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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 01, 2011
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| US 07878063 | Cular et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Cular (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Venkat R. Bhethanabotla (Tampa, Florida); Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a hexagonal, delay line surface acoustic wave device fabricated on a a piezoelectric substrate, such as lithium tantalate, coated with an insulating waveguide on to which a sensing film, such as an anti-human Interleukin-6 biosensor film, is physically absorbed. The acoustic waves that propagate along the delay lines of the SAW device provide for detection of biological species along one delay line and simultaneously provide for removal of non-specifically bound protein along the remaining delay lines. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179184 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07878075 | Johansson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland S. Johansson (Umea, Sweden); Gerald E. Loeb (South Pasadena, California); Nicholas Wettels (Los Angeles, California); Djordje Popovic (Oceanside, California); Veronica J. Santos (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a robust tactile sensor array that mimics the human fingertip and its touch receptors. The mechanical components are similar to a fingertip, with a rigid core surrounded by a weakly conductive fluid contained within an elastomeric skin. It uses the deformable properties of the finger pad as part of the transduction process. Multiple electrodes are mounted on the surface of the rigid core and connected to impedance measuring circuitry within the core. External forces deform the fluid path around the electrodes, resulting in a distributed pattern of impedance changes containing information about those forces and the objects that applied them. Strategies for extracting features related to the mechanical inputs and using this information for reflexive grip control. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122569 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07878120 | Nodarse 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) | Robert Nodarse (Newton, New Jersey); Anthony Vella (East Hanover, New Jersey); Thomas V. Louzeiro (Wayne, New Jersey); David P. Fairman, Jr. (Dover, New Jersey); Steven Pigliavento (Burnt Hills, New York); Jessica M. Monahan (Montclair, New Jersey); Amy Lynn Mera (Bangor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge includes a cartridge case base having a bottom surface, a primer and an annular recess formed in the bottom surface, the annular recess being concentric with the primer; first and second concentric conductive rings disposed in the annular recess, the first and second rings being radially spaced apart and substantially flush with the bottom surface of the cartridge case base, the first and second rings being electrically insulated from the cartridge case base and the primer; a first data pin electrically connected to the first conductive ring and extending into an interior of the cartridge case base; and a second data pin electrically connected to the second conductive ring and extending into the interior of the cartridge case base, the first and second data pins being electrically insulated from the cartridge case base. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/006752 |
| 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 12/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07878214 | Jansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jansen's Aircraft Systems Controls, Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey B. Jansen (Mesa, Arizona); John F. Calleja (Gilbert, Arizona); Rickie P. Western (Gold Canyon, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for maintaining pressure in the liquid fuel tank of a high-speed flight vehicle, such as a hypersonic flight, scramjet powered air and space vehicle, manages tank ullage using a pressure regulator coupled to the fuel tank that supplies pressurized gaseous media into the fuel tank ullage based on the internal pressure of the tank. The regulator has an on-board controller that processes tank pressure input to deliver a pulse-width modulated input signal to the coil of the on-board solenoid metering assembly. Energizing the coil drives the metering valve open against spring force. The metering assembly is contained in a removable cartridge that has a floating valve guide that is held stationary by bias of the spring against the metering valve. The metering valve has a separate valve seat that mates with the metering orifice of a flow nozzle. The valve seat can have higher compressibility than a clapper part of the valve to effect a better seal, with its compression being controlled by contact of the clapper with a rigid stop surface of the flow nozzle. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836570 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07878312 | Hiemenz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (Riverdale, Maryland); Techno-Sciences, Inc. (Calverton, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Hiemenz (Silver Spring, Maryland); Wei Hu (Rockville, Maryland); Norman M. Wereley (Potomac, Maryland); Peter Che-Hung Chen (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive energy absorption system for a vehicle seat is disclosed, utilizing an adaptive energy absorber or variable profile energy absorber (VPEA) for mitigating occupant injury due to extreme vehicle movement (e.g., during a vehicle shock event), and/or for mitigating vibration experienced by an occupant of the vehicle seat during normal vehicle operating conditions. Various configurations of dual-goal energy absorption apparatuses using both VPEA and fixed load energy absorbers (FLEAs) that enable both shock mitigation and vibration isolation are disclosed. A semi-active control absorption system, comprising a VPEA and FPEA configured to work in series, is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/819875 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Brakes 188/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07878762 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut); Craig A. Nordeen (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A tip-turbine engine comprises a fan-turbine rotor assembly that includes one or more turbine ring rotors. Each turbine ring is assembled from a multitude of turbine blade clusters. By forming the turbine blades in clusters, leakage between adjacent blade platforms is minimized which increases engine efficiency. Assembly of the turbine blade clusters to a diffuser surface includes axial installation and radial locking of each turbine blade cluster. This is accomplished by attachment lugs protruding from the underside of the arcuate base of the turbine blade clusters. Torque load surfaces are also integrated into the arcuate base. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/718517 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07878814 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia D. Chin (Redondo Beach, California); Daniel P. Brown (Long Beach, California); James D. Strayer (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrically conductive bearing retainers create an electrical path between the static and dynamic sides of a rotating joint to block EMI radiation from entering or leaving a system. Concentric annular inner and outer bearing retainers with an array of conductive contact members therebetween are installed in contact with the inner and outer races of a dynamic bearing interface. Each contact member includes a base and tips. The outer bearing retainer ring has a recess for mounting a contact member and a notch for positioning the contact member tips to make contact with the inner bearing retainer ring. The inner bearing retainer ring includes a conductive contact surface. The contact member tips contact the conductive contact surface to create a dynamic shield between an inner bearing race and an outer bearing race. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/411168 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07878873 | MacLeod |
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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 Bruce MacLeod (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for providing thrust adjustment on an underwater vehicle with a propeller shroud is disclosed. A portion of the vehicles body is provided with a compliant surface such that expansion and contraction of the compliant surface affects the flow of water through a channel formed by the vehicle body and the propeller shroud, resulting in variable thrust on the vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 1990 |
| APPL NO | 07/599571 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Marine propulsion 440/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879020 | Salinas 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) | Jose Salinas (San Antonio, Texas); George C. Kramer (Galverston, Texas); Leopoldo C. Cancio (San Antonio, Texas); Kevin Chung (San Antonio, Texas); Elizabeth Mann (San Antonio, Texas); Steven E. Wolf (San Antonio, Texas); Guy A. Drew (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing decision-assist to medical staff resuscitating a burn patient includes receiving patient information, calculating an infusion rate, outputting the infusion rate, obtaining a urinary output, calculating a new infusion rate using infusion rate model based constants, and outputting the new infusion rate. In some embodiments, the method includes notifying medical staff when problems arise, displaying information regarding the resuscitation, and setting limits regarding the infusion rates. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/076555 |
| ART UNIT | 3767 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879147 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xueping Xu (Stamford, Connecticut); Robert P. Vaudo (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Large area, uniformly low dislocation density single crystal III-V nitride material, e.g., gallium nitride having a large area of greater than 15 cm2, a thickness of at least 1 mm, an average dislocation density not exceeding 5E5 cm−2, and a dislocation density standard deviation ratio of less than 25%, and methods of forming same, are disclosed. Such material can be formed on a substrate by a process including (i) a first phase of growing the III-V nitride material on the substrate under pitted growth conditions, e.g., forming pits over at least 50% of the growth surface of the III-V nitride material, wherein the pit density on the growth surface is at least 102 pits/cm2 of the growth surface, and (ii) a second phase of growing the III-V nitride material under pit-filling conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856222 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879159 | Wright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QuesTek Innovations, LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Wright (Chicago, Illinois); Jin-Won Jung (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A precipitation-hardened stainless maraging steel which exhibits a combination of strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance comprises by weight about: 8 to 15% chromium (Cr), 2 to 15% cobalt (Co), 7 to 14% nickel (Ni), and up to about 0.7% aluminum (Al), less than about 0.4% copper (Cu), 0.5 to 2.6% molybdenum (Mo), 0.4 to less than about 0.75% titanium (Ti), up to about 0.5% tungsten (W), and up to about 120 wppm carbon (C), the balance essentially iron (Fe) and incidental elements and impurities, characterized in that the alloy has predominantly lath martensite microstructure essentially without topologically close packed intermetallic phases and strengthened primarily by a dispersion of intermetallic particles primarily of the eta-Ni3Ti phase and wherein the titanium and carbon (Ti) and (C) levels are controlled such that C can be dissolved during a homogenization step and subsequently precipitated during forging to provide a grain-pinnning dispersion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814780 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879166 | Forohar 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) | Farhad Forohar (La Plata, Maryland); Magdy Bichay (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to carbon nanotubes, and more particularly to the interaction of single wall carbon nanotubes with hydrazoic acid to introduce energetic azide groups into the nanotubes to form activated carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981242 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879304 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC. UNM (Albusquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L Ward (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jaime Bravo (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Abhaya Datye (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gabriel Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hien Pham (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Shailendra Rathod (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Venkata Goparaju (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for evaporation induced self-assembly (EISA) within microdroplets produced by a vibrating orifice aerosol generator (VOAG) for the production of monodisperse mesoporous silica particles. The process of the present invention exploits the concentration of evaporating droplets to induce the organization of various amphiphilic molecules, effectively partitioning a silica precursor to the hydrophilic regions of the structure. Promotion of silica condensation, followed by removal of the surfactant, provides ordered spherical mesoporous particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015412 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879330 | Bavari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represemted by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); Edna R. Torres Melendez (Frederick, Maryland); Frank J. Lebeda (Pharmont, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies for binding epitopes of BoNT/A and hybridomas which produce such antibodies are described. The antibodies of the present invention can be used in a method for detecting BoNT/A in a sample and/or in a method for purifying BoNT/A from an impure solution. In addition, the antibodies can be used for passive immunization against BoNT/A intoxication or as intoxication therapy. Another aspect of the invention is a kit for detecting BoNT/A in a sample. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/368727 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/164.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879411 | Hass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek D Hass (Charlottesville, Virginia); James F. Groves (Charlottesville, Virginia); Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct vapor deposition (DVD) method and apparatus for applying coating(s) on substrate(s), including: presenting at least one of the substrates to a chamber, presenting at least one evaporant source (125) in crucible (110) to the chamber; presenting at least one carrier gas stream (105) to the chamber using a ring-shaped (133) converging/diverging nozzle (130); impinging at least one evaporant source with at least one electron beam in the chamber to generate an evaporated vapor flux in a main direction respective for any of the evaporant sources impinged by the electron beam; and guiding at least one of the generated evaporated vapor flux by at least one carrier gas stream from the ring shaped gap (132), which is essentially parallel to the main direction and substantially surrounds the evaporated flux. The evaporated vapor flux at least partially coats at least one of the substrates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/476309 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/566 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879444 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaoyi Jiang (Redmond, Washington); Shengfu Chen (Hangzhou, China PRC); Zheng Zhang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Yung Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Super-low fouling sulfobetaine and carboxybetaine materials, super-low fouling surfaces and methods of making the surfaces coated with sulfobetaine and carboxybetaine materials, and devices having the super-low fouling surfaces. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/020998 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/411.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879590 | Lim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wendell A. Lim (San Francisco, California); Caleb J. Bashor (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic scaffold interactions and scaffold-mediated feedback loops are used to engineer MAPK signaling responses in cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/047767 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879625 | Boss |
