltage of each pixel at a second time. The method further includes computing a difference between the sampled pixel voltages at the first and second times. The sampling and the applying of the reset voltage may be periodic. A direct bombardment detector is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/408586 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lightning Packs, LLC (Strafford, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Craig Rome (Strafford, Pennsylvania); Heath Fred Hofmann (State College, Pennsylvania); Guanghui Wang (Huixian, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | An electricity-generating backpack that is substantially lighter in weight, has the multiple springs replaced with one large spring whose spring constant can be adjusted in the field in seconds, and replaces a DC generator with a brushless AC generator that permits approximately 70% generator efficiency and the generation of up to 20 W of electrical power by converting mechanical energy to electrical power. A device is provided that always removes some electricity, but not too much, as necessary to extract large levels of the electricity while controlling damping by providing electrical damping circuits including a DC-DC converter designed to emulate a desired load at its input terminals. Additional electricity generating E-MOD devices may be used for generating additional power by hooking an E-Mod device to a generator and to the backpack belt at the wearer's hip and includes a wand that fits against the wearer's femur so as to move through a range of motion as the patient walks. The system also provides multiple possibilities of electricity generation when not walking including a light-weight bicycle ergometer which can be mounted to the backpack frame and generate very high power levels (100 W). The electricity generated and stored by the backpack may be used to charge batteries and to power a number of devices that may be carried by the backpack, such as a Sterling Cooler System that is powered by the backpack's stored power to provide cooling power for cooling items carried by the backpack. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/059440 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852554 | Le Gros et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Le Gros (Berkeley, California); Carolyn A. Larabell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryogenic immersion microscope whose objective lens is at least partially in contact with a liquid reservoir of a cryogenic liquid, in which reservoir a sample of interest is immersed is disclosed. When the cryogenic liquid has an index of refraction that reduces refraction at interfaces between the lens and the sample, overall resolution and image quality are improved. A combination of an immersion microscope and x-ray microscope, suitable for imaging at cryogenic temperatures is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/911957 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853312 | Thornton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth B. Thornton (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining a position of an implant in an ultrasound imaging system are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes determining an initial transformation matrix based at least in part on positions of a plurality of implants in a fluoroscopy coordinate system and estimated positions of said plurality of implants in an ultrasound coordinate system, modifying said initial transformation matrix based on an accuracy of said estimated positions of said plurality of implants, and determining a position of an implant in said ultrasound coordinate system based at least in part on said modified transformation. Computer program product, systems, and user interfaces associated with embodiments of the methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, January 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/351453 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853637 | Papadantonakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Papadantonakis (Pasadena, California); Stephanie Chan (Chunglin, Taiwan); André M. DeHon (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aggressive pipelining allows Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to achieve high throughput on many Digital Signal Processing applications. However, cyclic data dependencies in the computation can limit pipelining and reduce the efficiency and speed of an FPGA implementation. Saturated accumulation is an important example where such a cycle limits the throughput of signal processing applications. A reformulation of saturated addition as an associative operation permits a parallel-prefix calculation to be used to perform saturated accumulation at any data rate supported by the device. The method may be extended to other operations containing loops with one or more loop-carried dependencies. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331830 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl Dean Baldwin (Lafayette, Indiana); Martin Leo Willi (Dunlap, Illinois); Scott Byron Fiveland (Metamara, Illinois); Kristine Ann Timmons (Chillicothe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A segmented heat exchanger system for transferring heat energy from an exhaust fluid to a working fluid. The heat exchanger system may include a first heat exchanger for receiving incoming working fluid and the exhaust fluid. The working fluid and exhaust fluid may travel through at least a portion of the first heat exchanger in a parallel flow configuration. In addition, the heat exchanger system may include a second heat exchanger for receiving working fluid from the first heat exchanger and exhaust fluid from a third heat exchanger. The working fluid and exhaust fluid may travel through at least a portion of the second heat exchanger in a counter flow configuration. Furthermore, the heat exchanger system may include a third heat exchanger for receiving working fluid from the second heat exchanger and exhaust fluid from the first heat exchanger. The working fluid and exhaust fluid may travel through at least a portion of the third heat exchanger in a parallel flow configuration. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/495657 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/653 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07849762 | Viola |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J Viola (Jackson, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A scalable and adaptable, six-degree-of-freedom, kinematic positioning system is described. The system can position objects supported on top of, or suspended from, jacks comprising constrained joints. The system is compatible with extreme low temperature or high vacuum environments. When constant adjustment is not required a removable motor unit is available. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/960307 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/490.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07849779 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.T. Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. R. Hansen (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Barbara J. Frame (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved ceramic tile armor has a core of boron nitride and a polymer matrix composite (PMC) facing of carbon fibers fused directly to the impact face of the tile. A polyethylene fiber composite backing and spall cover are preferred. The carbon fiber layers are cured directly onto the tile, not adhered using a separate adhesive so that they are integral with the tile, not a separate layer. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/338021 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07849922 | Vinegar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); John Michael Karanikas (Houston, Texas); Robert Charles Ryan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating a tar sands formation is described herein. The methods may include providing heat to a first section of a hydrocarbon layer in the formation from a plurality of heaters located in the first section of the formation. Heat is transferred from the heaters so that at least a first section of the formation reaches a selected temperature. At least a portion of residual heat from the first section transfers from the first section to a second section of the formation. At least a portion of hydrocarbons in the second section are mobilized by providing a solvation fluid and/or a pressurizing fluid to the second section of the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106128 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07849944 | DeVault |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. DeVault (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided to instruct a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle how optimally to use electric propulsion from a rechargeable energy storage device to reach an electric recharging station, while maintaining as high a state of charge (SOC) as desired along the route prior to arriving at the recharging station at a minimum SOC. The system can include the step of calculating a straight-line distance and/or actual distance between an orientation point and the determined instant present location to determine when to initiate optimally a charge depleting phase. The system can limit extended driving on a deeply discharged rechargeable energy storage device and reduce the number of deep discharge cycles for the rechargeable energy storage device, thereby improving the effective lifetime of the rechargeable energy storage device. This “Just-in-Time strategy can be initiated automatically without operator input to accommodate the unsophisticated operator and without needing a navigation system/GPS input. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137744 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/65.