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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 08, 2011
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| US 07900336 | Akinwande et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts); Blaise Laurent Patrick Gassend (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Luis Fernando Velasquez-Garcia (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A hand assembled MEMS apparatus includes meso-scale microfabricated components adapted for being moved by hand relative to one another from a loose-fit preliminary alignment orientation to a relatively tight-fit assembled orientation. A microfabricated spring member is integrally disposed on one of the components to bias the other component towards the assembled orientation. A cam surface disposed on the other component is configured to slidably engage and move the spring member against its bias upon continued hand movement in the assembly direction. A microfabricated abutment is disposed to limit relative movement of the components in at least one direction other than the assembly direction. A microfabricated tactile feedback member is configured to disrupt the hand movement in the assembly direction once the components have substantially reached the assembled orientation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404676 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/559 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900343 | Leupold |
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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) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A group of magnetic strands are configured into a minimal number of solid magnetized toroidal rings with a conical magnetization direction and then aligned, stacked and assembled into a magic sphere magnetic structure. Each magnetized toroidal ring has predetermined dimensions to form the inner and outer surfaces of a spherical shell. The present invention also encompasses a magic sphere magnetic device with unsegmented solid magnetized toroidal rings and methods for assembling a magic sphere by stacking magnetized toroidal rings with a conical magnetic direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154814 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/607 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900391 | Mihelish |
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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) | Matthew P. Mihelish (Firth, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus is provided for traversing a barrel of a gun and disposing at a select position therein. The apparatus includes a bore-rider assembly and a sight-mount assembly. The bore-rider assembly enters a muzzle of the barrel, slides within a bore of the barrel, and anchors to the select position. The sight-mount assembly projects a line-of-sight from the select position to the muzzle. The bore-rider assembly includes a rod having wedges, first and second bore-riders with proximal and distal ends, a sleeve couple that joins at axial ends the bore-riders in tandem from their proximal ends. Each bore-rider has a rim at the distal end and an extension at the proximal end. The rim has an outer diameter adjustable by expansion. The sleeve couple joins in tandem at each axial end each bore-rider from the proximal end. The rod passes through each bore-rider and the couple. The rod includes first and second wedges that engage their corresponding bore-riders. The rim includes an angularly symmetric plurality of slits therethrough. The slits continuously extend into the extension. The extension includes an axial chamber through which a spring passes through to provide tension for the rod. Cables extend fore and aft of the device and at a slit of the nearest bore-rider and loop around the corresponding extension. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386178 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900453 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William A. Lynch (Cohasset, Massachusetts); Neal A. Sondergaard (Severna Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal fuel combustion system and method for producing energy. The energy may be used to drive a water vessel such as a submarine. The system and method comprises a combustion device having inner and outer combustion chambers. The metal fuel comprises aluminum, magnesium, and silicon, and is preferably in the form Mg2Al4Si5, and is preferably burnt using water as an oxidant. The byproduct of and the metal oxide byproduct is Mg2Al4Si5O18, which has an appearance and consistency similar to basaltic sea sand. In addition to the combustion device, the system may include additional energy producing elements such as fuel cells, thermoelectric cells, and photovoltaic cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900142 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/645 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900459 | Farah |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jorge Farah (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust nozzle assembly includes an inner liner exposed to hot combustion gases and an outer liner spaced a radial distance from the inner liner to form an annular chamber. The inner liner includes a hot side that is directly exposed to the hot combustion gas flow and a cold side is exposed to cooling air within the chamber. The outer liner includes an outer surface exposed to cooling air flow up to a restriction preventing communication of cooling air flow. A plenum is attached to the outer liner to define a plenum chamber that extends into an end portion. The plenum chamber receives cooling air flow from a supply opening and communicates that air to an end portion through a plurality of impingement openings that provide impingement flow of cooling air outboard of the restriction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/024918 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900461 | Varney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Edward Varney (Greenwood, Indiana); Vickie Rae Smiley (Indianapolis, Indiana); Todd S. Taylor (Whiteland, Indiana); Jack Dwane Petty, Sr. (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a combination that includes a gas turbine engine extending along an axis. The gas turbine engine includes an annular combustor with a combustor liner. The combination of the invention also includes a plurality of projections extending from the combustor liner and spaced from one another circumferentially about the axis. The combination of the invention also includes a free-standing ring disposed about the combustor liner and positioned adjacent to the plurality of projections along the axis. The plurality of projections engage a corresponding circumferentially-facing portion of the free-standing ring and circumferentially support the combustor liner while allowing relative radial displacement between the combustor liner and the free-standing ring. The combination of the invention also includes a rolling assembly operably disposed between the free-standing ring and the plurality of projections to reduce binding during the relative radial displacement. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/755793 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900498 | Ratcliffe |
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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) | Colin P. Ratcliffe (Millersville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a positioner. The apparatus includes a striker axially movable in the positioner. The striker includes a striker inner end. The apparatus includes a force gauge axially movable in the positioner. The force gauge includes a force gauge inner end. The force gauge inner end is in communication with the striker inner end. Optionally, the striker defines at least one fluid passage axially therethrough. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765588 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/12.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900548 | Hoadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Hoadley (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert Knochenhauer (Billerica, Massachusetts); Thieu Truong (North Easton, Massachusetts); Gary Anderson (Leominster, Massachusetts); Micheal Farinella (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A net deployment system which, in one example, includes a manifold assembly including multiple weight ducts and a bladder port. A weight is disposed in each weight duct and each weight is tied to the net. A bladder is behind the net and is over the bladder port. At least one inflator charge is associated with the manifold for inflating the bladder and firing the weights out of the weight ducts to deploy the net in the path of an incoming threat. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890946 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900605 | Dingle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. G. Dingle (Rochester, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine, the fuel injector comprising an injector body, a fuel supply passage defined in the injector body, the fuel supply passage containing fuel under high pressure in use of the injector, a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure of fuel in the passage in use, wherein the pressure sensor is situated within the injector body and is separated from fuel in the passage in use, and a method of fuel injection, comprising constructing an hydraulic behavior profile by fuel pressure measurement, using the hydraulic behavior profile to predict fuel pressure that will prevail in a fuel injector during an injection event, and supplying a control signal to the fuel injector to control the amount of fuel injected during the injection event in accordance with the predicted fuel pressure. By predicting the fuel pressure that will prevail during an injection event, the fuel delivered during the injection event can be accurately controlled. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470058 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/480 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900625 | Kleinstreuer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clement Kleinstreuer (Raleigh, North Carolina); Stefan Seelecke (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A smart inhaler system comprising an inhaler device for directed aerosol delivery facilitated by an adaptive nozzle and a mechanism for inhalation waveform modulation is provided. Methods of using the smart inhaler system for delivering an active agent to a target area of a lung of a subject are further provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510288 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/203.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901178 | Giaimo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Giaimo (Weston, Florida); John P. Tirone, III (Moodus, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable vane mechanism comprises a variable vane, an inner diameter shroud and a synchronizing mechanism. The variable vane comprises a vane body, an inner diameter trunnion extending radially inwardly from the vane body, and a button connected to the inner diameter trunnion and displaced radially inwardly from the inner diameter trunnion. The shroud comprises a shroud body, a socket extending into the shroud body for receiving the inner diameter trunnion, a flange extending into the socket for engaging the button and inhibiting radial movement of the variable vane, and a synchronizing channel extending through the inner diameter shroud aft of the socket so as to be bounded by the shroud body and opening to the socket. The synchronizing mechanism is disposed inside the synchronizing channel and connects to the inner diameter trunnion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406346 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901270 | Bechtold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optipro Systems, LLC (Ontario, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Bechtold (Ontario, New York); Darryle E. Fowler (Shortville, New York); David E. Mohring (Ontario, New York); Thomas Williams (Webster, New York); Robert Henderson (Livonia, New York); Alex DiNicola (Webster, New York); Christopher Wood (Webster, New York); Joseph P. Meisenzahl (East Rochester, New York); Scott Bambrick (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of polishing objects using an apparatus comprised of a rotary positioning device comprising a turret; a base mounted on the turret; a drive wheel connected to a rotatable shaft, the drive wheel having a perimeter, and the rotatable shaft disposed in a housing. The polishing wheel assembly may include an elongated arm including a proximal end joined to the base, and a distal end; a rotatable polishing wheel supported at the end of the elongated arm; and a polishing belt comprising an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface engageable with the perimeters of the drive wheel and the polishing wheel. The method is comprised of contacting the outer surface of the polishing belt to a contact region of the surface of the object; and controlling the contact region by rotating the elongated arm around the turret axis. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683471 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901588 | O'Sullivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene J. O'Sullivan (Nyack, New York); Daniel Worledge (Poughquag, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An etching process is employed to selectively pattern the top magnetic film layer, the tunnel barrier, and the pinned bottom magnetic layer of a magnetic thin film structure. The pinned bottom magnetic film layer has an antiferromagnetic layer or a Ru spacer formed thereunder. The etching process employs various etching steps that selectively remove various layers of the magnetic thin film structure stopping on the antiferromagnetic layer or the Ru spacer. The progress of this etching process can be monitored by measuring the electrochemical potential difference of a part or wafer containing a magnetic structure with respect to a reference electrode simultaneously with the selective etching process. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/778426 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901674 | Nichols et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Fixed-dried blood cells carrying an active agent are described, along with methods of making the same, methods of using the same, and compositions containing the sane. The blood cells may be red blood cells or blood platelets. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751295 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901744 | Denes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ferencz S. Denes (Madison, Wisconsin); Sorin O. Manolache (Madison, Wisconsin); Luis Emilio Cruz-Barba (Guadalajara, Mexico); Max G. Lagally (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Low- or atmospheric pressure RF plasma-enhanced thin film deposition methods are provided for the deposition of hydrophobic fluorinated thin films onto various substrates. The methods include at least two steps. In the first step, RF plasma-mediated deposition is used to deposit a fluorinated film onto a substrate surface. In a second step, plasma-generated active sites on the fluorinated film are quenched by reacting them with stable fluorinated gas-phase molecules in situ, in the absence of plasma, to provide a hydrophobic fluorinated thin film having a very low oxygen content. In some instances the hydrophobic fluorinated thin films have an atomic oxygen concentration of no more than about 3%. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/271575 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/569 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901769 | Brow et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard K. Brow (Rolla, Missouri); Signo T. Reis (Rolla, Missouri); Mike Konigstein (Columbia, Missouri); Genda Chen (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A cementitious composite material wherein glass-coated steel rods are positioned in a cementitious matrix. The glass composition for coating the steel reinforcing rods includes between about 33-45 weight percent SiO2, 13.5-19.5 weight percent B2O3, 3.5-4.6 weight percent Al2O3, 4.0-13.5 weight percent K2O, 5.5-15.5 weight percent ZrO2, 8.6-15.9 weight percent Na2O, 4.6-5.1 weight percent CaO, 0.6-0.7 weight percent MnO2, 1.0-1.0 weight percent NiO, and 1.0-1.1 weight percent CoO. The glass composition is typically in compression on the rods at ambient temperatures, has a coefficient of thermal expansion of between about 12.5 and about 13.5, and has a softening temperature of between about 585 degrees Celsius and about 600 degrees Celsius. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623236 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/379 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901795 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Las Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Yujian You (Los Angeles, California); Andrei Shoustikov (Los Angeles, California); Scott Sibley (Baltimore, Maryland); Paul E. Burrows (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic light emitting devices are disclosed which are comprised of a heterostructure for producing electroluminescence wherein the heterostructure is comprised of an emissive layer containing a phosphorescent dopant compound. For example, the phosphorescent dopant compound may be comprised of platinum octaethylporphine (PtOEP), which is a compound having the chemical structure with the formula: |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489045 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901816 | Eickhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Eickhoff (Plymouth, Minnesota); Roland A. Wood (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A waterless power generator, particularly a waterless electrical power generator and a passively controlled process for producing electricity with a fuel cell using stoichiometric amounts of a solid hydrogen fuel and byproduct water vapor produced by the fuel cell to generate hydrogen gas. A fuel cell reaction of hydrogen and oxygen produces electrical energy as well as by-product water which diffuses back into the power generator as water vapor to react with the hydrogen fuel, producing more hydrogen gas. This generated hydrogen gas is then used as a fuel which allows the fuel cell to generate additional electrical power and additional water. The process runs without any attached water source or water supply other than the water which is produced by the fuel cells themselves. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/270848 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901878 | Carraway |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E Carraway (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are screening assays for identifying and evaluating compounds with antioxidant and/or antiproliferative activities. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330035 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901929 | Kuthi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andras Kuthi (Thousand Oaks, California); Martin A. Gundersen (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulse generator circuit may include a diode configured to operate as an opening switch, a tank circuit in series with the diode having an admittance that is switchable from a first value to a second value that is different from the first value, and a switching system configured to cause the tank circuit to switch between the first value and the second value. The diode may saturate in less than 100 nanoseconds. A saturable core transformer may operate as a switch that controls the opening of the diode. The pulse generator may generate a plurality of pulses, each having a length of no more than 3 nanoseconds and an amplitude of at least 1 kilovolt. Electrodes may be connected to the pulse generator to deliver the plurality of pulses to biological cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409707 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/285.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901930 | Kuthi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andras Kuthi (Thousand Oaks, California); Martin A. Gundersen (San Gabriel, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulse generator circuit may include a diode configured to operate as an opening switch, a tank circuit in series with the diode having an admittance that is switchable from a first value to a second value that is different from the first value, and a switching system configured to cause the tank circuit to switch between the first value and the second value. The diode may saturate in less than 100 nanoseconds. A saturable core transformer may operate as a switch that controls the opening of the diode. The pulse generator may generate a plurality of pulses, each having a length of no more than 3 nanoseconds and an amplitude of at least 1 kilovolt. Electrodes may be connected to the pulse generator to deliver the plurality of pulses to biological cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/703002 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/285.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901994 | Saxler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam William Saxler (Durham, North Carolina); Scott T. Sheppard (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating transistor in which a first Group III nitride layer is formed on a substrate in a reactor, and a second Group III nitride layer is formed on the first Group III nitride layer. An insulating layer such as, for example, a silicon nitride layer is formed on the second Group III nitride layer in-situ in the reactor. The substrate including the first Group III nitride layer, the second group III nitride layer and the silicon nitride layer is removed from the reactor, and the silicon nitride layer is patterned to form a first contact hole that exposes a first contact region of the second Group III nitride layer. A metal contact is formed on the first contact region of the second Group III nitride layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/286805 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902069 | Andry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S Andry (Yorktown Heights, New York); John M Cotte (New Fairfield, Connecticut); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York); Cornelia K Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure includes: at least one silicon surface wherein the surface can be a substrate, wafer or other device. The structure further includes at least one electronic circuit formed on each side of the at least one surface; and at least one conductive high aspect ratio through silicon via running through the at least one surface. Each through silicon via is fabricated from at least one etch step and includes: at least one thermal oxide dielectric for coating at least some of a sidewall of the through silicon via for a later etch stop in fabrication of the through silicon via. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833112 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902119 | Wu et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Judy Wu (Lawrence, Kansas); Rose Emergo (Lawrence, Kansas); Timothy Haugan (Beavercreek, Ohio); Paul Barnes (West Milton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Porous ceramic superconductors having a film thickness over 0.5 microns are provided. The superconducting material is applied to a vicinal substrate and optionally nanoparticles are inserted to release local strain. The resultant superconductors exhibit improved Jc values compared to nonvicinal (flat) counterparts and those having no nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490918 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902120 | Rupich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin W. Rupich (Framingham, Massachusetts); Wei Zhang (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Yibing Huang (Northborough, Massachusetts); Xiaoping Li (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Superconductor wires or layers having improved properties and methods for making the same are described. The superconducting layer includes a rare earth element-alkaline earth element-transition metal oxide having an average stacking fault density that is greater than about 0.01 nm−1, wherein two or more rare earth cations form the rare earth element. To form the superconductor layer of the present invention, a layer having a rare earth element-alkaline earth element-transition metal oxide substantially in a first crystal structure can be provided to a substrate where two or more rare earth cations form the rare earth element. The layer can then be heated at a temperature that is greater than 550° C. under oxidizing conditions to form a high-temperature superconducting layer substantially in a second crystal structure. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880533 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902228 | Wiemer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The United States of America, National Institute of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Wiemer (Iowa City, Iowa); Jeffrey D. Neighbors (Iowa City, Iowa); John A. Beutler (Braddock, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and intermediates for preparing enantiomerically enriched Schweinfurthin analogs which are useful for the treatment of cancer, as well as novel Schweinfurthin analogs having anti-cancer activity, compositions comprising such analogs and therapeutic methods comprising administering such analogs. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025617 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henkel AG and Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shengqian Kong (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to cationically curable sealants that provide low moisture permeability and good adhesive strength after cure. The composition consists essentially of an oxetane compound and a cationic initiator. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/147032 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902322 | Huang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Diyun Huang (Bothell, Washington); Baoquan Chen (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an embodiment, a nonlinear optical chromophore includes the structure D-π-A, wherein D is a donor, π is a π-bridge, and A is an acceptor, and wherein at least one of D, π, or A is covalently attached to a substituent group including a substituent center that is directly bonded to at least three aryl groups. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270714 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902327 | Kallenbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University School of Medicine (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neville Robert Kallenbach (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Anne W. Young (Brooklyn, New York); Zhigang Liu (New York, New York); Chunhui Zhou (Woodhaven, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel dendrimeric peptide compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following formula I: The compounds demonstrate antimicrobial activity and may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions and used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans where microbial invasion is involved. The present peptides are particularly valuable as their effect is rapid, broad in spectrum and mostly indifferent to resistance provoked by standard antibiotics. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154659 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902344 | Harvey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barrett R. Harvey (Austin, Texas); George Georgiou (Austin, Texas); Brent L. Iverson (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art by providing antibody compositions having improved affinities for Bacillus anthracis antigens. The compositions have important thereapeutic and diagnostic applications, including treatment or detection of infection by Bacillus anthracis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/179244 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902513 | Kub 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) | Francis J. Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Bernard F. Phlips (Accokeek, Maryland); Karl D. Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Eric A. Wulf (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) neutron detector comprising a silicon-on-insulator structure, wherein the silicon-on-insulator structure consists of an active semiconductor layer, a buried layer, and a handle substrate, a lateral carrier transport and collection detector structure within the active semiconductor layer of the silicon-on-insulator structure, and a neutron to high energy particle converter layer on the active semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406262 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902526 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daekeun Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter T. C. So (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system is provided that includes a optical pulse generator for providing an optical pulse having a spectral bandwidth and includes monochromatic waves having different wavelengths. A dispersive element receives a second optical pulse associated with the optical pulse and disperses the second optical pulse at different angles on the surface of the dispersive element depending on wavelength. One or more focal elements receives the dispersed second optical pulse produced on the dispersive element. The one or more focal element recombine the dispersed second optical pulse at a focal plane on a specimen where the width of the optical pulse is restored at the focal plane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431254 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902569 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niu Jin (San Jose, California); Paul R. Berger (Columbus, Ohio); Philip E. Thompson (Sprinfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Some disclosed interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers including layers selected from a group consisting of silicon, germanium, and alloys of silicon and germanium, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers is tensile strained. Some disclosed resonant interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers including layers selected from a group consisting of silicon, germanium, and alloys of silicon and germanium, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers defines a barrier to non-resonant tunnel current. Some disclosed interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers is tensile strained. Some disclosed resonant interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers defines a barrier to non-resonant tunnel current. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/175114 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Waters (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a monolithic micro-generator comprising: fabricating a plurality of magnet layer elements by preparing a semiconductor substrate surface to define: a plurality of coil layer recesses, a plurality of magnet wells, a plurality of integral compliant regions, and a plurality of bonding posts; disposing a ferromagnetic mass within each of a plurality of the magnet wells; fabricating a coil layer element by preparing a second semiconductor substrate surface to define a coil well, and one or more through holes, each hole disposed to accept a bonding post; disposing a conductive coil within the coil well; and bonding the upper bonding post surfaces of a magnet layer element to the corresponding upper bonding post surfaces of another magnet layer element with a coil layer element disposed between their upper surfaces such that each of the bonding posts passes through a corresponding through hole in the coil layer element. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936858 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Robinson E. Pino (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method provides the foundation for designing reconfigurable electronic computing systems. The invention relies on an ability to change the resistance state of a memristor device to achieve an optimal voltage at specific circuit nodes, whereby this dynamically and autonomously causes the circuit to reconfigure itself and produce a different output for the same input relative to the circuit's initial state. The circuit's state remains constant until the memristor's resistance is changed, at which point the circuit's function is “reprogrammed”. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/798631 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902866 | Patterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cameron Patterson (Blacksburg, Virginia); Peter Athanas (Newport, Virginia); John K. Bowen (Alexandria, Virginia); Timothy G. Dunham (Roanoke, Virginia); Justin D. Rice (Coral Springs, Florida); Matthew T. Shelburne (Christiansburg, Virginia); Jorge A. Suris Pletri (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jonathan Graf (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, and system, for reconfiguring an FPGA which has a static region and a dynamic region is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a dynamic module library having information of predetermined modules; (b) receiving a reconfiguration request external to the FPGA; (c) computing reconfiguration of the FPGA at a predetermined location using predetermined module information from the dynamic module library and the reconfiguration request, and generating reconfigurable partial bitstreams; and (d) sending partial bitstreams from the predetermined location to the FPGA to perform the reconfiguration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199465 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Carter (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An extensible three dimensional circuit includes an access layer and crossbar arrays overlying the access layer. The crossbar arrays are formed from tiled mini-arrays of crossing lines and electrically accessed by the access layer. The crossing lines comprise at least one bundle of traveling lines, the at least one bundle of traveling lines moving through the circuit both laterally and vertically. Programmable crosspoint devices are disposed between the crossing lines. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771135 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902931 | In et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represened by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Visarath In (Chula Vista, California); Patrick Longhini (San Diego, California); Yong (Andy) An Kho (Chula Vista, California); Joseph D. Neff (San Diego, California); Adi R. Bulsara (San Diego, California); Frank E. Gordon (San Diego, California); Norman Liu (San Diego, California); Suketu Naik (Kyoto, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes a plurality of channel-capture circuits. Each circuit may include an array of N non-linear oscillators, wherein N≧3, circularly connected to each other in series such that unidirectional signal flow occurs between the oscillators. Each circuit may be configured to capture a respective channel signal from a wideband signal containing a plurality of channel signals and convert its captured channel signal to a lower frequency. Each oscillator may include an oscillator input configured to receive an output signal from another oscillator, an oscillator output configured to provide an output for an input of another oscillator, a frequency capture input configured to receive at least a portion of the wideband signal, at least two amplifiers, and a control capacitor coupled to the output of the amplifiers. An analog-to-digital converter may be coupled to the output of each channel-capture circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391508 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Werking (Rockford, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential current-mode sigma-delta digital-to-analog converter (SD DAC) and a method for generating positive and negative reference voltages in a sigma-delta digital analog converter are described. The SD DAC includes a low pass filter (LPF) having a first and second input. The SD DAC further includes a first resistance and a second resistance coupled together at a common node. The first resistance may be coupled to the first input of the LPF and the second resistance may be coupled to the second input of the LPF. Additionally, the SD DAC includes a current supply and a switching network for supplying current from the current supply to the first and second resistances. The current supply and the resistances operate to generate a first voltage and a second voltage at the first and second inputs of the LPF. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/898533 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903239 | Sailor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Michael P. Schwartz (Boulder, Colorado); Sara Alvarez (Oceanside, California); Sangeeta Bhatia (Lexington, Massachusetts); Austin Derfus (San Diego, California); Benjamin Migliori (La Jolla, California); Lin Chao (Del Mar, California); Yang Yang Li (Irvine, California); Rebecca Campbell (La Jolla, California); Jason Dorvee (Ithaca, New York); Ulla Camilla Rang (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes sensors and sensing methods for determining cell morphology and/or chemical composition of an analyte. A porous substrate exhibiting a first optical signal is exposed to a target analyte and subsequently monitored for changes in the optical signal. More specifically, a photonic or porous substrate having a well-defined and highly tunable reflectivity or transmission spectrum, such as porous silicon (Si), porous alumina, porous Ge, porous GaAs, porous SiO2 and porous polymer, is used for example. A porous or photonic substrate is exposed to an analyte, such as a cell or other macromolecule, and changes in the scattered light are observed over time to determine cell morphology and/or chemical composition of the analyte using the substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665613 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903450 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Jae-Joon Kim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Asymmetrical SRAM cells are improved by providing one or more of improved read stability and improved write performance and margin. A first inverter and a second inverter are cross-coupled and configured for selective coupling to true and complementary bit lines under control of read and write word lines. The first inverter is formed by a first, n-type, FET (NFET) and a second, p-type, FET (PFET). Process and/or technology approaches can be employed to adjust the relative strength of the FETS to obtain, for example, read margin, write margin, and/or write performance improvements. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040966 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903456 | Kirichenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander F. Kirichenko (Pleasantville, New York); Timur V. Filippov (Mahopac, New York); Deepnarayan Gupta (Hawthorne, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-speed lookup table is designed using Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic elements and fabricated using superconducting integrated circuits. The lookup table is composed of an address decoder and a programmable read-only memory array (PROM). The memory array has rapid parallel pipelined readout and slower serial reprogramming of memory contents. The memory cells are constructed using standard non-destructive reset-set flip-flops (RSN cells) and data flip-flops (DFF cells). An n-bit address decoder is implemented in the same technology and closely integrated with the memory array to achieve high-speed operation as a lookup table. The circuit architecture is scalable to large two-dimensional data arrays. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/258682 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903704 | Patel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pranalytica, Inc. (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Kumar N. Patel (Los Angeles, California); Ilya Dunayevskiy (Los Angeles, California); Manu Prasanna (Marina del Rey, California); Rowel C. Go (Carson, California); Alexei Tsekoun (Los Angeles, California); Michael Pushkarsky (San Diego, California); Richard Maulini (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for broad tuning of single wavelength quantum cascade lasers and the use of light output from such lasers for highly sensitive detection of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, acetylene, and vapors of explosives such as trinitrotoluene (TNT) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and TATP's precursors including acetone and hydrogen peroxide. These methods and apparatus are also suitable for high sensitivity, high selectivity detection of other chemical compounds including chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. A quantum cascade laser (QCL) system that better achieves single mode, continuous, mode-hop free tuning for use in L-PAS (laser photoacoustic spectroscopy) by independently coordinating gain chip current, diffraction grating angle and external cavity length is described. An all mechanical method that achieves similar performance is also described. Additionally, methods for improving the sensor performance by critical selection of wavelengths are presented. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821528 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/29.21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903909 | Popovic |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milos Popovic (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-loss waveguide structures may comprise a multimode waveguide supporting a periodic light intensity pattern, and attachments disposed at the waveguide adjacent low-intensity regions of the light intensity pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288716 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904263 | Irizarry |
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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) | Alfredo Vega Irizarry (Rome, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention disclosed herein provides a computer implementable method for characterizing signals in a frequency domain spectrum where such signals may be a wideband signal while individually being of varied formats such as tones, analog modulation, digital modulation, etc. The invention employs statistical probability models where mean, standard deviation, histograms, and probability density functions are analogous to center frequency, bandwidth, frequency spectrum, and signal models, respectively. The invention reconstructs a frequency spectrum showing signals of interest. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286283 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904267 | Wells et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | P.C. Krause and Associates, Inc. (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Wells (Zionsville, Indiana); Marco Amrhein (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive method and device for identification and compensation of errors in resolver output signals which can increase the accuracy of position estimates of the resolver angle is disclosed. The method utilizes the ideal orthogonal relationship of two resolver output devices to determine an error factor. The error factor is then used to correct the resolver position estimate. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172969 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904278 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry W. Wilson (Laurel, Maryland); J. Aaron Pendergrass (Silver Spring, Maryland); C. Durward McDonell, III (Olney, Maryland); Peter A. Loscocco (Glenwood, Maryland); David J. Heine (Columbia, Maryland); Bessie Y. Lewis (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems and methods for measuring the integrity of an operating system's execution and ensuring that the system's code is performing its intended functionality. This includes examining the integrity of the code that the operating system is executing as well as the data that the operating system accesses. Integrity violations can be detected in the dynamic portions of the code being executed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/743284 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904420 | Ianni |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Ianni (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present disclosure, common cluster files residing on nodes in a cluster may be managed by compiling a first list of all files stored on all nodes of the cluster, compiling a second list indicative of unique files and the number of nodes on which each unique file is stored from the first list, determining, from the second list, unique files which are not stored on all nodes, determining, from the second list, which files are required by all nodes, and determining, from the first list and the second list, which files must be added to each node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198365 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904512 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Goldberg (Champaign, Illinois); Michael E. Welge (Champaign, Illinois); Xavier F. Llorà (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary method for computer based collaboration between a plurality of participants communicating over a data network comprises steps of receiving communications data with the computer, using a text analysis tool to identify at least a plurality of k-words from the communications data and a plurality of relations linking at least a portion of the plurality of k-words, and displaying the k-words and relations to the plurality of participants over the computer network. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119636 |
| ART UNIT | 2478 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904569 | Gelvin et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Gelvin (Escondido, California); Lewis D. Girod (Los Angeles, California); William J. Kaiser (Los Angeles, California); Fredric Newberg (San Diego, California); Gregory J. Pottie (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Vehicle internetworks provide for communications among diverse electronic devices within a vehicle, and for communications among these devices and networks external to the vehicle. The vehicle internetwork comprises specific devices, software, and protocols, and provides for security for essential vehicle functions and data communications, ease of integration of new devices and services to the vehicle internetwork, and ease of addition of services linking the vehicle to external networks such as the Internet. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/680608 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904590 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for routing information through the data processing system. Data is received at a source processor within a set of processors that is to be transmitted to a destination processor, where the data includes address information. A first determination is performed as to whether the destination processor is within a same processor book as the source processor based on the address information. A second determination is performed as to whether the destination processor is within a same supernode as the source processor based on the address information if the destination processor is not within the same processor book. A routing path is identified for the data based on results of the first determination, the second determination, and one or more routing table data structures. The data is then transmitted from the source processor along the identified routing path toward the destination processor. |
| FILED | Monday, August 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845215 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904693 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Claude Basso (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jean L. Calvignac (Raleigh, North Carolina); Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York); Edward J. Seminaro (Milton, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An addressing model is provided where devices, including I/O devices, are addressed with internet protocol (IP) addresses, which are considered part of the virtual address space. A task, such as an application, may be assigned an effective address range, which corresponds to addresses in the virtual address space. The virtual address space is expanded to include Internet protocol addresses. Thus, the page frame tables are also modified to include entries for IP addresses and additional properties for devices and I/O. Thus, a processing element, such as an I/O adapter or even a printer, for example, may also be addressed using IP addresses without the need for library calls, device drivers, pinning memory, and so forth. This addressing model also provides full virtualization of resources across an IP interconnect, allowing a process to access an I/O device across a network. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024773 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904731 | Devadas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Srinivas Devadas (Lexington, Massachusetts); Blaise Gassend (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit has a first component that has a dynamic characteristic that varies among like integrated circuits, for example, among integrated circuits fabricated using the same lithography mask. Operating the first component produces an output that is dependent on the dynamic characteristic of the first component. A digital value associated with the integrated circuit is generated using the output of the first component, and then the generated digital value is used in operation of the integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361811 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904784 | Laprade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Laprade (Palm Bay, Florida); Matthew C. Cobb (W. Melbourne, Florida); Timothy F. Dyson (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A serial concatenated convolutional code (SCCC) decoder is provided. The SCCC decoder includes an input buffer memory one or more processing loop modules, and an output buffer memory. Each processing loop module includes a permutation module, inner decoding engines, a depermutation module, and outer decoding engines. The depermutation module includes a concatenating device and two or more depermutation buffer memories. The concatenating device is configured for writing a codeword segment containing a plurality of soft-decision bits to each of the depermutation buffer memories in a single write operation. The permutation module also includes a concatenating device and two or more permutation buffer memories. The concatenating device is configured for writing a codeword segment containing a plurality of soft-decision bits to each of the depermutation buffer memories in a single write operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685919 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904887 | Franaszek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Franaszek (Mount Kisco, New York); Luis Alfonso Lastras Montaño (Cortland Manor, New York); R. Brett Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of optimizing a computer program includes executing a program including a hint defined as a variable in program and providing within the program, and a marker instruction that receives the hint as a parameter. The marker instruction marks a section of the computer program for a subsequent optimization. During the execution of the computer program, and in response to the marker instruction being executed, a hardware engine monitors data accesses associated with execution of instructions in the marked section and stores the data accesses in the storage of the hint. A subsequent execution of the marked section of the computer program is optimized using the data stored in the storage of the hint. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355357 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904962 | Jajodia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sushil Jajodia (Oakton, Virginia); Steven E. Noel (Dale City, Virginia); Pramod Kalapa (Vienna, Virginia); Brian C. O'Berry (North Potomac, Maryland); Michael A. Jacobs (Tulsa, Oklahoma); Eric B. Robertson (Vienna, Virginia); Robert G. Weierbach (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a system for modeling, analyzing, and responding to network attacks. Machines are mapped to components, components are mapped to vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities are mapped to exploits. Each of the exploits includes at least one precondition mapped to at least one postcondition. An attack graph which defines inter-exploit distances is generated using at least one of the exploits. The attack graph is aggregated. At least one hardening option is determined using the aggregated attack graph. Hardening options include applying at least one corrective measure to at least one initial condition, where the initial condition is the initial state of a precondition. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/371937 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42213 | Dwarkadas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandhya Dwarkadas (Pittsford, New York); Rajeev Balasubramonian (Sandy, Utah); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); David H. Albonesi (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A cache and TLB layout and design leverage repeater insertion to provide dynamic low-cost configurability trading off size and speed on a per application phase basis. A configuration management algorithm dynamically detects phase changes and reacts to an application's hit and miss intolerance in order to improve memory hierarchy performance while taking energy consumption into consideration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/339822 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clement Kleinstreuer (Raleigh, North Carolina); Stefan Seelecke (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A smart inhaler system comprising an inhaler device for directed aerosol delivery facilitated by an adaptive nozzle and a mechanism for inhalation waveform modulation is provided. Methods of using the smart inhaler system for delivering an active agent to a target area of a lung of a subject are further provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510288 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/203.