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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) | Pamela A. Boss (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates comprising chemically-derivatized magnetic microparticles complexed with metal colloidal particles or substrates. The SERS substrates permit collection, detection, measurement, and/or analysis of analytes present at concentrations ranging parts per trillion to parts per billion. Further, compositions, methods, and devices that provide for rapid and/or sensitive detection of chemical compounds of interest present in small concentrations. The subject matter has use in the areas of homeland security and force protection, for example, in the detection of trace samples including, for example, BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes), chlorinated solvents, TNT, nerve agents, blister agents, metal ions, anions, antigens, peptides, nucleic acids, spores, fungi, viruses, and bacteria. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326946 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/526 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879697 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip I. Cohen (Mendota Heights, Minnesota); Bentao Cui (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of growing Group-III nitride thin-film structures having reduced dislocation density are provided. Methods in accordance with the present invention comprise growing a Group-III nitride thin-film material while applying an ion flux and preferably while the substrate is stationary or non-rotating substrate. The ion flux is preferably applied as an ion beam at a glancing angle of incidence. Growth under these conditions creates a nanoscale surface corrugation having a characteristic features size, such as can be measured as a wavelength or surface roughness. After the surface corrugation is created, and preferably in the same growth reactor, the substrate is rotated in an ion flux which cause the surface corrugation to be reduced. The result of forming a surface corrugation and then subsequently reducing or removing the surface corrugation is the formation of a nanosculpted region and polished transition region that effectively filter dislocations. Repeating such nanosculpted and polished regions advantageously provide significant reduction in dislocation density in thin-film structures. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810122 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879721 | Gangopadhyay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shubhra Gangopadhyay (Columbia, Missouri); Maruf Hossain (Columbia, Missouri); Keshab Gangopadhyay (Columbia, Missouri); Rajesh Shende (Rapid City, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present process for rapidly heating and cooling a target material without damaging the substrate upon which it has been deposited. More specifically, target material is coated onto a first substrate. A self-propagating nanoenergetic material is selected that combusts at temperatures sufficient to change the target material and creates a flame front that propagates sufficiently quickly that the first substrate is not substantially heated. The nanoenergetic material is deposited on the target material, such that the target material and the nanoenergetic material is sandwiched between the substrate and the target material. The nanoenergetic material is ignited and the flame front of the nanoenergetic material is allowed to propagate over the second substrate and change the target material. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/086263 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/663 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879940 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Jared L. Hudson (Houston, Texas); Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Bellaire, Texas); Koray Yurekli (Cengelkoy, Turkey); Cynthia A. Mitchell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to aryl halide (such as aryl bromide) functionalized carbon nanotubes that can be utilized in anionic polymerization processes to form polymer-carbon nanotube materials with improved dispersion ability in polymer matrices. In this process the aryl halide is reacted with an alkyllithium species or is reacted with a metal to replace the aryl-bromine bond with an aryl-lithium or aryl-metal bond, respectively. It has further been discovered that other functionalized carbon nanotubes, after deprotonation with a deprotonation agent, can similarly be utilized in anionic polymerization processes to form polymer-carbon nanotube materials. Additionally or alternatively, a ring opening polymerization process can be performed. The resultant materials can be used by themselves due to their enhanced strength and reinforcement ability when compared to their unbound polymer analogs. Additionally, these materials can also be blended with pre-formed polymers to establish compatibility and enhanced dispersion of nanotubes in otherwise hard to disperse matrices resulting in significantly improved material properties. The resultant polymer-carbon nanotube materials can also be used in drug delivery processes due to their improved dispersion ability and biodegradability, and can also be used for scaffolding to promote cellular growth of tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561253 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879955 | Rao et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Chandra B. Rao (Valencia, California); John R. Gilmore (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, such as aerospace sealant, coating, and/or potting compositions are disclosed. The compositions include a polythioether and, in at least some cases, can be sprayable and fuel resistant even when substantially free of volatile organic compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772840 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880026 | Ni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zheng Ni (Urbana, Illinois); Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid, simple and versatile metal organic framework molecule (MOF) synthesis method particularly adapted to make non-linear MOFs includes heating MOF precursors, such as a metal or metal oxide and an organic ligand, in a microwave oven for a period sufficient to achieve crystallization. Microwave-assisted MOF synthesis yields high quality MOF crystals in a reaction time ranging from about 5 seconds to about 2.5 minutes, compared to hours and days required in conventional solvothermal and hydrothermal methods. In addition, microwave assisted methods provide MOF materials with uniform crystal size and well-defined shape. Further, microwave synthesis of MOFs allows the size and shape of MOF crystals to be tailored for use in a wide range applications by manipulating reaction conditions. Secondary growth processes may also be employed to grow larger crystals using seeds obtained from microwave-assisted synthesis methods. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785102 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880079 | Tanielian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Minas H. Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for improved thermal isolation for thermoelectric devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a thermoelectric device includes a first substrate portion having a first p-type conductive portion electrically coupled to a first n-type conductive portion, and a second substrate portion having a second p-type conductive portion and a second n-type conductive portion, the second substrate portion being positioned proximate to the first substrate portion such that the first and second p-type conductive portions are approximately aligned and the first and second n-type conductive portions are approximately aligned, wherein the first and second p-type conductive portions are spaced apart to form a first gap, and the first and second n-type conductive portions are spaced apart to form a second gap. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192638 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880125 | Patel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehul Patel (Chandler, Arizona); T. Terry Ng (Sylvania, Ohio); Alan B. Cain (Saint Louis, Missouri); Zak Sowle (Cleveland, Ohio); Jack DiCocco (Medina, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an aircraft, missile, projectile, or underwater vehicle with an improved control system and an improved control system for maneuvering an aircraft, missile, projectile, or underwater vehicle. More particularly, the present invention relates to an aircraft, missile, underwater vehicle or projectile with removable control surfaces. The technical advantage of the removable control surface system (or “removable control surface”) over other systems is that the removable control surface system enables the aircraft, missile, underwater vehicle or projectile to have two or more design configurations, each configuration being tailored to the aircraft, missile, projectile, or underwater vehicle's specific stability or maneuverability requirements during a specific portion of the flight. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077447 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880171 | Sumakeris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph J. Sumakeris (Apex, North Carolina); Ranbir Singh (Apex, North Carolina); Michael James Paisley (Garner, North Carolina); Stephan Georg Mueller (Durham, North Carolina); Hudson M. Hobgood (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Calvin H. Carter, Jr. (Cary, North Carolina); Albert Augustus Burk, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A bipolar device has at least one p− type layer of single crystal silicon carbide and at least one n− type layer of single crystal silicon carbide, wherein those portions of those stacking faults that grow under forward operation are segregated from at least one of the interfaces between the active region and the remainder of the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/022520 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880172 | Henning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason P. Henning (Carrboro, North Carolina); Allan Ward (Durham, North Carolina); Alexander Suvorov (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A unit cell of a metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) includes a semi-insulating substrate having a surface, an implanted n-type channel region in the substrate, and implanted source and drain regions extending from the surface of the substrate into the implanted channel region. A gate contact is between the source and the drain regions, and an implanted p-type region is beneath the source region. The implanted p-type region has an end that extends towards the drain region, is spaced apart vertically from the implanted channel layer, and is electrically coupled to the source region. Methods of forming transistors including implanted channels and implanted p-type regions beneath the source region are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700268 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880204 | Geis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Geis (Acton, Massachusetts); Steven J. Spector (Arlington, Massachusetts); Donna M. Lennon (Bedford, Massachusetts); Matthew E. Grein (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert T. Schulein (Watertown, Massachusetts); Jung U. Yoon (Belmont, Massachusetts); Franz Xaver Kaertner (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Fuwan Gan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Theodore M. Lyszczarz (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A Silicon photodetector contains an insulating substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface. A Silicon layer is located on the top surface of the insulating substrate, where the Silicon layer contains a center region, the center region being larger in thickness than the rest of the Silicon layer. A top Silicon dioxide layer is located on a top surface of the center region. A left wing of the center region and a right wing of the center region are doped. The Silicon photodetector also has an active region located within the center region, where the active region contains a tailored crystal defect-impurity combination and Oxygen atoms. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541975 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880298 | Drake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Drake (Benson, Arizona); Chad E. Boyack (Tucson, Arizona); Kevin Andrew Paulson (Salt Lake City, Utah); James E. Faoro (Tucson, Arizona); Cynthia Robin Nelson Konen (Anoka, Minnesota); Steven N. Peterson (Tucson, Arizona); George R. Cunnington (Oro Valley, Arizona); James R. Myers (Tucson, Arizona); Isis Roche-Rios (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device thermal connection used to remove heat from a semiconductor device, such as an integrated circuit, includes a metallic barrier layer on the semiconductor device, and a high thermal conductivity material on the metallic barrier layer that joins the semiconductor device to a thermal heat spreader. The metallic barrier layer may be one or more sputtered layers, and the high thermal conductivity material may be a metallic material, for instance including indium, that is soldered onto the sputtered material. The high thermal conductivity material may form a primary thermal connection in conducting heat away from the semiconductor device. A secondary thermal connection may be made between the heat spreader and a heat sink. The secondary thermal connection may include a compressible solid carbon fiber material. A diaphragm may be used to contain the carbon fiber material, to prevent carbon fibers from coming into contact with the semiconductor device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/950819 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/706 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880370 | Churchill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microstrain, Inc. (Williston, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Churchill (Burlington, Vermont); Steven W. Arms (Williston, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy harvesting system includes a composite structure that includes a base spring and a first piezoelectric element. The first piezoelectric element is mounted on the base spring. The base spring has a base spring thickness, a base spring length, and a base spring width. The base spring is for vibrating around an axis parallel to the base spring width. The base spring thickness varies from position to position along a direction parallel to the base spring length. The base spring thickness varies to provide the first piezoelectric element with constant strain when the base spring vibrates around the axis parallel to the base spring width. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/755340 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880465 | Fung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York); The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maggie M. Fung (Rockville, Maryland); Ehud J. Schmidt (Newton, Massachusetts); Godtfred Holmvang (Boston, Massachusetts); Vincent B. Ho (N. Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for MR imaging includes a computer programmed to determine first and second view-ordering sequences. The first and second view-ordering sequences comprise values corresponding to respective views of first and second k-space data sets, respectively, wherein the values corresponding to a central view of each the first and second k-space data sets are positioned such that acquisition of k-space data in each central view is acquired from a first and second anatomical region, respectively, as a contrast agent passes therethrough. The positions of the values corresponding to the central views of the first and second k-space data sets within the respective sequences are different. The computer is further programmed to acquire MR data according to the first and second view-ordering sequences over a series of cardiac cycles to fill data in the first and second k-space data sets, respectively. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132706 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880820 | Yelleswarapu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandra S. Yelleswarapu (Dorchester, Massachusetts); Sri Rajeasekhar Kothapalli (St. Louis, Missouri); D. V. Gopal L. N. Rao (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for converting a microscope into a phase contrast microscope includes a first optical Fourier element that Fourier transforms light from a coherent light source, a cell in the Fourier plane arranged to receive light from the first optical Fourier element, a second optical Fourier element arranged to receive light from the cell and inversely Fourier transform the received light to provide an image, an image sensor that detects the image and generates an electronic representation of the image, and an adaptor capable of coupling the first and second Fourier elements, the cell, and the image sensor to the microscope such that the first Fourier element Fourier transforms light collected by the microscope objective. The cell includes liquid crystal molecules having a phase transition temperature, wherein at temperatures exceeding the phase transition temperature, light transmitting through the liquid crystal molecules obtains a different phase than light transmitting through the liquid crystal molecules at temperatures below the phase transition temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/795974 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880872 | Nimmakayala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pawan Kumar Nimmakayala (Austin, Texas); Tom H. Rafferty (Austin, Texas); Alireza Aghili (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Philip D. Schumaker (Austin, Texas); Daniel A. Babbs (Austin, Texas); Van Nguyen Truskett (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features a method to determine relative spatial parameters between two coordinate systems, which may be a mold and a region of a substrate in which mold is employed to generate a pattern. The method includes sensing relative alignment between the two coordinate systems at multiple points and determines relative spatial parameters therebetween. The relative spatial parameters include a relative area and a relative shape. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/576030 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/139.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880876 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Richard A. Dluhy (Athens, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Watkinsville, Georgia); Yao-wen Huang (Athens, Georgia); Hsiao Yun Chu (Athens, Georgia); Yongjun Liu (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems and methods for detecting biomolecules of interest, such as a bacterium are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166485 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880887 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phygen, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven K. Isvik (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Accurate measurements of the concentration of a sterilant in a sterilization chamber are provided through the use of a light source, a first detector that receives light from the light source that has not passed through the sterilization chamber and a detector that receives light from the light source that has passed through the sterilization chamber. The light contains wavelengths known to be absorbed by the sterilant. A controller receives and processes signals received from the two detectors to cancel changes in the output of the light source and then apply a modified Beer-Lambert law to determine the concentration of the sterilant gas. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/231211 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880890 | Reyes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Block Engineering, LLC (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Reyes (Boston, Massachusetts); E. Robert Schildkraut (Waltham, Massachusetts); Jinhong Kim (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An interferometer system includes an optical bench and at least two mirror structures, being patterned from one or more layers on the optical bench and erected to extend substantially perpendicularly to the bench to define two interferometer arms to provide a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) interferometer. The MEMS interferometer is further implemented in a Fourier transform spectrometer, which includes a common housing containing the interferometer and a gas cell, possibly including a preconcentrator. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/966586 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881135 | Cannon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ethan H. Cannon (Essex Junction, Vermont); Alan J. Drake (Round Rock, Texas); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); John P. Keane (Minneapolis, Minnesota); AJ Kleinosowski (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A test setup for estimating the critical charge of a circuit under test (CUT) uses a charge injection circuit having a switched capacitor that is selectively connected to a node of the CUT. A voltage measurement circuit measures the voltage at a tap in the charge injection circuit before and after the charge is injected. When the injected charge causes an upset in the logical state of the CUT, the critical charge is calculated as the product of the voltage difference and the known capacitance of the capacitor. In one embodiment, (NMOS drain strike simulation) the amount of charge injected is controlled by a variable pulse width generator gating the switch of the charge injection circuit. In another embodiment (PMOS drain strike simulation) the amount of charge injected is controlled by a variable voltage supply selectively connected to the charge storage node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/679406 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881156 | Keith 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) | William L. Keith (Ashaway, Rhode Island); Kimberly M. Cipolla (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A towed array is provided with hot-film sensors and anemometer circuitry to calculate the angle of inclination of the towed array in real time during deployment of the towed array in a sea water environment. The hot-film sensors are arranged in pairs along the length of the towed array to increase the sensitivity of the inclination angle determinations and are located flush with an exterior surface of the towed array to minimize interference with the operation of the towed array. The pairs of hot-film sensors determine the local shear stresses on the towed array, and these measurements are converted to inclination angles using an empirically derived look-up table. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806262 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881229 | Weinstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph J. Weinstein (Somerville, Massachusetts); Vladimir Rosenzweig (Belmont, Massachusetts); Joseph Keller (Ledyard, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for exchanging routing information over a communications network constructs a connectivity graph that indicates connectivity between a first node and a first set of nodes in the network. The system constructs an adjacency graph that indicates a second set of nodes with which the first node will exchange routing data, where the adjacency graph is distinct from the connectivity graph. The system exchanges routing data between the first node and each node of the second set of nodes based on the adjacency graph. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/913151 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881340 | Farrag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Osama I. Farrag (Germantown, Maryland); William P. D'Amico (Baltimore, Maryland); Lotfi Benmohamed (Clarksville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating a decentralized ad-hoc wireless network including wireless stations, comprises establishing a common time reference which is used by the wireless stations to share access to a common wireless channel, the common time reference having a periodic superframe structure including a Scheduled Beacon Period, a Contended Beacon Period, Contention Periods (CPs) and Contention Free Periods (CFPs). The method further comprises time-scheduling, using wireless communication between the wireless stations, the CFPs in the SBTT interval to at least some of the wireless stations requesting access to the CFPs, and granting access to the CPs to at least some of the wireless stations requesting access to the CPs. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/876087 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881570 | Figotin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksandr Figotin (Irvine, California); Ilya M. Vitebskiy (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are photonic devices configured to display photonic band gap structure with a degenerate band edge. Electromagnetic radiation incident upon these photonic devices can be converted into a frozen mode characterized by a significantly increased amplitude, as compared to that of the incident wave. The device can also be configured as a resonance cavity with a giant transmission band edge resonance. In an exemplary embodiment, the photonic device is a periodic layered structure with each unit cell comprising at least two anisotropic layers with misaligned anisotropy. The degenerate band edge at given frequency can be achieved by proper choice of the layers' thicknesses and the misalignment angle. In another embodiment, the photonic device is configured as a waveguide periodically modulated along its axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/720592 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881892 | Soyemi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olusola O. Soyemi (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Babs R. Soller (Northboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods for measuring properties of samples with standardized spectroscopic systems. The methods can include (i) measuring, with a first spectroscopic system, spectra of at least three different reference targets; (ii) calibrating the first spectroscopic system; (iii) measuring, with the first spectroscopic system, a spectrum of a known reference specimen having a known value of the property; (iv) generating a model for the measured property using the spectrum of the known reference specimen; (v) measuring, with a second spectroscopic system, the spectra of at least three different reference targets; (vi) calibrating the second spectroscopic system; (vii) applying the model to the second spectroscopic system; (viii) measuring a spectrum of the sample using the second spectroscopic system; and (ix) determining a value of the property using the model. |
| FILED | Monday, January 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/337912 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881928 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Liang Gu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Wei Zhang (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for enhanced linguistic transformation are disclosed. For example, a method of linguistic transformation includes the steps of providing at least one input to a plurality of modules, wherein at least one module has a different configuration than at least another module, obtaining at least one output from each of at least a subset of the plurality of modules, and generating a set of distinct outputs. The input and the output include linguistic representations and at least a portion of the output is a result of applying one or more linguistic transformations to at least a portion of the input. Techniques for displaying a plurality of results so as to emphasize component-level differences are also disclosed. By way of example, a method of displaying a plurality of results includes the steps of determining at least one primary result within the plurality of results; displaying the at least one primary result with at least a first set of color attributes; and displaying at least one alternative result with at least a second set of color attributes. Each result represents an application of at least one linguistic transformation to a common input and each result comprises a plurality of components. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/680863 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882053 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FreeSlate, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youqi Wang (Atherton, California); Marco Falcioni (San Francisco, California); Stephen J. Turner (Cupertino, California); C. Eric Ramberg (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Computer-implemented methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, provide techniques for designing a set of experiments to be performed with a set of resources. A plurality of experimental configurations are generated based on a set of parameters describing factors to be varied in the experiments and a set of constraints representing limitations on operations that can be performed with the set of resources. A set of experiments is defined based on a selected configuration. The constraints can be represented as patterns defining an application of a parameter to a set of one or more points of an experimental lattice. |
| FILED | Monday, February 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348873 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882144 | Stolte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In response to a user request, a computer generates a graphical user interface on a computer display. A schema information region of the graphical user interface includes multiple operand names, each operand name associated with one or more fields of a multi-dimensional database. A data visualization region of the graphical user interface includes multiple shelves. Upon detecting a user selection of the operand names and a user request to associate each user-selected operand name with a respective shelf in the data visualization region, the computer generates a visual table in the data visualization region in accordance with the associations between the operand names and the corresponding shelves. The visual table includes a plurality of panes, each pane having at least one axis defined based on data for the fields associated with a respective operand name. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777172 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/802 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882413 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hangjun Chen (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts); Alexander M. Haimovich (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Time-space encoding and/or decoding may employ time variant linear transformations. Turbo coding and/or decoding may be used in conjunction with the use of time variant linear transformations. Such time variant linear transformations may be unitary in nature. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335957 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/751 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882485 | Feblowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for modeling a component of an information processing application, includes: defining an applicability condition of a component, wherein the applicability conditions includes variables representing objects that must be included in a pre-inclusion state and a graph pattern that semantically describes the objects that must be included in the pre-inclusion state, wherein the pre-inclusion state is a state against which the applicability of the component for inclusion in a processing graph is evaluated; and defining an inclusion effect of the component, wherein the inclusion effect includes variables representing objects that must be included in a post-inclusion state and a graph pattern that semantically describes the objects that must be in the post-inclusion state, wherein the post-inclusion state is a state resulting from inclusion of the component in the processing graph. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695311 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/104 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (Montrose, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon County, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a flexible circuit electrode array that provides excellent adhesion between the polymer base layer and the polymer top layer and insulation of the trace metals and electrodes. A layer of polymer is laid down. A layer of metal is applied to the polymer and patterned to create electrodes and leads for those electrodes. A second layer of polymer is applied over the metal layer and patterned to leave openings for the electrodes, or openings are created later by means such as laser ablation. Hence the array and its supply cable are formed of a single body. Alternatively, multiple alternating layers of metal and polymer may be applied to obtain more metal traces within a given width. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/545354 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/829 |
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| US 07878786 | Yost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Yost (Lexington, South Carolina); C. Michael Gore (West Columbia, South Carolina); Louis Terracio (New York, New York); Richard L. Goodwin (Columbia, South Carolina); Edie C. Goldsmith (Lexington, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing a tubular tissue scaffold having aligned biopolymer fibrils including a biopolymer gel dispersion feed pump that is operably connected to a tube-forming device having an exit port, where the tube-forming device is capable of producing a tube from the gel dispersion while providing an angular shear force across the wall of the tube, and a liquid bath located to receive the tubular tissue scaffold from the tube-forming device. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/072150 |
| ART UNIT | 1791 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/71 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh- Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk P. Conrad (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania); Sanjeev G. Shroff (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for increasing arterial compliance. The methods generally involve administering to an individual in need thereof an effective amount of relaxin. The present invention further provides methods of increasing arterial compliance in individuals who have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. The present invention further provides methods of increasing arterial compliance in perimenopausal, menopausal, and post-menopausal women. The present invention further provides methods of increasing arterial compliance in individuals who have or who are at risk of developing age-associated arterial stiffness. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/084670 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil K. Agrawal (Newark, Delaware); Abhishek Agrawal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sai Banala (Newark, Delaware); Stuart Binder-MacLeod (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | An ankle-foot orthosis comprising a leg member 12; a foot member 14; a frame 16 connecting the leg member to the foot member, wherein the frame comprises a first revolute joint 18 that rotates about a first axis 20 and a second revolute joint 22 that rotates about a second axis 24, wherein the first and second axes are non-parallel. The frame can further comprise a foot member segment 30 secured to the foot member 14 and extending to the second revolute joint 22. The orthosis can comprise a first force-torque sensor 36 located on the leg member, a second force-torque sensor 38 located on the foot member, and an encoder positioned on one of the revolute joints. The invention includes a method of measuring ankle-foot-related forces comprising positioning a subject's leg and foot in an ankle-foot orthosis; collecting data from the first and second force-torque sensors; and analyzing the collected data to determine the motion of the subject's ankle. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/453386 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/27 |
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| US 07879004 | Seibel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Seibel (Seattle, Washington); Per Reinhall (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A distal end of a flexible catheter can be selectively deflected in a desired direction by actuating one or more actuators that extend outwardly of an exterior surface of the catheter. Each actuator can be a balloon disposed within a non-extendible balloon or sheath. Inflation of one (or both) of the balloon and the non-extendible balloon with a pressurized fluid can deflect the distal tip of the catheter. Another actuator embodiment comprises a strip of a bimorph material that bends outwardly when actuated, e.g., by heat, applying a force against adjacent tissue to deflect the distal tip. Yet another embodiment includes a strip of material that shortens when heated and can be coupled to a balloon that is inflated outwardly to increase a radial moment arm of the force applied thereby, relative to a neutral axis of the catheter, to more readily deflect the distal tip. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/610084 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/98.10 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Baker (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Yang Shi (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A therapeutic or prophylactic treatment method of ischemia, such as due to myocardial infarction, by administering thrombopoietin, alone or in combination with other drugs, to a patient suffering from or at risk of cardiac injury, such as myocardial ischemia. The thrombopoietin is administered in a concentration such that the subject's platelet count or production of platelets is not significantly affected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624030 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Saxon (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns bifunctional fusion molecules, and novel, safer and more efficacious methods for the treatment of immune disorders resulting from excessive or unwanted immune responses. The invention provides methods for the suppression of type I hypersensitive (i.e., IgE-mediated) allergic conditions, methods for the prevention of anaphylactic responses that occur as a result of traditional peptide immunotherapies for allergic and autoimmune disorders, and provides novel methods for the treatment of autoimmune conditions, where the methods have reduced risk of triggering an anaphylactic response. The invention provides novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment of allergic responses, including the prevention of anaphylactic response that can occur from environmental allergen exposure. The invention also provides methods for the treatment of autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis, autoimmune type I diabetes mellitus, and rheumatoid arthritis. The invention also provides methods for preventing anaphylactic response during traditional antigen therapies. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404012 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Foung (Stanford, California); Zhen-Yong Keck (Redwood City, California); Richard Webby (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A panel of IgG1 human monoclonal antibodies (HMAbs) identified by hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assay has been produced from peripheral B cells of an individual immunized with prototype H5N1 vaccine. Sequence analysis of antibody clones showed three clusters of different HMAbs as represented by HMAbs designated as BF1-1, BF1-19 and BF1-10. BF1-1 and BF1-10 have distinct CDR 1, 2 and 3 regions of both heavy and light chains. BF1-19 has the same heavy chain as BF1-1 but the light chain of BF1-10. Antibody binding affinity, KD, studies showed all three HMAbs ranging from at least about 10−8 to at least about 10−9. In vivo protection studies showed that these antibodies afforded significant protection against infection. These findings demonstrate that the antibodies of the invention are cross-neutralizing and therapeutic. |