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07850057 | Fleming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Fleming (Boulder, Colorado); David Lammlein (Houston, Texas); George E. Cook (Brentwood, Tennessee); Don Mitchell Wilkes (Nashville, Tennessee); Alvin M. Strauss (Nashville, Tennessee); David Delapp (Ashland City, Tennessee); Daniel A. Hartman (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A friction stir system for processing at least a first workpiece includes a spindle actuator coupled to a rotary tool comprising a rotating member for contacting and processing the first workpiece. A detection system is provided for obtaining information related to a lateral alignment of the rotating member. The detection system comprises at least one sensor for measuring a force experienced by the rotary tool or a parameter related to the force experienced by the rotary tool during processing, wherein the sensor provides sensor signals. A signal processing system is coupled to receive and analyze the sensor signals and determine a lateral alignment of the rotating member relative to a selected lateral position, a selected path, or a direction to decrease a lateral distance relative to the selected lateral position or selected path. In one embodiment, the friction stir system can be embodied as a closed loop tracking system, such as a robot-based tracked friction stir welding (FSW) or friction stir processing (FSP) system. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/703811 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/112.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07850838 | Dreier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proton Energy Systems, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ken Wayne Dreier (Madison, Connecticut); Michael Thomas Kowalski (Seymour, Connecticut); Stephen Charles Porter (Burlington, Connecticut); Oscar Ken Chow (Simsbury, Connecticut); Nicholas Paul Borland (Montpelier, Vermont); Stephen Arthur Goyette (New Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for providing hydrogen gas is provided. The system includes a hydrogen generator that produces gas from water. One or more heat generation devices are arranged to provide heating of the enclosure during different modes of operation to prevent freezing of components. A plurality of temperature sensors are arranged and coupled to a controller to selectively activate a heat source if the temperature of the component is less than a predetermined temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/461478 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07850865 | Tucker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Tucker (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Huizhen Gao (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly concentrated foam formulation for blast suppression and dispersion mitigation for use in responding to a terrorism incident involving a radiological dispersion device. The foam formulation is more concentrated and more stable than the current blast suppression foam (AFC-380), which reduces the logistics burden on the user. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127252 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/3 |
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| US 07850915 | Morozov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Morozov (Manassas, Virginia); Charles L. Bailey (Cross Junction, Virginia); Nikolai N. Vsevolodov (Kensington, Maryland); Adam Elliott (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention contemplates apparatuses for recognition of proteins and other biological molecules by imaging morphology, size and distribution of crystalline and amorphous dry residues in droplets (further referred to as “crystallization patterns”) containing predetermined amount of certain crystal-forming organic compounds (reporters) to which protein to be analyzed is added. Changes in the crystallization patterns of a number of amino-acids can be used as a “signature” of a protein added. Also, changes in the crystallization patterns, as well as the character of such changes, can be used as recognition elements in analysis of protein molecules. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041295 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07850984 | Tilly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Tilly (Windham, New Hampshire); Richard N. Kolesnick (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for protecting the female reproductive system against natural and artificial insults by administering to women a composition comprising an agent that antagonizes one or more acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase) gene products. Specifically, methods disclosed herein serve to protect women's germline from damage resulting from cancer therapy regimens including chemotherapy or radiotherapy. In one aspect, the method preserves, enhances, or revives ovarian function in women, by administering to women a composition containing sphingosine-1-phosphate, or an analog thereof. Also disclosed are methods to prevent or ameliorate menopausal syndromes and to improve in vitro fertilization techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, August 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/217259 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851017 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duo Wang (Albany, California); Mark P. Modera (Piedmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a duct access region through one side of a previously installed air duct, wherein the air duct has an air flow with an air flow direction by inserting an aerosol injector into a previously installed air duct through the access region. The aerosol injector includes a liquid tube having a liquid tube orifice for ejecting a liquid to be atomized; and a propellant cap. The method is accomplished by aligning the aerosol injector with the direction of air flow in the duct; activating an air flow within the duct; and spraying a sealant through the aerosol injector to seal the duct in the direction of the air flow. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/511785 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851092 | Amine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U Chicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Zonghai Chen (Downers Grove, Illinois); Qingzheng Wang (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is generally related to electrolytes containing novel redox shuttles for overcharge protection of lithium-ion batteries. The redox shuttles are capable of thousands hours of overcharge tolerance and have a redox potential at about 3-5.5 V vs. Li and particularly about 4.4-4.8 V vs. Li. Accordingly, in one aspect the invention provides electrolytes comprising an alkali metal salt; a polar aprotic solvent; and a redox shuttle additive that is an aromatic compound having at least one aromatic ring with four or more electronegative substituents, two or more oxygen atoms bonded to the aromatic ring, and no hydrogen atoms bonded to the aromatic ring; and wherein the electrolyte solution is substantially non-aqueous. Further there are provided electrochemical devices employing the electrolyte and methods of making the electrolyte. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/366891 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851193 | Lopez de Leon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo Lopez de Leon (Davis, California); Michael Rey (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327439 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851203 | Létant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sonia E. Létant (Livermore, California); Anthony W. van Buuren (Livermore, California); Louis J. Terminello (Danville, California); Michael P. Thelen (Danville, California); Louisa J. Hope-Weeks (Brentwood, California); Bradley R. Hart (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are nanometer to micron scale functionalized apertures constructed on a substrate made of glass, carbon, semiconductors or polymeric materials that allow for the real time detection of biological materials or chemical moieties. Many apertures can exist on one substrate allowing for the simultaneous detection of numerous chemical and biological molecules. One embodiment features a macrocyclic ring attached to cross-linkers, wherein the macrocyclic ring has a biological or chemical probe extending through the aperture. Another embodiment achieves functionalization by attaching chemical or biological anchors directly to the walls of the apertures via cross-linkers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/677395 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851204 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pall Microreactor Technologies, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Klein (Palo Alto, California); Robert D. Laidlaw (Albany, California); Gregory Andronaco (Palo Alto, California); Stephen G. Boyer (Moss Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A closure for a microreactor includes a cap that is configured to be inserted into a well of the microreactor. The cap, or at least a portion of the cap, is compliant so as to form a seal with the well when the cap is inserted. The cap includes an aperture that provides an airway between the inside of the well to the external environment when the cap is inserted into the well. A porous plug is inserted in the aperture, e.g., either directly or in tube that extends through the aperture. The porous plug permits gas within the well to pass through the aperture while preventing liquids from passing through to reduce evaporation and preventing microbes from passing through to provide a sterile environment. A one-way valve may also be used to help control the environment in the well. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/450855 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851224 | Benner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Henry Benner (Danville, California); Ronald M. Krauss (Berkeley, California); Patricia J. Blanche (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical diagnostic method and instrumentation system for analyzing noncovalently bonded agglomerated biological particles is described. The method and system comprises: a method of preparation for the biological particles; an electrospray generator; an alpha particle radiation source; a differential mobility analyzer; a particle counter; and data acquisition and analysis means. The medical device is useful for the assessment of human diseases, such as cardiac disease risk and hyperlipidemia, by rapid quantitative analysis of lipoprotein fraction densities. Initially, purification procedures are described to reduce an initial blood sample to an analytical input to the instrument. The measured sizes from the analytical sample are correlated with densities, resulting in a spectrum of lipoprotein densities. The lipoprotein density distribution can then be used to characterize cardiac and other lipid-related health risks. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775225 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851338 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Erik C. Scher (San Francisco, California); Liberato Manna (Lecce, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | Graded core/shell semiconductor nanorods and shaped nanorods are disclosed comprising Group II-VI, Group III-V and Group IV semiconductors and methods of making the same. Also disclosed are nanorod barcodes using core/shell nanorods where the core is a semiconductor or metal material, and with or without a shell. Methods of labeling analytes using the nanorod barcodes are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/029607 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851399 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jong-Ho Choi (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Piotr Zelenay (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrzej Wieckowski (Champaign, Illinois); Dianxue Cao (Harabin, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an electrode catalyst material using aqueous solutions. The electrode catalyst material includes a support comprising at least one transition metal and at least one chalcogen disposed on a surface of the transition metal. The method includes reducing a metal powder, mixing the metal powder with an aqueous solution containing at least one inorganic compound of the chalcogen to form a mixture, and providing a reducing agent to the mixture to form nanoparticles of the electrode catalyst. The electrode catalyst may be used in a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/443809 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851412 | Arendt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul N. Arendt (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Liliana Stan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Raymond F. DePaula (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Igor O. Usov (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a thin film structure based on an epitaxial (111)-oriented rare earth-Group IVB oxide on the cubic (001) MgO terminated surface and the ion-beam-assisted deposition (“IBAD”) techniques that are amendable to be over coated by semiconductors with hexagonal crystal structures. The IBAD magnesium oxide (“MgO”) technology, in conjunction with certain template materials, is used to fabricate the desired thin film array. Similarly, IBAD MgO with appropriate template layers can be used for semiconductors with cubic type crystal structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707611 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851691 | DeSteese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. DeSteese (Kennewick, Washington); Larry C. Olsen (Richland, Washington); Peter M. Martin (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | High performance thin film thermoelectric couples and methods of making the same are disclosed. Such couples allow fabrication of at least microwatt to watt-level power supply devices operating at voltages greater than one volt even when activated by only small temperature differences. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/864595 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851698 | De Ceuster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denis De Ceuster (Woodside, California); Peter John Cousins (Menlo Park, California); David D. Smith (Campbell, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar cell includes polysilicon P-type and N-type doped regions on a backside of a substrate, such as a silicon wafer. An interrupted trench structure separates the P-type doped region from the N-type doped region in some locations but allows the P-type doped region and the N-type doped region to touch in other locations. Each of the P-type and N-type doped regions may be formed over a thin dielectric layer. Among other advantages, the resulting solar cell structure allows for increased efficiency while having a relatively low reverse breakdown voltage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/392923 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851750 | Reilly |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter T. A. Reilly (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle inlet system comprises a first chamber having a limiting orifice for an incoming gas stream and a micrometer controlled expansion slit. Lateral components of the momentum of the particles are substantially cancelled due to symmetry of the configuration once the laminar flow converges at the expansion slit. The particles and flow into a second chamber, which is maintained at a lower pressure than the first chamber, and then moves into a third chamber including multipole guides for electromagnetically confining the particle. The vertical momentum of the particles descending through the center of the third chamber is minimized as an upward stream of gases reduces the downward momentum of the particles. The translational kinetic energy of the particles is near-zero irrespective of the mass of the particles at an exit opening of the third chamber, which may be advantageously employed to provide enhanced mass resolution in mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100001 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851769 | Schmid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Karl Schmid (Berkeley, California); Nord Andresen (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a motorized manipulator for positioning a TEM specimen holder with sub-micron resolution parallel to a y-z plane and rotating the specimen holder in the y-z plane, the manipulator comprising a base (2), and attachment means (30) for attaching the specimen holder to the manipulator, characterized in that the manipulator further comprises at least three nano-actuators (3a, 3b, 3c) mounted on the base, each nano-actuator showing a tip (4a, 4b, 4c), the at least three tips defining the y-z plane, each tip capable of moving with respect to the base in the y-z plane; a platform (5) in contact with the tips of the nano-actuators; and clamping means (6) for pressing the platform against the tips of the nano-actuators; as a result of which the nano-actuators can rotate the platform with respect to the base in the y-z plane and translate the platform parallel to the y-z plane. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253528 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/442.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851973 | Jepsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Jepsen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Neil T. Davie (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Douglas J. Vangoethem (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edward F. Romero (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A target object can be vibrated using actuation that exploits the piezo-electric (“PE”) property. Under combined conditions of vibration and centrifugal acceleration, a centrifugal load of the target object on PE vibration actuators can be reduced by using a counterweight that offsets the centrifugal loading. Target objects are also subjected to combinations of: spin, vibration, and acceleration; spin and vibration; and spin and acceleration. |
| FILED | Monday, January 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/620886 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852091 | Sinha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method are described for measuring the location and speed of an object, such as instrumentation on a movable platform, disposed within a pipe, using continuous-wave, amplitude-modulated microwave radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/864858 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852232 | Hall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IntelliServ, Inc. (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Hall (Provo, Utah); Joe Fox (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A cycleable downhole tool such as a Jar, a hydraulic hammer, and a shock absorber adapted for telemetry. This invention applies to other tools where the active components of the tool are displaced when the tool is rotationally or translationally cycled. The invention consists of inductive or contact transmission rings that are connected by an extensible conductor. The extensible conductor permits the transmission of the signal before, after, and during the cycling of the tool. The signal may be continuous or intermittent during cycling. The invention also applies to downhole tools that do not cycle, but in operation are under such stress that an extensible conductor is beneficial. The extensible conductor may also consist of an extensible portion and a fixed portion. The extensible conductor also features clamps that maintain the conductor under stresses greater than that seen by the tool, and seals that are capable of protecting against downhole pressure and contamination. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/358421 |
