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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 08, 2011
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| US 07882694 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut); James W. Norris (Lebanon, Connecticut); Steven J. Sirica (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine includes a plurality of variable fan inlet guide vanes. Where the turbine engine is a tip turbine engine, the variable fan inlet guide vanes permit the ability to control engine stability even though the fan-turbine rotor assembly is directly coupled to the axial compressor at a fixed rate. The fan inlet guide vanes may be actuated from an inner diameter of the fan inlet guide vanes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719143 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882695 | Roberge |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Roberge (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In order to start a turbine engine (10), high-pressure fluid is directed onto a turbine (34a) to cause rotation of the turbine and thereby start the turbine engine. In a disclosed embodiment, the high-pressure fluid is provided through a fluid outlet (120) in a vane (36a) positioned adjacent the turbine (34a). The high-pressure fluid is provided by an air source, which may be another turbine engine, especially where the turbine engine to be started is a tip turbine engine that is not the primary propulsion source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719805 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882696 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Morris G. Anderson (Mesa, Arizona); David K. Jan (Fountain Hills, Arizona); George E. Zurmehly (Phoenix, Arizona); Steve H. Halfmann (Chandler, Arizona); Christopher E. Zollars (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A support and air mixer includes an inner annular member, an outer annular member shaped and positioned such that an annular air gap is formed between the inner annular member and the outer annular member, and a plurality of air mixing members, each air mixing member having a mixing passageway therethrough and each air mixing member having an inner portion connected to the inner annular member, an outer portion connected to the outer annular member, and first and second opposing side portions interconnecting the inner and outer portions and the inner and outer annular members such that the mixing passageway is in fluid communication with the annular air gap. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/770262 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882775 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Engineering Science Analysis Corporation (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A. Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An immobilization device and method of restraining vehicles, persons and animals uses tendrils attached to various devices to engage the target. The immobilization device, system and method includes a housing containing launchable tendrils that are launched from the housing by a propellant. The tendrils may be attached to straps or other elements carried by the immobilization device. The tendrils will engage the target and restrain it if it is a vehicle such as a car, truck, boat, submarine, or like vehicle. In stopping a person or animal the tendrils will deliver a marking package, a shocking package or a snare package to mark, shock or snare the target. Straps may be pulled off the housing leaving the housing near the point of deployment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185947 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882784 | Scheid |
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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) | Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A demolition charge system has a multi-primed initiation system with a rigid container defining an internal chamber. An initiation tube is supported within the internal chamber and is configured to receive a demolition initiator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242885 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882785 | Scheid |
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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) | Eric Scheid (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A demolition charge system has a multi-primed initiation system with a rigid container defining an internal chamber. An initiation tube is supported within the internal chamber and is configured to receive a demolition initiator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242895 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/331 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883277 | Budd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell A. Budd (North Salem, New York); Punit P. Chiniwalla (New York, New York); John A. Guckenberger (Carlsbad, California); Jeffrey A. Kash (Pleasantville, New York); Jeremy D. Schaub (Austin, Texas); Michael Tan (Menlo Park, California); Jeannine M. Trewhella (Peekskill, New York); Garry Trott (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | For integrated circuits including circuit packaging and circuit communication technologies provision is made for a method of interconnecting or mapping a two-dimensional optoelectronic (OE) device array to a one-dimensional waveguide array. Also provided is an arrangement for the interconnecting or mapping of a two-dimensional optoelectronic (OE) device array to a one-dimensional waveguide array. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117803 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883314 | 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); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly (116) mounted within a rotationally fixed static outer support structure (14) for engagement with an annular seal face surface (172) located upon a fan-turbine rotor assembly. The seal assembly provides minimal leakage of core airflow when the airflow is turned and diffused by the diffuser section (74) to increase the engine operating efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719296 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883315 | 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); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly (118) mounted within a nonrotatable static inner support structure (16) for engagement with an axial seal face surface (114) and a radial seal face surface (116). The radial seal (120) engages the axial seal face surface and the axial seal (122) engages the radial seal face surface. The seal assembly provides minimal leakage of core airflow to increase the tip turbine engine operating efficiency. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719543 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/174.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883450 | Hidler |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Hidler (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A body-weight support system that allows individuals with severe gait impairments to practice over-ground walking in a safe, controlled manner is disclosed. The system includes a body-weight support system that rides along a driven trolley and can be controlled in response to the movement of the subject using the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120420 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883479 | Stanley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byron M. Stanley (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thomas M. Stanley (Savannah, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A stability augmentation system for stabilizing human limbs from against limb tremors. The stability augmentation system includes: and arm brace; a plurality of piezoelectric sensors fixed on said arm brace for sensing angular motion about a first axis of a limb induced by alternating perturbations; and a plurality of piezoelectric actuators coupled to the limb and piezoelectric sensor, said piezoelectric actuator being responsive to the piezoelectric sensors for selectively applying a torque to the limb representative of the sensed angular motion such that the angular motion about the first axis induced by the perturbation is cancelled, said plurality of piezoelectric actuators concurrently applying a reactive torque, equal and opposite to the applied torque, to the limb. |
| FILED | Friday, August 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/198412 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/595 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883546 | Kazerooni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California); Adam Zoss (Berkeley, California); Nathan H. Harding (Oakland, California); Russdon Angold (American Canyon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power generating leg, configurable to be coupled to a person's lower limb, comprising a thigh link, a shank link, a knee mechanism, a torque generator, and a power unit. The knee mechanism is connected to said thigh link and said shank link, and configured to allow flexion and extension movements of said thigh link and said shank link relative to each other. The torque generator is configured to generate torque between said shank link and said thigh link. The power unit is coupled to said torque generator, and configured to cause said torque generator to generate torque. When said power unit is in a power regeneration mode, said power unit causes said torque generator to generate a torque that opposes the angular velocity of said thigh link and said shank link relative to each other and said power unit converts a portion of the power associated with the product of said torque and said angular velocity of said shank link and thigh link relative to each other into electrical power to be stored in a storage device. |
