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Patent Details for Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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Department of Defense (DOD)

07856729 — Bore elevation and azimuth measuring apparatus and method

US 07856729	Pinto et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert P. Pinto (Dover, New Jersey); John F. Casper (Succasunna, New Jersey); Jeffrey Gregor (Troy, New York)
ABSTRACT	A method for measuring the azimuth and elevation of the axis of a tube of other apparatus uses a centering mandrel inserted in the tube. The centering mandrel has a laser fixed to one end. The laser beam is aligned with the bore axis of the tube. A pair of optical instruments view two points on the laser beam. Using the optical instruments, horizontal and vertical angles from one optical instrument to the other, and vice versa, are measured. Also, horizontal and vertical angles from each optical instrument to each of the two points are measured. Using the three sets of measured angles, the azimuth and the elevation of the bore axis are calculated.
FILED	Thursday, August 07, 2008
APPL NO	12/187561
ART UNIT	2841 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter;
CURRENT CPC	Geometrical instruments 033/286
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07856824 — Cooling systems for use on aircraft

US 07856824	Anderson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Morris G. Anderson (Mesa, Arizona); William E. Alford (Mesa, Arizona); Michael L. Trego (Mesa, Arizona); Ron Haugland (Scottsdale, Arizona); David K. Winstanley (Gilbert, Arizona)
ABSTRACT	Cooling systems for an aircraft are provided. In an embodiment, a system includes an engine nacelle, an engine, a bypass duct, and a heat exchanger. The engine nacelle includes an airflow inlet. The engine is housed in the engine nacelle in flow communication with the airflow inlet. The bypass duct extends between the engine nacelle and the engine is in flow communication with the airflow inlet. The bypass duct includes an outer wall and an opening formed therein. The heat exchanger is integrated with the engine and is disposed over the opening of the bypass duct outer wall between the bypass duct outer wall and the engine nacelle.
FILED	Monday, June 25, 2007
APPL NO	11/767993
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/728
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07856827 — Structural track support of spraybars/tubing

US 07856827	Harris
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Meggan Harris (Colchester, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A turbine engine trailing edge box for an afterburner has corrugations formed to guide and support a spraybar. The trailing edge box is formed of sheet metal to create corrugations in the walls. The spraybar is supported and guided by the corrugations. The corrugations are shaped and sized to hold the spraybar, but to prevent shifting of the spraybar during engine operation. In addition, the corrugations reinforce the walls of the trailing edge box to provide structural support.
FILED	Tuesday, March 14, 2006
APPL NO	11/376634
ART UNIT	3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Power plants 060/761
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07856915 — Blast mitigating mobile self-contained networked checkpoint

US 07856915	Anderson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Steven E. Anderson (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Stephen J. Brannan (Ruther Glen, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A portable checkpoint system is disclosed that incorporates a configurable freight container to intercept and inspect an approaching vehicle. The container includes a quadrilateral set of walls connectable to form a rectangular box, first and second ends of the walls, a blast plate disposed within the box, and a receptacle for mounting a device. At least one of the ends includes a door. The blast plate is disposed between two interior surfaces of the quadrilateral set of walls for absorbing shock and shrapnel, such as at an oblique angle. The mounted device is an instrument for measuring a characteristic of the vehicle. Another such device is a lamp for illuminating the vehicle. The checkpoint includes an obstacle to direct the vehicle in traffic flow, and a pair of configurable freight containers as described. The obstacle directs the vehicle towards the zone. The containers are disposed substantially parallel to each other and separated apart to form a zone that enables the vehicle to pass there-between. The checkpoint includes a communications system accessible to a database having information on vehicle identification, vehicle sensory characteristics, personal identification and facial-recognition photographs for comparison with the vehicle and its occupants.
FILED	Monday, July 16, 2007
APPL NO	11/890103
ART UNIT	3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Ordnance 089/36.70
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07856963 — Method of operating a fuel injector

US 07856963	Hopley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel J Hopley (Chislehurst, United Kingdom); Stephen A Noyce (Poole, United Kingdom); Colin Almond (Rochester, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	A method of operating a fuel injector having a piezoelectric actuator operable by applying a drive pulse thereto, wherein the drive pulse has a frequency domain signature. The method includes i) determining at least one resonant frequency of an injector installation in which the injector is received, in use, and ii) modifying the drive pulse such that a maximum of the frequency domain signature thereof is remote from the determined resonant frequency of the injector installation.
FILED	Tuesday, May 22, 2007
APPL NO	11/805284
ART UNIT	3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Internal-combustion engines 123/472
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07856964 — Method of controlling a piezoelectric actuator

US 07856964	Sykes et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Martin Sykes (Rainham, United Kingdom); Joseph Walsh (Kineton, United Kingdom); Daniel Hopley (Chislehurst, United Kingdom); Peter Griffin (Maidstone, United Kingdom)
ABSTRACT	A method for controlling the displacement of a stack of a piezoelectric actuator for use in a fuel injector comprises determining a desired amount of charge (ΔQ) to be added or removed from the stack. The method further comprises determining an operating parameter of the fuel system and selecting a drive current level (PO, SO) and a drive time (t_open, t_close) in accordance with the desired amount of charge (ΔQ) and the operating parameter, and driving the drive current through the stack for the drive time (t_open, t_close) in order to add or remove the desired amount of charge (ΔQ).
FILED	Monday, May 21, 2007
APPL NO	11/804923
ART UNIT	3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Internal-combustion engines 123/490
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07857194 — Method of joining metals to ceramic matrix composites

US 07857194	Kramer
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by The Aerospace Corporation (AEROSPACE) at El Segundo, CA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Dayton (Dayton, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel P. Kramer (Centerville, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A method of joining metals to a ceramic material such as a ceramic matrix composite is provided which utilizes a compliant interlayer having a coefficient of thermal expansion between the coefficient of thermal expansion of the metal and that of the ceramic matrix composite. The compliant interlayer is bonded to the metal, and the ceramic matrix composite is then bonded to the bonded interlayer/metal. The method results in a high strength joint between a metal having a high coefficient of thermal expansion and a ceramic material having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
FILED	Thursday, May 01, 2008
APPL NO	12/113296
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Metal fusion bonding 228/122.100
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07857261 — Docking system

US 07857261	Tchoryk, Jr. et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan); Greg Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	An automatically aligned docking system, comprises a multi-point kinematic rigidization system that provides precise, repeatable rotational alignment at the spacecraft-docking interface without over-constraining the interface.
FILED	Tuesday, September 12, 2006
APPL NO	11/531261
ART UNIT	3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.400
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07857588 — Reinforced airfoils

US 07857588	Propheter-Hinckley et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut); Edward F. Pietraszkiewicz (Southington, Connecticut); Steven Bruce Gautschi (Naugatuck, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	A reinforced airfoil includes an airfoil body including opposed walls that define a hollow interior space and a reinforcement member provided on at least one of the walls within the interior space, the reinforcement member increasing the thickness of the at least one wall so as to resist deformation of the at least one wall but not extending from one wall to the other.
FILED	Friday, July 06, 2007
APPL NO	11/774151
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Fluid reaction surfaces 416/96.A00
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07857598 — Variable-twist rotor blade controlled by hub pitch angle and rotational speed

US 07857598	McGeer et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Aerovel Corporation (White Salmon, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Brian T. McGeer (Underwood, Washington); Andreas H. von Flotow (Hood River, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	The twist distribution of torsionally-flexible rotor blades is adjusted by exploiting centrifugal effect on inertial torquers affixed at one or more stations along the blade span. Twist is thereby made to vary passively as a function of rotor speed and hub incidence angle. With inertias of appropriate size and location, the twist variation is such that high rotor efficiency is maintained over a wide range of operating conditions. Satisfactory dynamic behavior of the blade, including cyclic-pitch response and flutter resistance, is simultaneously achieved.
FILED	Thursday, May 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/756336
ART UNIT	3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Fluid reaction surfaces 416/240
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07857756 — Architecture tool and methods of use

US 07857756	Warren et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sciperio, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
INVENTOR(S)	William L. Warren (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Robert L. Parkhill (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Robert L. Stewart (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Anatoly M. Kachurin (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Robert M. Taylor (Perkins, Oklahoma); Kenneth H. Church (Stillwater, Oklahoma)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides an apparatus and methods for depositing materials on a substrate, and for performing other selected functions, such as material destruction and removal, temperature control, imaging, detection, therapy and positional and locational control. In various embodiments, the apparatus and methods are suitable for use in a tabletop setting, in vitro or in vivo.
FILED	Thursday, July 15, 2004
APPL NO	10/891512
ART UNIT	3779 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 6/159
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07857803 — Burn patient resuscitation system and method

US 07857803	Salinas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jose Salinas (San Antonio, Texas); George Kramer (Galveston, Texas); Guy A. Drew (San Antonio, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method and system for operating a semi-closed loop and/or a closed loop resuscitation of a burn patient in view of patient information and other physiological data gathered as part of the method and/or by the system. The method in at least one embodiment includes receiving patient information, calculating an infusion rate based at least on part on a portion of the received patient information, outputting the infusion rate to an infusion pump, obtaining a urinary output, calculating a new infusion rate using infusion rate model based constants, and outputting the new infusion rate to an infusion pump. In some embodiments, the method includes notifying medical staff when problems arise, displaying information regarding the resuscitation, and setting limits regarding the infusion rates.
FILED	Wednesday, March 19, 2008
APPL NO	12/076554
ART UNIT	3767 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 64/503
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07857920 — Low temperature clean burning pyrotechnic gas generators

US 07857920	Mason
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark H. Mason (Inyokern, California)
ABSTRACT	A propellant composition including, about 5 to about 30 weight % of a polymeric binder component having about 4 to about 10 weight % of at least one oxygen-rich pre-polymer, about 0.1 to about 2 weight % of at least one isocyanate curative, wherein the curative(s) react with alcohol groups on said pre-polymer(s) to formulate urethane linkages, about 1 to about 20 weight % of at least one plasticizer to improve processability and for oxygen balance of the composition, about 0.01 to about 1.0 weight % of at least one additive including cure catalyst(s) and stabilizer(s), about 1 to about 40 weight % of a mixture of high oxygen content insensitive gas generators in solid form, about 1 to about 50 weight % of at least one oxidizer, and wherein the composition is free of perchlorate.
FILED	Monday, August 22, 2005
APPL NO	11/217850
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/19.400
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07857956 — Systems and methods for making and using nanoelectrodes

US 07857956	Burke et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter J. Burke (Irvine, California); Shengdong Li (Irvine, California); Lifeng Zheng (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	Systems and methods are provided for the manipulation of a polarizable object with a pair of elongated nanoelectrodes using dielectrophoresis. The nanoelectrodes can be carbon nanotubes and are coupled with one or more time-varying voltage sources to create an electric field gradient in a gap between the nanotubes. The gradient induces the movement of a polarizable object in proximity with the field. The nanotube pair can be used to trap a single polarizable object in the gap. A method of fabricating a nanoelectrode dielectrophoretic system is also provided. Applications extend to self-fabricating nanoelectronics, nanomachines, nanochemistry and nanobiochemistry. A nanoelectrode dielectrophoretic system having an extended nanoelectrode for use in applications including the self-fabrication of a nanowire, as well as methods for fabricating the same, are also provided.
FILED	Friday, February 27, 2004
APPL NO	10/789779
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/547
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07858123 — Inorganic materials for hemostatic modulation and therapeutic wound healing

US 07858123	Stucky et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Galen D. Stucky (Santa Barbara, California); Todd A. Ostomel (Santa Barbara, California); Qihui Shi (Goleta, California); Peter K. Stoimenov (Goleta, California); Patricia A. Holden (Santa Barbara, California)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compositions, methods and devices relating to a silaceous oxide that generates a reduced heat of hydration upon contact with blood. By reducing the heat of hydration, the compositions provide a hemostatic agent that attenuates a tissue burning side effect of conventional hemostatic agents without adversely affecting the wound healing properties of the composition.
FILED	Tuesday, April 04, 2006
APPL NO	11/398161
ART UNIT	1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/600
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07858366 — Integrated airborne substance collection and detection system

US 07858366	Northrup et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Microfluidic Systems, Inc (Fremont, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Allen Northrup (Orinda, California); Farzad Pourahmadi (Fremont, California); Bob Yuan (Belmont, California); Amy J. Devitt (San Carlos, California)
ABSTRACT	An integrated collection and detection system is configured to monitor the ambient air for specific particles, such as toxins and pathogens. An air collector captures airborne particles and outputs a fluid sample including the captured particles in a fluid solution. The collection and detection system includes a control module configured to control the processing of the fluid sample such that detection of one or more types of particles is fully automated within the integrated system. The types of particles to be processed and detected include, but are not limited to, cells, bacteria, viruses, nucleic acids, toxins, and other pathogens. If one or more specific types of particles are detected, a system alarm is triggered. The system alarm triggers a local audio/visual alarm and/or is transmitted over a communications network to either a local or central monitoring location. More than one collection and detection system can be coupled to the network and monitored by the central monitoring location.
FILED	Thursday, August 24, 2006
APPL NO	11/509969
ART UNIT	1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/293.100
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07858386 — Method of controlling quantum dot photoluminescence and other intrinsic properties through biological specificity