| ART UNIT | 2635 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/854.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852554 | Le Gros et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Le Gros (Berkeley, California); Carolyn A. Larabell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryogenic immersion microscope whose objective lens is at least partially in contact with a liquid reservoir of a cryogenic liquid, in which reservoir a sample of interest is immersed is disclosed. When the cryogenic liquid has an index of refraction that reduces refraction at interfaces between the lens and the sample, overall resolution and image quality are improved. A combination of an immersion microscope and x-ray microscope, suitable for imaging at cryogenic temperatures is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/911957 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852975 | Mirzadeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saed Mirzadeh (Knoxville, Tennessee); Marc Alan Garland (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing 229Th includes the steps of providing 226Ra as a target material, and bombarding the target material with alpha particles, helium-3, or neutrons to form 229Th. When neutrons are used, the neutrons preferably include an epithermal neutron flux of at least 1×1013 n s−1·cm−2. 228Ra can also be bombarded with thermal and/or energetic neutrons to result in a neutron capture reaction to form 229Th. Using 230Th as a target material, 229Th can be formed using neutron, gamma ray, proton or deuteron bombardment. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422679 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853639 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Paul Wallenfelt (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Compute nodes perform allreduce operations that swap processes at nodes. A first allreduce operation generates a first result and uses a first process from a first compute node, a second process from a second compute node, and zeros from other compute nodes. The first compute node replaces the first process with the first result. A second allreduce operation generates a second result and uses the first result from the first compute node, the second process from the second compute node, and zeros from others. The second compute node replaces the second process with the second result, which is the first process. A third allreduce operation generates a third result and uses the first result from first compute node, the second result from the second compute node, and zeros from others. The first compute node replaces the first result with the third result, which is the second process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/531175 |
| ART UNIT | 2455 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853820 | Gunnels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Gunnels (Brewster, New York); Fred Gehrung Gustavson (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Robert Daniel Engle (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method (and system) for detecting at least one faulty object in a system including a plurality of objects in communication with each other in an n-dimensional architecture, includes probing a first plane of objects in the n-dimensional architecture and probing at least one other plane of objects in the n-dimensional architecture which would result in identifying a faulty object in the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256355 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artisent, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Rogers (Boston, Massachusetts); Duco W. Noordzij (Roxbury, Massachusetts); Mathew M. Correa (Hopedale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a fixture secured, securable to, or integral with the outer shell of a helmet to facilitate convenient positional adjustment, attachment and removal of multiple accessories include a fixture, attachable to the helmet, for securely receiving an accessory, wherein the fixture comprises a rail for slidably and adjustably receiving a plural of accessories thereon. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350477 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/6.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07849581 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Bo Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ryan J. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Eric N. Ervin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gangli Wang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are fabrication, characterization and application of a nanodisk electrode, a nanopore electrode and a nanopore membrane. These three nanostructures share common fabrication steps. In one embodiment, the fabrication of a disk electrode involves sealing a sharpened internal signal transduction element (“ISTE”) into a substrate, followed by polishing of the substrate until a nanometer-sized disk of the ISTE is exposed. The fabrication of a nanopore electrode is accomplished by etching the nanodisk electrode to create a pore in the substrate, with the remaining ISTE comprising the pore base. Complete removal of the ISTE yields a nanopore membrane, in which a conical shaped pore is embedded in a thin membrane of the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744154 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/593 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07849628 | Condon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Condon (Timonium, Maryland); Timothy Brosseau (Havre De Grace, Maryland); David Lyon (Street, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A launcher system and method for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), wherein the launcher system comprises a barrel comprising a prepackaged internal pusher cup configured behind the UAV housed within the barrel; an expansion chamber operatively connected around the barrel, wherein the barrel extends out of a first end of the expansion chamber; a muzzle adapter operatively connected to a second end of the expansion chamber, wherein the first end of the expansion chamber is positioned opposite to the second end of the expansion chamber; a rifle slip-fitted to the muzzle adapter; and a stand operatively connected to the expansion chamber, wherein a triggering of the rifle causes the internal pusher cup to push the UAV out of the barrel at a predetermined launch velocity in order to attain a predetermined self-propelled flight trajectory. |
| FILED | Sunday, September 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856049 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07849798 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Robinson (Potomac, Maryland); Robert H. Wood (Laurel, Maryland); Mark R. Gelak (Columbia, Maryland); Thinh Q. Hoang (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuze for a submunition comprises a fuze housing with a stabilizer ribbon for aerodynamic orientation, a fuze slider released by tension on the stabilizer ribbon, an air-powered electric generator extended into the airstream by the fuze slider and powered in flight by high-speed airflow, a MEMS safety and arming device, a fuze circuit board including an explosive fireset, and an electrically initiated firetrain. The fuze is fixed to and communicates explosively with the end of a grenade warhead. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/942970 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07850908 | Wick |
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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) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting the presence of submicron sized particles in a sample taken from the environment. More particularly, the system may be used to detect and identify bacteria by detecting the presence of bacterial pili which have been separated from bacterial cells in the sample. The system includes means for collecting a sample from the environment, separating pili from bacteria in the sample, and purifying and concentrating the submicron sized pili in the sample based on the size of the pili. The purified and concentrated pili are detected with an apparatus which includes an electrospray assembly having an electrospray capillary, a differential mobility analyzer which receives output from the capillary, and a condensation particle counting device for counting the number of pili sized particles that pass through the differential mobility analyzer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/829357 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851207 | Sagripanti |
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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) | Jose-Luis Sagripanti (Belair, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and devices enabling simultaneous detection of several biological threat agents, including viruses and bacteria. The device includes a plurality of chambers and conduits which can be manually operated to so that reagents and sample are passed through the device and nucleic acid hybridization membranes to permit detection by the naked eye. The device has minimal logistical requirements since it is self-contained and includes all the reagents required to process a sample suspected of containing a variety of biological threat agents, it does not require electrical or other external sources of energy, it is disposable, and it can operated by a soldier or responder without microbiological training or expertise. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852489 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851274 | Shah |
