FedInvent™ Patents

New Taxpayer Funded Patents for Tuesday, November 02, 2010 

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FedInvent analyzed 121 taxpayer-funded patents this week.

On Tuesday, November 02, 2010, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted 121 taxpayer-funded patents; including 106 patents containing government interest statements and 24 patents where federal government agencies were an assignee or applicant. Together, 121 patents granted this week are the result of US government-funded research & development.

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The List of This Week's Patents

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Patent Title
001 07823283
 
Method of forming a land grid array interposer 
002 07823321
 
DNA sampling hook 
003 07823460
 
Prosthetic simulator with soft tissue modeling 
004 07823467
 
Tactile sensors 
005 07823498
 
Vehicle protective structure 
006 07823839
 
Airfoil performance modification using synthetic jet actuators 
007 07823866
 
Distributed load edge clamp 
008 07824098
 
Composite mechanical transducers and approaches therefor 
009 07824129
 
Low-impact delivery system for in situ treatment of contaminated sediment 
010 07824150
 
Multiple piece turbine airfoil 
011 07824158
 
Bimaterial turbine blade damper 
012 07824247
 
Portable rapid and quiet drill 
013 07824335
 
Reconfigurable array with multi-level transmitters 
014 07824383
 
Vaginal drug delivery system and method 
015 07824424
 
System and method for releasably holding a surgical instrument 
016 07824462
 
Metallic nanoparticles as orthopedic biomaterial 
017 07824466
 
Production of metal nanoparticles 
018 07824467
 
Method of making metal nanoprisms having a predetermined thickness 
019 07824473
 
Metal-organic framework materials based on icosahedral boranes and carboranes 
020 07824495
 
System to continuously produce carbon fiber via microwave assisted plasma processing 
021 07824511
 
Method of making GAP propellants by pre-reacting a metal fuel with isocyanate before mixing with binder and plasticizer 
022 07824539
 
Ionic based sensing for identifying genomic sequence variations and detecting mismatch base pairs, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms 
023 07824569
 
Soluble salt produced from a biopolymer and a process for producing the salt 
024 07824574
 
Cyclic catalytic upgrading of chemical species using metal oxide materials 
025 07824576
 
Dispersion strengthened lithium and method therefor 
026 07824582
 
Twisted π-electron system chromophore compounds with very large molecular hyperpolarizabilities and related compositions and devices 
027 07824620
 
Nano- and micro-scale structures: methods, devices and applications thereof 
028 07824645
 
High density carbon from coal 
029 07824651
 
Method of producing exfoliated graphite, flexible graphite, and nano-scaled graphene platelets 
030 07824653
 
Water soluble quantum dots 
031 07824660
 
Nanotubes for cancer therapy and diagnostics 
032 07824672
 
Method for coating living cells 
033 07824680
 
Methods for inhibiting angiogenesis 
034 07824681
 
Human monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind IGF-II 
035 07824682
 
Cardiac myosin light chain kinase-specific antibodies and methods of detecting 
036 07824685
 
RTVP based compositions and methods for the treatment of prostate cancer 
037 07824687
 
Clustered multi-antigenic carbohydrate constructs, methods for their preparation, and uses thereof 
038 07824690
 
Marek\'s disease virus vaccine 
039 07824692
 
Ehrlichia disulfide bond formation proteins and uses thereof 
040 07824695
 
Delivery of proteins across polar epithelial cell layers 
041 07824709
 
Lipophilic drug delivery vehicle and methods of use thereof 
042 07824775
 
Autogenously welded metallic cellular structures and methods for forming such structures 
043 07824802
 
Method of preparing a composite cathode active material for rechargeable electrochemical cell 
044 07824847
 
Tissue preservation method with polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene copolymer 
045 07824857
 
Methods and compositions for diagnosing epithelial cell cancer 
046 07824862
 
Methods for analyzing nucleic acid 
047 07824864
 
Detection of human antibodies to squalene in serum 
048 07824868
 
Formation of superfibronectin by BBK32 and uses therefor 
049 07824874
 
Method for measuring in vivo mutation frequency at an endogenous gene locus 
050 07824875
 
