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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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| US 07874060 | Ulmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melville P. Ulmer (Evanston, Illinois); Michael E. Graham (Evanston, Illinois); Semyon Vaynman (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An optics element, such as an optical, IR, or X-ray mirror or mirror segment, is made by a combination of replication and lamination by depositing a first metallic layer on a replicating surface of a master or mandrel, depositing a light weight backing layer that adheres on the first metallic layer, and depositing a cover layer that adheres on the backing layer whereby the optics element comprises an in-situ deposited composite lamination of the first metallic layer, the backing layer, and the cover layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165610 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/527.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07874160 | Swanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Swanson (Coventry, Connecticut); Sean P. Zamora (Coventry, Connecticut); Robert H. Bush (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Alex J. Simpson (Mansfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism included in a convergent-divergent nozzle connected to an aft portion of a gas turbine engine, which mechanism includes a convergent flap configured to be kinematically connected to the aft portion of the gas turbine engine, a divergent flap pivotally connected to the convergent flap and configured to be kinematically connected to the aft portion of the gas turbine engine, at least one actuator configured to be connected to the aft portion of the gas turbine engine and to mechanically prescribe the position of the convergent flap and the divergent flap by moving through one or more positions, and at least one biasing apparatus. The biasing apparatus is configured to position at least one of the convergent flap and the divergent flap independent of the positions of the actuator by substantially balancing a force on the at least one of the convergent flap and the divergent flap produced by a gas pressure on the nozzle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894313 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/771 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07874163 | Merry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut); Scot Adams Webb (Gales Ferry, Connecticut); Michael McCune (Colchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A starter-generator system for a tip turbine engine includes a starter motor with a fixed starter generator stator and a starter generator rotor. The fixed starter generator stator is mounted to a static inner support housing. The starter generator rotor surrounds the fixed starter generator stator and is engagement with the axial compressor rotor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/718416 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/788 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07874239 | Howland |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Warwick Mills, Inc. (New Ipswich, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A Howland (Temple, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible armor system adaptable to a garment suitable for extremity protection uses planar, polygon-shaped solid elements made of ceramic cores wrapped in high strength fabric and arranged with rotable edge and intersection protection as a flexible mosaic array which is bonded between an elastic strike side spall cover and a high tensile strength flexible backer layer, further supported by a substantial fiber pack. A progressive mode of localized system failure during a ballistic strike includes: a projectile penetrating the spall cover, fracturing the ceramic core of a wrapped SE while being partially deformed; the deformed projectile accelerating the fractured but still wrapped solid element before it so as to free the solid element from the array and drive it through the flexible backer as a combined mass at a reduced velocity into the fiber pack. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/742705 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07874252 | Soto 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) | Gabriel Soto (Ridgecrest, California); Calvin Clayson (Ridgecrest, California); Michael Haddon (San Luis Obispo, California); Jerry Shultz (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater grenade and a method for using an underwater grenade. A depth activated, hand emplaced ordnance utilizing safe and arm technology to address underwater threats (such as enemy swimmers) while providing a safe interface with personnel. The grenade is armed after a sequence of events have occurred including reaching a desired depth and a desired passage of time. Failure of any of the events to occur will cause the grenade to be rendered safe. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/043659 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07874502 | Harcombe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Thomas Harcombe (Richmond, United Kingdom); Anthony John Williams (Middlesex, United Kingdom); Andy Male (Walton on Thames, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A control valve arrangement for use in controlling fuel pressure within a control chamber (30) includes a control valve member (32) which is movable between a first position in which the control chamber (30) communicates with a source of high pressure fuel, and a second position in which the control chamber (30) communicates with a low pressure fuel drain and communication between the control chamber (30) and the source of high pressure fuel is broken. The control valve arrangement also includes restricted flow means (55, 70, 86) for restricting the rate of flow of fuel from the control chamber (30) to the low pressure fuel drain when the control valve member (32) is moved from the first position to the second position. It is desirable for the restricted flow means to be configured and arranged such the rate of flow of fuel from the source of high pressure fuel to the low pressure drain for the period of time for which the control valve member (32) is moving between the second position and the first position is also restricted. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/520259 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/533.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07874998 | Humes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. David Humes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David L. Brown (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to filtration devices and related methods of use. In particular, the present invention relates to implantable filtration devices used, for example, for filtering impurities from a body fluid of a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/593270 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/5.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875089 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Energy, Inc. (Long Beach, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Roy Powell (Kennewick, Washington); Charles J. Call (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen generation apparatus employs a thermocatalytic reactor (60) formed of a top plate (62), a bottom plate (66), and a reactor core (64) disposed between the top an bottom plates. The reactor core has a reaction surface (64a) and a combustion surface (64b), each surface having a raised periphery defining opposing ends (61a and 61b) and opposing sides (63a and 63b). The reaction surface (64a) and the top plate (62) together define a reaction chamber and the combustion surface (64b) and the bottom plate (66) together define a combustion chamber. The reaction core (64) has a first set of a plurality of spaced apart, substantially straight radiating fins (76a) extending from the reaction surface (64a) and a second set of a plurality of spaced part, substantially straight radiating fins (76b) extending from the combustion surface (64b). The first set of fins (76a) defining a plurality of reaction channels (71), while the second set of fins (76b) defines a plurality of combustion channels (69) running parallel to the opposing sides (63a and 63b) and is spaced apart from the opposing ends (61a and 61b). |
| FILED | Monday, March 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/469464 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875132 | Pandey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Awadh B. Pandey (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | High temperature aluminum alloys that can be used at temperatures from about −420° F. (−251° C.) up to about 650° F. (343° C.) are described herein. These alloys comprise aluminum; scandium; at least one of nickel, iron, chromium, manganese and cobalt; and at least one of zirconium, gadolinium, hafnium, yttrium, niobium and vanadiuim. These alloys comprise an aluminum solid solution matrix and a mixture of various dispersoids. These alloys are substantially free of magnesium. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141625 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875186 | Coppola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Research Associates, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Brotech Corporation (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Coppola (Panama City, Florida); John Baxley (Lynn Haven, Florida); Andrea Davis (Panama City, Florida); Francis Boodoo (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania); William Fries (Warminster, Pennsylvania); James Dale (Cardiff, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention consists of a water treatment process using selective and regenerable weak base anion exchange resins to remove any number of complex anions, especially oxyanions including perchlorate, nitrate, chlorate, arsenate, selenate, and chromate, from aqueous solutions. The treatment process is comprised of three key processes including 1) pretreatment to lower pH, 2) ion exchange, and 3) post treatment to adjust pH and alkalinity. The invention also includes processes for regenerating weak base anion resins and treatment of the residuals generated. This invention employs pressurized treatment, carbon dioxide management, and reuse of regenerating solution to minimize pumping and treatment costs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/287579 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/677 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875195 | Rabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oded Rabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Paul R. Herz (San Diego, California); Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Arlington, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts); Yu-Ming Lin (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed invention provides for the fabrication of porous anodic alumina (PAA) films on a wide variety of substrates. The substrate comprises a wafer layer and may further include an adhesion layer deposited on the wafer layer. An anodic alumina template is formed on the substrate. When a rigid substrate such as Si is used, the resulting anodic alumina film is more tractable, easily grown on extensive areas in a uniform manner, and manipulated without danger of cracking. The substrate can be manipulated to obtain free-standing alumina templates of high optical quality and substantially flat surfaces. PAA films can also be grown this way on patterned and non-planar surfaces. Furthermore, under certain conditions, the resulting PAA is missing the barrier layer (partially or completely) and the bottom of the pores can be readily accessed electrically. The resultant film can be used as a template for forming an array of nanowires wherein the nanowires are deposited electrochemically into the pores of the template. By patterning the electrically conducting adhesion layer, pores in different areas of the template can be addressed independently, and can be filled electrochemically by different materials. Single-stage and multi-stage nanowire-based thermoelectric devices, consisting of both n-type and p-type nanowires, can be assembled on a silicon substrate by this method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832309 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875197 | Whitesides et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Younan Xia (Seattle, Washington); James L. Wilbur (Boyds, Maryland); Rebecca J. Jackman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Enoch Kim (Boston, Massachusetts); Mara G. Prentiss (Belmont, Massachusetts); Milan Mrksich (Hinsdale, Illinois); Amit Kumar (San Jose, California); Christopher B. Gorman (Cary, North Carolina); Hans Biebuyck (Rockville, Maryland); Karl K. Berggren (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods of forming a patterned self-assembled monolayer on a surface and derivative articles are provided. According to one method, an elastomeric stamp is deformed during and/or prior to using the stamp to print a self-assembled molecular monolayer on a surface. According to another method, during monolayer printing the surface is contacted with a liquid that is immiscible with the molecular monolayer-forming species to effect controlled reactive spreading of the monolayer on the surface. Methods of printing self-assembled molecular monolayers on nonplanar surfaces and derivative articles are provided, as are methods of etching surfaces patterned with self-assembled monolayers, including methods of etching silicon. Optical elements including flexible diffraction gratings, mirrors, and lenses are provided, as are methods for forming optical devices and other articles using lithographic molding. A method for controlling the shape of a liquid on the surface of an article is provided, involving applying the liquid to a self-assembled monolayer on the surface, and controlling the electrical potential of the surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187070 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875205 | Galvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Konarka Technologies, Inc. (Lowell, Massachusetts); University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary E. Galvin (Titusville, New Jersey); Russell Gaudiana (Merrimack, New Hampshire); David Waller (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic cell has two electrodes and a hole injection layer. A liquid crystal material and a plurality of particles can be disposed between the electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/261742 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875212 | Nejhad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Naghi Ghasemi Nejhad (Honolulu, Hawaii); Vinod P Veedu (Honolulu, Hawaii); Andrea Yuen (Honolulu, Hawaii); Davood Askari (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide polymer matrix nanocomposites reinforced with nano-scale materials such as nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes and methods of fabricating. The nanomaterials are provided within relatively low weight fractions, for example in the range of approximately 0.01 to about 0.4% by weight and distributed within the matrix by a magnetic mixing procedure to provide substantially uniform reinforcement of the nanocomposites. Advantageously, these nanocomposites provide significantly enhanced tensile strength, strain to failure, and fracture toughness over corresponding neat matrices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/703136 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/511 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875311 | Villalobos 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) | Guillermo R Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Shyam S Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic having at least about 90% by weight magnesium aluminate and having a bulk scattering and absorption loss of less than about 1/cm at any wavelength in a range of about 0.23 to about 5.3 microns or 0.2/cm at any wavelength in a range of about 0.27 to about 4.5 microns. A method of making a ceramic by providing a plurality of particles having a magnesium aluminate core and a fluoride salt coating; heating the particles in an oxidizing atmosphere to a temperature in the range of about 400° C. to about 750° C.; and sintering the particles to form a solid ceramic. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418648 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875324 | Barron 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) | Jason Barron (Brentwood, Maryland); Bradley R Ringeisen (Lorton, Virginia); Heungsoo Kim (Fairfax, Virginia); Peter K Wu (Ashland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of laser forward transfer is disclosed. Photon energy is directed through a photon-transparent support and absorbed by a polymer interlayer coated thereon. The energized interlayer causes the transfer of a biological material coated thereon across a gap and onto a receiving substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847578 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/595 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875404 | Moore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher W. Moore (Maricopa, Arizona); Jun Li (Norwood, Massachusetts); Paul Kohl (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel cells, fuel cell membranes, micro-fuel cells, and methods of fabricating each, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/596607 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875480 | Kamins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore I. Kamins (Palo Alto, California); Philip J. Kuekes (Palo Alto, California); Carrie L. Donley (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jason J. Blackstock (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a sensor comprises substantially laterally growing at least one nanowire having at least two segments between two electrodes, whereby a junction or connection is formed between the at least two segments; and establishing a sensing material adjacent to the junction or connection, and adjacent to at least a portion of each of the at least two segments, wherein the sensing material has at least two states. |