| FILED | Friday, March 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/716135 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883592 | Hofmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Hofmann (Pasadena, California); William C. Johnson (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming bulk metallic glass engineering materials, and more particularly a method for forming coarsening microstructures within said engineering materials is provided. Specifically, the method forms ‘designed composites’ by introducing ‘soft’ elastic/plastic inhomogeneities in a metallic glass matrix to initiate local shear banding around the inhomogeneity, and matching of microstructural length scales (for example, L and S) to the characteristic length scale RP (for plastic shielding of an opening crack tip) to limit shear band extension, suppress shear band opening, and avoid crack development. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/059523 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/561 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883593 | Rose 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) | James E. Rose (Bryans Road, Maryland); Magdy Michay (Springfield, Virginia); Jan Puszynski (Rapid City, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel pyrotechnic delay composition for use in metal delay fuse cartridges, including as its primary constituent Si—Al—Fe3O4 prepared from powdered form. The delay composition yields a progressive burning zone and burns substantially gas-free, is safe to handle, is resistant to moisture and degradation over time, can be incorporated within the confines of existing detonator shells, and poses no environmental hazards. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315488 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883609 | Petrenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles Sullivan (W. Lebanon, New Hampshire); Lev Deresh (Plainfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternating electric field is applied to ice (530) to generate a resistive AC having a frequency greater than 1000 Hz in interfacial ice at interface (554). A first electrode (510) and a second electrode (514) proximate to the interface are separated by an electrical insulator (512). An AC power source (520) provides a voltage of about 10 to 500 volts across the electrodes to create the alternating electric field. A portion of the capacitive AC associated with the alternating electric field is present in the interfacial ice as conductivity (resistive) AC, which causes dielectric loss heating in the interfacial ice. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/466940 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883636 | Fuchs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Fuchs (Reno, Nevada); Faramarz Gordaninejad (Reno, Nevada); Hatice Gecol (Reno, Nevada); Ben Hu (Reno, Nevada); Beril Kavlicoglu (Reno, Nevada); Joko Sutrisno (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetorheological materials having a supramolecular polymer gel as a component of the carrier are disclosed. Useful supramolecular polymers for gels include those having bipyridine or terpyridine ligands which can participate in metal coordination bonding. The magnetizable particles of magnetorheological materials can have supramolecular surfactant-polymer coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/942388 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/62.520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883640 | Doona 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) | Christopher Doona (Oxford, Massachusetts); Maria Curtin (Easton, Massachusetts); Irwin A. Taub (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barbara Taub, legal representative (Framingham, Massachusetts); Kenneth Kustin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention comprises a lightweight, portable chemical combination of reagents for sterilizing or disinfecting objects in the absence of electrical power or fire. The chemical combination includes a chemical oxidant with the capacity to liberate a biocidal intermediate, a chemical reductant of the oxidant with the capacity to react with the oxidant, and an effector to induce a reaction between the oxidant and reductant. In one embodiment, the oxidant comprises chlorite, the reductant comprises sulfite, and the effector comprises ascorbate. In another embodiment, the chemical combination comprises the oxidant, reductant, effector and iron-activated magnesium. When water or water solutions are added to either embodiment, the chemical combination generates heat, steam and a biocidal intermediate that can destroy contaminating microorganisms. In one embodiment, the biocidal intermediate is a halogen-based biocidal intermediate, such as chlorine dioxide. In another embodiment, the biocidal intermediate is a halogen-free biocidal intermediate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/988442 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/187.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883648 | Kazakov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Kazakov (White Plains, New York); Marian Kaholek (Bloomfield, New Jersey); Kalle Levon (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Lipobeads (liposome-encapsulated hydrogels) combine properties of hydrogels and liposomes to create systems that are sensitive to environmental conditions and respond to changes in those conditions in a fast time scale. Lipobeads may be produced by polymerizing anchored or unanchored hydrogels within liposomes or by mixing anchored or unanchored hydrogels with liposomes. Giant lipobeads may be produced by shrinking unanchored nanogels in lipobeads and fusing the resulting lipobead aggregates, long-term aging of anchored or unanchored lipobeads, or mixing anchored or unanchored aggregated nanogels with liposomes. Poly(acrylamide), poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-1-vinylimidazole) lipobeads were produced and characterized. |
| FILED | Monday, November 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/619090 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883676 | Hazlebeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Atomics (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Hazlebeck (El Cajon, California); David W. Ordway (Poway, California); Louie Wong (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for chemically disposing energetic material enclosed in assembled devices includes a porous basket. The porous basket forms an enclosed chamber for receiving the assembled devices. Further, the basket is supported by a rotatable basket arm that is, in turn, connected to a lifting arm. In addition to these structures, the system includes a tank that holds a hydrolysis solution. The tank is positioned to allow the lifting arm to submerge the basket into the solution. After submersion, the basket arm rotates the basket in the solution to flow the hydrolysis solution into contact with the assembled devices therein. As a result, the assembled devices react with the solution so that the solution penetrates the assembled devices, allowing the solution to contact and react with the energetic material to render the energetic material non-energetic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535877 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883787 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Peter Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Sergey Lamansky (Camarillo, California); Drew Murphy (Lakewood, California); Raymond Kwong (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Feras Abdel-Razzaq (Los Angeles, California); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Marc A. Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul E. Burrows (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic light emitting devices are described wherein the emissive layer comprises a host material containing an emissive molecule, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, and the emissive molecule is selected from the group of phosphorescent organometallic complexes, including cyclometallated platinum, iridium and osmium complexes. The organic light emitting devices optionally contain an exciton blocking layer. Furthermore, improved electroluminescent efficiency in organic light emitting devices is obtained with an emitter layer comprising organometallic complexes of transition metals of formula L2MX, wherein L and X are distinct bidentate ligands. Compounds of this formula can be synthesized more facilely than in previous approaches and synthetic options allow insertion of fluorescent molecules into a phosphorescent complex, ligands to fine tune the color of emission, and ligands to trap carriers. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/434259 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883831 | Wolfe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Wolfe (Houston, Texas); Barry Craver (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventors have developed an accurate method for forming a plurality of images on a substrate. The present method provides an improved pattern replication technique that provides submicron resolution, for example 20 nm or less, especially 10 nm or less. The method may involve moving a structured beam of energetic radiation across a target substrate. The motion of an image of the template mask on the substrate is achieved by tilting a mask and substrate assembly relative to the axis of the incident beam. The technique does not require high precision motion of the template mask relative to the target substrate. The energetic radiation may comprise energetic particles. The technique is insensitive to particle energy and can be applied to uncharged, neutral particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/026445 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883891 | Sherley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L Sherley (Boston, Massachusetts); Joshua R. Merok (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to unique properties of stem cells, including methods to identify stem cell markers by identifying molecules associated specifically with chromosomes in stem cells. More particularly, we have discovered that somatic stem cells repeatedly inherit an entire complement of chromosomes that contain the same parental template DNA strands from one generation to the next. The present invention also provides methods related to diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments for cancer and aging in mammalian tissus, including human. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/483601 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/366 |
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| US 07883949 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mrinal Kanti Das (Durham, North Carolina); Qingchun Zhang (Cary, North Carolina); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Farmington Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming a p-channel MOS device in silicon carbide include forming an n-type well in a silicon carbide layer, and implanting p-type dopant ions to form a p-type region in the n-type well at a surface of the silicon carbide layer and at least partially defining a channel region in the n-type well adjacent the p-type region. A threshold adjustment region is formed in the channel region. The implanted ions are annealed in an inert atmosphere at a temperature greater than 1650° C. A gate oxide layer is formed on the channel region, and a gate is formed on the gate oxide layer. A silicon carbide-based transistor includes a silicon carbide layer, an n-type well in the silicon carbide layer, and a p-type region in the n-type well at a surface of the silicon carbide layer and at least partially defining a channel region in the n-type well adjacent the p-type region. A threshold adjustment region is in the channel region and includes p-type dopants at a dopant concentration of about 1×1016 cm−3 to about 5×1018 cm−3. The transistor further includes a gate oxide layer on the channel region, and a gate on the gate oxide layer. The transistor may exhibit a hole mobility in the channel region in excess of 5 cm2/V-s at a gate voltage of −25V. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/740687 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884068 | Assaly et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Ragheb A. Assaly (Sylvania, Ohio); J. David Dignam (Perrysburg, Ohio); Joseph I. Shapiro (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising an albumin-based colloid composition having at least one protected thiol region, method of making the same, and method for use, including treating hypovolemic conditions such as capillary leak syndrome and shock, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/985798 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884359 | Hsu 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) | David S. Y. Hsu (Alexandria, Virginia); Jonathan L Shaw (Springfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a field ionization and electron impact ionization device consisting of carbon nanotubes with microfabricated integral gates that is capable of producing short pulses of ions. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489105 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanna Aizenberg (New Providence, New Jersey); Thomas Nikita Krupenkin (Warren, New Jersey); Oleksandr Sydorenko (Painted Post, New York); Joseph Ashley Taylor (Springfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, in one embodiment, an apparatus. The apparatus, without limitation, may include a substrate with a surface, and a polymer layer attached to a region of the surface. The apparatus may further include a plurality of nanostructures, a first end of each nanostructure being in the polymer layer and a second end of each nanostructure protruding through the polymer layer, wherein the nanostructures are configured to move from a first position to a second position in response to a change in thickness of the polymer layer from a first thickness to a second thickness. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/531806 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884592 | Steinbrecher |
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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) | Donald H. Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of use for a DC-DC conversion wherein a DC supply at one voltage is converted to a DC supply at another voltage. The DC-DC converter uses a switching circuit with a broadband transmission line transformer to change the impedance level between a square-wave generator and a [square-wave]-to-DC converter. The transformer transforms generator characteristic impedance into load characteristic impedance. The method also transforms a DC source voltage into another DC load voltage. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322959 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Power supply or regulation systems 323/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884754 | Alouani 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) | Ali T. Alouani (Cookeville, Tennessee); John E. Gray (King George, Virginia); Denis Hugh McCabe (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided for merging data from a plurality of multiplexed measurement sources to a decision-maker. The method includes operations for receiving a corresponding plurality of measurements of the data, processing each measurement to respectively obtain local state estimates and local error covariances, determining a corresponding plurality of lag periods, offsetting each of the corresponding event times, supplying to a track fusion center the local state estimates and the local error covariances for summing the pluralities of the local state estimates as a fusion state estimate and the local error covariances as a fusion error covariance. The measurements to be fused are each acquired from its respective source and correspond to an associated sampling period within an acquisition interval. The lag periods represent a wait duration for obtaining the corresponding local state estimates and local error covariances. The system correspondingly includes a receiver to obtain the plurality of measurements, a set of associated processors to analyze the measurements and provide their local state estimates and the local error covariances; a time-offsetter to determine corresponding lag periods and displace each of the event times accordingly, and the track fusion center. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801764 |
| 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 342/95 |
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| US 07884768 | Navarro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julio A. Navarro (Kent, Washington); Peter T. Heisen (Kent, Washington); Scott A. Raby (Redmond, Washington); Ming Chen (Bellevue, Washington); Lixin Cai (Ravensdale, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual beam electronically scanned phased array antenna architecture including a plurality of antenna modules orthogonally connected to a signal distribution board. Each module includes a radiator board orthogonally connected to a first end of a support mandrel. Each radiator board includes RF radiators and a pair of chip carriers mounted to opposing sides of the respective mandrel and interconnected to the respective radiator board. Each module includes a signal transfer board formed to fit around a second end of the mandrel such that it is compressed between the mandrel and the signal distribution board, and a pair of signal distribution bridges mounted to the opposing sides of the mandrel. Each signal distribution bridge interconnects respective chip carriers with the signal transfer board and distributes digital, DC and/or RE signals received from the signal transfer board to a plurality of beam scanning circuits included in the respective chip carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/594388 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/702 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884945 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Srinivasan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Tony Ko (San Jose, California); Maciej Wojtkowski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert Huber (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to a method of acquiring optical coherence tomographic data from a sample. The method includes the steps of scanning a first location on the sample to obtain a first set of optical coherence tomographic data, scanning a second location on the sample to obtain a second set of optical coherence tomographic data, and defining a fiducial position relative to a location on the sample using one of the two sets of optical coherence tomographic data. In one embodiment, the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is survey data. However, in another embodiment the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is sample measurement data. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336427 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07885001 | Greer 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) | Charles Greer (Bloomington, Indiana); Travis Davis (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device may include at least one optical element and a coupling section adapted to control relative movement between the at least one optical element and the coupling section. The coupling section may include an engaging element and a detent mechanism adapted to adjustably lock the at least one optical element in a plurality of rotational positions. The rotational positions may include rotational positions around a first axis that is substantially perpendicular to a second axis of the at least one optical element, the second axis being a substantially longitudinal axis of the at least one optical element. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/027572 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/409 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07885717 | Khial |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karim Khial (Shelton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method to optimize control laws (CLaws) includes inserting a unit delay downstream of at least one gain in a system model to define an extended system model and linearizing the extended system model to define an extended linear state model. On a computer at least one matrix is computed from the extended linear model. A control law is optimized using a plurality of linear models from a linear model library computed with the at least one matrix. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/060185 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07885785 | Pekarek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Pekarek (West Lafayette, Indiana); Philip B. Beccue (Clayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A position observer for control-based torque ripple mitigation in permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs). Rotor position is determined using data from two sources: a piezoelectric sensor for initial position and low-speed detection, and a single Hall-effect sensor for high-speed detection. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/953003 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07885973 | Sastry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method and system generates inquires. The method and system provide a plurality of templates. Each template outlines a respective inquiry and is associated with one or more semantic types or contexts. Each template has one or more parameters for defining a query instance of the respective inquiry. User input selects a template from the plurality and specifies values for the parameters of the user selected template. Using the user selected template and the user-specified parameter values, an instance of a query is produced. Each template, is associated with semantic types during template construction. The semantic types may be based on classes in an ontology. Template construction may include templatizing prior existing or other queries to create respective templates. In application or use of a template, query generation may be during modeling of a certain domain, and the produced query is for information about the certain domain. Parameter value selection may be automated or assisted by the system based on the model context where the template is instantiated. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/035992 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/779 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07886148 | Kiriansky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir L. Kiriansky (Mountain View, California); Derek L. Bruening (Troy, New York); Saman P. Amarasinghe (Saltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Hijacking of an application is prevented by securing execution of a computer program on a computing system. Prior to execution of the computer program, the computer program is analyzed to identify permitted targets of all indirect transfers. An application-specific policy based on the permitted targets is created. When the program is executed on the computing system, the application-specific policy is enforced such that the program is prohibited from executing indirect transfer instructions that do not target one of the permitted targets. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/563871 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/166 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07886239 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Daquan Huang (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Phase-coherent differential structures contain a phase-coherent transformer having two pairs of phase-coherent coupled differential inductors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/997352 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Chi Chen (Boston, Massachusetts); Martin L. Culpepper (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-bandwidth MEMS actuation system includes actuator pairs coupled in parallel to a stage, each actuator energizable in a drive direction against a bias to an energized position, and movable upon deenergization, to the rest position to define an actuation cycle. The actuators are asymmetric, with an energization frequency greater than a bias frequency, and are opposably coupled to one another. A pulse generator alternately transmits pulses to the actuators, at an alternation frequency greater than the bias frequency. The pulse generator transmits the energization pulses to each of the actuator pairs sequentially at a sequence frequency greater than the cycle frequency. The actuators are each movable from energized to rest positions faster than the bias frequency, and the actuator pairs are sequentially energizable faster than the cycle frequency, wherein the stage is movable in one degree of freedom at a bandwidth of at least four times the cycle frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/849956 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/528 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883475 | Dupont et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre E. Dupont (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Matthew C. Heverly (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A manipulator is configured with three or more substantially concentric, elongate members configured such that relative rotation and translation of the elongate members adjusts both the spatial position and orientation of the distal end of the manipulator and the spatial positioning of the manipulator along its length. In one arrangement, the elongate members are pre-curved such that the distal end portions of the elongate members have generally arcuate shapes in a resting state. When the three elongate members are combined in a substantially concentric manner, the overall shape of the manipulator is a composite of the individual elongate member shapes. Varying the relative translation and rotational orientation of the component elongate members achieves a family of resulting manipulator shapes as well as a desired spatial position and orientation of the distal end portion of the manipulator. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117101 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/585 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883699 | Franano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Proteon Therapeutics, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Nicholas Franano (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods to for treating a an obstructed biological conduit that include administering to the conduit an agent that can degrade extracellular matrix of obstructing tissue. Particular methods include delivery of an enzyme or a mixture of several enzymes to the area or region of obstruction wherein the enzyme(s) have the capability to degrade extracellular matrix components within the obstruction thereby restoring the normal flow of transported fluid through the conduit. The invention also includes prophylactically dilating a section of conduit to minimize the risk of obstruction formation. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229372 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883703 | Weiner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard L. Weiner (Brookline, Massachusetts); Mohamed H. Sayegh (Westwood, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel methods of administering anti-CD3 antibodies, e.g., via oral or mucosal delivery. The invention also provides methods of treating, preventing, or delaying the onset of autoimmune disorders by oral or mucosal administration of anti-CD3 antibodies. Finally, the invention provides compositions including anti-CD3 antibodies, suitable for oral or mucosal administration. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/987380 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883710 | Beall 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) | Bernard W. Beall (Doraville, Georgia); George M. Carlone (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Jacquelyn S. Sampson (College Park, Georgia); Edwin W. Ades (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention, in one aspect, relates to synthetic immunoreactive peptides. These peptides are approximately 20-25 amino acids in length which are portions of the N termini of the M proteins of the most prevalent United States (U.S.) Group A Streptococcus (GAS) serotypes. At least some of the synthetic peptides can be recognized by M type-specific antibodies and are capable of eliciting functional opsonic antibodies and/or anti-attachment antibodies without eliciting tissue cross-reactive antibodies. In another aspect, it relates to compositions or vaccines comprising these synthetic serotype-specific peptides, including polypeptides and proteins. The invention may also be isolated antibodies which are raised in response to the peptides, compositions or vaccines. The invention further relates to kits for using the peptides, compositions, or antibodies. In still further aspects, the invention also relates to methods for using the peptides, compositions, vaccines, or antibodies and methods for tailoring vaccines. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/144461 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883843 | Milich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vaccine Research Institute of San Diego (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Milich (Escondido, California); Jean-Noel Billaud (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to hepatitis virus core proteins and nucleic acids. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods comprising recombinant hepatitis virus core proteins or nucleic acids for use in vaccine formulations. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/566322 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883858 | Hood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leroy Hood (Seattle, Washington); Biaoyang Lin (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to methods for identifying drug side effects by detecting perturbations in organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. The invention further relates to methods for identifying drug-specific organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. As such, the present invention provides compositions comprising organ-specific proteins, detection reagents for detecting such proteins, and panels and arrays for determining organ-specific molecular blood fingerprints. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/468834 |
| 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 07883860 | Deschenes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri); The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Deschenes (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Sandra Lobo (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); John Swarthout (St. Louis, Missouri); Maurine E. Linder (University City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the identification of human Ras palmitoyl acyl transfersase complexes, and nucleic acids coding therefor. In addition, methods of screening for modulators of human Ras palmitoyl acyl transfersase, including high throughput yeast screens, are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/346556 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HemoGenix, Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan N. Rich (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to kits that provide reagent mixes and instructions for the use thereof, in performing high-throughput assay methods that determine the proliferative status of isolated target cell populations. The methods measure the luminescent output derived from the intracellular ATP content of incubated target cells, and correlate the luminescence with the proliferative status of the cells. The present invention further relates to kits that provide reagent mixes and instructions for high-throughput assays methods for screening compounds that may modulate the proliferative status of a target cell population. The kits of the present invention and methods therein described may be used for determining the proliferative status of any isolated cell line or type. The kits and methods of the present invention address the need for rapid assays that determine the proliferative status of isolated hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and of subpopulations of differentiated cells thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049921 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883869 | Ju 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) | Jingyue Ju (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey); Dae Hyun Kim (New York, New York); Lanrong Bi (New York, New York); Qinglin Meng (New York, New York); Xiaoxu Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a process for sequencing single-stranded DNA by employing a nanopore and modified nucleotides. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/312903 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
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| US 07883876 | Stephens et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Stephens (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Seshu K. Gudlavalleti (Kensington, Maryland); Yih-Ling Tzeng (Atlanta, Georgia); Anup K. Datta (San Diego, California); Russell W. Carlson (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for recombinant production of an O-acetyltransferase and methods for acetylating capsular polysaccharides, especially those of a Serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis using the recombinant O-acetyltransferase, and immunogenic compositions comprising the acetylated capsular polysaccharide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943326 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
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| US 07883892 | Verfaillie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine M. Verfaillie (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Lepeng Zeng (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jianyi Zhang (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides swine cells of non-embryonic origin that can be maintained in culture in the undifferentiated state or differentiated to form cells of multiple cell types. Also provided are methods of isolation and culture, as well as uses for the cells, such as xenogeneic transplantation and/or tissue repair. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725962 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/366 |