Recombinant antigens for the detection of Coxiella burnetii 
051 07824884
 
Polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same 
052 07824889
 
Digital amplification 
053 07824893
 
In vivo incorporation of alkynyl amino acids into proteins in eubacteria 
054 07824909
 
Recombinant antigens for the detection of coxiella burnetii 
055 07824912
 
Methods for ex vivo propagation of adult hepatic stem cells 
056 07824927
 
Analyte detection using an active assay 
057 07824949
 
Structure and method for flexible sensor array 
058 07825037
 
Fabrication of enclosed nanochannels using silica nanoparticles 
059 07825045
 
Advanced body armor 
060 07825064
 
Supported catalysts using nanoparticles as the support material 
061 07825086
 
Acyclovir-peptide analogs 
062 07825088
 
Methods for the treatment of multiple myeloma 
063 07825089
 
Three-dimensional structures of TALL-1 and its cognate receptors and modified proteins and methods related thereto 
064 07825092
 
Dendroaspis natriuretic peptide for treatment of cancer 
065 07825096
 
O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase inactivators and beta-glucuronidase cleavable prodrugs 
066 07825098
 
Methods and compositions for modulating Necdin function 
067 07825126
 
Purine derivatives as A3 and A1 adenosine receptor agonists 
068 07825154
 
Small molecule inhibitors of botulinum neurotoxins 
069 07825199
 
Catalytic processes for the controlled polymerization of free radically (co)polymerizable monomers and functional polymeric systems prepared thereby 
070 07825216
 
Phenylanine derivatives 
071 07825217
 
Polypeptides for bone mineralization 
072 07825226
 
Glycoprotein synthesis 
073 07825231
 
Method of amidated peptide biosynthesis and delivery in vivo: endomorphin-2 for pain therapy 
074 07825248
 
Synthetic nanopores for DNA sequencing 
075 07825267
 
Synthesis of FR901464 and analogs with antitumor activity 
076 07825270
 
Inositolphospholipids and analogues: phosphatidylinositol products and processes 
077 07825294
 
Nucleic acids encoding antifungal polypeptides and uses thereof 
078 07825374
 
Tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometer 
079 07825391
 
Plasma-based EUV light source 
080 07825405
 
Devices comprising coated semiconductor nanocrystals heterostructures 
081 07825440
 
Suspended-membrane/suspended-substrate monolithic microwave integrated circuit modules 
082 07825543
 
Wireless energy transfer 
083 07825667
 
Microwave imaging system and processes, and associated software products 
084 07825735
 
Dual-range linearized transimpedance amplifier system 
085 07825736
 
Method for suppressing light shift in optical pumping systems 
086 07825741
 
Frequency multipliers using multi-phase oscillation 
087 07825743
 
Systems and methods for tuning filters 
088 07825760
 
Conical magnet 
089 07825819
 
Remote shock sensing and notification system 
090 07825903
 
Method and apparatus for providing haptic effects to a touch panel 
091 07826060
 
Direct detection of localized modulation of ion concentration on an electrode-electrolyte interface 
092 07826061
 
High-speed spectrographic sensor for internal combustion engines 
093 07826065
 
Tuned optical cavity magnetometer 
094 07826145
 
Fluidic adaptive lens systems with pumping systems 
095 07826250
 
Open circuit potential amperometry and voltammetry 
096 07826365
 
Method and apparatus for resource allocation for stream data processing 
097 07826379
 
All-to-all sequenced fault detection system 
098 07826504
 
Active terahertz metamaterial devices 
099 07826509
 
Broadly tunable single-mode quantum cascade laser sources and sensors 
100 07826592
 
Cone-beam computed tomography with a flat-panel imager 
101 07826595
 
Micro-focus field emission x-ray sources and related methods 
102 07826629
 
Optical sensing in a directional MEMS microphone 
103 07826693
 
Monolithically integrated reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer 
104 07826878
 
Optical tomography using independent component analysis for detection and localization of targets in turbid media 
105 07826894
 
Cognitive control signals for neural prosthetics 
106 07826922
 
Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information in a mail processing device using sorter application software 
107 07826975
 