US 07858386	Medintz et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Igor L Medintz (Alexandria, Virginia); Hedi M Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia); Moungi G Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); J Matthew Mauro (Eugene, Oregon); George P Anderson (Bowie, Maryland); Thomas Pons (Antony, France)
ABSTRACT	A method of controllably changing an intrinsic property of a quantum dot by using a biological entity, either attached or in close proximity to the quantum dot, and changing the state of biological entity with a controllable mechanism. The change in state of the biological entity controllably changes the intrinsic property of the quantum dot. The photoluminescence emission of quantum dots can be controlled by the present method. The methods disclosed include controlling the magnitude of QD photoluminescence as well as turning the photoluminescence on/off. The methods disclosed include using the same biological control architecture to control other intrinsic QD properties such as charge state, magnetic or other property.
FILED	Wednesday, March 07, 2007
APPL NO	11/683226
ART UNIT	1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172
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07858425 — Monolithic nuclear event detector and method of manufacture

US 07858425	Sanders et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas J. Sanders (Indialantic, Florida); Nicolaas W. Van Vonno (Melbourne, Florida); Clyde Combs (Satellite Beach, Florida); Glenn T. Hess (Satellite Beach, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A PIN diode-based monolithic Nuclear Event Detector and method of manufacturing same for use in detecting a desired level of gamma radiation, in which a PIN diode is integrated with signal processing circuitry, for example CMOS circuitry, in a single thin-film Silicon On Insulator (SOI) chip. The PIN diode is implemented in the p-substrate layer. The signal processing circuitry is located in a thin semiconductor layer and is in electrical communication with the PIN diode. The PIN diode may be integrated with the signal processing circuitry onto a single chip, or may be fabricated stand alone using SOI methods according to the method of the invention.
FILED	Wednesday, May 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/154212
ART UNIT	2893 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/56
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07858460 — Passivation of wide band-gap based semiconductor devices with hydrogen-free sputtered nitrides

US 07858460	Ring et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Zoltan Ring (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Helmut Hagleitner (Zebulon, North Carolina); Jason Patrick Henning (Carrboro, North Carolina); Andrew Mackenzie (Cary, North Carolina); Scott Allen (Apex, North Carolina); Scott Thomas Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Richard Peter Smith (Carrboro, North Carolina); Saptharishi Sriram (Cary, North Carolina); Allan Ward, III (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A passivated semiconductor structure and associated method are disclosed. The structure includes a silicon carbide substrate or layer; an oxidation layer on the silicon carbide substrate for lowering the interface density between the silicon carbide substrate and the thermal oxidation layer; a first sputtered non-stoichiometric silicon nitride layer on the thermal oxidation layer for reducing parasitic capacitance and minimizing device trapping; a second sputtered non-stoichiometric silicon nitride layer on the first layer for positioning subsequent passivation layers further from the substrate without encapsulating the structure; a sputtered stoichiometric silicon nitride layer on the second sputtered layer for encapsulating the structure and for enhancing the hydrogen barrier properties of the passivation layers; and a chemical vapor deposited environmental barrier layer of stoichiometric silicon nitride for step coverage and crack prevention on the encapsulant layer.
FILED	Monday, March 16, 2009
APPL NO	12/404557
ART UNIT	2891 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/197
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07858507 — Method and system for creating photosensitive array with integrated backplane

US 07858507	Forrest
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method of fabricating a photoactive array having an integrated backplane is provided. The layers of the device may be stamped or deposited on a planar or a curved substrate, such as a semispherical or ellipsoidal substrate. Each metal layer may be stamped using an elastomeric stamp and a vacuum mold. By depositing the patterned and full-surface layers in a single process, a photosensitive array with an integrated transistor backplane may be fabricated, resulting in improved sensitivity and performance.
FILED	Friday, February 06, 2009
APPL NO	12/366839
ART UNIT	2812 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/584
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07858822 — Polymerizable sulfonate ionic liquids and liquid polymers therefrom

US 07858822	Ricks-Laskoski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Holly L. Ricks-Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Arthur W Snow (Alexandria, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed is a new ionic liquid monomer salt and methods of is synthesis and polymerization. The ionic liquid monomer salt is prepared by mixing equimolar amounts of an amine, such as tris[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)-ethyl]amine and an acid functionalized polymerizable monomer, such as 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid (AMPS), which is stirred at ambient temperature until salt formation is complete. Also disclosed is a new ionic liquid polymer salts and method for making the same. The synthesis of AMPS-ammonium salt polymer is accomplished by adding 2,2′-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) to the ionic liquid monomer salt and heating the homogeneous melt at 70° C. for 18 hr.
FILED	Tuesday, August 24, 2010
APPL NO	12/862281
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 562/114
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07858917 — Digital photon-counting geiger-mode avalanche photodiode solid-state monolithic intensity imaging focal-plane with scalable readout circuitry

US 07858917	Stern et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Alvin Stern (Newton, Massachusetts); Brian F. Aull (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bernard B. Kosicki (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert K. Reich (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts); Bradley J. Felton (Lowell, Massachusetts); David C. Shaver (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Andrew H. Loomis (Westford, Massachusetts); Douglas J. Young (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A photon-counting Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode intensity imaging array includes an array of pixels, each having an avalanche photodiode. A pixel senses an avalanche event and stores, in response to the sensed avalanche event, a single bit digital value therein. An array of accumulators are provided such that each accumulator is associated with a pixel. A row decoder circuit addresses a pixel row within the array of pixels. A bit sensing circuit converts a precharged capacitance into a digital value during read operations.
FILED	Friday, April 30, 2004
APPL NO	10/836896
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/214.R00
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07858965 — Nanowire heterostructures

US 07858965	Lu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of the Army (DOA) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) Army Research Office (CCDC ARO) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Wei Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jie Xiang (Pasadena, California); Yue Wu (El Cerrito, California); Brian P. Timko (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Hao Yan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention generally relates to nanoscale heterostructures and, in some cases, to nanowire heterostructures exhibiting ballistic transport, and/or to metal-semiconductor junctions that that exhibit no or reduced Schottky barriers. One aspect of the invention provides a solid nanowire having a core and a shell, both of which are essentially undoped. For example, in one embodiment, the core may consist essentially of undoped germanium and the shell may consist essentially of undoped silicon. Carriers are injected into the nanowire, which can be ballistically transported through the nanowire. In other embodiments, however, the invention is not limited to solid nanowires, and other configurations, involving other nanoscale wires, are also contemplated within the scope of the present invention. Yet another aspect of the invention provides a junction between a metal and a nanoscale wire that exhibit no or reduced Schottky barriers. As a non-limiting example, a nanoscale wire having a core and a shell may be in physical contact with a metal electrode, such that the Schottky barrier to the core is reduced or eliminated. Still other aspects of the invention are directed to electronic devices exhibiting such properties, and techniques for methods of making or using such devices.
FILED	Friday, May 25, 2007
APPL NO	11/807186
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/24
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07859328 — Substrate stress measuring technique

US 07859328	O'Neill et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas G. O'Neill (Mountain View, California); Robert J. Bosnyak (Tacoma, California)
ABSTRACT	A system, including: a first current mirror having a first current, formed of multiple devices disposed on a substrate, where, when a stress is present, a behavior of a device of the multiple devices forming the first current mirror depends on a direction in which the device of the multiple devices forming the first current mirror is disposed on the substrate; a second current mirror having a second current, formed of multiple devices disposed on the substrate, where, when the stress is present, a behavior of a device of the multiple devices forming the second current mirror depends on a direction in which the device of the multiple devices forming the second current mirror is disposed on the substrate; and a device for measuring a ratio of a difference between the first current and the second current to a sum of the first current and the second current.
FILED	Tuesday, March 10, 2009
APPL NO	12/401611
ART UNIT	2816 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/565
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07859337 — Wideband driver for class-D power amplifiers

US 07859337	Chu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Rockwell Collins, Inc, (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Thanh D. Chu (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Scott L. Heibel (Hiawatha, Iowa); Gamal M. Hegazi (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
ABSTRACT	A Class-D amplifier having a wideband driver circuit including a first transmission line transformer and a second transmission line transformer. An input of the first transmission line transformer is approximately 180 degrees out of phase from an input of the second transformer. A first transistor (Q1) has an input operatively connected to the first transmission line transformer. A second transistor (Q2) has an input being operatively connected to the second transmission line transformer. The first and the second transmission line transformers cooperate to provide a signal of sufficient magnitude to saturate their associated power transistors in the ON mode and to cut them off in the OFF mode with very small rise and fall transit times, thus providing high efficiency.
FILED	Friday, April 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/796293
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Amplifiers 330/251
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07859475 — Antenna positioning system

US 07859475	Gierow et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GATR Technologies (Huntsville, Alabama)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul A. Gierow (Madison, Alabama); William R. Clayton (Madison, Alabama)
ABSTRACT	An apparatus for positioning and controlling a spherical, inflatable antenna includes a driven rotating table disposed in the horizontal plane which supports and drives a horizontal arm member to which is hingedly connected first and second upright support members at either end. The upright support members include journal bearings attachable to the surface of an inflatable antenna.
FILED	Wednesday, July 14, 2010
APPL NO	12/836178
ART UNIT	2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/766
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07859479 — Antenna for compact satellite terminal

US 07859479	Legare et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	David J. Legare (Ava, New York); David M. Hummel (Remsen, New York)
ABSTRACT	An antenna for a compact satellite terminal. Antenna is a rigid parabolic structure of metal matrix composite capable of disassembly into segments affording a high degree of portability such as for man-packable satellite terminals and the like. A shallow feed horn assembly is joined to an orthomode transducer by a common hub, the hub also serving as the attachment point for a plurality of antenna segments, where a quick release means joins the segments to the hub. The feed horn, hub, orthomode transducer and antenna segments are designed for extremely compact stowability in a variety of applications.
FILED	Tuesday, August 26, 2008
APPL NO	12/231420
ART UNIT	2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/882
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07859944 — Apparatus, systems and methods for enhanced multi-carrier based underwater acoustic communications

US 07859944	Zhou et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Shengli Zhou (Mansfield, Connecticut); Baosheng Li (Willington, Connecticut); Peter Willett (Coventry, Connecticut); Milica Stojanovic (Boston, Massachusetts); Lee Freitag (Falmouth, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Advantageous OFDM-based underwater acoustic (UWA) apparatus, systems and methods are provided according to the present disclosure. In general, OFDM transmissions over UWA channels encounter frequency-dependent Doppler drifts that destroy the orthogonality among OFDM subcarriers. The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods use a two-step approach to mitigate frequency-dependent Doppler drifts for zero-padded OFDM transmissions over fast-varying channels: (1) non-uniform Doppler compensation via resampling to convert a “wideband” problem into a “narrowband” problem; and (2) high-resolution uniform compensation on the residual Doppler. The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods are based on block-by-block processing and do not rely on channel dependence across OFDM blocks. Thus, the disclosed apparatus, systems and methods are advantageously applicable for fast-varying UWA channels.
FILED	Wednesday, June 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/141527
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 367/134
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07860344 — Tracking apparatus and methods using image processing noise reduction

US 07860344	Fitzpatrick et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Stochastech Corporation (Los Angeles, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Ben G. Fitzpatrick (Marina del Rey, California); Yun Wang (Marina del Rey, California)
ABSTRACT	Improved apparatus and methodology for image processing and object tracking that, inter alia, reduces noise. In one embodiment, the methodology is applied to moving targets such as missiles in flight, and comprises processing sequences of images that have been corrupted by one or more noise sources (e.g., sensor noise, medium noise, and/or target reflection noise). In this embodiment, a multi-dimensional image is acquired for a first time step t; the acquired image is normalized and sampled, and then segmented into target and background pixel sets. Intensity statistics of the pixel sets are determined, and a prior probability image from a previous time step smoothed. The smoothed prior image is then shifted to produce an updated prior image, and a posterior probability image calculated using the updated prior probability. Finally, the position of the target is extracted using the posterior probability image. A tracking system and controller utilizing this methodology are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, May 06, 2005
APPL NO	11/123549
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/291
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07860614 — Trainer for robotic vehicle

US 07860614	Reger
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Bernard D. Reger (West Orange, New Jersey)
ABSTRACT	A trainer for training a human to use a physical robot in a physical environment, the physical robot being controlled in the physical environment by an operator control unit, the trainer comprising an input device; a visual display; a computer connected to the input device and the visual display; and computer software disposed in the computer for creating a virtual robot and a virtual environment on the visual display, the virtual robot and the virtual environment being simulations of the physical robot and the physical environment wherein interaction between the virtual robot and the virtual environment simulates interaction between the physical robot and the physical environment.
FILED	Monday, September 11, 2006
APPL NO	11/530509
ART UNIT	3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/264
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07860635 — Singular value decomposition-based method for optimal estimation of turbofan engine thrust and other unmeasurable parameters

US 07860635	Litt
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Army (DOA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Jonathan S. Litt (Pepper Pike, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A new linear point design technique is presented for the determination of tuning parameters that enable the optimal estimation of unmeasured engine outputs such as thrust. The engine's performance is affected by its level of degradation, generally described in terms of unmeasurable health parameters related to each major engine component. Accurate thrust reconstruction depends upon knowledge of these health parameters, but there are usually too few sensors to be able to estimate their values. In this new technique, a set of tuning parameters is determined which accounts for degradation by representing the overall effect of the larger set of health parameters as closely as possible in a least squares sense. The technique takes advantage of the properties of the singular value decomposition of a matrix to generate a tuning parameter vector of low enough dimension that it can be estimated by a Kalman filter. A concise design procedure to generate a tuning vector that specifically takes into account the variables of interest is presented. An example demonstrates the tuning parameters' ability to facilitate matching of both measured and unmeasured engine outputs, as well as state variables. Additional properties of the formulation are shown to lend themselves well to diagnostics.
FILED	Friday, May 11, 2007
APPL NO	11/747362
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 71/100
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07860705 — Methods and apparatus for context adaptation of speech-to-speech translation systems