| FILED | Monday, June 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/140151 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/142.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Saxon (Santa Monica, California); Ke Zhang (Los Angeles, California); Daocheng Zhu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns bifunctional fusion molecules for the treatment of IgE-mediated allergic conditions and FcεRI-mediated autoimmune conditions. The invention provides a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of both acute and late-phase allergic responses due to ingestion, inhalation, cutaneous and parenteral exposure to allergens, responses including asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, severe food allergies, chronic urticaria and angioedema, as well as anaphylactic reactions due to exposures such as bee stings or penicillin allergy. In addition, the invention provides for a novel, safer and more efficacious form of allergy vaccination. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/799442 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute For Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Jennifer R. Allen (Indianapolis, Indiana); Govindaswami Ragupathi (New York, New York); Philip O. Livingston (New York, New York); Lawrence Williams (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel n-alkenyl glycosides and glycoconjugates, n-alkyl glycoamino acids, and methods for the synthesis thereof. In another aspect, the present invention provides novel clustered glycopeptides and methods for the synthesis thereof. In still another aspect, the present invention provides methods for the treatment of cancer, preferably for the prevention of recurrence of cancer, and methods for inducing antibodies in a subject, comprising administering to a subject in need, an effective amount of any of the inventive glycoconjugates as disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Friday, August 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/641742 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Margalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for systemic immune activation which is effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in a mammal. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal from herpes simplex virus. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/580908 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/231.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian H. Clarkson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Haifeng Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods directed toward the synthesis of ordered structures of hydroxyapatite and hydroxyapatite derivatives. More specifically, disclosed herein is a method of preparing ordered hydroxyapatite nanorod structures including the steps of suspending calcium and phosphate in a solvent, adjusting the pH to above 5, and heating to a temperature sufficient to support formation of the ordered hydroxyapatite nanorod structures. In some cases, the methods may include ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid or ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid derivatives. Also disclosed are methods that additionally involve a step of coating hydroxyapatite nanorods with a protein or an amphiphile such as a surfactant or polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665529 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.270 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. (Tampa, Florida); University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier F. Torres-Roca (St. Petersburg, Florida); Timothy Yeatman (Tampa, Florida); Steven Eschrich (Lakeland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A classifier to predict cellular radiation sensitivity based on gene expression profiles in thirty-five cell lines from the NCI panel of 60 cancer cell lines (NCI-60), using a novel approach to predictive gene analysis. Three novel genes are provided, retinoblastoma binding protein 4 (RbAp48), G-protein signaling regulator 19 (RGS19) and ribose-5-phosphate isomerase A (R5PIA) whose expression values were correlated with radiation sensitivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/904326 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc E. Rothenberg (Cincinnati, Ohio); Nives Zimmermann (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Several genes are upregulated in the lung of asthma or allergy sufferers. Many of the genes up-regulated in asthma are involved in arginine metabolism in the lung. Moreover, a set of 291 signature genes was found that can be used to indicate a patient's predilection for developing asthma or the patient's degree of suffering. Also, a set of 59 signature genes were found that indicate a patient's predilection for developing allergies. Many of the up-regulated genes relating to asthma were from the arginine metabolic pathway. Other genes, such as ADAM8, SPRR2A and SPRR2B were also strongly up-regulated in asthma. Treatment of asthma may be accomplished by administering compositions which decrease the levels of Arginase I, Arginase II, CAT2, or other arginase pathway members in the lung. Additionally, detection of altered levels of these proteins or the mRNA encoding them may be useful to diagnose the presence of asthma in a patient. |
| FILED | Monday, April 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/735954 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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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); The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin (Dublin, Ireland); The Health Research Board (Dublin, Ireland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence C. Brody (Baltimore, Maryland); Anne Parle-McDermott (Dublin, Ireland); John Scott (Dublin, Ireland); Peadar Kirke (Dublin, Ireland); James Mills (Rockville, Maryland); Faith Pangilinan (Rockville, Maryland); Anne Molloy (Dublin, Ireland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to materials and methods associated with polymorphic variants in two enzymes involved in folate-dependent and one-carbon metabolic pathways: MTHFD1 (5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase, 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase, 10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase) and methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase (NADP+dependent) 1-like (MTHFD1L). Diagnostic and therapeutic methods are provided involving the correlation of polymorphic variants in MTHFD1, MTHFD1, and other genes with relative susceptibility for various pregnancy-related and other complications. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/958126 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhihua Jiang (Pullman, Washington); Jennifer J. Michal (Albion, Washington); Tanja Kunej (Ljubljana, Slovenia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase core protein I (UQCRC1) gene and its associations association with fat deposition and fatty acid composition. The invention further encompasses methods and systems, including network-based processes, to manage the SNP data, haplotype data and other data relating to specific animals and herds of animals, veterinarian care, diagnostic and quality control data and management of livestock which, based on genotyping, have predictable meat quality traits, husbandry conditions, animal welfare, food safety information, audit of existing processes and data from field locations. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/125968 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroaki Matsunami (Durham, North Carolina); Momoka Matsunami (Durham, North Carolina); Harumi Saito (Durham, North Carolina); Hanyi Zhuang (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polypeptides capable of promoting odorant receptor cell surface localization and odorant receptor functional expression. The present invention further provides assays for the detection of ligands specific for various odorant receptors. Additionally, the present invention provides methods of screening for odorant receptor accessory protein polymorphisms and mutations associated with disease states, as well as methods of screening for therapeutic agents, ligands, and modulators of such proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/207102 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
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| US 07879572 | York et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University And Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. York (Logan, Utah); MieJung Park (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that the ability of analogues to affect binding of a labeled β-casomorphin (an enterostatin antagonist) to recombinant rat F1-ATPase β-subunit was closely correlated with their enterostatin-like biological activity. Using immunohistochemistry and western blots, the presence of the F1-ATPase β-subunit was demonstrated in plasma membranes of liver, pancreas and amygdala. The effects of enterostatin on the intracellular localization of the proteins were studied using deconvolution or confocal microscopy. Enterostatin did not alter the location of F1-ATPase a-subunit-RFP but induced movement of the F1-ATPase β-subunit-GFP to the periphery of cells. These studies, showing the plasma membrane localization of the F1-ATPase β-subunit, the influence of enterostatin on the cellular location of the protein, the appropriate Kd value for binding, together with the previous correlation of binding effects with biological activity for a number of analogues, indicate that this protein is the enterostatin receptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/719175 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.400 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Barany (New York, New York); George Barany (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); Robert P. Hammer (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Maria Kempe (Malmo, Sweden); Herman Blok (Wemeldinge, Netherlands); Monib Zirvi (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of forming arrays of oligonucleotides on a solid support. This method involves providing a solid support having an array of positions each suitable for attachment of an oligonucleotide. Linkers, suitable for coupling oligonucleotides to the solid support, are attached to the solid support surface at each of the array positions. An array of a plurality of capture oligonucleotides are formed on the solid support by a series of cycles of activating selected array positions for attachment of multimer nucleotides and attaching multimer nucleotides at activated array positions. The multimer nucleotides are selected for attachment so that the capture oligonucleotides formed on the array hybridize with complementary oligonucleotide target sequences under uniform hybridization conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/963698 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
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| US 07879791 | Munn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical College of Georgia Research Institute, Inc. (Augusta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Munn (Augusta, Georgia); Andrew Mellor (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism of macrophage-induced T cell suppression is the selective elimination of tryptophan and/or increase in one or more tryptophan metabolites within the local macrophage microenvironment. Studies demonstrate that expression of IDO can serve as a marker of suppression of T cell activation, and may play a significant role in allogeneic pregnancy and therefore other types of transplantation, and that inhibitors of IDO can be used to activate T cells and therefore enhance T cell activation when the T cells are suppressed by pregnancy, malignancy or a virus such as HIV. Inhibiting tryptophan degradation (and thereby increasing tryptophan concentration while decreasing tryptophan metabolite concentration), or supplementing tryptophan concentration, can therefore be used in addition to, or in place of, inhibitors of IDO. Similarly, increasing tryptophan degradation (thereby, decreasing tryptophan concentration and increasing tryptophan metabolite concentration), for example, by increasing IDO concentration or IDO activity, can suppress T cells. Although described particularly with reference to IDO regulation, one can instead manipulate local tryptophan concentrations, and/or modulate the activity of the high affinity tryptophan transporter, and/or administer other tryptophan degrading enzymes. Regulation can be further manipulated using cytokines such as macrophage colony stimulating factor, interferon gamma, alone or in combination with antigen or other cytokines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/602930 |
| 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 514/1 |
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| US 07879792 | Schmaier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alvin H. Schmaier (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Henry I. Mosberg (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Fernanda F. Marques (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John Hilfinger (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to synthetic peptide analogs of D-Arg-Oic-Pro-Gly-Phe and methods of their use to inhibit human platelet aggregation, thrombosis and cell activation mediated by PAR1 and PAR4. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/142364 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miguel A. Cruz (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for the prevention, treatment and/or diagnosis of a medical condition, such as sepsis, systemic inflammatory reaction syndrome, and/or thrombosis, for example. In particular, the method employs part or all of the A2 domain of von Willebrand factor. In certain cases, a recombinant A2 domain is utilized for the treatment of sepsis, systemic inflammatory reaction syndrome, and/or thrombosis, for example. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874316 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 07879799 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Martin (Seattle, Washington); Bernd Wollscheid (Zurich, Switzerland); Rudolf H. Aebersold (Zurich, Switzerland); Julian Watts (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for generating an antibody specific for the deglycosylated form of a glycopolypeptide using a peptide corresponding to an N-linked glycosylation site of a glycopolypeptide. The invention additionally provides methods for generating an antibody specific for a glycopolypeptide using a peptide corresponding to amino acids adjacent to an authentic N-linked glycosylation site. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891487 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
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| US 07879810 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Iowa City, Iowa); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides and therapeutic utilities based on their ability to stimulate an immune response and to redirect a Th2 response to a Th1 response in a subject are disclosed. Methods for treating atopic diseases, including atopic dermatitis, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/956494 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 07879812 | Ashman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Ashman (Iowa City, Iowa); Petar Lenert (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn a new class of oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) that inhibit ODN-activation of Toll-like receptor (TLR)9. Particular 4-5 base extensions at the 5′ and of the previously described core inhibitory ODN sequence enhances their inhibitory activity against human cells expressing human TLR9. Methods of use also are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185418 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07879821 | Hauser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl J. Hauser (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for treating an immune-related disorder in a patient comprising administering an agent to the patient for altering the patient's plasma concentration of free cholesterol, wherein said agent is a non-statin agent and is administered in an amount sufficient to modulate the immune-related disorder. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627891 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/58 |
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| US 07879840 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Robert Marks (Larchmont, New York); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Shixian Deng (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and salts, hydrates, solvates, complexes, and prodrugs thereof. The present invention further provides methods for synthesizing compounds of Formula I. The invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions of Formula I to treat and prevent disorders and diseases associated with the RyR receptors that regulate calcium channel functioning in cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/506285 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/211.50 |