| FILED | Monday, July 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/509603 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875523 | Fields |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles H. Fields (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterojunction bipolar transistor is formed with an emitter electrode that comprises an emitter epitaxy underlying an emitter metal cap and that has horizontal dimensions that are substantially equal to the emitter metal cap. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/156079 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875528 | La Tulipe, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. La Tulipe, Jr. (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Steven E. Steen (Peekskill, New York); Anna W. Topol (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system and program product for bonding two circuitry-including semiconductor substrates, and a related stage, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of bonding two circuitry-including substrates includes: providing a first stage for holding a first circuitry-including substrate and a second stage for holding a second circuitry-including substrate; identifying an alignment mark on each substrate; determining a location and a topography of each alignment mark using laser diffraction; creating an alignment model for each substrate based on the location and topography the alignment mark thereon; and bonding the first and second circuitry-including substrates together while aligning the first and second substrate based on the alignment model. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672217 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875537 | Suvorov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Suvorov (Durham, North Carolina); Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for forming a high electron mobility transistor. The method includes the steps of implanting a Group III nitride layer at a defined position with ions that when implanted produce an improved ohmic contact between the layer and contact metals, with the implantation being carried out at a temperature higher than room temperature and hot enough to reduce the amount of damage done to the Group III nitride layer, but below a temperature at which surface problems causing leakage at the gate or epitaxial layer dissociation would occur. An ohmic contact selected from the group consisting of titanium, aluminum, nickel and alloys thereof is added to the implanted defined position on the Group III nitride layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/846605 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875545 | Ward, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan Ward, III (Durham, North Carolina); Jason Patrick Henning (Carrboro, North Carolina); Helmut Hagleitner (Zebulon, North Carolina); Keith Dennis Wieber (Siler City, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an ohmic contact and a resulting ohmic contact structure are disclosed. The method includes the steps of forming a deposited film of nickel and silicon on a silicon carbide surface at a temperature below which either element will react with silicon carbide and in respective proportions so that the atomic fraction of silicon in the deposited film is greater than the atomic fraction of nickel, and heating the deposited film of nickel and silicon to a temperature at which nickel-silicon compounds will form with an atomic fraction of silicon greater than the atomic fraction of nickel but below the temperature at which either element will react with silicon carbide. The method can further include the step of annealing the nickel-silicon compound to a temperature higher than the heating temperature for the deposited film, and within a region of the phase diagram at which free carbon does not exist. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/020731 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875565 | Pinckney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Ruth Pinckney (Corning, New York); Jian-Zhi Jay Zhang (Ithaca, New York); Carl Franklin Cline (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to transparent glass-ceramic materials for use in transparent armor systems. Applications include armor systems for ground vehicles and aircraft as well as personal protective equipment. The glass-ceramic materials according to the invention exhibit a ballistic limit vs. areal density line slope of 1.0 or greater, preferably 1.1 or greater and more preferably 1.2 or greater. The crystalline phase of the glass ceramic materials may include β-quartz, spinel, spinel solid solutions, mullite and phases known in the art to be transparent. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/710145 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875714 | Chapman 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) | Robert D. Chapman (Ridgecrest, California); Richard A. Hollins (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes a novel heavy-metal-free sequence leading to a superior, more economical, and scalable process for the high efficiency conversion of hexaallylhexaazaisowurtzitane (HAllylIW) to hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20). The process of the present invention avoids both the preparation of benzyl chloride, which uses elemental chlorine, and catalytic hydrogenolysis steps that require palladium metal/compounds. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of the claims. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789678 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875823 | Dowd |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Dowd (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A hollow rotor shaft for use in a small twin spool gas turbine engine in which the hollow rotor shaft is assembled by welding two hollow shaft sections together to form the single shaft assembly. One of the hollow shaft sections includes a lip that functions to form a snug fit prior to welding and also functions as a weld filler material. The hollow shaft ends each include a hole to allow for pressure equalization during the welding process to prevent bulging of the hollow shaft. To ensure a full penetration weld, an orbital welding process is used while passing an insert gas such as argon through the hollow shaft to minimize the buildup of material on the inner surface of the weld from the welding process. The shaft ends are pre-heated prior to welding. An insert gas is passed through the inner surface of the shaft sections during welding to prevent buildup of material on the inner surface of the hollow rotor shaft. After welding, material is removed from the outer surfaces of the shaft sections to form the outer surface of the hollow rotor shaft. And, then heat treatment at a high temperature while cooling the shaft with the insert gas occurs. Then, a second heat treatment at about half the first temperature occurs while also passing the insert gas through the shaft for cooling. The welded and heat treated hollow shaft is then balanced by removing material from around the holes. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999617 |
| ART UNIT | 3679 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875838 | Starken |
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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) | George M. Starken (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A tubular distributor in a missile having a right-angled hollow tubular first section, the right-angled hollow tubular first section having a first leg and a second leg, a straight hollow tubular second section, an end of the first leg of the right-angled hollow tubular first section perpendicularly connected to a first end of the hollow tubular second section, a straight hollow tubular third section, a first end of the hollow tubular third section perpendicularly connected to the first end of the straight hollow tubular second section, and a close/open valve positioned within the straight hollow tubular third section, the close/open valve positioned between a gas generator and the straight hollow tubular second section. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732668 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876026 | Pulskamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Spencer Pulskamp (Mclean, Virginia); Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) actuator includes a silicon substrate; an actuator beam comprising a first end region connected to the silicon substrate and a second end region connected to a mechanically compliant spring assembly; a first electrode over the silicon substrate; a piezoelectric layer above the first electrode; a second electrode over the piezoelectric layer; a conductive top structural layer above the second electrode, wherein a center half of the actuator beam is configured as a positive deflection region, and wherein both the first electrode and the second electrode supply voltage to both positive and negative deflection regions of the actuator beam. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/195571 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876094 | Goldfine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | JENTEK Sensors, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil J. Goldfine (Newton, Massachusetts); Ian C. Shay (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Darrell E. Schlicker (Watertown, Massachusetts); Andrew P. Washabaugh (Chula Vista, California); David C. Grundy (Reading, Massachusetts); Robert J. Lyons (Boston, Massachusetts); Vladimir A. Zilberstein (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Vladimir Tsukernik (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for monitoring of stresses and other material properties. These methods use measurements of effective electrical properties, such as magnetic permeability and electrical conductivity, to infer the state of the test material, such as the stress, temperature, or overload condition. The sensors, which can be single element sensors or sensor arrays, can be used to periodically inspect selected locations, mounted to the test material, or scanned over the test material to generate two-dimensional images of the material properties. Magnetic field or eddy current based inductive and giant magnetoresistive sensors may be used on magnetizable and/or conducting materials, while capacitive sensors can be used for dielectric materials. Methods are also described for the use of state-sensitive layers to determine the state of materials of interest. These methods allow the weight of articles, such as aircraft, to be determined. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080743 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876131 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A dynamic logic gate has a device for charging a dynamic node during a pre-charge phase of a clock. A logic tree evaluates the dynamic node with a device during an evaluate phase of the clock. The dynamic node has a keeper circuit comprising an inverter with its input coupled to the dynamic node and its output coupled to the back gate of a dual gate PFET device. The source of the dual gate PFET is coupled to the power supply and its drain is coupled to the dynamic node forming a half latch. The front gate of the dual gate PFET is coupled to a logic circuit with a mode input and a logic input coupled back to a node sensing the state of the dynamic node. The mode input may be a slow mode to preserve dynamic node state or the clock delayed that turns ON the strong keeper after evaluation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859351 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876224 | Prokopuk |
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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) | Nicholas Prokopuk (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to an airborne deployed passive radio frequency identification system and a method to identify an analyte and then to communicate a result of the analyte identification to a receiving station for an analysis and generation of a set of recommended actions. The invention will enhance the situational awareness and preparedness of forward deployed combat troops or security forces by assessing the presence of benign substances or hazardous substances as they advance and enter an area. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056915 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifton Quan (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An asymmetrically thinned transmit/receive (TR) module and antenna architecture is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to an active antenna assembly including at least one multi-channel transmit/receive (TR) module for reducing power consumption, the antenna assembly including the at least one TR module including a first phase shifter, a first switch coupled to the first phase shifter, the first switch configured to switch between a transmit circuit and a receive circuit, the transmit circuit including a plurality of first power amplifiers coupled to the first switch, the receive circuit including a low noise amplifier coupled to the first switch and to a plurality of second switches, where each of the plurality of second switches is configured to switch between one of the plurality of first power amplifiers and the low noise amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391984 |