US 07860705	Afify et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mohamed A. Afify (Portchester, New York); Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Liang Gu (Yorktown, New York); Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo (Pleasantville, New York); Bowen Zhou (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	A technique for context adaptation of a speech-to-speech translation system is provided. A plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is obtained from a plurality of input signals. Each set of the plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values is extracted from a corresponding input signal of the plurality of input signals via a corresponding classifier of a plurality of classifiers. A final set of paralinguistic attribute values is generated for the plurality of input signals from the plurality of sets of paralinguistic attribute values. Performance of at least one of a speech recognition module, a translation module and a text-to-speech module of the speech-to-speech translation system is modified in accordance with the final set of paralinguistic attribute values for the plurality of input signals.
FILED	Friday, September 01, 2006
APPL NO	11/514604
ART UNIT	2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/3
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07860719 — Disfluency detection for a speech-to-speech translation system using phrase-level machine translation with weighted finite state transducers

US 07860719	Maskey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Sameer Raj Maskey (New York, New York); Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Bowen Zhou (Ossining, New York)
ABSTRACT	A computer-implemented method for creating a disfluency translation lattice includes providing a plurality of weighted finite state transducers including a translation model, a language model, and a phrase segmentation model as input, performing a cascaded composition of the weighted finite state transducers to create a disfluency translation lattice, and storing the disfluency translation lattice to a computer-readable media.
FILED	Saturday, August 19, 2006
APPL NO	11/506981
ART UNIT	2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/277
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07860854 — Information search and retrieval system

US 07860854	Lipson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Pamela R. Lipson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Pawan Sinha (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	An image search and retrieval system and method of operation within such a system are disclosed. The image search and retrieval system includes a search engine coupled to an image analyzer, an input system, an output system and an image database. The image search and retrieval system includes one or more feature modules which define particular regions of an image and particular measurements to make on pixels within the define image region as well as the measurements to make on neighboring pixels in neighboring image regions for a given application and communicate this application specific information to the image analyzer thereby allowing rapid comparisons of images.
FILED	Thursday, January 29, 2004
APPL NO	10/767216
ART UNIT	2169 — Data Bases & File Management
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/707
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07860983 — Enterprise identity orchestration server

US 07860983	Mansfield et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrew N. Mansfield (Goose Creek, South Carolina); Michael Anthony Ramirez (Moncks Corner, South Carolina); Russell Clayton Coleman (Goose Creek, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A network server architecture that provides network integration and control functions is disclosed. The architecture includes a virtual directory server (VDS) and an identity provider. The VDS provides an interface for access of external user stores, external business rules and external service discovery configurations. The identity provider allows for a client interface for transfer of that information to the client. A rules engine and a service discovery provider configuration module are integrated into the VDS. The rules engine processes the external business rules that have been retrieved. The service discovery control module allows for retrieval of external definitions and information about the users stores that the VDS supports and update of the service discovery control module, even while the architecture is online. The service discovery control module is in a UDDI format, although other formats could be used.
FILED	Monday, August 11, 2008
APPL NO	12/189531
ART UNIT	2451 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/227
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07861014 — System for supporting partial cache line read operations to a memory module to reduce read data traffic on a memory channel

US 07861014	Gower et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A memory system is provided that supports partial cache line read operations to a memory module to reduce read data traffic on a memory channel. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in the memory module and a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device. The memory hub comprises burst logic integrated in the memory hub device. The burst logic determines an amount of read data to be transmitted from the set of memory devices and generates a burst length field corresponding to the amount of read data. The memory hub also comprises a memory hub controller integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub controller controls the amount of read data that is transmitted using the burst length field. The memory hub device transmits the amount of read data that is equal to or less than a conventional data burst amount of data.
FILED	Friday, August 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/848312
ART UNIT	2189 — Computer Networks
CURRENT CPC	Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/35
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07861316 — Microscope probe having an ultra-tall tip

US 07861316	van der Weide et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel Warren van der Weide (Madison, Wisconsin); Yaqiang Wang (Carrollton, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A microscope probe including a coaxial tip and a coplanar waveguide (CPW) formed on a silicon substrate is provided. The coaxial tip includes a tip shaft and a tip nib formed from the silicon substrate with the tip nib extending from the tip shaft opposite the silicon substrate. The tip shaft includes a first layer of a first conductive material formed over the silicon substrate, a second layer of an insulating material formed over the first layer, and a third layer of a second conductive material formed over the second layer. The tip nib includes the first layer of the first conductive material formed over the silicon substrate and exposed from the second layer and the third layer of the tip shaft. The CPW includes a center conductor formed from the first layer of the first conductive material and a first and a second outer conductor formed from the second layer of the second conductive material.
FILED	Friday, December 08, 2006
APPL NO	11/608456
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/60
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RE042007 — Vertical geometry InGaN LED

US RE42007	Doverspike et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Kathleen Marie Doverspike (Cary, North Carolina); John Adam Edmond (Durham, North Carolina); Hua-shuang Kong (Cary, North Carolina); Heidi Marie Dieringer (Cary, North Carolina); David B. Slater, Jr. (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A vertical geometry light emitting diode is disclosed that is capable of emitting light in the red, green, blue, violet and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The light emitting diode includes a conductive silicon carbide substrate, an InGaN quantum well, a conductive buffer layer between the substrate and the quantum well, a respective undoped gallium nitride layer on each surface of the quantum well, and ohmic contacts in a vertical geometry orientation.
FILED	Thursday, April 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/108604
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/14
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

07857451 — System and method for optimizing clinical optic prescriptions

US 07857451	Thibos et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Eye Institute (NEI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Bloomington, Indiana); The University of Houston (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Larry N. Thibos (Bloomington, Indiana); Arthur Bradley (Bloomington, Indiana); Raymond A. Applegate (Humble, Texas)
ABSTRACT	An method and system for determining the appropriate refractive prescription in a clinical optometry or opthalmology setting. Data in the form of aberrometric input, patient history and other information, and/or other environmental data is used to optimize a real-world prescription for an individual's optic needs through the use of a equivalent quadratic fitting calculation or a simulated through focus experiment.
FILED	Monday, December 13, 2004
APPL NO	10/582470
ART UNIT	2873 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/246
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07857804 — Use of Bcl inhibitors for the prevention of fibroproliferative reclosure of dilated blood vessels and other iatrogenic fibroproliferative disorders

US 07857804	McCaffrey et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Timothy A McCaffrey (Silver Spring, Maryland); Zhaoqing Yang (Arlington, Virginia); Dmitry Gagarin (Glen Burnie, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to new use of inhibitors of bcl-2/bcl-Xl family of anti-apoptotic compounds for the treatment of post-angioplasty restenosis and in-stent restenosis. Small molecules of Bcl inhibitors are incorporated into a stent, typically by a fine polymeric coating over the metal, which would be placed during angioplasty of occluded blood vessels, to act on fibroproliferative in-growth. Hollow organs such as urethras, Fallopian tubes and vascular access grafts could be treated in a similar manner to prevent their closure due to fibrosis. Other iatrogenic fibrosis such as adhesions after surgery could also be blocked by this therapy.
FILED	Friday, August 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/848459
ART UNIT	1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Surgery 64/509
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07858040 — Direct mixing and injection for high throughput fluidic systems

US 07858040	Okun et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Saryna Biotechnologies LLC (San Diego, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Alex Okun (San Diego, California); Teresa A. Bennett (San Diego, California); Andrew Beernink (San Diego, California); David J. Sieg (Escondido, California); John T. Ransom (Encinitas, California)
ABSTRACT	A system and method of mixing and injecting discrete sample mixtures into a flow cytometer or other sample analysis apparatus may generally comprise a sample injection guide coupling a liquid handling apparatus with a sample analysis apparatus and facilitating injection of discrete sample mixtures into a fluidic system of the apparatus.
FILED	Friday, May 07, 2004
APPL NO	10/841810
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100
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07858071 — Biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

US 07858071	Bowser et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert P. Bowser (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); Srikanth Ranganathan (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides a method for diagnosing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a subject, a method for assessing the effectiveness of a drug in treating ALS, and a method for determining the site of onset of ALS in a subject. Each method comprises (a) obtaining a sample from the subject, (b) analyzing the proteins in the sample by mass spectroscopy, and (c) determining a mass spectral profile for the sample. In some embodiments, the method comprises comparing the mass spectral profile of the sample to the mass spectral profile of a positive or a negative standard.
FILED	Monday, October 25, 2004
APPL NO	10/972732
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100
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07858072 — Stilbene derivatives and their use for binding and imaging amyloid plaques

US 07858072	Kung et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging (NIA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Hank F. Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Mei-Ping Kung (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Zhi-Ping Zhuang (Lansdale, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to a method of imaging amyloid deposits and to labeled compounds, and methods of making labeled compounds useful in imaging amyloid deposits. This invention also relates to compounds, and methods of making compounds for inhibiting the aggregation of amyloid proteins to form amyloid deposits, and a method of delivering a therapeutic agent to amyloid deposits.
FILED	Monday, December 19, 2005
APPL NO	11/305350
ART UNIT	1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100
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07858084 — Methods of treatment with renalase (monoamine oxidase C)

US 07858084	Desir et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Gary Desir (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Jianchao Xu (Bethany, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods of using Monoamine Oxidase C (MAO-C), also known as renalase, as a therapeutic protein in its active and inactive forms. Administering inactive renalase protein to individuals with lower renalase levels can be used to provide them with an adequate pool of the protein that can be activated by the body as needed. Active renalase protein can be administered to individuals needing an immediate reduction of catecholamine levels. An inhibitor of renalase may be used to enhance adrenergic action.
FILED	Tuesday, November 21, 2006
APPL NO	11/602409
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.400
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07858092 — Neovascular-targeted immunoconjugates

US 07858092	Garen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
INVENTOR(S)	Alan Garen (New Haven, Connecticut); Zhiwei Hu (New Haven, Connecticut)
ABSTRACT	Immunoconjugates for treating diseases associated with neovascularization such as cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, the exudative form of macular degeneration, and atherosclerosis are described. The immunoconjugates typically consist of the Fc region of a human IgG1 immunoglobulin including the hinge, or other effector domain or domains that can elicit, when administered to a patient, a cytolytic immune response or cytotoxic effect against a targeted cell. The effector domain is conjugated to a targeting domain which comprises a factor VII mutant that binds with high affinity and specificity to tissue factor but does not initiate blood clotting such as factor VII having a substitution of alanine for lysine-341 or of alanine for serine-344.
FILED	Monday, May 23, 2005
APPL NO	11/134428
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/182.100
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07858094 — TREM-1 splice variant for use in modifying immune responses

US 07858094	Margolin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Geneprint Corporation (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Judith F. Margolin (Houston, Texas); Marie-Claude Gingras (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to a soluble receptor variant of TREM-1. More particularly, present invention relates to methods of modulating an immune response by administering variants of TREM-1.
FILED	Friday, December 07, 2001
APPL NO	10/021509
ART UNIT	1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100
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07858101 — Modified streptococcal polysaccharides and uses thereof

US 07858101	Kasper et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Dennis L. Kasper (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Hilde-Kari Guttormsen (Brookline, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Modified streptococcal polysaccharides and methods of using the modified polysaccharides are provided herein.
FILED	Tuesday, November 01, 2005
APPL NO	11/264731
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100
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07858295 — Methods for prolonging survival of platelets using UDP-galactose

US 07858295	Stossel et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Velico Medical, Inc. (Beverly, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas P. Stossel (Belmont, Massachusetts); John H. Hartwig (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Karin M. Hoffmeister (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Henrik Clausen (Holte, Denmark)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides modified platelets having a reduced platelet clearance and methods for reducing platelet clearance. Also provided are compositions for the preservation of platelets. The invention also provides methods for making a pharmaceutical composition containing the modified platelets and for administering the pharmaceutical composition to a mammal to mediate hemostasis.
FILED	Friday, June 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/771161
ART UNIT	1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/2
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07858303 — Method of analyzing breast cancer susceptibility and resistance

US 07858303	Gould et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Michael N. Gould (Madison, Wisconsin); Jill D. Haag (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); David J. Samuelson (Madison, Wisconsin); Stephanie E. Nelson (Madison, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	A method of analyzing breast cancer susceptibility or resistance, comprising the steps of obtaining a DNA sample from a patient, genotyping the sample for the presence of the minor allele of single nucleotide polymorphisms rs6476643 or rs2182317, and correlating the identity of the allele with risk assessment data is disclosed.
FILED	Monday, March 13, 2006
APPL NO	11/374326
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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07858306 — HSD3B1 sequence variants

US 07858306	Weinshilboum et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota)
INVENTOR(S)	Richard M. Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Linda L. Pelleymounter (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric D. Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Oreste Salavaggione (St. Louis, Missouri); Liewei Wang (Rochester, Minnesota)
ABSTRACT	Isolated HSD3B1 nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as are HSD3B1 allozymes. Methods for determining whether a subject contains an HSD3B1 sequence variant also are provided.
FILED	Friday, July 07, 2006
APPL NO	11/482514
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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07858316 — Eubacterial tmRNA sequences and uses thereof