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| US 07879868 | Houghton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Houghton (Memphis, Tennessee); Peter Traxler (Schönenbuch, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of imatinib of the following formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of a cancer that expresses breast cancer resistant protein (BCRP) in a human subject in need of such a treatment. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/530618 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/275 |
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| US 07879886 | Bergeron, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Bergeron, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Composition, article of manufacture for and method of treating malaria in a human having an infestation of Plasmodium protozoans are described. The method comprises administering a therapeutically-effective amount of a compound of formula (I) or (IV), i.e. sufficient quantity to reduce the population of Plasmodium. The composition of the invention is a compound of formula (I) or (IV) with a pharmaceutical excipient. The article of manufacture is the composition in combination with labeling for treating malaria. The substituents are detailed in the specification. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/582846 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Angion Biomedica Corp. (Garden City, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanchun He (Manhasset, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for treating chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases such as emphysema using compounds that activate the signaling pathways of hepatocyte growth factor. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/705202 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406 |
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| US 07879911 | Johnson et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Johnson (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Guan-Sheng Jiao (Honolulu, Hawaii); Seongjin Kim (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the formula wherein the symbols have the meaning described in the specification are hydroxamic acid derivatives of phenoxy-acetic acids and analogs capable of inhibiting the lethal effects of infection by anthrax bacteria and are useful in the treatment of poisoning by anthrax. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011847 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
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| US 07879977 | Burks, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Alaska); Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Wesley Burks, Jr. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Gary A. Bannon (Wentzville, Missouri); Hugh A. Sampson (Greenwich, Connecticut); Ricki M. Helm (Little Rock, Arkansas); Gael Cockrell (Cabot, Arkansas); J. Steven Stanley (North Little Rock, Arkansas); Nina E. King (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been determined that allergens, which are characterized by both humoral (IgE) and cellular (T cell) binding sites, can be modified to be less allergenic by modifying the IgE binding sites. The IgE binding sites can be converted to non-IgE binding sites by masking the site with a compound that prevents IgE binding or by altering as little as a single amino acid within the protein, most typically a hydrophobic residue towards the center of the IgE-binding epitope, to eliminate IgE binding. The method allows the protein to be altered as minimally as possible, other than-within the IgE-binding sites, while retaining the ability of the protein to activate T cells, and, in some embodiments by not significantly altering or decreasing IgG binding capacity The examples use peanut allergens to demonstrate alteration of IgE binding sites. The critical amino acids within each of the IgE binding epitopes of the peanut protein that are important to immunoglobulin binding have been determined. Substitution of even a single amino acid within each of the epitopes led to loss of IgE binding. Although the epitopes shared no common amino acid sequence motif, the hydrophobic residues located in the center of the epitope appeared to be most critical to IgE binding. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/329924 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07880466 | Derbyshire 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 Andrew Derbyshire (Silver Spring, Maryland); Daniel Alfredo Herzka (Rockville, Maryland); Elliot R. McVeigh (Phoenix, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fat-suppressed imaging is disclosed. Such a method may include storing a first spectral component of an echo signal formed at TR/2 from a sample, suppressing a second spectral component of the echo signal at TR/2, re-exciting the stored spectral component after suppressing the second spectral component, and producing an image of the sample based on the re-excited stored spectral component. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751479 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
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| US 07880468 | Szyperski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Szyperski (Amherst, New York); Seho Kim (Highland Park, New Jersey); Hanudatta S. Atreya (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention presents a new approach to rapidly obtaining precise high-dimensional NMR spectral information, named “GFT NMR spectroscopy”, which is based on the phase sensitive joint sampling of the indirect dimensions spanning a subspace of a conventional NMR experiment. The phase-sensitive joint sampling of several indirect dimensions of a high-dimensional NMR experiment leads to largely reduced minimum measurement times when compared to FT NMR. This allows one to avoid the “sampling limited” data collection regime. Concomitantly, the analysis of the resulting chemical shift multiplets, which are edited by the G-matrix transformation, yields increased precision for the measurement of the chemical shifts. Additionally, methods of conducting specific GFT NMR experiments as well as methods of conducting a combination of GFT NMR experiments for rapidly obtaining precise chemical shift assignment and determining the structure of proteins or other molecules are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/057076 |
| 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 | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07880876 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Richard A. Dluhy (Athens, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Watkinsville, Georgia); Yao-wen Huang (Athens, Georgia); Hsiao Yun Chu (Athens, Georgia); Yongjun Liu (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems and methods for detecting biomolecules of interest, such as a bacterium are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166485 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
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| US 07880882 | Jayaraman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Praevium Research, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijaysekhar Jayaraman (Goleta, California); Timothy Andrew Strand (Santa Barbara, California); Devin Blaine Leonard (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention discloses a system for optical spectroscopy comprising a multi-wavelength semiconductor light source comprising a plurality of semiconductor light sources disposed on a silicon sub-carrier and emitting a plurality of radiation components spanning a wavelength range. The radiation components are coupled to a waveguide array disposed on the same silicon subcarrier. Output from the waveguide array provides a compact multi-wavelength laser source with wide tuning range via a plurality of laser sources. The system further comprises means for directing radiation components to a sample, and an optical detector configured to detect one of a radiation reflected from and transmitted through said sample. The system can be used in a variety of applications including the analysis of in-vivo human tissue, agricultural samples, and pharmaceutical samples. Typical wavelength ranges are 650-1000 nm, 700-1700 nm, and 1100-2500 nm. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157142 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/420 |
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| US 07880887 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phygen, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven K. Isvik (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Accurate measurements of the concentration of a sterilant in a sterilization chamber are provided through the use of a light source, a first detector that receives light from the light source that has not passed through the sterilization chamber and a detector that receives light from the light source that has passed through the sterilization chamber. The light contains wavelengths known to be absorbed by the sterilant. A controller receives and processes signals received from the two detectors to cancel changes in the output of the light source and then apply a modified Beer-Lambert law to determine the concentration of the sterilant gas. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/231211 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
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| US 07881409 | Ghovanloo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maysam Ghovanloo (Raleigh, North Carolina); Khalil Najafi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A demodulator, chip and method for digitally demodulating an FSK signal utilizing a digital data transfer protocol and a digital demodulator circuit have been developed. The data-rate approaches the carrier-frequency. The one application for this technique is in the magnetically powered wireless systems such as biomedical implants and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags with high data rates above 1 Mbps. The demodulator circuit extracts the serial data bit-stream and a constant-frequency clock from an FSK carrier signal in the 1˜20 MHZ range, which can power the wireless system as well. The digital demodulator circuit is implemented entirely with digital circuitry and is called a digital-FSK (DFSK) demodulator. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/597392 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/334 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytyc Corporation (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Zahniser (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved image segmentation algorithm is provided that identifies each object in an image. Pixels of the image are sorted based on a range of attribute values of the image. These pixels are then added to a labeling image one by one starting with an extreme point in the range of attribute values. Features are calculated for each object located and these features are matched with pre-defined acceptance criteria. If there is a match, the object is output to an output image. The steps of adding pixels to the image, evaluating the features of the resulting objects and outputting the objects are repeated until a stopping point is reached. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712023 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/180 |
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| US 07881764 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Reseach Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert N. Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio); Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Gerard G. Skebe (Eastlake, Ohio); Troy S. Prince (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a dry physiological recording electrode that can be used without skin preparation or the use of electrolytic gels. The dry physiological recording electrode comprising a substrate having an upper and a lower surface, and at least one penetrator(s) protruding from the upper surface of the substrate. The penetrator(s) is capable of piercing through the stratum corneum or outer layer of the skin, and transmitting an electric potential from the lower layers of the epidermis through the penetrator(s) which can be measured, or detecting agents from the lower layers of the epidmermis primarily the stratum germinativum layer. At least one epidermis stop may be provided resulting in the formation of detritus troughs interposed between adjacent penetrator(s) and epidermis stops. The present invention also includes a method of sensing biopotentials in the skin. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340951 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/372 |
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| US 07881768 | Lang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint, particularly in a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. Information on thickness of cartilage and curvature of cartilage or subchondral bone can be used to plan therapy. Information on movement pattern can be used to plan therapy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/739326 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
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| US 07881799 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Jordan Neysmith (Pasadena, California); Kevin Wilkins (Valencia, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved package and configuration for an implantable retinal prosthesis includes an electrode array suitable to be mounted in close proximity to a retina, an electronics package, and inductive receiving coil mounted next to each other on a strap surrounding the sclera so that the height above the sclera of the prosthesis is minimized. |
| FILED | Monday, March 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385315 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shreeram Akilesh (Bangor, Maine); Kevin D. Mills (Bar Harbor, Maine); Derry Charles Roopenian (Salisbury Cove, Maine); Daniel J. Shaffer (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing rapid genomic DNA analysis of samples, such as control samples and experimental samples. In one aspect, the system makes use of genomic DNA input, rather than gene expression input such as mRNA and/or cDNA associated with mRNA. The systems and methods perform statistical analyses on data generated from the samples to determine which DNA sequences in an identified set of DNA sequences have a basis of variation in an experimental sample when compared to a control sample, and additionally provide a quantitative measure of this variation. The quantitative measure may be based on metrics such as copy number and/or fold-change. The systems and methods employ this statistical framework in DNA-based evaluation settings, including the evaluation/diagnosis of a pathological condition such as cancer or transgenic analysis of transgenic plants and animals. The systems and methods also provide means to select and refine the selection of DNA sequences, such as genes, known to undergo copy change for a particular pathological condition. This leads to the creation of stock gene sets catered to individual application areas and/or clinical uses, which may be used with the systems and methods described in this application for the purpose of, for example, a clinical kit for rapid DNA-based evaluation. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/341699 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Goldman (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for determining effects on a biological system include determining rate constants for a particular time interval starting at an initial time. Each rate constant indicates a rate of transition from one of four states to a different one of the four states for a component of a biological system in presence of an external factor. A temporal change in a probability that the component is in a particular state after the initial time is determined without numerical iteration over multiple time steps. This includes determining three relaxation time constants that describe exponential changes based on the rate constants. The effect of the external factor on the biological system is determined based on the temporal change in the probability that the component is in the particular state. The probability at an arbitrary time is determined based on the rate constants and initial probabilities. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687635 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Cular (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Venkat R. Bhethanabotla (Tampa, Florida); Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a hexagonal, delay line surface acoustic wave device fabricated on a a piezoelectric substrate, such as lithium tantalate, coated with an insulating waveguide on to which a sensing film, such as an anti-human Interleukin-6 biosensor film, is physically absorbed. The acoustic waves that propagate along the delay lines of the SAW device provide for detection of biological species along one delay line and simultaneously provide for removal of non-specifically bound protein along the remaining delay lines. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179184 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/579 |
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| US 07879304 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC. UNM (Albusquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L Ward (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jaime Bravo (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Abhaya Datye (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Gabriel Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hien Pham (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Shailendra Rathod (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Venkata Goparaju (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for evaporation induced self-assembly (EISA) within microdroplets produced by a vibrating orifice aerosol generator (VOAG) for the production of monodisperse mesoporous silica particles. The process of the present invention exploits the concentration of evaporating droplets to induce the organization of various amphiphilic molecules, effectively partitioning a silica precursor to the hydrophilic regions of the structure. Promotion of silica condensation, followed by removal of the surfactant, provides ordered spherical mesoporous particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015412 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/336 |
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| US 07879306 | 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 | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/263413 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