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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) | Pankaj B. Shah (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure and method for a silicon carbide (SiC) gate turn-off (GTO) thyristor device operable to provide an increased turn-off gain comprises a cathode region, a drift region having an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the drift region overlies the cathode region, a gate region overlying the drift region, an anode region overlying the gate, and at least one ohmic contact positioned on each of the gate region, anode region, and cathode region, wherein the upper portion of the drift region, the gate region, and the anode region have a free carrier lifetime and mobility lower than a comparable SiC GTO thyristor for providing the device with an increased turn-off gain, wherein the free carrier lifetime is approximately 10 nanoseconds. The reduced free carrier lifetime and mobility are affected by altering the growth conditions, such as temperature under which epitaxy occurs. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119197 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851319 | Fields |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Fields (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention refers to a method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor comprising: preparing a patterned emitter metal on an emitter epi layer of a HBT epi structure on a substrate; preparing an emitter epitaxy below the emitter metal; applying a resist layer on the top surface covering the emitter metal and emitter epitaxy, and the base layer; applying lithography leaving the emitter epitaxy and the emitter metal covered by the resist vertically with a width pD and leaving a pattern according to the mask in the resist; depositing base metal on the entire surface; and removing the remaining resist and the base metal covering the resist defining a base metal, the base metal being spaced from the emitter epitaxy and the emitter metal by a distance xD from 0.05 μm to 0.7 μm. The present invention refers to a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor as prepared by this method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/115739 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851445 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Kanya Rajangam (Wilmette, Illinois); James F. Hulvat (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptide amphiphiles and related compositions comprising sulfated polysaccharides, such as but not limited to sulfated glycosaminoglycans, and methods of use relating to the encapsulation and/or controlled release of angiogenic growth factor(s). |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368582 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851658 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Matthew W. Kanan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mary M. Rozenman (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel palladium-mediated carbon-carbon bond forming reaction has been discovered using DNA-templated chemistry. The inventive reaction involves the palladium-mediated coupling of a terminal alkyne with an alkene to form an enone. A catalytic amount of palladium may be used in the reaction if an oxidant is present. The reactions is also compatible with a variety of organic solvent as well as aqueous solution. Both intermolecular and intramolecular reactions have been demonstrated. This novel carbon-carbon bond forming reaction is particularly useful in the synthesis of macrocycles. Kits, reagents, catalysts, solvents, oxidants, salts, acids, instructions, and other materials useful in the practice of the inventive reaction are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/205493 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851775 | Hoyt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reed Wasson Hoyt (Framingham, Massachusetts); Scott James Montain (Holliston, Massachusetts); Michael H. Wollowitz (Chatham, New York); Matthew Stevens Hickcox (Groton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for monitoring the consumption of fluid by a user, particularly fluids being drank from a container. The apparatus may be used with wide variety of container types. The fluid monitoring unit uses a pair of gears in rotational engagement with each other such that fluid passes around them and rotation of at least one gear is indicative of fluid consumption. The gears in at least one exemplary embodiment are arranged to have low frictional resistance with respect to each other and their respective axles such that the gears quickly and easily rotate and over a wide fluid flow range. This allows the apparatus to accurately and consistently monitor fluid flow from very low flow rates to high flow rates and therefore provide very reliable consumption information. The apparatus in one exemplary embodiment includes an electromagnetic drinking straw embodiment that allows a user to monitor the consumption of fluids from virtually any container type. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/537456 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07851932 — Backpack based system for human electricity generation and use when off the electric grid
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lightning Packs, LLC (Strafford, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Craig Rome (Strafford, Pennsylvania); Heath Fred Hofmann (State College, Pennsylvania); Guanghui Wang (Huixian, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | An electricity-generating backpack that is substantially lighter in weight, has the multiple springs replaced with one large spring whose spring constant can be adjusted in the field in seconds, and replaces a DC generator with a brushless AC generator that permits approximately 70% generator efficiency and the generation of up to 20 W of electrical power by converting mechanical energy to electrical power. A device is provided that always removes some electricity, but not too much, as necessary to extract large levels of the electricity while controlling damping by providing electrical damping circuits including a DC-DC converter designed to emulate a desired load at its input terminals. Additional electricity generating E-MOD devices may be used for generating additional power by hooking an E-Mod device to a generator and to the backpack belt at the wearer's hip and includes a wand that fits against the wearer's femur so as to move through a range of motion as the patient walks. The system also provides multiple possibilities of electricity generation when not walking including a light-weight bicycle ergometer which can be mounted to the backpack frame and generate very high power levels (100 W). The electricity generated and stored by the backpack may be used to charge batteries and to power a number of devices that may be carried by the backpack, such as a Sterling Cooler System that is powered by the backpack's stored power to provide cooling power for cooling items carried by the backpack. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/059440 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852124 | Lauxtermann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan C. Lauxtermann (Camarillo, California); Adam Lee (Portland, Oregon); John Stevens (Porter Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A correlated double sampling circuit and method for providing the same are disclosed. The circuit may include an amplifier, a plurality of capacitors, and a switch matrix. The amplifier provides a reset voltage replica and a signal voltage replica. The switch matrix controls a plurality of switches to perform correlated double sampling over at least three phases. The first phase for sampling the reset voltage replica on a first and second capacitors. The second phase for sampling the reset voltage replica and the kTC noise on a third capacitor. The first phase producing a thermal kTC noise from the first and second capacitors. The third phase for subtracting a charge representing the signal voltage replica, the kTC noise and the reset voltage replica, combined, from the charge sampled in the second phase to provide an output voltage. The method for providing low noise correlated double sampling includes controlling the plurality of switches to provide the at least three phases. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263638 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852163 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Michael Braun (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Joseph Hy Abeles (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Winston Kong Chan (Princeton, New Jersey); Martin Kwakernaak (New Brunswick, New Jersey); Timothy James Davis (Columbus, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A chip scale atomic clock is disclosed that provides a low power atomic time/frequency reference that employs direct RF-interrogation on an end-state transition. The atomic time/frequency reference includes an alkali vapor cell containing alkali atoms, preferably cesium atoms, flex circuits for physically supporting, heating, and thermally isolating the alkali vapor cell, a laser source for pumping alkali atoms within the alkali vapor cell into an end resonance state by applying an optical signal along a first axis, a photodetector for detecting a second optical signal emanating from the alkali vapor cell along the first axis, a pair of RF excitation coils for applying an RF-interrogation signal to the alkali atoms along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, a pair of bias coils for applying a uniform DC magnetic field along the first axis, and a pair of Zeeman coils for applying a Zeeman interrogation signal to the alkali atoms and oriented and configured to apply a time-varying magnetic field along the second axis through the alkali vapor cell. Another flex circuit is used for physically supporting the laser source, for heating the laser source, and for providing thermal isolation of the laser source. The laser source can be a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VSCEL). The bias coils can be Helmholtz coils. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/273852 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852176 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Daquan Huang (Dallas, Texas); William Hant (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Tuning devices and methods are disclosed. One of the devices comprises a metal structure connected with artificial dielectric elements, and variable capacitance devices. Each variable capacitance device is connected with a respective artificial dielectric element and with a control signal. Control of the variation of the capacitance allows the desired tuning. Another device comprises metallic structures connected with artificial dielectric elements and switches connected between the artificial dielectric elements. Turning ON and OFF the switches allows the capacitance between artificial dielectric elements to be varied and a signal guided by the metallic structures to be tuned. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/996578 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852262 | Namineni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cybernet Systems Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavan K. Namineni (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Trevor Davey (South Lyon, Michigan); Gary Siebert (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Jacobus (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is a wireless mobile indoor/outdoor tracking system. It is designed to track the absolute position of all nodes in a network indoors and outdoors. The system uses GPS positioning when a signal is available and RF ranging when it is unavailable. When indoors, a minimum of three network nodes must receive a GPS signal to determine absolute position. A mesh network is used to make the system mobile and to create an avenue for data to be transmitted to a remote base station. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192414 |