US 07858316	Felden
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Brice Felden (Le Lou du Lac, France)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to eubacterial tmDNA sequences and the corresponding tmRNA sequences. The present invention is further directed to alignments of eubacterial tmDNA sequences and the use of the sequences and sequence alignments for the development of antibacterial drugs. The present invention is also directed to the use of the sequences for the development of diagnostic assays.
FILED	Friday, June 27, 2008
APPL NO	12/163512
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6
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07858317 — Aberrantly methylated genes as markers of breast malignancy

US 07858317	Sukumar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland)
INVENTOR(S)	Saraswati Sukumar (Columbia, Maryland); Ella Evron (Baltimore, Maryland); William C. Dooley (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Nicoletta Sacchi (North Potomac, Maryland); Nancy Davidson (Baltimore, Maryland); Mary Jo Fackler (Hunt Valley, Maryland)
ABSTRACT	The invention is directed to a method of diagnosing a cell proliferative disorder of breast tissue by determining the methylation status of nucleic acids obtained from a subject. Aberrant methylation of several genes including TWIST, HOXA5, NES-1, retinoic acid receptor beta (RARβ), estrogen receptor (ER), cyclin D2, WT-1, 14.3.3 sigma, HIN-1, RASSF1A, and combinations of such genes serve as markers of breast malignancy.
FILED	Thursday, October 09, 2008
APPL NO	12/248793
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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07858318 — Methods and compositions for vitamin K epoxide reductase

US 07858318	Stafford et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Darrel W. Stafford (Carrborro, North Carolina); Tao Li (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides a method of identifying a human subject having increased or decreased sensitivity to warfarin, comprising detecting in the subject the presence of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the VKOR gene, wherein the single nucleotide polymorphism is correlated with increased or decreased sensitivity to warfarin, thereby identifying the subject having increased or decreased sensitivity to warfarin.
FILED	Wednesday, January 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/361053
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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07858323 — Phage microarray profiling of the humoral response to disease

US 07858323	Chinnaiyan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Arul Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Xiaoju Wang (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnostics, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for phage microarray profiling of cancer (e.g., prostate, lung, or breast cancer). The present invention further provides novel markers useful for the diagnosis, characterization, and treatment of cancers.
FILED	Monday, June 06, 2005
APPL NO	11/145861
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: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100
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07858327 — Methods of identifying longevity modulators and therapeutic methods of use thereof

US 07858327	Tissenbaum et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Heidi A. Tissenbaum (Wayland, Massachusetts); Seung Wook Oh (Westborough, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is based at least in part on the discovery of a role for the JNK signaling pathway in longevity. In particular, the present inventors have shown that modulation of the c-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signaling pathway in an organism, optionally in combination with modulation of the insulin receptor (IR) signaling pathway, can enhance longevity in an organism. Accordingly, the present invention features methods of identifying modulators of longevity in assays featuring organisms and/or cells having either a functional or deregulated JNK signaling pathway and, optionally, a functional or deregulated IR signaling pathway. Also featured is an in vitro method of identifying an agent capable of enhancing longevity featuring an assay composition having a JNK signaling pathway molecule and insulin signaling pathway molecule. Further featured are therapeutic methods for the use of JNK signaling pathway modulators to enhance longevity.
FILED	Tuesday, December 23, 2003
APPL NO	10/746910
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 435/7.200
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07858331 — Compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer

US 07858331	D'Andrea et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Alan D. D'Andrea (Winchester, Massachusetts); Toshiyasu Taniguchi (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for the treatment of cancer. In particular, the present invention discloses inhibitors of the Fanconi anemia pathway and methods using same. Such inhibitors are useful in inhibiting DNA damage repair and can be useful, for example, in the treatment of cancer.
FILED	Wednesday, May 24, 2006
APPL NO	11/441289
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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07858332 — Chemoprevention of endometrial cancer

US 07858332	Mutter et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); University of Tromsø (Tromsø , Norway)
INVENTOR(S)	George Mutter (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Akila Viswanathan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anne Ørbo (Tromso, Norway)
ABSTRACT	The present invention is directed to intrauterine devices that release progestins or an inflammatory cytokine after placement. These devices can be used to reduce the risk of a woman developing endometrial cancer. The invention is also directed to therapeutic methods in which a sample of uterine cells obtained from a woman is assayed to determine the extent to which PTEN null clones (latent endometrial precancers) are present. In cases where the number of such null clones is high, the woman is administered an intrauterine device that releases either a progestin or an inflammatory cytokine.
FILED	Monday, January 22, 2007
APPL NO	11/655895
ART UNIT	1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230
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07858349 — Anti-cancer compounds

US 07858349	Stewart et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	John M. Stewart (Denver, Colorado); Daniel C. F. Chan (Denver, Colorado); Lajos Gera (Denver, Colorado); Paul A. Bunn, Jr. (Evergreen, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides bradykinin antagonists and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof having anti-cancer activity. These anti-cancer compounds are particularly useful for inhibiting the growth of lung and prostate cancers.
FILED	Wednesday, September 17, 2008
APPL NO	12/212604
ART UNIT	1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/106
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07858367 — Viral vectors and methods for producing and using the same

US 07858367	Amalfitano et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Andrea Amalfitano (Durham, North Carolina); Dwight D. Koeberl (Durham, North Carolina); Baodong Sun (Morrisville, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A recombinant hybrid virus which includes: (a) a deleted adenovirus vector genome having the adenovirus 5′ and 3′ cis-elements for viral replication and encapsidation and a deletion in an adenovirus genomic region selected from the polymerase region and/or the preterminal protein region, wherein the deletion essentially prevents the expression of a functional polymerase and/or preterminal protein from the deleted region and the hybrid virus does not otherwise express a functional polymerase protein; and (b) a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector genome flanked by the adenovirus vector genome sequences of (a), wherein the recombinant AAV vector genome includes an AAV packaging sequence and a heterologous nucleic acid sequence, wherein the heterologous nucleic acid sequence is flanked by 5′ and 3′ AAV inverted terminal repeats.
FILED	Wednesday, April 30, 2003
APPL NO	10/511980
ART UNIT	1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100
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07858379 — Apparatus and method for determining the concentration of iodine-containing organic compounds in an aqueous solution

US 07858379	Vaidya
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Bikas Vaidya (College Station, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method for determining the amount of a known iodine-containing organic compound in an aqueous solution. The method comprises electrochemically reducing the known iodine-containing organic compound in an aqueous medium to release iodide anions, chemically oxidizing the iodide anions to produce molecular iodine, and measuring the amount of molecular iodine. The known iodine-containing organic compound is preferably an aryl iodide, such as Iothalamate. Other preferred iodine-containing organic compounds include various glomerular filtration rate (GFR) marker compounds in plasma or urine samples, as useful in the measurement of GFR for an animal. The electrochemical reduction of the known iodine-containing organic compound is preferably performed in an electrochemical cell including a working electrode separated from a counter electrode by a cation exchange membrane. The working electrode most preferably includes bismuth and the counter electrode most preferably includes platinum.
FILED	Tuesday, June 03, 2008
APPL NO	12/132265
ART UNIT	1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/125
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07858396 — Lateral flow assay device with multiple equidistant capture zones

US 07858396	Corstjens et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Orasure Technologies, Inc. (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul L.A.M. Corstjens (Leiderdorp, Netherlands); Keith Kardos (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania); R. Sam Niedbala (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Hans J. Tanke (Leiden, Netherlands); Michel Zuiderwijk (Alphen, Netherlands); Hans H. Feindt (Catonsville, Maryland); Vijay K. Mokkapati (Macungie, Pennsylvania); Jess Aaron Kimball (Portland, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A lateral flow test strip for the analysis of a sample featuring numerous capture zones arranged in an array such that each capture zone is substantially equidistant from the sample containing area. The sample does not pass through another capture zone to reach any one of the other capture zones. The capture zones are preferably arranged in a linear array perpendicular to the flow of the sample through the lateral flow test strip. The lateral flow test strip allows for an increased number of simultaneous analyses of numerous analytes from one sample to occur on one lateral flow test strip.
FILED	Tuesday, October 31, 2006
APPL NO	11/589943
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/514
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07858578 — Methods of inducing neuronal growth by a Fucose-α(1-2) galactose (fuc-α(1-2) gal) moiety and a lectin

US 07858578	Kalovidouris et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Stacey Kalovidouris (Houston, Texas); Cristal I. Gama (Los Angeles, California); Linda C. Hsieh-Wilson (San Marino, California)
ABSTRACT	Fucose galactose carbohydrates have been shown to induce neuronal outgrowth. The invention includes methods of inducing neuronal outgrowth using carbohydrates, assemblies, and polymers bearing fucose-galactose moieties, as well as associated proteins. Cell growth can be stimulated in cells in culture or in cells within an animal or patient. Growth stimulation has application to understanding and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including, for example, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis and conditions such as stroke, brain injury and spinal cord injury. Such compounds, polymers, and assemblies also can be used to increase neural stem or progenitor cells in culture or in an animal, and to enervate engineered tissue.
FILED	Wednesday, December 07, 2005
APPL NO	11/297165
ART UNIT	1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2
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07858585 — Hydrogels and uses thereof

US 07858585	Ozbas et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware)
INVENTOR(S)	Bulent Ozbas (North Bergen, New Jersey); Juliana Kretsinger (Martinsville, Indiana); Lisa Ann Butterick (Wilmington, Delaware); Karthikan Rajagopal (Wilmington, Germany); Darrin J. Pochan (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Joel P. Schneider (Newark, Delaware)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides novel hydrogels and methods of making and using such hydrogels. The present invention provides hydrogels that may be formed by the self-assembly of peptides in solution. Such self-assembly may be brought about by a change in one or more characteristics of the solution. Characteristics of the solution that may be changed include pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions. In addition, hydrogels of the invention may be disassembled by changing one or more characteristic of the hydrogel such as pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions.
FILED	Tuesday, November 14, 2006
APPL NO	11/598763
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13
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07858591 — RNA aptamers and methods for identifying the same

US 07858591	Sullenger et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Duke University (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Bruce A. Sullenger (Durham, North Carolina); Christopher P. Rusconi (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	RNA aptamers and methods for identifying the same are disclosed. The RNA aptamers selectively bind coagulation factors, E2F family members, Ang1 or Ang2, and therapeutic and other uses for the RNA aptamers are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, October 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/925651
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.R00
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07858592 — Interfering RNAs against the promoter region of P53

US 07858592	Shames et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	David S. Shames (Dallas, Texas); David R. Corey (Dallas, Texas); Rachel S. Greer (Dallas, Texas); John D. Minna (Dallas, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to the inhibition of p53 transcription by interfering with the activity of a p53 promoter using inhibitory double-stranded RNAs. Use of these inhibitory RNAs in the treatment of cancers also is disclosed.
FILED	Friday, February 22, 2008
APPL NO	12/035982
ART UNIT	1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44
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07858679 — Polymeric compositions and related methods of use

US 07858679	Messersmith et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Xiaowu Fan (Evanston, Illinois); Lijun Lin (Stafford, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Methods for surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization, which can utilize a catecholic alkyl halide initiator.
FILED	Monday, July 11, 2005
APPL NO	11/179218
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/17
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07858741 — Stabilization of the collagen triple helix by O-methylation of hydroxyproline residues

US 07858741	Raines et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Frank W. Kotch (Monona, Wisconsin)
ABSTRACT	This invention relates to a collagen polypeptide comprising a tripeptide motif having the formula (ProYaaGly)_n, where Yaa is an O-methylated amino acid residue and “n” is the number of motif repeats. Preferred O-methylated amino acid residues at the Yaa position include (2S,4R)-4-methoxyproline. Other suitable amino acid residues at that position include O-mono or O-di-halogenated methylproline. Also, disclosed is a method of making a synthetic or a semi-synthetic collagen polypeptide molecule having increased stability relative to natural collagen. The strengthened collagen molecules are suitable for use in biomaterials for the medical field or in leather-related products prepared by the tanning industry.
FILED	Friday, February 06, 2009
APPL NO	12/367374
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 530/331
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07858742 — Lymphoma associated molecules and uses therefor

US 07858742	Shipp et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Margaret Shipp (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Ricardo Aguiar (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Yoshi Yakushijin (Matsuyama, Japan)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated BAL nucleic acid molecules, which are differentially expressed in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing BAL nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and nonhuman transgenic animals in which a BAL gene has been introduced or disrupted. The invention still further provides isolated BAL proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-BAL antibodies. Diagnostic methods using compositions of the invention are also provided.
FILED	Monday, August 16, 2004
APPL NO	10/918877
ART UNIT	1648 — 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
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07858745 — Use of specifically engineered enzymes to enhance the efficacy of prodrugs

US 07858745	Lavie et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Arnon Lavie (Chicago, Illinois); Manfred Konrad (Goettingen, Germany); Farhad Ravandi (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides methods for enhancing efficiency of prodrugs by specifically engineered enzymes with enhanced activity towards nucleoside analogs used in cancer chemotherapy, and delivering the enzymes to specific target cells in a patient. The invention also provides modified deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) mutants with such enhanced activity. Furthermore, the invention provides antibody-conjugated enzymes that can be specifically delivered to leukemic blast cells in vivo or ex vivo.
FILED	Friday, June 08, 2007
APPL NO	11/760399
ART UNIT	1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350
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07858756 — Monoclonal antibodies that selectively recognize methamphetamine and methamphetamine like compounds

