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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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| US 07866158 | Murphy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Joseph Murphy (Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine exhaust nozzle is disclosed that includes an exhaust liner having a first attachment structure. A liner support member includes a second attachment structure. A pin cooperates with the first and second attachment structures and is configured to secure the exhaust liner relative to the liner support member. The pin includes first and second dimensions that are different than one another. The pin is inserted into apertures provided by the attachment structures, in one example. The pin is oriented to position the first and second dimensions in a manner providing increased clearance within the apertures. The pin is rotated to load the components and firmly secure the liner to the liner support member. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/950956 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07866246 | Bellino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Joseph Bellino (Inyokern, California); John Andrew Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); David Virgil Jester (Ridgecrest, California); Roy Joseph Harmon (Ridgecrest, California); Timothy Allen Froehner (Ridgecrest, California); Alberto Garza (Ridgecrest, California); Richard Matthew Dillon (Camarillo, California); Hugh Henley Hood (Crestview, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to a method of using a pod to rapidly deploy defensive countermeasures from a wide variety of manned aircraft. The method includes using a configurable pod for dispensing different types of infrared countermeasure (IRCM) devices and different types of radio frequency countermeasure (RFCM) devices at a rapid rate. The primary purpose of this method is to rapidly dispense IRCMs and RFCMs is to protect the host aircraft while ingress and egress maneuvers are performed in a hostile area. A secondary use of the method is for use in defending commercial aircraft from missile threats. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863797 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07866250 | Farinella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Farinella (Belmont, Massachusetts); Thomas F. Hafer (Arlington, Virginia); Christopher Moeller (Nashua, New Hampshire); Loren Howard (Waban, Massachusetts); Scott LaValley (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A protection system features a flexible packaged net with perimeter weighting housed in a deployment box releasably attached to a vehicle. One deployment subsystem includes an airbag packaged in the deployment box behind the net. A sensor subsystem detects an incoming threat and a fire control subsystem is responsive to the sensor subsystem and is configured to activate the deployment subsystem to inflate the airbag and deploy the net in the trajectory path of the incoming threat. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/351130 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07866499 | Cacace |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GKN Aerospace Services Structures Corp. (Cromwell, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Cacace (Haddam, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressurizable chamber device or containment vessel and method of use thereof. The device or vessel includes two chamber portions, a lid portion and a base portion, drawn to one another via a nut portion. The lid and base portions each include concave surfaces that matingly fit together, such that an internal chamber is formed when these portions are fit together. The lid and base portions each include a flange having a groove therein, such that a flexible seal element is fittable into the groove. The lid and base portions include features to matingly engage the nut portion, such that engagement thereamong draws the lid portion and the base portion toward one another, tightly sealing the formed internal chamber. A pressure, such as a resin pressure that may be precisely regulated, may then be applied, for example, to a mold contained within the formed and tightly sealed chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451300 |
| ART UNIT | 3781 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/4.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07866821 | Ferguson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Daniel Ferguson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Daniel X. Hammer (Bedford, New Hampshire); Nicusor V. Iftimia (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Chad Bigelow (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for imaging an eye includes a housing and a system of optical components disposed in the housing. The apparatus is capable of operating in a line scanning laser opthalmoscope (LSLO) mode and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) mode. The system of optical components can include a first source to provide a first beam of light for the OCT mode and a second source to provide a second beam of light for the LSLO mode. In the OCT mode, a first optic is used that (i) scans, using a first surface of the first optic, the first beam of light along a retina of an eye in a first dimension, and (ii) descans, using the first surface, a first light returning from the eye in the first dimension to a detection system in the OCT mode. In the LSLO mode, the first optic is used where the second beam of light passes through a second surface of the first optic. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/630358 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07866878 | Howe et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Harold W. Howe (Butte, Montana); Jeremiah J. Warriner (Butte, Montana); Aaron M. Cook (Butte, Montana); Scott L. Coguill (Butte, Montana); Lawrence C. Farrar (Butte, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for mixing fluids and/or solids in a manner that can be varied from maintaining the integrity of fragile molecular and biological materials in the mixing vessel to homogenizing heavy aggregate material by supplying large amounts of energy. Variation in the manner of mixing is accomplished using an electronic controller to generate signals to control the frequency and amplitude of the motor(s), which drive an unbalanced shaft assembly to produce a linear vibratory motion. The motor may be a stepper motor, a linear motor or a DC continuous motor. By placing a sensor on the mixing vessel platform to provide feedback control of the mixing motor, the characteristics of agitation in the fluid or solid can be adjusted to optimize the degree of mixing and produce a high quality mixant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/652159 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07866897 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oclaro Photonics, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongdan Hu (Bothell, Washington); Oscar Romero (Tucson, Arizona); James Harrison (Oro Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application is directed to a various embodiments of a system for coupling at least one fiber optic device to a laser and include at least one fiber coupler device having a body defining at least one coupling chamber in communication an inlet and an outlet, the coupling chamber sized to receive at least one fiber optic device therein, at least one light stripping element positioned within the coupling chamber, and a housing assembly configured to couple the laser to the fiber coupler device. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973207 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867166 | Waag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Waag (Rochester, New York); Jeffrey P. Astheimer (Honeoye Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In estimation of an aberration in propagation of an ultrasonic wave from an aperture through an aberration path, the aperture is modeled as a plurality of sources and receivers. The frequency-domain magnitude of the aberration is estimated by normalizing the scattered signal power spectrum. The frequency-domain phase of the aberration is estimated by a recursion using cross spectra of signals at neighboring receivers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192393 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867300 | Chellappa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Energy, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Chellappa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael Roy Powell (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides teachings relating to ammonia-based hydrogen generation apparatus and associated methods of use. Exemplary methods and apparatus comprise a thermocatalytic hydrogen generation reactor which includes a reaction chamber containing a catalyst-coated substrate, and a combustion chamber containing a catalyst-coated substrate. Exemplary catalyst-coated substrates include, but are not limited to, metal foam, monolith, mesh, ceramic foam or ceramic monolith. |
| FILED | Monday, April 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/109227 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867468 | Haddon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carbon Solutions, Inc. (Riverside, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Haddon (Riverside, California); Mikhail E. Itkis (Riverside, California); Elena Bekyarova (Riverside, California); Aiping Yu (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for the preparation of reinforcements for composite materials, whereby single- and/or multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may be electrophoretically deposited on fibrous substrates for the production of hybrid CNT/fibers. The fibers may include carbon fibers and woven carbon fabrics. The length, as well as the density and orientation of the deposited nanotubes on the fiber surfaces may also be tailored. The strength of the CNT/fiber-matrix interface formed in composites fabricated from the hybrid CNT/fibers may be adjusted by introduction of functional groups on the CNT/fiber surfaces, such as aminophenyl and carboxyphenyl groups. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/039526 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867575 | Boutwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Allen Rohrer Boutwell (Liberty Township, Ohio); Irene Spitsberg (Loveland, Ohio); Christine Govern (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bangalore A. Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Brian Thomas Hazel (West Chester, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a thermal barrier coating/environmental barrier coating system on a silicon containing material substrate includes applying an environmental barrier coating (EBC) over the silicon containing material substrate; and applying a thermal barrier coating (TBC) over the EBC. The thermal barrier coating includes a compound having a primary constituent portion and a stabilizer portion stabilizing said primary constituent. The primary constituent portion of the thermal barrier coating includes hafnia present in an amount of at least about 5 mol % of the primary constituent and the stabilizer portion of said thermal barrier coating includes at least one metal oxide comprised of cations with a +2 or +3 valence present in the amount of about 10 to about 40 mol % of the thermal barrier coating. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977336 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/419.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867608 | Blacker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesse M. Blacker (Bridgeport, Ohio); Janusz W. Plucinski (Glen Dale, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrically gradated carbon foam materials that have changing or differing electrical properties through the thickness of the carbon foam material and methods for making these electrically gradated carbon foam materials are described herein. In some embodiments, the electrically gradated carbon foam materials exhibit increasing electrical resistivity through the thickness of the carbon foam material such that the electrical resistivity near a second surface of the carbon foam is at least 2 times greater than the electrical resistivity near a first surface of the carbon foam. These electrically gradated carbon foam materials may be used as radar absorbers, as well as in electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding schemes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/964036 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/310.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867716 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaofeng Kang (College Station, Texas); Li Qun Gu (Columbus, Missouri); Stephen Cheley (Okemos, Michigan); Hagan Bayley (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus, system and method for stochastic sensing of an analyte to a protein pore. The protein pore may be an engineer protein pore, such as an ion channel at temperatures above 55° C. and even as high as near 100° C. The analyte may be any reactive analyte, including chemical weapons, environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals. The analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element to produce a detectable electrical current signal. Possible signals include change in electrical current. Detection of the signal allows identification of the analyte and determination of its concentration in a sample solution. Multiple analytes present in the same solution may also be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314174 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867754 | Regnier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West LaFayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred E. Regnier (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald George Reifenberger (West Lafayette, Indiana); Halina Dorota Inerowicz (West Lafayette, Indiana); Stephen Wayne Howell (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and device for detection of analytes, particularly biohazards. A microarray containing immobilized sensing molecules captures complementary analytes on a redundant patterned substrate. Pattern analysis is performed using a computer algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786757 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867915 | Cole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christina L Cole (Alexandria, Virginia); Lloyd J Whitman (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for controllably activating a surface for stable amine-reactive chemistries. A surface containing nitride is exposed to a plasma having a reactive species containing hydrogen for a period of time sufficient to activate the substrate for amine-reactive chemistries. Amine-reactive chemical processes can then be applied to the activated surface to reliably and controllably bond molecules directly to said surface. The method is designed to create stable primary amines on the nitride substrate, so that any subsequent amine-reactive chemistry may proceed in a controlled manner that is directly proportional to the density of surface amines so created. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/424643 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867928 | Toni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl M. Toni (Madison, Connecticut); Bruce H. Barr (Southbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey G. Sauer (Woodbury, Connecticut); Jonathan Bremmer (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Thomas Ranalli (Watertown, Connecticut); Alan J. Norwid (Cheshire, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite sandwich panel a first facing and a second facing over a core layer, the first and second facings having at least one fiberglass layer between an inner and an outer graphite layer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/956479 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867983 | Liang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Tsan-Tang Liang (Avon, Connecticut); Edward John Zambraski (Princeton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of skeletal muscle and/or the protection of skeletal muscle against injury. The adenosine A3 receptor has been identified as a new therapeutic target for the treatment of skeletal muscle. Adenosine A3 receptor agonists are used treat subjects with skeletal muscle ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injuries, individuals with skeletal muscle disorders, and individuals suffering from skeletal muscle injury resulting from physical exertion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054523 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868087 | Mayes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anne M. Mayes (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jonathan F. Hester (Hudson, Wisconsin); Pallab Banerjee (Boston, Massachusetts); Ariya Akthakul (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to synthetic methods for grafting hydrophilic chains onto polymers, particularly hydrophobic polymers such as poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF), and chlorinated polypropylene (cPP). Resulting polymers include comb polymers which can have a microphase-separated structure of hydrophilic domains provided by the hydrophilic chains. Articles prepared from these comb polymers, particularly derived from PVDF, include membranes for water filtration in which the hydrophilic domains provide a pathway for water transport. PVC can be plasticized by grafting the PVC with hydrophilic chains. In addition, such articles, particularly articles having biomedical applications, can display anti-thrombogenic properties. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541629 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868198 | Laine et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Vera Popova (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Daniel W. Bartz (Saline, Michigan); David J. Krug, III (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael Z. Asuncion (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-functional silsesquioxane, method of making the same, and coatings incorporating the same, including a polyhedral silsesquioxane including at least one first face and at least one second face that is spaced apart from the at least one first face; at least one first functionality bonded to the at least one first face; and at least one second functionality different from the first functionality, and being bonded to the at least one second face. In one particular respect, silica for the silsesquioxane may be derived from rice hull ash via an octa(tetramethylammonium)silsesquioxane octaanion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156643 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868287 | Fry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward S. Fry (College Station, Texas); Joseph A. Musser (College Station, Texas); Jeffrey Katz (College Station, Texas); William C. Merka (College Station, Texas); George W. Kattawar (College Station, Texas); Zheng Lu (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates an apparatus and method for forming a diffuse reflector. In one embodiment of the invention, a diffuse reflector is formed by exposing transmissive particles of a pre-determined purity to pressure and forming a material having desired diffuse reflective properties. The transmissive particles may further be thermally treated, such as by sintering, to form material having desired diffuse reflective properties. The treated transmissive particles may then be disposed in a vessel and define a cavity therein to form an integrated cavity diffuse reflector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/895955 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868352 | Giorgi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OptiSwitch Technology Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Giorgi (Solana Beach, California); Tajchai Navapanich (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Break Over Diode (“BOD”) device is a gate-less two terminal high power semiconductor switch in which transitions from a blocking state to a conducting state are triggered by a dV/dt pulse to the anode. The BOD device can be thought of as two cross-coupled PNP and NPN transistors, and includes both anode and cathode shorts which reduce the gain of the NPN and PNP transistors by shunting some current away from their bases directly to their emitters, thereby improving blocking. Moreover, the anode and cathode shorts in conjunction with the device blocking junction form PN diodes which are distributed throughout the bulk of the material and function as anti-parallel diodes to the base-emitter junctions of the PNP and NPN transistors, which enables the BOD device to handle a larger current reversal for a longer period of time. The P base layer may be made thin to decrease the voltage fall time from full blocking to full conduction, and the cathode and anode shorts may be provided in a honeycomb pattern. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284717 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868354 | Garcia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Garcia (Durham, North Carolina); Scott D. Wolter (Durham, North Carolina); April S. Brown (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph Bonaventura (Durham, North Carolina); Thomas F. Kuech (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | GaN-based heterojunction field effect transistor (HFET) sensors are provided with engineered, functional surfaces that act as pseudo-gates, modifying the drain current upon analyte capture. In some embodiments, devices for sensing nitric oxide (NO) species in a NO-containing fluid are provided which comprise a semiconductor structure that includes a pair of separated GaN layers and an AlGaN layer interposed between and in contact with the GaN layers. Source and drain contact regions are formed on one of the GaN layers, and an exposed GaN gate region is formed between the source and drain contact regions for contact with the NO-containing fluid. The semiconductor structure most preferably is formed on a suitable substrate (e.g., SiC). An insulating layer may be provided so as to cover the semiconductor structure. The insulating layer will have a window formed therein so as to maintain exposure of the GaN gate region and thereby allow the gate region to contact the NO-containing fluid. Electrical contact pads are preferably provided in some embodiments so as to be in electrical contact with the source and drain contact regions, respectively. Electrical leads may thus be connected to the contact pads. According to other embodiments, the NO detection device will include a metalloporphyrin adsorbed on the GaN gate region. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937375 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868404 | Deak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NVE Corporation (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Deak (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferromagnetic thin-film based device that transitioned between alternative magnetic states thereof through having electrical currents established therethrough and has both a reference magnetization and a free layer magnetization provided therein by vortex magnetizations. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229576 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868616 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Active Spectrum, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James White (San Francisco, California); Christopher White (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniaturized instrument and method of using electron spin resonance spectrometry for measuring the degradation of lubricating fluids, and the like, that includes continuously passing a sample of such fluid through a resonating RF microwave cavity resonator during the application therethrough of a uniform slowly varying uniform magnetic field that is rapidly modulated and measuring the resulting phase modulation or amplitude modulation thereof to derive an electron spin resonance signal that directly senses the molecular changes in the fluid sample resulting from fluid degradation during operation of the vehicle, such as peroxy radicals in vehicle engine oil and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983393 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868665 | Tumer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nova R and D, Inc. (Riverside, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tumay O Tumer (Riverside, California); Martin Clajus (Los Angeles, California); Robert F Calderwood (Riverside, California); Gerard Visser (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | New sensors and different embodiments of multi-channel integrated circuit are provided. The new high energy and spatial resolution sensors use both solid state and scintillator detectors. Each channel of the readout chip employs low noise charge sensitive preamplifier(s) at its input followed by other circuitry. The different embodiments of the sensors and the integrated circuit are designed to produce high energy and/or spatial resolution two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging for widely different applications. Some of these applications may require fast data acquisition, some others may need ultra high energy resolution, and a separate portion may require very high contrast. The embodiments described herein addresses all these issues and also other issues that may be useful in two and three dimensional medical and industrial imaging. The applications of the new sensors and integrated circuits addresses a broad range of applications such as medical and industrial imaging, NDE and NDI, security, baggage scanning, astrophysics, nuclear physics and medicine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/378664 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868766 | Gengel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn W. Gengel (Hollister, California); Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California); Tom Pounds (Monte Sereno, California); Kenneth D. Schatz (San Jose, California); Paul S. Drzaic (Morgan Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag comprises a flexible substrate and an integrated circuit embedded within the flexible substrate. The top surface of the integrated circuit is coplanar with the flexible substrate. At least one conductive element is formed on the flexible substrate. The conductive element is electrically connected to the integrated circuit. The conductive element serves as an antenna for the RFID tag. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366617 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868819 | De Lorenzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David De Lorenzo (Palo Alto, California); Per Enge (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various systems, methods and devices are implemented for processing received signals. Consistent with one such embodiment, a method is implemented for use in a signal-communication receiver having a carrier-tracking loop and a processor for operating adaptive algorithms. The method involves interpreting a received signal using space time adaptive processing (STAP). A convergence speed of the adaptive algorithms is set based on a noise bandwidth of a phase-locked loop (PLL) in the carrier-tracking loop. A carrier-phase de-rotation constraint is implemented into weight parameters of the STAP to preserve spatial and temporal degrees of freedom in the STAP. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/205521 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868830 | Worl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Tilman Worl (Maple Valley, Washington); Isaac Ron Bekker (Seattle, Washington); Dan R. Miller (Puyallup, Washington); Kenneth G. Voyce (Bellevue, Washington); Ming Chen (Bellevue, Washington); Harold J. Redd (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual beam dual-selectable-polarization phased array antenna comprises an aperture unit, a printed wiring board, radiating elements, chip units, a pressure plate, and a rear housing unit. The printed wiring board has sub assemblies bonded to each other with a bonding material providing both mechanical and electrical connection. The printed wiring board is connected to the aperture unit. The radiating elements are formed on the printed wiring board. The chip units are mounted on the printed wiring board. The chip units include circuits capable of controlling radio frequency signals radiated by the radiating elements to form dual beams with independently selectable polarization. The pressure plate is connected to the aperture unit. The aperture unit is connected to the rear housing unit such that the aperture unit covers the rear housing unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119865 |