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| US 07879338 | Hamilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D.O. Hamilton (Herts, United Kingdom); Koen Hellendoorn (Suffolk, United Kingdom); Timothy D. Jones (Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom); Dwayne D. Kirk (Mesa, Arizona); Hugh S. Mason (Phoenix, Arizona); Xiuren Zhang (New York, New York); Charles J. Arntzen (Superstition Mountain, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a synthetic plant-optimized nucleic acid molecule having a Norwalk virus capsid protein coding nucleotide sequence, and nucleic acid constructs, host cells, expression systems, and plants having the plant-optimized Norwalk virus nucleic acid molecule. The present invention also relates to a method of producing Norwalk virus capsid protein virus-like particles in a transgenic plant or transgenic plant seed transformed with a plant-optimized nucleic acid molecule encoding Norwalk virus capsid protein. The plant or a component thereof can be administered to a subject under conditions effective to immunize the subject against disease resulting from infection by a Norovirus, including Norwalk virus. An oral vaccine for immunization of a subject against Norwalk virus infection is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895791 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/216.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian H. Clarkson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Haifeng Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods directed toward the synthesis of ordered structures of hydroxyapatite and hydroxyapatite derivatives. More specifically, disclosed herein is a method of preparing ordered hydroxyapatite nanorod structures including the steps of suspending calcium and phosphate in a solvent, adjusting the pH to above 5, and heating to a temperature sufficient to support formation of the ordered hydroxyapatite nanorod structures. In some cases, the methods may include ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid or ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid derivatives. Also disclosed are methods that additionally involve a step of coating hydroxyapatite nanorods with a protein or an amphiphile such as a surfactant or polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665529 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879418 | Komvopoulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyriakos Komvopoulos (Orinda, California); Satomi Tajima (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a carbon-containing layer on a polymeric substrate is disclosed. The polymeric substrate is modified physically and chemically using an inductively coupled plasma process. The carbon-containing layer can be fluorocarbon film with different physicochemical properties and structure. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/741408 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/36.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879540 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith V. Wood (Madison, Wisconsin); Monika G. Gruber (Madison, Wisconsin); Yao Zhuang (Madison, Wisconsin); Aileen Paguio (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to prepare synthetic nucleic acid molecules having reduced inappropriate or unintended transcriptional characteristics when expressed in a particular host cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/645706 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879576 | Fenical et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Fenical (Del Mar, California); Paul R. Jensen (San Diego, California); Tracy J. Mincer (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is the discovery of an actinomycete genus, given the name Salinospora gen. nov., that displays an obligate requirement of seawater (Na+) for growth and unique 16S rRNA signature nucleotides. The invention is also the use of the genus for the production and discovery of active biomolecules such as pharmaceutical agents, agrichemicals, immunomodifiers, enzymes and enzyme inhibitors. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/841588 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879697 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip I. Cohen (Mendota Heights, Minnesota); Bentao Cui (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of growing Group-III nitride thin-film structures having reduced dislocation density are provided. Methods in accordance with the present invention comprise growing a Group-III nitride thin-film material while applying an ion flux and preferably while the substrate is stationary or non-rotating substrate. The ion flux is preferably applied as an ion beam at a glancing angle of incidence. Growth under these conditions creates a nanoscale surface corrugation having a characteristic features size, such as can be measured as a wavelength or surface roughness. After the surface corrugation is created, and preferably in the same growth reactor, the substrate is rotated in an ion flux which cause the surface corrugation to be reduced. The result of forming a surface corrugation and then subsequently reducing or removing the surface corrugation is the formation of a nanosculpted region and polished transition region that effectively filter dislocations. Repeating such nanosculpted and polished regions advantageously provide significant reduction in dislocation density in thin-film structures. |
| FILED | Monday, June 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810122 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879940 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Jared L. Hudson (Houston, Texas); Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Bellaire, Texas); Koray Yurekli (Cengelkoy, Turkey); Cynthia A. Mitchell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to aryl halide (such as aryl bromide) functionalized carbon nanotubes that can be utilized in anionic polymerization processes to form polymer-carbon nanotube materials with improved dispersion ability in polymer matrices. In this process the aryl halide is reacted with an alkyllithium species or is reacted with a metal to replace the aryl-bromine bond with an aryl-lithium or aryl-metal bond, respectively. It has further been discovered that other functionalized carbon nanotubes, after deprotonation with a deprotonation agent, can similarly be utilized in anionic polymerization processes to form polymer-carbon nanotube materials. Additionally or alternatively, a ring opening polymerization process can be performed. The resultant materials can be used by themselves due to their enhanced strength and reinforcement ability when compared to their unbound polymer analogs. Additionally, these materials can also be blended with pre-formed polymers to establish compatibility and enhanced dispersion of nanotubes in otherwise hard to disperse matrices resulting in significantly improved material properties. The resultant polymer-carbon nanotube materials can also be used in drug delivery processes due to their improved dispersion ability and biodegradability, and can also be used for scaffolding to promote cellular growth of tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561253 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880059 | Dixon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Dixon (Ardmore, Oklahoma); Luzia V. Modolo (Castelo, Spain); Gregory Peel (Ardmore, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides method and compositions for the modulation of anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin production in plants. The methods of the invention allow creation of plants having novel phenotypes. Increased expression of anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins in plants may be used to increase the nutritional value of food plants for both human and animal consumption. Increased proanthocyanidin content also reduces the potential for bloat in animals fed certain forage plants low in condensed tannin content. The invention may also be used to modify plant pigmentation, and for nutraceutical and food colorant production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/108332 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880060 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vestaron Corporation (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn F. King (St Lucia, Australia); Brianna Sollod McFarland (Fenton, Missouri); Graham Michael Nicholson (Sydney, Australia); Simon Joseph Gunning (Abbortsford, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of insecticidal polypeptides expressed in the venom gland of spiders of the genera Atrax and Hadronyche have been described. Also included are polynucleotides and expression vectors encoding the polypeptides and insect viruses and cells expressing the polypeptides. Transgenic plants and insects expressing the insecticidal polypeptides are also described. The insecticidal polypeptides may be employed in methods and compositions for treating insects, insect larvae, and plants. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/074950 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880468 | Szyperski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Szyperski (Amherst, New York); Seho Kim (Highland Park, New Jersey); Hanudatta S. Atreya (Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention presents a new approach to rapidly obtaining precise high-dimensional NMR spectral information, named “GFT NMR spectroscopy”, which is based on the phase sensitive joint sampling of the indirect dimensions spanning a subspace of a conventional NMR experiment. The phase-sensitive joint sampling of several indirect dimensions of a high-dimensional NMR experiment leads to largely reduced minimum measurement times when compared to FT NMR. This allows one to avoid the “sampling limited” data collection regime. Concomitantly, the analysis of the resulting chemical shift multiplets, which are edited by the G-matrix transformation, yields increased precision for the measurement of the chemical shifts. Additionally, methods of conducting specific GFT NMR experiments as well as methods of conducting a combination of GFT NMR experiments for rapidly obtaining precise chemical shift assignment and determining the structure of proteins or other molecules are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/057076 |
| 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 | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880551 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Chan (Yonkers, New York); Kenneth L. Shepard (Ossining, New York); Zheng Xu (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for distributing a clock signal are disclosed. In some embodiments, systems for distributing a clock signal include a plurality of resonant oscillators, each comprising an inductor; and a differential clock grid that distributes the clock signal. The differential clock grid is coupled to the plurality of resonant oscillators and the clock signal, and the inductances of the inductors are configured such that a resonant frequency of the plurality of resonant oscillators is substantially equal to the frequency of the clock signal. |
| FILED | Friday, December 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/159750 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880876 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiping Zhao (Statham, Georgia); Richard A. Dluhy (Athens, Georgia); Ralph A. Tripp (Watkinsville, Georgia); Yao-wen Huang (Athens, Georgia); Hsiao Yun Chu (Athens, Georgia); Yongjun Liu (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) systems and methods for detecting biomolecules of interest, such as a bacterium are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166485 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880883 | Okcay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Interactive Flow Studies Corporation (Waterloo, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murat Okcay (Rochester, Minnesota); Bilgehan Uygar Oztekin (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, systems, devices and methods for fluid flow analysis for example, in an education environment. The light source, for example, a laser, is housed to illuminate particles in a fluid while minimizing exposure to the user. A control unit is provided that is remote from the fluid flow device. The fluid flow device further includes a removable fluid obstacle such that different fluid flow effects can be obtained. A computational unit is provided to perform computational fluid flow dynamics analysis on fluid flow models. The computed data can then be compared to the test data from the fluid flow analysis device. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130798 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881671 | Sayeed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akbar M. Sayeed (Madison, Wisconsin); Thiagarajan Sivanadyan (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system supporting data retrieval from a plurality of wireless sensor nodes is defined. The system includes the plurality of wireless sensor nodes and a data retrieval device. The plurality of wireless sensor nodes include a transceiver receiving a first signal and transmitting a second signal. The second signal includes a sensed datum or an encoded statistic based on the sensed datum identified at the plurality of wireless sensor nodes. The data retrieval device includes a plurality of antennas transmitting the first signal toward the plurality of wireless sensor nodes and receiving the second signal from the plurality of wireless sensor nodes, and a processor coupled to receive the received second signal from the plurality of antennas, the processor defining a virtual receive signal from the received second signal for the plurality of antennas and processing the defined virtual receive signal to determine the identified sensed datum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/406070 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/67.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881764 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Reseach Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert N. Schmidt (Cleveland, Ohio); Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Gerard G. Skebe (Eastlake, Ohio); Troy S. Prince (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a dry physiological recording electrode that can be used without skin preparation or the use of electrolytic gels. The dry physiological recording electrode comprising a substrate having an upper and a lower surface, and at least one penetrator(s) protruding from the upper surface of the substrate. The penetrator(s) is capable of piercing through the stratum corneum or outer layer of the skin, and transmitting an electric potential from the lower layers of the epidermis through the penetrator(s) which can be measured, or detecting agents from the lower layers of the epidmermis primarily the stratum germinativum layer. At least one epidermis stop may be provided resulting in the formation of detritus troughs interposed between adjacent penetrator(s) and epidermis stops. The present invention also includes a method of sensing biopotentials in the skin. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340951 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882164 | French |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. French (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Minimizing the power consumption in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) when used for convolution. The power consuming parts of the calculation are determined, and symmetry in those parts is exploited. For example, when multiplying by a filter have in common Values, the symmetry in the taps is detected. The values to be multiplied by the common tap values are edited and then the added value is multiplied. This minimizes the number of multipliers, thereby reducing power consumption. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233938 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fariborz Bzorgi (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A support platform having a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration on a floor. The support platform is related to stretcher devices that are used for transporting, confining, or conducting medical procedures on medical patients in medical emergencies. The support platform typically includes a work surface that has a geometric extent. A base that typically includes a plurality of frame members is provided, and the frame members are disposed across the geometric extent of, and proximal to, the work surface in the stowed configuration. The frame members are typically disposed on the floor in the deployed configuration. There is a foldable bracing system engaged with the work surface and engaged with the base. At least a portion of the foldable bracing system is disposed substantially inside at least a portion of the plurality of frame members in the stowed configuration. Further, the foldable bracing system is configured for translocation of the work surface distal from the base in the deployed configuration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689217 |
| ART UNIT | 3673 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Beds 05/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07877987 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Frank Ament (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust system that processes exhaust generated by an engine is provided. The system generally includes a particulate filter (PF) that filters particulates from the exhaust wherein an upstream end of the PF receives exhaust from the engine. A grid of electrically resistive material selectively heats exhaust passing through the upstream end to initiate combustion of particulates within the PF. A hydrocarbon adsorbent coating applied to the PF releases hydrocarbons into the exhaust to increase a temperature of the combustion of the particulates within the PF. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/876171 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879161 | Goyal |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A warm-rolled, annealed, polycrystalline, cube-textured, {100}<100>, FCC-based alloy substrate is characterized by a yield strength greater than 200 MPa and a biaxial texture characterized by a FWHM of less than 15° in all directions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835725 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879285 | Landingham |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Landingham (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cermet comprising ceramic and metal components and a molten metal infiltration method and process for fabrication thereof. The light weight cermets having improved porosity, strength, durability, toughness, elasticity fabricated from presintered ceramic powder infiltrated with a molten metal or metal alloy. Alumina titanium cermets biocompatible with the human body suitable for bone and joint replacements. |