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| US 07883893 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Min Li (Lutherville, Maryland); Haiyan Sun (Baltimore, Maryland); Sojin Shikano (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Membrane proteins represent ˜30% of the proteome of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Unique to cell surface receptors is their biogenesis pathway, which involves vesicular trafficking from the endoplasmic reticulum through the Golgi apparatus and to the cell surface. Increasing evidence suggests specific regulation of biogenesis for different membrane receptors, hence affecting their surface expression. A pulse-chase assay can be used to monitor function recovery after chemobleaching (FRAC) to probe the transit time of the cell surface receptors to reach the cell surface. This method distinguishes molecular density from functional density. The ability of the reported method to access the biogenesis pathways in a high-throughput manner facilitates the identification and evaluation of molecules affecting receptor trafficking. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272050 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kang Ting (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for enhancing bone mineralization for bone repair or regeneration and compositions and grafts therefor. Methods for screening agents that enhance or modulate NELL-1 gene expression or NELL-1 protein production in a cell are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713366 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884067 | Robakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaos Robakis (Leonia, New Jersey); Philippe Marambaud (New York, New York); Anastasios Georgakopoulos (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides polypeptides and peptides derived from cadherin. The polypeptides and peptides are useful in a method of inhibiting amyloid deposition and a method of inhibiting tumor metastasis. A method of determining susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease and a method of screening for agents that modify cadherin processing are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/509170 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University In the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha G. Welch (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for preventing and treating gastrointestinal disorders by administering to a subject an effective amount of secretin either alone or in combination with an effective amount of oxytocin. The invention also provides compositions and methods for preventing and treating central nervous system disorders by administering to a subject an effective amount of secretin in combination with an effective amount of oxytocin. The invention further provides compositions and methods for treating and preventing a variety of autoimmune diseases by administering to a subject an effective amount of secretin in combination with an effective amount of oxytocin. Additionally, the invention provides compositions and methods for preventing and treating pain by administering to a subject using a combination of an effective amount of secretin and an effective amount of oxytocin. The invention also provides kits for use in treating and/or preventing gastrointestinal disorders, central nervous system disorders, autoimmune diseases and pain comprising a combination of secretin and oxytocin. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/799941 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elly Nedivi (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are CPG15 and CPG15-2 compounds and inhibitors that act as agonists and antagonists of the insulin receptor and insulin-like growth factor receptors, and the use of such compositions for the treatment of insulin and insulin-like growth factor-related diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704823 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884110 | Krasinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antoni Krasinski (Mountain View, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Qiang Wang (Union City, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/171782 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/263.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884178 | Boyd 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) | Michael R. Boyd (Mobile, Alabama); Toshiyuki Mori (Osaka, Japan); Barry R. O'Keefe (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule that encodes a polypeptide comprising at least eight contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the at least eight contiguous amino acids have anti-viral activity, as well as an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule that encodes a polypeptide comprising at least eight contiguous amino acids of SEQ ID NO: 3, wherein the at least eight contiguous amino acids have anti-viral activity, and, when the at least eight contiguous amino acids comprise amino acids 1-121 of SEQ ID NO: 3, the at least eight contiguous amino acids have been rendered glycosylation-resistant, a vector comprising such an isolated and purified nucleic acid molecule, a host cell comprising the nucleic acid molecule, optionally in the form of a vector, a method of producing an anti-viral polypeptide or conjugate thereof, the anti-viral polypeptide itself, a conjugate or fusion protein comprising the anti-viral polypeptide, and compositions comprising an effective amount of the anti-viral polypeptide or conjugate or fusion protein thereof. Further provided are methods of inhibiting prophylactically or therapeutically a viral infection of a host. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/569813 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884185 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel P. Schneider (Newark, Delaware); Darrin J. Pochan (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel hydrogels and methods of making and using such hydrogels. The present invention provides hydrogels that may be formed by the self-assembly of peptides in solution. Such self-assembly may be brought about by a change in one or more characteristics of the solution. Characteristics of the solution that may be changed include pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions. In addition, hydrogels of the invention may be disassembled by changing one or more characteristic of the hydrogel such as pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/900344 |
| ART UNIT | 1794 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884211 | Harran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick G. Harran (Dallas, Texas); Xiaodong Wang (Dallas, Texas); Jef K. De Brabander (Dallas, Texas); Lin Li (Dallas, Texas); Ranny Mathew Thomas (Waltham, Massachusetts); Hidetaka Suzuki (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Caspase activity and apoptosis are promoted using active, dimeric Smac peptide mimetics of the general formula M1-L-M2, wherein moieties M1 and M2 are monomeric Smac mimetics and L is a covalent linker. Target cancerous or inflammatory cells are contacted with an effective amount of an active, dimeric Smac mimetic, and a resultant increase in apoptosis of the target cells is detected. The contacting step may be effected by administering to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of The compoundic mimetic, wherein the individual may be subject to concurrent or antecedent radiation or chemotherapy for treatment of a neoproliferative pathology. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/509218 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884324 | Blick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Blick (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael S. Westphall (Fitchburg, Wisconsin); Hua Qin (Madison, Wisconsin); Lloyd M. Smith (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems, devices, device components and structures for modulating the intensity and/or energies of electrons, including a beam of incident electrons. In some embodiments, for example, the present invention provides nano-structured semiconductor membrane structures capable of generating secondary electron emission. Nano-structured semiconductor membranes of this aspect of the present invention include membranes having an array of nanopillar structures capable of providing electron emission for amplification, filtering and/or detection of incident radiation, for example secondary electron emission and/or field emission. Nano-structured semiconductor membranes of the present invention are useful as converters wherein interaction of incident primary electrons and nanopillars of the nanopillar array generates secondary emission. Nano-structured semiconductor membranes of this aspect of the present invention are also useful as directed charge amplifiers wherein secondary emission from a nanopillar array provides gain functionality for increasing the intensity of radiation comprising incident electrons. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130103 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884604 | Kholmovski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evgueni G. Kholmovski (Salt Lake City, Utah); Dennis Lee Parker (Centerville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems in a parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system utilize sensitivity-encoded MRI data acquired from multiple receiver coils together with spatially dependent receiver coil sensitivities to generate MRI images. The acquired MRI data forms a reduced MRI data set that is undersampled in at least a phase-encoding direction in a frequency domain. The acquired MRI data and auto-calibration signal data are used to determine reconstruction coefficients for each receiver coil using a weighted or a robust least squares method. The reconstruction coefficients vary spatially with respect to at least the spatial coordinate that is orthogonal to the undersampled, phase-encoding direction(s) (e.g., a frequency encoding direction). Values for unacquired MRI data are determined by linearly combining the reconstruction coefficients with the acquired MRI data within neighborhoods in the frequency domain that depend on imaging geometry, coil sensitivity characteristics, and the undersampling factor of the acquired MRI data. An MRI image is determined from the reconstructed unacquired data and the acquired MRI data. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/414632 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884945 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Srinivasan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); James Fujimoto (Medford, Massachusetts); Tony Ko (San Jose, California); Maciej Wojtkowski (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Robert Huber (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to a method of acquiring optical coherence tomographic data from a sample. The method includes the steps of scanning a first location on the sample to obtain a first set of optical coherence tomographic data, scanning a second location on the sample to obtain a second set of optical coherence tomographic data, and defining a fiducial position relative to a location on the sample using one of the two sets of optical coherence tomographic data. In one embodiment, the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is survey data. However, in another embodiment the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is sample measurement data. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336427 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07885375 | Bernard De Man et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man (Clifton Park, New York); Daniel David Harrison (Delanson, New York); Maria Iatrou (Clifton Park, New York); Brian Patrick Smyth (San Francisco, California); Zhye Yin (Schenectady, New York); Samit Kumar Basu (Fremont, California); Souma Sengupta (Foster City, California); Peter Claudius Sanza (Wilmington, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique is provided for imaging a field of view using an X-ray source comprising two or more emission points. The two or more emission points may be independently operated. Independent operation of the two or more emission points in performed in accordance with a list of commands that specifies the operation of the emission points. The list of commands, in one embodiment, is stored in a sequence buffer. In other embodiments, the list of commands is generated for a given usage, without being stored in a sequence buffer. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254732 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07883876 | Stephens et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Stephens (Stone Mountain, Georgia); Seshu K. Gudlavalleti (Kensington, Maryland); Yih-Ling Tzeng (Atlanta, Georgia); Anup K. Datta (San Diego, California); Russell W. Carlson (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for recombinant production of an O-acetyltransferase and methods for acetylating capsular polysaccharides, especially those of a Serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis using the recombinant O-acetyltransferase, and immunogenic compositions comprising the acetylated capsular polysaccharide. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943326 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884326 | van de Water et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | FEI Company (Hillsboro, Oregon); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeroen van de Water (Breugel, Netherlands); Johannes van den Oetelaar (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Raymond Wagner (Gorinchem, Netherlands); Hendrik Nicolaas Slingerland (Venlo, Netherlands); Jan Willem Bruggers (Eindhoven, Netherlands); Adriaan Huibert Dirk Ottevanger (Malden, Netherlands); Andreas Schmid (Berkeley, California); Eric A. Olson (Champaign, Illinois); Ivan G. Petrov (Champaign, Illinois); Todor I. Donchev (Urbana, Illinois); Thomas Duden (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A manipulator for use in e.g. a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) is described, said manipulator capable of rotating and translating a sample holder (4). The manipulator clasps the round sample holder between two members (3A, 3B), said members mounted on actuators (2A, 2B). Moving the actuators in the same direction results in a translation of the sample holder, while moving the actuators in opposite directions results in a rotation of the sample holder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861721 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/311 |
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| US 07884331 | Majewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaw Majewski (Yorktown, Virginia); James Proffitt (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A brain imager includes a compact ring-like static PET imager mounted in a helmet-like structure. When attached to a patient's head, the helmet-like brain imager maintains the relative head-to-imager geometry fixed through the whole imaging procedure. The brain imaging helmet contains radiation sensors and minimal front-end electronics. A flexible mechanical suspension/harness system supports the weight of the helmet thereby allowing for patient to have limited movements of the head during imaging scans. The compact ring-like PET imager enables very high resolution imaging of neurological brain functions, cancer, and effects of trauma using a rather simple mobile scanner with limited space needs for use and storage. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284285 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884333 | Delayen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean Delayen (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new type of structure for the deflection and crabbing of particle bunches in particle accelerators comprising a number of parallel transverse electromagnetic (TEM)-resonant) lines operating in opposite phase from each other. Such a structure is significantly more compact than conventional crabbing cavities operating the transverse magnetic TM mode, thus allowing low frequency designs. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284799 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
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| US 07884438 | Partain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Dean Partain (Los Altos, California); George Zentai (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photodetector for detecting megavoltage (MV) radiation comprises a semiconductor conversion layer having a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite the first surface, a first electrode coupled to the first surface, a second electrode coupled to the second surface, and a low density substrate including a detector array coupled to the second electrode opposite the semiconductor conversion layer. The photodetector includes a sufficient thickness of a high density material to create a sufficient number of photoelectrons from incident MV radiation, so that the photoelectrons can be received by the conversion layer and converted to a sufficient of recharge carriers for detection by the detector array. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/193162 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/443 |
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| US 07884439 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); James E. Carey, III (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention provides a silicon photodetector having a surface layer that is doped with sulfur inclusions with an average concentration in a range of about 0.5 atom percent to about 1.5 atom percent. The surface layer forms a diode junction with an underlying portion of the substrate. A plurality of electrical contacts allow application of a reverse bias voltage to the junction in order to facilitate generation of an electrical signal, e.g., a photocurrent, in response to irradiation of the surface layer. The photodetector exhibits a responsivity greater than about 1 A/W for incident wavelengths in a range of about 250 nm to about 1050 nm, and a responsivity greater than about 0.1 A/W for longer wavelengths, e.g., up to about 3.5 microns. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365513 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884446 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mengyan Shen (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides semiconductor substrates having submicron-sized surface features generated by irradiating the surface with ultra short laser pulses. In one aspect, a method of processing a semiconductor substrate is disclosed that includes placing at least a portion of a surface of the substrate in contact with a fluid, and exposing that surface portion to one or more femtosecond pulses so as to modify the topography of that portion. The modification can include, e.g., generating a plurality of submicron-sized spikes in an upper layer of the surface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235086 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07885385 | Boyce |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Boyce (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the production of X-ray bunches tunable in both time and energy level by generating multiple photon, X-ray, beams through the use of Thomson scattering. The method of the present invention simultaneously produces two X-ray pulses that are tunable in energy and/or time. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156527 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07885754 | Topinka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Ann Topinka (Niskayuna, New York); James Peter DeLancey (Corinth, New York); Roy James Primus (Niskayuna, New York); Florian Peter Pintgen (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector is coupled to an engine. The fuel injector includes an injection opening configured to vary in cross-section between a open state and a fully closed state. The fuel injector is configured to provide a plurality of discrete commanded fuel injections into an engine cylinder by modulating the size of the injection opening without completely closing the opening to the fully closed state. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952720 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07886084 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Dozsa Gabor (Ardsley, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Phillip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Optimizing collective operations using direct memory access controller on a parallel computer, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a byte counter associated with a direct memory access controller for each submessage in a message. The byte counter includes at least a base address of memory and a byte count associated with a submessage. A byte counter associated with a submessage is monitored to determine whether at least a block of data of the submessage has been received. The block of data has a predetermined size, for example, a number of bytes. The block is processed when the block has been fully received, for example, when the byte count indicates all bytes of the block have been received. The monitoring and processing may continue for all blocks in all submessages in the message. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768645 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Chi Chen (Boston, Massachusetts); Martin L. Culpepper (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-bandwidth MEMS actuation system includes actuator pairs coupled in parallel to a stage, each actuator energizable in a drive direction against a bias to an energized position, and movable upon deenergization, to the rest position to define an actuation cycle. The actuators are asymmetric, with an energization frequency greater than a bias frequency, and are opposably coupled to one another. A pulse generator alternately transmits pulses to the actuators, at an alternation frequency greater than the bias frequency. The pulse generator transmits the energization pulses to each of the actuator pairs sequentially at a sequence frequency greater than the cycle frequency. The actuators are each movable from energized to rest positions faster than the bias frequency, and the actuator pairs are sequentially energizable faster than the cycle frequency, wherein the stage is movable in one degree of freedom at a bandwidth of at least four times the cycle frequency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/849956 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/528 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07882909 | Pearlman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L. Pearlman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Rory Cooper (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A personal vehicle comprises a frame with a seat, two large, non-drive wheels connected by an axle at one end of the frame, an elongated swing arm attached to the axle, a pair of caster wheels connected to the frame opposite the large, non-drive wheels and a main drive wheel mounted to a fork and connected to the swing arm. The main drive wheel is located central the vehicle frame, intermediate the frame sides and intermediate frame front and rear sections. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901137 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883609 | Petrenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Petrenko (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles Sullivan (W. Lebanon, New Hampshire); Lev Deresh (Plainfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternating electric field is applied to ice (530) to generate a resistive AC having a frequency greater than 1000 Hz in interfacial ice at interface (554). A first electrode (510) and a second electrode (514) proximate to the interface are separated by an electrical insulator (512). An AC power source (520) provides a voltage of about 10 to 500 volts across the electrodes to create the alternating electric field. A portion of the capacitive AC associated with the alternating electric field is present in the interfacial ice as conductivity (resistive) AC, which causes dielectric loss heating in the interfacial ice. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/466940 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883684 | Hemley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell J. Hemley (Washington, District of Columbia); Ho-kwang Mao (Washington, District of Columbia); Chih-shiue Yan (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for producing colorless, single-crystal diamonds at a rapid growth rate. The method for diamond production includes controlling temperature of a growth surface of the diamond such that all temperature gradients across the growth surface of the diamond are less than about 20° C., and growing single-crystal diamond by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition on the growth surface of a diamond at a growth temperature in a deposition chamber having an atmosphere, wherein the atmosphere comprises from about 8% to about 20% CH4 per unit of H2 and from about 5 to about 25% O2 per unit of CH4. The method of the invention can produce diamonds larger than 10 carats. Growth rates using the method of the invention can be greater than 50 μm/hour. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438260 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883831 | Wolfe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Wolfe (Houston, Texas); Barry Craver (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventors have developed an accurate method for forming a plurality of images on a substrate. The present method provides an improved pattern replication technique that provides submicron resolution, for example 20 nm or less, especially 10 nm or less. The method may involve moving a structured beam of energetic radiation across a target substrate. The motion of an image of the template mask on the substrate is achieved by tilting a mask and substrate assembly relative to the axis of the incident beam. The technique does not require high precision motion of the template mask relative to the target substrate. The energetic radiation may comprise energetic particles. The technique is insensitive to particle energy and can be applied to uncharged, neutral particles. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/026445 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883839 | Donnelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent M Donnelly (Houston, Texas); Demetre J. Economou (Houston, Texas); Paul Ruchhoeft (Houston, Texas); Lin Xu (Houston, Texas); Sri Charan Vemula (Leuven, Belgium); Manish Kumar Jain (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for creating a plurality of substantially uniform nano-scale features in a substantially parallel manner in which an array of micro-lenses is positioned on a surface of a substrate, where each micro-lens includes a hole such that the bottom of the hole corresponds to a portion of the surface of the substrate. A flux of charged particles, e.g., a beam of positive ions of a selected element, is applied to the micro-lens array. The flux of charged particles is focused at selected focal points on the substrate surface at the bottoms of the holes of the micro-lens array. The substrate is tilted at one or more selected angles to displace the locations of the focal points across the substrate surface. By depositing material or etching the surface of the substrate, several substantially uniform nanometer sized features may be rapidly created in each hole on the surface of the substrate in a substantially parallel manner. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/633233 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884088 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong-Won Lee (Temple Terrace, Florida); Ronald Howard Baney (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of homogeneously forming functionalized biocompatible oligomers includes the steps of dissolving a biocompatible oligomer in a solvent to form a solution, and admixing at least one π complex forming group to the solution, wherein the π complex forming group grafts to at least one location on the backbone of the oligomer to form a grafted oligomer. The oligomer is preferably oligochitosan and the solvent is preferably dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO). The degree of graft substitution can be at least 50%. The functionalized biocompatible oligomer can be used for drug detoxification through binding to a variety of target drugs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099195 |
| 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 514/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884446 | Mazur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Mazur (Concord, Massachusetts); Mengyan Shen (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides semiconductor substrates having submicron-sized surface features generated by irradiating the surface with ultra short laser pulses. In one aspect, a method of processing a semiconductor substrate is disclosed that includes placing at least a portion of a surface of the substrate in contact with a fluid, and exposing that surface portion to one or more femtosecond pulses so as to modify the topography of that portion. The modification can include, e.g., generating a plurality of submicron-sized spikes in an upper layer of the surface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235086 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07884450 | Pfefferle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Pfefferle (Branford, Connecticut); Dragos Ciuparu (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for growth of boron-based nanostructures, such as nanotubes and nanowires, with a controlled diameter and with controlled chemical (such as composition, doping) as well as physical (such as electrical and superconducting) properties is described. The boron nanostructures are grown on a metal-substituted MCM-41 template with pores having a uniform pore diameter of less than approximately 4 nm, and can be doped with a Group Ia or Group IIa electron donor element during or after growth of the nanostructure. Preliminary data based on magnetic susceptibility measurements suggest that Mg-doped boron nanotubes have a superconducting transition temperature on the order of 100 K. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/413275 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/661 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07886283 | Nacul et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Nacul (Irvine, California); Tony Givargis (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An alternative to a real time operating system (RTOS) is provided based on serializing compilers. A serializing compiler can transform a multitasking application into an equivalent and optimized monolithic sequential code, to be compiled with the embedded processor's native optimizing compiler, effectively filling the RTOS gap. The serializing compiler can analyze the tasks at compile time and generate a fine-tuned, application specific infrastructure to support multitasking, resulting in a more efficient executable than one that is intended to run on top of a generic RTOS. By having control over the application execution and context switches, the serializing compiler enables the fine grain control of task timing while enhancing overall performance. The serializing compiler technology strengthens existing compilers, making them timing and task-aware. The Phantom compiler provides a fully automated mechanism to synthesize a single threaded, ANSI C/C++ program from a multithreaded C/C++ (extended with POSIX) program. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227781 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07885455 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC Fire and Security Americas Corporation, Inc (Bradenton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing an enhanced Active Appearance Model (AAM) by combining images of multiple resolutions is described herein. The method generally includes processing a plurality of images each having image landmarks and each image having an original resolution level. The images are down-sampled into multiple scales of reduced resolution levels. The AAM is trained for each image at each reduced resolution level, thereby creating a multi-resolution AAM. An enhancement technique is then used to refine the image landmarks for training the AAM at the original resolution level. The landmarks for training the AAM at each level of reduced resolution is obtained by scaling the landmarks used at the original resolution level by a ratio in accordance with the multiple scales. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/650213 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07886049 | Adelstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank N. Adelstein (Ithaca, New York); Judson Powers (Ithaca, New York); Robert A. Joyce (Ithaca, New York); Derek Bronner (Chittenango, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In general, the invention provides for analyzing a target computer for computer crimes such as illegal sharing of files or sharing of illegal files on peer-to-peer clients. The target computer may have software for a plurality of peer-to-peer clients. Only one extensible forensic device may be necessary to analyze the plurality of peer-to-peer clients for downloaded or shared files. For example, the invention may provide for a method comprising determining whether one or more peer-to-peer clients are or have been installed on a target device by identifying information associated with one or more peer-to-peer modules, wherein each module is associated with a different one of the one or more peer-to-peer clients. The method further includes, gathering usage information for the one or more peer-to-peer clients that had been determined to be installed on the target computer, analyzing the usage information, and automatically generating a report of the analyzed usage information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/190314 |