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901364 | Kloepfer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micronix, Inc (Carmel, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans G. Kloepfer (Noblesville, Indiana); Reinhard Hafellner (St. Margarethen, Austria); Charles W. Roach (Richmond Heights, Missouri); Charles Thomeczek (Fishers, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A body fluid testing device includes a body member and a tissue penetrator carried by the body member. A test strip holder is carried by the body member, and a test strip is carried by the test strip holder. The test strip is capable of receiving a body fluid thereon and processing the body fluid into a form suitable for yielding test results relating to the content of the body fluid. The body member, tissue penetrator, test strip holder and test strip are designed for a single use and for disposal as a unit without disassembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/030441 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/583 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901674 | Nichols et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Nichols (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Fischer (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Marjorie S. Read (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Fixed-dried blood cells carrying an active agent are described, along with methods of making the same, methods of using the same, and compositions containing the sane. The blood cells may be red blood cells or blood platelets. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751295 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901686 | Tabin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Imperial Cancer Research Technology Ltd. (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford Tabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Valeria Marigo (Milan, Italy); Philip W. Ingham (Summertown, United Kingdom); Andrew P. McMahon (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the discovery that proteins encoded by a family of vertebrate genes, termed here hedgehog-related genes, comprise morphogenic signals produced by embryonic patterning centers, and are involved in the formation of ordered spatial arrangements of differentiated tissues in vertebrates. The present invention makes available compositions and methods that can be utilized, for example to generate and/or maintain an array of different vertebrate tissue both in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197721 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/158.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901692 | Bakaletz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nationalwide Children's Hospital, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lauren O. Bakaletz (Hilliard, Ohio); Robert S. Munson, Jr. (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a mutation within the sap operon of an avirulent clone of a nontypeable strain of Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi). The invention also relates to the NTHi sap operon genes and the polypeptides encoded by these polynucleotide sequences. The invention also relates to a novel 110 kDa NTHi outer membrane protein and the polynucleotide that encodes this outer membrane protein. Methods of screening for NTHi infection, and treating and preventing NTHi related disorders are also contemplated. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/761074 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/256.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901693 | Gaiger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corixa Corporation (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Gaiger (Vienna, Austria); Martin A Cheever (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for the therapy of malignant diseases, such as leukemia and cancer, are disclosed. The compositions comprise one or more of a WT1 polynucleotide, a WT1 polypeptide, an antigen-presenting cell presenting a WT1 polypeptide, an antibody that specifically binds to a WT1 polypeptide; or a T cell that specifically reacts with a WT1 polypeptide. Such compositions may be used, for example, for the prevention and treatment of metastatic diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/002603 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/277.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901709 | Needham |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Needham (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A liposome contains an active agent and has a gel-phase lipid bilayer membrane comprising phospholipid and a surface active agent. The phospholipids are the primary lipid source for the lipid bilayer membrane and the surface active agent is contained in the bilayer membrane in an amount sufficient to increase the percentage of active agent released at the phase transition temperature of the lipid bilayer, compared to that which would occur in the absence of the surface active agent. The surface active agent is present in the lipid bilayer membrane so as to not destabilize the membrane in the gel phase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/103587 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901878 | Carraway |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E Carraway (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are screening assays for identifying and evaluating compounds with antioxidant and/or antiproliferative activities. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330035 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901881 | Libutti 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); The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven K. Libutti (North Potomac, Maryland); Chiara Mazzanti (Pisa, Italy); Martha Zeiger (Baltimore, Maryland); Christopher Umbricht (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of genes differentially expressed in benign thyroid lesions and malignant thyroid lesions for the diagnosis and staging of thyroid cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/547995 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901891 | Drmanac |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and kits for ordering sequence information derived from one or more target polynucleotides. In one aspect, one or more tiers or levels of fragmentation and aliquoting are generated, after which sequence information is obtained from fragments in a final level or tier. Each fragment in such final tier is from a particular aliquot, which, in turn, is from a particular aliquot of a prior tier, and so on. For every fragment of an aliquot in the final tier, the aliquots from which it was derived at every prior tier is known, or can be discerned. Thus, identical sequences from overlapping fragments from different aliquots can be distinguished and grouped as being derived from the same or different fragments from prior tiers. When the fragments in the final tier are sequenced, overlapping sequence regions of fragments in different aliquots are used to register the fragments so that non-overlapping regions are ordered. In one aspect, this process is carried out in a hierarchical fashion until the one or more target polynucleotides are characterized, e.g. by their nucleic acid sequences, or by an ordering of sequence segments, or by an ordering of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), or the like. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/335168 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901917 | Schimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Schimmel (La Jolla, California); Keisuke Wakasugi (Shizuoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising truncated tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase polypeptides useful for regulating angiogenesis, as well as nucleic acids encoding such tRNA synthetase polypeptides are described. Methods of making and using such compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386428 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901936 | Temple et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sally Temple (Slingerlands, New York); Qin Shen (Delmar, New York); Susan K. Goderie (Ballston Spa, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a mechanism for obtaining an almost unlimited source of stem cells. A method for the expansion of a population of stem cells that retain their developmental capacity comprises co-culture of a stem cell population with a trophic support, for example, endothelial cells or conditioned medium derived from endothelial cell culture. The method also provides a method for enhancing neurogenesis when neural stem cells are co-cultured with the endothelial cell-derived trophic support to retain their neurogenic potential. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/095019 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 07901943 | Regnier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred E. Regnier (West Lafayette, Indiana); Roujian Zhang (Newberry Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for controlling or eliminating isotope effects during fractionation of chemically equivalent but isotopically distinct compounds. Isotope coding agents contain heavy isotopes other than deuterium. The invention facilitates intelligent data acquisition. After sample fractionation, isotope abundance ratios are calculated using mass spectrometry, and analytes of interest are identified in real time. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290784 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 07902147 | Weinberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Brice Weinberg (Durham, North Carolina); Warren J. Strittmatter (Hillsborough, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for identifying a subject afflicted with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who is responsive to treatment with a chemotherapeutic agent by detecting the presence or absence of at least one APOE4 allele in the subject, the presence of an APOE4 allele identifying the subject as responsive to the treatment. Also provided are methods of treating a subject afflicted with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, including administering an estrogenic agent, an androgen withdrawal agent, an apoE4 peptide or mimetic thereof, and/or a chemotherapeutic agent in an amount effective to treat said chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Methods of determining a prognosis for a patient diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia are also provided. In addition, methods for stratifying a subject into a subgroup of a clinical trial and methods for identifying a patient in a clinical trial of a treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia are herein provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/265079 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07902153 | Watkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maren Watkins (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); David R. Hillyard (Salt Lake City, Utah); J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed α-conotoxins herein), about 10-30 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706911 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13 |
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| US 07902166 | Houchen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Courtney Houchen (Edmond, Oklahoma); Shrikant Anant (Edmond, Oklahoma); Sripathi M. Sureban (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Satish Ramalingam (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Dhamalingam Surbramaniam (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Rama P. Ramanujam (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions for inhibiting RNA binding proteins, as well as methods of producing and using the same, are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386550 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07902196 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew G. Myers (Boston, Massachusetts); Seth B. Herzon (New Haven, Connecticut); Jeremy Earle Wulff (Victoria, Canada); Romain Siegrist (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jakub Svenda (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew Allen Zajac (Douglassville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The syntheses of the natural products, avrainvillamide and stephacidin B, are provided. The α,β-unsaturated nitrone functionality of avrainvillamide and its 3-alkylidene-3H-indole 1-oxide core is shown to covalently and reversibly bond to heteroatom-based nucleophiles. This capability may allow these molecules to bind active site nucleophiles and may provide the basis for designing potent and selective enzyme inhibitors. Both avrainvillamide and its dimer stephacidin B have been reported to exhibit antiproliferative activity, and avrainvillamide has been reported to exhibit antimicrobial activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria. Avrainvillamide has been found to target cytoskeleton-linking membrane protein (CLIMP-63) thereby preventing cells from undergoing mitosis. The invention provides syntheses of these natural products as well as analogs of these natural products and their functional cores. The compounds of the invention may be used in the treatment of diseases such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, and bacterial infection. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908901 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/249 |
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| US 07902228 | Wiemer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The United States of America, National Institute of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Wiemer (Iowa City, Iowa); Jeffrey D. Neighbors (Iowa City, Iowa); John A. Beutler (Braddock, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and intermediates for preparing enantiomerically enriched Schweinfurthin analogs which are useful for the treatment of cancer, as well as novel Schweinfurthin analogs having anti-cancer activity, compositions comprising such analogs and therapeutic methods comprising administering such analogs. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025617 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/337 |
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| US 07902257 | Petasis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods for the preparation of naturally occurring trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoids and their structural analogs. The invention further provides new derivatives and analogs of trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoids that can be prepared according to these methods. The invention also provides compositions and methods using trihydroxy polyunsaturated eicosanoid derivatives for the prevention, amelioration and treatment of a variety of diseases or conditions associated with inflammation or inflammatory response, autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, or abnormal cell proliferation or cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/469423 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/549 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902272 | Ben-Moshe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of High Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matti Ben-Moshe (Reut, Israel); Sanford A. Asher (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Justin J. Bohn (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present disclosure is directed towards a new film forming paint that Bragg diffracts light in the visible and NIR spectral regions. The paint may be comprised of highly charged polymer spheres that self assemble and maintain their diffraction in the presence of the different ingredients of the paint formulation, so that the self assembled arrays diffract light in both wet and dry states. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to a process for making highly charged polymeric spheres. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to the highly charged polymeric spheres themselves. The high surface charge density of the spheres enables the stability and self assembly of the spheres in the presence of the other paint ingredients. These spheres can find useful practical applications in paints, inks, coatings, cosmetics and light filtering applications. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818778 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902330 | Lawrence |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Lawrence (Hartsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibitors of protein kinase C (PKC)α, PKCδ and PKCζ are provided which are selective for those PKC isotypes. Combinatorial libraries for identifying protein kinases are also provided, as are methods of identifying protein kinases using those libraries. Additionally, methods of treating a mammal having a deleterious condition, where the condition is dependent on a protein kinase for induction or severity, are provided. Methods of inhibiting protein kinases are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/589029 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