US 07858756	Owens et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas)
INVENTOR(S)	S. Michael Owens (Little Rock, Arkansas); Melinda Gunnell (Conway, Arkansas); Yingni Chi (Little Rock, Arkansas); F. Ivy Carroll (Durham, North Carolina); Ralph Henry (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Eric Peterson (Little Rock, Arkansas)
ABSTRACT	The invention generally relates to monoclonal antibodies that recognize at least one compound from the group consisting of (+) methamphetamine, (+) amphetamine, and (+) 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine ((+) MDMA). Generally speaking, the monoclonal antibodies do not recognize (−) methamphetamine, (−) amphetamine, or (−) MDMA.
FILED	Friday, June 15, 2007
APPL NO	11/763948
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 530/388.100
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07858784 — Ligands for transition-metal-catalyzed cross-couplings, and methods of use thereof

US 07858784	Buchwald et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen L. Buchwald (Newton, Massachusetts); Brett P. Fors (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David S. Surry (Boston, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Ligands for transition metals are disclosed herein, which may be used in various transition-metal-catalyzed carbon-heteroatom and carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. The disclosed methods provide improvements in many features of the transition-metal-catalyzed reactions, including the range of suitable substrates, number of catalyst turnovers, reaction conditions, and efficiency. For example, improvements have been realized in transition-metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions.
FILED	Friday, December 12, 2008
APPL NO	12/334083
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 544/242
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07858825 — Acid and base stable diphenylmethanol derivatives and methods of use

US 07858825	Kurosu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Michio Kurosu (Windsor, Colorado); Dean Crick (Fort Collins, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	The invention provides compounds that are useful as linkers for solid phase synthesis and as protecting groups, and methods for producing and using the same.
FILED	Friday, February 15, 2008
APPL NO	12/031833
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Organic compounds 564/315
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07858925 — Calibration method and system for PET scanners

US 07858925	Kinahan et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. (LBRI) at Frederick, MD
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Washington (Seattle, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Paul E. Kinahan (Seattle, Washington); Keith C. Allberg (Weare, New Hampshire); Robert K. Doot (Seattle, Washington); Catherine M. Lockhart (Greenbank, Washington); Wendy McDougald (Mercer Island, Washington)
ABSTRACT	A method, system and kit for calibrating a PET scanner is disclosed. A first aliquot (10) containing a quantity of a radionuclide dispersed in a solid matrix material is provided, wherein the first aliquot is sized and configured to be received for measurement by a conventional dose calibrator. A second aliquot (200) containing a quantity of the radionuclide dispersed in the solid matrix material is sized configured to be scanned in a PET scanner. The radionuclide/matrix materials in the first and second aliquots are obtained from the same batch of material, such that the two quantities have the same radioactivity density, or are obtained from different cross-calibrated batches of material. In a method, the first aliquot is placed in a does calibrator (36) and the radioactivity is measured. The second aliquot is scanned in the PET scanner (190) and the intensity of the image is correlated with the known radioactivity measured by the dose calibrator and used to calibrate the PET scanner.
FILED	Tuesday, May 26, 2009
APPL NO	12/472285
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/252.100
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07858928 — Nanostructured surfaces as a dual ionization LDI-DESI platform for increased peptide coverage in proteomic analysis

US 07858928	Knapp
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel R. Knapp (Charleston, South Carolina)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the invention include methods and devices for the analysis of proteins utilizing a gold coated nanoporous alumina surface for dual ionization mode mass spectrometric analysis using desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) and laser desorption ionization (LDI). Combined use of DESI and LDI gives increased sequence coverage in peptide mixture analysis from a single sample preparation.
FILED	Thursday, September 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/858859
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/282
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07860210 — Data normalization in inverse geometry computed tomography system

US 07860210	Pelc et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Norbert J. Pelc (Los Altos, California); Jongduk Baek (Menlo Park, California)
ABSTRACT	A method for imaging an object in a computed tomography (CT) system with a plurality of sources comprising a first source and a second source, wherein the plurality of sources together with a detector array are mounted on a rotatable gantry, and wherein an intensity of the second source has unknown fluctuations is provided. Projection data is collected using the first source in a first gantry position. Projection data is collected using the second source in a second gantry position, wherein projection data from the first source in the first gantry position substantially overlaps projection data from the second source in the second gantry position. Data from the first source at the first gantry position is used to correct for source fluctuations of the second source at the second gantry position.
FILED	Tuesday, November 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/273223
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/9
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07860333 — Systems and methods for deblurring data corrupted by shift variant blurring

US 07860333	Zeng
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Gengsheng Lawrence Zeng (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides methods, systems and machine readable medium including machine readable code for deblurring data corrupted by shift variant blurring. A first version of data having shift variant blurring characterized by a first shift variant point spread function is provided. A target shift invariant point spread function is selected. A second shift variant point spread function is derived wherein a combination of the first and second shift variant point spread functions generates the target shift invariant point spread function. The second shift variant point spread function is applied to the first version of the data thereby generating a second version of the data having shift invariant blurring characterized by the target shift invariant point spread function. A linear shift invariant filter is applied to the second version of the data thereby generating a deblurred version of the data.
FILED	Tuesday, January 09, 2007
APPL NO	11/621555
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/260
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Department of Energy (DOE)

07856769 — Rack assembly for mounting solar modules

US 07856769	Plaisted et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PVT Solar, Inc. (Berkeley, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Joshua Reed Plaisted (Oakland, California); Brian West (San Francisco, California)
ABSTRACT	A rack assembly is provided for mounting solar modules over an underlying body. The rack assembly may include a plurality of rail structures that are arrangeable over the underlying body to form an overall perimeter for the rack assembly. One or more retention structures may be provided with the plurality of rail structures, where each retention structure is configured to support one or more solar modules at a given height above the underlying body. At least some of the plurality of rail structures are adapted to enable individual rail structures o be sealed over the underlying body so as to constrain air flow underneath the solar modules. Additionally, at least one of (i) one or more of the rail structures, or (ii) the one or more retention structures are adjustable so as to adapt the rack assembly to accommodate solar modules of varying forms or dimensions.
FILED	Friday, January 13, 2006
APPL NO	11/332000
ART UNIT	3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
CURRENT CPC	Static structures 052/173.300
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07856949 — Heat pipes and use of heat pipes in furnace exhaust

US 07856949	Polcyn
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	PPG Industries Ohio, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Adam D. Polcyn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
ABSTRACT	An array of a plurality of heat pipe are mounted in spaced relationship to one another with the hot end of the heat pipes in a heated environment, e.g. the exhaust flue of a furnace, and the cold end outside the furnace. Heat conversion equipment is connected to the cold end of the heat pipes.
FILED	Tuesday, December 18, 2007
APPL NO	11/958574
ART UNIT	3749 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
CURRENT CPC	Liquid heaters and vaporizers 122/511
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07857193 — Method of forming and assembly of parts

US 07857193	Ripley
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	A method of assembling two or more parts together that may be metal, ceramic, metal and ceramic parts, or parts that have different CTE. Individual parts are formed and sintered from particles that leave a network of interconnecting porosity in each sintered part. The separate parts are assembled together and then a fill material is infiltrated into the assembled, sintered parts using a method such as capillary action, gravity, and/or pressure. The assembly is then cured to yield a bonded and fully or near-fully dense part that has the desired physical and mechanical properties for the part's intended purpose. Structural strength may be added to the parts by the inclusion of fibrous materials.
FILED	Wednesday, November 23, 2005
APPL NO	11/287558
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Metal fusion bonding 228/122.100
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07857993 — Composite scintillators for detection of ionizing radiation

US 07857993	Dai et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); BWXT Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Andrew Curtis Stephan (Knoxville, Tennessee); Suree S. Brown (Knoxville, Tennessee); Steven A. Wallace (Knoxville, Tennessee); Adam J. Rondinone (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Applicant's present invention is a composite scintillator having enhanced transparency for detecting ionizing radiation comprising a material having optical transparency wherein said material comprises nano-sized objects having a size in at least one dimension that is less than the wavelength of light emitted by the composite scintillator wherein the composite scintillator is designed to have selected properties suitable for a particular application.
FILED	Tuesday, September 14, 2004
APPL NO	10/940054
ART UNIT	1796 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/301.170
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07857994 — Green emitting phosphors and blends thereof

US 07857994	Setlur et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	GE Lighting Solutions, LLC (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Anant Achyut Setlur (Niskayuna, New York); Oltea Puica Siclovan (Rexford, New York); Prasanth Kumar Nammalwar (Bangalore, India); Ramesh Rao Sathyanarayan (Bangalore, India); Digamber G. Porob (Goa, India); Ramachandran Gopi Chandran (Bangalore, India); William Jordan Heward (Saratoga Springs, New York); Emil Vergilov Radkov (Euclid, Ohio); Linda Jane Valyou Briel (Niskayuna, New York)
ABSTRACT	Phosphor compositions, blends thereof and light emitting devices including white light emitting LED based devices, and backlights, based on such phosphor compositions. The devices include a light source and a phosphor material as described. Also disclosed are phosphor blends including such a phosphor and devices made therefrom.
FILED	Wednesday, May 30, 2007
APPL NO	11/755495
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Compositions 252/301.4F0
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07858069 — Enhancement of alkylation catalysts for improved supercritical fluid regeneration

US 07858069	Ginosar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
INVENTOR(S)	Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lucia M. Petkovic (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	A method of modifying an alkylation catalyst to reduce the formation of condensed hydrocarbon species thereon. The method comprises providing an alkylation catalyst comprising a plurality of active sites. The plurality of active sites on the alkylation catalyst may include a plurality of weakly acidic active sites, intermediate acidity active sites, and strongly acidic active sites. A base is adsorbed to a portion of the plurality of active sites, such as the strongly acidic active sites, selectively poisoning the strongly acidic active sites. A method of modifying the alkylation catalyst by providing an alkylation catalyst comprising a pore size distribution that sterically constrains formation of the condensed hydrocarbon species on the alkylation catalyst or by synthesizing the alkylation catalyst to comprise a decreased number of strongly acidic active sites is also disclosed, as is a method of improving a regeneration efficiency of the alkylation catalyst.
FILED	Tuesday, July 07, 2009
APPL NO	12/498937
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/714
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07858214 — Method and apparatus for light internal reforming in a solid oxide fuel cell system

US 07858214	Kelly et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan)
INVENTOR(S)	Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Bernhard Fischer (Rochester, New York)
ABSTRACT	In an SOFC stack system, wherein a CPOx reformer supplies reformate to the stack, a portion of the anode tail gas is recycled directly into the anode inlet of the stack, such that the fuel reaching the anodes is a mixture of fresh reformate and recycled anode tail gas and is present at a sufficiently high temperature that endothermic reforming of residual hydrocarbons from the CPOx reformer occurs within the stack. Preferably, an amount of secondary non-reformed fuel is also added to optimize the fuel mixture presented for internal reforming. The anode tail gas is hot, at the stack temperature of 750-800° C., which allows for the mixture of anode tail gas and secondary fuel to be mixed and reacted in a clean-up catalyst to react higher hydrocarbons in the secondary fuel, without additional oxygen, prior to being mixed with reformate and sent to the stack.
FILED	Wednesday, September 21, 2005
APPL NO	11/231703
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/13
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07858243 — Influential fuel cell systems including effective cathodes and use with remediation efforts

US 07858243	Jin et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming)
INVENTOR(S)	Song Jin (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jeffrey M. Morris (Lakewood, Colorado); Paul Fallgren (Laramie, Wyoming)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments may include efficient fuel cell systems including an anode, a cathode, a lead-containing cathode catalyst, at least one proton exchange connector, and perhaps even an external circuit between the anode and the cathode. Other embodiments may include enhanced degradation of contaminants in environmental media such as perhaps petroleum hydrocarbon in groundwater with microbial fuel cells and the like.
FILED	Monday, March 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/054185
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/401
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07858353 — Thermophilic and thermoacidophilic biopolymer-degrading genes and enzymes from alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius and related organisms, methods

US 07858353	Thompson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
INVENTOR(S)	David N. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William A. Apel (Jackson, Wyoming); Vicki S. Thompson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David W. Reed (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jeffrey A. Lacey (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Emily D. Henriksen (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods of at least partially degrading, cleaving, or removing polysaccharides, lignocellulose, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, chitin, polyhydroxybutyrate, heteroxylans, glycosides, xylan-, glucan-, galactan, or mannan-decorating groups using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius.
FILED	Thursday, January 29, 2009
APPL NO	12/322359
ART UNIT	1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209
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07858385 — Method for detecting binding events using micro-X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

US 07858385	Warner et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); George J. Havrilla (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Grace Mann (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong)
ABSTRACT	Method for detecting binding events using micro-X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Receptors are exposed to at least one potential binder and arrayed on a substrate support. Each member of the array is exposed to X-ray radiation. The magnitude of a detectable X-ray fluorescence signal for at least one element can be used to determine whether a binding event between a binder and a receptor has occurred, and can provide information related to the extent of binding between the binder and receptor.
FILED	Wednesday, May 16, 2001
APPL NO	09/859701
ART UNIT	1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172
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07858667 — Alcohol synthesis from CO or CO₂

US 07858667	Hu et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Jianli Hu (Kennewick, Washington); Robert A. Dagle (Richland, Washington); Jamelyn D. Holladay (Kennewick, Washington); Chunshe Cao (Houston, Texas); Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); James F. White (Richland, Washington); Douglas C. Elliott (Richland, Washington); Don J. Stevens (Richland, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Methods for producing alcohols from CO or CO₂and H₂utilizing a palladium-zinc on alumina catalyst are described. Methods of synthesizing alcohols over various catalysts in microchannels are also described. Ethanol, higher alcohols, and other C₂₊ oxygenates can produced utilizing Rh—Mn or a Fisher-Tropsch catalyst.
FILED	Friday, December 15, 2006
APPL NO	11/611160
ART UNIT	1621 — Organic Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/715
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07858876 — Graphite-based photovoltaic cells

