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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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| US 07854112 | Roberge |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Roberge (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A transition duct (112) is provided at the outlet of a turbine engine. The transition duct transitions the outlet of the tip turbine engine (10) from round to rectangular. The transition duct also provides a plurality of variable vanes at the outlet of the transition duct. The transition duct incorporates a perimeter slot (124) providing cooling to the duct outer wall and attached components. The variable vanes (120) are installed to vector the exhaust gases. This allows the aircraft to decelerate, hover or accelerate in the forward direction by commanding the position of the variable vanes. One potential application of the tip turbine engine is for vertical installations in aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719477 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854189 | Fox |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Fox (Chesapeake, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to a modular missile launching assembly, more particularly, a compact modular missile launching assembly that is easily attachable to smaller sized watercrafts, allowing for quick installation. The missile launching assembly is encased in a substantially rectangular container with a launching lid to which one or more missiles are attached. A hydraulic lifting device within the substantially rectangular container is used to lift the launching lid from a closed or stowage position to an open or operational position. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214303 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.804 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854294 | Du et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Technologies, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Du (Christianburg, Virginia); Kenji Homma (Blacksburg, Virginia); Michael A. Vaudrey (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An earmuff assembly with a double-shell structure is disclosed for use with a sound-attenuating circumaural headset. The earmuff assembly comprises a cup-shaped outer shell mounted on a resilient outer sealing ring and a cup-shaped inner shell mounted on a resilient inner sealing ring. By means of the two sealing rings the outer and the inner shells are brought into abutment with the head surface around an ear of a wearer. Both shells are structurally rigid. The sound attenuation performance is maximized by isolating the inner shell from the outer shell. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/691821 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854297 | Scanlon |
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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) | Michael Scanlon (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Mufflers are provided for a vehicle exhaust system having a combustion chamber and an exhaust pipe. The vehicle exhaust system is configured to reduce the noise of combustion gasses generated in the combustion chamber. An exemplary muffler includes a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end being configured for mounting the muffler to the exhaust pipe leading to the engine, the distal end being configured to allow the combustion gasses to pass therethrough, and at least one vortex chamber disposed between the proximal end and the distal end. The at least one vortex chamber includes a circular peripheral wall for inducing a vortex on a portion of the combustion gasses expelled from the combustion chamber during high-pressure pulsations created by the operation of a vehicle engine. The vortex impedes flow of the combustion gasses from the pipe such that acoustic energy associated with the expulsion of the combustion gasses is dissipated. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/790053 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Acoustics 181/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854505 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois); Dennis W. Dobbs (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides photonic crystal devices, device components and methods for preventing transmission of electromagnetic radiation from one or more laser sources or laser modes so as to provide an optical shield for protecting a users eyes or an optical sensor. The present invention also provides dynamic photonic crystals and devices incorporating dynamic photonic crystals for optically modulating the intensity of one or more beams of electromagnetic radiation and other optical switching applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686452 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854569 | Stenson 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) | Ryan Michael Stenson (Washington, District of Columbia); Daniel J. Braun (San Diego, California); Lonnie A. Hamme (Jamul, California); Christopher D. Mailey (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, an apparatus for use in the recovery of unmanned underwater vehicles includes a recovery vehicle configured to be coupled to a winch via a tether. The recovery vehicle includes one or more sensors for locating the unmanned underwater vehicle, a first mechanical linking device for coupling the recovery vehicle to the unmanned underwater vehicle, and a plurality of steering mechanisms for actively guiding the unmanned underwater vehicle in such a way as to allow the first mechanical linking device to capture the unmanned underwater vehicle by locking onto a second mechanical linking device of the unmanned underwater vehicle. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/333184 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854857 | Wynne 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) | James H Wynne (Alexandria, Virginia); Barry J Spargo (Washington, District of Columbia); Christopher T Lloyd (Springfield, Virginia); Warren W Schultz (Edgewater, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A safe, biodegradable, environmentally benign, non-toxic, water-soluble solution consisting of water, sugar, starch, sodium phosphate, and surfactant that can be applied to dust and sand particles to bind the particles and form a hardened crust. Also disclosed is the related method for abating dust and preventing erosion. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/609350 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/88.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854912 | Talmy 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) | Inna G. Talmy (North Potomac, Maryland); James A. Zaykoski (Mount Airy, Maryland); Adrienne H. Smith (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The crystal structure of three compositions of matter has been determined to be iso-structural with FeB ortho-rhombic (space group Pnma). The crystalline structures are: Ti0.5Ta0.5B, Zr0.5Ta0.5B and Hf0.5Ta0.5B. A process for preparing ceramics is disclosed. Molded ceramics including the compositions of matter are useful for applications such as rocket nozzles, leading edges on hypersonic missiles, engine parts and other applications requiring a structural component to operate at temperatures of 1600° C. to 2400° C. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079065 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855015 | Benson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Frederick Benson (St. Petersburg, Florida); Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (St. Petersburg, Florida); Lawrence C. Langebrake (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a galvanic cell having an aluminum anode and a cathode compartment design suitable for carrying out the aqueous electrochemical reaction between solid aluminum metal and aqueous peroxide ions. The galvanic cell is activated when water, aqueous hydroxide solution, or an aqueous salt solution is added to the cell. This reaction releases a significant amount of electrochemical energy from a small size (mass or volume) cell. This cell reaction and design leads to an improvement in energy released over state-of-the-art aluminum/hydrogen peroxide galvanic cells. |