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| US 07902339 | Rock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Rock (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Dancella Fernandes (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies that bind to a 40 kDa protein which is expressed on tumors, but is not expressed on normal adult hemopoietic cells are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for production and the use of such antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, July 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/491500 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902341 | Clevenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Clevenger (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Michael A. Rycyzyn (Paoli, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions containing cyclophilin B, mutants of cyclophilin B or inhibitors of cyclophilin B and methods of using these compositions to modulate somatolactogenic function are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487623 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902343 | Bacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery W. Bacher (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura Flanagan (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin); Nadine Nassif (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are disclosed for use in the analysis of microsatellite instability in genomic DNA. Methods and kits are also disclosed which can be used to detect microsatellite instability DNA present in biological materials, such as tumors. The methods and kits of the present invention can be used to detect or diagnose diseases associated with microsatellite instability, such as certain types of cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/109775 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
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| US 07902348 | O'Shea et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. O'Shea (Silver Spring, Maryland); Warren J. Leonard (Bethesda, Maryland); James A. Johnston (Middletown, Maryland); Sarah M. Russell (Kensington, Maryland); Daniel W. McVicar (Charles Town, West Virginia); Masaru Kawamura (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated polynucleotide encodes JAK-3 protein. JAK-3 protein is a protein tyrosine kinase having a molecular weight of approximately 125 kDa which has tandem non-identical catalytic domains, lacks SH2 or SH3 domains, and is expressed in NK cells and stimulated or transformed T cells, but not in resting T cells. The protein itself and antibodies to this protein are also presented. Further, methods of identifying therapeutic agents for modulating the immune system make use of the foregoing. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/354668 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902351 | Kaspar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SomaGenics Inc. (Santa Cruz, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger L. Kaspar (Santa Cruz, California); Heini Ilves (Santa Cruz, California); Attila A. Seyhan (Lafayette, Colorado); Alexander V. Vlassov (Santa Cruz, California); Brian H. Johnston (Scotts Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods, compositions, and kits comprising small interfering RNA (shRNA or siRNA) that are useful for inhibition of viral-mediated gene expression. Small interfering RNAs as described herein can be used in methods of treatment of HCV infection. ShRNA and siRNA constructs targetING the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) sequence of HCV are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444901 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902353 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Jing Li (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for the sensitive and selective detection of ions using nucleic acid enzymes. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/674042 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902422 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongwei Guo (Beijing, China PRC); Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transgenic plants having reduced sensitivity to ethylene as a result of having a recombinant nucleic acid encoding an F-box protein that interacts with a EIN3 involved in an ethylene response of plants, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with reduced ethylene sensitivity by transforming the plant with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an F-box protein. The inventions also relates to methods of altering the ethylene response in a plant by modulating the activity or expression of an F-box protein. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643033 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902441 | Ji et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas (Austin, Texas); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lin Ji (Sugar Land, Texas); John Dorrance Minna (Dallas, Texas); Jack Roth (Houston, Texas); Michael Lerman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Tumor suppressor genes play a major role in the pathogenesis of human lung cancer and other cancers. Cytogenetic and allelotyping studies of fresh tumor and tumor-derived cell lines showed that cytogenetic changes and allele loss on the short arm of chromosome 3 (3p) are most frequently involved in about 90% of small cell lung cancers and greater than 50% of non-small cell lung cancers. A group of recessive oncogenes, Fus1, 101F6, Gene 21 (NPRL2), Gene 26 (CACNA2D2), Luca 1 (HYAL1), Luca 2 (HYAL2), PL6, 123F2 (RaSSFI), SEM A3 and Beta* (BLU), as defined by homozygous deletions in lung cancers, have been located and isolated at 3p21.3. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/445718 |
| 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 | Nanotechnology 977/916 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902825 | Bammer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roland Bammer (Palo Alto, California); Murat Aksoy (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In tensor MRI, a set of k-space MRI data points is acquired that includes one or more k-space subsets of MRI data points. An object orientation (or spatial transformation) corresponding to each of the k-space subsets is determined. Because the object orientation (or spatial transformation) can differ from subset to subset, the overall set of k-space data can be inconsistent with respect to object orientation (or spatial transformation). This possible inconsistency can be addressed by providing a k-space tensor model that includes object orientation and/or spatial transformation information corresponding to each of the subsets. A tensor MRI image can be reconstructed from the set of k-space MRI data points by using the k-space tensor model to account for object orientation and/or spatial transformation. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454530 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903256 | Sarunic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marinko V. Sarunic (Durham, North Carolina); Brian E. Applegate (Durham, North Carolina); Joseph A. Izatt (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing real-time quadrature projection based FDOCT are disclosed. According to one method, a plurality of interferogram signals is phase shifted. A Fourier transform is applied to each of the plurality of interferogram signals. Depth dependence of the plurality of transformed interferogram signals is then removed. A real quadrature component and an imaginary quadrature component for each of the plurality of transformed interferogram signals are subsequently calculated. The real quadrature components of the transformed interferogram signals are combined to obtain a derived real component and the imaginary quadrature components of the transformed interferogram signals are combined to obtain a derived imaginary component. A full-range depth profile of the object is constructed by adding the derived real component to the product of the derived imaginary component and a scaling factor. A full-range depth image of the object is then generated using the full-range depth profile. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725167 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald N. Miles (Newark Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A miniature microphone comprising a diaphragm compliantly suspended over an enclosed air volume having a vent port is provided, wherein an effective stiffness of the diaphragm with respect to displacement by acoustic vibrations is controlled principally by the enclosed air volume and the port. The microphone may be formed using silicon microfabrication techniques and has sensitivity to sound pressure substantially unrelated to the size of the diaphragm over a broad range of realistic sizes. The diaphragm is rotatively suspend for movement through an arc in response to acoustic vibrations, for example by beams or tabs, and has a surrounding perimeter slit separating the diaphragm from its support structure. The air volume behind the diaphragm provides a restoring spring force for the diaphragm. The microphone's sensitivity is related to the air volume, perimeter slit, and stiffness of the diaphragm and its mechanical supports, and not the area of the diaphragm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550702 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/355 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904135 | Menezes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nina Menezes (Boston, Massachusetts); Alma Gregory Sorensen (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Diffusion weighted images and perfusion weighted images are acquired with an MRI system and used to produce low b, DWI, ADC, CBV, CBF, and MTT images of brain tissues following an ischemic event. These MRI physiological measurements are input along with a spatial location measurement to a generalized linear model that predicts the outcome of tissues surrounding a lesion. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417769 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904148 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Jordan Neysmith (Canyon Country, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package, that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, such as for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/517860 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
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| US 07904163 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The artificial percept of light may be created by electrically stimulating the neurons of the retina. While a photolithographed array internal to the retina provides superior resolution, an array external to the retina provides easier implantation and improved manufacturability. Therefore it is advantageous to supply a high-resolution electrode array internal to the sclera, near the fovea and a lower-resolution electrode array eternal to the sclera near the periphery of the retina. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418677 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904164 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark Humayan (Glendale, California); James Little (Saugus, California); Kevin Wilkin (Valencia, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California); Rajat Agrawal (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a retinal prosthesis with an inductive coil mounted to the side of the eye by means of a strap around the eye. This allows for close coupling to an external coil and movement of the entire implanted portion with movement of the eye ball. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877299 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Alman (Corvallis, Oregon); Rick D. Wilson (Corvallis, Oregon); Daniel L. Davis (Albany, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for producing components with internal architectures, and more particularly, this invention relates to a method for producing structures with microchannels via the use of diffusion bonding of stacked laminates. Specifically, the method involves weakly bonding a stack of laminates forming internal voids and channels with a first generally low uniaxial pressure and first temperature such that bonding at least between the asperites of opposing laminates occurs and pores are isolated in interfacial contact areas, followed by a second generally higher isostatic pressure and second temperature for final bonding. The method thereby allows fabrication of micro-channel devices such as heat exchangers, recuperators, heat-pumps, chemical separators, chemical reactors, fuel processing units, and combustors without limitation on the fin aspect ratio. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/394084 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/228 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901182 | Liang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Liang (Palm City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine blade having a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall connected at chordally spaced leading and trailing edges to define a cooling cavity. Pressure and suction side inner walls extend radially within the cooling cavity and define pressure and suction side near wall chambers. A plurality of mid-chord channels extend radially from a radially intermediate location on the blade to a tip passage at the blade tip for connecting the pressure side and suction side near wall chambers in fluid communication with the tip passage. In addition, radially extending leading edge and trailing edge flow channels are located adjacent to the leading and trailing edges, respectively, and cooling fluid flows in a triple-pass serpentine path as it flows through the leading edge flow channel, the near wall chambers and the trailing edge flow channel. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804434 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901475 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A diesel particulate filter assembly comprises a diesel particulate filter (DPF) and a heater assembly. The DPF filters a particulate from exhaust produced by an engine. The heater assembly has a first metallic layer that is applied to the DPF, a resistive layer that is applied to the first metallic layer, and a second metallic layer that is applied to the resistive layer. The second metallic layer is etched to form a plurality of zones. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052057 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/282.300 |
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| US 07901488 | Rochelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary T. Rochelle (Austin, Texas); Babatunde A. Oyenekan (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon dioxide and other acid gases are removed from gaseous streams using aqueous absorption and stripping processes. By replacing the conventional stripper used to regenerate the aqueous solvent and capture the acid gas with a matrix stripping configuration, less energy is consumed. The matrix stripping configuration uses two or more reboiled strippers at different pressures. The rich feed from the absorption equipment is split among the strippers, and partially regenerated solvent from the highest pressure stripper flows to the middle of sequentially lower pressure strippers in a “matrix” pattern. By selecting certain parameters of the matrix stripping configuration such that the total energy required by the strippers to achieve a desired percentage of acid gas removal from the gaseous stream is minimized, further energy savings can be realized. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865853 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901623 | Miles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin R. Miles (Danville, California); William J. Benett (Livermore, California); Matthew A. Coleman (Oakland, California); Francesca S. Pearson (Livermore, California); Shanavaz L. Nasarabadi (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A lateral flow strip assay apparatus comprising a housing; a lateral flow strip in the housing, the lateral flow strip having a receiving portion; a sample collection unit; and a reagent reservoir. Saliva and/or buccal cells are collected from an individual using the sample collection unit. The sample collection unit is immersed in the reagent reservoir. The tip of the lateral flow strip is immersed in the reservoir and the reagent/sample mixture wicks up into the lateral flow strip to perform the assay. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/528286 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901661 | Lueking et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela Lueking (State College, Pennsylvania); Deepa Narayanan (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for making a hydrogenated carbon material is provided which includes forming a mixture of a carbon source, particularly a carbonaceous material, and a hydrogen source. The mixture is reacted under reaction conditions such that hydrogen is generated and/or released from the hydrogen source, an amorphous diamond-like carbon is formed, and at least a portion of the generated and/or released hydrogen associates with the amorphous diamond-like carbon, thereby forming a hydrogenated carbon material. A hydrogenated carbon material including a hydrogen carbon clathrate is characterized by evolution of molecular hydrogen at room temperature at atmospheric pressure in particular embodiments of methods and compositions according to the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613999 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/648.100 |
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| US 07901820 | Mergler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Mergler (West Henrietta, New York); Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Gary D. Blake (Penfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fueling a solid oxide fuel cell stack is provided. The method includes passing a first portion of hydrocarbon fuel through a catalytic hydrocarbon reformer to generate a first reformate. The first reformate is passed through a hydrocarbon cracker to generate a second reformate such that a portion of any non-reformed hydrocarbon fuel in the first reformate is converted to methane. The second reformate is supplied to the fuel cell stack. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080589 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/423 |