US 07858876	Lagally et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah)
INVENTOR(S)	Max Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin); Feng Liu (Salt Lake City, Utah)
ABSTRACT	The present invention uses lithographically patterned graphite stacks as the basic building elements of an efficient and economical photovoltaic cell. The basic design of the graphite-based photovoltaic cells includes a plurality of spatially separated graphite stacks, each comprising a plurality of vertically stacked, semiconducting graphene sheets (carbon nanoribbons) bridging electrically conductive contacts.
FILED	Tuesday, March 13, 2007
APPL NO	11/685439
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255
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07858944 — Dedicated mobile high resolution prostate PET imager with an insertable transrectal probe

US 07858944	Majewski et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) at Newport News, VA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stanislaw Majewski (Yorktown, Virginia); James Proffitt (Newport News, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A dedicated mobile PET imaging system to image the prostate and surrounding organs. The imaging system includes an outside high resolution PET imager placed close to the patient's torso and an insertable and compact transrectal probe that is placed in close proximity to the prostate and operates in conjunction with the outside imager. The two detector systems are spatially co-registered to each other. The outside imager is mounted on an open rotating gantry to provide torso-wide 3D images of the prostate and surrounding tissue and organs. The insertable probe provides closer imaging, high sensitivity, and very high resolution predominately 2D view of the prostate and immediate surroundings. The probe is operated in conjunction with the outside imager and a fast data acquisition system to provide very high resolution reconstruction of the prostate and surrounding tissue and organs.
FILED	Friday, January 23, 2009
APPL NO	12/321666
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/363.30
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07858949 — Multi-anode ionization chamber

US 07858949	Bolotnikov et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (BSA) at Upton, NY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Aleksey E. Bolotnikov (South Setauket, New York); Graham Smith (Port Jefferson, New York); George J. Mahler (Rocky Point, New York); Peter E. Vanier (Setauket, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention includes a high-energy detector having a cathode chamber, a support member, and anode segments. The cathode chamber extends along a longitudinal axis. The support member is fixed within the cathode chamber and extends from the first end of the cathode chamber to the second end of the cathode chamber. The anode segments are supported by the support member and are spaced along the longitudinal surface of the support member. The anode segments are configured to generate at least a first electrical signal in response to electrons impinging thereon.
FILED	Friday, July 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/175869
ART UNIT	2884 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/385.100
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07858950 — Electrostatic dispersion lenses and ion beam dispersion methods

US 07858950	Dahl et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (BEA) at Idaho Falls, ID
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
INVENTOR(S)	David A. Dahl (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Anthony D. Appelhans (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
ABSTRACT	An EDL includes a case surface and at least one electrode surface. The EDL is configured to receive through the EDL a plurality of ion beams, to generate an electrostatic field between the one electrode surface and either the case surface or another electrode surface, and to increase the separation between the beams using the field. Other than an optional mid-plane intended to contain trajectories of the beams, the electrode surface or surfaces do not exhibit a plane of symmetry through which any beam received through the EDL must pass. In addition or in the alternative, the one electrode surface and either the case surface or the other electrode surface have geometries configured to shape the field to exhibit a less abrupt entrance and/or exit field transition in comparison to another electrostatic field shaped by two nested, one-quarter section, right cylindrical electrode surfaces with a constant gap width.
FILED	Tuesday, May 29, 2007
APPL NO	11/754898
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/396.R00
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07858951 — Skew chicane based betatron eigenmode exchange module

US 07858951	Douglas
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) at Newport News, VA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	David Douglas (Yorktown, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	A skewed chicane eigenmode exchange module (SCEEM) that combines in a single beamline segment the separate functionalities of a skew quad eigenmode exchange module and a magnetic chicane. This module allows the exchange of independent betatron eigenmodes, alters electron beam orbit geometry, and provides longitudinal parameter control with dispersion management in a single beamline segment with stable betatron behavior. It thus reduces the spatial requirements for multiple beam dynamic functions, reduces required component counts and thus reduces costs, and allows the use of more compact accelerator configurations than prior art design methods.
FILED	Friday, July 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/880222
ART UNIT	2821 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/396.ML0
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07859199 — Magnetic chicane for terahertz management

US 07859199	Benson et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) at Newport News, VA
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	A Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen Benson (Yorktown, Virginia); George Herman Biallas (Yorktown, Virginia); David Douglas (Yorktown, Virginia); Kevin Carl Jordan (Newport News, Virginia); George R. Neil (Williamsburg, Virginia); Michele D. Shinn (Newport News, Virginia); Gwyn P. Willams (Yorktown, Virginia)
ABSTRACT	The introduction of a magnetic electron beam orbit chicane between the wiggler and the downstream initial bending dipole in an energy recovering Linac alleviates the effects of radiation propagated from the downstream bending dipole that tend to distort the proximate downstream mirror of the optical cavity resonator.
FILED	Friday, July 20, 2007
APPL NO	11/880226
ART UNIT	2821 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505
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07859350 — Microfabricated ion frequency standard

US 07859350	Schwindt et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (NTESS) at Albuquerque, NM
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
INVENTOR(S)	Peter Schwindt (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Grant Biedermann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Matthew G. Blain (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel L. Stick (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Darwin K. Serkland (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roy H. Olsson, III (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
ABSTRACT	A microfabricated ion frequency standard (i.e. an ion clock) is disclosed with a permanently-sealed vacuum package containing a source of ytterbium (Yb) ions and an octupole ion trap. The source of Yb ions is a micro-hotplate which generates Yb atoms which are then ionized by a ultraviolet light-emitting diode or a field-emission electron source. The octupole ion trap, which confines the Yb ions, is formed from suspended electrodes on a number of stacked-up substrates. A microwave source excites a ground-state transition frequency of the Yb ions, with a frequency-doubled vertical-external-cavity laser (VECSEL) then exciting the Yb ions up to an excited state to produce fluorescent light which is used to tune the microwave source to the ground-state transition frequency, with the microwave source providing a precise frequency output for the ion clock.
FILED	Tuesday, April 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/431564
ART UNIT	2817 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Oscillators 331/94.100
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07859464 — Robust low-frequency spread-spectrum navigation system

US 07859464	Smith et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (DOE-SC) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by UT-Battelle, LLC (UTB) at Oak Ridge, TN
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Stephen F. Smith (Loudon, Tennessee); James A. Moore (Powell, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; wherein each of the plurality of transmitters comprises a packet generator; and wherein the plurality of transmitters are locked to a common timing reference.
FILED	Friday, October 30, 2009
APPL NO	12/609856
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 342/453
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07859754 — Wideband dichroic-filter design for LED-phosphor beam-combining

US 07859754	Falicoff
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (Altadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Waqidi Falicoff (Stevenson Ranch, California)
ABSTRACT	A general method is disclosed of designing two-component dichroic short-pass filters operable for incidence angle distributions over the 0-30° range, and specific preferred embodiments are listed. The method is based on computer optimization algorithms for an N-layer design, specifically the N-dimensional conjugate-gradient minimization of a merit function based on difference from a target transmission spectrum, as well as subsequent cycles of needle synthesis for increasing N. A key feature of the method is the initial filter design, upon which the algorithm proceeds to iterate successive design candidates with smaller merit functions. This initial design, with high-index material H and low-index L, is (0.75 H, 0.5 L, 0.75 H)^m, denoting m (20-30) repetitions of a three-layer motif, giving rise to a filter with N=2 m+1.
FILED	Friday, November 02, 2007
APPL NO	11/982492
ART UNIT	2872 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optical: Systems and elements 359/588
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07859846 — Low thermal resistance power module assembly

US 07859846	Hassani et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) Operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (ASE) at Golden, CO
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado)
INVENTOR(S)	Vahab Hassani (Denver, Colorado); Andreas Vlahinos (Castle Rock, Colorado); Desikan Bharathan (Arvada, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A power module assembly (400) with low thermal resistance and enhanced heat dissipation to a cooling medium. The assembly includes a heat sink or spreader plate (410) with passageways or openings (414) for coolant that extend through the plate from a lower surface (411) to an upper surface (412). A circuit substrate (420) is provided and positioned on the spreader plate (410) to cover the coolant passageways. The circuit substrate (420) includes a bonding layer (422) configured to extend about the periphery of each of the coolant passageways and is made up of a substantially nonporous material. The bonding layer (422) may be solder material which bonds to the upper surface (412) of the plate to provide a continuous seal around the upper edge of each opening (414) in the plate. The assembly includes power modules (430) mounted on the circuit substrate (420) on a surface opposite the bonding layer (422). The power modules (430) are positioned over or proximal to the coolant passageways.
FILED	Tuesday, October 18, 2005
APPL NO	11/569248
ART UNIT	2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/702
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07860377 — Subsurface connection methods for subsurface heaters

US 07860377	Vinegar et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Energy (DOE)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas); Ronald Marshall Bass (Houston, Texas); Dong Sub Kim (Sugar Land, Texas); Stanley Leroy Mason (Allen, Texas); George Leo Stegemeier (Houston, Texas); Thomas Joseph Keltner (Spring, Texas); Frederick Gordon Carl, Jr. (Houston, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A system for heating a subsurface formation is described. The system includes a first elongated heater in a first opening in the formation. The first elongated heater includes an exposed metal section in a portion of the first opening. The portion is below a layer of the formation to be heated. The exposed metal section is exposed to the formation. A second elongated heater is in a second opening in the formation. The second opening connects to the first opening at or near the portion of the first opening below the layer to be heated. At least a portion of an exposed metal section of the second elongated heater is electrically coupled to at least a portion of the exposed metal section of the first elongated heater in the portion of the first opening below the layer to be heated.
FILED	Friday, April 21, 2006
APPL NO	11/409559
ART UNIT	3742 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Electric resistance heating devices 392/301
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

07857369 — Biologically inspired gripping device

US 07857369	Chiel et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience (IBN)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
INVENTOR(S)	Hillel Judah Chiel (University Heights, Ohio); Randall Dean Beer (South Enclid, Ohio); Elizabeth Victoria Mangan (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Roger D. Quinn (Akron, Ohio); Gregory Patrick Sutton (Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	A flexible gripping device including a plurality of pneumatic actuator rings. A grasper element is disposed within the plurality of pneumatic actuator rings and adapted to move back and forth within the actuator rings.
FILED	Thursday, June 30, 2005
APPL NO	11/172526
ART UNIT	3652 — Material and Article Handling
CURRENT CPC	Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/86.400
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07857959 — Methods of fabricating nanowires and electrodes having nanogaps

US 07857959	Fourkas et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	John T. Fourkas (Bethesda, Maryland); Michael J. Naughton (Norwood, Massachusetts); Richard A. Farrer (Pueblo, Colorado)
ABSTRACT	A cost-effective and highly reproducible method of fabricating nanowires, and small gaps or spacings in nanowires is disclosed. The nanogaps bridge an important size regime between 1 nm and 100 nm. The nanogaps can be selectively predetermined to be as small as 1.0 nm, or larger than 1000 nm. These electrode gaps can be useful in preparing molecular electronic devices that involve making electrical contact to individual molecules, such as biomolecules, or small clusters of molecules. Microelectrodes having nanogaps for electrical and magnetic applications formed by the method, and as well as biosensors and their use in detecting a biological species, such as DNA, are also disclosed.
FILED	Friday, May 18, 2007
APPL NO	11/804464
ART UNIT	1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/118
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07858156 — Surface buckling method and articles formed thereby

US 07858156	Crosby et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Division of Materials Research (DMR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Alfred J. Crosby (Amherst, Massachusetts); Edwin P. Chan (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A method for generating spontaneously aligned surface wrinkles utilizes control of local moduli-mismatch and osmotic pressure. The method includes modifying the surface of an elastomeric layer to form a superlayer that is stiffer and/or less absorbent than the elastomeric layer. The elastomeric layer is then swollen with a polymerizable monomer, which causes buckling of the superlayer. The monomer is then polymerized, dimensionally stabilizing the surface buckling. The budded surfaces generated by the method are useful in a wide variety of end-use applications, including microlenses, microlens arrays, compound microlenses, diffraction gratings, photonic crystals, smart adhesives, mechanical strain sensors, microfluidic devices, and cell culture surfaces.
FILED	Monday, November 26, 2007
APPL NO	11/944895
ART UNIT	1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Coating processes 427/532
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07858181 — Growth of single crystal nanowires

US 07858181	Hanrath et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Chemical and Transport Systems (CTS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Brian A. Korgel (Austin, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Tobias Hanrath (Austin, Texas); Xianmao Lu (Austin, Texas); Keith Johnston (Austin, Texas); Brian Korgel (Austin, Texas)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides nanowires which are substantially straight and substantially free of nanoparticles and methods for making the same The nanowires can be made by seeded approaches, wherein nanocrystals bound to a substrate are used to promote growth of the nanowire. Nanocrystals in solution may also be used to make the nanowires of the present invention. Supercritical fluid reaction conditions can be used in a continuous or semi-batch process.
FILED	Thursday, December 20, 2007
APPL NO	12/004276
ART UNIT	1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material
CURRENT CPC	Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/364
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07858737 — Heterogeneous foldamers containing α, β, and/or γ-amino acids