| FILED | Monday, April 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/709173 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855017 | Snyder 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) | James F. Snyder (Havre de Grace, Maryland); Robert H. Carter (Jarrettsville, Maryland); Eric D. Wetzel (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural battery includes an anode, cathode and electrolyte which, taken collectively, have sufficient mechanical strength to allow the battery to be used as a structural component of an article of manufacture. The combined anode, cathode and electrolyte have a stiffness between 10 MPa-1000 GPa, and in certain instances have a stiffness between 50 MPa-100 GPa. Also disclosed are solid electrolytes which may be used in structural batteries. The electrolytes are comprised of salts dissolved in a solvent such as a body of polymeric material. The electrolyte has good ionic conductivity and good mechanical properties. The solid electrolyte may be comprised of a body of uncrosslinked polymer or an at least partially crosslinked polymer such as a multifunctional polymer having segments comprised of linear resins and segments comprised of crosslinking resins. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing the structural batteries. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/594863 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855024 | Piecuch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proton Energy Systems, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Michael Piecuch (Meriden, Connecticut); Luke Thomas Dalton (Portland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A compartmentalized storage tank is disclosed. The compartmentalized storage tank includes a housing, a first fluid storage section disposed within the housing, a second fluid storage section disposed within the housing, the first and second fluid storage sections being separated by a movable divider, and a constant force spring. The constant force spring is disposed between the housing and the movable divider to exert a constant force on the movable divider to cause a pressure P1 in the first fluid storage section to be greater than a pressure P2 in the second fluid storage section, thereby defining a pressure differential. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/616311 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855074 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | VaxDesign Corp. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Oviedo, Florida); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Anatoly Kachurin (Orlando, Florida); Conan Li (Orlando, Florida); Mike Nguyen (Orlando, Florida); Robert Parkhill (Orlando, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); Gwendalyn J. Randolph (New York, New York); Nir Hacohen (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bruce Torbett (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the normal tissues that interact with vaccines in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interaction with the immune system. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/116234 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855098 | Kiesel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Kiesel (Palo Alto, California); Oliver Schmidt (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for altering or repairing the operating state of a semiconductor device comprises field-controlled diffusion of mobile dopant atoms within the metal oxide crystal lattice. When heated (e.g., above 550 K) in the presence of an electric field (e.g., bias to ground of +/−50 V) the dopant atoms are caused to collect to form an ohmic contact, leaving a depletion region. Metal-semiconductor junction devices such as diodes, photo-diodes, photo-detectors, MESFETs, etc. may thereby be fabricated, repaired or modified. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777062 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855159 | Yeckley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kennametal Inc. (Latrobe, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell L. Yeckley (Latrobe, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A SiAlON ceramic armor made from a starting powder mixture. The ceramic armor contains between about 60 weight percent and about 98 weight percent alpha SiAlON phase that contains an alpha SiAlON-bound rare earth element and between about 2 weight percent and about 40 weight percent of a beta SiAlON phase of the formula Si6−zAlzOzN8−z wherein the value of “z” ranges between about 0.2 and about 1.0. The ceramic armor further comprising sintering aid residue present as a result of the starting powder mixture containing between about 4 weight percent and about 14 weight percent of an oxide of an alpha SiAlON-bound rare earth element. The ceramic armor has a fracture toughness (KIC) greater than about 6.00 M·Pa m1/2 and a Vickers hardness (HVN) equal to greater than about 17.5 GPa. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/652314 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/98.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855372 | McGregor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. McGregor (Riley, Kansas); John K. Shultis (Manhattan, Kansas); Blake B. Rice (Manhattan, Kansas); Walter J. McNeil (Winnfield, Kansas); Clell J. Solomon (Wichita, Kansas); Eric L. Patterson (Manhattan, Kansas); Steven L. Bellinger (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-streaming high-efficiency perforated semiconductor neutron detectors, method of making same and measuring wands and detector modules utilizing same are disclosed. The detectors have improved mechanical structure, flattened angular detector responses, and reduced leakage current. A plurality of such detectors can be assembled into imaging arrays, and can be used for neutron radiography, remote neutron sensing, cold neutron imaging, SNM monitoring, and various other applications. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/293131 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855401 | Sheppard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard P. Smith (Carrboro, North Carolina); Zoltan Ring (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved field effect transistor formed in the Group III nitride material system includes a two part structure in which a chemical vapor deposited passivation layer of silicon nitride encapsulates a previously sputtered-deposited layer of silicon nitride. The sputtered layer provides some of the benefits of passivation and the chemical vapor deposited layer provides an excellent environmental barrier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845805 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855493 | Sullivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arradiance, Inc. (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal T. Sullivan (Lunenburg, Massachusetts); David Beaulieu (Groton, Massachusetts); Anton Tremsin (Lafayette, California); Philippe De Rouffignac (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael D. Potter (Churchville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchannel plate includes a substrate defining a plurality of pores extending from a top surface of the substrate to a bottom surface of the substrate. The plurality of pores includes a resistive material on an outer surface that forms a first emissive layer. A second emissive layer is formed over the first emissive layer. The second emissive layer is chosen to achieve at