Method for redesign of microbial production systems 
108 07826977
 
Systems and methods for high-speed image scanning 
109 07826982
 
Method of identifying inhibitors using a 3-D structure of RAC-1 GTPASE 
110 07826983
 
Instrumented mobility assistance device 
111 07827011
 
Method and system for real-time signal classification 
112 07827024
 
Low latency, high bandwidth data communications between compute nodes in a parallel computer 
113 07827029
 
Systems and methods for user-interest sensitive note-taking 
114 07827048
 
Systems and methods for testing a delivery system 
115 07827124
 
Brain-based device having a cerebellar model for predictive motor control 
116 07827381
 
Hybrid techniques for memory virtualization in a computer system 
117 07827385
 
Effecting a broadcast with an allreduce operation on a parallel computer 
118 07827391
 
Method and apparatus for single-stepping coherence events in a multiprocessor system under software control 
119 07827408
 
Device for and method of authenticated cryptography 
120 07827428
 
System for providing a cluster-wide system clock in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture 
121 07827459
 
Communications protocol 

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Patent Count By Department

This is the count of taxpayer-funded patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) this week. These patents contain a Government Interest Statement in the body of the patent document or are patents where the government is an assignee. Agency numbers are aggregated by the agency named in the Government Interests Statement and the contract number cited in the government interest section of the patent.

Department This Week This Year
Department of Defense (DOD) 43 1678
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 41 1542
Department of Energy (DOE) 21 795
National Science Foundation (NSF) 11 551
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 4 245
Department of Commerce (DOC) 3 111
National Security Agency (NSA) 2 59
Small Business Administration (SBA) 2 71
United States Postal Service (USPS) 2 38
Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1 102
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) 1 27
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1 17
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) 1 1

Patents By Funding Agency

FedInvent Patents are patents funded by US taxpayers. Taxpayer-funded patents have Government Interest Statements in the body of the patent or are patents where an agency of the US federal government has retained the title to the patent and is listed as an assignee. The presence of a government interest statement, as required by the Bayh-Dole Act, indicates the holder of a federal contract, grant, or cooperative research agreement has elected to retain the title of inventions conceived and reduced to practice during that contract.

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Department of Defense (DOD) Agencies

Patent Title
001 07823283
 
Method of forming a land grid array interposer 
002 07824129
 
Low-impact delivery system for in situ treatment of contaminated sediment 
003 07824857
 
Methods and compositions for diagnosing epithelial cell cancer 
004 07825037
 
Fabrication of enclosed nanochannels using silica nanoparticles 
005 07825736
 
Method for suppressing light shift in optical pumping systems 
006 07826509
 
Broadly tunable single-mode quantum cascade laser sources and sensors 
007 07827381
 
Hybrid techniques for memory virtualization in a computer system 
008 07827428
 
System for providing a cluster-wide system clock in a multi-tiered full-graph interconnect architecture 

Department of the ARMY (DOA)

Patent Title
001 07824466
 
Production of metal nanoparticles 
002 07824473
 
Metal-organic framework materials based on icosahedral boranes and carboranes 
003 07824569
 
Soluble salt produced from a biopolymer and a process for producing the salt 
004 07824802
 
Method of preparing a composite cathode active material for rechargeable electrochemical cell 
005 07824864
 
Detection of human antibodies to squalene in serum 
006 07825037
 
Fabrication of enclosed nanochannels using silica nanoparticles 
007 07825045
 
Advanced body armor 
008 07825154
 
Small molecule inhibitors of botulinum neurotoxins 
009 07826592
 
Cone-beam computed tomography with a flat-panel imager 
010 07826878
 
Optical tomography using independent component analysis for detection and localization of targets in turbid media 

Department of the Navy (DON) | United States Marine Corps (USMC)

Patent Title
001 07823498
 
Vehicle protective structure 
002 07823866
 
Distributed load edge clamp 
003 07824098
 
Composite mechanical transducers and approaches therefor 
004 07824158
 
Bimaterial turbine blade damper 
005 07824467
 
Method of making metal nanoprisms having a predetermined thickness 
006 07824511
 
Method of making GAP propellants by pre-reacting a metal fuel with isocyanate before mixing with binder and plasticizer 
007 07824576
 