| 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 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tonn (Charlestown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention as disclosed is of a buoyant cable antenna for use with underwater vehicles having improved bandwidth through the use of discrete distributed loading along the antenna. The buoyant cable antenna is designed with an antenna wire that is divided into N equal length segments of length d/2. A capacitor is coupled between every other segment such that capacitors are separated by a distance d. A shunt inductor is coupled to the antenna wire between the adjoining segments not separated by a capacitor such that the shunt inductors are separated by a distance d. This antenna design provides a substantially improved impedance bandwidth over existing prior art antennas at high frequency without increasing the physical profile of the antenna and without the use of active circuit elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229668 |
| 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 343/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869043 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sparta, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew B. Campbell (Annandale, Virginia); Jeffrey E. Thoma (Vienna, Virginia); Andrew J. Dally (Chantily, Virginia); Merrick J. DeWitt (Vienna, Virginia); Troy A. Crites (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive skin detection system includes a main body which houses a collection optics system having an image splitting device, a visible light filter mechanism having a plurality of narrow band filters and an image capture system. The image capture system stores visible light data as a plurality of digital images formed from a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of digital images is associated with visible light passed through a respective one of the plurality of narrow band filters. An image processing system, operatively connected to the image capture system, compares relative intensities of each of the plurality of digital images to identify one or more of the plurality of pixels having an absorption bandwidth indicating a presence of skin. The processing system determines whether a person, identified by his skin, is present in any of the images captured by the detection system. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/649793 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869051 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC. UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Thomas (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Wolfgang G. Ruldolph (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xuejun Liu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a system and method for coherent imaging. The system of the present invention includes a light source adapted to provide coherent light to illuminate a sample resulting in optically mixed coherent signals and a detector adapted to receive the optically mixed coherent signals and produce an output signal in response thereto. The optically mixed coherent signals will be a set of sum and difference frequency combinations of the frequencies in the coherent light. A processor is connected to the detector and adapted to ratio a selected two of the optically mixed coherent signals in response to the output signal received by the detector and to generate an image in response to the ratioed optically mixed coherent signals, which can be displayed for a user. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016711 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869349 | Agrawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Alina Beygelzimer (White Plains, New York); Bong-Jun Ko (Harrington Park, New Jersey); Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting and correcting invalid network paths in a network having a plurality of routers and a set of global invariant rules imbedded in the network including querying a subset of a routing table data structure defining network paths wherein said subset includes a plurality of routing table entries and comparing a network routing table entry with an earlier network routing table entry for the same node. The method and system also includes detecting inconsistencies between the newer network routing table entry and the earlier network routing table entry, and invalidating the network entries of the older network routing table that are inconsistent with the newer entries. The method and system also includes reconstructing the routing structure by replacing the invalidated network routing table entries with new routing table entries that minimize violation of the invariant protocols. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251094 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869910 | Bandyopadhyay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Promode R. Bandyopadhyay (Middetown, Rhode Island); Alberico Menozzi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Daniel P. Thivierge (Warren, Rhode Island); David N. Beal (Providence, Rhode Island); Amuradha Annaswamy (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided to control maneuvering flapping foils of an underwater vehicle. An oscillator generates periodic signals in which effects of external disturbances are minimized or amplified as required; the periodic signal can be either sinusoidal or can depart significantly from a sinusoid; the amplitude and frequency are varied by changing the oscillator parameters and the phase between the signals are varied by changing the parameters. The oscillator restores the parameters after a disturbance. Since the oscillator functions without external sensors, the oscillator serves as an inner-loop controller with a centralized control. An open loop control architecture for the controller, results in a motion where the vehicle maneuvers execute as force and moment commands. The non-linear, auto-catalytic oscillator can be realized using a variety of second-order differential equations. An oscillator model is added to a conventional motor control, where the outputs of the oscillator control the foils in real-time. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901546 |
| 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 71/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869951 | Vidmar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Vidmar (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania); Daniel P. Bergen, II (Maple Shade, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Local ES refractivity for a geographical position on a given date is determined by locating the geographical position within one of the Delaunay triangles in a grid of Delaunay triangles defined by a plurality of data points in a database containing temporal (e.g. monthly) average refractivity values at various locations around the globe. Each of the data points in the database form the vertices of the Delaunay triangles and by interpolating the temporal averaged refractivity of the vertices of the triangle enclosing the geographical position to the given date and then interpolating the refractivity of the vertices to the geographical position within the triangle, the local ES refractivity of the geographical position is estimated. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/171639 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07870458 | Laprade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Laprade (Palm Bay, Florida); Matthew C. Cobb (W. Melbourne, Florida); Timothy F. Dyson (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A decoding system (100) is provided. The decoding system is comprised of two or more serial concatenated convolutional code (SCCC) decoders (1021-102N) operating in parallel. The SCCC decoders are configured to concurrently decode codeblocks which have been encoded using a convolutational code. The decoding system is also comprised of a single common address generator (108) and data store (114). The address generator is responsive to requests for data needed by two or more of the SCCC decoders for permutation and depermutation. The data store is comprised of two or more memory blocks (1161-116K). The SCCC decoders concurrently generate requests for two or more different data types. Selected ones of the different data types are exclusively stored in different ones of the memory blocks. Selected ones of the different data types are comprised of data which is requested at the same time by a particular one of the SCCC decoders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685849 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Waag (Rochester, New York); Jeffrey P. Astheimer (Honeoye Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In estimation of an aberration in propagation of an ultrasonic wave from an aperture through an aberration path, the aperture is modeled as a plurality of sources and receivers. The frequency-domain magnitude of the aberration is estimated by normalizing the scattered signal power spectrum. The frequency-domain phase of the aberration is estimated by a recursion using cross spectra of signals at neighboring receivers. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192393 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867245 | Neeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ziv Neeman (Merion-Station, Pennsylvania); Bradford J. Wood (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Venous filters having at least two struts (110) each having a connected end and a non-connected end, wherein each of the struts includes a strut portion and an anchor portion (116), and wherein the strut portion and the anchor portion are attached via an electrolytically active thread (221, 222); and a head (118) that connects the connected ends of the struts, wherein the strut portion can be separated from the anchor portion at least in part by the application of an electrical current. The invention also includes a venous filter having at least two struts, wherein each of the struts includes a temperature sensitive portion and an anchor portion; wherein the anchor portion is separated from the temperature sensitive portion at least in part by changing the temperature around at least the temperature sensitive portion. Also included is a venous filter having a web (650) of dissolvable material; and at least two anchors (618), wherein the at least two anchors are configured to retain the web within a mammalian blood vessel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/588863 |
| ART UNIT | 3734 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867447 | Dertinger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Litron Laboratories, Ltd. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Dertinger (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the enumeration of micronucleated erythrocyte populations while distinguishing platelet and platelet-associated aggregates involves the use of a first fluorescent labeled antibody having binding specificity for a surface marker for reticulocytes, a second fluorescent labeled antibody having binding specificity for a surface marker for platelets, and a nucleic acid staining dye that stains DNA (micronuclei) in erythrocyte populations. Because the fluorescent emission spectra of the first and second fluorescent labeled antibodies do not substantially overlap with one another or with the emission spectra of the nucleic acid staining dye, upon excitation of the labels and dye it is possible to detect the fluorescent emission and light scatter produced by the erythrocyte populations and platelets, and count the number of cells from one or more erythrocyte populations in said sample. In particular, the use of the second antibody prevents interference by platelet-associated aggregates in the scoring procedures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177352 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867476 | Knowlton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk Knowlton (Escondido, California); Sotirios Tsimikas (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention consists of assay methods, assay kits and antibodies for detecting the polypeptide fragments of dystrophin protein cleavage by enteroviral protease 2A as a result of an enteroviral infection in the heart. The presence of dystrophin cleavage products in the myocytes or blood of a subject is diagnostic for enteroviral infection and myocarditis resulting therefrom. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/591092 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867496 | Khanna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genzyme Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashwani K. Khanna (Clarksville, Maryland); Steven Ledbetter (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to methods of ameliorating nephrotoxic side effects of immunosuppressive agents whose immunosuppressive activity is mediated via upregulation of TGF-β such as, for example, cyclosporine (CsA). The disclosure provides treatment modalities for use in patients that require immunosuppression, e.g., patients at risk of transplant rejection or having an autoimmune disease. In the methods of the invention, a TGF-β antagonist, e.g., an anti-TGF-β antibody, is administered to a patient treated with an immunosuppressive agent. Such a TGF-β antagonist is administered in a therapeutically effective amount sufficient to alleviate the nephrotoxic effects of the immunosuppressive agent without substantially interfering with immunosuppressive activity of the agent. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663519 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867497 | Crowe, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Crowe, Jr. (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to particular human monoclonal antibodies and fragments thereof that find use in the detection, prevention and treatment of respiratory syncytial virus infections. In particular, these antibodies may neutralize RSV. Also disclosed are improved methods for producing monoclonal antibodies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236245 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/147.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867500 | Simons, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Stoney Simons, Jr. (Bethesda, Maryland); Yuanzheng He (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a new glucocorticoid receptor coactivator named STAMP (Steroid receptor coactivator-1 and Transcription intermediary factor-2 Associated Modulatory Protein) that can modulate transcription of glucocorticoid-, progesterone-, mineralocorticoid- and androgen-responsive genes. The invention also provides antibodies that can bind STAMP and modulate its activity. In addition, the invention provides antisense, ribozyme and siRNA STAMP nucleic acids that can modulate the expression of STAMP. Also provided are compositions and methods for modulating glucocorticoid-responsive gene expression and for treating a variety of diseases and conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510859 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867512 | Discher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bohdana M. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); You-Yeon Won (West Lafayette, Indiana); James C-M Lee (Columbia, Missouri); Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Frank Bates (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides biocompatible vesicles comprising semi-permeable, thin-walled encapsulating membranes which are formed in an aqueous solution, and which comprise one or more synthetic super-amphiphilic molecules. When at least one super-amphiphile molecule is a block copolymer, the resulting synthetic vesicle is termed a “polymersome.” The synthetic, reactive nature of the amphiphilic composition enables extensive, covalent cross-linking of the membrane, while maintaining semi-permeability. Cross-linking of the polymer building-block components provides mechanical control and long-term stability to the vesicle, thereby also providing a means of controlling the encapsulation or release of materials from the vesicle by modifying the composition of the membrane. Thus, the encapsulating membranes of the present invention are particularly suited for the reliable, durable and controlled transport, delivery and storage of materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708932 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867705 | Wands et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rhode Island Hospital, a Lifespan-Partner (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack R. Wands (Providence, Rhode Island); Philippe Merle (Lyons, France); Suzanne M. De La Monte (East Greenwich, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present specification provides, inter alia, methods of using Wnt and FZD proteins, genes, FZD and Wnt-specific antibodies and probes in diagnosis and treatment of cancer and for screening test compounds for an ability to treat cancer. Also disclosed are compounds useful for treating cancer such as liver cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/575627 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07867712 | Sherley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Sherley (Boston, Massachusetts); Min-Soo Noh (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to nucleic acid sequences whose expression is associated with different cell states, including nucleic acid sequences whose expression is induced at least 100-fold, or alternatively upregulated, in cells exhibiting asymmetric self-renewal relative to other cells. The invention is also directed to nucleic acid sequences whose expression is induced at least 100-fold, or alternatively upregulated, in cells exhibiting symmetric self-renewal relative to other cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/063182 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867716 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaofeng Kang (College Station, Texas); Li Qun Gu (Columbus, Missouri); Stephen Cheley (Okemos, Michigan); Hagan Bayley (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus, system and method for stochastic sensing of an analyte to a protein pore. The protein pore may be an engineer protein pore, such as an ion channel at temperatures above 55° C. and even as high as near 100° C. The analyte may be any reactive analyte, including chemical weapons, environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals. The analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element to produce a detectable electrical current signal. Possible signals include change in electrical current. Detection of the signal allows identification of the analyte and determination of its concentration in a sample solution. Multiple analytes present in the same solution may also be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314174 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867719 | Cooke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vermillion, Inc. (Austin, Texas); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (Kawasaki-shi, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Cooke (Palo Alto, California); Eric T. Fung (Los Altos, California); Eiichiro Kimura (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides β2 microglobulin as a biomarker for qualifying or assessing peripheral artery disease in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685146 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867721 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Zuker (San Diego, California); Richard G. Walker (La Jolla, California); Aarron Willingham (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, for the first time, nucleic acids encoding a eukaryotic mechanosensory transduction channel (MSC) protein. The proteins encoded by these nucleic acids form channels that can directly detect mechanical stimuli and convert them into electrical signals. These nucleic acids and the proteins they encode can be used as probes for sensory cells in animals, and can be used to diagnose and treat any of a number of human conditions involving inherited, casual, or environmentally-induced loss of mechanosensory transduction activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/703343 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory S. Hageman (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are screening methods for determining a human subject's propensity to develop a vascular disorder and/or age-related macular degeneration (AMD), therapeutic or prophylactic compounds for treating disease or inhibiting its development, and methods of treating patients to alleviate symptoms of the disease, prevent or delay its onset, or inhibit its progression. The inventions are based on the discovery that persons with a genome having a deletion of the CFHR-1 and/or CFHR-3 gene, which normally lie on human chromosome 1 between DNA encoding CFH and CFHR-4, are at reduced risk of developing AMD, and elevated risk of developing vascular disease such as aneurysm. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894667 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867758 | Rao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianghong Rao (Sunnyvale, California); Min-kyung So (Seoul, South Korea); Hequan Yao (Nanjing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioluminogenic assay system including: providing a bioluminogenic substrate incorporating a beta-lactam antibiotic, a bioluminescence initiating compound, and a chemical linkage joining the beta-lactam antibiotic to the bioluminescence initiating compound; exposing the bioluminogenic substrate to a beta-lactamase enzyme that catalyzes the release of the bioluminescence initiating compound from the bioluminogenic substrate; co-exposing the bioluminogenic substrate to a bioluminescence indicator reaction that employs the bioluminescence initiating compound as a substrate; and detecting a light from the bioluminescence indicator reaction as a measure of the activity of the beta-lactamase enzyme. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/060864 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867974 | Alpan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Alpan (Rockville, Maryland); Tirumalai Kamala (Rockville, Maryland); Polly Matzinger (Bethesda, Maryland); William Hugold Velander (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a simple method for the treatment of antigen-deficiency diseases, by orally administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of the deficient antigen, wherein the antigen is not present in a liposome. In one embodiment, the method increases hemostasis in a subject having hemophilia A or B, by orally administering to the hemophiliac a therapeutically effective amount of the appropriate clotting factor other than in a liposome, sufficient to induce oral tolerance and supply exogenous clotting factor to the subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/734489 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867975 | O'Reilly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. O'Reilly (Missouri City, Texas); M. Judah Folkman (Brookline, Massachusetts); George S. Abrams, legal representative (Waban, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Endostatin compositions capable of inhibiting endothelial cell proliferation, inhibiting angiogenesis and causing tumor regression are described. Specifically, amino acid sequences of endostatin proteins and nucleic acid sequences coding for endostatin proteins are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/335361 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867977 | Berzofsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay A. Berzofsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Leon T. Van Den Broeke (Zoutelande, Netherlands); Crystal MacKall (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lee J. Helman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are immunogenic peptides, related fusion proteins, nucleic acids encoding the peptides or fusion proteins, conjugates, expression vectors, host cells, and antibodies. Also, disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, vaccines for use in the treatment or prevention of cancer, e.g., alveolar rhabodomyosarcoma, methods of stimulating a T cell to kill a tumor cell, methods of stimulating CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, and methods of treating or preventing cancer are further provided herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092449 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867978 | Ji et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tae H Ji (Lexington, Kentucky); Inhae Ji (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to methods and compositions useful for the treatment of senile dementia. More particularly the disclosure relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of senile dementia related to diabetes. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627005 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868037 | Karp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (South Plainfield, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Mitchell Karp (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Peter Seongwoo Hwang (Edison, New Jersey); James Jan Takasugi (Trenton, New Jersey); Hongyu Ren (Dayton, New Jersey); Richard Gerald Wilde (Somerville, New Jersey); Anthony Allan Turpoff (Edison, New Jersey); Alexander Arefolov (Piscataway, New Jersey); Guangming Chen (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Jeffrey Allen Campbell (Glen Gardner, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such compounds or compositions for treating infection by a virus, or for affecting viral IRES activity. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331180 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868133 | Korsmeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley J. Korsmeyer (Weston, Massachusetts); Anthony Letai (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides peptides and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them. The invention further provides therapeutic, diagnostic and research methods for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of apoptosis associated disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789557 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868139 | Elson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles O. Elson (Birmingham, Alabama); Yingzi Cong (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy and diagnosis of immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are disclosed. Illustrative compositions comprise one or more bacterial polypeptides, immunogenic portions thereof, polynucleotides that encode such polypeptides, antigen presenting cell that expresses such polypeptides, and T cells that are specific for cells expressing such polypeptides. The disclosed compositions are useful, for example, in the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of immune-mediated inflammatory disease. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/223219 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868150 | Zuker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles S. Zuker (San Diego, California); Jon E. Adler (San Diego, California); Nick Ryba (Bethesda, Maryland); Ken Mueller (San Diego, California); Mark Hoon (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a novel family of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors, antibodies to such receptors, methods of detecting such nucleic acids and receptors, and methods of screening for modulators of taste transduction G-protein coupled receptors. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544854 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 07868158 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Si-Yi Chen (Pearland, Texas); Lei Shen (Houston, Texas); Kevin C. Evel-Kabler (Rosharon, Texas); Xue F. Huang (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to regulation of antigen presentation by cytokine signaling regulators in antigen presenting cells, such as dendritic cells. The invention provides methods of modulating antigen presentation through modulation of cytokine signaling regulators, such as SOCS (SOCS1-7, CIS), SHP (SHP-1 and SHP-2) or PIAS (PIAS1, PIAS3, PIASx and PIASy). The present invention provides vaccines and therapies in which antigen presentation is enhanced through modulation of cytokine signaling regulators. The present invention also provides a mechanism to break self tolerance in tumor vaccination methods that rely on presentation of self tumor antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165091 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 07868159 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Si-Yi Chen (Pearland, Texas); Kevin C. Evel-Kabler (Rosharon, Texas); Xiaotong Song (Pearland, Texas); Xue F. Huang (Pearland, Texas); Andrew Sharabi (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes compositions and methods for enhancing immunopotency of an immune cell by way of inhibiting a negative immune regulator in the cell. The present invention provides vaccines and therapies in which antigen presentation is enhanced through inhibition of negative immune regulators. The present invention also provides a mechanism to break self tolerance in tumor vaccination methods that rely on presentation of self tumor antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335736 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 07869639 | Hoge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Scott Hoge (Brookline, Massachusetts); Misha Kilmer (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Reconstructing an image from MRI data provided by an MRI machine includes: selecting a system transformation based on the MRI machine; selecting a subspace based on the system transformation; and obtaining a solution vector that solves a minimization problem. The minimization problem is formulated on the subspace, based on the MRI data. The image is reconstructed from the solution vector and displayed. |
| FILED | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/625661 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869860 | Kinahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E Kinahan (Seattle, Washington); Adam M Alessio (Seattle, Washington); Thomas K Lewellen (Port Ludlow, Washington); Hubert J Vesselle (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for obtaining linear attenuation coefficients for interpreting a PET scan of a region. The method is suitable for use when high molecular weight materials are present in the region, such as contrast agents or metal objects. The method includes obtaining first and second x-ray CT data sets of the region of interest at two different energies or voltage potentials and differencing corresponding CT numbers. The difference values are used to distinguish portions of the region that are bone from portions of the region that are contrast agent or other high molecular weight material. The obtained CT data set is then used to obtain an attenuation coefficient map of the region at the PET energy of 511 keV, for example, using a linear scaling factor suited to the particular identified material. Difference values at or near zero may be used to identify soft tissue portions of the region. |
| FILED | Friday, November 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595389 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/425 |
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| US 07869863 | Moses et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Moses (Rockville, Maryland); John A. Cristion (Columbia, Maryland); Susanne M. Daniels (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wayne I. Sternberger (Highland, Maryland); Timothy P. Magnani (Fulton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method and apparatus for monitoring the fetal condition in an objective, quantitative, and non-invasive manner by enabling continuous and highly specific data collection during pre-natal development and the intra-partum period. In an embodiment, monitoring the fetal condition comprises monitoring a fetal heart rate, a fetal heart rate variability, and/or the fetal heart vector orientation of a fetus in a pregnant mother. Automated signal processing techniques are applied to a multiplicity of transducers to select an optimum signal vector to monitor at least one of a fetal heart rate, a fetal heart rate variability, and/or the fetal heart vector orientation of a fetus in a pregnant mother. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971940 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/511 |
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| US 07869958 | Royappa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grace Christy Rani Royappa (La Jolla, California); Marilyn H. Perrin (La Jolla, California); Jean E. Rivier (La Jolla, California); Wylie W. Vale, Jr. (La Jolla, California); Roland Riek (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for identifying modulators of B1 G-protein coupled receptors. The present invention also relates to a method for identifying an antagonist or agonist of the corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 2 (CRFR2). The present invention also relates to a method for improving antagonists or agonists of CRFR2. The present invention also relates to the three-dimensional structure of CRFR2 as representative of the B1 GPCR subfamily and its use as a basis for rational drug design of antagonist or agonists of B1 GPCRs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199821 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph E. Harris (San Antonio, Texas); Eugene L. Broerman, III (San Antonio, Texas); Gary D. Bourn (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of improving scavenging operation of a two-stroke internal combustion engine. The exhaust pressure of the engine is analyzed to determine if there is a pulsation frequency. Acoustic modeling is used to design an absorber. An appropriately designed side branch absorber may be attached to the exhaust manifold. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541008 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/312 |
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| US 07866201 | Tutu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Narinder Kumar Tutu (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device for the measurement of dissolved gas within a fluid. The fluid, substantially a liquid, is pumped into a pipe. The flow of the fluid is temporally restricted, creating one or more low pressure regions. A measurement indicative of trapped air is taken before and after the restriction. The amount of dissolved air is calculated from the difference between the first and second measurements. Preferably measurements indicative of trapped air is obtained from one or more pressure transducers, capacitance transducers, or combinations thereof. In the alternative, other methods such as those utilizing x-rays or gamma rays may also be used to detect trapped air. Preferably, the fluid is a hydraulic fluid, whereby dissolved air in the fluid is detected. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/697862 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/19.50 |
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| US 07866286 | Sun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zongxuan Sun (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Valve lift in an internal combustion engine is controlled by an electro-hydraulic actuation mechanism including a selectively actuable hydraulic feedback circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/851446 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/90.120 |
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| US 07866385 | Lambirth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gene Richard Lambirth (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and heaters for treating a subsurface formation are described herein. At least one method includes treating a hydrocarbon containing formation. The method may include providing heat to the formation; producing heated fluid from the formation; and generating electricity from at least a portion of the heated fluid using a Kalina cycle. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788822 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/256 |
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| US 07866386 | Beer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Lee Beer (Houston, Texas); Weijian Mo (Sugar Land, Texas); Busheng Li (Houston, Texas); Chonghui Shen (Calgary, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for treating a hydrocarbon containing formation described herein include providing heat to a first portion of the formation from a plurality of heaters in the first portion, producing produced through one or more production wells in a second portion of the formation, reducing or turning off heat provided to the first portion after a selected time, providing an oxidizing fluid through one or more of the heater wells in the first portion, providing heat to the first portion and the second portion through oxidation of at least some hydrocarbons in the first portion, and producing fluids through at least one of the production wells in the second portion. The produced fluids may include at least some oxidized hydrocarbons produced in the first portion. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250370 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/258 |
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| US 07866388 | Bravo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Luis Bravo (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a formation fluid includes providing formation fluid from a subsurface in situ heat treatment process. The formation fluid is separated to produce a liquid stream and a first gas stream. The first gas stream includes carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, hydrocarbons, hydrogen or mixtures thereof. Molecular oxygen is separated from air to form a molecular oxygen stream comprising molecular oxygen. The first gas stream is combined with the molecular oxygen stream to form a combined stream comprising molecular oxygen and the first gas stream. The combined stream is provided to one or more downhole burners. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250360 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/267 |
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| US 07867441 | Eckels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Del Eckels (Livermore, California); Peter J. Nunes (Danville, California); Randall L. Simpson (Livermore, California); Stefan Hau-Riege (Fremont, California); Chris Walton (Oakland, California); J. Chance Carter (Livermore, California); John G. Reynolds (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A low to moderate temperature heat source comprising a high temperature energy source modified to output low to moderate temperatures wherein the high temperature energy source modified to output low to moderate temperatures is positioned between two thin pieces to form a close contact sheath. In one embodiment the high temperature energy source modified to output low to moderate temperatures is a nanolaminate multilayer foil of reactive materials that produces a heating level of less than 200° C. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634784 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867445 | Haas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Haas (San Ramon, California); Douglas E. Howard (Livermore, California); Joel D. Eckels (Livermore, California); Peter J. Nunes (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosives tester that can be used anywhere as a screening tool by non-technical personnel to determine whether a surface contains explosives. First and second explosives detecting reagent holders and dispensers are provided. A heater is provided for receiving the first and second explosives detecting reagent holders and dispensers. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/788558 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