least one of an increase in secondary electron emission efficiency and a decrease in gain degradation as a function of time. A top electrode is positioned on the top surface of the substrate and a bottom electrode is positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038254 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/103.CM0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855617 | Cheung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Radar, Inc (North Kingstown, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siu K. Cheung (Storrs, Connecticut); William H. Weedon, III (Warwick, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A circulator capable of simultaneous transmit and receive operations, high frequency, high isolation and noise figure suppression comprising: an antenna port; a transmission port; a receiving port; three quadrature hybrids, two directional couplers; wherein transmit signal entering the transmit port are split into quadrature components and coupled separately and directionally by the two directional couplers to the antenna port where the coupled quadrature components of the transmit signal are recombined in phase, while the transmit leakage to the receive port are recombined destructively in phase; said arrangement simultaneously allows the receive signal entering the antenna port to be split into quadrature components by the antenna quadrature hybrid and transmitted through the directional couplers separately and entering the receive quadrature hybrid where the quadrature components of the receive signal are recombined in phase at the receive port; said arrangement reduces the insertion loss from the antenna port to the receive port. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467386 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855934 | Kitchin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Kitchin (Laurel, Maryland); Charles W. Kerechanin, II (Burtonsville, Maryland); Charles B. Cooperman (Highland, Maryland); Juan I. Arvelo, Jr. (Dayton, Maryland); Ronald W. Mitnick (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrophone deployment system including a hydrophone assembly, a container for enclosing the hydrophone assembly body in a coiled configuration, means for ejecting the hydrophone assembly from the container, a signal processing module for processing the electrical signals from the hydrophone units, and a transmitter module for converting said processed electrical signals and transmitting said converted signals to a remote receiver. |
| FILED | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/780233 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856040 | Bour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Bour (Cupertino, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Zhihong Yang (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The AlGaN upper cladding layer of a nitride laser diode is replaced by a non-epitaxial layer, such as metallic silver. If chosen to have a relatively low refractive index value, the mode loss from absorption in the non-epitaxial cladding layer is acceptably small. If also chosen to have a relatively high work-function, the non-epitaxial layer forms an electrical contact to the nitride semiconductors. An indium-tin-oxide layer may also be employed with the non-epitaxial cladding layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237106 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/43.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856067 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Wang (Arcadia, California); Lan Xu (Cerritos, California); Samuel Lim (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hierarchical modulation preferably uses a 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulator with a convolutional encoder that combine to effectively provide unequal protection to two different segments of streaming input data, with improved power efficiency with the same bandwidth efficiency, by encoding the first segment as coded data as LSBs as the second segment remains uncoded as uncoded MSBs, with the MSBs used for QAM constellation modest reliability interquadrant demodulation and detection, and with the LSBs used for low reliability intraquadrant detection, but with the LSBs subject to convolutional encoding and decoding rendering the LSBs with high reliability detection, such that, the two segments have unequal coding and modulation for providing unequal levels of reliability detection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732630 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856154 | Young |
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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) | Shiqiong Susan Young (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for super-resolving images from low-resolution sequences comprising an image processor having an input for inputting multiple images of a scene with sub-pixel translations and rotations; one of the images of the scene being a reference image; and at least one memory comprising a gross translation estimation algorithm for estimating overall translations of at least one image with respect to the reference image on the image processor and aligning the inputted images according to the gross translation estimates on the image processor; a sub-pixel estimation algorithm for obtaining the sub-pixel shift and rotation of each image with respect to the reference image; and an error reduction algorithm for applying at least one spatial frequency domain constraint and at least one spatial domain constraint to the images to produce a high-resolution image. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/576132 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856294 | Van Gaasbeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRA International, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Van Gaasbeck (Melbourne Beach, Florida); Philip Courtney (Nederland, Colorado); Don Gardner (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The intelligent system for autonomous spacecraft operations includes an on-board Autonomous Operations subsystem integrated with an on-ground Web-based Remote Intelligent Monitor System (RIMS) providing interface between on-ground users and the autonomous operations intelligent system. The on-board Autonomous Operation subsystem includes an On-Orbit Checkout Engine (OOCE) unit and an Autonomous Tasking Engine (ATE) unit. Spacecraft Command Language (SCL) engine underlies the operations of the OOCE, ATE and RIMS, and serves as an executer of commands sequences. The OOCE uses the SCL engine to execute a series of SCL command scripts to perform a rapid on-orbit checkout of subsystems/components of the spacecraft in 1-3 days. The ATE is a planning and scheduling tool which receives requests for “activities” and uses the SCL scripts to verify the validity of the “activity” prior to execution, and scheduling the “activity” for execution or re-scheduling the same depending on verification results. Automated Mission Planning System (AMPS) supports the ATE operations. The ATE uses a priority schedule if multiple “activities” are to be executed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/000643 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856503 | Bouillet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for synthesizing a data stream includes retrieving meta data from at least one decision tree, the decision tree comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes, and generating the data stream in accordance with the meta data. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/551034 |