Dispersion strengthened lithium and method therefor 
008 07824582
 
Twisted π-electron system chromophore compounds with very large molecular hyperpolarizabilities and related compositions and devices 
009 07824775
 
Autogenously welded metallic cellular structures and methods for forming such structures 
010 07824857
 
Methods and compositions for diagnosing epithelial cell cancer 
011 07824875
 
Recombinant antigens for the detection of Coxiella burnetii 
012 07824909
 
Recombinant antigens for the detection of coxiella burnetii 
013 07825248
 
Synthetic nanopores for DNA sequencing 
014 07825405
 
Devices comprising coated semiconductor nanocrystals heterostructures 
015 07825741
 
Frequency multipliers using multi-phase oscillation 
016 07826060
 
Direct detection of localized modulation of ion concentration on an electrode-electrolyte interface 
017 07826250
 
Open circuit potential amperometry and voltammetry 
018 07826878
 
Optical tomography using independent component analysis for detection and localization of targets in turbid media 
019 07826894
 
Cognitive control signals for neural prosthetics 
020 07827124
 
Brain-based device having a cerebellar model for predictive motor control 

Department of the Air Force (DAF)| United States Space Force (USSF)

Patent Title
001 07823839
 
Airfoil performance modification using synthetic jet actuators 
002 07824645
 
High density carbon from coal 
003 07825440
 
Suspended-membrane/suspended-substrate monolithic microwave integrated circuit modules 
004 07825736
 
Method for suppressing light shift in optical pumping systems 
005 07826145
 
Fluidic adaptive lens systems with pumping systems 
006 07827011
 
Method and system for real-time signal classification 

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Patent Title
001 07823460
 
Prosthetic simulator with soft tissue modeling 
002 07824335
 
Reconfigurable array with multi-level transmitters 
003 07824424
 
System and method for releasably holding a surgical instrument 
004 07824653
 
Water soluble quantum dots 
005 07824660
 
Nanotubes for cancer therapy and diagnostics 
006 07824672
 
Method for coating living cells 
007 07824680
 
Methods for inhibiting angiogenesis 
008 07824681
 
Human monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind IGF-II 
009 07824682
 
Cardiac myosin light chain kinase-specific antibodies and methods of detecting 
010 07824685
 
RTVP based compositions and methods for the treatment of prostate cancer 
011 07824687
 
Clustered multi-antigenic carbohydrate constructs, methods for their preparation, and uses thereof 
012 07824692
 
Ehrlichia disulfide bond formation proteins and uses thereof 
013 07824695
 
Delivery of proteins across polar epithelial cell layers 
014 07824709
 
Lipophilic drug delivery vehicle and methods of use thereof 
015 07824847
 
Tissue preservation method with polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene copolymer 
016 07824857
 
Methods and compositions for diagnosing epithelial cell cancer 
017 07824862
 
Methods for analyzing nucleic acid 
018 07824868
 
Formation of superfibronectin by BBK32 and uses therefor 
019 07824874
 
Method for measuring in vivo mutation frequency at an endogenous gene locus 
020 07824889
 
Digital amplification 
021 07824893
 
In vivo incorporation of alkynyl amino acids into proteins in eubacteria 
022 07824912
 
Methods for ex vivo propagation of adult hepatic stem cells 
023 07825086
 
Acyclovir-peptide analogs 
024 07825088
 
Methods for the treatment of multiple myeloma 
025 07825089
 
Three-dimensional structures of TALL-1 and its cognate receptors and modified proteins and methods related thereto 
026 07825096
 
O6-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase inactivators and beta-glucuronidase cleavable prodrugs 
027 07825098
 
Methods and compositions for modulating Necdin function 
028 07825126
 
Purine derivatives as A3 and A1 adenosine receptor agonists 
029 07825216
 
Phenylanine derivatives 
030 07825217
 
Polypeptides for bone mineralization 
031 07825226
 
Glycoprotein synthesis 
032 07825231
 
Method of amidated peptide biosynthesis and delivery in vivo: endomorphin-2 for pain therapy 
033 07825267
 
