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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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| US 07910064 | Hamilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Hamilton (Sunnyvale, California); Robert S. Dubrow (San Carlos, California); Calvin Y. H. Chow (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides nanowire based molecular sensors and methods for detecting analytes in a microfluidic system. Methods for sensing analytes include detecting changed electrical parameters associated with contact of a nanowire with the analyte in a microfluidic system. Sensors of the invention include nanowires mounted in microchambers of a microfluidic system in electrical contact with the detector, whereby electrical parameter changes induced in the nanowire by the analyte can be monitored by the detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399218 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.10 |
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| US 07910093 | Meruelo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York); Jen-Chieh Tseng (Woodside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for identifying cancer cells and monitoring anti-cancer therapy in the body of a mammal by systemically delivering Sindbis viral vectors. The vector can specifically target and identify tumor cells in mice growing subcutaneously, intraperitoneally, intrapancreatically, or in the lungs. These findings demonstrate the remarkable specificity of the Sindbis vector system that is relatively safe and can specifically target tumor cells throughout the body via the bloodstream. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920030 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 07910095 | Tzipori et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Balakrishnan (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Arthur Donohue-Rolfe (Maynard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel human monoclonal antibodies derived from a transgenic mouse are disclosed as well as a process for the preparation of the novel monoclonals and a therapeutic method of treating an individual for hemolytic uremic syndrome or of protecting an individual against hemolytic uremic syndrome by administration of the monoclonals to the individual in need of treatment or protection. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/844945 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07910096 | Tzipori et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Balakrishnan (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Arthur Donohue-Rolfe (Maynard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Human and humanized monoclonal antibodies which binds specifically to subunit A of Shiga like toxin II have been developed which are effective to prevent or ameliorate one or more symptoms of HUS in a human. Effective dosages for treatment or prevention range from approximately 0.1 to 5.0 mg of antibody/kg of patient weight. The examples demonstrate the preferred dosage ranges based on the pig model, and what is being tested in phase I clinical trials. Antibodies are preferably transfused over a period of two hours, although this will depend on the patient and the disease state at the time of treatment. Preferred dosages for treatment of humans are between 0.1 mg/kg-5.0 mg/kg of 5C120, or an equivalent dosage of another antibody to subunit A of STX2. In the most preferred embodiments, dosages of 0.1 mg/kg, 0.5 mg/kg, or 5.0 mg/kg of 5C12 (low dose, anticipated therapeutic dose based on animal data and high dose) are administered. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933166 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07910105 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wyeth LLC (Madison, New Jersey); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah A. Young (Melrose, Massachusetts); Thomas A. Wynn (Silver Spring, Maryland); Mary Collins (Natick, Massachusetts); Michael J. Grusby (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of screening for compositions useful for treating, ameliorating, or preventing fibrosis and/or fibrosis-associated conditions by measuring changes in the level(s) of IL-21 and/or IL-21 receptor (IL-21R) (e.g., the level of expression of IL-21 and/or IL-21R protein and/or mRNA, the level of activity of IL-21 and/or IL-21R, the level of interaction of IL-21 with IL-21R). The invention further provides antagonists of IL-21 or IL-21R for the treatment of fibrosis and/or fibrosis-associated conditions. Further provided herein are methods of diagnosing, prognosing, and monitoring the progress (e.g., the course of treatment) of fibrosis and/or fibrosis-associated conditions by measuring the level of IL-21 and/or IL-21R (i.e., the level of activity of IL-21 and/or IL-21R, the level of expression of IL-21 and/or IL-21R (e.g., the level of IL-21 and/or IL-21R gene products), and/or the level of interaction of IL-21 with IL-21R). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402885 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100 |
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| US 07910107 | Walsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | WYETH LLC (Wilmington, Delaware); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank S. Walsh (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Margaret M. Zaleska (Narberth, Pennsylvania); David S. Howland (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Erika L. F. Holzbaur-Howland (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Lioudmila Tchistiakova (Andover, Massachusetts); Riyez Karim (North Andover, Massachusetts); Pamela Kelley (Reading, Massachusetts); William Kelley, legal representative (Reading, Massachusetts); Xiang-Yang Tan (Reading, Massachusetts); Seung Poon Kwak (Ewing, New Jersey); Karen Wallace (Newton Square, Pennsylvania); Nicholas Weber (Mountaintop, Pennsylvania); Menelas N. Pangalos (Pennington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides novel molecules related to growth and differentiation factor-8 (GDF-8), in particular mouse and humanized antibodies, and antibody fragments, including those that inhibit GDF-8 activity and signaling in vitro and/or in vivo. The disclosure also provides methods for diagnosing, treating, ameliorating, preventing, prognosing, or monitoring degenerative orders of muscle, bone, and insulin metabolism, etc., in particular amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In addition, the disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of such disorders by using the antibodies, polypeptides, polynucleotides, and vectors of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508618 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100 |
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| US 07910113 | Pascual et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Montana State University (Bozeman, Montana); UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Pascual (Bozeman, Montana); Kohtaro Fujihashi (Hoover, Alabama); Massimo Maddaloni (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the development of fusion proteins useful for inducing tolerance in a subject. In particular embodiments, the tolerizing agents are useful for influence autoimmune, inflammatory, and/or allergic reactions. Example tolerizing fusion proteins contain a targeting portion (which delivers the fusion protein) and a toleragen or allergen or other antigen to which tolerance is desired in a subject. In particular examples, it is demonstrated that a pσ1 fusion protein, when administered orally, facilitates systemic and mucosal tolerance. Also described is the nasal delivery of fusion proteins, for instance for restoring immunogenicity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/294380 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/215.100 |
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| US 07910221 | Contreras et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Bioengineering Institute (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramiro Contreras (Del Mar, California); Herman Sahlin (Göteborg, Sweden); John A. Frangos (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are disclosed for coating a biocompatible medical implant with a surface layer having antioxidant activity. In various embodiments, a surface layer described herein destroys the oxidative activity of a reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon contact. An ROS can be, for example, an ROS generated by neutrophils in vivo. In various embodiments, a surface layer comprises a titanium oxide layer that can comprise a rutile, an anatase or a perovskite crystal structure, and can include defects comprising Ti(III). In some embodiments, the oxide layer can further comprise a dopant such as niobium. In some embodiments, methods for forming a surface layer on a biocompatible medical implant having antioxidant activity are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/672867 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/472 |
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| US 07910299 | Behrens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota); The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy W. Behrens (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Emily C. Baechler (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Peter K. Gregersen (Larchmont, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and materials involved in diagnosing SLE. More particularly, the invention relates to methods and materials involved in diagnosing SLE, diagnosing severe SLE, and assessing a mammal's susceptibility to develop severe SLE. For example, the invention provides nucleic acid arrays that can be used to diagnose SLE in a mammal. Such arrays can allow clinicians to diagnose SLE based on a simultaneous determination of the expression levels of many genes that are differentially expressed in SLE patients as compared to healthy controls. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538348 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07910300 | Traverso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Giovanni Traverso (Etobicoke, Canada); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic diseases can be diagnosed by detection of mutations in causative genes. Protein truncation assays can be used to detect gene products of truncation-type mutations. However, the sensitivity of the assays is often insufficient to detect mutations present in a sample of DNA at a low frequency. Sensitivity can be increased by dividing samples so that the signal generated by a mutant allele comprises a larger fraction of the total alleles than prior to dividing. Thus a previously undetectable signal generated by the mutant allele can become detectable in the assay. Such increased sensitivity permits detection at early stages and in samples having high levels of other alleles. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/703821 |
| 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 |
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| US 07910305 | Mercola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Mercola (La Jolla, California); Fred Levin (La Jolla, California); Pamela Itkin-Ansari (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided for screening for compounds that modulate insulin promoter activity. Vectors that express green fluorescent protein under the control of the human insulin promoter are introduced into mouse and human cells in which the insulin promoter is expressed in a glucose-responsive manner. Such cells are then used to screen for compounds that modulate insulin promoter activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/992028 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07910307 | Felden |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brice Felden (Le Lou du Lac, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to eubacterial tmDNA sequences and the corresponding tmRNA sequences. The present invention is further directed to alignments of eubacterial tmDNA sequences and the use of the sequences and sequence alignments for the development of antibacterial drugs. The present invention is also directed to the use of the sequences for the development of diagnostic assays. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/163337 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07910315 | Modiano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaime F. Modiano (Littleton, Colorado); Stuart C. Helfand (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A variety of methods, compositions and kits are provided for the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of hemangiosarcoma in dogs and angiosarcomas in humans. |
| FILED | Friday, September 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/662529 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07910319 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Huey Wong (Taipei, Taiwan); Tsui-Ling Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan); Sarah R Hanson (San Marcos, California); Masaaki Sawa (Ibaraki, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides a method of labeling of cellular glycans bearing azide groups via a fluorescent labeling technique based on Cu(I)-catalyzed [3+2]cycloaddition (click activation) of a probe comprising an alkynyl group. The method entails generating a fluorescent probe from a nonfluorescent precursor, 4-ethynyl-N-ethyl-1,8-naphthalimide, by Cu(I)-catalyzed [3+2]cycloaddition of the alkyne group of the probe with an azido-modified sugar. The disclosure further provides a method of incorporating an azido-containing fucose analog into glycoconjugates via the fucose salvage pathway. The disclosure provides a method of fluorescent visualization of fucosylated cells by flow cytometry when cells treated with 6-azidofucose are labeled with the click-activated fluorogenic probe or biotinylated alkyne. A method of visualizing the intracellular localization of fucosylated glycoconjugates by fluorescence microscopy is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079228 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07910335 | Salic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Salic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Timothy J. Mitchison (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the methods include a [3+2] cycloaddition between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent attached to a label. Such methods do not require fixation and denaturation and therefore can be applied to the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in living cells and in organisms. Also provided are methods for measuring cellular proliferation. In these methods, the amount of label incorporated into the DNA is measured as an indication of cellular proliferation. The methods of the invention can be used in a wide variety of applications including clinical diagnosis of diseases and disorders in which cellular proliferation is involved, toxicity assays, and as a tool for the study of chromosomes' ultrastructures. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588732 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