| 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 342/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876417 | Dowski, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Raymond Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado); Gregory E. Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Kenneth S. Kubala (Boulder, Colorado); Wade Thomas Cathey, Jr. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical lithography system that has extended depth of focus exposes a photoresist coating on a wafer, and includes an illumination sub-system, a reticle, and an imaging lens that has a pupil plane function to form an aerial image of the reticle proximate to the photoresist. The pupil plane function provides the extended depth of focus such that the system may be manufactured or used with relaxed tolerance, reduced cost and/or increased throughput. The system may be used to form precise vias within integrated circuits even in the presence of misfocus or misalignment. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490593 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876450 | Novotny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lukas Novotny (Pittsford, New York); Bradley Deutsch (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A beam of coherent laser light with linear polarization oriented at 45 degrees to vertical is expanded, and passes through a quarter-wave plate with the fast axis oriented vertically, creating circularly polarized light. The light then passes through a non-polarizing 50/50 beamsplitter. A partial reflector then collinearly reflects a portion of the beam, which is used as the reference beam. The transmitted light passes through a linear polarizer oriented at 45 degrees to vertical, and is focused via a lens onto the sample of interest. Light scattered from this region is re-collimated by the lens and the directed through the linear 45 degree polarizer and through the partial reflector, where it recombines with the reference beam. One use of the invention is to detect microparticles in water. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210693 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876602 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reed K. Lawrence (Purcellville, Virginia); Nadim F. Haddad (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit and method are provided in which a six-transistor (6-T) SRAM memory cell is hardened to single-event upsets by adding isolation-field effect transistors (“iso-fets”) connected between the reference voltage Vdd and the field-effect transistors (“fets”) respectively corresponding to first and second inverters of the memory cell. According to certain embodiments, the control gates of first and second P-iso-fets are respectively tied to the control gates of first and second pull-up P-fets. According to certain embodiments, first and second N-iso-fets are connected between the output nodes of the memory cell and the pull-down N-fets respectively corresponding to the first and second inverters. The control gates of the first and second N-iso-fets are respectively tied to the control gates of the first and second pull-down N-fets. Again according to certain embodiments, one or more of the iso-fets are physically removed from the proximity of other transistors which comprise the memory cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/141900 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876795 | Belenky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxion Technologies, Inc. (Hyattsville, Maryland); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Belenky (Port Jefferson, New York); John D. Bruno (Bowie, Maryland); Mikhail V. Kisin (Centereach, New York); Serge Luryi (Setauket, New York); Leon Shterengas (Centereach, New York); Sergey Suchalkin (Centereach, New York); Richard L. Tober (Elkridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor light source comprises a substrate, lower and upper claddings, a waveguide region with imbedded active area, and electrical contacts to provide voltage necessary for the wavelength tuning. The active region includes single or several heterojunction periods sandwiched between charge accumulation layers. Each of the active region periods comprises higher and lower affinity semiconductor layers with type-II band alignment. The charge carrier accumulation in the charge accumulation layers results in electric field build-up and leads to the formation of generally triangular electron and hole potential wells in the higher and lower affinity layers. Nonequillibrium carriers can be created in the active region by means of electrical injection or optical pumping. The ground state energy in the triangular wells and the radiation wavelength can be tuned by changing the voltage drop across the active region. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206505 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard E. Brandt (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternative design is given for an optimized quantum cryptographic entangling probe for attacking the BB84 protocol of quantum key distribution. The initial state of the probe has a simpler analytical dependence on the set error rate to be induced by the probe than in the earlier design. The new device yields maximum information to the probe for a full range of induced error rates. As in the earlier design, the probe contains a single CNOT gate which produces the optimum entanglement between the BB84 signal states and the correlated probe states. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/693009 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876924 | Miles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald N. Miles (Newark Valley, New York); Weili Cui (Endicott, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A rigid, flat plate diaphragm for an acoustic device is illustrated. The internal supporting structure of the diaphragm provides a combination of torsional and translational stiffeners, which resemble a number of crossbars. These stiffeners brace and support the diaphragm motion, thus causing its response to not be adversely affected by fabrication stresses and causing it to be very similar in dynamic response to an ideal flat plate operating in a frequency range that extends well beyond the audible. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/689189 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877343 | Cafarella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Cafarella (Seattle, Washington); Michele Banko (Seattle, Washington); Oren Etzioni (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | To implement open information extraction, a new extraction paradigm has been developed in which a system makes a single data-driven pass over a corpus of text, extracting a large set of relational tuples without requiring any human input. Using training data, a Self-Supervised Learner employs a parser and heuristics to determine criteria that will be used by an extraction classifier (or other ranking model) for evaluating the trustworthiness of candidate tuples that have been extracted from the corpus of text, by applying heuristics to the corpus of text. The classifier retains tuples with a sufficiently high probability of being trustworthy. A redundancy-based assessor assigns a probability to each retained tuple to indicate a likelihood that the retained tuple is an actual instance of a relationship between a plurality of objects comprising the retained tuple. The retained tuples comprise an extraction graph that can be queried for information. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695506 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877367 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts); John F. Patterson (Carlisle, Massachusetts); James E. Christensen (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Stephen E. Levy (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method and system provides for graphical specification of inquiries and includes a corresponding progressive summary. The inquiries operate on stream data. Users graphically specify an inquiry in a graphical user interface according to an ontology. The invention system generates a plain-text translation of the graphical description of the inquiry and displays the generated plain-text description in a progressive summary in the graphical user interface. The system continually updates and generates the display of the plain-text description during user construction of the inquiry. This provides feedback to the user for improved construction of the inquiry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017987 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877410 | Staddon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jessica Nicola Staddon (Redwood City, California); David P. Woodruff (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing private inference control is presented. A query count and database including records are maintained. Each record includes attributes, wherein the attributes form inference channels. A data structure is constructed including ciphertext keys, which each relate to one attribute and record. A seed for a pseudorandom function and a secret key for non-malleable encryption are chosen. A query is specified by providing indices identifying one record and attribute by homomorphic encryption. A secure function evaluation is executed upon the inference channels, seed, secret key, query count, and the set of ciphertext keys. An output is generated including the pseudorandom function and an updated set of ciphertext keys subject to sum-consistency of the set of ciphertext keys and a non-inference enabling query. A table of entries is formed by combining each attribute for each record with an output from the pseudorandom function. The entry is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122600 |
| ART UNIT | 2168 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/781 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877436 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Wappingers Falls, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a data processing system for completing checkpoint processing of a distributed job with local tasks communicating with other remote tasks via a host fabric interface (HFI) and assigned HFI window. Each HFI window has a send count and a receive count, which tracks GSM messages that are sent from and received at the HFI window. When a checkpoint is initiated by a master task, each local task forwards the send count and the receive count to the master task. The master task sums the respective counts and then compares the totals to each other. When the send count total is equal to the receive count total, the tasks are permitted to continue processing. However, when the send count total is not equal to the receive count total, the master task notifies each task of the job to rollback to a previous checkpoint or kill the job execution. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024600 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877586 | Levitan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Levitan (Austin, Texas); Lixin Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one embodiment, a processor includes at least one execution unit that executes instructions and instruction sequencing logic, coupled to the at least one execution unit, that fetches instructions from a memory system for execution by the at least one execution unit. The instruction sequencing logic including branch target address prediction circuitry that stores a branch target address prediction associating a first instruction fetch address with a branch target address to be used as a second instruction fetch address. The branch target address prediction circuitry includes delay logic that, in response to at least a tag portion of a third instruction fetch address matching the first instruction fetch address, delays access to the memory system utilizing the second instruction fetch address if no branch target address prediction was made in an immediately previous cycle of operation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024190 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877621 | Jacoby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grant A. Jacoby (West Point, New York); Nathaniel J Davis, IV (Dayton, Ohio); Randolph C. Marchany (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Software attacks such as worms and viruses are detected in an electronic device by monitoring power consumption patterns. In a first embodiment, software attacks are detected by an increase in power consumption. The increased power consumption can be caused by increased network traffic, or by increased activity in the microprocessor. Monitoring power consumption is particularly effective for detecting DOS/flooding attacks when the electronic device is in an idle state. In a second embodiment, a power consumption signal is converted to the frequency domain (e.g., by fast Fourier transform). The highest amplitude frequencies are identified. Specific software attacks produce characteristic frequencies in the power consumption signal. Software attacks are therefore detected by matching the highest amplitude frequencies with frequencies associated with specific worms and viruses. Identification of a particular software attack typically requires matching of 3 or more of the highest amplitude frequencies, and, optionally, amplitude information. |
| FILED | Friday, June 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/574619 |
| ART UNIT | 2115 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877726 | Sabbouh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marwan Sabbouh (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for integrating databases and/or web services into a searchable ontological structure. The structure allows for free-form searching of the combined system and for the discovery of an execution path through the ontology. The discovered execution path (or paths) provides for the generation of code that integrate databases and services for the purpose of fusing information from disparate databases and Web services. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/890020 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877748 | Kwiat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Kwiat (Whitesboro, New York); Kaliappanadar Ravindran (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Ali S. Sabbir (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer and software method and apparatus for distributed data processing which provides agreement between data sources (sensors) and data sinks (actuators) as to what data has been written into a shared buffer. The invention further provides methods and means for meeting data timeliness requirements. Invention employs a programming primitive which recognizes semantics so as to provide a consistent view of computation modules over prescribed time intervals, called “epochs”. Application-level control of the asynchrony and timing of information flow between various computation modules is realized. The invention has applications which include sensor fusion and network gaming. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268394 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D631310 | Senyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy A. Senyk (Macomb, Michigan); Kenneth A. Greene (West Bloomfield, Michigan) |
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| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 29/369395 |
| ART UNIT | 2915 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Tools and hardware D8/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Kim (Austin, Texas); Ehsan Saeedi (Seattle, Washington); Babak Amirparviz (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-assembly process is disclosed for integrating free standing microcomponents onto a template having a plurality of binding sites, an interconnect network, and trapping structures disposed downstream of the binding sites. The self-assembly is accomplished by flowing a fluid medium containing the microcomponents over the template such that some of the microcomponents are trapped at binding sites. The template may be simultaneously (or subsequently) heated to melt a binder such as a solder spot at each of the binding sites, and then cooled to connect the trapped microcomponents to the interconnect network. In one embodiment, removable blocking elements are disposed upstream of some of the binding sites, for example formed from photoresist. After assembling a first set of microcomponents, the blocking elements are removed, and a second set of microcomponents in a fluid medium are flowed over the template for assembly into the newly unblocked binding sites. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/358152 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07874985 | Kovatchev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris P. Kovatchev (Amherst, Virginia); Daniel J. Cox (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product related to the diagnosis of diabetes, and is directed to predicting the long-term risk of hyperglycemia, and the long-term and short-term risks of severe hypoglycemia in diabetics, based on blood glucose readings collected by a self-monitoring blood glucose device. The method, system, and computer program product pertain directly to the enhancement of existing home blood glucose monitoring devices, by introducing an intelligent data interpretation component capable of predicting both HbA1c and periods of increased risk of hypoglycemia, and to the enhancement of emerging continuous monitoring devices by the same features. With these predictions the diabetic can take steps to prevent the adverse consequences associated with hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305946 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/365 |