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| US 07867648 | Atanasoski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Atanasoski (Edina, Minnesota); Alison K. Schmoeckel (Stillwater, Minnesota); David G. O'Neill (Lake Elmo, Minnesota); George D. Vernstrom (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Dennis P. O'Brien (Maplewood, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for making a supported catalyst comprising nanostructured elements which comprise microstructured support whiskers bearing nanoscopic catalyst particles, where the method comprises step a) of vacuum deposition of material from at least a first carbon target in the presence of nitrogen and step b) of vacuum deposition of material from a second target comprising at least one transition metal, the second target comprising no precious metals. In one embodiment, step a) is carried out prior to step b). In another embodiment, steps a) and b) are carried out simultaneously. Typically the deposition steps are carried out in the absence of oxygen. Typically, the transition metal is iron or cobalt, and most typically iron. The present disclosure also provides a supported catalyst comprising nanostructured elements which comprise microstructured support whiskers bearing nanoscopic catalyst particles made according to the present method. The present disclosure also provides a fuel cell membrane electrode assembly comprising the present supported catalyst. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276166 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867658 | Angell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Wu Xu (Broadview Heights, Ohio); Jean-Philippe Belieres (Chandler, Arizona); Masahiro Yoshizawa (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are developments in high temperature fuel cells including ionic liquids with high temperature stability and the storage of inorganic acids as di-anion salts of low volatility. The formation of ionically conducting liquids of this type having conductivities of unprecedented magnitude for non-aqueous systems is described. The stability of the di-anion configuration is shown to play a role in the high performance of the non-corrosive proton-transfer ionic liquids as high temperature fuel cell electrolytes. Performance of simple H2(g) electrolyte/O2(g) fuel cells with the new electrolytes is described. Superior performance both at ambient temperature and temperatures up to and above 200° C. are achieved. Both neutral proton transfer salts and the acid salts with HSO−4 anions, give good results, the bisulphate case being particularly good at low temperatures and very high temperatures. The performance of all electrolytes is improved by the addition of a small amount of involatile base of pKa value intermediate between those of the acid and base that make the bulk electrolyte. The preferred case is the imidazole-doped ethylammonium hydrogensulfate which yields behavior superior in all respects to that of the industry standard phosphoric acid electrolyte. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/555468 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867669 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Giner Electrochemical Systems, LLC (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han Liu (Waltham, Massachusetts); Anthony B. LaConti (Lynnfield, Massachusetts); Cortney K. Mittelsteadt (Natick, Massachusetts); Thomas J. McCallum (Ashland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid polymer electrolyte composite membrane and method of manufacturing the same. According to one embodiment, the composite membrane comprises a rigid, non-electrically-conducting support, the support preferably being a sheet of polyimide having a thickness of about 7.5 to 15 microns. The support has a plurality of cylindrical pores extending perpendicularly between opposing top and bottom surfaces of the support. The pores, which preferably have a diameter of about 5 microns, are made by laser micromachining and preferably are arranged in a defined pattern, for example, with fewer pores located in areas of high membrane stress and more pores located in areas of low membrane stress. The pores are filled with a first solid polymer electrolyte, such as a perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) polymer. A second solid polymer electrolyte, which may be the same as or different than the first solid polymer electrolyte, may be deposited over the top and/or bottom of the first solid polymer electrolyte. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/970673 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/494 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867713 | Nasarabadi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shanavaz Nasarabadi (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymerase chain reaction system for analyzing a sample containing nucleic acid includes providing magnetic beads; providing a flow channel having a polymerase chain reaction chamber, a pre polymerase chain reaction magnet position adjacent the polymerase chain reaction chamber, and a post pre polymerase magnet position adjacent the polymerase chain reaction chamber. The nucleic acid is bound to the magnetic beads. The magnetic beads with the nucleic acid flow to the pre polymerase chain reaction magnet position in the flow channel. The magnetic beads and the nucleic acid are washed with ethanol. The nucleic acid in the polymerase chain reaction chamber is amplified. The magnetic beads and the nucleic acid are separated into a waste stream containing the magnetic beads and a post polymerase chain reaction mix containing the nucleic acid. The reaction mix containing the nucleic acid flows to an analysis unit in the channel for analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106390 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867716 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaofeng Kang (College Station, Texas); Li Qun Gu (Columbus, Missouri); Stephen Cheley (Okemos, Michigan); Hagan Bayley (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus, system and method for stochastic sensing of an analyte to a protein pore. The protein pore may be an engineer protein pore, such as an ion channel at temperatures above 55° C. and even as high as near 100° C. The analyte may be any reactive analyte, including chemical weapons, environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals. The analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element to produce a detectable electrical current signal. Possible signals include change in electrical current. Detection of the signal allows identification of the analyte and determination of its concentration in a sample solution. Multiple analytes present in the same solution may also be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314174 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868086 | Teasley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Teasley (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Aromatic sulfonimide ionene polymers useful as membranes in electrochemical cells are prepared. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865080 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/717 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868152 | Bertozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Berkeley, California); John Kehoe (Saint Davids, Pennsylvania); Andrew M. Bradbury (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides anti-sulfotyrosine specific antibodies capable of detecting and isolating polypeptides that are tyrosine-sulfated. The sulfotyrosine antibodies and antibody fragments of the invention may be used to discriminate between the non-sulfated and sulfated forms of such proteins, using any number of immunological assays, such ELISAs, immunoblots, Western Blots, immunoprecipitations, and the like. Using a phage-display system, single chain antibodies (scFvs) were generated and screened against tyrosine-sulfated synthetic peptide antigens, resulting in the isolation of scFvs that specifically recognize sulfotyrosine-containing peptides and/or demonstrate sulfotyrosine-specific binding in tyrosine sulfated proteins. The VH and VL genes from one such sulfotyrosine-specific scFv were employed to generate a full length, sulfotyrosine-specific immunoglobulin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560294 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869031 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ut-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Anne Lewis (Andersonville, Tennessee); Raynella Magdalene Connatser (Knoxville, Tennessee); Samuel Arthur Lewis, Sr. (Andersonville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for detecting a print on a surface, the method comprising: (a) contacting the print with a Raman surface-enhancing agent to produce a Raman-enhanced print; and (b) detecting the Raman-enhanced print using a Raman spectroscopic method. The invention is particularly directed to the imaging of latent fingerprints. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180157 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869049 | Baba et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin S. Baba (Knoxville, Tennessee); Brian S. Letzen (Coral Springs, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical sample is mounted on a spatial-acquisition apparatus that is placed in or on an enclosure. An incident beam is irradiated on a surface of the sample and the specular reflection is allowed to escape from the enclosure through an opening. The spatial-acquisition apparatus is provided with a light-occluding slider that moves in front of the sample to block portions of diffuse scattering from the sample. As the light-occluding slider moves across the front of the sample, diffuse light scattered into the area of the backside of the light-occluding slider is absorbed by back side surface of the light-occluding slider. By measuring a baseline diffuse reflectance without a light-occluding slider and subtracting measured diffuse reflectance with a light-occluding slider therefrom, diffuse reflectance for the area blocked by the light-occluding slider can be calculated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/436329 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869474 | Wysocki et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Wysocki (Princeton, New Jersey); Frank K. Tittel (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprising a laser source configured to emit a light beam along a first path, an optical beam steering component configured to steer the light beam from the first path to a second path at an angle to the first path, and a diffraction grating configured to reflect back at least a portion of the light beam along the second path, wherein the angle determines an external cavity length. Included is an apparatus comprising a laser source configured to emit a light beam along a first path, a beam steering component configured to redirect the light beam to a second path at an angle to the first path, wherein the optical beam steering component is configured to change the angle at a rate of at least about one Kilohertz, and a diffraction grating configured to reflect back at least a portion of the light beam along the second path. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/349839 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/29.22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07870343 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton on Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Dirk Hoenicke (Ossining, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for managing coherence between two processors of a two processor node of a multi-processor computer system. Generally the present invention relates to a software algorithm that simplifies and significantly speeds the management of cache coherence in a message passing parallel computer, and to hardware apparatus that assists this cache coherence algorithm. The software algorithm uses the opening and closing of put/get windows to coordinate the activated required to achieve cache coherence. The hardware apparatus may be an extension to the hardware address decode, that creates, in the physical memory address space of the node, an area of virtual memory that (a) does not actually exist, and (b) is therefore able to respond instantly to read and write requests from the processing elements. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/468995 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07867167 | Boctor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emad M. Boctor (Baltimore, Maryland); Gregory D. Hager (Baltimore, Maryland); Gabor Fichtinger (Kingston, Canada); Anand Viswanathan (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system and method for intra-operatively spatially calibrating an ultrasound probe. The method includes determining the relative changes in ultrasound images of a phantom, or high-contrast feature points within a target volume, for three different ultrasound positions. Spatially calibrating the ultrasound probe includes measuring the change in position and orientation of the probe and computing a calibration matrix based on the measured changes in probe position and orientation and the estimated changes in position and orientation of the phantom. |