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| US 07910345 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate keto amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with keto amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228146 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07910370 | Reed |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating a disease or pathological condition resulting in apoptotic cell death. The method includes increasing the activity of Bcl-2 in cells affected by the disease or pathological condition. Diseases or pathological conditions can include, for example, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and viral infections. Also provided is a method of prolonging the in vivo survival of transplanted cells for the treatment of a disease or pathological condition. The method includes increasing the activity of Bcl-2 in a population of cells and transplanting the population of cells having increased Bcl-2 activity into a subject. Diseases or pathological conditions can include, for example, neurodegenerative diseases, cancer and viral infections. A method to enhance the sensitivity of malignant cells to therapy is provided that includes decreasing the activity of Bcl-2 in the malignant cells. Methods to identify compounds that alter apoptotic cell death and to enhance monoclonal antibody production are also provided by the invention disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869634 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 07910374 | Rubinsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Rubinsky (Albany, California); Cesar A. Gonzalez (Anahuac, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the condition of a bulk tissue sample, by: positioning a bulk tissue sample between a pair of induction coils (or antennae); passing a spectrum of alternating current (or voltage) through a first of the induction coils (or antennae); measuring spectrum of alternating current (or voltage) produced in the second of the induction coils (or antennae); and comparing the phase shift between the spectrum of alternating currents (or voltages) in the first and second induction coils (or antennae), thereby determining the condition of the bulk tissue sample. An apparatus for determining the condition of a bulk tissue sample, having: a first induction coil (or antenna); a second induction coil (or antenna); an alternating current power supply connected to the first induction coil (or antenna), the alternating current power supply configured to generate a spectrum of currents (or voltage) in the first induction coil (or antenna); and a measurement system connected to the second induction coil (or antenna), wherein the measurement system is configured to measure a phase shift difference in the spectrum of currents (or voltages) between the first and second induction coils (or antennae) when the first and second induction coils (or antennae) are positioned on opposite sides of a tissue sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/616102 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/149 |
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| US 07910523 | Gorenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Bruce A. Luxon (Galveston, Texas); James Leary (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes composition and methods for making and using a combinatorial library to identify modified thioaptamers that bind to, and affect the immune response of a host animal, transcription factors such as IL-6, NF-κB, AP-1 and the like. Composition and methods are also provided for the treatment of viral infections, as well as, vaccines and vaccine adjuvants are provided that modify host immune responses. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851864 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/31 |
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| US 07910543 | Toback et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | F. Gary Toback (Chicago, Illinois); Terence E. Martin (Chicago, Illinois); Margaret M. Walsh-Reitz (River Forest, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel group of gastrokines called Gastric Antrum Mucosal Protein is characterized. A member of the group is designated AMP-18. AMP-18 genomic DNA, cDNA and the AMP-18 protein are sequenced for human, mouse and pig. The AMP-18 protein and active peptides derived from it are cellular growth factors. Surprisingly, peptides capable of inhibiting the effects of the complete protein, are also derived from the AMP-18 protein. Cytoprotection and control of mammalian gastro-intestinal tissue growth and repair (restitution) is facilitated by the use of the proteins, making the proteins candidates for therapies in inflammatory bowel disease, mucositis, and gastric ulcers. |
| FILED | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/604609 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 07910544 | Gardella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Gardella (Needham, Massachusetts); Naoto Shimizu (Shizuoka, Japan); Henry M. Kronenberg (Belmont, Massachusetts); John T. Potts, Jr. (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides novel P1R polypeptide antagonists. These antagonists contain amino acid substitutions at selected positions in truncated PTH and PRHrP polypeptides and function by binding selectively to the juxtamembrane (“J”) domain of the receptor. The J domain is the region of the receptor that spans the seven transmembrane domain and the extracellular loops. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/564744 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07910550 | Kisiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Kisiel (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Hitendra S. Chand (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A human Kunitz-type inhibitor polypeptide with enhanced antifibrinolytic activity, methods of making, and methods of use. The novel polypeptide is structurally similar to the KD1 domain of human tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2). In another aspect, methods of treating a subject afflicted with cancer or a precancerous condition are described. Generally, the method includes administering to a subject in need of treatment an effective amount of a polypeptide. In some embodiments, the polypeptide comprises a KD1 domain of human TFPI-2. In some embodiments, the polypeptide comprises human TFPI-2, itself. In certain embodiments, the polypeptide is administered in an amount effective to induce apoptosis in tumor cells. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286933 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
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| US 07910553 | Mitra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashim K. Mitra (Overland Park, Kansas); Soumyajit Majumdar (Oxford, Mississippi); Ritesh Jain (Kansas City, Missouri); Yasser Nashed (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a patient for a condition wherein the bioactive agent of choice is DRUG, wherein DRUG is a substrate that is effluxed by the P-gp transporter, is provided, the method comprising administering to the patient an effective amount of a compound of formula (I): DRUG-X—Y(n)—Z(n′)—Z′(n″)—R (I) wherein each X, Y, Z, and Z′ is independently Met, Val, Thr, Tyr, Trp, Ser, Ala, or Gly; R is H or an amino-protecting group; n is 1, and each n′, or n″ is independently 0 or 1; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, with the proviso that DRUG is not acyclovir or ganciclovir and that DRUG is non-peptidyl. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/677947 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19 |
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| US 07910565 | McNeel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas G. McNeel (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian M. Olson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Androgen receptor-based vaccines for eliciting an immune reaction in vivo against cells expressing androgen receptor are disclosed. The vaccines are useful in the treatment of prostate cancer. Also disclosed are methods for inducing immune reaction to androgen receptor or treating prostate cancer in a mammal, using the vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the vaccines. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/848607 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910574 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illinois State University (Normal, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Williams (Normal, Illinois); Ahmed Sayed (Normal, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling schistosome parasites in a mammal comprising delivering an effective amount of an agent for silencing TGR activity in the parasites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/001404 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — 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 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910586 | Netzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Netzer (New York, New York); Paul Greengard (New York, New York); Huaxi Xu (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for modulating levels of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) exhibited by cells or tissues. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of screening for compounds that modulate Aβ levels. The invention also provides modulation of Aβ levels via selective modulation (e.g., inhibition) of ATP-dependent γ-secretase activity. The invention also provides methods of preventing, treating or ameliorating the symptoms of a disorder, including but not limited to an Aβ-related disorder, by administering a modulator of γ-secretase, including, but not limited to, a selective inhibitor of ATP-dependent γ-secretase activity or an agent that decreases the formation of active (or optimally active) γ-secretase. The invention also provides the use of inhibitors of ATP-dependent γ-secretase activity to prevent, treat or ameliorate the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Monday, January 06, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/337261 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910609 | DeGrado et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William F. DeGrado (Media, Pennsylvania); Seth E. Snyder (Hackensack, New Jersey); Meredith W. Miller (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sandeep Basra (Munich, Germany); Joel S. Bennett (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Sungwook Choi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel compounds inhibiting the integrin α2β1/GPIa-IIa receptor are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, as well as methods of their therapeutic use. The compounds disclosed are useful, inter alia, as inhibitors of integrin α2β1/GPIa-IIa-mediated activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237015 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910622 | Blackwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen E. Blackwell (Madison, Wisconsin); Grant D. Geske (Madison, Wisconsin); Jennifer C. O'Neill (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds and methods for modulation of the quorum sensing of bacteria. In an embodiment, the compounds of the present invention are able to act as replacements for naturally occurring bacterial quorum sensing ligands in a ligand-protein binding system; that is, they imitate the effect of natural ligands and produce an agonistic effect. In another embodiment, the compounds of the present invention are able to act in a manner which disturbs or inhibits the naturally occurring ligand-protein binding system in quorum sensing bacteria; that is, they produce an antagonistic effect. The compounds of the present invention comprise N-acylated-homoserine lactones (AHLs) comprised of a wide range of acyl groups. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/051826 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910623 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Stephen P. Waters (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel synthesis of scabronines, which are related to a broader class of angularly fused tricyclic diterpenoids known as cyathanes, is provided. Scabronine G, its methyl ester derivative, and other analogs have been shown to have neurotrophic activity. Therefore, these compounds are particularly useful in treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's diseases, etc. The invention provides for the synthesis of scabronines as well as analogs thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions and method of using the inventive compounds are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017951 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910624 | Perrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan P. Perrine (Braintree, Massachusetts); Douglas V. Faller (Braintree, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions containing chemical compounds and compositions containing steel factor which stimulate the expression of hemoglobin or globin protein such as embryonic or fetal globin, or the proliferation of hemoglobin expressing and other cells. These compositions can be used to treat or prevent the symptoms associated with anemia, sickle cell diseases, thalassemia and other blood disorders. The invention also relates to methods for administering these compositions to patients and to medical aids for the treatment and prevention of blood and other disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 1995 |