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| US 07875197 | Whitesides et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Younan Xia (Seattle, Washington); James L. Wilbur (Boyds, Maryland); Rebecca J. Jackman (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Enoch Kim (Boston, Massachusetts); Mara G. Prentiss (Belmont, Massachusetts); Milan Mrksich (Hinsdale, Illinois); Amit Kumar (San Jose, California); Christopher B. Gorman (Cary, North Carolina); Hans Biebuyck (Rockville, Maryland); Karl K. Berggren (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods of forming a patterned self-assembled monolayer on a surface and derivative articles are provided. According to one method, an elastomeric stamp is deformed during and/or prior to using the stamp to print a self-assembled molecular monolayer on a surface. According to another method, during monolayer printing the surface is contacted with a liquid that is immiscible with the molecular monolayer-forming species to effect controlled reactive spreading of the monolayer on the surface. Methods of printing self-assembled molecular monolayers on nonplanar surfaces and derivative articles are provided, as are methods of etching surfaces patterned with self-assembled monolayers, including methods of etching silicon. Optical elements including flexible diffraction gratings, mirrors, and lenses are provided, as are methods for forming optical devices and other articles using lithographic molding. A method for controlling the shape of a liquid on the surface of an article is provided, involving applying the liquid to a self-assembled monolayer on the surface, and controlling the electrical potential of the surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187070 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875274 | Sikic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Branimir Sikic (Stanford, California); Markus Bredel (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed a method for identifying a therapeutically responsive phenotype, as distinguished, e.g. from an alkylating agent resistant phenotype in a cell, which method may be used to evaluate the likelihood of successful outcome of treating a tumor cell with an alkylating agent. The method is directed to the NF-κB activation in response to DNA damage caused by alkylating agents. It comprises the step of measuring a level of expression of a protein, which participates in the NF-κB pathway. Preferably it comprises measuring the expression of TNFAIP3 in the cell, wherein a resistant phenotype has less expression of TNFAIP3 than a sensitive phenotype. Another particularly significant gene, which predicts survival, is NFKBIA. Other genes whose altered expression level is associated with resistance or prognosis are TNIP1, TNIP2, RIP, NFKBIB, Beta4GalNAc-T4, NFKBIE, C8orf4, LIF, CD44, FBXO32, and SDC1, and these are also measured in certain embodiments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638161 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875276 | Kropp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley Kropp (Edmond, Oklahoma); Earl Y. Cheng (Elmhurst, Illinois); Yuan Yuan Zhang (Edmond, Oklahoma); Hsueh-Kung Lin (Edmond, Oklahoma); Rick Cowan (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing a urinary tract tissue graft composition includes providing a segment of small intestinal submucosa and isolating and culturing at least one multipotent cell type from a tissue specimen of a subject. The at least one multipotent cell type is then seeded upon a surface of the segment of small intestinal submucosa and allowed to differentiate into a unipotent cell type, thereby forming a urinary tract tissue graft. Methods for repairing a damaged urinary tract tissue of a subject are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799926 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875277 | Marinkovich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Dept. of Veterans Affairs Office of The General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting and inhibiting squamous cell carcinoma using agents that target the laminin 5 alpha 3 G4-G5 domain. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082906 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875280 | Schneewind et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olaf Schneewind (Chicago, Illinois); Deborah M. Anderson (Naperville, Illinois); Robert Brubaker (Colombus, North Carolina); Kristin L. DeBord (Washington, District of Columbia); R. William DePaolo (Chicago, Illinois); Katie A. Overheim (Chicago, Illinois); Elizabeth M. Morrin (Chicago, Illinois); Bana Jabri (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions involving modified LcrV proteins from Yersinia bacteria. These methods and compositions can be employed to invoke an immune response in a subject against the bacteria, while not suppressing the immune system as much as the native LcrV protein. In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to vaccines, as well as methods to protect a subject against Yersinia pestis and plague. Moreover, the present invention concerns methods and compositions for suppressing a subject's immune system using non-native LcrV polypeptides. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/293024 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875288 | Balu-Iyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sathy V. Balu-Iyer (Amherst, New York); Robert M. Straubinger (Amherst, New York); Razvan Miclea (Simi Valley, California); Aaron Peng (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for treatment of blood coagulation disorders. The method comprises administering to an individual compositions comprising lipidic particles comprising phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol and cholesterol. One or more peptides, polypeptides or proteins involved in the blood coagulation cascade are associated with the lipidic particles. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/731647 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875289 | Balu-Iyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sathy V. Balu-Iyer (Amherst, New York); Robert M. Straubinger (Amherst, New York); Razvan Miclea (Simi Valley, California); Aaron Peng (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are lipidic particles comprising phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol and cholesterol. Also provided are compositions comprising the lipidic particles and having associated therewith therapeutic agents such as peptides, polypeptides or proteins. In these compositions, the therapeutic agents have reduced immunogenicity and/or longer circulating time. These compositions can be used for therapeutic administration of the peptides, polypeptides and/or proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/731648 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875428 | Pourmand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Pourmand (San Mateo, California); Baback Gharizadeh (Palo Alto, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A DNA microarray, preferably in the form of a chip, contains probes which hybridize to generate primers capable of amplifying approximately 89 HPV types. These target the E1 region of the gene. The design of the chip allows for the detection of any known HPV type, based on a unique probe sequence derived from the HPV E1 region. The present assay utilizes a number of primers that can amplify from about one to six different types of HPV. A large number of primers can be used together. After amplification, the amplicons are contacted with specific probes that are unique for each HPV type. The array further employs a control sequence, which normalizes variability due to sample size. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707832 |
| 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 07875450 | Schiller 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) | John T. Schiller (Silver Spring, Maryland); Bryce Chackerian (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Douglas R. Lowy (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein relates to compositions and methods for stimulating immune responses in vivo against a tolerogen. Novel biotechnological tools, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics and prophylactics, which concern chimeric or conjugated virus-like particles, and methods of use of the foregoing are provided for the study of B cell tolerance and the treatment or prevention of human diseases, which involve the onset of B cell tolerance, such as chronic viral infection, chronic inflammatory disease, and neoplasia. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/050892 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875451 | Murry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Murry (Seattle, Washington); Michael Alan Laflamme (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The survival of cells during transplantation is enhanced. Cells to be transplanted are administered in a formulation that provides two ore more survival enhancing factors. Optionally, prior to administration, the cells are cultured in the presence of factors that enhance survival, and may be heat shocked prior to transplantation. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336502 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875454 | Hallahan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of delivering an active agent to a target tissue, particularly neoplastic tissue, vascular anomaly or tumor tissue, in a vertebrate subject. The method includes the steps of exposing the target tissue to ionizing radiation; and administering a delivery vehicle to the vertebrate subject before, after, during, or combinations thereof, exposing the target tissue to the ionizing radiation. The delivery vehicle includes the active agent and delivers the agent to the target tissue. Representative delivery vehicles include platelets; leukocytes; proteins or peptides which bind activated platelets; antibodies which bind activated platelets; microspheres coated with proteins or peptides which bind activated platelets; liposomes conjugated to proteins or peptides, platelets, or leukocytes which bind activated platelets, or antibodies which bind activated platelets; and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/413783 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875585 | Sackstein |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Sackstein (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention feature methods and compositions for treating hematopoietic disorders, inflammatory conditions, and cancer and providing stem cell therapy in a mammal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/042421 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875591 | Carson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel D. Carson (Houston, Texas); Mary C. Farach-Carson (Houston, Texas); Margaret French (Houston, Texas); Ronald Gomes (West Chester, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A device comprising a scaffold coated with a protein having at least 83% identity to the amino acid sequence of the core protein of domain I of a mammalian perlecan, wherein at least one glycosaminoglycan is attached to the protein is described. The device may be used in vitro or in vivo to induce replication and/or differentiation of connective tissue cells and to repair tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428031 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/20.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875595 | Rieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren J. Murphree (Rockville, Maryland); Robert Alan Figler (Earlysville, Virginia); Robert Douglas Thompson (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having the following general formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R7 and Z are as described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487265 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875596 | Cardin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Celsus Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan D. Cardin (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Dermatan sulfates and/or O-desulfated heparins useful in treating and preventing heparinoid-induced autoimmune responses, in particular heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and its associated disease states. The dermatan sulfates comprise repeating disulfated and/or trisulfated disaccharide units of L-iduronic acid and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine. The O-desulfated heparins comprise heparin molecules selectively O-desulfated at the 2-O and/or 3-O positions of the uronic acid and glucosamine saccharide residues. Particularly effective dermatan sulfate HIT antagonists have a mean molecular weight of from about 2000 to about 10,000 Daltons. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014948 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875599 | Brodie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela Brodie (Fulton, Maryland); Vincent Njar (Glen Burnie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are steroidal C-17 benzoazoles, pyrimidinoazoles (azabenzoazoles) and diazines. Methods for their synthesis are also described, which include methods having a step of nucleophilic vinylic “addition-elimination” substitution reaction of 3β-acetoxy-17-chloro-16-formylandrosta-5,16-diene or analogs thereof and benzoazole or pyrimidinoazole nucleophiles and methods having a palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of 17-iodoandrosta-5,16-dien-3β-ol or analogs thereof with tributylstannyl diazines. The compounds are potent inhibitors of human CYP 17 enzyme as well as potent antagonists of both wild type and mutant androgen receptors (AR). The compounds are useful for the treatment of human prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/817550 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875604 | Rekosh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Rekosh (Earlysville, Virginia); Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes novel methods of identifying compounds which inhibit HIV particle formation and Rev-dependent HIV production. The present invention also provides methods and compounds for inhibiting HIV particle formation and or treating patients infected with HIV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/588444 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875608 | Thompson et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Thompson (Charlottesville, Virginia); Guoquan Wang (Charlottesville, Virginia); Anthony Beauglehole (Charlottesville, Virginia); Frank Schmidtmann (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides substituted 8-[6-amino-3-pyridyl]xanthines like the compound shown in the following formula: and pharmaceutical compositions that are selective antagonists of A2B adenosine receptors (ARs). These compounds and compositions are useful as pharmaceutical agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337010 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/234.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875612 | Green et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); Endocyte, Inc. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Green (West Lafayette, Indiana); Chun-Yen Ke (West Lafayette, Indiana); Christopher P. Leamon (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A cell population expressing folate receptors is selectively targeted with a non-peptide folic acid analogue. The non-peptide folic acid analogue is conjugated to a diagnostic or therapeutic agent to enable selective delivery of the agent to the targeted cell population. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/475876 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/243 |