US 07858737	Gellman et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin)
INVENTOR(S)	Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Ahlke Hayen (Gothenburg, Sweden); Margaret A. Schmitt (Madison, Wisconsin); Felix N. Ngassa (East Lansing, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are isolated, unnatural polypeptides containing cyclically-constrained β-amino acid residues and cyclically-constrained γ-amino acid residues. The compounds are unnatural and because they contain rotationally constrained residues that are not amenable to enzymatic degradation, the compounds are useful to probe protein-protein and other large molecule interactions.
FILED	Tuesday, August 26, 2003
APPL NO	10/648089
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 530/300
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07858930 — Ion-trapping devices providing shaped radial electric field

US 07858930	Kaiser et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Washington State University (Pullman, Washington)
INVENTOR(S)	Nathan K. Kaiser (Tallahassee, Florida); James E. Bruce (Seattle, Washington)
ABSTRACT	Disclosed are ion cyclotron resonance (ICR) cells and other ion-trapping cells with plural groups of multiple trapping electrodes for shaping (e.g., flattening) the radial electric field within the ICR cell. Also disclosed are methods for controlling the electric field to diminish effects of de-phasing. The diminished effects are achieved by decreasing space-charge contributions by increasing the length of the ion-oscillation path along the z-axis of the ICR cell. The methods and devices enhance the time-domain signal of a Fourier-transform ion-cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FTICR-MS) and provide enhanced resolution and accuracy of mass measurements.
FILED	Friday, December 12, 2008
APPL NO	12/334259
ART UNIT	2881 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/282
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07858975 — Organic field effect transistor systems and methods

US 07858975	Kymissis
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Trustees Of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Ioannis Kymissis (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	An OFET includes a ferroelectric gate dielectric permitting electrical reprogramming, such as to implement an electrically re-programmable array logic (PAL) or a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Methods of constructing such an OFET, PAL, or FPGA, can including roll printing. An OFET on a piezoelectric substrate provides local amplification in an active matrix. Methods of constructing such an OFET on a piezoelectric substrate can including rolling printing. Techniques permit direct measurement of trap distribution, such as across the channel length of an OFET device. Techniques permit direct measurement of the size and location of an electrically active grain structure in OFET devices. Techniques permit confirmation of the mechanism of operation of a number of OFET techniques, including use of silanes or thiols, or OFET operation or aging. Techniques provide an internal circuit probe, such as for a ferroelectric gate dielectric OFET or a piezoelectric substrate OFET, for example.
FILED	Wednesday, March 12, 2008
APPL NO	12/047133
ART UNIT	2823 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/40
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07859679 — System, method and arrangement which can use spectral encoding heterodyne interferometry techniques for imaging

US 07859679	Bouma et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dvir Yelin (Brookline, Massachusetts); Seok-Hyun Yun (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Systems, arrangements and methods for obtaining three-dimensional imaging data are provided. For example, a broadband light source can provide a particular radiation. A first electro-magnetic radiation can be focused and diffracted, and then provided to at least one sample to generate a spectrally-encoded line. A second electro-magnetic radiation may be provided to a reference, which may include a double-pass rapidly-scanning optical delay, where the first and second electro-magnetic radiations can be based on the particular radiation. An interference between a third electro-magnetic radiation (associated with the first electro-magnetic radiation) and a fourth electro-magnetic radiation (associated with the second electro-magnetic radiation) can be detected. The spectrally-encoded line may be scanned over the sample in a direction approximately perpendicular to the line. Image data containing three-dimensional information can then be obtained based on the interference. The exemplary imaging methods and systems can be used in a small fiber optic or endoscopic probe.
FILED	Wednesday, May 31, 2006
APPL NO	11/445131
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479
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07859944 — Apparatus, systems and methods for enhanced multi-carrier based underwater acoustic communications

US 07859944	Zhou et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Office of Naval Research (ONR) National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Shengli Zhou (Mansfield, Connecticut); Baosheng Li (Willington, Connecticut); Peter Willett (Coventry, Connecticut); Milica Stojanovic (Boston, Massachusetts); Lee Freitag (Falmouth, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	Advantageous OFDM-based underwater acoustic (UWA) apparatus, systems and methods are provided according to the present disclosure. In general, OFDM transmissions over UWA channels encounter frequency-dependent Doppler drifts that destroy the orthogonality among OFDM subcarriers. The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods use a two-step approach to mitigate frequency-dependent Doppler drifts for zero-padded OFDM transmissions over fast-varying channels: (1) non-uniform Doppler compensation via resampling to convert a “wideband” problem into a “narrowband” problem; and (2) high-resolution uniform compensation on the residual Doppler. The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods are based on block-by-block processing and do not rely on channel dependence across OFDM blocks. Thus, the disclosed apparatus, systems and methods are advantageously applicable for fast-varying UWA channels.
FILED	Wednesday, June 18, 2008
APPL NO	12/141527
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 367/134
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07860179 — Combined frequency-time domain power adaptation for CDMA communication systems

US 07860179	Bar-Ness et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey)
INVENTOR(S)	Yeheskel Bar-Ness (Marlboro, New Jersey); Ye-Hoon Lee (Suwon, South Korea)
ABSTRACT	Practical transmission power adaptation in multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) communications is using either a frequency domain technique or a time domain technique or a combined frequency and time domain technique in response to channel variations. With frequency domain power adaptation, the transmission power is allocated over the N′ (1≦N′≦N) strongest subcarriers rather than over all possible N subcarriers, where the strongest subcarriers are understood to exhibit the highest channel gains. A substantially optimal N′ can be chosen so that the average bit error rate (BER) is minimized. In the time domain power adaptation technique, transmission power is adapted so that the desired signal strength at the receiver output is maintained at a fixed level. In the combined time and frequency domain adaptation technique, the transmission power is first allocated over the N′ (1≦N′≦N) strongest subcarriers rather than over all possible N subcarriers and then it is adapted so that the desired signal strength at the receiver output is maintained at a fixed level.
FILED	Tuesday, January 06, 2009
APPL NO	12/349219
ART UNIT	2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
CURRENT CPC	Pulse or digital communications 375/260
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07860306 — Method for editing multi-channel images

US 07860306	Mallick et al.
FUNDED BY	National Science Foundation (NSF)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Satya P. Mallick (La Jolla, California); David J. Kriegman (San Diego, California); Todd E. Zickler (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter N. Belhumeur (New York, New York)
ABSTRACT	The present invention presents a framework for separating specular and diffuse reflection components in images and videos. Each pixel of the an M-channel input image illuminated by N light sources is linearly transformed into a new color space having (M−N) channels. For an RGB image with one light source, the new color space has two color channels (U,V) that are free of specularities and a third channel (S) that contains both specular and diffuse components. When used with multiple light sources, the transformation may be used to produce a specular invariant image. A diffuse RGB image can be obtained by applying a non-linear partial differential equation to an RGB image to iteratively erode the specular component at each pixel. An optional third dimension of time may be added for processing video images. After the specular and diffuse components are separated, dichromatic editing may be used to independently process the diffuse and the specular components to add or suppress visual effects. The (U,V) channels of images can be used as input to 3-D shape estimation algorithms including shape-from-shading, photometric stereo, binocular and multinocular stereopsis, and structure-from-motion.
FILED	Friday, February 12, 2010
APPL NO	12/705554
ART UNIT	2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems
CURRENT CPC	Image analysis 382/163
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

07858238 — High voltage and high specific capacity dual intercalating electrode Li-ion batteries

US 07858238	West et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Insitute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	William C. West (South Pasadena, California); Mario Blanco (Temple City, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides high capacity and high voltage Li-ion batteries that have a carbonaceous cathode and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprising LiF salt and an anion receptor that binds the fluoride ion. The batteries can comprise dual intercalating electrode Li ion batteries. Methods of the present invention use a cathode and electrode pair, wherein each of the electrodes reversibly intercalate ions provided by a LiF salt to make a high voltage and high specific capacity dual intercalating electrode Li-ion battery. The present methods and systems provide high-capacity batteries particularly useful in powering devices where minimizing battery mass is important.
FILED	Friday, May 26, 2006
APPL NO	11/420653
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.800
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07858679 — Polymeric compositions and related methods of use

US 07858679	Messersmith et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Xiaowu Fan (Evanston, Illinois); Lijun Lin (Stafford, Texas)
ABSTRACT	Methods for surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization, which can utilize a catecholic alkyl halide initiator.
FILED	Monday, July 11, 2005
APPL NO	11/179218
ART UNIT	1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/17
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07858720 — Co-polymer films for sensors

US 07858720	Ryan et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California)
INVENTOR(S)	Margaret A. Ryan (Pasadena, California); Margie L. Homer (Pasadena, California); Shiao-Pin S. Yen (Altadena, California); Adam Kisor (Pasadena, California); April D. Jewell (Somerville, Massachusetts); Abhijit V. Shevade (Altadena, California); Kenneth S. Manatt (Tujunga, California); Charles Taylor (Claremont, California); Mario Blanco (Temple City, California); William A. Goddard (Pasadena, California)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments include a sensor comprising a co-polymer, the co-polymer comprising a first monomer and a second monomer. For some embodiments, the first monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridine, and the second monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridinium propylamine chloride. For some embodiments, the first monomer is polystyrene and the second monomer is poly-2-vinyl pyridinium propylamine chloride. For some embodiments, the first monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridine, and the second monomer is poly-4-vinyl pyridinium benzylamine chloride. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
FILED	Tuesday, June 19, 2007
APPL NO	11/820472
ART UNIT	1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
CURRENT CPC	Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/263
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07859292 — Methods and circuitry for reconfigurable SEU/SET tolerance

US 07859292	Shuler, Jr.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Robert L. Shuler, Jr. (Friendswood, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A device is disclosed in one embodiment that has multiple identical sets of programmable functional elements, programmable routing resources, and majority voters that correct errors. The voters accept a mode input for a redundancy mode and a split mode. In the redundancy mode, the programmable functional elements are identical and are programmed identically so the voters produce an output corresponding to the majority of inputs that agree. In a split mode, each voter selects a particular programmable functional element output as the output of the voter. Therefore, in the split mode, the programmable functional elements can perform different functions, operate independently, and/or be connected together to process different parts of the same problem.
FILED	Tuesday, July 14, 2009
APPL NO	12/502575
ART UNIT	2819 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/11
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07859653 — Detecting strain in birefringent materials using spectral polarimetry

US 07859653	Ragucci et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Lynntech, Inc. (College Station, Texas)
INVENTOR(S)	Anthony J. Ragucci (Bryan, Texas); Alan J. Cisar (Cypress, Texas); Michael L. Huebschman (Frisco, Texas); Harold R. Garner (Flower Mound, Texas)
ABSTRACT	A method, computer program product and system for analyzing multispectral images from a plurality of regions of birefringent material, such as a polymer film, using polarized light and a corresponding polar analyzer to identify differential strain in the birefringent material. For example, the birefringement material may be low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride, polyester, nylon, or cellophane film. Optionally, the method includes generating a real-time quantitative strain map.
FILED	Friday, August 31, 2007
APPL NO	11/848284
ART UNIT	2877 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Optics: Measuring and testing 356/33
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07860684 — Methods and systems for advanced spaceport information management

US 07860684	Fussell et al.
FUNDED BY	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois)
INVENTOR(S)	Ronald M. Fussell (Cocoa, Florida); Donald W. Ely (Titusville, Florida); Gary M. Meier (Rockledge, Florida); Paul C. Halpin (Orlando, Florida); Phillip T. Meade (Merritt Island, Florida); Craig A. Jacobson (Cocoa, Florida); Charlie Blackwell-Thompson (Merritt Island, Florida)
ABSTRACT	Advanced spaceport information management methods and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes coupling a test system to the payload and transmitting one or more test signals that emulate an anticipated condition from the test system to the payload. One or more responsive signals are received from the payload into the test system and are analyzed to determine whether one or more of the responsive signals comprises an anomalous signal. At least one of the steps of transmitting, receiving, analyzing and determining includes transmitting at least one of the test signals and the responsive signals via a communications link from a payload processing facility to a remotely located facility. In one particular embodiment, the communications link is an Internet link from a payload processing facility to a remotely located facility (e.g. a launch facility, university, etc.).
FILED	Friday, September 28, 2007
APPL NO	11/864767
ART UNIT	2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/188
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Department of Agriculture (USDA)

07858125 — Multi-component biocide composition for wood protection

US 07858125	Clausen et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Carol A. Clausen (DeForest, Wisconsin); Vina W. Yang (Verona, Wisconsin); Michael H. West (Senatobia, Mississippi); Erlene West, legal representative (Senatobia, Mississippi)
ABSTRACT	The present disclosure generally relates to a multi-component biocide composition comprising a borate component in combination with an azole component to both inhibit mold fungi, decay fungi, such as brown-rot fungi and white-rot fungi, and to resist insect infestation.
FILED	Wednesday, March 21, 2007
APPL NO	11/726359
ART UNIT	1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/659
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

07858345 — Immunogenic Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae polypeptides

US 07858345	Minion et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa); Department of Agriculture for and on Behalf of the State of New South Wales (Orange New South Wales, Australia)
INVENTOR(S)	F Chris Minion (Ames, Iowa); Steven P Djordjevic (Emu Heights, Australia)
ABSTRACT	Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae polypeptides and nucleic acids, as well as nucleic acid expression vectors and host cells containing nucleic acid vectors are provided. In addition, compositions containing M. hyopneumoniae polypeptides and nucleic acids are provided for use in methods of treating swine to prevent enzootic pneumonia. Furthermore, the invention provides diagnostic tests for the detecting of M. hyopneumoniae infection in swine herds.
FILED	Thursday, July 31, 2008
APPL NO	12/183579
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