| FILED | Friday, September 27, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/260121 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879401 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Richard Lunt (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for organic vapor jet deposition are provided, where an exhaust is disposed between adjacent nozzles. One or more carrier gases may be provided and ejected from a plurality of nozzles. An exhaust may be provided to create a localized vacuum between nozzles. The exhaust may reduce pressure buildup in the nozzles and between the nozzles and the substrate, leading to improved deposition profiles, resolution, and improved nozzle-to-nozzle uniformity. The exhaust may be in fluid communication with an ambient vacuum, or may be directly connected to a vacuum source. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/643795 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/255.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879560 | Smirnov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex I. Smirnov (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanotubes and nanotube array structures comprise (a) a nanotube having an inner wall portion; and (b) a bilayer coating formed on the inner wall portions, with the bilayer coating comprised of surfactants. A secondary compound such as a protein, peptide or nucleic acid may be associated with the bilayer coating. The structures are useful for, among other things, affinity purification, catalysis, and as biochips. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330010 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879644 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xunming Deng (Sylvania, Ohio); Xianbo Liao (Toledo, Ohio); Wenhui Du (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel photovoltaic solar cell and method of making the same are disclosed. The solar cell includes: at least one absorber layer which could either be a lightly doped layer or an undoped layer, and at least a doped window-layers which comprise at least two sub-window-layers. The first sub-window-layer, which is next to the absorber-layer, is deposited to form desirable junction with the absorber-layer. The second sub-window-layer, which is next to the first sub-window-layer, but not in direct contact with the absorber-layer, is deposited in order to have transmission higher than the first-sub-window-layer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/899799 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879749 | Rollins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry W. Rollins (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lucia M. Petkovic (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Daniel M. Ginosar (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalytic structures include a catalytic material disposed within a zeolite material. The catalytic material may be capable of catalyzing a formation of methanol from carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide, and the zeolite material may be capable of catalyzing a formation of hydrocarbon molecules from methanol. The catalytic material may include copper and zinc oxide. The zeolite material may include a first plurality of pores substantially defined by a crystal structure of the zeolite material and a second plurality of pores dispersed throughout the zeolite material. Systems for synthesizing hydrocarbon molecules also include catalytic structures. Methods for synthesizing hydrocarbon molecules include contacting hydrogen and at least one of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide with such catalytic structures. Catalytic structures are fabricated by forming a zeolite material at least partially around a template structure, removing the template structure, and introducing a catalytic material into the zeolite material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/464566 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879750 | Soloveichik |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Grigorii Lev Soloveichik (Latham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making an anode for alkaline electrolysis cells includes adsorption of precursor material on a carbonaceous material, conversion of the precursor material to hydroxide form and conversion of precursor material from hydroxide form to oxy-hydroxide form within the alkaline electrolysis cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/564956 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880146 | Johnstone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universities Research Association, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carol J. Johnstone (Warrenville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A FFAG is a particle accelerator having turning magnets with a linear field gradient for confinement and a large edge angle to compensate for acceleration. FODO cells contain focus magnets and defocus magnets that are specified by a number of parameters. A set of seven equations, called the FFAG equations relate the parameters to one another. A set of constraints, call the FFAG constraints, constrain the FFAG equations. Selecting a few parameters, such as injection momentum, extraction momentum, and drift distance reduces the number of unknown parameters to seven. Seven equations with seven unknowns can be solved to yield the values for all the parameters and to thereby fully specify a FFAG. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801183 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880505 | Khatri et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Papanchand Khatri (College Station, Texas); Sheila Vaidya (Fremont, California); Timothy Kevin Griffin (Towson, Maryland); Nikhil Jayakumar (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a circuit includes a semiconductor device including a plurality of logic blocks and a plurality of programmable interconnects. A delay detector generates a delay signal responsive to a measured delay of an output signal, wherein the output signal is from at least one of the plurality of logic blocks. A biasing circuit responsive to the delay signal to adjust subsequent measured delays toward a predetermined value. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709227 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/93 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880578 | Meinke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rainer Meinke (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A conductor assembly of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or in which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, a voltage is induced. A helical wiring pattern is positioned along an axis a radial distance R from the axis. The wiring pattern is formed about an aperture region extending from the axis toward the wiring pattern, the distance R varying along a portion of the axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133645 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/188 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880589 | Steele et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry D. Steele (Kennewick, Washington); Gordon A. Anderson (Benton City, Washington); Ronald W. Gilbert (Morgan Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Communications device identification methods, communications methods, wireless communications readers, wireless communications systems, and articles of manufacture are described. In one aspect, a communications device identification method includes providing identification information regarding a group of wireless identification devices within a wireless communications range of a reader, using the provided identification information, selecting one of a plurality of different search procedures for identifying unidentified ones of the wireless identification devices within the wireless communications range, and identifying at least some of the unidentified ones of the wireless identification devices using the selected one of the search procedures. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/774146 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/10.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880672 | Doerry |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armin W. Doerry (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase component of a nonlinear frequency modulated (NLFM) chirp radar pulse can be produced by performing digital integration operations over a time interval defined by the pulse width. Each digital integration operation includes applying to a respectively corresponding input parameter value a respectively corresponding number of instances of digital integration. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856309 |
| 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 342/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880961 | Feve et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Philippe Feve (Cupertino, California); Dahv A. V. Kliner (San Ramon, California); Roger L. Farrow (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical amplifier, such as an optical waveguide amplifier (e.g., an optical fiber amplifier or a planar waveguide) or a non-guiding optical amplifier, that exhibits a net phase-mismatch selected to at least partially reduce gain-induced phase-matching during operation thereof is disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, an optical amplifier structure includes at least one optical amplifier having a length and a gain region. The at least one optical amplifier exhibits a net phase-mismatch that varies along at least part of the length thereof selected to at least partially reduce gain-induced phase-matching during operation thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800383 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881416 | 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 | Systems and methods are described for carrier phase synchronization for improved AM and TV broadcast reception. A method includes synchronizing the phase of a carrier frequency of a broadcast signal with the phase of a remote reference frequency. An apparatus includes a receiver to detect the phase of a reference signal; a phase comparator coupled to the reference signal-phase receiver; a voltage controlled oscillator coupled to the phase comparator; and a phase-controlled radio frequency output coupled to the voltage controlled oscillator. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508330 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881882 | Maxey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lonnie C. Maxey (Knoxville, Tennessee); Howard D. Haynes (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for monitoring or detecting tampering in a flexible structure includes taking electrical measurements on a sensing cable coupled to the structure, performing spectral analysis on the measured data, and comparing the spectral characteristics of the event to those of known benign and/or known suspicious events. A threshold or trigger value may used to identify an event of interest and initiate data collection. Alternatively, the system may be triggered at preset intervals, triggered manually, or triggered by a signal from another sensing device such as a motion detector. The system may be used to monitor electrical cables and conduits, hoses and flexible ducts, fences and other perimeter control devices, structural cables, flexible fabrics, and other flexible structures. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/526970 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882144 | Stolte et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Stolte (Palo Alto, California); Diane L. Tang (Palo Alto, California); Patrick Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In response to a user request, a computer generates a graphical user interface on a computer display. A schema information region of the graphical user interface includes multiple operand names, each operand name associated with one or more fields of a multi-dimensional database. A data visualization region of the graphical user interface includes multiple shelves. Upon detecting a user selection of the operand names and a user request to associate each user-selected operand name with a respective shelf in the data visualization region, the computer generates a visual table in the data visualization region in accordance with the associations between the operand names and the corresponding shelves. The visual table includes a plurality of panes, each pane having at least one axis defined based on data for the fields associated with a respective operand name. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777172 |
| ART UNIT | 2167 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/802 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07878348 | Doggett 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) | William R. Doggett (Poquoson, Virginia); Bruce D. King (Yorktown, Virginia); Timothy J. Collins (Yorktown, Virginia); John T. Dorsey (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A payload lifter/manipulator module includes a rotatable joint supporting spreader arms angularly spaced with respect to one another. A rigid arm is fixedly coupled to the joint and extends out therefrom to a tip. A tension arm has a first end and a second end with the first end being fixedly coupled to the tip of the rigid arm. The tension arm incorporates pivots along the length thereof. Each pivot can be engaged by or disengaged from the outboard end of a spreader arm based on a position of the spreader arm. A hoist, positioned remotely with respect to the module and coupled to the second end of the tension arm, controls the position of the spreader arms to thereby control the position of the rigid arm's tip. Payload lifter/manipulator assemblies can be constructed with one or more of the modules. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248339 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Traversing hoists 212/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879207 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proton Energy Systems, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke Thomas Dalton (Portland, Connecticut); Benjamin Michael Piecuch (Meriden, Connecticut); Gregory A. Hanlon (Windsor, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical cell stack and method are provided with use the generated hydrogen gas to pressurize a chamber. The electrochemical cell stack includes a plurality of cells mounted between a first static endplate and a dynamic endplate. A pressure chamber is formed between a second static endplate and the dynamic endplate. The chamber acts upon a dynamic endplate to increase the loading on a plurality of cells as the generated gas pressure increases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/548415 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879306 | 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 | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/263413 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879940 | Tour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Tour (Bellaire, Texas); Jared L. Hudson (Houston, Texas); Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Bellaire, Texas); Koray Yurekli (Cengelkoy, Turkey); Cynthia A. Mitchell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to aryl halide (such as aryl bromide) functionalized carbon nanotubes that can be utilized in anionic polymerization processes to form polymer-carbon nanotube materials with improved dispersion ability in polymer matrices. In this process the aryl halide is reacted with an alkyllithium species or is reacted with a metal to replace the aryl-bromine bond with an aryl-lithium or aryl-metal bond, respectively. It has further been discovered that other functionalized carbon nanotubes, after deprotonation with a deprotonation agent, can similarly be utilized in anionic polymerization processes to form polymer-carbon nanotube materials. Additionally or alternatively, a ring opening polymerization process can be performed. The resultant materials can be used by themselves due to their enhanced strength and reinforcement ability when compared to their unbound polymer analogs. Additionally, these materials can also be blended with pre-formed polymers to establish compatibility and enhanced dispersion of nanotubes in otherwise hard to disperse matrices resulting in significantly improved material properties. The resultant polymer-carbon nanotube materials can also be used in drug delivery processes due to their improved dispersion ability and biodegradability, and can also be used for scaffolding to promote cellular growth of tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561253 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881881 | Giurgiutiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Giurgiutiu (Columbia, South Carolina); Lingyu Yu (Columbia, South Carolina); Giola Santoni Bottai (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an apparatus and methodology for structural health monitoring (SHM) in which smart devices interrogate structural components to predict failure, expedite needed repairs, and thus increase the useful life of those components. Piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) are applied to or integrated with structural components and various data collected there from provide the ability to detect and locate cracking, corrosion, and disbanding through use of pitch-catch, pulse-echo, electro/mechanical impedance, and phased array technology. Stand alone hardware and an associated software program are provided that allow selection of multiple types of SHM investigations as well as multiple types of data analysis to perform a wholesome investigation of a structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539986 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07880114 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio); Andrew P. Joseph (Pickerington, Ohio); John S. Phillips (Powell, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Hilliard, Ohio); Michael N. Patena (Pataskala, Ohio); Tim Burnham (Reynoldsburg, Ohio); Paul Coleman (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus processes a surface of an inhabitable structure. The apparatus includes a base unit adapted to provide energy waves to an interaction region, the energy waves removing material from the structure. The base unit includes an energy wave generator and a head coupled to the energy wave generator. The head is adapted to remove the material from the interaction region, thereby providing reduced disruption to activities within the structure. The apparatus further includes a manipulation system which includes an anchoring mechanism adapted to be releasably coupled to the structure and a positioning mechanism coupled to the anchoring mechanism and coupled to the head. The manipulation system is adapted to controllably adjust the position of the head relative to the structure. The apparatus further includes a controller electrically coupled to the base unit. The controller is adapted to transmit control signals to the base unit in response to user input. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401114 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880116 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Paul M. Fallara (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser head is adapted to irradiate an interaction region of an inhabitable structure with laser light to remove material from the structure. The laser head includes a housing. The laser head further includes a connector coupled to the housing and optically coupled to a laser generator. The connector is adapted to transmit laser light from the laser generator. The laser head further includes at least one optical element contained in the housing and optically coupled to the connector. The optical element is adapted to receive laser light from the connector. The laser head further includes a containment plenum coupled to the housing. The containment plenum is optically coupled to the optical element to receive the laser light from the optical element. The containment plenum is adapted to confine the material and remove the material from the interaction region resulting from irradiating the structure with the laser light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/690833 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.670 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880877 | Denney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loma Linda University Medical Center (Loma Linda, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Denney (Columbus, Ohio); Jay R. Eastman (Westerville, Ohio); Ta-Chieh Huang (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A detection system is used during irradiation of an interaction region of a structure with laser light. The structure includes embedded material. The detection system includes means for receiving light emitted from the interaction region. The detection system further includes means for separating the received light into a spectrum of wavelengths. The detection system further includes means for analyzing at least a portion of the spectrum for indications of embedded material within the interaction region. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861193 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07879159 | Wright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | QuesTek Innovations, LLC (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Wright (Chicago, Illinois); Jin-Won Jung (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A precipitation-hardened stainless maraging steel which exhibits a combination of strength, toughness, and corrosion resistance comprises by weight about: 8 to 15% chromium (Cr), 2 to 15% cobalt (Co), 7 to 14% nickel (Ni), and up to about 0.7% aluminum (Al), less than about 0.4% copper (Cu), 0.5 to 2.6% molybdenum (Mo), 0.4 to less than about 0.75% titanium (Ti), up to about 0.5% tungsten (W), and up to about 120 wppm carbon (C), the balance essentially iron (Fe) and incidental elements and impurities, characterized in that the alloy has predominantly lath martensite microstructure essentially without topologically close packed intermetallic phases and strengthened primarily by a dispersion of intermetallic particles primarily of the eta-Ni3Ti phase and wherein the titanium and carbon (Ti) and (C) levels are controlled such that C can be dissolved during a homogenization step and subsequently precipitated during forging to provide a grain-pinnning dispersion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814780 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880887 | Olson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phygen, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Olson (Mahtomedi, Minnesota); Jami McLaren (Crystal, Minnesota); Steven K. Isvik (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Accurate measurements of the concentration of a sterilant in a sterilization chamber are provided through the use of a light source, a first detector that receives light from the light source that has not passed through the sterilization chamber and a detector that receives light from the light source that has passed through the sterilization chamber. The light contains wavelengths known to be absorbed by the sterilant. A controller receives and processes signals received from the two detectors to cancel changes in the output of the light source and then apply a modified Beer-Lambert law to determine the concentration of the sterilant gas. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/231211 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07881881 | Giurgiutiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Giurgiutiu (Columbia, South Carolina); Lingyu Yu (Columbia, South Carolina); Giola Santoni Bottai (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is an apparatus and methodology for structural health monitoring (SHM) in which smart devices interrogate structural components to predict failure, expedite needed repairs, and thus increase the useful life of those components. Piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) are applied to or integrated with structural components and various data collected there from provide the ability to detect and locate cracking, corrosion, and disbanding through use of pitch-catch, pulse-echo, electro/mechanical impedance, and phased array technology. Stand alone hardware and an associated software program are provided that allow selection of multiple types of SHM investigations as well as multiple types of data analysis to perform a wholesome investigation of a structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539986 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07879379 | Widmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Renewable Spirits LLC (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wilbur Widmer (Winter Haven, Florida); David Stewart (Boca Raton, Florida); Karel Grohmann (Davenport, Florida); Mark Wilkins (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of pretreating citrus waste to break cell structure, pasteurize or sterilize citrus waste solids and remove inhibitory peel oil components (e.g., limonene) involving optionally reducing the particle size of the citrus waste prior to preheating, preheating the citrus waste through indirect heating in a preheater reactor to form preheated citrus waste and conveying the preheated citrus waste to a main reactor, heating the citrus waste through a combination of (simultaneous) indirect heating and direct heating to produce treated citrus waste solids that are pasteurized and a vapor containing water and peel oil components, separating the pasteurized citrus waste solids and the vapor containing water and peel oil components, and collecting the separated vapor containing water and peel oil components by condensation. The method optionally includes cooling the pasteurized citrus waste solids followed by saccharifying with enzymes and fermentation to produce ethanol or other products. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603277 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07880881 | Everard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colm D. Everard (Thurles, Ireland); Donal J. O'Callaghan (White Cross, Ireland); Colm P. O'Donnell (Consicegh, Ireland); Colleen C. Fagan (Giasnevin, Ireland); Manuel Castillo (Lexington, Kentucky); Frederick Alan Payne (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for improving the quality of cheese produced from a curd and whey mixture. The method comprises the steps of monitoring the curd and whey mixture during syneresis processing to collect color data, comparing the color data to a predetermined standard and terminating syneresis when the color meets the predetermined standard or, alternatively, analyzing the color data obtained to generate kinetic parameters that can be used to predict the end point of syneresis to improve control of curd moisture content. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789197 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07882106 | Birdwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger D. Horn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Puneet Yadav (Manassas, Virginia); David J. Icove (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles. A search engine utilizes hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel computer architecture, allowing scale up past previously feasible limits. Key benefits of the new method are logarithmic scale up and parallelization. These benefits are achieved by identification and utilization of naturally occurring patterns and clusters within stored data. The patterns and clusters enable the stored data to be partitioned into subsets of roughly equal size. The method can be applied recursively, resulting in a database tree that is balanced, meaning that all paths or branches through the tree have roughly the same length. The method achieves high performance by exploiting the natural structure of the data in a manner that maintains balanced trees. Implementation of the method maps naturally to parallel computer architectures, allowing scale up to very large databases. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836836 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/736 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07877971 | Hallinan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Hallinan (Bristow, Virginia); Karl W. MacDonald (Center Moriches, New York); Carl Novak (Moriches, New York); Joseph Cassella (Middleburgh, New York); Joseph Basile (Manorville, New York); James Schreck (Centereach, New York); Stanley Lewandowski (Manorville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A trimming system for a user-operated ground vehicle capable of performing mowing and trimming operations. The system includes a drive operatively coupled to a drive system of the vehicle having the trimming system mounted thereon, and a trimming unit operatively coupled to the drive for performing edge trimming operations. The drive may include at least one driven pulley operatively coupled to a drive pulley of the vehicle for driving the trimming unit. The drive pulley may be coupled to a mowing unit and the trimming unit to either selectively or simultaneously drive the mowing and trimming units. A guide wheel may be mounted on the vehicle adjacent the trimming unit for maintaining the trimming wires of the trimming unit at a predetermined distance from a stationary object during performance of edge trimming operations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/813078 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Harvesters 056/10.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 07881996 | Schulz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Schulz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Efficiently screening ACH items and providing an indicator of the screening result. Electronic files, which can be in the NACHA file format, comprise ACH items. A gateway operator or an originating financial institution can screen each ACH item using a screening software module. For each ACH item, an indicator associated with the screening can be inserted into the ACH file before the ACH item is forwarded to a receiving financial institution. The indicator can identify whether the screening produced a match against an interdiction list and/or whether the screening produced a false positive. If the screening produced a match, processing of the ACH item can be suspended, and the ACH item can be returned to the originating financial institution. Notification of the match can be transmitted to the originating financial institution, the receiving financial institution, and/or law enforcement authorities. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/195885 |
| ART UNIT | 3695 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07882485 | Feblowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Feblowitz (Winchester, Massachusetts); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anand Ranganathan (White Plains, New York); Anton V. Riabov (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for modeling a component of an information processing application, includes: defining an applicability condition of a component, wherein the applicability conditions includes variables representing objects that must be included in a pre-inclusion state and a graph pattern that semantically describes the objects that must be included in the pre-inclusion state, wherein the pre-inclusion state is a state against which the applicability of the component for inclusion in a processing graph is evaluated; and defining an inclusion effect of the component, wherein the inclusion effect includes variables representing objects that must be included in a post-inclusion state and a graph pattern that semantically describes the objects that must be in the post-inclusion state, wherein the post-inclusion state is a state resulting from inclusion of the component in the processing graph. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695311 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07877934 | Livingston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wind Tower Systems, LLC (Park City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy Livingston (Heber City, Utah); Terry Schrader (Southlake, Texas); James Goldhardt (Salt Lake City, Utah); James Lott (Newburgh, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed invention is utilized for mounting a wind turbine and blade assembly on the upper end of a wind turbine tower. The invention generally includes a frame or truss that is pivotally secured to the top bay assembly of the tower. A transverse beam is connected to the frame or truss and extends fore of the tower when the frame or truss is in a first position and generally above the tower when in a second position. When in the first position, a wind turbine or blade assembly can be hoisted to the top of the tower. The wind turbine or blade assembly is then moved into position for mounting to the tower as the frame or truss is pivoted to a second position. When the turbine and blade assembly are secured to the tower, the frame or truss is disconnected from the tower and lowered to the ground. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/649033 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07879286 | Miracle et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel B. Miracle (Bellbrook, Ohio); Seshacharyulu Tamirisakandala (Beavercreek, Ohio); Radhakrishna B. Bhat (Niskayuna, New York); Dale J. McEldowney (Anna, Ohio); Jerry L. Fields (Woodstock, Virginia); William M. Hanusiak (Windermere, Florida); Rob L. Grabow (Clarksburg, West Virginia); C. Fred Yolton (Coraopolis, Pennsylvania); Eric S. Bono (McDonald, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a high strength, high stiffness and high ductility titanium alloy, comprising combining the titanium alloy with boron so that the boron concentration in the boron-modified titanium alloy does not exceed the eutectic limit. The carbon concentration of the boron-modified titanium alloy is maintained below a predetermined limit to avoid embrittlement. The boron-modified alloy is heated to a temperature above the beta transus temperature to eliminate any supersaturated excess boron. The boron-modified titanium alloy is deformed at a speed slow enough to prevent microstructural damage and reduced ductility. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/448160 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07879990 | Zauderer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurice Zauderer (Pittsford, New York); Elizabeth E. Evans (Bloomfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel human gene that is differentially expressed in human carcinoma. More specifically, the present invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a novel human polypeptide named C35 that is overexpressed in human breast and bladder carcinoma. This invention also relates to C35 polypeptide, in particular C35 peptide epitopes and C35 peptide epitope analogs, as well as vectors, host cells, antibodies directed to C35 polypeptides, and the recombinant methods for producing the same. The present invention further relates to diagnostic methods for detecting carcinomas, including human breast carcinomas. The present invention further relates to the formulation and use of the C35 gene and polypeptides, in particular C35 peptide epitopes and C35 peptide epitope analogs, in immunogenic compositions or vaccines, to induce antibody or cell-mediated immunity against target cells, such as tumor cells, that express the C35 gene. The invention further relates to screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of C35 activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350944 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882167 | Goldberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ary L. Goldberger (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); Chung-Kang Peng (Sharon, Massachusetts); Madalena D. Costa (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a subject undergoing therapeutic intervention, efficacy of the therapeutic intervention is assessed based on a series of physiologic data associated with the subject. The series of physiologic data is analyzed to produce a measure of complexity. The complexity measure is then compared to a control. The efficacy of the therapeutic intervention is assessed based on the comparison of the complexity measure to the control. The control may be, for example, a complexity measure taken prior to initiation of the therapeutic intervention, a complexity measure taken from a different subject, or a predetermined threshold value. The measure of complexity is generated using, for example, a multiscale entropy measurement (MSE), a time asymmetry measurement, and/or an information-based similarity measurement. An increase in complexity indicates a positive effect of the therapeutic intervention, while a decrease in complexity indicates a negative effect of the therapeutic intervention. Stability of a non-biologic network, such as a computer network, communications network or transportation network can also be assessed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/483172 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, February 01, 2011.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
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