| 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 342/357.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852469 | Sickenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Sickenberger (Bel Air, Maryland); Virginia E. Foot (Salisbury, United Kingdom); Dean Payne (Salisbury, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A particle detection device and method wherein a bulk sample of particles is selectively collected based on scattering properties of the particles and fluorescence properties of the particles. The bulk sample of particles is then excited to produce an atomic emission from the bulk sample of particles. The atomic emission from the bulk sample of particles is used to determine atomic emission properties of the particles and identify biological particles in the bulk sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867190 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852543 | Goetz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Goetz (Springfield, Virginia); William S Rabinovich (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-optic device with a doped semiconductor base and a plurality of pixels on the semiconductor base. Pixels include oppositely doped semiconductor layer and a top electrode formed on the oppositely doped semiconductor layer. The top electrode has a grid pattern with at least one busbar and a plurality of fingers extending from the busbar, and spacing between the fingers decreases with distance from the bondpad along the busbar. Each pixel can also include a multiple quantum well formed on the semiconductor base. The top electrode shape produces an approximately uniform lateral resistance in the pixel. An embodiment is a large area modulator for modulating retro-reflector systems, which typically use large area surface-normal modulators with large lateral current flow. Uniform resistance to each part of the modulator decreases location dependence of frequency response. A chirped grid electrode balances semiconductor sheet resistance and metal line resistance components of the series resistance. |
| FILED | Monday, April 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753952 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852855 | Gooding et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Peter Gooding (San Diego, California); David J. Aitken (Rimforest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for controlling TCP/IP access includes receiving a request from a requestor for data transmission over a satellite communication channel, determining whether the request for data transmission has collided with a separate request for data transmission, if the request for data transmission has collided with a separate request for data transmission, then accepting the request for data transmission, else, temporarily denying the access to the satellite communication channel, determining the priority of the requestor and the number of users on the satellite communications channel, determining the access to the satellite communication channel of the requestor based on the priority of the requestor and the number of users on the satellite communication channel, and monitoring access to the satellite communication channel based on the priority of the requestor and the number of users on the satellite communication channel. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757710 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/395.420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853072 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sarnoff Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Han (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ying Shan (Sammamish, Washington); Ryan Cekander (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Harpreet S. Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved system and method for object detection with histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) based support vector machine (SVM). Specifically, the system provides a computational framework to stably detect still or not moving objects over a wide range of viewpoints. The framework includes providing a sensor input of images which are received by the “focus of attention” mechanism to identify the regions in the image that potentially contain the target objects. These regions are further computed to generate hypothesized objects, specifically generating selected regions containing the target object hypothesis with respect to their positions. Thereafter, these selected regions are verified by an extended HOG-based SVM classifier to generate the detected objects. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780109 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853144 | Beranek |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Beranek (Leonardtown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The subassembly includes a laser for emitting signals towards fibers to be monitored, a passive alignment carrier, a photodetector for monitoring reflected laser signals from the fibers and for monitoring laser output power, and an optical fiber. The laser is disposed within the passive alignment carrier. The optical fiber is embedded in the passive alignment carrier, and has an angled fiber facet. The laser emits signals toward and through the angled fiber facet, whereby a portion of the laser signal illuminates the photodetector, and another portion illuminates the fibers that are being monitored and reflects back to the photodetector such that faults on the fibers can be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900143 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853338 | Hovakimyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naira Hovakimyan (Blacksuerg, Virginia); Anthony J Calise (Atlanta, Georgia); Bong-Jun Yang (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises apparatuses and methods for providing the capability to stabilize and control a non-minimum phase, nonlinear plant with unmodeled dynamics and/or parametric uncertainty through the use of adaptive output feedback. A disclosed apparatus can comprise a reference model unit for generating a reference model output signal ym The apparatus can comprise a combining unit that combines and differences a plant output signal y of a non-minimum phase plant for which not all of the states can be sensed, and a plant output signal y, to generate an output error signal {tilde over (y)}. The apparatus can further comprise an adaptive control unit for generating an adaptive control signal uad used to control the plant. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845627 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853724 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AgileDelta, Inc. (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Schneider (Bellevue, Washington); Richard A. Rollman (Sammamish, Washington); Alexander V. Ceponkus (Ancaster, Canada); Derek E. Denny-Brown, II (Seattle, Washington); Milen M. Nankov (Sammimish, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and articles for exchanging by a first computing device with a second computing device indicia of one or more interfacing definitions supported by at least one of the first computing device and the second computing device are described herein. In various embodiments, the first computing device may also facilitate communication with the second computing device based at least in part on said exchanging and on one or more priority rules. In some embodiments, the indications of the interfacing definitions may include a unique identifier for each interfacing definition. Other embodiments are also disclosed and described. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/142501 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853785 | Thurman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sally C. Thurman (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Karl F. Hoech (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Frank A. Hummer (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented system for implementing maintenance and distribution of revocation information within an ad-hoc network. The system includes at least one network node. The network node includes a computer implemented application configured to maintain revocation information in computer memory and distribute the revocation information to other network nodes using a two stage distribution method. The distribution method includes a first stage wherein the revocation message is transmitted to all certifier nodes within the ad-hoc network, and a second stage wherein each certifier node distributes the revocation message to at least one non-certifier node associated with the certifier node. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/223607 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853949 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for making fractional assignments of processing elements to processing nodes for stream-based applications in a distributed computer system includes determining an amount of processing power to give to each processing element. Based on a list of acceptable processing nodes, a determination of fractions of which processing nodes will work on each processing element is made. To update allocations of the amount of processing power and the fractions, the process is repeated. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/374643 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853988 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Waterstone Environmental Hydrology and Engineering, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carla Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Warren Christopher Wonders (Boulder, Colorado); John Richard Roth (Boulder, Colorado); Russell David Huff (Lyons, Colorado); Brian Lee Myller (Arvada, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A geospatial decision management system (GDMS) can save the overall state of a user's experience at one point in time within a GDMS session so that the user can restore the overall state at a later time, such as by restoring a geospatial browser view (e.g., camera settings for rending the map on the display screen, layer state information, map location) and restoring the states of one or more instances of geospatially-referenced tools that were active at the time of the state save. Upon restore, the browser and tools are initialized with their saved states so that the user is presented with the same functionality, data, and browser view that were displayed and accessible at the time of the state save. Saved states are transportable and can also be sequenced and animated to allow presentation of a slide show of individual GDMS views. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749720 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854003 | Strayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. and Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts); Christine Elaine Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington); Isidro Marcos Castineyra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Regina Rosales Hain (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is provided for detecting correlated connections in an extended connection. A plurality of stepping stone detection algorithms are executed in parallel (400), each of the plurality of stepping stone detection algorithms generating a result. The results are scored for each of the plurality of stepping stone detection algorithms (402). A consensus attack path is generated based upon the scored results (404). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077341 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Bo Zhang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ryan J. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Eric N. Ervin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gangli Wang (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are fabrication, characterization and application of a nanodisk electrode, a nanopore electrode and a nanopore membrane. These three nanostructures share common fabrication steps. In one embodiment, the fabrication of a disk electrode involves sealing a sharpened internal signal transduction element (“ISTE”) into a substrate, followed by polishing of the substrate until a nanometer-sized disk of the ISTE is exposed. The fabrication of a nanopore electrode is accomplished by etching the nanodisk electrode to create a pore in the substrate, with the remaining ISTE comprising the pore base. Complete removal of the ISTE yields a nanopore membrane, in which a conical shaped pore is embedded in a thin membrane of the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744154 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/593 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07850946 | Achilefu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Achilefu (St. Louis, Missouri); Yunpeng Ye (Wildwood, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The sensitivity and specificity of the optical modality can be enhanced by the use of highly absorbing compounds as contrast agents. Novel macrocyclic cyanine and indocyanine bioconjugates that absorb and emit light in the near infrared region of electromagnetic spectrum are disclosed. These compounds are especially useful for endoscopic, localized photoacoustic, and sonofluorescence imaging, detection and therapy of tumors and other abnormalities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/559000 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851252 | Nealey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumini Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Tushar S. Jain (San Diego, California); Erik W. Edwards (Council Bluffs, Iowa); Juan Jose de Pablo (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides patterned features of dimensions of less than 50 nm on a substrate. According to various embodiments, the features may be “Manhattan” style structures, have high aspect ratios, and/or have atomically smooth surfaces. The patterned features are made from polymer brushes grafted to a substrate. In some embodiments, the dimensions of the features may be determined by adjusting the grafting density and/or the molecular weight of the brushes. Once the brushes are patterned, the features can be shaped and reshaped with thermal or solvent treatments to achieve the desired profiles. The chemical nature of the polymer brush is thus independent of the patterning process, which allows for optimization of the polymer brush used for specific applications. Applications include masks for pattern transfer techniques such as reactive ion etching. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/372185 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851543 | Emrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd S. Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Kurt Breitenkamp (Northampton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer capsules from amphiphilic graft copolymers comprising reactive, hydrophobic polyolefin backbones, and hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) grafts are produced by self-assembly of the polymers at the oil-water interface, and crosslinking the assembly with bis-cyclooctene PEG derivatives in conjunction with ring-open metathesis polymerization catalysts. The use of the graft copolymer architecture in capsule synthesis provides significant opportunities to tune both the surface properties, in terms of recognition, and the membrane properties, in terms of mechanical strength, encapsulation, and release. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574482 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852482 | Glazier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Glazier (Bloomington, Indiana); Bogdan Dragnea (Bloomington, Indiana); Dragos Amarie (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for detecting the presence of a target analyte, ligand or molecule in a test fluid, comprising a light transmissive substrate on which an array of surface plasmon resonant (SPR) elements is mounted is described. A multi-channel sensor for detecting the presence of several targets with a single microchip sensor is described. A multi-channel sensor including collections of SPR elements which are commonly functionalized to one of several targets is also described. The detectors sense changes in the resonant response of the SPR elements indicative of binding with the targets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/751090 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852829 | Chao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hung-Hsiang Jonathan Chao (Holmdel, New Jersey); Jinsoo Park (Leonia, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Practical packet reassembly in large, multi-plane, multi-stage switches is possible by using a scheduling technique called dynamic packet interleaving. With dynamic packet interleaving scheduling, if more than one packet is contending for the same output link in a switch module, an arbiter in the switch module gives priority to a partial packet (i.e., to a packet that has had at least one cell sent to the queue). The number of reassembly queues required to ensure reassembly is dramatically reduced (e.g., to the number of paths multiplied by the number of scheduling priorities). Deadlock may be avoided by guaranteeing (e.g., reserving) at least one cell space for all partial packets. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/872332 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852866 | Chao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of New York Universiity (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Jonathan Chao (Holmdel, New Jersey); Shivendra S. Panwar (Freehold, New Jersey); Yanming Shen (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Scheduling techniques for use with buffered crossbar switches, without speedup, which can provide 100% throughput are described. Each input/output may keep track of the previously served VOQ/crosspoint buffer. The queue lengths of such VOQs and the queue lengths of VOQs corresponding to a uniform probability selection output (e.g., from a Hamiltonian walk schedule) are used to improve the schedule at each time slot. |
| FILED | Monday, December 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/967725 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07853432 | Hero, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred Hero, III (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kevin Carter (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Raviv Raich (Corvallis, Oregon); William Finn (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method is provided for clustering and visualization of an n-dimensional space in a Euclidean space. The method includes: collecting a plurality of multi-dimensional data sets; estimating a probability density function from each data set; approximating a dissimilarity between every pair of said probability density functions and recording every dissimilarity in a dissimilarity matrix; embedding the dissimilarity matrix into a Euclidean space having a dimensionality of three or less using a multi-dimensional scaling method; and graphically displaying relationships between data sets using data in the Euclidean space on a display of a computing device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243448 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07850388 | Khoshnevis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for coupling with a mating coupling module to facilitate the joining of two disjoined structures without requiring precise alignment between the disjoined structures during the coupling of them may include a rotating drive mechanism, a hollow cylindrical body operatively connected to the rotating drive mechanism, wherein the hollow cylindrical body has at least one internal spiral channel, and at least one connector claw positioned within the hollow cylindrical body and guided by the internal spiral channel, wherein the at least one connector claw is configured to extend outwardly from the coupling module to engage the mating coupling module when brought in close proximity but not necessarily in precise alignment with the mating coupling module. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/733096 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Joints and connections 43/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07850861 | Wong |