Synthesis of FR901464 and analogs with antitumor activity 
034 07825270
 
Inositolphospholipids and analogues: phosphatidylinositol products and processes 
035 07825374
 
Tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometer 
036 07825667
 
Microwave imaging system and processes, and associated software products 
037 07826595
 
Micro-focus field emission x-ray sources and related methods 
038 07826629
 
Optical sensing in a directional MEMS microphone 
039 07826894
 
Cognitive control signals for neural prosthetics 
040 07826977
 
Systems and methods for high-speed image scanning 
041 07826982
 
Method of identifying inhibitors using a 3-D structure of RAC-1 GTPASE 

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Patent Title
001 07824150
 
Multiple piece turbine airfoil 
002 07824473
 
Metal-organic framework materials based on icosahedral boranes and carboranes 
003 07824495
 
System to continuously produce carbon fiber via microwave assisted plasma processing 
004 07824574
 
Cyclic catalytic upgrading of chemical species using metal oxide materials 
005 07824651
 
Method of producing exfoliated graphite, flexible graphite, and nano-scaled graphene platelets 
006 07824884
 
Polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and polynucleotides encoding same 
007 07824927
 
Analyte detection using an active assay 
008 07825064
 
Supported catalysts using nanoparticles as the support material 
009 07825226
 
Glycoprotein synthesis 
010 07825294
 
Nucleic acids encoding antifungal polypeptides and uses thereof 
011 07825391
 
Plasma-based EUV light source 
012 07825735
 
Dual-range linearized transimpedance amplifier system 
013 07825760
 
Conical magnet 
014 07825819
 
Remote shock sensing and notification system 
015 07826065
 
Tuned optical cavity magnetometer 
016 07826379
 
All-to-all sequenced fault detection system 
017 07826504
 
Active terahertz metamaterial devices 
018 07826975
 
Method for redesign of microbial production systems 
019 07827024
 
Low latency, high bandwidth data communications between compute nodes in a parallel computer 
020 07827385
 
Effecting a broadcast with an allreduce operation on a parallel computer 
021 07827391
 
Method and apparatus for single-stepping coherence events in a multiprocessor system under software control 

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Emerging Technology

Emerging Climate Change Technologies

Patents containing 'Y" CPC symbols indicate emerging climate change and clean technology inventions.

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Class

About Y Emerging Technology Symbols

Patent documents that contain a Y02 or Y04 CPC symbol are already classified elsewhere. USPTO adds the Y symbols to the classification data to monitor new technological developments covering clean technology and inventions impacting climate change, important American science and technology interests.

Y02 — Green House Gas Mitigation

Y02 covers selected technologies, that control, reduce, or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), in the framework of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, and technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. Y02A covers technologies for adaptation to climate change, — technologies that allow adapting to the adverse effects of climate change in human, industrial (including agriculture and livestock), and economic activities. Y02P covers climate change mitigation technologies in any kind of industrial processing or production activity, including the agroalimentary industry (relating to agriculture and food), agriculture, fishing, ranching and the like.

Y04 — Enabling Technologies

Y04 is focused on the information and communications inventions that facilitate climate change technology. Y04S covers systems integrating technologies related to power network operation, communication, or information technologies for improving electrical power generation, transmission, distribution, management, or usage. Examples of the art covered here are technologies related to smart grids, home appliances, and systems supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles.

The Health Complex

This section contains the count of patents funded by The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) organized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) institute; and HHS subagencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and others. These agencies together are called the Health Complex.

Department | Agency This Week This Year
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)411542
National Institutes of Health (NIH)351413
National Cancer Institute (NCI)8231
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)349
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)3104
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)239
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)215
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)138
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)19
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)120
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)111
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)175
National Eye Institute (NEI)135
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)12

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Higher Education Research and Development (HERD)

FedInvent follows the HERD the Higher Education Research and Development institutions — the colleges and universities; research institutions, and medical schools that benefit from federal funding and rely on it to make important discoveries that drive American innovation. Taxpayer-funded patents coming from American and sometimes foreign universities are an important indicia of the vitality of the American innovation ecosphere.