| FILED | Friday, April 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/578071 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867512 | Discher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bohdana M. Discher (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); You-Yeon Won (West Lafayette, Indiana); James C-M Lee (Columbia, Missouri); Daniel A. Hammer (Villanova, Pennsylvania); Frank Bates (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides biocompatible vesicles comprising semi-permeable, thin-walled encapsulating membranes which are formed in an aqueous solution, and which comprise one or more synthetic super-amphiphilic molecules. When at least one super-amphiphile molecule is a block copolymer, the resulting synthetic vesicle is termed a “polymersome.” The synthetic, reactive nature of the amphiphilic composition enables extensive, covalent cross-linking of the membrane, while maintaining semi-permeability. Cross-linking of the polymer building-block components provides mechanical control and long-term stability to the vesicle, thereby also providing a means of controlling the encapsulation or release of materials from the vesicle by modifying the composition of the membrane. Thus, the encapsulating membranes of the present invention are particularly suited for the reliable, durable and controlled transport, delivery and storage of materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708932 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867658 | Angell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Austen Angell (Mesa, Arizona); Wu Xu (Broadview Heights, Ohio); Jean-Philippe Belieres (Chandler, Arizona); Masahiro Yoshizawa (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are developments in high temperature fuel cells including ionic liquids with high temperature stability and the storage of inorganic acids as di-anion salts of low volatility. The formation of ionically conducting liquids of this type having conductivities of unprecedented magnitude for non-aqueous systems is described. The stability of the di-anion configuration is shown to play a role in the high performance of the non-corrosive proton-transfer ionic liquids as high temperature fuel cell electrolytes. Performance of simple H2(g) electrolyte/O2(g) fuel cells with the new electrolytes is described. Superior performance both at ambient temperature and temperatures up to and above 200° C. are achieved. Both neutral proton transfer salts and the acid salts with HSO−4 anions, give good results, the bisulphate case being particularly good at low temperatures and very high temperatures. The performance of all electrolytes is improved by the addition of a small amount of involatile base of pKa value intermediate between those of the acid and base that make the bulk electrolyte. The preferred case is the imidazole-doped ethylammonium hydrogensulfate which yields behavior superior in all respects to that of the industry standard phosphoric acid electrolyte. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/555468 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868088 | Sita et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence R. Sita (Silver Spring, Maryland); Matthew B. Harney (Fairfax, Virginia); Yonghui Zhang (Old Saybrook, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modulated degenerative transfer living polymerization and isotactic-atactic stereoblock and stereogradient poly(olefins) thereby Abstract A method of producing a multiblock, stereoblock polyolefin having substantially uniform microstructure is disclosed. The method includes contacting a Ziegler-Natta pre-catalyst with a co-catalyst and an olefin to polymerize the olefin and form a first stereoblock, adding a methyl donator that changes the stereoregularity of the polymerization, and polymerizing the olefin to form a second stereoblock. The methods of the present invention allow for the production of poly(olefin)s having predictable degrees of incorporation of stereoerrors of a known type. The methods allows for the production of a variety of poly(olefin) microstructures, ranging from stereoblock to stereogradient poly(olefin)s and poly(olefin)s having fully isotactic to fully atactic microstructures. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/886536 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868156 | Ohlrogge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John B. Ohlrogge (Okemos, Michigan); Christoph Benning (East Lansing, Michigan); Hongbo Gao (East Lansing, Michigan); Thomas Arno Alfred Girke (Poway, California); Joseph A. White (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel seed specific promoter regions. The present invention further provide methods of producing proteins and other products of interest and methods of controlling expression of nucleic acid sequences of interest using the seed specific promoter regions. The present invention also provides methods of identifying and isolating novel seed specific promoters. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172832 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868220 | Kuo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lewis and Clark College (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis Kuo (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Degradation of phosphate esters, particularly neurotoxins and pesticides, is performed using metallocene derivatives, more particularly molybdocene and tungstocene derivatives. A metallocene derivative is hydrolyzed and then reacted with a phosphate ester. The preferred metallocene derivatives are molybdocene and tungstocene derivatives. The phosphate esters can include, but are not limited to, VX, VE, VG, VM, GB, GD, GA, GF, parathion, paraoxon, triazophos, oxydemeton-methyl, chlorpyrifos, fenitrothion and pirimiphos-methyl, representing both chemical warfare agents as well as pesticides and insecticides. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/953148 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868287 | Fry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward S. Fry (College Station, Texas); Joseph A. Musser (College Station, Texas); Jeffrey Katz (College Station, Texas); William C. Merka (College Station, Texas); George W. Kattawar (College Station, Texas); Zheng Lu (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates an apparatus and method for forming a diffuse reflector. In one embodiment of the invention, a diffuse reflector is formed by exposing transmissive particles of a pre-determined purity to pressure and forming a material having desired diffuse reflective properties. The transmissive particles may further be thermally treated, such as by sintering, to form material having desired diffuse reflective properties. The treated transmissive particles may then be disposed in a vessel and define a cavity therein to form an integrated cavity diffuse reflector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/895955 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868426 | Willis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian G. Willis (Wilmington, Delaware); Rahul Gupta (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A monolithic pair of nanoscale probes, including: a substrate having a cavity that extends from a surface of the substrate into its body; a dielectric layer formed on the substrate; a pair of nanoscale probe precursors formed over the dielectric layer; a plurality of sub-monolayers of electrode material selectively atomic layer deposited over the pair of nanoscale probe precursors. The dielectric layer includes a window that extends through it to the cavity of the substrate such that a portion of the dielectric layer adjacent to the window extends over the cavity. The pair of nanoscale probe precursors includes a pair of edges facing each other across the window. These edges correspond to tips of the pair of nanoscale probes. The sub-monolayers of electrode material include the pair of edges, so that a distance between the tips of the nanoscale probes is between about 0.1 nm and about 20 nm. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180848 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869030 | Zhong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuan-Jian Zhong (Endwell, New York); Stephanie I-Im Lim (Vestel, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an aggregate composed of a plurality of nanoparticles of a transition metal and a plurality of cyanine dye molecules that are interacting non-covalently. The nanoparticles are capped with a capping molecule, while the cyanine dye molecule can be cationic, anionic, or neutral cyanine dye. Methods of making such aggregates and for using them in detection of an analyte are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/961809 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869032 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Zhang (Urbana, Illinois); Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Biosensors are disclosed which include a surface for binding to sample molecule to the biosensor in the form of a porous, thin film of dielectric material, e.g., TiO2. In one example the porous, thin film is in the form of a multitude of sub-micron sized rod-like structures (“nanorods”) projecting therefrom. In one embodiment, the biosensor is in the form of a photonic crystal biosensor. The approach of depositing a thin film of dielectric nanorods may be applied to any enhanced fluorescence biosensor surface structure, including 1-dimensional photonic crystals, 2-dimensional photonic crystals, 3-dimensional photonic crystals, surface plasmon resonance surfaces, planar waveguides, and grating-coupled waveguides. The dielectric nanorod structures can be fabricated on the surface of a biosensor by the glancing angle deposition technique (GLAD). |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079171 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869127 | Richter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk Richter (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, element and system are provide for efficiently, accurately and without significant contribution of noise, splitting a beam of radiation or combining beams of radiation. In one embodiment of the invention, a beamsplitter front surface partially reflects incident radiation and refracts the rest of the radiation. The refracted radiation is completely reflected at a back surface of the beamsplitter and is completely refracted producing a parallel beam without creating any stray radiation or optical noise. This is accomplished using a p-polarized input beam and a Brewster angle geometry. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/276874 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/487 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869469 | Spuler |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Spuler (Westminster, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A Raman shifter is provided with improved optical efficiency and robustness, particularly for high power applications. In one embodiment, a source system (100) includes a source pump laser (102) and a seed laser (104). Beams from the pump laser (102) and seed laser (104) combine for transmission into a Raman cell (112). Folding optics define a multi-pass pathway through the Raman cell (112). Such folding optics may include an internal reflectance element. An entry window into the Raman cell, an exit window from the Raman cell, and the internal reflectance elements include surfaces disposed at a Brewster angle relative to the incident beam. The Raman cell medium is circulated in a direction transverse to the beam pathways through the cell. In this manner, improved optical efficiency and robustness is achieved as well as improved performance over a significant wavelength band. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140588 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869526 | Maxwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erick Maxwell (Temple Terrace, Florida); Thomas Weller (Lutz, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a single-stage tunable Ultra-Wideband (UWB) pulse generator, by creating and differentiating a variable edge rate signal. Edge rate variability is introduced by first applying a step recovery diode (SRD) to compress the edges of the source and then applying a simple RC network to adjust the edge rate. Next, the resulting signal is differentiated using microstrip transmission lines. The tunable generator resulting from this approach demonstrates a Gaussian and monocycle pulses with good symmetry and low distortion over the tunable range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/612713 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/259 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07870084 | D'Ambrosio |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Art Technology Group, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Douglass D'Ambrosio (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a language, method and system to formulate and evaluate relational Bayesian networks in an c-commerce environment. The present invention employs a specific language for constructing synthetic variables used to predict events in the Bayesian networks. The present system and language allow for efficient and accurate representation, inference, and discovery of the synthetic variables used to model web visitor behavior. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016601 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07867589 | DeLay |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. DeLay (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight, high-pressure cryogenic tank construction includes an inner layer comprising a matrix of fiber and resin suitable for cryogenic use. An outer layer in intimate contact with the inner layer provides support of the inner layer, and is made of resin composite. The tank is made by placing a fiber preform on a mandrel and infusing the preform with the resin. The infused preform is then encapsulated within the outer layer. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780561 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/36.910 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867639 | Raffaelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Phillip Jenkins (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); David Wilt (Bay Village, Ohio); David Scheiman (Cleveland, Ohio); Donald Chubb (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Stephanie Castro (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An alpha voltaic battery includes at least one layer of a semiconductor material comprising at least one p/n junction, at least one absorption and conversion layer on the at least one layer of semiconductor layer, and at least one alpha particle emitter. The absorption and conversion layer prevents at least a portion of alpha particles from the alpha particle emitter from damaging the p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material. The absorption and conversion layer also converts at least a portion of energy from the alpha particles into electron-hole pairs for collection by the one p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093134 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867640 | Raffaelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Phillip Jenkins (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); David Wilt (Bay Village, Ohio); David Scheiman (Cleveland, Ohio); Donald Chubb (Olmsted Falls, Ohio); Stephanie Castro (Westlake, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An alpha voltaic battery includes at least one layer of a semiconductor material comprising at least one p/n junction, at least one absorption and conversion layer on the at least one layer of semiconductor layer, and at least one alpha particle emitter. The absorption and conversion layer prevents at least a portion of alpha particles from the alpha particle emitter from damaging the p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material. The absorption and conversion layer also converts at least a portion of energy from the alpha particles into electron-hole pairs for collection by the one p/n junction in the layer of semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196790 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867716 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaofeng Kang (College Station, Texas); Li Qun Gu (Columbus, Missouri); Stephen Cheley (Okemos, Michigan); Hagan Bayley (Oxford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes an apparatus, system and method for stochastic sensing of an analyte to a protein pore. The protein pore may be an engineer protein pore, such as an ion channel at temperatures above 55° C. and even as high as near 100° C. The analyte may be any reactive analyte, including chemical weapons, environmental toxins and pharmaceuticals. The analyte covalently bonds to the sensor element to produce a detectable electrical current signal. Possible signals include change in electrical current. Detection of the signal allows identification of the analyte and determination of its concentration in a sample solution. Multiple analytes present in the same solution may also be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314174 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868783 | Bachelder |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron D. Bachelder (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cellular-based preemption system that uses existing cellular infrastructure to transmit preemption related data to allow safe passage of emergency vehicles through one or more intersections. A cellular unit in an emergency vehicle is used to generate position reports that are transmitted to the one or more intersections during an emergency response. Based on this position data, the one or more intersections calculate an estimated time of arrival (ETA) of the emergency vehicle, and transmit preemption commands to traffic signals at the intersections based on the calculated ETA. Additional techniques may be used for refining the position reports, ETA calculations, and the like. Such techniques include, without limitation, statistical preemption, map-matching, dead-reckoning, augmented navigation, and/or preemption optimization techniques, all of which are described in further detail in the above-referenced patent applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420023 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/906 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869029 | Gore |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren J. Gore (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical system for receiving and collimating light and for transporting and processing light received in each of N wavelength ranges, including near-ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths, to determine a fraction of light received, and associated dark current, in each wavelength range in each of a sequence of time intervals. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398733 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07867592 | Nelson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eksigent Technologies, Inc. (Dublin, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darcee Deschamp Nelson (Madison, Wisconsin); Klaus Joachim Dahl (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for modifying at least a portion of a porous polymeric surface. Such methods include contacting the porous polymeric surface with at least one polyelectrolyte, resulting in the physical adsorption of at least one polyelectrolyte onto the porous polymeric surface to form a charge modified surface. Such coated surfaces may be part of a device or apparatus, including electroosmotic pumps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669022 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/40.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07868186 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Singapore, Singapore); Beng S Ong (Singapore, Singapore); Yiliang Wu (Oakville, California); Ping Liu (Mississauga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device comprising a polymer comprising at least one type of repeat unit comprising at least one type of an optionally substituted indolocarbazole moiety and at least one divalent linkage. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334858 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869162 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Lu (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Ganping Ju (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Julius K. Hohlfeld (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Duane C. Karns (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Amit V. Itagi (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William A. Challener (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Hua Zhou (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a magnetic layer, a heat sink layer, and a thermal resistor layer between the magnetic layer and the heat sink layer. The apparatus may be configured as a thin film structure arranged for data storage. The apparatus may also include an interlayer positioned between the magnetic layer and the thermal resistor layer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707280 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/125.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07869309 | Mihalcea et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christophe Daniel Mihalcea (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); William Albert Challener (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Werner Scholz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Kalman Pelhos (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Dorothea Buechel (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Julius Hohlfeld (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Nils Jan Gokemeijer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises a waveguide, an optical transducer for coupling electromagnetic radiation from the waveguide to a point adjacent to an air bearing surface to heat a portion of a storage medium, and a first wire positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface, wherein current in the wire produces a magnetic field in the heated portion of the storage medium. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/201662 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/13.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07867704 | Kapur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washinton, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Kapur (Shoreview, Minnesota); John P. Bannantine (Ames, Iowa); Ling-Ling Li (Moundsview, Minnesota); Qing Zhang (Seattle, Washington); Alongkorn Amonsin (Lopburi, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nucleic acid molecules unique to M. paratuberculosis. The invention also provides the polypeptides encoded by the M. paratuberculosis-specific nucleic acid molecules of the invention, and antibodies having specific binding affinity for the polypeptides encoded by the M. paratuberculosis-specific nucleic acid molecules. The invention further provides for methods of detecting M. paratuberculosis in a sample using nucleic acid molecules, polypeptides, and antibodies of the invention. The invention additionally provides methods of preventing a M. paratuberculosis infection in an animal. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/934893 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867710 | Richt |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juergen A. Richt (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A specific, non-synonymous SNP in the Prnp gene encoding the bovine prion protein affects the susceptibility of bovine animals to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Depending on the number of octapeptide repeat units present in the Prnp gene, the position of the SNP is either nucleotide 631 of exon 3 (codon 211) when the Prnp gene comprises six octapeptide repeat region sequences, nucleotide 607 of exon 3 (codon 203) when the Prnp gene comprises five octapeptide repeat region sequences, or nucleotide 655 of exon 3 (codon 219) when the Prnp gene comprises seven octapeptide repeat region sequences. Alleles of the bovine Prnp wherein the SNP at these positions is lysine (K) at the corresponding amino acids (i.e., 211, 203 or 219) in the bovine prion protein are all indicative of increased susceptibility to BSE in comparison to alleles which encode glutamic acid (E) at the same position. This SNP may be used as a marker for selecting bovines susceptible to BSE for disposal and/or removal from breeding, the human food and animal feed supplies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787784 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07867740 | Vieille et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claire Vieille (Lansing, Michigan); Seung Hoon Song (East Lansing, Michigan); J. Gregory Zeikus (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding Thermotoga maritima mannitol dehydrogenase and the Thermotoga maritima mannitol dehydrogenase polypeptide are disclosed. Further provided are an electrochemical bioreactor system and a bioreactor electrode that can be used to convert glucose or fructose to mannitol. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891569 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07868812 | Huthoefer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Patriot Technologies, LLP (Diamondhead, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Virginia Lorraine Huthoefer (Diamondhead, Mississippi); Gerald Wallace Huthoefer (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing entry-point, boundary-line, and presence intrusion detection by means of an intelligent controller process capable of driving both field alert/alarm systems and security station monitoring devices and for providing occupancy warnings and critical status alerts, one embodiment providing runway occupancy warnings and critical runway status alerts to both flight crew approaching an airfield and air traffic controllers managing ground traffic, the system including: a detection system, airfield output devices (including all FAROS, GAROS and CTAF Runway Occupancy Radio Signals (RORS)), an airfield communications network, a centralized data processing unit that contains all of the algorithms to drive light control, logging, and an optional administrative network layer that hosts a graphical user interface. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/203394 |
| 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 342/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07866204 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yingping Jeffrey Yang (Cincinnati, Ohio); John Hall (Cincinnati, Ohio); Roy C. Haught (Independence, Kentucky); James A. Goodrich (Union, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for monitoring water in a distribution system is disclosed where the sensor sampling schedule is changed in real time in response to a contaminant or other chemical passing through the sampling location. This results in finer determination of where the contaminant is located in the water distribution and identification of the contaminant with a lower false rate than random or scheduled sampling. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700236 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/61.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07868830 | Worl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Tilman Worl (Maple Valley, Washington); Isaac Ron Bekker (Seattle, Washington); Dan R. Miller (Puyallup, Washington); Kenneth G. Voyce (Bellevue, Washington); Ming Chen (Bellevue, Washington); Harold J. Redd (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual beam dual-selectable-polarization phased array antenna comprises an aperture unit, a printed wiring board, radiating elements, chip units, a pressure plate, and a rear housing unit. The printed wiring board has sub assemblies bonded to each other with a bonding material providing both mechanical and electrical connection. The printed wiring board is connected to the aperture unit. The radiating elements are formed on the printed wiring board. The chip units are mounted on the printed wiring board. The chip units include circuits capable of controlling radio frequency signals radiated by the radiating elements to form dual beams with independently selectable polarization. The pressure plate is connected to the aperture unit. The aperture unit is connected to the rear housing unit such that the aperture unit covers the rear housing unit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119865 |
| 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 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07869980 | Casler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Casler (Montrose, Colorado); Joan L. Mitchell (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Computation of variance or variance of the autocorrelation over a moving window of various sizes of a signal containing noise and possibly a small digital signal provides a sensitive, frequency independent indication of the likelihood of the presence of a small pulse, chirp or even spread spectrum digital signal possibly obscured by noise or larger signals in the signal to much lower signal-to-noise ratios than previously possible. Large signals in the signal which may also obscure any small signal are removed to a different signal path from the noise and small signals by subtraction after compression and reconstruction of the large signal. The compression noise thus added to the signal may also increase sensitivity of the variance of the autocorrelation to small signals obscured by the large signals. Controlling storage in response to the computed variance or variance of the autocorrelation allows substantial avoidance or limitation of storage of signals which contain only noise. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265512 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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