| APPL NO | 08/470830 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/557 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910692 | Schlom 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) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Kwong-Yok Tsang (Bethesda, Maryland); Ira H Pastan (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The PAGE4 gene is expressed in reproductive tissues, and is expressed in reproductive cancers, such as prostate cancer, uterine cancer, and testicular cancer. Immunogenic PAGE4 polypeptides are disclosed herein, as are nucleic acids encoding the immunogenic PAGE4 polypeptides, vectors including these polynucleotides, and host cells transformed with these vectors. These polypeptides, polynucleotides, vectors, and host cells can be used to induce an immune response to PAGE4. Diagnostic methods to detect PAGE4 are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/280534 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910694 | Edelberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay M. Edelberg (New York, New York); Dong Qing Cai (Guangzhou, China PRC); Barbara L. Hempstead (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptides which selectively or preferentially home to areas of a heart. The invention further relates to conjugates of the homing peptides and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/527832 |
| 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 530/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910705 | Robertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gail A. Robertson (Madison, Wisconsin); Eugenia M. Jones (Madison, Wisconsin); Jinling Wang (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A line of cultured mammalian cells includes HERG1b subunits and optionally HERG1a subunits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388384 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910706 | Tzipori et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saul Tzipori (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Ramaswamy Balakrishnan (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania); Arthur Donohue-Rolfe (Maynard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel human monoclonal antibodies derived from a transgenic mouse are disclosed as well as a process for the preparation of the novel monoclonals and a therapeutic method of treating an individual for hemolytic uremic syndrome or of protecting an individual against hemolytic uremic syndrome by administration of the monoclonals to the individual in need of treatment or protection. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855699 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910723 | Prabhakar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bellur S. Prabhakar (Oakbrook, Illinois); Nirupama Mulherkar (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions inhibit the growth of cancer cells by selectively down-regulating the expression of an IG20 splice variant including MADD. Specific knock-down of MADD splice variant resulted in the apoptosis of cancer cells. Interfering RNAs including small hairpin RNAs (shRNA) to down-regulate MADD expression in vivo are disclosed. Inhibition of MADD phosphorylation by Akt results in activation of cancer cell death. Down-regulation of MADD expression results in switching to apoptotic mode due to lack of MAPK activation upon TNF-α-based induction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174296 |
| 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 07910934 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Kim (Austin, Texas); Babak Amirparviz (Seattle, Washington); Deirdre Meldrum (Phoenix, Arizona); Ehsan Saeedi (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical analysis system fluidically self-assembled using shape-coded freestanding optoelectronic components and a template having shape-coded recessed binding sites connected by an embedded interconnect network. Also includes methods of manufacture and use for optical analyses. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497518 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911009 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hongkun Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qingqiao Wei (Corvallis, Oregon); Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Wenjie Liang (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical devices comprised of nanowires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanowires can be nanotubes and nanowires. The surface of the nanowires may be selectively functionalized. Nanodetector devices are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571371 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912542 | Merfeld |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Michael Merfeld (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems, including computer readable mediums, are provided for transforming a measurement made relative to a first reference frame into a corresponding measurement relative to a second reference frame. Sensor signals that are produced by sensors in response to the sensors' motion relative to the first reference frame are transformed using a transformation matrix. The transformation generates corrected sensor signals that are relative to the axes of the second reference frame. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/272259 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
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| US 07912556 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode array attached to neural tissue, such as the retina, necessarily has graded pressure exerted on the tissue, with higher pressure near the attachment point. Greater pressure improves contact between the electrodes and neural tissue while too much pressure may damage neural tissue. Hence it is advantageous to obtain equal pressure across the array field. In the present invention multiple and selective attachment points are provided on an electrode array allowing a surgeon to select the attachment points providing the best electrode tissue contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/397974 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912654 | Kobilka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Heptares Therapeutics Limited (Welwyn Garden, Hertfordshire, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Kobilka (Palo Alto, California); Gebhard F. X. Schertler (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer readable medium comprising atomic coordinates for the human β2 adrenoreceptor is provided. The computer readable medium programming for displaying a molecular model of the human β2 adrenoreceptor, programming for identifying a compound that binds to said human β2 adrenoreceptor and/or a database of structures of known test compounds. Also provided is a method comprising computationally identifying a compound that binds to the human β2 adrenoreceptor using the atomic coordinates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283988 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912698 | Statnikov et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Statnikov (Nashville, Tennessee); Constantin F. Aliferis (Nashville, Tennessee); Ioannis Tsamardinos (Nashville, Tennessee); Nafeh Fananapazir (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method for automatically analyzing data and constructing data classification models based on the data. In an embodiment of the method, the method includes selecting a best combination of methods from a plurality of classification, predictor selection, and data preparatory methods; and determining a best model that corresponds to one or more best parameters of the classification, predictor selection, and data preparatory methods for the data to be analyzed. The best model; and returning a small set of predictors sufficient for the classification task. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510847 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott N. Backhaus (Espanola, New Mexico); Robert Keolian (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A high efficiency generator is provided using a Stirling engine to amplify an acoustic wave by heating the gas in the engine in a forward mode. The engine is coupled to an alternator to convert heat input to the engine into electricity. A plurality of the engines and respective alternators can be coupled to operate in a timed sequence to produce multi-phase electricity without the need for conversion. The engine system may be operated in a reverse mode as a refrigerator/heat pump. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877816 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fee Chan Leung (Hazlet, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A synchronized ammunition container apparatus and system is provided with a weapon, rotating automatic arm, ammunition container, and rotatable turret base that allows an anti-aircraft weapon, to traverse, depress and elevate in order to engage a rapid, head-on, fly-over target. The synchronized ammunition container apparatus synchronizes the movement and position of the rotating automatic single arm, ammunition container and rotatable turret base to insure that the ammunition belt will not twist, tangle or break when the weapon follows a rapid, head-on, fly-over target. The synchronized ammunition container system and apparatus gives the user increased flexibility for multiple deployment locations and engaging multiple targets from different directions. Other embodiments include a synchronized anti-aircraft ammunition container and combining the apparatus and anti-aircraft weapon into an integrated anti-aircraft defense system with the synchronized ammunition container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/220394 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/33.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909308 | Lauder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy F. Lauder (Oxford, Connecticut); Janiece M. Lorey (New Haven, Connecticut); Christopher M. Harrington (Milford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A winch system includes a cable storage system (34), a drive system (30) and a deployment system to deploy a cable having a hook system attached thereto. A right angle sheave (46) guides the cable between the cable storage system and the drive system. The drive system includes a dual mode transmission that provides high speed capabilities when moderate to no load is being lifted, while also providing high torque for heavy lift operations at low speeds. The deployment system is rated to support a maximum hook load and is mounted to the airframe for pivotable movement about a deployment axis to enable large cable exit angles. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/527612 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force 254/382 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Rubtsov (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for using a light source to incapacitate a subject by a pattern of temporal flashing and/or color flashing of the light source. The light source is preferably an array of light emitting diodes. A rangefinder may be used to control the light output from the light source to avoid exposing a subject to light energy beyond a maximum permissible exposure threshold. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399701 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/311.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909507 | Bunker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Scott Bunker (Niskayuna, New York); Nirm Velumylum Nirmalan (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal inspection method is provided for a component comprising at least one complex internal passage arrangement defining at least one opening. The thermal inspection method includes flowing a fluid through the at least one complex internal passage arrangement. The fluid has an initial temperature that differs from an initial temperature of the component. The thermal inspection method further includes measuring a thermal response of the component to the fluid flow and analyzing the thermal response to determine a number of heat transfer coefficients {hlmn} corresponding to respective locations {l,m,n} within the complex internal passage arrangement. The thermal inspection method further includes using the heat transfer coefficients {hlmn} to determine at least one of (a) a flow rate through respective ones of the at least one opening, and (b) a cross-sectional area for respective ones of the at least one opening. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/101285 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/121 |