MEMBERS OF THE HERD

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey is the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at 916 US colleges and universities that expended at least $150,000 in separately accounted for R&D in the fiscal year. We use the NSF list to keep track of which colleges and universities are receiving taxpayer-funded patents and filing patent applications.

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We're working on our data analytics and will be reporting taxpayer-funded patents and patent applications shortly. In the meantime, FedInvent will post interesting information about the HERD Innovation Ecosphere here.

Top Ten Universities By R&D Expenditures
  1. Johns Hopkins University
  2. University of Michigan
  3. University of Washington
  4. University of California, San Diego
  5. University of California, San Francisco
  6. Columbia University in the City of New York
  7. Stanford University
  8. University Pittsburgh
  9. University Pennsylvania
  10. Duke University

Count By Tech Center

Patents organized by count and Technology Center where the patent was examined.

Tech Center Count
1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry 42
2800 Semiconductors, Electrical and Optical Systems and Components 29
1700 Chemical and Materials Engineering 21
3700 Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Gaming and Medical Devices/Processes 9
2100 Computer Architecture Software and Information Security 7
3600 Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing and Review 6
2600 Communications 4
2400 Computer Networks, Multiplex, Cable and Cryptography/Security 3

For more information on the types of inventions examined in each Technology Center, see the About Tech Centers section of this page.

Patents By Scientific Domain.

This section contains the number of patents by high level scientific and technical domain. The data is arranged by the first Cooperative Patent Classification System (CPC) patent symbol assigned to the patent. This indicates the scope and nature of the invention for a patent or a patent application.

Global patent offices use patent classification as their lingua franca — the common language — for exchanging information about inventions and what scientific and technical art a patent contains. The classifications assigned to a patent are used by patent examiners to find prior art and to determine if a particular patent's claims are novel. Patent classifications are also used for global enforcement of patent rights, treaties, and agreements.

Class Class Definition First
(Original)
Inventive
(CrossRef)
USPC 435 Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 12 0
USPC 424 Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 11 0
USPC 514 Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 8 0
USPC 702 Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 5 0
USPC 252 Compositions 4 0
USPC 075 Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 3 0
USPC 356 Optics: Measuring and testing 3 0
USPC 423 Chemistry of inorganic compounds 3 0
USPC 530 Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 3 0
USPC 600 Surgery 3 0
USPC 073 Measuring and testing 2 0
USPC 250 Radiant energy 2 0
USPC 257 Active solid-state devices 2 0
USPC 331 Oscillators 2 0
USPC 370 Multiplex communications 2 0
USPC 372 Coherent light generators 2 0
USPC 378 X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 2 0
USPC 438 Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 2 0
USPC 712 Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 2 0
USPC 713 Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 2 0
USPC 029 Metal working 1 0
USPC 043 Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying 1 0
USPC 089 Ordnance 1 0
USPC 095 Gas separation: Processes 1 0
USPC 118 Coating apparatus 1 0
USPC 149 Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 1 0
USPC 205 Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 1 0
USPC 244 Aeronautics and astronautics 1 0
USPC 269 Work holders 1 0
USPC 307 Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 1 0
USPC 324 Electricity: Measuring and testing 1 0
USPC 330 Amplifiers 1 0
USPC 333 Wave transmission lines and networks 1 0
USPC 335 Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 1 0
USPC 340 Communications: Electrical 1 0
USPC 345 Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 1 0
USPC 359 Optical: Systems and elements 1 0
USPC 365 Static information storage and retrieval 1 0
USPC 374 Thermal measuring and testing 1 0
USPC 381 Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 1 0
USPC 385 Optical waveguides 1 0
USPC 405 Hydraulic and earth engineering 1 0
USPC 415 Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 1 0
USPC 416 Fluid reaction surfaces 1 0
USPC 422 Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 1 0
USPC 428 Stock material or miscellaneous articles 1 0
USPC 429 Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 1 0
USPC 436 Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 1 0
USPC 442 Fabric 1 0
USPC 451 Abrading 1 0
USPC 502 Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 1 0
USPC 526 Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 1 0
USPC 536 Organic compounds 1 0
USPC 546 Organic compounds 1 0
USPC 549 Organic compounds 1 0
USPC 554 Organic compounds 1 0
USPC 604 Surgery 1 0
USPC 606 Surgery 1 0
USPC 700 Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 1 0
USPC 703 Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 1 0
USPC 704 Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 1 0
USPC 705 Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 1 0
USPC 706 Data processing: Artificial intelligence 1 0
USPC 711 Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 1 0
USPC 714 Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 1 0
USPC 800 Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 1 0