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| US 07875721 | Prossnitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric R. Prossnitz (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Sergey E. Tkatchenko (San Diego, California); Chetana M. Revankar (Arlington, Virginia); Larry A. Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jeffrey B. Arterburn (Las Cruces, New Mexico); Daniel F. Cimino (Tijeras, New Mexico); Tudor I. Oprea (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Cristian-George Bologa (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S. Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Kiselyov (San Diego, California); Susan M. Young (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention is in the field of molecular biology/pharmacology and provides compounds which modulate the effects of GPR30 as well as the classical estrogen receptors alpha and beta (ERα and ERβ). These compounds may function as agonists and/or antagonists of one or more of the disclosed estrogen receptors. Diseases which are mediated through one or more of these receptors include cancer (particularly breast, reproductive and other hormone-dependent cancers, leukemia, colon cancer, prostate cancer), reproductive (genito-urological) including endometritis, prostatitis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, bladder control, hormone-related disorders, hearing disorders, cardiovascular conditions including hot flashes and profuse sweating, hypertension, stroke, obesity, osteoporosis, hematologic diseases, vascular diseases or conditions such as venous thrombosis, atherosclerosis, among numerous others and disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system, including depression, insomnia, anxiety, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy, neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease, as well as inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease, coeliac (celiac) disease and related disorders of the intestine. A contraceptive indication to prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy after intercourse is a further aspect of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/497751 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875734 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan); Joseph A. R. Schmidt (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocycles, e.g., epoxides, are carbonylated at low pressure with high percentage conversion to cyclic, ring expanded products using the catalyst where L is tetrahydrofuran (THF). |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486158 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877241 | Elmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Elmer (Phoenix, Maryland); Neri Kafkafi (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Psychopharmacological properties of new therapeutic drugs and highly heritable behavior patterns of test subjects are identified based on analysis of monitored exploratory movement to identify behavioral signatures. A test subject in a pen is allowed to explore for a period of time, after injecting it with a candidate drug or control vehicle. The test subject's movement is monitored and its locations stored. The locations are analyzed to separate them into behavioral patterns that are defined based on combinations of behavioral feature. Relative frequencies of performing each behavioral pattern are determined. In each pattern, differences between the relative frequencies in the candidate drug and control groups are tested, and only patterns in which this difference is highly significant are retained. The number of behavioral patterns further is reduced based on the relative frequencies and the correlation of behavioral patterns to one another, with the cells left over corresponding to a set of endpoints that identify a behavioral signature of the effect of the drug. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634068 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877737 | Austin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Austin (Laurel, Maryland); Natalya Shmunis (Rockville, Maryland); Virnal Mayank (Raipur, India); David Frank Everett (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for generating a graph data representation having a plurality of nodes corresponding to respective systems engineering requirements. The method includes accessing a first data representation of a collection of systems requirements and relationships therebetween and generating a second data representation of the collection of systems requirements. The generating the second data representation includes accessing respective systems requirements of the collection of systems requirements; creating a node to correspond to each accessed systems requirement if a node corresponding to the accessed systems requirement does not exist; and creating an edge between the created or pre-existing node and each node corresponding to a systems requirement having a relationship with the accessed systems requirement. Each node of the second data representation is a node of said graph data representation and corresponds to a different systems requirement of the collection of systems requirements. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/157074 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad L. Staiger (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark R. Vaughn (Albuquerque, New Mexico); A. Keith Miller (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Christopher J. Cornelius (Blackburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, non-cryogenic, oxygen generation system capable of delivering oxygen gas at purities greater than 98% and flow rates of 15 L/min or more is described. The system consists of two major components. The first component is a high efficiency membrane capable of separating argon and a portion of the nitrogen content from air, yielding an oxygen-enriched permeate flow. This is then fed to the second component, a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit utilizing a commercially available, but specifically formulated zeolite compound to remove the remainder of the nitrogen from the flow. The system is a unique gas separation system that can operate at ambient temperatures, for producing high purity oxygen for various applications (medical, refining, chemical production, enhanced combustion, fuel cells, etc . . . ) and represents a significant advance compared to current technologies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269540 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Liu (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method device and material for performing adsorption wherein a fluid mixture is passed through a channel in a structured adsorbent bed having a solid adsorbent comprised of adsorbent particles having a general diameter less than 100 um, loaded in a porous support matrix defining at least one straight flow channel. The adsorbent bed is configured to allow passage of a fluid through said channel and diffusion of a target material into said adsorbent under a pressure gradient driving force. The targeted molecular species in the fluid mixture diffuses across the porous support retaining layer, contacts the adsorbent, and adsorbs on the adsorbent, while the remaining species in the fluid mixture flows out of the channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/136129 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875187 | Snezhko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleksiy Snezhko (Woodridge, Illinois); Igor Aronson (Darien, Illinois); Wai-Kwong Kwok (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Self-assembly of magnetic microparticles in AC magnetic fields. Excitation of the system by an AC magnetic field provides a variety of patterns that can be controlled by adjusting the frequency and the amplitude of the field. At low particle densities the low-frequency magnetic excitation favors cluster phase formation, while high frequency excitation favors chains and netlike structures. For denser configurations, an abrupt transition to the network phase was obtained. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641337 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875219 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing meso-porous nanocomposite electrode comprising nano-scaled graphene platelets. The process comprises: (A) providing nano-scaled graphene platelets, wherein each of the platelets comprises a single graphene sheet or a stack of multiple graphene sheets, and the platelets have an average thickness no greater than 100 nm (preferably less than 5 nm and most preferably less than 2 nm in thickness); (B) combining a binder material, the graphene platelets, and a liquid to form a dispersion; (C) forming the dispersion into a desired shape and removing the liquid to produce a binder-platelet mixture; and (D) treating the binder material under a desired temperature or radiation environment to convert the binder-platelet mixture into a meso-porous nanocomposite electrode, wherein the platelets are bonded by the binder and the electrode has electrolyte-accessible pores characterized in that the nanocomposite has a surface area greater than about 100 m2/gm (preferably greater than 200 m2/gm, more preferably greater than 500 100 m2/gm, and most preferably greater than 1,000 m2/gm). A supercapacitor featuring such a nanocomposite exhibits an exceptionally high capacitance value. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906786 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/29.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875351 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Yadong Yin (Moreno Valley, California); Robert M. Rioux (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gabor A. Somorjai (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are nanoreactors having various shapes that can be produced by a simple chemical process. The nanoreactors described herein may have a shell as thin as 0.5 nm and outside diameters that can be controlled by the process of making and have a nanoparticle enclosed therein. The nanoreactors have catalytic activity and may be used to catalyze a variety of chemical reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/599250 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875444 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Yang (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles E. Wyman (Norwich, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for converting cellulose in a lignocellulosic biomass. The method provides for a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein treatment of high lignin solids. The treatment enhances cellulase availability in cellulose conversion and allows for the determination of optimized pretreatment conditions. Additionally, ethanol yields from a Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation process are improved 5-25% by treatment with a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein. Thus, a more efficient and economical method of processing lignin containing biomass materials utilizes a polypeptide/protein treatment step that effectively blocks lignin binding of cellulase. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229817 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875464 | Schabron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Schabron (Laramie, Wyoming); Joseph F. Rovani, Jr. (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | In at least one embodiment, the inventive technology relates to in-vessel generation of a material from a solution of interest as part of a processing and/or analysis operation. Preferred embodiments of the in-vessel material generation (e.g., in-vessel solid material generation) include precipitation; in certain embodiments, analysis and/or processing of the solution of interest may include dissolution of the material, perhaps as part of a successive dissolution protocol using solvents of increasing ability to dissolve. Applications include, but are by no means limited to estimation of a coking onset and solution (e.g., oil) fractionating. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510491 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875654 | Hong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Hong (Midland, Michigan); Shan Jiang (Champaign, Illinois); Steve Granick (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of forming Janus particles, that includes forming an emulsion that contains initial particles, a first liquid, and a second liquid; solidifying the first liquid to form a solid that contains at least a portion of the initial particles on a surface of the solid; and treating the exposed particle sides with a first surface modifying agent, to form the Janus particles. Each of the initial particles on the surface has an exposed particle side and a blocked particle side. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/690671 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875725 | Hiskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Hiskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); My Hang V. Huynh (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a compound of the formula (Cat)+z[M++(5-nitro-1H-tetrazolato-N2)−x(H2O)y] where x is 3 or 4, y is 2 or 3, x+y is 6, z is 1 or 2, and M++ is selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, chromium, and manganese, and (Cat)+ is selected from the group consisting of ammonium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium. A method of preparing the compound of that formula is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380527 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875734 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan); Joseph A. R. Schmidt (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocycles, e.g., epoxides, are carbonylated at low pressure with high percentage conversion to cyclic, ring expanded products using the catalyst where L is tetrahydrofuran (THF). |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486158 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875867 | Hershkowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah Hershkowitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Longmier (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Baalrud (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron generating device extracts electrons, through an electron sheath, from plasma produced using RF fields. The electron sheath is located near a grounded ring at one end of a negatively biased conducting surface, which is normally a cylinder. Extracted electrons pass through the grounded ring in the presence of a steady state axial magnetic field. Sufficiently large magnetic fields and/or RF power into the plasma allow for helicon plasma generation. The ion loss area is sufficiently large compared to the electron loss area to allow for total non-ambipolar extraction of all electrons leaving the plasma. Voids in the negatively-biased conducting surface allow the time-varying magnetic fields provided by the antenna to inductively couple to the plasma within the conducting surface. The conducting surface acts as a Faraday shield, which reduces any time-varying electric fields from entering the conductive surface, i.e. blocks capacitive coupling between the antenna and the plasma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327639 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Post (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A journal bearing provides vertical and radial stability to a rotor of a passive magnetic bearing system when the rotor is not rotating and when it is rotating. In the passive magnetic bearing system, the rotor has a vertical axis of rotation. Without the journal bearing, the rotor is vertically and radially unstable when stationary, and is vertically stable and radially unstable when rotating. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100395 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/90.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876213 | Angelo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Angelo (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); James Younkin (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Paul DeMint (Kingston, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A personal annunciation device (PAD) providing, in an area of interest, compensatory annunciation of the presence of an abnormal condition in a hazardous area and accountability of the user of the PAD. Compensatory annunciation supplements primary annunciation provided by an emergency notification system (ENS). A detection system detects an abnormal condition, and a wireless transmission system transmits a wireless transmission to the PAD. The PAD has a housing enclosing the components of the PAD including a communication module for receiving the wireless transmission, a power supply, processor, memory, annunciation system, and RFID module. The RFID module has an RFID receiver that listens for an RFID transmission from an RFID reader disposed in a portal of an area of interest. The PAD identifies the transmission and changes its operating state based on the transmission. The RFID readers recognize, record, and transmit the state of the PAD to a base station providing accountability of the wearer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040248 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876267 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Smith (Loudon, Tennessee); James A. Moore (Powell, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; wherein each of the plurality of transmitters comprises a packet generator; and wherein the plurality of transmitters are locked to a common timing reference. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/609902 |