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| US 07910058 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johnson Thomas (Kingsport, Tennessee); Philip Boudjouk (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Applicants have produced a chromophore and a polymer that are highly sensitive to the presence of various agents, including organophosphates, pesticides, neurotoxins, metal ions, some explosives, and biological toxins. The detection is accomplished by detecting a change in the fluorescence characteristics of the chromophore or polymer when in the presence of the agent to be detected. The chromophore and polymer may be incorporated into sensors of various types, and they are adaptable for potential field use in areas where detection of these types of agents is desired. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/754762 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910093 | Meruelo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York); Jen-Chieh Tseng (Woodside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for identifying cancer cells and monitoring anti-cancer therapy in the body of a mammal by systemically delivering Sindbis viral vectors. The vector can specifically target and identify tumor cells in mice growing subcutaneously, intraperitoneally, intrapancreatically, or in the lungs. These findings demonstrate the remarkable specificity of the Sindbis vector system that is relatively safe and can specifically target tumor cells throughout the body via the bloodstream. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/920030 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910345 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate keto amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with keto amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228146 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910365 | Sagripanti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose-Luis Sagripanti (Bel Air, Maryland); Monica Carrera (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides safe, non-infectious chimeras that include the nucleic acid signature of most bacterial and viral biological threat agents. These chimeras mimic properties of threat agents and are useful as simulants to develop, evaluate, test, and train on nucleic acid-based biodetectors and diagnostic products of interest in biodefense, without the need for accessing or producing virulent agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/872851 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910382 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Joon-Seo Park (Madison, Wisconsin); Sarah Teren (Madison, Wisconsin); David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Eric A. Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides liquid crystal-based devices and methods for bioagent detection. In certain aspects, the present invention is directed to devices and methods utilizing liquid crystals and membranes containing polymerized targets that can report the presence of bioagents including, but not limited to, enzymes, antibodies, and toxins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/555103 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910468 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Yan-Yan Fang (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes methods for preparing semiconductor structures, comprising forming a Ge layer on a semiconductor substrate using an admixture of (a) (GeH3)2CH2 and Ge2H6; (b) GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6; or (c) (GeH3)2CH2, GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6, wherein in all cases, Ge2H6 is in excess. The disclosure further provides semiconductor structures formed according to the methods of the invention as well as compositions comprising an admixture of (GeH3)2CH2 and/or GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6 in a ratio of between about 1:5 and 1:30. The methods herein provide, and the semiconductor structures provide, Ge layers formed on semiconductor substrates having threading dislocation density below 105/cm2 which can be useful in semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133225 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910523 | Gorenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Gorenstein (Houston, Texas); Bruce A. Luxon (Galveston, Texas); James Leary (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes composition and methods for making and using a combinatorial library to identify modified thioaptamers that bind to, and affect the immune response of a host animal, transcription factors such as IL-6, NF-κB, AP-1 and the like. Composition and methods are also provided for the treatment of viral infections, as well as, vaccines and vaccine adjuvants are provided that modify host immune responses. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/851864 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910537 | Wagner |
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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) | George W. Wagner (Elkton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A decontamination composition and method for detoxifying chemical warfare agents on surfaces, wherein said composition comprises mixtures of household cleaners and chemicals such as ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, isopropyl alcohol, baking soda and washing soda. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/939254 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910776 | Straessler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas A. Straessler (Plain City, Utah); Stephen P. Velarde (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB), from alkoxy derivatives of phloroglucinol, such as 5-methoxyresorcinol, 3,5-dimethoxyphenol, or 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene, are disclosed. The alkoxy derivatives may be exposed to and directly nitrated with a reaction mixture comprising a sulfuric acid solution and at least one nitrate salt. The nitrated alkoxy derivative of phloroglucinol may be alkoxylated and, thereafter, aminated to produce the TATB. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484985 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911009 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hongkun Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qingqiao Wei (Corvallis, Oregon); Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Wenjie Liang (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical devices comprised of nanowires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanowires can be nanotubes and nanowires. The surface of the nanowires may be selectively functionalized. Nanodetector devices are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571371 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911115 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Qibing Pei (Temecula, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polymers, transducers and devices that convert between electrical and mechanical energy. When a voltage is applied to electrodes contacting an electroactive polymer, the polymer deflects. This deflection may be used to do mechanical work. Similarly, when the electroactive polymer deflects, an electric field is produced in the polymer. This electric field may be used to produce electrical energy. An active area is a portion of a polymer having sufficient electrostatic force to enable deflection of the portion and/or sufficient deflection to enable a change in electrostatic force. The present invention relates to transducers and devices including multiple active areas. The invention also relates to methods for actuating one or more active areas. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777036 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911215 | Gossen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Innovative Productivity, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Gossen (Louisville, Kentucky); Jayant Angal (Louisville, Kentucky); Matthew K. Musho (York, Pennsylvania); Joseph E. Yates (Crestwood, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A test system for taking a sample of a constituent on a surface utilizing a fluid source includes a transition region having a capillary layer for delivering a fluid from said fluid source, an extraction region having a collection material in contact with said surface, and a collection region having a sensor reservoir therein for collecting the fluid for analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172329 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/693 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911234 | Patil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nishant Patil (Mountain View, California); Subhasish Mitra (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A logic cell that is immune to misaligned carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are positioned on a substrate. Contacts are formed on a layer of carbon nanotubes, including a first input contact, a second input contact, an output contact, a first gate region, and a second gate region. The output contact is positioned between the first input contact and the second input contact, and a cell region is provided bounded by a width of the output contact and residing between the first input contact and the second input contact. A nonconductive region is positioned in the layer of carbon nanotubes between any two or more of the plurality of contacts that, if shorted, would inhibit a logic function. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240365 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911296 | Nguyen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark T. C. Nguyen (Berkley, California); Yu-Wei Lin (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A resonator system such as a microresonator system and a method of making same are provided. In at least one embodiment, a mechanical circuit-based approach for boosting the Q of a vibrating micromechanical resonator is disclosed. A low Q resonator is embedded into a mechanically-coupled array of much higher Q resonators to raise the functional Q of the composite resonator by a factor approximately equal to the number of resonators in the array. The availability of such a circuit-based Q-enhancement technique has far reaching implications, especially considering the possibility of raising the functional Q of a piezoelectric resonator by merely mechanically coupling it to an array of much higher Q capacitively-transduced ones to simultaneously obtain the most attractive characteristics of both technologies: low impedance from the piezo-device and high-Q from the capacitive ones. Furthermore, the manufacturing repeatability of such micromechanical resonator-based products is enhanced. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135388 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911386 | Itoh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tatsuo Itoh (Rolling Hills, California); Anthony Lai (Los Angeles, California); Kevin M. K. H. Leong (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dual-band and multi-band radiating elements are described based on composite right/left-handed (CRLH) meta-material transmission line (TL). These elements can operate as resonators and/or antennas depending on feed-line configuration. The radiating elements are based on the fundamental backward wave supported by a composite right/left-handed (CRLH) meta-material transmission line (TL). Unit-cells of the transmission line comprise conductive patches coupled through vias to a ground plane. The physical size and operational frequencies of the radiating element is determined by the unit cell of the CRLH meta-material. This radiating element is configured for monopolar radiation at a first resonant frequency and patch-like radiation at a second resonant frequency. The first and second resonant frequencies are not constrained to a harmonic relationship. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751852 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911796 | Vander Ploeg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Jon Vander Ploeg (Kentwood, Michigan); Meredith Marie Steenwyk (Kentwood, Michigan); Danny Weldon Coxon (Conklin, Michigan); John Jay Streyle (Walker, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An avionics chassis comprises a housing having a substantially thermally non-conductive frame comprising a composite of carbon fibers laid up in an epoxy matrix. The housing also includes at least two walls, at least one of which is a thermally conductive wall comprising a composite of carbon fibers in a carbonized matrix, and a plurality of spaced, thermally-conductive, card rails provided on the at least two walls. The at least two walls are mounted to the frame in opposing relationship such that corresponding card rails on the walls define an effective slot therebetween in which a printed circuit board may be received and the card rails and the at least one thermally conductive wall form a thermally conductive path from the interior to the exterior. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487850 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/707 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911832 | Kent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Kent (New York, New York); Daniel Stein (New York, New York); Jean-Marc Beaujour (Elmhurst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed and low power method to control and switch the magnetization direction and/or helicity of a magnetic region in a magnetic device for memory cells using spin polarized electrical current. The magnetic device comprises a reference magnetic layer with a fixed magnetic helicity and/or magnetization direction and a free magnetic layer with a changeable magnetic helicity and/or magnetization direction. The fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer are preferably separated by a non-magnetic layer. The fixed and free magnetic layers may have magnetization directions at a substantially non-zero angle relative to the layer normal. A current can be applied to the device to induce a torque that alters the magnetic state of the device so that it can act as a magnetic memory for writing information. The resistance, which depends on the magnetic state of the device, is measured to read out the information stored in the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/490588 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912114 | Yang |