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Count of Inventors by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on the location information of first named inventors and of all inventors on the patent.

Country First Named Inventors All Inventors
United States of America 120 384
Canada 1 3
Italy 0 4
China PRC 0 2
Switzerland 0 1
Israel 0 1
South Korea 0 1
Romania 0 1
Ukraine 0 1
U.S. State First Named Inventors All Inventors
California 22 68
Maryland 16 43
New York 9 25
Massachusetts 8 28
Pennsylvania 7 28
Texas 6 17
Virginia 5 17
New Mexico 4 19
Washington 4 13
North Carolina 3 11
Ohio 3 10
Illinois 3 9
New Jersey 3 9
Tennessee 3 9
Colorado 3 8
Florida 3 7
Minnesota 2 11
Connecticut 2 5
Georgia 2 5
Indiana 2 4
Kansas 2 2
Arkansas 1 7
Wisconsin 1 6
Iowa 1 4
Mississippi 1 4
South Carolina 1 3
Nebraska 1 2
Delaware 1 1
West Virginia 1 1
Michigan 0 5
New Hampshire 0 2
Vermont 0 1

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Count of Assignees and Applicants by Country and U.S. State

Patent count by country and state based on location information of Assignees and Applicants.

Country Assignees Applicants
United States of America 1270
U.S. State Assignees Applicants
District of Columbia 240
California 190
New York 180
Massachusetts 90
Pennsylvania 90
Maryland 60
New Mexico 40
Illinois 30
North Carolina 30
Colorado 20
Delaware 20
Florida 20
Georgia 20
Michigan 20
New Jersey 20
Ohio 20
Tennessee 20
Texas 20
Washington 20
Wisconsin 20
Indiana 10
Iowa 10
Kansas 10
Missouri 10
Nebraska 10
Nevada 10
New Hampshire 10
South Carolina 10
Virginia 10
West Virginia 10

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Technology Center Explainer

How Tech Centers and Art Units Are Organized And Why It Matters

Patents travel from Technology Center to Art Unit to Group Art Unit to Patent Examiner.

The USPTO's patent corps is organized into Technology Centers (TCs), groups of patent examiners with specific scientific and technical domain expertise. Technology Centers are further divided into Art Units (AUs) organized by major types of inventive art within a scientific or technical domain. Art Units are organized into Group Art Units, even more specialized and granular teams of examiners.

Group Art Units (GAUs) are where patent examiners prosecute patent applications. Patent applications are docketed to examiners based on specific subject matter classifications of a particular GAU.

Understanding Technology Centers, Art Units, and Group Art Units helps you understand what type of inventions are being prosecuted within each scientific and technical domain, how long it takes from the date a patent application is filed to the time a final decision on the patentability of the invention is made.

Technology Centers and Art Units

Click or touch the accordion panel to open it and see the way different types of inventions are grouped together within Art Units.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1610 Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs
1620 Organic Chemistry
1630 Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
1640 Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology
1650 Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzyme
1660 Plants

About Plant Patents

Plant Patents are granted to an inventor who has invented, or discovered and asexually reproduced a distinct and new variety of plant, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state. If you've ever eaten a pluot, you've enjoyed the fruit of a plant patent.