| ART UNIT | 2449 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856531 | Bruening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek L. Bruening (Troy, New York); Saman P. Amarasinghe (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A runtime code manipulation system is provided that supports code transformations on a program while it executes. The runtime code manipulation system uses code caching technology to provide efficient and comprehensive manipulation of an application running on an operating system and hardware. The code cache includes a system for automatically keeping the code cache at an appropriate size for the current working set of an application running. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/345768 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856535 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Karin Strauss (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | In a network-based cache-coherent multiprocessor system, when a node receives a cache request, the node can perform an intra-node cache snoop operation and forward the cache request to a subsequent node in the network. A snoop-and-forward prediction mechanism can be used to predict whether lazy forwarding or eager forwarding is used in processing the incoming cache request. With lazy forwarding, the node cannot forward the cache request to the subsequent node until the corresponding intra-node cache snoop operation is completed. With eager forwarding, the node can forward the cache request to the subsequent node immediately, before the corresponding intra-node cache snoop operation is completed. Furthermore, the snoop-and-forward prediction mechanism can be enhanced seamlessly with an appropriate snoop filter to avoid unnecessary intra-node cache snoop operations. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176963 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07854685 | Cole et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Neil M. Cole (Dexter, Michigan); Charles L. Cole (Livonia, Michigan); Walter N. Cole (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A training system and method include providing a frame, a user support portion coupled to the frame and arranged to support a user, and a user engagement portion coupled to the frame and arranged to be engaged by the body part. A force sensor is provided for sensing a user-applied force at the user engagement portion, and a position sensor is operably connected to at least one of the user support portion and the user engagement portion for sensing a relative position therebetween. A motor is coupled to at least one of the user support portion and the user engagement portion for driving a position thereof with respect to the frame over a range of motion at a preprogrammed velocity, and a controller is provided in communication with the motor, the force sensor, and the position sensor. A knee position mechanism is movably coupled to the frame between the user support portion and the user engagement portion, the knee position mechanism including a sensor in communication with the controller for tracking a horizontal position of a knee of the user over the range of motion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759143 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854929 | Badalemente et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marie A. Badalemente (Mt. Sinai, New York); Edward Wang (Pozuott, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treatment by collagenase injections are provided, which are effective in dissolving and lysing a collagenase septa network to treat carpal tunnel, plantar fasciitis and lateral epicondylitis conditions. The methods treat such conditions by injecting or otherwise delivering purified collagenase to the afflicted region of the patient, as well as use of collagenase for manufacture of a medicament for such conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/115256 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854932 | Singh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pomila Singh (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to immunotherapeutic methods to treat tumors/cancers that produce progastrin ectopically or are dependent on progastrin for their growth. Disclosed herein are immunogenic compositions comprising agents that target progastrin, agents that target the progastrin receptor, annexin II, or both. Such a composition may be administered in combination with chemotherapy or to an individual who had been previously subjected to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The cancers that may be treated using such a composition may include but are not limited to colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer or pancreatic cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002979 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854934 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Don M. Coltart (New York, New York); Stacy J. Keding (New York, New York); Kaustav Biswas (Thousand Oaks, California); Philip O. Livingston (New York, New York); Govindaswami Ragupathi (New York, New York); Jennifer R. Allen (Indianapolis, Indiana); Lawrence Williams (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel glycosides and glycoconjugates, glycoamino acids, and methods for the synthesis thereof. In another aspect, the present invention provides novel clustered glycopeptides and methods for the synthesis thereof. In still another aspect, the present invention provides methods for the treatment of cancer, preferably for the prevention of recurrence of cancer, and methods for inducing antibodies in a subject, comprising administering to a subject in need, an effective amount of any of the inventive glycopeptides as disclosed herein, either in conjugated form or unconjugated and in combination with a suitable immunogenic carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/209618 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854946 | Hillwig |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Lee Hillwig (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The metabolic fingerprint and anti-inflammatory activity and anti-HIV activity of H. gentianoides is disclosed. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis shows that H. gentianoides contains a family of compounds, including some not previously observed in other Hypericum species. H. gentianoides extracts and fractions from these extracts reduce prostaglandin E2 synthesis in mammalian macrophages and inhibit HIV in infected HeLa cells. The present invention provides extracts and fractions thereof from H. gentianoides for use in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment or inhibition of inflammation, prostaglandin E-mediated disease, disorder or condition, a cyclooxygenase-mediated disease, disorder or condition, or an HIV infection. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/129391 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/730 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854961 | Brecher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Brecher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Vivek Nagarkar (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, and a variety of second dopants (co-dopants). In another embodiment, the scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, a variety of second dopants (co-dopants), and a variety of third dopants (co-dopants). Co-dopants of this invention are capable of providing a second auxiliary luminescent cation dopant, capable of introducing an anion size and electronegativity mismatch, capable of introducing a mismatch of anion charge, or introducing a mismatch of cation charge in the host material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619354 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855053 | Hagerman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul J. Hagerman (Davis, California); Flora Tassone (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides improved methods for detecting the presence of expanded CGG repeats in the fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene and for quantifying the amount of protein produced by the gene. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/779873 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855076 | Yoshimura 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) | Teizo Yoshimura (Frederick, Maryland); Hidenobu Kamohara (Kumamoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of modulating the activity of DDR1. Methods for screening for agents that activate DDR1 are disclosed. Methods for inducing the maturation of immature macrophages and immature dendritic cells are also disclosed. In addition, methods for increasing neutrophil activation using a DDR1 activating agent, and methods for increasing leukocyte migration using a DDR1 activating agent, are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 11, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/507385 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855192 | Ashley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary W. Ashley (Alameda, California); Hugo Menzella (Castro Valley, California); Janice Lau Wee (San Mateo, California); John R. Carney (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Macrolactams are made by feeding aromatic amino acids as replacement starter units to a mutant strain of the geldanamycin-producing microorganism Streptomyces hygroscopicus var. geldanus NRRL 3602, wherein the gene cluster encoding enzymes for the biosynthesis of the natural starter unit 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid has been deleted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011068 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855228 | Gitai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stamford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zemer Gitai (San Mateo, California); Lucy Shapiro (Stanford, California); Masaaki Wachi (Midori-ku, Japan); Noritaka Iwai (Midori-ku, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The identification of MreB as essential for bacterial chromosome segregation provides a new target for antibiotic action. The MreB function is useful in the development of screening assays for new antibiotics, which may use, for example, genetic mutants in MreB, tests of MreB mediated chromosome segregation, and the like. In one embodiment of the invention, the antibiotic is an isothiourea compound, which may comprise a polyhalogenated benzyl group, e.g. at the 4 position, the 2,4 position, etc. A pharmaceutical composition comprising an MreB targeted antibiotic as an active agent is administered to a patient suffering from a microbial infection, particularly bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/350966 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855229 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Mitchell S. Steiner (Germantown, Tennessee); Karen A. Veverka (Cordova, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides: 1) a method of treating a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; 2) a method of preventing a muscle wasting disorder in a subject; 3) a method of treating, preventing, suppressing, inhibiting or reducing muscle loss in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; 4) a method of treating, preventing, inhibiting, reducing or suppressing muscle wasting in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder; and/or 5) a method of treating, preventing, inhibiting, reducing or suppressing muscle protein catabolism in a subject suffering from a muscle wasting disorder, by administering to the subject a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) and/or an analog, derivative, isomer, metabolite, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, pharmaceutical product, hydrate, N-oxide, prodrug, polymorph, impurity or crystal of said SARM compound, or any combination thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/220414 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855232 | Lam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LKT Laboratories, Inc. (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke K. T. Lam (North Oaks, Minnesota); Nayaz Ahmed (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound containing an alkylene selenocyanate or an alkylene isoselenocyanate moiety effective to prevent the occurrence or progression of cancer or a precancerous condition. The compound can be provided and administered in the form of a pharmaceutical composition, a cosmetic, a food additive, supplement, or the like. Methods for synthesis and use of the chemopreventive compound of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/980875 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/562 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855272 | Patti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bioresearch Ireland (Dublin, Ireland); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Patti (Cumming, Georgia); Timothy J. Foster (Dublin, Ireland); Elisabet Josefsson (Gothenburg, Sweden); Deidre Ni Eidhin (Dublin, Ireland); Magnus A. O. Hook (Houston, Texas); Samuel E. Perkins (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated extracellular matrix-binding protein, designated as SdrE and its corresponding amino acid and nucleic acid sequences and motifs are described. The proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are useful for the prevention, inhibition, treatment and diagnosis of S. aureus infection and as scientific research tools. Further, antibodies or antibody fragments to the proteins, peptides, fragments thereof or antigenic portions thereof are also useful for the prevention, inhibition, treatment and diagnosis of S. aureus infection. In particular, the proteins or antibodies thereof may be administered to wounds or used to coat biomaterials to act as blocking agents to prevent or inhibit the binding of S. aureus to wounds or biomaterials. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546322 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855274 | Fay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Fay (Pittsford, New York); Hironao Wakabayashi (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to recombinant factor VIII having a specific activity that is higher than that of the corresponding wild-type factor VIII. The present invention also relates to methods of making and using the recombinant factor VIII. The present invention also relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes the recombinant factor VIII, as well as DNA expression systems and host cells containing the isolated nucleic acid molecule. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/581471 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855276 | Kasmiri 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) | Syed Kasmiri (North Potomac, Maryland); Rafia Mehdi Kashmiri, legal representative (North Potomac, Maryland); Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Eduardo A. Padlan (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides humanized COL-1 monoclonal antibodies that retain CEA binding affinity, compared to a parent antibody. Also disclosed herein are humanized COL-1 monoclonal antibodies that have reduced immunogenicity, compared to a parent antibody. The disclosed humanized COL-1 antibodies include substitution of framework residues with residues from the corresponding positions of a homologous human sequence. In several embodiments, methods are disclosed for the use of a humanized COL-1 antibody in the detection or treatment of a CEA-expressing tumor or cell in a subject. Also disclosed is a kit including the humanized COL-1 antibodies described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, December 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/813092 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855279 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Chia-wei Wang (Santa Clara, California); Michael D. Scholle (Mountain View, California); Mikhail Popkov (San Diego, California); Nathaniel C. Gordon (Campbell, California); Andreas Crameri (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides unstructured recombinant polymers (URPs) and proteins containing one or more of the URPs. The present invention also provides microproteins, toxins and other related proteinaceous entities, as well as genetic packages displaying these entities. The present invention also provides recombinant polypeptides including vectors encoding the subject proteinaceous entities, as well as host cells comprising the vectors. The subject compositions have a variety of utilities including a range of pharmaceutical applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715276 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856082 | Flynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan T. Flynn (Iowa Cita, Iowa); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method for optimizing a radiation treatment plan for a radiotherapy machine providing independently controlled radiation along a plurality of rays j directed toward a patient and configured to account for the effects of patient motion. The method includes generating a probability distribution function quantitatively expressing patient motion, identifying a prescribed total dose Dip at the voxels i in a treatment area, assigning a fluence value wj for each ray j based on an iterative function, calculating an actual total dose Did produced each voxel i within the assigned fluence values and calculating an expectation value of the dose per energy fluence, |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/440055 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Liang (Palm City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil for a turbine of a gas turbine engine is provided. The airfoil comprises a main body comprising a wall structure defining an inner cavity adapted to receive a cooling air. The wall structure includes a first diffusion region and at least one first metering opening extending from the inner cavity to the first diffusion region. The wall structure further comprises at least one cooling circuit comprising a second diffusion region and at least one second metering opening extending from the first diffusion region to the second diffusion region. The at least one cooling circuit may further comprise at least one third metering opening, at least one third diffusion region and a fourth diffusion region. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800786 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854907 | Gong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cynthia-May S. Gong (San Mateo, California); Frederic Poineau (Las Vegas, Nevada); Kenneth R. Czerwinski (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A spent fuel reprocessing method contacts an aqueous solution containing Technetium(V) and uranyl with an acidic solution comprising hydroxylamine hydrochloride or acetohydroxamic acid to reduce Tc(V) to Tc(II, and then extracts the uranyl with an organic phase, leaving technetium(II) in aqueous solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313354 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07854955 | Abbas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (Decatur, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Abbas (Champaign, Illinois); Kyle E. Beery (Decatur, Indiana); Michael J. Cecava (Decatur, Indiana); Perry H. Doane (Decatur, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel animal feed or food additive that may be made from thermochemically hydrolyzed, solvent-extracted corn fiber hulls. The animal feed or food additive may be made, for instance, by thermochemically treating corn fiber hulls to hydrolyze and solubilize the hemicellulose and starch present in the corn fiber hulls to oligosaccharides. The residue may be extracted with a solvent to separate the oil from the corn fiber, leaving a solid residue that may be prepared, for instance by aggolmerating, and sold as a food additive or an animal feed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/384762 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/635 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855018 | Sopchak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Sopchak (Livermore, California); Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); Ravindra S. Upadhye (Pleasanton, California); Jack Kotovsky (Oakland, California); Robert T. Graff (Modesto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A phosphoric acid fuel cell system comprising a porous electrolyte support, a phosphoric acid electrolyte in the porous electrolyte support, a cathode electrode contacting the phosphoric acid electrolyte, and an anode electrode contacting the phosphoric acid electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/829493 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855021 | Adzic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (Setauket, New York); Yibo Mo (Naperville, Illinois); Miomir Vukmirovic (Port Jefferson Station, New York); Junliang Zhang (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to platinum-coated particles useful as fuel cell electrocatalysts. The particles are composed of a noble metal or metal alloy core at least partially encapsulated by an atomically thin surface layer of platinum atoms. The invention particularly relates to such particles having a palladium, palladium alloy, gold alloy, or rhenium alloy core encapsulated by an atomic monolayer of platinum. In other embodiments, the invention relates to fuel cells containing these electrocatalysts and methods for generating electrical energy therefrom. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/156038 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855030 | DeRose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. DeRose (Rochester, New York); Stefan M. Maczynski (Canandaigua, New York); Carolyn D. Fleming (Lima, New York); Subhasish Mukerjee (Pittsford, New York); Rick D. Kerr (Fenton, Michigan); Karl J. Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Joseph Keller (Grand Blanc, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | During manufacture of an SOFC assembly, an inhibitor is included to prevent migration of silver braze during subsequent use of the SOFC assembly. The inhibitor may take any of several forms, either individually or in combination. Inhibitors comprehended by the present invention include, but are not limited to: a) a mechanical barrier that can be printed or dispensed onto one or more SOFC stack elements around the braze areas to prevent mechanically-driven migration; b) an electrically insulating feature in the electrolyte or interlayer over the electrolyte layer in the seal margins to prevent electrical potential-driven migration; and 3) chemical modification of the braze itself as by addition of an alloying metal such as palladium. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433920 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855372 | McGregor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. McGregor (Riley, Kansas); John K. Shultis (Manhattan, Kansas); Blake B. Rice (Manhattan, Kansas); Walter J. McNeil (Winnfield, Kansas); Clell J. Solomon (Wichita, Kansas); Eric L. Patterson (Manhattan, Kansas); Steven L. Bellinger (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-streaming high-efficiency perforated semiconductor neutron detectors, method of making same and measuring wands and detector modules utilizing same are disclosed. The detectors have improved mechanical structure, flattened angular detector responses, and reduced leakage current. A plurality of such detectors can be assembled into imaging arrays, and can be used for neutron radiography, remote neutron sensing, cold neutron imaging, SNM monitoring, and various other applications. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/293131 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855673 | Bunch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle J. Bunch (Richland, Washington); Brian J. Tucker (Pasco, Washington); Ronald H. Severtsen (Richland, Washington); Thomas E. Hall (Kennewick, Washington); Douglas L. McMakin (Richland, Washington); Wayne M. Lechelt (West Richland, Washington); Jeffrey W. Griffin (Kennewick, Washington); David M. Sheen (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods and apparatuses for imaging material properties in natural-fiber-containing materials. In particular, the images can provide quantified measures of localized moisture content. Embodiments of the invention utilize an array of antennas and at least one transceiver to collect amplitude and phase data from radiation interacting with the natural-fiber-containing materials. The antennas and the transceivers are configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic radiation at one or more frequencies, which are between 50 MHz and 1 THz. A conveyance system passes the natural-fiber-containing materials through a field of view of the array of antennas. A computing device is configured to apply a synthetic imaging algorithm to construct a three-dimensional image of the natural-fiber-containing materials that provides a quantified measure of localized moisture content. The image and the quantified measure are both based on the amplitude data, the phase data, or both. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170944 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855904 | Kirbie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hugh Kirbie (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Gregory E. Dale (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus having one or more modular stages for producing voltage and current pulses. Each module includes a diode charging means to charge a capacitive means that stores energy. One or more charging impedance means are connected to the diode charging means to provide a return current pathway. A solid-state switch discharge means, with current interruption capability, is connected to the capacitive means to discharge stored energy. Finally, a control means is provided to command the switching action of the solid-state switch discharge means. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/377468 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07855024 | Piecuch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proton Energy Systems, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Michael Piecuch (Meriden, Connecticut); Luke Thomas Dalton (Portland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A compartmentalized storage tank is disclosed. The compartmentalized storage tank includes a housing, a first fluid storage section disposed within the housing, a second fluid storage section disposed within the housing, the first and second fluid storage sections being separated by a movable divider, and a constant force spring. The constant force spring is disposed between the housing and the movable divider to exert a constant force on the movable divider to cause a pressure P1 in the first fluid storage section to be greater than a pressure P2 in the second fluid storage section, thereby defining a pressure differential. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/616311 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855157 | Kaul 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) | Raj K. Kaul (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Abdulnasser Fakhri Barghouty (Madison, Alabama); Benjamin G. Penn (Madison, Alabama); Anthony Bruce Hulcher (New Market, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A cosmic and solar radiation shielding structure that also has structural attributes is comprised of three layers. The first layer is 30-42 percent by volume of ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) polyethylene fibers, 18-30 percent by volume of graphite fibers, and a remaining percent by volume of an epoxy resin matrix. The second layer is approximately 68 percent by volume of UHMW polyethylene fibers and a remaining percent by volume of a polyethylene matrix. The third layer is a ceramic material. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/142220 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855368 | Zalameda 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) | Joseph N. Zalameda (Poquoson, Virginia); William P. Winfree (Williamsburg, Virginia); William T. Yost (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic thermography uses a housing configured for thermal, acoustic and infrared radiation shielding. For in-situ applications, the housing has an open side adapted to be sealingly coupled to a surface region of a structure such that an enclosed chamber filled with air is defined. One or more acoustic sources are positioned to direct acoustic waves through the air in the enclosed chamber and towards the surface region. To activate and control each acoustic source, a pulsed signal is applied thereto. An infrared imager focused on the surface region detects a thermal image of the surface region. A data capture device records the thermal image in synchronicity with each pulse of the pulsed signal such that a time series of thermal images is generated. For enhanced sensitivity and/or repeatability, sound and/or vibrations at the surface region can be used in feedback control of the pulsed signal applied to the acoustic sources. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178173 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07854174 | Aebersold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OrthoData Technologies LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia W. Aebersold (Floyds Knob, Indiana); Kevin Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark Crain (Georgetown, Indiana); Michael Voor (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A three-dimensional micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) capacitive bending and axial strain sensor capacitor is described. Two independent comb structures, incorporating suspended polysilicon interdigitated fingers, are fabricated simultaneously on a substrate that can displace independently of each other while attached to a substrate undergoing bending or axial deformation. A change in spacing between the interdigitated fingers will output a change in capacitance of the sensor and is the primary mode of operation of the device. On the bottom and to the end of each comb structure, a glass pad is attached to the comb structure to allow for ample surface area for affixing the sensor to a substrate. During fabrication, tethers are used to connect each comb structure to maintain equal spacing between the fingers before attachment to the substrate. After attachment, the tethers are broken to allow independent movement of each comb structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/393294 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855070 | Vukasinovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jelena Vukasinovic (Atlanta, Georgia); Ari Glezer (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are portable, disposable, centimeter-scale, integrated diagnostics incubators for use in biological culturing. An exemplary incubator comprises an optically accessible enclosure having a plurality of fluidic ports. A heating element is disposed within the enclosure that is coupled to an external heater controller. An autoclavable microfluidic perfusion chamber is disposed within the enclosure that comprises a cell culture life support chamber, an inlet port disposed in the perfusion chamber, a collection chamber in communication with the culture chamber, an outlet port coupled to the collection pool, and a perfusing substrate. An optically transparent, gas permeable membrane is attachable to the top of the perfusion chamber. The incubators have optical accessibility, forced flow fluidic control, temperature control, are portable and modular, and are inexpensively manufactured. The incubators permit in-the-field drug testing and culturing of biological tissues. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483126 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/293.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855372 | McGregor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. McGregor (Riley, Kansas); John K. Shultis (Manhattan, Kansas); Blake B. Rice (Manhattan, Kansas); Walter J. McNeil (Winnfield, Kansas); Clell J. Solomon (Wichita, Kansas); Eric L. Patterson (Manhattan, Kansas); Steven L. Bellinger (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-streaming high-efficiency perforated semiconductor neutron detectors, method of making same and measuring wands and detector modules utilizing same are disclosed. The detectors have improved mechanical structure, flattened angular detector responses, and reduced leakage current. A plurality of such detectors can be assembled into imaging arrays, and can be used for neutron radiography, remote neutron sensing, cold neutron imaging, SNM monitoring, and various other applications. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/293131 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07855083 | Bedingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Bedingham (Woodbury, Minnesota); James E. Aysta (Stillwater, Minnesota); Barry W. Robole (Woodville, Wisconsin); Kenneth B. Wood (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for thermal processing of multiple samples at the same time are disclosed. The sample processing devices provide process arrays that include conduits useful in distributing sample materials to a group pf process chambers located in fluid communication with the main conduits. The sample processing devices may include one or more of the following features in various combinations: deformable seals, process chambers connected to the main conduit by feeder conduits exiting the main conduit at offset locations, U-shaped loading chambers, and a combination of melt bonded and adhesively bonded areas. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399243 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856067 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles C. Wang (Arcadia, California); Lan Xu (Cerritos, California); Samuel Lim (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hierarchical modulation preferably uses a 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) modulator with a convolutional encoder that combine to effectively provide unequal protection to two different segments of streaming input data, with improved power efficiency with the same bandwidth efficiency, by encoding the first segment as coded data as LSBs as the second segment remains uncoded as uncoded MSBs, with the MSBs used for QAM constellation modest reliability interquadrant demodulation and detection, and with the LSBs used for low reliability intraquadrant detection, but with the LSBs subject to convolutional encoding and decoding rendering the LSBs with high reliability detection, such that, the two segments have unequal coding and modulation for providing unequal levels of reliability detection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732630 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 07856531 | Bruening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek L. Bruening (Troy, New York); Saman P. Amarasinghe (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A runtime code manipulation system is provided that supports code transformations on a program while it executes. The runtime code manipulation system uses code caching technology to provide efficient and comprehensive manipulation of an application running on an operating system and hardware. The code cache includes a system for automatically keeping the code cache at an appropriate size for the current working set of an application running. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/345768 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07856503 | Bouillet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Bouillet (Englewood, New Jersey); Parijat Dube (Yorktown Heights, New York); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for synthesizing a data stream includes retrieving meta data from at least one decision tree, the decision tree comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes, and generating the data stream in accordance with the meta data. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/551034 |
| ART UNIT | 2449 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/227 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07855279 | Schellenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amunix Operating, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Volker Schellenberger (Palo Alto, California); Willem P. Stemmer (Los Gatos, California); Chia-wei Wang (Santa Clara, California); Michael D. Scholle (Mountain View, California); Mikhail Popkov (San Diego, California); Nathaniel C. Gordon (Campbell, California); Andreas Crameri (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides unstructured recombinant polymers (URPs) and proteins containing one or more of the URPs. The present invention also provides microproteins, toxins and other related proteinaceous entities, as well as genetic packages displaying these entities. The present invention also provides recombinant polypeptides including vectors encoding the subject proteinaceous entities, as well as host cells comprising the vectors. The subject compositions have a variety of utilities including a range of pharmaceutical applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715276 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07854899 | Hewitt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Hewitt (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preparing a microarray that includes placing at least one template over a first surface of the recipient block, wherein the template defines an array of openings and the recipient block has a plurality of receptacle holes, such that the array of openings are aligned with the plurality of receptacle holes. A needle or punch that contains a sample is inserted through the openings of the template. The sample then is inserted into the receptacle hole in the recipient block. A device is also disclosed that includes a platform defining (i) a first surface, and (ii) a first region configured to retain at least one recipient block; and a raised template defining an array of openings, secured to the first surface of the platform and positioned above the first region configured to retain the recipient block. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/928656 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07855064 | Paterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Thorsten Verch (North Wales, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides Listeria strains that express a heterologous antigen and a metabolic enzyme, and methods of generating same. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785249 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07856125 | Medioni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Medioni (Los Angeles, California); Douglas Fidaleo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D face reconstruction technique using 2D images, such as photographs of a face, is described. Prior face knowledge or a generic face is used to extract sparse 3D information from the images and to identify image pairs. Bundle adjustment is carried out to determine more accurate 3D camera positions, image pairs are rectified, and dense 3D face information is extracted without using the prior face knowledge. Outliers are removed, e.g., by using tensor voting. A 3D surface is extracted from the dense 3D information and surface detail is extracted from the images. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669099 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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