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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) | Tsih C Yang (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct-sequence spread-spectrum communications method of de-spreading and decoding received data transmitted through an acoustic channel. A first code match filter is applied to receive data to output a first code impulse response comprising a channel impulse response modulated by a pseudo-random number bit. A second code match filter is applied to the received data to output a second code impulse response comprising the channel impulse response modulated by a message symbol bit. The first code impulse response is correlated with the second code impulse response to output the message symbol bit modulated by the pseudo-random number bit. The pseudo-random number bit is eliminated to identify the message symbol bit, thereby decoding the message symbol bit from the received data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/051011 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912283 | Repperger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Repperger (Dayton, Ohio); Alan R. Pinkus (Bellbrook, Ohio); Rodney G. Roberts (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The identification of a specific object in a visual image compromised by the addition of noise, too little or too much light, cluttered with other objects that confuse the user, or having other image defects and using novel techniques that make the image appear more salient to a human operator. Novel techniques include representing both the object to be identified and an appropriate sample of the given data image that has been selected as matrices and comparing the two. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998986 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912327 | DeRose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher T. DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roland Himmelhuber (Tucson, Arizona); Robert A. Norwood (Tucson, Arizona); Nasser N. Peyghambarian (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid strip-loaded EO polymer/sol-gel modulator in which the sol-gel core waveguide does not lie below the active EO polymer waveguide increases the higher electric field/optical field overlap factor Γ and reduces inter-electrode separation d thereby lowering the modulator's half-wave drive voltage Vπ, reducing insertion loss and improving extinction. The strip-loaded modulator comprises an EO polymer layer that eliminates optical scattering caused by sidewall roughness due to etching. Light does not encounter rough edges as it transitions to and from the sol-gel and EO polymer waveguides. This reduces insertion loss. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569588 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912506 | Lovberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trex Enterprises Corp (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A Lovberg (San Diego, California); Paul A Johnson (Kihei, Hawaii); Eric Korevaar (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication system providing wireless communication among wireless users through a number of cellular base stations. At least one of the base stations is a mobile base station in which low and high speed wireless transceivers are mounted on a temporarily stationary mobile vehicle such as a truck trailer or a truck. The system includes at least one connecting station with a millimeter wave wireless transceiver in communication with a fiber optic or high-speed cable communication network. The transceiver is adapted to communicate at millimeter wave frequencies higher than 60 GHz with another millimeter wave transceiver at one of the cellular base stations. Each of the base stations serves a separate communication cell. Each base station is equipped with a low frequency wireless transceiver for communicating with the wireless users within the cell at a radio frequency lower than 6 GHz and a millimeter wave wireless transceiver operating at a millimeter wave frequency higher than 60 GHz for communicating with another millimeter wave transceiver at another base station or a millimeter wave transceiver at said at the connecting station. The base stations are also equipped with data transfer means for transferring data communicated through the low frequency wireless transceiver to the millimeter wave wireless transceiver and for transferring data communicated through the millimeter wave wireless transceiver to the low frequency wireless transceiver. In preferred embodiments the system is a part of a telephone system, an Internet system or a computer network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/452631 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/562.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912656 | Berns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Berns (Boston, Massachusetts); Mark S. Rudner (Somerville, Massachusetts); Sergio O. Valenzuela (Sant Cugat, Spain); William D. Oliver (Belmont, Massachusetts); Leonid S. Levitov (Brookline, Massachusetts); Terry P. Orlando (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing amplitude spectroscopy is provided. Generally, the system contains a generator for providing a waveform for analysis of a multilevel quantum system, wherein the generator has the capability of changing amplitude of the waveform provided and driving the multilevel quantum system at a fixed frequency while sweeping amplitude. A detector is also provided for reading population in different energy states of the multilevel quantum system, wherein the detector plots an amplitude spectroscopy response of the multilevel quantum system. A memory and processor are provided within the system where the processor is configured by the memory to perform the step of plotting an energy-level diagram of the multilevel quantum system from the amplitude spectroscopy plot of the multilevel quantum system. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/553391 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912727 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Liang Gu (Yorktown, New York); Hong-Kwang Kuo (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method that integrates both phrase-based and free-form speech-to-speech translation approaches using probability models. The starting step of the method is to receive vocal communication in a source language. Then store the received vocal communication. Then decipher the content of the vocal communication. Then locate in a multilingual dictionary module the corresponding translation of the deciphered vocal communication provided a preset sentence exists in a speech recognition module for the vocal communication. Then translate the vocal communication into the target language provided there is no corresponding translation located in the multilingual dictionary module. Then synthesize the translated target language when there is no corresponding translation for the vocal communication in the multilingual dictionary module. Then store the sound of the translated target language. Then play the sound of the translated target language. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/128727 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912931 | Ahmed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohiuddin Ahmed (Moorpark, California); Son Dao (Northridge, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for providing a measure of fault tolerance and security in the operation of cross layer communication agents (CCA) in a hybrid network. Specifically, this method, apparatus and computer program provide the detection and control necessary to prevent network disruptions due to failures, attacks, or link unavailability. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/772138 |
| ART UNIT | 2447 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07913007 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Montek Singh (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Manoj Kumar Ampalam (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and computer program products for preemption in asynchronous systems using anti-tokens are disclosed. According to one aspect, configurable system for constructing asynchronous application specific integrated data pipeline circuits with preemption includes a plurality of modular circuit stages that are connectable with each other and with other circuit elements to form multi-stage asynchronous application specific integrated data pipeline circuits for asynchronously sending data and tokens in a forward direction through the pipeline and for asynchronously sending anti-tokens in a backward direction through the pipeline. Each stage is configured to perform a handshaking protocol with other pipeline stages, the protocol including receiving either a token from the previous stage or an anti-token from the next stage, and in response, sending both a token forward to the next stage and an anti-token backward to the previous stage. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240938 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07913041 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert B. Tremaine (Stormville, New York); Robert W. Wisniewski (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reconfiguring a cache memory is provided. The method in one aspect may include analyzing one or more characteristics of an execution entity accessing a cache memory and reconfiguring the cache based on the one or more characteristics analyzed. Examples of analyzed characteristic may include but are not limited to data structure used by the execution entity, expected reference pattern of the execution entity, type of an execution entity, heat and power consumption of an execution entity, etc. Examples of cache attributes that may be reconfigured may include but are not limited to associativity of the cache memory, amount of the cache memory available to store data, coherence granularity of the cache memory, line size of the cache memory, etc. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130752 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07913048 | Shen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system supporting producer-consumer pre-fetch communications includes a first processor, wherein the first processor is a producer node, and a second processor, wherein the second processor is a consumer node. The system further includes a data subscribe mechanism for performing a data subscribe operation at the consumer node, wherein the data subscribe operation records that a memory address is subscribed at the consumer node, a data publish mechanism for performing a data publish operation at the producer node, wherein the data publish operation sends data of the memory address from the producer node to the consumer node if the memory address is subscribed at the consumer node, and a communication network coupled to the producer node and the consumer node for enabling communicating between the producer node and the consumer node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493441 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry Bernstein (Underhill, Vermont); Paul Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Ibrahim M. Elfadel (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Philip Emma (Danbury, Connecticut); Daniel Friedman (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Ruchir Puri (Baldwin Place, New York); Mark B. Ritter (Sherman, Connecticut); Jeannine Trewhella (Peekskill, New York); Albert M. Young (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A design structure for a 3D chip having at least one I/O layer connected to other 3D chip layers by a vertical bus such that the I/O layer(s) may accommodate protection and off-chip device drive circuits, customization circuits, translation circuits, conversions circuits and/or built-in self-test circuits capable of comprehensive chip or wafer level testing wherein the I/O layers function as a testhead. Substitution of I/O circuits or structures may be performed using E-fuses or the like responsive to such testing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/945308 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07913306 | Apap et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Apap (Valley Stream, New York); Andrew Honig (East Windsor, New Jersey); Hershkop Shlomo (Brooklyn, New York); Eleazar Eskin (Santa Monica, California); Salvatore J. Stolfo (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting intrusions in the operation of a computer system is disclosed which comprises gathering features from records of normal processes that access the files system of the computer, such as the Windows registry, and generating a probabilistic model of normal computer system usage based on occurrences of said features. The features of a record of a process that accesses the Windows registry are analyzed to determine whether said access to the Windows registry is an anomaly. A system is disclosed, comprising a registry auditing module configured to gather records regarding processes that access the Windows registry; a model generator configured to generate a probabilistic model of normal computer system usage based on records of a plurality of processes that access the Windows registry and that are indicative of normal computer system usage; and a model comparator configured to determine whether the access of the Windows registry is an anomaly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154405 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry J. Clifford (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for mounting a calibration sphere to a calibration fixture for Coordinate Measurement Machine (CMM) calibration and qualification is described, decreasing the time required for such qualification, thus allowing the CMM to be used more productively. A number of embodiments are disclosed that allow for new and retrofit manufacture to perform as integrated calibration sphere and calibration fixture devices. This invention renders unnecessary the removal of a calibration sphere prior to CMM measurement of calibration features on calibration fixtures, thereby greatly reducing the time spent qualifying a CMM. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871658 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07908856 | Backhaus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott N. Backhaus (Espanola, New Mexico); Robert Keolian (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A high efficiency generator is provided using a Stirling engine to amplify an acoustic wave by heating the gas in the engine in a forward mode. The engine is coupled to an alternator to convert heat input to the engine into electricity. A plurality of the engines and respective alternators can be coupled to operate in a timed sequence to produce multi-phase electricity without the need for conversion. The engine system may be operated in a reverse mode as a refrigerator/heat pump. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877816 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/517 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07908864 | Haynes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel Meier Haynes (Niskayuna, New York); David Matthew Mosbacher (Cohoes, New York); Jonathan Sebastian Janssen (Troy, New York); Venkatraman Ananthakrishnan Iyer (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A combustor nozzle is provided. The combustor nozzle includes a first fuel system configured to introduce a syngas fuel into a combustion chamber to enable lean premixed combustion within the combustion chamber and a second fuel system configured to introduce the syngas fuel, or a hydrocarbon fuel, or diluents, or combinations thereof into the combustion chamber to enable diffusion combustion within the combustion chamber. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539195 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07908970 | Jakaboski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan-Carlos Jakaboski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven N. Todd (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Stephen Polisar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chance Hughs (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A Dual Initiation Strip Charge (DISC) apparatus is initiated by a single initiation source and detonates a strip of explosive charge at two separate contacts. The reflection of explosively induced stresses meet and create a fracture and breach a target along a generally single fracture contour and produce generally fragment-free scattering and no spallation. Methods for making and implementing a DISC apparatus provide numerous advantages over previous methods of creating explosive charges by utilizing steps for rapid prototyping; by implementing efficient steps and designs for metering consistent, repeatable, and controlled amount of high explosive; and by utilizing readily available materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938868 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909271 | Cavanagh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cavanagh (Bloomington, Illinois); Roger L. Urven, Jr. (Colona, Illinois); Keith E. Lawrence (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A direct injection fuel injector includes a nozzle tip having a plurality of passages allowing fluid communication between an inner nozzle tip surface portion and an outer nozzle tip surface portion and directly into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. A first group of the passages have inner surface apertures located substantially in a first common plane. A second group of the passages have inner surface apertures located substantially in at least a second common plane substantially parallel to the first common plane. The second group has more passages than the first group. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/222717 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/533.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909899 | Diebold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Community Power Corporation (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Diebold (Lakewood, Colorado); Arthur Lilley (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Kingsbury III Browne (Golden, Colorado); Robb Ray Walt (Aurora, Colorado); Dustin Duncan (Littleton, Colorado); Michael Walker (Longmont, Colorado); John Steele (Aurora, Colorado); Michael Fields (Arvada, Colorado); Trevor Smith (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for generating a low tar, renewable fuel gas from biomass and using it in other energy conversion devices, many of which were designed for use with gaseous and liquid fossil fuels. An automated, downdraft gasifier incorporates extensive air injection into the char bed to maintain the conditions that promote the destruction of residual tars. The resulting fuel gas and entrained char and ash are cooled in a special heat exchanger, and then continuously cleaned in a filter prior to usage in standalone as well as networked power systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427231 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909907 | Ripley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jonathan S. Morrell (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gerald M. Ludtka (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for high volume production of nanoparticles, nanotubes, and items incorporating nanoparticles and nanotubes. Microwave, radio frequency, or infrared energy vaporizes a metal catalyst which, as it condenses, is contacted by carbon or other elements such as silicon, germanium, or boron to form agglomerates. The agglomerates may be annealed to accelerate the production of nanotubes. Magnetic or electric fields may be used to align the nanotubes during their production. The nanotubes may be separated from the production byproducts in aligned or non-aligned configurations. The agglomerates may be formed directly into tools, optionally in compositions that incorporate other materials such as abrasives, binders, carbon-carbon composites, and cermets. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/552633 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/343 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909971 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Svetlana M. Mitrovski (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic electrochemical reactor includes an electrode and one or more microfluidic channels on the electrode, where the microfluidic channels are covered with a membrane containing a gas permeable polymer. The distance between the electrode and the membrane is less than 500 micrometers. The microfluidic electrochemical reactor can provide for increased reaction rates in electrochemical reactions using a gaseous reactant, as compared to conventional electrochemical cells. Microfluidic electrochemical reactors can be incorporated into devices for applications such as fuel cells, electrochemical analysis, microfluidic actuation, pH gradient formation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/074596 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909973 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Jacobson (Knoxville, Tennessee); J. Michael Ramsey (Knoxville, Tennessee); Christopher T. Culbertson (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); William B. Whitten (Lancing, Tennessee); Robert S. Foote (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated device employing a bridging membrane and methods for electrokinetic transport of a liquid phase biological or chemical material using the same are described. The bridging membrane is deployed in or adjacent to a microchannel and permits either ionic current flow or the transport of gas species, while inhibiting the bulk flow of material. The use of bridging membranes in accordance with this invention is applicable to a variety of processes, including electrokinetically induced pressure flow in a region of a microchannel that is not influenced by an electric field, sample concentration enhancement and injection, as well as improving the analysis of materials where it is desired to eliminate electrophoretic bias. Other applications of the bridging membranes according to this invention include the separation of species from a sample material, valving of fluids in a microchannel network, mixing of different materials in a microchannel, and the pumping of fluids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875027 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910199 | Gross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam F. Gross (Los Angeles, California); John J. Vajo (West Hills, California); Robert W. Cumberland (Malibu, California); Ping Liu (Irvine, California); Tina T. Salguero (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A porous carbon scaffold with a surface and pores, the porous carbon scaffold containing a primary metal and a secondary metal, where the primary metal is a metal that does not wet the surface of the pores of the carbon scaffold but wets the surface of the secondary metal, and the secondary metal is interspersed between the surface of the pores of the carbon scaffold and the primary metal. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168830 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/312.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910309 | Cary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Bruce Cary (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Christopher J. Stubben (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides highly sensitive and specific assays for the major citrus pathogens Xylella fastidiosa and Xanthomonas axonopodis, including a field deployable multiplexed assay capable of rapidly assaying for both pathogens simultaneously. The assays are directed at particular gene targets derived from pathogenic strains that specifically cause the major citrus diseases of citrus variegated chlorosis (Xylella fastidiosa 9a5c) and citrus canker (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv citri). The citrus pathogen assays of the invention offer femtomole sensitivity, excellent linear dynamic range, and rapid and specific detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221351 |
| 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 07910338 | Hennessey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Marie Hennessey (Avondale, Pennsylvania); Julie Friend (Claymont, Delaware); James B. Dunson, Jr. (Newark, Delaware); Melvin P. Tucker, III (Lakewood, Colorado); Richard T. Elander (Evergreen, Colorado); Bonnie Hames (Westminster, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for treating biomass composed of integrated feedstocks to produce fermentable sugars. One aspect of the methods described herein includes a pretreatment step wherein biomass is integrated with an alternative feedstream and the resulting integrated feedstock, at relatively high concentrations, is treated with a low concentration of ammonia relative to the dry weight of biomass. In another aspect, a high solids concentration of pretreated biomass is integrated with an alternative feedstream for saccharifiaction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402756 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910345 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate keto amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with keto amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228146 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910373 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ping Liu (Denver, Colorado); C. Edwin Tracy (Golden, Colorado); J. Roland Pitts (Lakewood, Colorado); Se-Hee Lee (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-fast response, high sensitivity structure for optical detection of low concentrations of hydrogen gas, comprising: a substrate; a water-doped WO3 layer coated on the substrate; and a palladium layer coated on the water-doped WO3 layer. |