Plant patent numbers begin with a "PP" followed by a five digit number. The first Plant Patent was issued in 1931. Plant patents are valid for 20 years from the filing date.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
1710 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
1720 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
1730 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
1740 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
1760 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
1770 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus
1780 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
1790 Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2110 Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
2120 Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material, Adhesive Composition, Fabrics
2130 Fuel Cells, Batteries, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Composition
2140/2170 Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysts, Electrophotography, Photolithography
2150/2160 Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
2180 Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions
2190 Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2410/2460/2470 Multiplex, VoIP
2420 Cable and Television
2430/2490 Cryptography and Security
2440/2450 Computer Networks
2480 Recording and Compression

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2610 Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
2620 Selective Visual Display Systems
2630 Digital and Optical Communications
2640 Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
2650 Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing; Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression
2660 Digital Cameras; Image Analysis; Applications; pattern Recognition; Color and Compression; Enhancement and Transformation
2670 Facsimile; Printer; Color; halftone; Scanner; Computer Graphic Processing; 3-D Animation; Display Color; Attributes; Object Processing; Hardware and Memory
2680 Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
2690 Selective Visual Display Systems

More broadly TC 2800 Art Units cover Semiconductors/Memory, Circuits/Measuring and Testing, Optics/Photocopying, Printing/Measuring and Testing.

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
2810/2820/2890 Semiconductors/Memory
2830/2840 Electrical Circuits and Systems
2850/2860 Printing/Measuring and Testing
2870/2880 Optics

About Design Patents

The design FOR an article. Not to the design OF an article.

Patents examined here cover Design patents cover the appearance of an article. The design for an article consists of the visual characteristics embodied in or applied to an article. Since a design is manifested in appearance, the subject matter of a design patent application may relate to the configuration or shape of an article, to the surface ornamentation applied to an article, or to the combination of configuration and surface ornamentation.

Design is inseparable from the article to which it is applied and cannot exist alone merely as a scheme of surface ornamentation. It must be a definite, preconceived thing, capable of reproduction and not merely the chance result of a method.

Design patent numbers begin with a "D" followed by a six digit number. The first Design Patent was issued in 1843. The term of a design patent is 15 years measured from the date of grant, if the design application was filed on or after May 13, 2015 (or 14 years if filed before May 13, 2015).

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3610 Surface Transportation
3620 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
3630 Static Structures, Supports and Furniture
3640 Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
3650 Material and Article Handling
3660 Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems
3670 Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
3680 Business Methods — Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation
3690 Business Methods — Finance/Banking/ Insurance

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3710 Amusement and Education Devices
3720 Manufacturing Devices and Processes, Machine Tools and Hand Tools
3730 Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting
3740 Thermal and Combustion Technology, Motive and Fluid Power Systems
3750 Fluid Handling and Dispensing
3760 Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
3770 Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies
3780 Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising

Patents examined here cover:

Art Unit Technical & Scientific Domains
3970 Express Abandonments
3990 Central Reexamination Unit

FedInvent Patents

Each week FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding from the US federal government. We assemble a weekly patent catalog and analyze the inventions, the inventors, and the entities who received the patents. We map the patents back to the agency that funded the R&D that led to the new invention. FedInvent uses the funding opportunity descriptions, the grants, and the contracts that define the research areas of interest, and the R&D policies and priorities of that drove and are driving the funding to organize each week's patents.

ABOUT OUR DATA

The weekly patent catalog includes patents with government interest statements indicating federal funding; and patents where the assignee, the owner of the invention, is the federal government. This includes work on federal grants, work on federal contracts, innovation by Federal Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) funded by Federal Departments and University Affiliated Research Centers funded by DoD.

Not every inventor is a government contractor. There are many inventions conceived and patented by scientists and engineers working for the federal government or serving in the military.

THE NUMBERS MAY NOT MATCH THE NUMBER OF PATENTS WE ANALYZE EACH WEEK

The numbers in the tables presented on this page will not add up to the number of patents granted each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention. Patents and funding have a many-to-many relationship. One patent may have more than one funding grant or contract associated with it. A grant or contract may lead to more than one patent. More than one agency may have funded the inventors or the contract. More than one university or business may have worked together on an invention. When we report the numbers here, we associate a patent with all of the entities and funding that are reflected on the patent and report them to you. This approach presents a more complete picture of what's going on in the federal innovation ecosphere. Put another way, the numbers in the tables presented on this page may not always add up to the number of patents each week because patents are counted by each agency that funded the creation of the invention.

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