07858893 — Sorting of agricultural process streams

US 07858893	Haff et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ronald P. Haff (Davis, California); Eric S. Jackson (Oakland, California)
ABSTRACT	The present invention relates to an apparatus for automated sorting of objects comprising a population, and for methods of sorting using same.
FILED	Wednesday, November 14, 2007
APPL NO	11/940166
ART UNIT	3653 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/577
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

07860214 — Correction of x-ray images

US 07860214	Haff
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America as represented by Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Ronald P Haff (Davis, California)
ABSTRACT	A technique to correct deficiencies in x-ray images of cylindrical or spherical objects that are a consequence of the geometry of the sample is disclosed, for both normal imaging of stationary objects with film or digital detectors and linescan imaging of moving objects. The methods described involve the use of attenuators specifically shaped to equalize the x-ray absorption across the sample, thus correcting the variation in pixel intensity caused by the varying thickness of the sample.
FILED	Thursday, June 12, 2008
APPL NO	12/138380
ART UNIT	2882 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/58
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

RE042012 — Compositions and methods for enhancing receptor-mediated cellular internalization

US RE42012	Deaver et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Agriculture (USDA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); 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	11/821512
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 424/435
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

07857082 — Methods of operating a series hybrid vehicle

US 07857082	Gray, Jr.
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	The United States of America, as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia)
INVENTOR(S)	Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan)
ABSTRACT	A method for operating a series hybrid vehicle in a manner that responds to an operator's demand for power output, while maximizing engine efficiency and minimizing disruptions in vehicle drivability, may include determining, when the operator makes a demand for power output, whether the secondary power source(s) is supplied with secondary energy stored in an energy storage device(s), direct input energy generated by an engine(s), or both, based on an amount of available secondary energy stored in a secondary storage device(s) alone, or in combination with vehicle speed. While the engine is generating secondary energy, the power efficiency level at which the engine operates may depend on the amount of available stored secondary energy alone, or in combination with vehicle speed. Further, when the engine is not generating secondary energy, the engine may be selectively turned off or idled in response to various operating conditions.
FILED	Monday, February 14, 2005
APPL NO	11/058690
ART UNIT	3618 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
CURRENT CPC	Motor vehicles 180/65.280
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07858061 — Compositions and methods for removing mercury from mercury-containing fluids

US 07858061	Varma et al.
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
APPLICANT(S)
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)	Rajender S. Varma (Cincinnati, Ohio); Yuhong Ju (Cincinnati, Ohio); Subhas Sikdar (Blue Ash, Ohio); Joo Youp Lee (Cincinnati, Ohio); Timothy C. Keener (Cincinnati, Ohio)
ABSTRACT	Oxidative sorbents are provided for adsorbing elemental or oxidized mercury from mercury-containing fluids such as flue gas from a coal-burning power utility or the like at a temperature range of about 50 to 350° C. The method of preparing and using the oxidative sorbents is also provided. The oxidative sorbent compositions include one or more silicates capable of cation exchange with a plurality of active metal cations and their counter anions. The silicates may include those selected from clays such as montmorillonite, laumonite, bentonite, Mica, vermiculite and kaolinite, and from silica gels, natural and synthetic molecular sieves, zeolites, and ashes from stoker- and pulverized coal-fired boilers. The one or more oxidative metal halides and/or sulfates may be selected from the group consisting of CuCl, CuBr, CuCl₂, CuBr₂, CuSO₄, FeCl₂, FeCl₃, FeSO₄, Fe₂(SO₄)₃, ZnCl₂, ZnBr₂, NiCl₂, and NiSO₄. The oxidative sorbents may also include activated carbon.
FILED	Thursday, December 15, 2005
APPL NO	11/300879
ART UNIT	1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/215.500
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

07858062 — Synthesis and use of nanocrystalline zeolites

US 07858062	Larsen et al.
FUNDED BY	Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa)
INVENTOR(S)	Sarah Larsen (Iowa City, Iowa); Vicki Grassian (Iowa City, Iowa); Weiguo Song (Beijing, China PRC); Gonghu Li (Evanston, Illinois)
ABSTRACT	Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for synthesizing nanocrystalline zeolites, the method comprising contacting starting products that comprise a solvent, a silicon source, a cation base, an organic template, and an aluminum source, or any combination thereof sufficient to produce a zeolite gel by hydrolysis, heating the zeolite gel sufficient to produce a first batch of zeolite crystals and a first clear solution, separating the first batch of zeolite crystals from the first clear solution, heating the first clear solution sufficient to produce a second batch of zeolite crystals and second clear solution and separating the second batch of zeolite crystals from the second clear solution. In addition, embodiments relate to a method of using nanocrystalline zeolites, the method comprising contacting a nanocrystalline zeolite with a reductant sufficient to produce a nanocrystalline zeolite with adsorbed reductant and exposing the nanocrystalline zeolite with adsorbed reductant to reactant gases sufficient to obtain reaction products and the nanocrystalline zeolite.
FILED	Tuesday, July 28, 2009
APPL NO	12/510776
ART UNIT	1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/239.200
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Commerce (DOC)

07857957 — Integrated portable biological detection system

US 07857957	Cheng et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Technology Program (NIST-ATP)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Gamida for Life B.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
INVENTOR(S)	Jing Cheng (Bejing, China PRC); Lei Wu (San Diego, California); Michael J. Heller (Encinitas, California); Edward L. Sheldon (Arcadie, California); Jonathan M. Diver (San Diego, California); James P. O'Connell (Solana Beach, California); Dan Smolko (Jamul, California); Shila Jalali (San Diego, California); David Willoughby (San Diego, California)
ABSTRACT	We have performed separation of bacterial and cancer cells from peripheral human blood in microfabricated electronic chips by dielectrophoresis. The isolated cells were examined by staining the nuclei with fluorescent dye followed by laser induced fluorescence imaging. We have also released DNA and RNA from the isolated cells electronically and detected specific marker sequences by DNA amplification followed by electronic hybridization to immobilized capture probes. Efforts towards the construction of a “laboratory-on-a-chip” system are presented which involves the selection of DNA probes, dyes, reagents and prototyping of the fully integrated portable instrument.
FILED	Monday, February 05, 2007
APPL NO	11/702417
ART UNIT	1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry
CURRENT CPC	Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/600
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

07859008 — Crystalline composition, wafer, device, and associated method

US 07859008	D'Evelyn et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Commerce (DOC) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Momentive Performance Materials Inc. (Albany, New York)
INVENTOR(S)	Mark Philip D'Evelyn (Niskayuna, New York); Dong-Sil Park (Niskayuna, New York); Steven Francis LeBoeuf (Raliegh, North Carolina); Larry Burton Rowland (Scotia, New York); Kristi Jean Narang (Vorheesville, New York); Huicong Hong (Niskayuna, New York); Stephen Daley Arthur (Glenville, New York); Peter Micah Sandvik (Clifton Park, New York)
ABSTRACT	A crystalline composition is provided that includes gallium and nitrogen. The crystalline composition may have an amount of oxygen present in a concentration of less than about 3×10¹⁸per cubic centimeter, and may be free of two-dimensional planar boundary defects in a determined volume of the crystalline composition. The volume may have at least one dimension that is about 2.75 millimeters or greater, and the volume may have a one-dimensional linear defect dislocation density of less than about 10,000 per square centimeter.
FILED	Tuesday, January 09, 2007
APPL NO	11/621556
ART UNIT	2894 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/103
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)

07858917 — Digital photon-counting geiger-mode avalanche photodiode solid-state monolithic intensity imaging focal-plane with scalable readout circuitry

US 07858917	Stern et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
INVENTOR(S)	Alvin Stern (Newton, Massachusetts); Brian F. Aull (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Bernard B. Kosicki (Acton, Massachusetts); Robert K. Reich (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts); Bradley J. Felton (Lowell, Massachusetts); David C. Shaver (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Andrew H. Loomis (Westford, Massachusetts); Douglas J. Young (Stoneham, Massachusetts)
ABSTRACT	A photon-counting Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode intensity imaging array includes an array of pixels, each having an avalanche photodiode. A pixel senses an avalanche event and stores, in response to the sensed avalanche event, a single bit digital value therein. An array of accumulators are provided such that each accumulator is associated with a pixel. A row decoder circuit addresses a pixel row within the array of pixels. A bit sensing circuit converts a precharged capacitance into a digital value during read operations.
FILED	Friday, April 30, 2004
APPL NO	10/836896
ART UNIT	2878 — Optics
CURRENT CPC	Radiant energy 250/214.R00
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

RE042007 — Vertical geometry InGaN LED

US RE42007	Doverspike et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Air Force (DAF) Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina)
INVENTOR(S)	Kathleen Marie Doverspike (Cary, North Carolina); John Adam Edmond (Durham, North Carolina); Hua-shuang Kong (Cary, North Carolina); Heidi Marie Dieringer (Cary, North Carolina); David B. Slater, Jr. (Durham, North Carolina)
ABSTRACT	A vertical geometry light emitting diode is disclosed that is capable of emitting light in the red, green, blue, violet and ultraviolet portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The light emitting diode includes a conductive silicon carbide substrate, an InGaN quantum well, a conductive buffer layer between the substrate and the quantum well, a respective undoped gallium nitride layer on each surface of the quantum well, and ohmic contacts in a vertical geometry orientation.
FILED	Thursday, April 24, 2008
APPL NO	12/108604
ART UNIT	2815 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Active solid-state devices 257/14
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

Department of Justice (DOJ)

07860661 — Least-square deconvolution (LSD): a method to resolve DNA mixtures

US 07860661	Wang et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Justice (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee)
INVENTOR(S)	Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Xue Ning (Knoxville, Tennessee); John Douglas Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Mark Rader (Knoxville, Tennessee); John Flaherty (Knoxville, Tennessee)
ABSTRACT	Least Square Deconvolution (LSD) uses quantitative allele peak data derived obtained from a sample containing the DNA of more than one contributor to resolve the best-fit genotype profile of each contributor. The resolution is based on finding the least square fit of the mass ratio coefficients at each locus to come closest to the quantitative allele peak data. Consistent top-ranked mass ratio combinations from each locus can be pooled to form at least one composite DNA profile at a subset of the available loci. The top-ranked DNA profiles can be used to check against the profile of a suspect or be used to search for a matching profile in a DNA database.
FILED	Friday, December 04, 2009
APPL NO	12/631032
ART UNIT	1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19
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Small Business Administration (SBA)

07858425 — Monolithic nuclear event detector and method of manufacture

US 07858425	Sanders et al.
FUNDED BY	Department of Defense (DOD) Department of the Navy (DON) Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)
INVENTOR(S)	Thomas J. Sanders (Indialantic, Florida); Nicolaas W. Van Vonno (Melbourne, Florida); Clyde Combs (Satellite Beach, Florida); Glenn T. Hess (Satellite Beach, Florida)
ABSTRACT	A PIN diode-based monolithic Nuclear Event Detector and method of manufacturing same for use in detecting a desired level of gamma radiation, in which a PIN diode is integrated with signal processing circuitry, for example CMOS circuitry, in a single thin-film Silicon On Insulator (SOI) chip. The PIN diode is implemented in the p-substrate layer. The signal processing circuitry is located in a thin semiconductor layer and is in electrical communication with the PIN diode. The PIN diode may be integrated with the signal processing circuitry onto a single chip, or may be fabricated stand alone using SOI methods according to the method of the invention.
FILED	Wednesday, May 21, 2008
APPL NO	12/154212
ART UNIT	2893 — Semiconductors/Memory
CURRENT CPC	Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/56
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

U.S. State Government

07860810 — Discrete event system and method for simulating global product development

US 07860810	Raffo
FUNDED BY	U.S. State Government State of Oregon
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon)
INVENTOR(S)	David M. Raffo (Tigard, Oregon)
ABSTRACT	A global software development model instrument is described. The instrument utilizes a global system dynamics model, as well as one or more site-specific discrete event simulation and system dynamics models to model interactions within and between software development sites. Parameters, equations, and interactions between the model components are editable to allow for the simulation and comparison of various software development options and to provide for global software development research. Additional product development situations can be modeled as well, including hardware and systems engineering.
FILED	Thursday, June 16, 2005
APPL NO	11/630511
ART UNIT	2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling
CURRENT CPC	Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/6
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Government Rights Acknowledged

07858097 — Antibiotic resistance free Listeria strains and methods for constructing and using same

US 07858097	Paterson et al.
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
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	Friday, April 27, 2007
APPL NO	11/818965
ART UNIT	1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
CURRENT CPC	Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100
VIEW PATENT	@ USPTO: Full Text PDF

07858311 — Composition and method for nucleic acid sequencing

US 07858311	Williams
FUNDED BY
APPLICANT(S)
ASSIGNEE(S)	Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California)
INVENTOR(S)	John G. K. Williams (Lincoln, Nebraska)
ABSTRACT	The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting incorporation of a labeled nucleotide triphosphate onto the growing end of a primer nucleic acid molecule. The method is used, for example, to genotype and sequence a nucleic acid. In a preferred embodiment, the method described herein detects individual NTP molecules.
FILED	Tuesday, October 23, 2007
APPL NO	11/877627
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

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