| 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 342/464 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876443 | Bernacki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce E. Bernacki (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A torus multipass optical device and method are described that provide for trace level determination of gases and gas-phase analytes. The torus device includes an optical cavity defined by at least one ring mirror. The mirror delivers optical power in at least a radial and axial direction and propagates light in a multipass optical path of a predefined path length. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239978 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876453 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois); Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Williams (Federal Way, Washington); Kenneth Telschow (Des Moines, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for ultrasonic determination of the interfacial relationship of multi-component systems are discussed. In implementations, a laser energy source may be used to excite a multi-component system including a first component and a second component at least in partial contact with the first component. Vibrations resulting from the excitation may be detected for correlation with a resonance pattern indicating if discontinuity exists at the interface of the first and second components. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017726 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876795 | Belenky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxion Technologies, Inc. (Hyattsville, Maryland); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Belenky (Port Jefferson, New York); John D. Bruno (Bowie, Maryland); Mikhail V. Kisin (Centereach, New York); Serge Luryi (Setauket, New York); Leon Shterengas (Centereach, New York); Sergey Suchalkin (Centereach, New York); Richard L. Tober (Elkridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor light source comprises a substrate, lower and upper claddings, a waveguide region with imbedded active area, and electrical contacts to provide voltage necessary for the wavelength tuning. The active region includes single or several heterojunction periods sandwiched between charge accumulation layers. Each of the active region periods comprises higher and lower affinity semiconductor layers with type-II band alignment. The charge carrier accumulation in the charge accumulation layers results in electric field build-up and leads to the formation of generally triangular electron and hole potential wells in the higher and lower affinity layers. Nonequillibrium carriers can be created in the active region by means of electrical injection or optical pumping. The ground state energy in the triangular wells and the radiation wavelength can be tuned by changing the voltage drop across the active region. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206505 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877234 | Pebay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe P. Pebay (Livermore, California); James M. Brandt (Dublin, California); Ann C. Gentile (Dublin, California); Youssef M. Marzouk (Oakland, California); Darrian J. Hale (San Jose, California); David C. Thompson (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of monitoring and analyzing a plurality of attributes for an alarm condition is disclosed. The attributes are processed and/or unprocessed values of sensed conditions of a collection of a statistically significant number of statistically similar components subjected to varying environmental conditions. The attribute values are used to compute the normal behaviors of some of the attributes and also used to infer parameters of a set of models. Relative probabilities of some attribute values are then computed and used along with the set of models to determine whether an alarm condition is met. The alarm conditions are used to prevent or reduce the impact of impending failure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792890 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/187 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877551 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiprocessor computing system and a method of logically partitioning a multiprocessor computing system are disclosed. The multiprocessor computing system comprises a multitude of processing units, and a multitude of snoop units. Each of the processing units includes a local cache, and the snoop units are provided for supporting cache coherency in the multiprocessor system. Each of the snoop units is connected to a respective one of the processing units and to all of the other snoop units. The multiprocessor computing system further includes a partitioning system for using the snoop units to partition the multitude of processing units into a plurality of independent, memory-consistent, adjustable-size processing groups. Preferably, when the processor units are partitioned into these processing groups, the partitioning system also configures the snoop units to maintain cache coherency within each of said groups. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768532 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877596 | Foo Kune et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denis Foo Kune (Saint Paul, Minnesota); Karthikeyan Mahadevan (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A recursive verification protocol to reduce the time variance due to delays in the network by putting the subject node at most one hop from the verifier node provides for an efficient manner to test wireless sensor nodes. Since the software signatures are time based, recursive testing will give a much cleaner signal for positive verification of the software running on any one node in the sensor network. In this protocol, the main verifier checks its neighbor, who in turn checks its neighbor, and continuing this process until all nodes have been verified. This ensures minimum time delays for the software verification. Should a node fail the test, the software verification downstream is halted until an alternative path (one not including the failed node) is found. Utilizing techniques well known in the art, having a node tested twice, or not at all, can be avoided. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437173 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melville P. Ulmer (Evanston, Illinois); Michael E. Graham (Evanston, Illinois); Semyon Vaynman (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An optics element, such as an optical, IR, or X-ray mirror or mirror segment, is made by a combination of replication and lamination by depositing a first metallic layer on a replicating surface of a master or mandrel, depositing a light weight backing layer that adheres on the first metallic layer, and depositing a cover layer that adheres on the backing layer whereby the optics element comprises an in-situ deposited composite lamination of the first metallic layer, the backing layer, and the cover layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165610 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/527.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875162 | Jackson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George William Jackson (Houston, Texas); Richard Coale Willson (Houston, Texas); George Edward Fox (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for separating and purifying useful quantities of particles comprises: a. an anolyte reservoir connected to an anode, the anolyte reservoir containing an electrophoresis buffer; b. a catholyte reservoir connected to a cathode, the catholyte reservoir also containing the electrophoresis buffer; c. a power supply connected to the anode and to the cathode; d. a column having a first end inserted into the anolyte reservoir, a second end inserted into the catholyte reservoir, and containing a separation medium; e. a light source; f. a first optical fiber having a first fiber end inserted into the separation medium, and having a second fiber end connected to the light source; g. a photo detector; h. a second optical fiber having a third fiber end inserted into the separation medium, and having a fourth fiber end connected to the photo detector; and i. an ion-exchange membrane in the anolyte reservoir. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/091605 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/612 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875257 | Landi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Landi (Rochester, New York); Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Herbert J. Ruf (Spencerport, New York); Christopher M. Evans (Scottsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to dispersions of nanostructured carbon in organic solvents containing alkyl amide compounds and/or diamide compounds. The invention also relates to methods of dispersing nanostructured carbon in organic solvents and methods of mobilizing nanostructured carbon. Also disclosed are methods of determining the purity of nanostructured carbon. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/437350 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875455 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Li (San Jose, California); Meyya Meyyappan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for evaluating status and response of a mineral-producing field (e.g., oil and/or gas) by monitoring selected chemical and physical properties in or adjacent to a wellsite headspace. Nanotechnology sensors and other sensors are provided for one or more underground (fluid) mineral-producing wellsites to determine presence/absence of each of two or more target molecules in the fluid, relative humidity, temperature and/or fluid pressure adjacent to the wellsite and flow direction and flow velocity for the fluid. A nanosensor measures an electrical parameter value and estimates a corresponding environmental parameter value, such as water content or hydrocarbon content. The system is small enough to be located down-hole in each mineral-producing horizon for the wellsite. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/489803 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875867 | Hershkowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noah Hershkowitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Benjamin Longmier (Madison, Wisconsin); Scott Baalrud (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An electron generating device extracts electrons, through an electron sheath, from plasma produced using RF fields. The electron sheath is located near a grounded ring at one end of a negatively biased conducting surface, which is normally a cylinder. Extracted electrons pass through the grounded ring in the presence of a steady state axial magnetic field. Sufficiently large magnetic fields and/or RF power into the plasma allow for helicon plasma generation. The ion loss area is sufficiently large compared to the electron loss area to allow for total non-ambipolar extraction of all electrons leaving the plasma. Voids in the negatively-biased conducting surface allow the time-varying magnetic fields provided by the antenna to inductively couple to the plasma within the conducting surface. The conducting surface acts as a Faraday shield, which reduces any time-varying electric fields from entering the conductive surface, i.e. blocks capacitive coupling between the antenna and the plasma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327639 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876225 | Mickle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marlin H. Mickle (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alex K. Jones (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); James T. Cain (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter J. Hawrylak (Woodstown, New Jersey); Frank Marx (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Raymond R. Hoare (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A transponder that may be used as an RFID tag includes a passive circuit to eliminate the need for an “always on” active RF receiving element to anticipate a wake-up signal for the balance of the transponder electronics. This solution allows the entire active transponder to have all circuit elements in a sleep (standby) state, thus drastically extending battery life or other charge storage device life. Also, a wake-up solution that reduces total energy consumption of an active transponder system by allowing all non-addressed transponders to remain in a sleep (standby) state, thereby reducing total system or collection energy. Also, the transponder and wake-up solution are employed in an asset tracking system. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678296 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876276 | Zaman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Afroz J. Zaman (Strongsville, Ohio); Richard Q. Lee (Ann Arbor, Michigan); William G. Darby (Litchfield, Ohio); Philip J. Barr (Schiller Park, Illinois); Kevin M Lambert (North Royalton, Ohio); Felix A. Miranda (Olmsted Falls, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniaturized antenna system is characterized non-destructively through the use of a scanner that measures its near-field radiated power performance. When taking measurements, the scanner can be moved linearly along the x, y and z axis, as well as rotationally relative to the antenna. The data obtained from the characterization are processed to determine the far-field properties of the system and to optimize the system. Each antenna is excited using a probe station system while a scanning probe scans the space above the antenna to measure the near field signals. Upon completion of the scan, the near-field patterns are transformed into far-field patterns. Along with taking data, this system also allows for extensive graphing and analysis of both the near-field and far-field data. The details of the probe station as well as the procedures for setting up a test, conducting a test, and analyzing the resulting data are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/499982 |
| 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 343/703 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876423 | Roth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J Roth (Rocky River, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for simultaneously measuring the velocity of terahertz electromagnetic radiation in a dielectric material sample without prior knowledge of the thickness of the sample and for measuring the thickness of a material sample using terahertz electromagnetic radiation in a material sample without prior knowledge of the velocity of the terahertz electromagnetic radiation in the sample is disclosed and claimed. The process evaluates, in a plurality of locations, the sample for microstructural variations and for thickness variations and maps the microstructural and thickness variations by location. A thin sheet of dielectric material may be used on top of the sample to create a dielectric mismatch. The approximate focal point of the radiation source (transceiver) is initially determined for good measurements. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/163382 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876434 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Wilson (Montrose, California); Gregory H. Bearman (Pasadena, California); William R. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Computed tomography imaging spectrometers (“CTIS”s) having color focal plane array detectors are provided. The color FPA detector may comprise a digital color camera including a digital image sensor, such as a Foveon X3® digital image sensor or a Bayer color filter mosaic. In another embodiment, the CTIS includes a pattern imposed either directly on the object scene being imaged or at the field stop aperture. The use of a color FPA detector and the pattern improves the accuracy of the captured spatial and spectral information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638036 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876499 | Olczak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene G. Olczak (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An objective lens and a method for using same. The objective lens has a first end, a second end, and a plurality of optical elements. The optical elements are positioned between the first end and the second end and are at least substantially symmetric about a plane centered between the first end and the second end. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/948508 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876505 | Olczak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene G Olczak (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An objective lens includes multiple optical elements disposed between a first end and a second end, each optical element oriented along an optical axis. Each optical surface of the multiple optical elements provides an angle of incidence to a marginal ray that is above a minimum threshold angle. This threshold angle minimizes pupil ghosts that may enter an interferometer. The objective lens also optimizes wavefront delivery and pupil imaging onto an optical surface under test. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/186671 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/656 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877737 | Austin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Austin (Laurel, Maryland); Natalya Shmunis (Rockville, Maryland); Virnal Mayank (Raipur, India); David Frank Everett (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for generating a graph data representation having a plurality of nodes corresponding to respective systems engineering requirements. The method includes accessing a first data representation of a collection of systems requirements and relationships therebetween and generating a second data representation of the collection of systems requirements. The generating the second data representation includes accessing respective systems requirements of the collection of systems requirements; creating a node to correspond to each accessed systems requirement if a node corresponding to the accessed systems requirement does not exist; and creating an edge between the created or pre-existing node and each node corresponding to a systems requirement having a relationship with the accessed systems requirement. Each node of the second data representation is a node of said graph data representation and corresponds to a different systems requirement of the collection of systems requirements. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/157074 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07874155 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Michael Izenson (Hanover, New Hampshire); Weibo Chen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire); Robert Cook (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Horst Richter (Norwich, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods for rapidly and isothermally expanding and compressing gas in energy storage and recovery systems that use open-air hydraulic-pneumatic cylinder assemblies, such as an accumulator and an intensifier in communication with a high-pressure gas storage reservoir on a gas-side of the circuits and a combination fluid motor/pump, coupled to a combination electric generator/motor on the fluid side of the circuits. The systems use heat transfer subsystems in communication with at least one of the cylinder assemblies or reservoir to thermally condition the gas being expanded or compressed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712799 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/645 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875195 | Rabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oded Rabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Paul R. Herz (San Diego, California); Mildred S. Dresselhaus (Arlington, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts); Yu-Ming Lin (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently disclosed invention provides for the fabrication of porous anodic alumina (PAA) films on a wide variety of substrates. The substrate comprises a wafer layer and may further include an adhesion layer deposited on the wafer layer. An anodic alumina template is formed on the substrate. When a rigid substrate such as Si is used, the resulting anodic alumina film is more tractable, easily grown on extensive areas in a uniform manner, and manipulated without danger of cracking. The substrate can be manipulated to obtain free-standing alumina templates of high optical quality and substantially flat surfaces. PAA films can also be grown this way on patterned and non-planar surfaces. Furthermore, under certain conditions, the resulting PAA is missing the barrier layer (partially or completely) and the bottom of the pores can be readily accessed electrically. The resultant film can be used as a template for forming an array of nanowires wherein the nanowires are deposited electrochemically into the pores of the template. By patterning the electrically conducting adhesion layer, pores in different areas of the template can be addressed independently, and can be filled electrochemically by different materials. Single-stage and multi-stage nanowire-based thermoelectric devices, consisting of both n-type and p-type nanowires, can be assembled on a silicon substrate by this method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832309 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875257 | Landi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian J. Landi (Rochester, New York); Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); Herbert J. Ruf (Spencerport, New York); Christopher M. Evans (Scottsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to dispersions of nanostructured carbon in organic solvents containing alkyl amide compounds and/or diamide compounds. The invention also relates to methods of dispersing nanostructured carbon in organic solvents and methods of mobilizing nanostructured carbon. Also disclosed are methods of determining the purity of nanostructured carbon. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/437350 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875654 | Hong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Hong (Midland, Michigan); Shan Jiang (Champaign, Illinois); Steve Granick (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method of forming Janus particles, that includes forming an emulsion that contains initial particles, a first liquid, and a second liquid; solidifying the first liquid to form a solid that contains at least a portion of the initial particles on a surface of the solid; and treating the exposed particle sides with a first surface modifying agent, to form the Janus particles. Each of the initial particles on the surface has an exposed particle side and a blocked particle side. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/690671 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875734 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Lansing, New York); John W. Kramer (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan); Joseph A. R. Schmidt (Sylvania, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Heterocycles, e.g., epoxides, are carbonylated at low pressure with high percentage conversion to cyclic, ring expanded products using the catalyst where L is tetrahydrofuran (THF). |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486158 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875953 | Xie |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ya-Hong Xie (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit laminate with a metal substrate for use with high performance mixed signal integrated circuit applications. The metal substrate provides substantially improved crosstalk isolation, enhanced heat sinking and an easy access to a true low impedance ground. In one embodiment, the metal layer has regions with insulation filled channels or voids and a layer of insulator such as unoxidized porous silicon disposed between the metal substrate and a silicon integrated circuit layer. The laminate also has a plurality of metal walls or trenches mounted to the metal substrate and transacting the silicon and insulation layers thereby isolating noise sensitive elements from noise producing elements on the chip. In another embodiment, the laminate is mounted to a flexible base to limit the flexion of the chip. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168291 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/499 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876247 | Hunt et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn David Hunt (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico); Carlos Fabian Benitez-Quiroz (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technique on the dithering of one-dimensional signals is presented. The novel technique determines whether dither is needed when reducing the bit depth and evaluates whether the total error of the un-dithered quantization is white noise. If this is the case, then no undesired harmonics are added in the quantization or re-quantization process. The novel technique presents a state of the art signal-dependent dither having a lower quantization noise. |
| FILED | Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325223 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876503 | Deutsch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miriam Deutsch (Eugene, Oregon); Alqing Chen (Eugene, Oregon); Keisuke Hasegawa (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An asymmetric mirror is composed of a dielectric substrate [500] and a coating [502] on the dielectric substrate. Within an operational wavelength range Δλ, the mirror has a transmission symmetry ΔT=0% and a reflection asymmetry ΔR>10%, where the reflection asymmetry ΔR varies by less than 5% within the operational wavelength range Δλ. In addition, the wavelength range Δλ is substantially broad, i.e., satisfies Δλ/λmax>10%. The coating [502] is a metamaterial having structural features smaller than the smallest operational wavelength, e.g., a nano-structured metamaterial such as a photonic crystal or a disordered nano-composite of a metal and a dielectric. In a preferred embodiment, the coating [502] is semi-continuous with a filling factor p between 70% and 75%. The dielectric may be, for example, air, vacuum, an electro-optic polymer, an optical gain material, an electro-active material, or a semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983335 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876882 | Meyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert R. Meyer (Madison, Wisconsin); Leyuan Shi (Madison, Wisconsin); Warren D. D'Souza (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel approach to generating radiation treatment plans through a nested partitions framework provides an optimization of radiation delivery. The nested partitions approach couples beam angle selection and dose optimization to solve treatment planning problems. An optimal beam angle selection is provided to best treat tumors, while minimizing exposure to the surrounding healthy tissues. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025588 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876974 | Brajovic |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Brajovic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an image processing method. In one embodiment, the method provides discontinuity-preserving image smoothing and segmentation, noise reduction, reduction of image variations particularly those variations caused by illumination conditions, exposure compensation, and dynamic range compression. The present invention also provides an electronic image sensor that is able to detect high dynamic range optical images and produce electronic images with reduced dynamic range. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/929188 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877343 | Cafarella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Cafarella (Seattle, Washington); Michele Banko (Seattle, Washington); Oren Etzioni (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | To implement open information extraction, a new extraction paradigm has been developed in which a system makes a single data-driven pass over a corpus of text, extracting a large set of relational tuples without requiring any human input. Using training data, a Self-Supervised Learner employs a parser and heuristics to determine criteria that will be used by an extraction classifier (or other ranking model) for evaluating the trustworthiness of candidate tuples that have been extracted from the corpus of text, by applying heuristics to the corpus of text. The classifier retains tuples with a sufficiently high probability of being trustworthy. A redundancy-based assessor assigns a probability to each retained tuple to indicate a likelihood that the retained tuple is an actual instance of a relationship between a plurality of objects comprising the retained tuple. The retained tuples comprise an extraction graph that can be queried for information. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695506 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877719 | He |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei He (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Integrated circuit apparatus and methods are described for inserting multi-Vdd buffers within an interconnection tree during routing toward minimization of power under a delay constraint. Insertion of level converters is not necessary within the routing trees of the interconnect tree despite the insertion of the multi-Vdd buffers. Techniques are described for controlling the dramatic complexity increment due to simultaneous delay and power consideration and increased buffer choices. Overhead reduction techniques are taught including: sampling based techniques, prediction based pruning techniques (PSP) and (PMP), and escape grid reduction, each of which are directed to multi-Vdd buffer insertion. The resultant integrated circuits are routed with substantial power reductions over conventional routing. |
| FILED | Monday, December 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/953175 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07875444 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Yang (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles E. Wyman (Norwich, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for converting cellulose in a lignocellulosic biomass. The method provides for a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein treatment of high lignin solids. The treatment enhances cellulase availability in cellulose conversion and allows for the determination of optimized pretreatment conditions. Additionally, ethanol yields from a Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation process are improved 5-25% by treatment with a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein. Thus, a more efficient and economical method of processing lignin containing biomass materials utilizes a polypeptide/protein treatment step that effectively blocks lignin binding of cellulase. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/229817 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875757 | Nafis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Nafis (Mount Prospect, Illinois); Gregory F. Maher (Aurora, Illinois); Lynn H. Rice (Arlington Heights, Illinois); William D. Schlueter (Lake in the Hills, Illinois); Ralph D. Gillespie (Friendswood, Texas); Michelle J. Cohn (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A reforming and isomerization process has been developed. A reforming feedstream is charged to a reforming zone containing a reforming catalyst and operating at reforming conditions to generate a reforming zone effluent. Hydrogen and an isomerization feedstream is charged into an isomerization zone to contact an isomerization catalyst at isomerization conditions to increase the branching of the hydrocarbons. The isomerization catalyst is a solid acid catalyst comprising a support comprising a sulfated oxide or hydroxide of at least an element of Group IVB, a first component being at least one lanthanide series element, mixtures thereof, or yttrium, and a second component being a platinum group metal or mixtures thereof. The reforming zone effluent and the isomerization zone effluent are each separated to form a light ends stream and a product stream. The light ends streams are combined for processing in a net gas re-contacting zone. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/129253 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875801 | Tsotsis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Tsotsis (Orange, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive wire includes a plurality of thermoplastic filaments each having a surface, and a coating material having a plurality of carbon nanotubes dispersed therein. The coating material is bonded to the surface of each thermoplastic filament. The thermoplastic filaments having the coating bonded thereto are bundled and bonded to each other to form a substantially cylindrical conductor. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/348595 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/126.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875802 | Tsotsis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas K. Tsotsis (Orange, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductive wire includes a thermoplastic filament having a circumference and a plurality of coating layers dispersed about the circumference of the thermoplastic filament. The coating layers include a plurality of conductive layers comprising aligned carbon nanotubes dispersed therein and at least one thermoplastic layer between each pair of conductive layers. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/348623 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/126.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07875090 | Dietenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Dietenberger (Marshall, Wisconsin); Mark H. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method and a corresponding apparatus for converting a biomass reactant into synthesis gas. The method includes the steps of (1) heating biomass in a first molten liquid bath at a first temperature, wherein the first temperature is at least about 100° C., but less than the decomposition temperature of the biomass, wherein gas comprising water is evaporated and air is pressed from the biomass, thereby yielding dried biomass with minimal air content. (2) Recapturing the moisture evaporated from the biomass in step 1 for use in the process gas. (3) Heating the dried biomass in a second molten liquid bath at a second temperature, wherein the second temperature is sufficiently high to cause flash pyrolysis of the dried biomass, thereby yielding product gases, tar, and char. (4) Inserting recaptured steam into the process gas, which may optionally include external natural gas or hydrogen gas or recycled syngas for mixing and reforming with tar and non-condensable gases. (5) Further reacting the product gases, tar, and char with the process gas within a third molten liquid bath at a third temperature which is equal to or greater than the second temperature within the second molten liquid bath, thereby yielding high quality and relatively clean synthesis gas after a relatively long residence time needed for char gasification. A portion of the synthesis gas so formed is combusted to heat the first, second, and third molten liquid baths, unless external natural or hydrogen gas is available for this use. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/108747 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875262 | Kenar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Kenar (East Peoria, Illinois); David L. Compton (Peoria, Illinois); Frederick C. Felker (Morton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A delivery system for UV-protective sunscreen agents, antioxidants, skin care agents, cosmetics and the like comprising feruloylated acylglycerols (FAG) and other cinnamate-modified vegetable oils (CMVO) incorporates the agents into starch-based composites. These composites permit the use of a lower level of CMVO for comparable UV protection than if the CMVO were used alone. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/584905 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42072 | Deaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Deaver (Franklin, Massachusetts); David A. Edwards (Boston, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for improving cellular internalization of one or more compounds are disclosed. The compositions include a compound to be delivered and a biocompatible viscous material, such as a hydrogel, lipogel, or highly viscous sol. The composition also include, or are administered in conjunction with, an enhancer in an amount effective to maximize expression of or binding to receptors and enhance RME of the compound into the cells. This leads to high transport rates of compounds to be delivered across cell membranes, facilitating more efficient delivery of drugs and diagnostic agents. Compositions are applied topically orally, nasally, vaginally, rectally, and ocularly. The enhancer is administered with the composition or separately, either systemically or preferably locally. The compound to be delivered can also be the enhancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821514 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07875277 | Marinkovich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Dept. of Veterans Affairs Office of The General Counsel (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Peter Marinkovich (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for detecting and inhibiting squamous cell carcinoma using agents that target the laminin 5 alpha 3 G4-G5 domain. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082906 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875710 | Heinrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Dana-Faber Cancer Institute (Boston, Massachusetts); Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael C. Heinrich (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Christopher C. Corless (Portland, Oregon); Jonathan A. Fletcher (Brookline, Massachusetts); George D. Demetri (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides tyrosine kinase protein and nucleic acid variants, particularly PDGFRA variants, which are activating forms of these molecules and are linked to neoplasms and/or the development or progression of cancer. The disclosure further provides methods of diagnosis and prognosis, and development of new therapeutic agents using these molecules and fragments thereof, and kits for employing these methods and compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466218 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07876121 | McCoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bart O. McCoy (Rochester, Minnesota); Robert W. Techentin (Rochester, Minnesota); Daniel Schraufnagel (Rochester, Minnesota); Erik S. Daniel (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A transmission line on a printed wiring board is tested and printed wiring board manufacturing variability is assessed. A response of the transmission line to a signal test pattern is measured. A network including a plurality of components connected by the transmission line is then simulated. The simulated network is based on the measured scattering parameters and virtual models representative of each of the components in the network. A system-level output response of the simulated network to a simulated input signal is analyzed, and the printed wiring board is characterized based on a comparison of the system-level output response to a printed wiring board performance metric threshold. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208561 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/765 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877367 | Ross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts); John F. Patterson (Carlisle, Massachusetts); James E. Christensen (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Stephen E. Levy (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method and system provides for graphical specification of inquiries and includes a corresponding progressive summary. The inquiries operate on stream data. Users graphically specify an inquiry in a graphical user interface according to an ontology. The invention system generates a plain-text translation of the graphical description of the inquiry and displays the generated plain-text description in a progressive summary in the graphical user interface. The system continually updates and generates the display of the plain-text description during user construction of the inquiry. This provides feedback to the user for improved construction of the inquiry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017987 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07876503 | Deutsch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miriam Deutsch (Eugene, Oregon); Alqing Chen (Eugene, Oregon); Keisuke Hasegawa (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An asymmetric mirror is composed of a dielectric substrate [500] and a coating [502] on the dielectric substrate. Within an operational wavelength range Δλ, the mirror has a transmission symmetry ΔT=0% and a reflection asymmetry ΔR>10%, where the reflection asymmetry ΔR varies by less than 5% within the operational wavelength range Δλ. In addition, the wavelength range Δλ is substantially broad, i.e., satisfies Δλ/λmax>10%. The coating [502] is a metamaterial having structural features smaller than the smallest operational wavelength, e.g., a nano-structured metamaterial such as a photonic crystal or a disordered nano-composite of a metal and a dielectric. In a preferred embodiment, the coating [502] is semi-continuous with a filling factor p between 70% and 75%. The dielectric may be, for example, air, vacuum, an electro-optic polymer, an optical gain material, an electro-active material, or a semiconductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983335 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/584 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07876967 | Sahr |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon by and through the State Board of Higher Education, on behalf of Southern Oregon University (Ashland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Sahr (Applegate, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assigning path address-form location codes to objects represented using aperture 3 hexagon discrete global grid systems in both vector systems and bucket and raster systems in which hexagons in a first resolution are given a linear code and hexagons in subsequent finer resolutions have identifiers added to the linear code, the method iteratively applying the assigning step to further finer resolutions to a maximum resolution. In vector systems each hexagon has seven hexagons in a finer resolution and in raster and bucket systems each hexagon is assigned to be an open or closed generator class, an open generator creating a closed generator in a finer resolution, and a closed generator generating six open generator hexagons and a seventh closed generator hexagon. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/038484 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07876795 | Belenky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Maxion Technologies, Inc. (Hyattsville, Maryland); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Belenky (Port Jefferson, New York); John D. Bruno (Bowie, Maryland); Mikhail V. Kisin (Centereach, New York); Serge Luryi (Setauket, New York); Leon Shterengas (Centereach, New York); Sergey Suchalkin (Centereach, New York); Richard L. Tober (Elkridge, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor light source comprises a substrate, lower and upper claddings, a waveguide region with imbedded active area, and electrical contacts to provide voltage necessary for the wavelength tuning. The active region includes single or several heterojunction periods sandwiched between charge accumulation layers. Each of the active region periods comprises higher and lower affinity semiconductor layers with type-II band alignment. The charge carrier accumulation in the charge accumulation layers results in electric field build-up and leads to the formation of generally triangular electron and hole potential wells in the higher and lower affinity layers. Nonequillibrium carriers can be created in the active region by means of electrical injection or optical pumping. The ground state energy in the triangular wells and the radiation wavelength can be tuned by changing the voltage drop across the active region. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/206505 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07875219 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for producing meso-porous nanocomposite electrode comprising nano-scaled graphene platelets. The process comprises: (A) providing nano-scaled graphene platelets, wherein each of the platelets comprises a single graphene sheet or a stack of multiple graphene sheets, and the platelets have an average thickness no greater than 100 nm (preferably less than 5 nm and most preferably less than 2 nm in thickness); (B) combining a binder material, the graphene platelets, and a liquid to form a dispersion; (C) forming the dispersion into a desired shape and removing the liquid to produce a binder-platelet mixture; and (D) treating the binder material under a desired temperature or radiation environment to convert the binder-platelet mixture into a meso-porous nanocomposite electrode, wherein the platelets are bonded by the binder and the electrode has electrolyte-accessible pores characterized in that the nanocomposite has a surface area greater than about 100 m2/gm (preferably greater than 200 m2/gm, more preferably greater than 500 100 m2/gm, and most preferably greater than 1,000 m2/gm). A supercapacitor featuring such a nanocomposite exhibits an exceptionally high capacitance value. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906786 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/29.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07875236 | Bleifuss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney L. Bleifuss (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); David J. Englund (Bovey, Minnesota); Richard F. Kiesel (Hibbing, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for use in processing raw material (e.g., iron bearing material) include a linear furnace apparatus extending along a longitudinal axis between a charging end and a discharging end (e.g., the linear furnace apparatus includes at least a furnace zone positioned along the longitudinal axis). Raw material is provided into one or more separate or separable containers (e.g., trays) at the charging end of the linear furnace apparatus. The separate or separable containers are moved through at least the furnace zone and to the discharging end where the processed material is discharged resulting in one or more empty containers. One or more of the empty containers are returned to the charging end of the linear furnace apparatus to receive further raw material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710546 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metallurgical apparatus 266/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07875247 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novatron, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald W. Clark (San Diego, California); Bernard J. Eastlund (San Diego, California); Michael W. Ingram (San Diego, California); Joseph C. Stumpf (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultraviolet flux multiplying air sterilization chamber comprises inner surfaces having a diffuse reflective behavior. The sterilization chamber includes an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture for air to flow through said chamber and a light source emitting an ultraviolet light. Due to the reflectivity of the inner surfaces of the chamber, a flux of the ultraviolet light is multiplied by reflecting multiple times from the inner surfaces of the chamber. The inlet and outlet apertures are advantageously configured to reduce the amount of light that escapes from the chamber and increase the amount of photons available in the chamber. In an exemplary embodiment, perforated end panels having diffuse, reflective interior surfaces may be provided over at least a portion of the inlet and outlet apertures. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781812 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877340 | Gentile et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Gentile (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Jason Perry (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen W. Langish (Eastampton, New Jersey); Kenneth Silber (Hopewell, New Jersey); William M. Davis (East Windsor, New Jersey); Dana Mastrovito (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for identifying radionuclide emissions is described. The system includes at least one processor for processing output signals from a radionuclide detecting device, at least one training algorithm run by the at least one processor for analyzing data derived from at least one set of known sample data from the output signals, at least one classification algorithm derived from the training algorithm for classifying unknown sample data, wherein the at least one training algorithm analyzes the at least one sample data set to derive at least one rule used by said classification algorithm for identifying at least one radionuclide emission detected by the detecting device. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761717 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42066 | Svensson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lars G. Svensson (Partille, Sweden); William C. Athas (San Jose, California); Jeffrey G. Koller (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for efficiently charging and discharging a capacitive load from a single voltage source. The system includes a first switch for selectively connecting the voltage source to the load and a second switch for selectively providing a short across the load as may be common in the art. A particularly novel aspect of the invention resides in the provision of plural capacitive elements and a switching mechanism for selectively connecting each of the capacitive elements to the load whereby the load is gradually charged or discharged. In the illustrative embodiment, the switching mechanism includes a set of switches for selectively connecting each of the capacitive elements to the capacitive load and a switch control mechanism for selectively activating the switches. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/040608 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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