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| US 07901830 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Brookfield, Illinois); Robert J. Klingler (Glenview, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention relates a solid-state electrochemical cell and a novel separator/electrolyte incorporated therein. A preferred embodiment of the invented electrochemical cell generally comprises a unique metal oxyhydroxide based (i.e. AlOOH) separator/electrolyte membrane sandwiched between a first electrode and a second electrode. A preferred novel separator/electrolyte comprises a nanoparticulate metal oxyhydroxide, preferably AlOOH and a salt which are mixed and then pressed together to form a monolithic metal oxyhydroxide-salt membrane. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870003 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901837 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig P. Jacobson (Lafayette, California); Steven J. Visco (Berkeley, California); Lutgard C. De Jonghe (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The process described herein provides a simple and cost effective method for making crack free, high density thin ceramic film. The steps involve depositing a layer of a ceramic material on a porous or dense substrate. The deposited layer is compacted and then the resultant laminate is sintered to achieve a higher density than would have been possible without the pre-firing compaction step. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567056 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901940 | Shore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF Corporation (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Shore (Edison, New Jersey); Ramail Matlin (Berkeley, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for measuring the concentration of a catalytic clement in a fuel cell powder. The method includes depositing on a porous substrate at least one layer of a powder mixture comprising the fuel cell powder and an internal standard material, ablating a sample of the powder mixture using a laser, and vaporizing the sample using an inductively coupled plasma. A normalized concentration of catalytic element in the sample is determined by quantifying the intensity of a first signal correlated to the amount of catalytic element in the sample, quantifying the intensity of a second signal correlated to the amount of internal standard material in the sample, and using a ratio of the first signal intensity to the second signal intensity to cancel out the effects of sample size. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134543 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902047 | Kulkarni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nagraj S. Kulkarni (Knoxville, Tennessee); Richard J. Kasica (Ashburn, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual-chamber reactor can include a housing enclosing a volume having a divider therein, where the divider defines a first chamber and a second chamber. The divider can include a substrate holder that supports at least one substrate and exposes a first side of the substrate to the first chamber and a second side of the substrate to the second chamber. The first chamber can include an inlet for delivering at least one reagent to the first chamber for forming a film on the first side of the substrate, and the second chamber can include a removal device for removing material from the second side of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180280 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902049 | Guha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Solar Ovonic LLC (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhendu Guha (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Chi C. Yang (Troy, Michigan); Baojie Yan (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the plasma deposition of a layer of a microcrystalline semiconductor material is carried out by energizing a process gas which includes a precursor of the semiconductor material and a diluent with electromagnetic energy so as to create a plasma therefrom. The plasma deposits a layer of the microcrystalline semiconductor material onto the substrate. The concentration of the diluent in the process gas is varied as a function of the thickness of the layer of microcrystalline semiconductor material which has been deposited. Also disclosed is the use of the process for the preparation of an N-I-P type photovoltaic device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/765435 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902120 | Rupich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | American Superconductor Corporation (Devens, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin W. Rupich (Framingham, Massachusetts); Wei Zhang (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Yibing Huang (Northborough, Massachusetts); Xiaoping Li (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Superconductor wires or layers having improved properties and methods for making the same are described. The superconducting layer includes a rare earth element-alkaline earth element-transition metal oxide having an average stacking fault density that is greater than about 0.01 nm−1, wherein two or more rare earth cations form the rare earth element. To form the superconductor layer of the present invention, a layer having a rare earth element-alkaline earth element-transition metal oxide substantially in a first crystal structure can be provided to a substrate where two or more rare earth cations form the rare earth element. The layer can then be heated at a temperature that is greater than 550° C. under oxidizing conditions to form a high-temperature superconducting layer substantially in a second crystal structure. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880533 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902299 | Kerr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Borland Kerr (Oakland, California); Shanger Wang (Fairfield, California); Jun Hou (Painted Post, New York); Steven Edward Sloop (Berkeley, California); Yong Bong Han (Berkeley, California); Gao Liu (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Single ion conductors comprising polymer electrolytes prepared by grafting a salt compound onto a comb-branch polymer or dendrimer are disclosed having superior properties. |
| FILED | Monday, September 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/230709 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902301 | Kempe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BRP Manufacturing Company (Lima, Ohio); Alliance For Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D Kempe (Littleton, Colorado); Prem Thapa (Lima, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions suitable for use as encapsulants are described. The inventive compositions include a high molecular weight polymeric material, a curing agent, an inorganic compound, and a coupling agent. Optional elements include adhesion promoting agents, colorants, antioxidants, and UV absorbers. The compositions have desirable diffusivity properties, making them suitable for use in devices in which a substantial blocking of moisture ingress is desired, such as photovoltaic (PV) modules. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131211 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902422 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongwei Guo (Beijing, China PRC); Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transgenic plants having reduced sensitivity to ethylene as a result of having a recombinant nucleic acid encoding an F-box protein that interacts with a EIN3 involved in an ethylene response of plants, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with reduced ethylene sensitivity by transforming the plant with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an F-box protein. The inventions also relates to methods of altering the ethylene response in a plant by modulating the activity or expression of an F-box protein. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643033 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902503 | Teruya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Teruya (Livermore, California); John W. Elmer (Danville, California); Todd A. Palmer (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A diagnostic system for characterization of an electron beam or an ion beam includes an electrical conducting disk of refractory material having a circumference, a center, and a Faraday cup assembly positioned to receive the electron beam or ion beam. At least one slit in the disk provides diagnostic characterization of the electron beam or ion beam. The at least one slit is located between the circumference and the center of the disk and includes a radial portion that is in radial alignment with the center and a portion that deviates from radial alignment with the center. The electron beam or ion beam is directed onto the disk and translated to the at least one slit wherein the electron beam or ion beam enters the at least one slit for providing diagnostic characterization of the electron beam or ion beam. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188398 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902510 | Mann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas R. Mann (Rigby, Idaho); Tedd E. Lister (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Troy J. Tranter (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Radionuclide detection devices comprise a fluid cell comprising a flow channel for a fluid stream. A radionuclide collector is positioned within the flow channel and configured to concentrate one or more radionuclides from the fluid stream onto at least a portion of the radionuclide collector. A scintillator for generating scintillation pulses responsive to an occurrence of a decay event is positioned proximate at least a portion of the radionuclide collector and adjacent to a detection system for detecting the scintillation pulses. Methods of selectively detecting a radionuclide are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268559 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902517 | Ianakiev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiril D. Ianakiev (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Peter B. Littlewood (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Krastan B. Blagoev (Arlington, Virginia); Martyn T. Swinhoe (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James L. Smith (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Clair J. Sullivan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Boian S. Alexandrov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Jason Charles Lashley (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector has a compound of lithium in a single crystal form as a neutron sensor element. The lithium compound, containing improved charge transport properties, is either lithium niobate or lithium tantalate. The sensor element is in direct contact with a monitor that detects an electric current. A signal proportional to the electric current is produced and is calibrated to indicate the neutrons sensed. The neutron detector is particularly useful for detecting neutrons in a radiation environment. Such radiation environment may, e.g. include gamma radiation and noise. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/141160 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902526 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daekeun Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter T. C. So (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system is provided that includes a optical pulse generator for providing an optical pulse having a spectral bandwidth and includes monochromatic waves having different wavelengths. A dispersive element receives a second optical pulse associated with the optical pulse and disperses the second optical pulse at different angles on the surface of the dispersive element depending on wavelength. One or more focal elements receives the dispersed second optical pulse produced on the dispersive element. The one or more focal element recombine the dispersed second optical pulse at a focal plane on a specimen where the width of the optical pulse is restored at the focal plane. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431254 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/492.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902688 | Krivcov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Krivcov (Miass, Russian Federation); Vladimir Krivospitski (Miass, Russian Federation); Vasili Maksimov (Miass, Russian Federation); Richard Halstead (Rohnert Park, California); Jurij Grahov (Miass, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical axis wind turbine is described. The wind turbine can include a top ring, a middle ring and a lower ring, wherein a plurality of vertical airfoils are disposed between the rings. For example, three vertical airfoils can be attached between the upper ring and the middle ring. In addition, three more vertical airfoils can be attached between the lower ring and the middle ring. When wind contacts the vertically arranged airfoils the rings begin to spin. By connecting the rings to a center pole which spins an alternator, electricity can be generated from wind. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937370 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and systems for the storage and recovery of energy using open-air hydraulic-pneumatic accumulator and intensifier arrangements that combine at least one accumulator and at least one intensifier in communication with a high-pressure gas storage reservoir on a gas-side of the circuits and a combination fluid motor/pump, coupled to a combination electric generator/motor on the fluid side of the circuits. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/945398 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900518 | Tai et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Po-Jui Chen (Pasadena, California); Damien C. Rodger (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable capacitor, a microfabricated implantable pressure sensor including a variable capacitor and an inductor, and related pressure measurement and implantation methods. The inductor may have a fixed or variable inductance. A variable capacitor and pressure sensors include a flexible member that is disposed on a substrate and defines a chamber. Capacitor elements extend indirectly from the flexible member. Sufficient fluidic pressure applied to an exterior surface of the flexible member causes the flexible member to move or deform, thus causing the capacitance and/or inductance to change. Resulting changes in resonant frequency or impedance can be detected to determine pressure, e.g., intraocular pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847262 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900625 | Kleinstreuer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clement Kleinstreuer (Raleigh, North Carolina); Stefan Seelecke (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A smart inhaler system comprising an inhaler device for directed aerosol delivery facilitated by an adaptive nozzle and a mechanism for inhalation waveform modulation is provided. Methods of using the smart inhaler system for delivering an active agent to a target area of a lung of a subject are further provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510288 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/203.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901357 | Boctor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emad M. Boctor (Baltimore, Maryland); Michael Choti (Glen Arm, Maryland); Gabor Fichtinger (Bethesda, Maryland); Russell Taylor (Severna Park, Maryland); Jerry L. Prince (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic 5D ultrasound system and method, for use in a computer integrated surgical system, wherein 3D ultrasonic image data is integrated over time with strain (i.e., elasticity) image data. By integrating the ultrasound image data and the strain image data, the present invention is capable of accurately identifying a target tissue in surrounding tissue; segmenting, monitoring and tracking the target tissue during the surgical procedure; and facilitating proper planning and execution of the surgical procedure, even where the surgical environment is noisy and the target tissue is isoechoic. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895397 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901660 | Xie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rong-Cai Xie (Anqing, China PRC); Jian-Ku Shang (Mahomet, Illinois); Pinggui Wu (Tonawanda, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A quaternary oxide includes a dopant metal, a dopant nonmetal, titanium, and oxygen. The atomic ratio of titanium, oxygen and dopant nonmetal may be 1:0.5-1.99:0.01-1.5. Quaternary oxides may be used in catalytic compositions, in coatings for disinfecting surfaces and in coatings for self-cleaning surfaces. A method of making a quaternary oxide includes combining ingredients including a titanium source, a dopant nonmetal source, a dopant metal salt, and a polar organic solvent to form a reaction mixture; and heating the reaction mixture. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/615711 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/598 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901924 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); George Nelson Bennett (Houston, Texas); Ravishankar V. Vadali (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of increasing the cellular pool of A-CoA and thus driving the metabolic pathways in the direction of A-CoA containing metabolites by overexpressing rate limiting enzymes in A-CoA synthesis. Methods of increasing intracellular levels of CoA and A-CoA through genetic engineering of bacterial strains in conjunction with supplementation with precursor molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340349 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901937 | Srienc et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Friedrich Srienc (Lake Elmo, Minnesota); Abdelqader Zamamiri (Little Canada, Minnesota); Nicholas R. Abu-Absi (Minneapolis, Minnesota); James A. Kacmar (Lauderdale, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A continuous flow bioreactor system that includes a bioreactor, an optional post-bioreactor preparation chamber, a cell sorter, and an optional pre-bioreactor preparation chamber in a closed loop, useful for enriching a heterogeneous cell population growing in the bioreactor with an isolated subpopulation of cells. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/264044 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902275 | Gerhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rosario A. Gerhardt (Marietta, Georgia); Runqing Ou (Roswell, Georgia); Zhi Li (Bangkok, Thailand); Robert J. Samuels (Atlanta, Georgia); Charles J. Capozzi (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite materials are disclosed having low filler percolation thresholds for filler materials into the composite matrix material along with methods of controlling filler interconnectivity within the composite matrix material. Methods are, thus, disclosed that provide the ability to control the desired properties of the composites. The composites of the present disclosure are characterized by a “pseudo-crystalline” microstructure formed of matrix particles and filler particles where the matrix particles are faceted and substantially retain their individual particle boundaries and where the filler particles are interspersed between the matrix particles at the individual matrix particle boundaries such that the filler particles form a substantially interconnected network that substantially surrounds the individual faceted matrix particles. In an exemplary embodiment, the composites are formed by selecting matrix particles and filler particles wherein the ratio of the average size of the matrix particles to the average size of the filler particles is about 10 or more. The selected matrix particles exhibit a glass transition temperature. The matrix particles and the filler particles are mechanically mixed and then subjected to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the matrix particles and a compression pressure for a period of time sufficient to cause the matrix particles to undergo deformation so as to compress them together eliminating void spaces between the particles without melting the matrix material. The method is also demonstrated to work in combination with more standard art methods such as solution mixing for the purposes of achieving additional control of the properties. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/785711 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902321 | Sogah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dotsevi Y. Sogah (Ithaca, New York); Jianbo Di (Evansville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Silicate anchored multifunctional initiator has moiety initiating ring opening living polymerization of lactone or ethylene oxide or cyclic siloxane monomer and other moiety for initiating living free radical polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomer. The monomers are reacted with the initiator in a one-pot, one-step reaction to cause living polymerization of both monomers and exfoliation of silicate layers to provide dispersed block copolymer silicate nanocomposite, with the junction of the two blocks being anchored to silicate layer and each block dangling therefrom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665157 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902389 | Nolan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Nolan (St Andrews, United Kingdom); Jinkun Huang (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalytic complexes including a metal atom having anionic ligands, at least one nucleophilic carbine ligand, and an alkylidene, vinylidene, or allenylidene ligand. The complexes are highly stable to air, moisture and thermal degradation. The complexes are designed to efficiently carry out a variety of olefin metathesis reactions. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622225 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902417 | Goldman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan S. Goldman (Highland Park, New Jersey); Maurice Brookhart (Carrboro, North Carolina); Amy H. Roy (Laurel, Maryland); Ritu Ahuja (Highland Park, New Jersey); Zheng Huang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of converting at least one first alkane to a mixture of at least one low molecular weight alkane (optionally also including additional lower and/or higher molecular weight alkanes) and at least one high molecular weight alkane, comprising: reacting a first alkane in the presence of dual catalyst system comprising a first catalyst (i.e., a hydrogen transfer catalyst and preferably an iridium pincer complex catalyst) and a second catalyst (i.e., a metathesis catalyst) to produce a mixture of low and high molecular weight alkanes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482324 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/656 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902422 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongwei Guo (Beijing, China PRC); Joseph R. Ecker (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to transgenic plants having reduced sensitivity to ethylene as a result of having a recombinant nucleic acid encoding an F-box protein that interacts with a EIN3 involved in an ethylene response of plants, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with reduced ethylene sensitivity by transforming the plant with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an F-box protein. The inventions also relates to methods of altering the ethylene response in a plant by modulating the activity or expression of an F-box protein. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643033 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902453 | Dutta |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Partha Dutta (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Edge illumination photovoltaic devices based on multicomponent semiconductors and low cost methods for fabricating such devices are provided. The photovoltaic devices can find application in a variety of photovoltaic and thermophotovoltaic systems including solar concentrator based systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493921 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald E. David (Broomfield, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides charged particle energy deflectors, analyzers, devices, device components and methods for terminating charged particle systems and electrically isolating device components. One embodiment of the present invention provides a transparent field termination system for a cylindrical charged particle deflector that is capable of providing an electric field that closely approximates the substantially logarithmically varying electric field of the deflector. The present invention also provides multichannel charged particle analyzers and multichannel EEL spectrometers capable of measuring charged particle energy distributions, including electron energy distributions, with enhanced resolution and sensitivity compared to conventional analyzers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092314 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902569 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niu Jin (San Jose, California); Paul R. Berger (Columbus, Ohio); Philip E. Thompson (Sprinfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Some disclosed interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers including layers selected from a group consisting of silicon, germanium, and alloys of silicon and germanium, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers is tensile strained. Some disclosed resonant interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers including layers selected from a group consisting of silicon, germanium, and alloys of silicon and germanium, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers defines a barrier to non-resonant tunnel current. Some disclosed interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers is tensile strained. Some disclosed resonant interband tunneling diodes comprise a plurality of substantially coherently strained layers, wherein at least one of said substantially coherently strained layers defines a barrier to non-resonant tunnel current. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/175114 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902635 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenqiang Ma (Middleton, Wisconsin); Ningyue Jiang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved radio frequency gain in a silicon-based bipolar transistor may be provided by adoption of a common-base configuration, preferably together with excess doping of the base to provide extremely low base resistances boosting performance over similar common-emitter designs. |
| FILED | Monday, July 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/178644 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902744 | Lonergan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Lonergan (Eugene, Oregon); Calvin H. W. Cheng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Dean H. Johnston (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure for high performance light emitting electrochemical cells comprises at least two active layers of mixed ionic/electronic conducting materials, at least one of which is electroluminescent. The active layers are sandwiched between ion blocking electrodes, typically metal and/or transparent conducting oxide, that are electrically but not ionically conductive. Application of bias to the electrodes results in the polarization of ions at the electrodes thereby generating a field to drive the injection of electronic carriers into the active layer. The injected electron and holes recombine within the active layers to emit light. The ability to balance electron and hole injection in the design of such devices provides for optimal light emission efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002330 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903970 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guanglei Liu (Atlanta, Georgia); Chuanyi Ji (Smyrna, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of optical network evaluation systems and methods are disclosed. One system embodiment, among others, comprises a processor configured with logic to provide a cross layer model of disturbance propagation in an optical network based on a combination of a physical layer model and a network layer model, the physical layer mode based on the disturbance propagation having a threshold effect only on nodes along a route followed by the disturbance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/694039 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904086 | Kundu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sumantra R. Kundu (Arlington, Texas); Sourav Pal (Arlington, Texas); Kalyan Basu (Plano, Texas); Sajal K Das (Denton, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer program are provided for handing off a mobile device in communication with a first wireless system having a first network address to one or more other wireless systems within communication range of the mobile device. The method and computer program include periodically monitoring by the mobile device of communications from the first wireless system and the other wireless systems, calculating a signal strength associated with each of the monitored communications, selecting one of the other wireless systems, and transferring communication to the selected wireless system upon detection of a predetermined threshold of the signal strength associated with the first wireless system. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/541886 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904283 | Merz, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth M. Merz, Jr. (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Kaushik Raha (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the first time a quantum mechanics-based method for scoring protein-ligand interactions and binding affinity predictions, using quantum mechanical Hamiltonians and/or a combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical approach, and Poisson-Boltzmann (PB)-based solvation methods. Also provided is a method for using quantum mechanics to describe the enthalpic and solvation effects of binding. The method comprises comparing the calculated binding affinities to experimental values in order to measure the success of the method. The methods disclosed herein may further be used to score protein and drug or protein and inhibitor interactions. The present method can predict the free energy of binding of protein-ligand complexes with high accuracy so as to enable lead optimization, thus serving as a powerful tool in computational drug design. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844258 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42213 | Dwarkadas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandhya Dwarkadas (Pittsford, New York); Rajeev Balasubramonian (Sandy, Utah); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); David H. Albonesi (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A cache and TLB layout and design leverage repeater insertion to provide dynamic low-cost configurability trading off size and speed on a per application phase basis. A configuration management algorithm dynamically detects phase changes and reacts to an application's hit and miss intolerance in order to improve memory hierarchy performance while taking energy consumption into consideration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/339822 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07900434 | Grayson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Grayson (Huntington Beach, California); Mark W. Henley (Topanga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An oxygen-hydrogen pressurization system includes a cryogenic oxygen tank, cryogenic hydrogen tank, thermal switch, supercritical oxygen bottle, supercritical hydrogen bottle, and pressure management system and a thermodynamic vent system. The thermal switch permits heat to flow between hot and cool areas within the space vehicle to help facilitate pressure management within the cryogenic liquid oxygen tank and the cryogenic liquid hydrogen tank in conjunction with the higher pressure fluid from the supercritical oxygen tank and the fluid from the supercritical hydrogen tank and the added cooling from the pressure management system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641908 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07900436 | Greene |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William D. Greene (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An augmented expander cycle rocket engine includes first and second turbopumps for respectively pumping fuel and oxidizer. A gas-generator receives a first portion of fuel output from the first turbopump and a first portion of oxidizer output from the second turbopump to ignite and discharge heated gas. A heat exchanger close-coupled to the gas-generator receives in a first conduit the discharged heated gas, and transfers heat to an adjacent second conduit carrying fuel exiting the cooling passages of a primary combustion chamber. Heat is transferred to the fuel passing through the cooling passages. The heated fuel enters the second conduit of the heat exchanger to absorb more heat from the first conduit, and then flows to drive a turbine of one or both of the turbopumps. The arrangement prevents the turbopumps exposure to combusted gas that could freeze in the turbomachinery and cause catastrophic failure upon attempted engine restart. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780626 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901611 | Wincheski |
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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) | Russell A. Wincheski (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospinning system using a spinneret and a counter electrode is first operated for a fixed amount of time at known system and operational parameters to generate a fiber mat having a measured fiber mat width associated therewith. Next, acceleration of the fiberizable material at the spinneret is modeled to determine values of mass, drag, and surface tension associated with the fiberizable material at the spinneret output. The model is then applied in an inversion process to generate predicted values of an electric charge at the spinneret output and an electric field between the spinneret and electrode required to fabricate a selected fiber mat design. The electric charge and electric field are indicative of design values for system and operational parameters needed to fabricate the selected fiber mat design. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274652 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902815 | Woodard 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) | Stanley E. Woodard (Hampton, Virginia); Bryant D. Taylor (Smithfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless system for collecting data indicative of a tire's characteristics uses at least one open-circuit electrical conductor in a tire. The conductor is shaped such that it can store electrical and magnetic energy. In the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, the conductor resonates to generate a harmonic response having a frequency, amplitude and bandwidth. A magnetic field response recorder is used to (i) wirelessly transmit the time-varying magnetic field to the conductor, and (ii) wirelessly detect the harmonic response and the frequency, amplitude and bandwidth, associated therewith. The recorder is adapted to be positioned in a location that is fixed with respect to the tire as the tire rotates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856807 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902943 | Sherrit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stewart Sherrit (La Crescenta, California); Yoseph Bar-Cohen (Seal Beach, California); Xiaoqi Bao (San Gabriel, California); Benjamin Doty (Pasadena, California); Mircea Badescu (Arcadia, California); Zensheu Chang (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment provides electrical energy from a source on one side of a medium to a load on the other side of the medium, the embodiment including a first piezoelectric to generate acoustic energy in response to electrical energy from the source, and a second piezoelectric to convert the received acoustic energy to electrical energy used by the load. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082300 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903907 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong-Lae Park (Stanford, California); Behzad Moslehi (Los Altos, California); Richard James Black (Menlo Park, California); Mark R. Cutkosky (Palo Alto, California); Kelvin K Chau (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for force is formed from an elastomeric cylinder having a region with apertures. The apertures have passageways formed between them, and an optical fiber is introduced into these passageways, where the optical fiber has a grating for measurement of tension positioned in the passageways between apertures. Optionally, a temperature measurement sensor is placed in or around the elastomer for temperature correction, and if required, a copper film may be deposited in the elastomer for reduced sensitivity to spot temperature variations in the elastomer near the sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100417 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904282 | Goebel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai Frank Goebel (Mountain View, California); Rajesh Venkat Subbu (Clifton Park, New York); Randal Thomas Rausch (Ballston Spa, New York); Dean Kimball Frederick (Saratoga Springs, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for multi-objective fault accommodation using predictive modeling is disclosed. The method includes using a simulated machine that simulates a faulted actual machine, and using a simulated controller that simulates an actual controller. A multi-objective optimization process is performed, based on specified control settings for the simulated controller and specified operational scenarios for the simulated machine controlled by the simulated controller, to generate a Pareto frontier-based solution space relating performance of the simulated machine to settings of the simulated controller, including adjustment to the operational scenarios to represent a fault condition of the simulated machine. Control settings of the actual controller are adjusted, represented by the simulated controller, for controlling the actual machine, represented by the simulated machine, in response to a fault condition of the actual machine, based on the Pareto frontier-based solution space, to maximize desirable operational conditions and minimize undesirable operational conditions while operating the actual machine in a region of the solution space defined by the Pareto frontier. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689874 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07904396 — Systems, methods and apparatus for quiesence of autonomic safety devices with self action