| ART UNIT | 2441 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07883052 | Hahn 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) | Andrew S. Hahn (Yorktown, Virginia); David J. Kinney (Manteca, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft wing has an inboard section and an outboard section. The inboard section is attached (i) on one side thereof to the aircraft's fuselage, and (ii) on an opposing side thereof to an inboard side of a turbofan engine nacelle in an over-the-wing mounting position. The outboard section's leading edge has a sweep of at least 20 degrees. The inboard section's leading edge has a sweep between −15 and +15 degrees, and extends from the fuselage to an attachment position on the nacelle that is forward of an index position defined as an imaginary intersection between the sweep of the outboard section's leading edge and the inboard side of the nacelle. In an alternate embodiment, the turbofan engine nacelle is replaced with an open rotor engine nacelle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/954452 |
| 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 244/45.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07886273 | Hinchey 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) | Michael G. Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); James L. Rash (Davidsonville, Maryland); Walter F. Truszkowski (Hyattsville, Maryland); Christopher A. Rouff (Beltsville, Maryland); Roy Sterritt (Newtownabbey, United Kingdom); Denis Gracanin (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a method that produces fully (mathematically) tractable development of policies for autonomic systems from requirements through to code generation. This method is illustrated through an example showing how user formulated policies can be translated into a formal mode which can then be converted to code. The requirements-based programming method described provides faster, higher quality development and maintenance of autonomic systems based on user formulation of policies. Further, the systems, methods and apparatus described herein provide a way of analyzing policies for autonomic systems and facilities the generation of provably correct implementations automatically, which in turn provides reduced development time, reduced testing requirements, guarantees of correctness of the implementation with respect to the policies specified at the outset, and provides a higher degree of confidence that the policies are both complete and reasonable. The ability to specify the policy for the management of a system and then automatically generate an equivalent implementation greatly improves the quality of software, the survivability of future missions, in particular when the system will operate untended in very remote environments, and greatly reduces development lead times and costs. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/532800 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07882775 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Engineering Science Analysis Corporation (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A. Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An immobilization device and method of restraining vehicles, persons and animals uses tendrils attached to various devices to engage the target. The immobilization device, system and method includes a housing containing launchable tendrils that are launched from the housing by a propellant. The tendrils may be attached to straps or other elements carried by the immobilization device. The tendrils will engage the target and restrain it if it is a vehicle such as a car, truck, boat, submarine, or like vehicle. In stopping a person or animal the tendrils will deliver a marking package, a shocking package or a snare package to mark, shock or snare the target. Straps may be pulled off the housing leaving the housing near the point of deployment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185947 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07883861 | Rich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HemoGenix, Inc. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ivan N. Rich (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to kits that provide reagent mixes and instructions for the use thereof, in performing high-throughput assay methods that determine the proliferative status of isolated target cell populations. The methods measure the luminescent output derived from the intracellular ATP content of incubated target cells, and correlate the luminescence with the proliferative status of the cells. The present invention further relates to kits that provide reagent mixes and instructions for high-throughput assays methods for screening compounds that may modulate the proliferative status of a target cell population. The kits of the present invention and methods therein described may be used for determining the proliferative status of any isolated cell line or type. The kits and methods of the present invention address the need for rapid assays that determine the proliferative status of isolated hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and of subpopulations of differentiated cells thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049921 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07883615 | Payne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland); University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory F. Payne (Cockeysville, Maryland); Li-Qun Wu (North Potomac, Maryland); Reza Ghodssi (Rockville, Maryland); William E. Bentley (Annapolis, Maryland); Gary W. Rubloff (Clarksville, Maryland); Hyunmin Yi (Ellicott City, Maryland); Rohan Fernandes (Beltsville, Maryland); Tianhong Chen (Newark, Delaware); David A. Small (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for electrochemically depositing a polysaccharide mass having a selected physical state. According to an embodiment, an electrically conductive support of a substrate is contacted with an aqueous solution including a selectively insolubilizable polysaccharide, and the selectively insolubilizable polysaccharide is electrochemically deposited on the electrically conductive support while controlling deposition conditions to form the polysaccharide mass having the selected physical state, such as that of a hydrogel. Deposition may be performed in a spatially and/or temporally controlled manner. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/541057 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07884361 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Wong (San Carlos, California); Rene Lujan (Sunnyvale, California); Eugene Chow (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-aligned, thin-film, top-gate transistor and method of manufacturing same are disclosed. A first print-patterned mask is formed over a metal layer by digital lithography, for example by printing with a phase change material using a droplet ejector. The metal layer is then etched using the first print-patterned mask to form source and drain electrodes. A semiconductive layer and an insulative layer are formed thereover. A layer of photosensitive material is then deposited and exposed through the substrate, with the source and drain electrodes acting as masks for the exposure. Following development of the photosensitive material, a gate metal layer is deposited. A second print-patterned mask is then formed over the device, again by digital lithography. Etching and removal of the photosensitive material leaves the self-aligned top-gate electrode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/817127 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 07883450 | Hidler |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Hidler (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A body-weight support system that allows individuals with severe gait impairments to practice over-ground walking in a safe, controlled manner is disclosed. The system includes a body-weight support system that rides along a driven trolley and can be controlled in response to the movement of the subject using the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120420 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07882775 | Martinez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Engineering Science Analysis Corporation (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin A. Martinez (Phoenix, Arizona); Patrick J. Barnhill (Phoenix, Arizona); Steven A. Floyd (Petaluma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An immobilization device and method of restraining vehicles, persons and animals uses tendrils attached to various devices to engage the target. The immobilization device, system and method includes a housing containing launchable tendrils that are launched from the housing by a propellant. The tendrils may be attached to straps or other elements carried by the immobilization device. The tendrils will engage the target and restrain it if it is a vehicle such as a car, truck, boat, submarine, or like vehicle. In stopping a person or animal the tendrils will deliver a marking package, a shocking package or a snare package to mark, shock or snare the target. Straps may be pulled off the housing leaving the housing near the point of deployment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185947 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07885973 | Sastry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer method and system generates inquires. The method and system provide a plurality of templates. Each template outlines a respective inquiry and is associated with one or more semantic types or contexts. Each template has one or more parameters for defining a query instance of the respective inquiry. User input selects a template from the plurality and specifies values for the parameters of the user selected template. Using the user selected template and the user-specified parameter values, an instance of a query is produced. Each template, is associated with semantic types during template construction. The semantic types may be based on classes in an ontology. Template construction may include templatizing prior existing or other queries to create respective templates. In application or use of a template, query generation may be during modeling of a certain domain, and the produced query is for information about the certain domain. Parameter value selection may be automated or assisted by the system based on the model context where the template is instantiated. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/035992 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/779 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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