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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) | Eric W. Wong (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a microfluidic device is provided. The method features patterning a permeable wall on a substrate, and surrounding the permeable wall with a solid, non-permeable boundary structure to establish a microfluidic channel having a cross-sectional dimension less than 5,000 microns and a cross-sectional area at least partially filled with the permeable wall so that fluid flowing through the microfluidic channel at least partially passes through the permeable wall. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/764359 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851062 | Hales 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) | Stephen J. Hales (Newport News, Virginia); Joel A. Alexa (Hampton, Virginia); Brian J. Jensen (Williamsburg, Virginia); Roberto J. Cano (Yorktown, Virginia); Erik S. Weiser (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal/fiber laminate has a plurality of adjacent layers. Each layer is porous and includes an arrangement of fibers. At least one of the layers has its fibers coated with a metal. A polymer matrix permeates each such arrangement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/124273 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/379 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07852482 | Glazier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Glazier (Bloomington, Indiana); Bogdan Dragnea (Bloomington, Indiana); Dragos Amarie (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for detecting the presence of a target analyte, ligand or molecule in a test fluid, comprising a light transmissive substrate on which an array of surface plasmon resonant (SPR) elements is mounted is described. A multi-channel sensor for detecting the presence of several targets with a single microchip sensor is described. A multi-channel sensor including collections of SPR elements which are commonly functionalized to one of several targets is also described. The detectors sense changes in the resonant response of the SPR elements indicative of binding with the targets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/751090 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07851010 | Onwulata |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles I. Onwulata (Cheltenham, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a dietary composition produced by a process involving extruding a protein containing product and water through an extruder (e.g., at about 50-about 450 rpm and at a temperature of about 40° to about 120° C., wherein the residence time of the protein containing product (e.g., whey protein isolate) in the extruder is about 15-about 90 seconds) to produce the dietary composition, wherein the dietary composition contains partially denatured protein containing product or totally denatured protein containing product or mixtures thereof. The present invention also concerns a food product containing at least one food ingredient and a dietary fiber composition. The food product is produced by a process involving extruding the dietary composition and at least one food ingredient and water to produce the food product; the dietary composition produced by a process involving extruding a protein containing product and water through an extruder to produce the dietary composition, wherein the dietary composition contains partially denatured protein containing product or totally denatured protein containing product or mixtures thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487802 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/656 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07851170 | Bannantine |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Bannantine (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Hybridoma cell lines which produce and secrete monoclonal antibodies which selectively bind to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis have been produced. Cells of M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis in biological samples may be detected and quantified by contacting the sample with the antibodies to form a M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis/antibody immunocomplex when M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis is present, which immunocomplex may then be detected. The monoclonal antibodies also may be incorporated into kits for the detection and quantification of M. avium subspecies paratuberculosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/319911 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE41996 | Deaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Deaver (Franklin, Massachusetts); David A. Edwards (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for improving cellular internalization of one or more compounds are disclosed. The compositions include a compound to be delivered and a biocompatible viscous material, such as a hydrogel, lipogel, or highly viscous sol. The composition also include, or are administered in conjunction with, an enhancer in an amount effective to maximize expression of or binding to receptors and enhance RME of the compound into the cells. This leads to high transport rates of compounds to be delivered across cell membranes, facilitating more efficient delivery of drugs and diagnostic agents. Compositions are applied topically orally, nasally, vaginally, rectally, and ocularly. The enhancer is administered with the composition or separately, either systemically or preferably locally. The compound to be delivered can also be the enhancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821513 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07853949 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for making fractional assignments of processing elements to processing nodes for stream-based applications in a distributed computer system includes determining an amount of processing power to give to each processing element. Based on a list of acceptable processing nodes, a determination of fractions of which processing nodes will work on each processing element is made. To update allocations of the amount of processing power and the fractions, the process is repeated. |
| FILED | Monday, March 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/374643 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854003 | Strayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. and Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts); Christine Elaine Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington); Isidro Marcos Castineyra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Regina Rosales Hain (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system is provided for detecting correlated connections in an extended connection. A plurality of stepping stone detection algorithms are executed in parallel (400), each of the plurality of stepping stone detection algorithms generating a result. The results are scored for each of the plurality of stepping stone detection algorithms (402). A consensus attack path is generated based upon the scored results (404). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077341 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07851169 | Marinkovich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of The General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting and inhibiting squamous cell carcinoma using agents that target the laminin 5 alpha 3 G4-G5 domain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943486 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07851539 | Nunez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlos M. Nunez (Cary, North Carolina); Geddes H. Ramsey (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee); Pamela M. Barfield (Apex, North Carolina); Larry G. Jones (Cary, North Carolina); Anthony L. Andrady (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Reduced VOC coatings are provided that include small amounts of modified hyperbranched polymers added and reduced solvents to reduce VOC levels by as much as 30% and more. The reduced VOC coatings have substantially improved flow and performance characteristics over comparable commercially available reduced VOC coatings. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536140 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07851764 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Direct Electron, LP (San Diego, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Jin (La Jolla, California); Robert B. Bilhorn (San Diego, California); Xuong Nguyen-Huu (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of high-energy particle imaging by individual particle counting with an active pixel direct bombardment detector. The method includes the step of providing an active pixel direct bombardment detector including an array of pixels. Each pixel is characterized by a reset time constant. The method further includes sampling the pixel voltage of each pixel at a first time. The method further includes applying a pixel reset voltage to each pixel for a reset time interval less than the reset time constant. The method further includes sampling the pixel voltage of each pixel at a second time. The method further includes computing a difference between the sampled pixel voltages at the first and second times. The sampling and the applying of the reset voltage may be periodic. A direct bombardment detector is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/408586 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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