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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); Roy Sterritt (Newtownabbey, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments an autonomic environmental safety device may be quiesced. In at least one embodiment, a method for managing an autonomic safety device, such as a smoke detector, based on functioning state and operating status of the autonomic safety device includes processing received signals from the autonomic safety device to obtain an analysis of the condition of the autonomic safety device, generating one or more stay-awake signals based on the functioning status and the operating state of the autonomic safety device, transmitting the stay-awake signal, transmitting self health/urgency data, and transmitting environment health/urgency data. A quiesce component of an autonomic safety device can render the autonomic safety device inactive for a specific amount of time or until a challenging situation has passed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/533895 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904407 | Chandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faith T. Chandler (Fairfax Station, Virginia); William D. Valentino (Oviedo, Florida); Monica F. Philippart (Orlando, Florida); Kristine M. Relvini (Oviedo, Florida); Colette I. Bessette (Chuluota, Florida); Nathaneal P. Shedd (Titusville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for automatically performing Human Factors Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis for a process are provided. At least one task involved in a process is identified, where the task includes at least one human activity. The human activity is described using at least one verb. A human error potentially resulting from the human activity is automatically identified, the human error is related to the verb used in describing the task. A likelihood of occurrence, detection, and correction of the human error is identified. The severity of the effect of the human error is identified. The likelihood of occurrence, and the severity of the risk of potential harm is identified. The risk of potential harm is compared with a risk threshold to identify the appropriateness of corrective measures. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780619 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07901725 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duane L. Johnson (Big Fork, Montana); Bettie C. Stanislao (Bozeman, Montana); David C. Sands (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses novel methods of using Phleum spp. seeds, especially Timothy grass (P. pratense L.) seeds, for making gluten-free food products and the food products produced using such methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575528 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/622 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07901927 | Barrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry R. Barrow (Fairacres, New Mexico); Mary E. Lucero (Las Cruces, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A first plant species or a part thereof may be produced which has stably and heritably integrated therein one or more endophytic fungi which are derived from a second, different plant species. This first plant species is not a host plant for the endophytic fungi in nature. These resultant first plant species containing the endophytic fungi exhibit substantially increased vigor, altered morphology and chemistry, and increased reproductive potential compared to non-treated controls. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/500702 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP21765 | Pounders, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cecil T. Pounders, Jr. (Poplarville, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and distinct cultivar of Hibiscus plant named ‘Sahara Sunset’, characterized by its spreading upright growth habit and unique multicolored maple leaf-shaped ornamental foliage saturated with two dominant color regions. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454676 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Kevin Bailey (Newark, Delaware); Graciela Beatriz Blanchet (Wilmington, Delaware); Jonathan V Caspar (Wilmington, Delaware); John Catron, Jr. (Smyrna, Delaware); Reid John Chesterfield (Santa Barbara, California); Thomas C. Felder (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Feng Gao (Hockessin, Delaware); Lynda Kaye Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Roupen Leon Keusseyan (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dalen E. Keys (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Irina Malajovich (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Geoffrey Nunes (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Gerard O'Neil (Newark, Delaware); Rinaldo Soria Schiffino (Wilmington, Delaware); Nancy G. Tassi (Gibbstown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal compositions including silver compositions are used in preparing thermal imaging donors. The donors are useful for thermal transfer patterning of a metal layer and optionally, a corresponding proximate portion of an additional transfer layer onto a thermal imaging receiver. The compositions are useful for dry fabrication of electronic devices. Also provided are patterned multilayer compositions comprising one or more base film(s), and one or more patterned metal layers, including EMI shields and touchpad sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487883 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07902736 | Hudspeth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heather Diane Hudspeth (Clifton Park, New York); Ji Ung Lee (Niskayuna, New York); Reed Roeder Corderman (Niskayuna, New York); Anping Zhang (Niskayuna, New York); Renee Bushey Rohling (Burnt Hills, New York); Lauraine Denault (Nassau, New York); Joleyn Eileen Balch (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to gated nanorod field emission devices, wherein such devices have relatively small emitter tip-to-gate distances, thereby providing a relatively high emitter tip density and low turn on voltage. Such methods employ a combination of traditional device processing techniques (lithography, etching, etc.) with electrochemical deposition of nanorods. These methods are relatively simple, cost-effective, and efficient; and they provide field emission devices that are suitable for use in x-ray imaging applications, lighting applications, flat panel field emission display (FED) applications, etc. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971452 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07903704 | Patel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pranalytica, Inc. (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Kumar N. Patel (Los Angeles, California); Ilya Dunayevskiy (Los Angeles, California); Manu Prasanna (Marina del Rey, California); Rowel C. Go (Carson, California); Alexei Tsekoun (Los Angeles, California); Michael Pushkarsky (San Diego, California); Richard Maulini (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for broad tuning of single wavelength quantum cascade lasers and the use of light output from such lasers for highly sensitive detection of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, acetylene, and vapors of explosives such as trinitrotoluene (TNT) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and TATP's precursors including acetone and hydrogen peroxide. These methods and apparatus are also suitable for high sensitivity, high selectivity detection of other chemical compounds including chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. A quantum cascade laser (QCL) system that better achieves single mode, continuous, mode-hop free tuning for use in L-PAS (laser photoacoustic spectroscopy) by independently coordinating gain chip current, diffraction grating angle and external cavity length is described. An all mechanical method that achieves similar performance is also described. Additionally, methods for improving the sensor performance by critical selection of wavelengths are presented. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821528 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/29.21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07902069 | Andry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S Andry (Yorktown Heights, New York); John M Cotte (New Fairfield, Connecticut); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York); Cornelia K Tsang (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor structure includes: at least one silicon surface wherein the surface can be a substrate, wafer or other device. The structure further includes at least one electronic circuit formed on each side of the at least one surface; and at least one conductive high aspect ratio through silicon via running through the at least one surface. Each through silicon via is fabricated from at least one etch step and includes: at least one thermal oxide dielectric for coating at least some of a sidewall of the through silicon via for a later etch stop in fabrication of the through silicon via. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833112 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/639 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07904471 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Privacy in data mining of sparse high dimensional data records is preserved by transforming the data records into anonymized data records. This transformation involves creating a sketch-based private representation of each data record, each data record containing only a small number of non-zero attribute value in relation to the high dimensionality of the data records. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836171 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| US 07902639 | Garrou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siluria Technologies, Inc. (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip E. Garrou (Cary, North Carolina); Michael R. Knapp (Emerald Hills, California); Hash Pakbaz (Hayward, California); Florian Pschenitzka (San Francisco, California); Xina Quan (Saratoga, California); Michael A. Spaid (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved methods and articles providing conformal coatings for a variety of devices including electronic, semiconductor, and liquid crystal display devices. Peptide formulations which bind to nanoparticles and substrates, including substrates with trenches and vias, to provide conformal coverage as a seed layer. The seed layer can be further enhanced with use of metallic films deposited on the seed layer. Seed layers can be characterized by AFM measurements and improved seed layers provide for better enhancement layers including lower resistivity in the enhancement layer. Peptides can be identified by phage display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/280986 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/622 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07901675 | Ferrante |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Ferrante (Canton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of ameliorating or abrogating the effects of a neurodegenerative disorder, such as Huntington's disease, includes administering a formulation including mitochondrial coenzyme Q10 in a subject in need thereof. The formulation includes Hydro-Q Sorb®, which is a complex of coenzyme Q10 and cyclodextrin. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/246270 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 07902322 | Huang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Diyun Huang (Bothell, Washington); Baoquan Chen (Bothell, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an embodiment, a nonlinear optical chromophore includes the structure D-π-A, wherein D is a donor, π is a π-bridge, and A is an acceptor, and wherein at least one of D, π, or A is covalently attached to a substituent group including a substituent center that is directly bonded to at least three aryl groups. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270714 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07902343 | Bacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery W. Bacher (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura Flanagan (Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin); Nadine Nassif (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and kits are disclosed for use in the analysis of microsatellite instability in genomic DNA. Methods and kits are also disclosed which can be used to detect microsatellite instability DNA present in biological materials, such as tumors. The methods and kits of the present invention can be used to detect or diagnose diseases associated with microsatellite instability, such as certain types of cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/109775 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07902744 | Lonergan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Lonergan (Eugene, Oregon); Calvin H. W. Cheng (Cincinnati, Ohio); Dean H. Johnston (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure for high performance light emitting electrochemical cells comprises at least two active layers of mixed ionic/electronic conducting materials, at least one of which is electroluminescent. The active layers are sandwiched between ion blocking electrodes, typically metal and/or transparent conducting oxide, that are electrically but not ionically conductive. Application of bias to the electrodes results in the polarization of ions at the electrodes thereby generating a field to drive the injection of electronic carriers into the active layer. The injected electron and holes recombine within the active layers to emit light. The ability to balance electron and hole injection in the design of such devices provides for optimal light emission efficiency. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002330 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07904197 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Wilson (Collierville, Tennessee); Lisa L. West (Memphis, Tennessee); Gary C. Reblin (Falls Church, Virginia); William L. Gallagher (Gambrills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | One code address correction service. A carrier of items provides a sender of an item an address change service for an undeliverable address. The item includes a human readable address and a machine readable code. The machine readable code identifies at least the sender. The carrier scans the machine readable code to identify the sender and creates an address change record for the sender. The address change record includes the undeliverable address. The carrier then sends the address change record to the sender. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/225198 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07904892 | Babb, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Corporation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Babb, II (Golden, Colorado); Michael H. Parry (Castle Rock, Colorado); Jason S. Byassee (Denver, Colorado); Ted L. Meyers (Aurora, Colorado); David R. Mooney (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for identifying and displaying dependencies. One aspect of the invention comprises a system having a dependency parser that parses components of a system with dependencies and generates a plurality of component dependency pairs associated with the components, and a component dependency graph generator that generates a dependency directed graph from the plurality of dependency pairs. The system further includes a component levels and cycles analyzer that traverses the dependency directed graph to identify dependencies, strong components and component dependency levels associated with the dependency directed graph, and a graphical user interface that provides a tree view illustrating a dependency tree of the identified dependencies over the identified component dependency levels. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326902 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, March 08, 2011.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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