| FILED | Saturday, May 05, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/240082 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910377 | Cooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Cooks (West Lafayette, Indiana); Wen-Ping Peng (West Lafayette, Indiana); Zheng Ouyang (West Lafayette, Indiana); Michael P. Goodwin (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and apparatuses that utilize mass spectrometry for preparation of a surface to have catalytic activity through molecular soft-landing of mass selected ions. Mass spectrometry is used to generate combinations of atoms in a particular geometrical arrangement, and ion soft-landing selects this molecular entity or combination of entities and gently deposits the entity or combination intact onto a surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156635 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910386 | Shiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Kevin Henry Janora (Schenectady, New York); Gautam Parthasarathy (Saratoga Springs, New York); James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for the preparation of organic light-emitting devices comprising a bilayer structure made by forming a first film layer comprising an electroactive material and an INP precursor material, and exposing the first film layer to a radiation source under an inert atmosphere to generate an interpenetrating network polymer composition comprising the electroactive material. At least one additional layer is disposed on the reacted first film layer to complete the bilayer structure. The bilayer structure is comprised within an organic light-emitting device comprising standard features such as electrodes and optionally one or more additional layers serving as a bipolar emission layer, a hole injection layer, an electron injection layer, an electron transport layer, a hole transport layer, exciton-hole transporting layer, exciton-electron transporting layer, a hole transporting emission layer, or an electron transporting emission layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/637582 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910461 | Spurgeon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua M. Spurgeon (Pasadena, California); Katherine E. Plass (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Harry A. Atwater (S. Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reusing a Si wafer for the formation of wire arrays by transferring the wire arrays to a polymer matrix, reusing a patterned oxide for several array growths, and finally polishing and reoxidizing the wafer surface and reapplying the patterned oxide. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176100 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910542 | Culiat |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cymbeline T. Culiat (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for promoting wound healing and treating muscle atrophy in a mammal in need. The method comprises administering to the mammal a Nell1 protein or a Nell1 nucleic acid molecule. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/238882 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910653 | Teasley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Teasley (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Aromatic sulfonimide ionene polymers useful as membranes in electrochemical cells are prepared. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865084 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/717 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910700 | Bradbury et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. Bradbury (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Geoffrey S. Waldo (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Csaba Kiss (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermostable fluorescent proteins (TSFPs), methods for generating these and other stability-enhanced proteins, polynucleotides encoding such proteins, and assays and method for using the TSFPs and TSFP-encoding nucleic acid molecules are provided. The TSFPs of the invention show extremely enhanced levels of stability and thermotolerance. In one case, for example, a TSFP of the invention is so stable it can be heated to 99° C. for short periods of time without denaturing, and retains 85% of its fluorescence when heated to 80° C. for several minutes. The invention also provides a method for generating stability-enhanced variants of a protein, including but not limited to fluorescent proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317185 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910825 | Rand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barry P. Rand (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A photosensitive device includes a series of organic photoactive layers disposed between two electrodes. Each layer in the series is in direct contact with a next layer in the series. The series is arranged to form at least one donor-acceptor heterojunction, and includes a first organic photoactive layer comprising a first host material serving as a donor, a thin second organic photoactive layer comprising a second host material disposed between the first and a third organic photoactive layer, and the third organic photoactive layer comprising a third host material serving as an acceptor. The first, second, and third host materials are different. The thin second layer serves as an acceptor relative to the first layer or as a donor relative to the third layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/263865 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911079 | Hoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Douglas Hoff (East Peoria, Illinois); Sivaprasad Akasam (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical system architecture is disclosed. The architecture has a power source configured to generate a first power, and a first bus configured to receive the first power from the power source. The architecture also has a converter configured to receive the first power from the first bus and convert the first power to a second power, wherein a voltage of the second power is greater than a voltage of the first power, and a second bus configured to receive the second power from the converter. The architecture further has a power storage device configured to receive the second power from the second bus and deliver the second power to the second bus, a propulsion motor configured to receive the second power from the second bus, and an accessory motor configured to receive the second power from the second bus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/882248 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/10.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911133 | Tyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Global OLED Technology LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan-Sheng Tyan (Webster, New York); Donald R. Preuss (Rochester, New York); Giuseppe Farruggia (Webster, New York); Raymond A. Kesel (Avon, New York); Thomas R. Cushman (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An OLED device including a transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a transparent electrode layer disposed over the first surface of the substrate, a short reduction layer disposed over the transparent electrode layer, an organic light-emitting element disposed over the short reduction layer and including at least one light-emitting layer and a charge injection layer disposed over the light emitting layer, a reflective electrode layer disposed over the charge injection layer and a light extraction enhancement structure disposed over the first or second surface of the substrate; wherein the short reduction layer is a transparent film having a through-thickness resistivity of 10−9 to 102 ohm-cm2; wherein the reflective electrode layer includes Ag or Ag alloy containing more than 80% of Ag; and the total device size is larger than 10 times the substrate thickness. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746820 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911278 | Degtiarenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavel V. Degtiarenko (Williamsburg, Virginia); Vladimir E. Popov (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A first stage electronic system for receiving charge or current from voltage-controlled sensors or detectors that includes a low input impedance current receiver/converter device (for example, a transimpedance amplifier), which is directly coupled to the sensor output, a source of bias voltage, and the device's power supply (or supplies), which use the biased voltage point as a baseline. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/220764 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912164 | Armstrong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian S. R. Armstrong (Shorewood, Wisconsin); Luis R. Pereira (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); Carlos H. Rentel (Sussex, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes first and second wireless nodes having a clock with plural times, a wireless transceiver, and a processor cooperating with the transceiver to transmit and receive packets. The second node transceivers wirelessly communicate with the first or other second node transceivers. The second nodes include a Kalman filter with an output, plural filter gains, and an input representing the difference between: about the time of the clock when a received packet should have ideally been received, and a time when the received packet was actually received as measured by the clock. A circuit provides dynamic adjustment of the filter gains. The Kalman filter output estimates the difference between the time of the receiving node clock and a corresponding one of the times of the transmitting node clock. The second processor cooperates with the Kalman filter output to adjust the times of the receiving node clock. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/613406 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/354 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912321 | Simonson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine M. Simonson (Cedar Crest, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In an image registration method, edges are detected in a first image and a second image. A percentage of edge pixels in a subset of the second image that are also edges in the first image shifted by a translation is calculated. A best registration point is calculated based on a maximum percentage of edges matched. In a predefined search region, all registration points other than the best registration point are identified that are not significantly worse than the best registration point according to a predetermined statistical criterion. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305903 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912358 | Stone, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Marion Stone, Jr. (Cut-N-Shoot, Texas); Charles R. Goodwin (League City, Texas); James Richard, Jr. (Kingwood, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and heaters for treating a subsurface formation are described herein. At least one system for providing power to one or more subsurface heaters is described herein. The system may include an intermittent power source; a transformer coupled to the intermittent power source, and a tap controller coupled to the transformer. The transformer may be configured to transform power from the intermittent power source to power with appropriate operating parameters for the heaters. The tap controller may be configured to monitor and control the transformer so that a constant voltage is provided to the heaters from the transformer regardless of the load of the heaters and the power output provided by the intermittent power source. |
| FILED | Friday, April 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788868 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07913071 | Mallik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arindam Mallik (Evanston, Illinois); Bin Lin (Hillsboro, Oregon); Gokhan Memik (Evanston, Illinois); Peter Dinda (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Dick (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for power management including determining at least one of an operating frequency and an operating voltage for a processor and configuring the processor based on the determined at least one of the operating frequency and the operating voltage. The operating frequency is determined based at least in part on direct user input. The operating voltage is determined based at least in part on an individual profile for processor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831575 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
07908905 — Rheometer allowing direct visualization of continuous simple shear in non-newtonian fluid
| US 07908905 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi-Qing Wang (Akron, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an improved rheometer which provides direct visualization, and to a rheometer that can be used in conjunction with shearing devices, such as rotational, torsional, sliding plate, and other type rheometers. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/997162 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07908908 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott C. Brown (Gainesville, Florida); Brij M. Moudgil (Gainesville, Florida); Yakov I. Rabinovich (Gainesville, Florida); Veena B. Antony (Gainesville, Florida); Mohammed A. Kamal (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are surface force microscope probes comprising living cells adhered thereto, as well as methods of making same. Also disclosed is a system for high throughput screening of nanostructures having biological relevance through use of surface force microscope probes comprising living cells. Further disclosed are methods of screening for biointeractive nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908515 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909505 | Alexandrov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boian Todorov Alexandrov (Upper Arlington, Ohio); John C. Lippold (Hilliard, Ohio); Seth Jason Norton (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and method for investigating phase transformation properties and structural changes of materials. In one form, the device simulates actual thermal processing conditions, while the method can be used in both simulations as well as in actual processing conditions. An analysis using at least one of the device and method is referred to as a single sensor differential thermal analysis, as it compares the temperature recorded in a measured specimen against a reference thermal history without requiring the derivation of the reference thermal history from measured reference temperatures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/349196 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07909928 | Lahann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joerg Lahann (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Himabindu Nandivada (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hsien-Yeh Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive polymer coatings that undergo regioselective reactions with target biomolecules are provided. The polymers of the coatings are deposited via chemical vapor deposition and comprise one or more functional groups that exhibit regioselective bonding with a functional group or a target molecule. Such polymers include poly-xylylenes having functional groups such as alkynes or azides. The regioselective bonding of the reactive polymers provide stable immobilization of target molecules and/or ligands and can create biofunctional surfaces having a wide range of applications. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691210 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910468 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Yan-Yan Fang (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes methods for preparing semiconductor structures, comprising forming a Ge layer on a semiconductor substrate using an admixture of (a) (GeH3)2CH2 and Ge2H6; (b) GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6; or (c) (GeH3)2CH2, GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6, wherein in all cases, Ge2H6 is in excess. The disclosure further provides semiconductor structures formed according to the methods of the invention as well as compositions comprising an admixture of (GeH3)2CH2 and/or GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6 in a ratio of between about 1:5 and 1:30. The methods herein provide, and the semiconductor structures provide, Ge layers formed on semiconductor substrates having threading dislocation density below 105/cm2 which can be useful in semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133225 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910527 | Sawyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wallace Gregory Sawyer (Gainesville, Florida); Ben Peter Boesl (Gainesville, Florida); Nicole Lee McCook (Gainesville, Florida); David L. Burris (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A wear resistant lubricious composite includes a synthetic resin binder, a plurality of transfer film forming particles, and a plurality of hard nanoparticles. The hard nanoparticles are selected from the group consisting of metal oxides, metal carbides and metal nitride nanoparticles. A method of forming wear resistant lubricious composite articles includes the steps of providing a liquid phase synthetic resin precursor, adding a plurality of transfer film forming particles and a plurality of hard nanoparticles selected from the group consisting of metal oxide, metal carbide and metal nitride nanoparticles to the resin precursor to form a mixture, adding a hardener to the mixture, and curing the mixture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/385062 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid anti-friction devices, materials therefor, lubricant or separant compositions for moving solid surfaces, and miscellaneous mineral oil compositions 58/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910541 | Hausch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Felix Hausch (Langenselbold, Germany); Gary Gray (Stanford, California); Lu Shan (Houston, Texas); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Administering an effective dose of glutenase to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces levels of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/927532 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910714 | Glick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin S. Glick (Chicago, Illinois); Brooke Bevis (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel E. Strongin (Chicago, Illinois); David Baker (Seattle, Washington); Michelle Scalley-Kim (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are sequences encoding monomeric variants of DsRed fluorescent proteins and methods of use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689276 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910932 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); David B. Janes (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sanghyun Ju (Seoul, South Korea); Peide Ye (West Lafayette, Indiana); Chongwu Zhou (Arcadia, California); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are fully transparent nanowire transistors having high field-effect mobilities. The fully transparent nanowire transistors disclosed herein include one or more nanowires, a gate dielectric prepared from a transparent inorganic or organic material, and transparent source, drain, and gate contacts fabricated on a transparent substrate. The fully transparent nanowire transistors disclosed herein also can be mechanically flexible. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131697 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911009 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hongkun Park (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Qingqiao Wei (Corvallis, Oregon); Yi Cui (Sunnyvale, California); Wenjie Liang (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical devices comprised of nanowires are described, along with methods of their manufacture and use. The nanowires can be nanotubes and nanowires. The surface of the nanowires may be selectively functionalized. Nanodetector devices are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571371 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911832 | Kent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Kent (New York, New York); Daniel Stein (New York, New York); Jean-Marc Beaujour (Elmhurst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed and low power method to control and switch the magnetization direction and/or helicity of a magnetic region in a magnetic device for memory cells using spin polarized electrical current. The magnetic device comprises a reference magnetic layer with a fixed magnetic helicity and/or magnetization direction and a free magnetic layer with a changeable magnetic helicity and/or magnetization direction. The fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer are preferably separated by a non-magnetic layer. The fixed and free magnetic layers may have magnetization directions at a substantially non-zero angle relative to the layer normal. A current can be applied to the device to induce a torque that alters the magnetic state of the device so that it can act as a magnetic memory for writing information. The resistance, which depends on the magnetic state of the device, is measured to read out the information stored in the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/490588 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/171 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912327 | DeRose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher T. DeRose (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Roland Himmelhuber (Tucson, Arizona); Robert A. Norwood (Tucson, Arizona); Nasser N. Peyghambarian (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid strip-loaded EO polymer/sol-gel modulator in which the sol-gel core waveguide does not lie below the active EO polymer waveguide increases the higher electric field/optical field overlap factor Γ and reduces inter-electrode separation d thereby lowering the modulator's half-wave drive voltage Vπ, reducing insertion loss and improving extinction. The strip-loaded modulator comprises an EO polymer layer that eliminates optical scattering caused by sidewall roughness due to etching. Light does not encounter rough edges as it transitions to and from the sol-gel and EO polymer waveguides. This reduces insertion loss. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569588 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912422 | Rocken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Rocken (Boulder, Colorado); Sergey V. Sokolovskiy (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for demodulation of open-loop GPS radio occultation signals are provided. An occulted GPS radio signal where the atmosphere-induced modulation on the phase is up to 180 degrees may be recorded by a radio occultation receiver. The radio signal may be concurrently received by a second receiver where the atmosphere-induced phase modulation is below 90 degrees and where the Navigation Data Message (NDM) bit sequence can be readily extracted. The extracted NDM bit sequence may be used to demodulate the occulted GPS radio signal and a 4-quadrant phase extractor may then be used to determine the phase and amplitude of the radio occultation signal. The phase and amplitude modulations after removal of NDM may be used for inversion, e.g., retrieval of the atmospheric parameters such as the bending angle, refractivity and deriving of the meteorological parameters. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830437 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/12.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07913071 | Mallik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arindam Mallik (Evanston, Illinois); Bin Lin (Hillsboro, Oregon); Gokhan Memik (Evanston, Illinois); Peter Dinda (Evanston, Illinois); Robert Dick (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for power management including determining at least one of an operating frequency and an operating voltage for a processor and configuring the processor based on the determined at least one of the operating frequency and the operating voltage. The operating frequency is determined based at least in part on direct user input. The operating voltage is determined based at least in part on an individual profile for processor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831575 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07909897 | Fedorov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei G. Fedorov (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark Varaday (Atlanta, Georgia); F. Levent Degertekin (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel processors, methods of using fuel processors, and the like, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946079 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910873 | Lue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jaw-Chyng Lue (Los Angeles, California); Wai-Chi Fang (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system with applications in pattern recognition, or classification, of DNA assay samples. Because DNA reference and sample material in wells of an assay may be caused to fluoresce depending upon dye added to the material, the resulting light may be imaged onto an embodiment comprising an array of photodetectors and an adaptive neural network, with applications to DNA analysis. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982838 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910932 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); David B. Janes (West Lafayette, Indiana); Sanghyun Ju (Seoul, South Korea); Peide Ye (West Lafayette, Indiana); Chongwu Zhou (Arcadia, California); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are fully transparent nanowire transistors having high field-effect mobilities. The fully transparent nanowire transistors disclosed herein include one or more nanowires, a gate dielectric prepared from a transparent inorganic or organic material, and transparent source, drain, and gate contacts fabricated on a transparent substrate. The fully transparent nanowire transistors disclosed herein also can be mechanically flexible. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131697 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911146 | Dunn-Rankin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek Dunn-Rankin (Irvine, California); Matthew J. A. Rickard (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas flows of modest velocities are generated when an organized ion flux in an electric field initiates an ion-driven wind of neutral molecules. When a needle in ambient air is electrically charged to a potential sufficient to produce a corona discharge near its tip, such a gas flow can be utilized downstream of a ring-shaped or other permeable earthed electrode. In view of the potential practical applications of such devices, as they represent blowers with no moving parts, a methodology for increasing their flow velocities includes exploitation of the divergence of electric field lines, avoidance of regions of high curvature on the second electrode, control of atmospheric humidity, and the use of linear arrays of stages, terminating in a converging nozzle. The design becomes particularly advantageous when implemented in mesoscale domains. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444557 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/111.910 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911174 | Howard 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) | David E. Howard (Hazel Green, Alabama); Dean C. Alhorn (Huntsville, Alabama); Dennis A. Smith (Athens, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided for sensing the position of a rotor in a hybrid stepper motor. First and second Hall sensors are positioned in a spaced-apart relationship with the first and second armatures of the rotor such that the first and second Hall sensors generate electrical outputs that are 90° out of phase with one another as the rotor rotates. The electrical outputs are adjusted relative to a reference, and the amplitude of the electrical outputs is further adjusted to account for spacing differences between the rotor and each of the first and second Hall sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/039506 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/685 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07912101 | Barnes 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) | Norman P. Barnes (Yorktown, Virginia); Brian M. Walsh (Poquoson, Virginia); Donald J. Reichle (Seaford, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for controlling second harmonic efficiency of laser beam interactions. A laser system generates two laser beams (e.g., a laser beam with two polarizations) for incidence on a nonlinear crystal having a preferred direction of propagation. Prior to incidence on the crystal, the beams are optically processed based on the crystal's beam separation characteristics to thereby control a position in the crystal along the preferred direction of propagation at which the beams interact. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628423 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07909899 | Diebold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Community Power Corporation (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Diebold (Lakewood, Colorado); Arthur Lilley (Finleyville, Pennsylvania); Kingsbury III Browne (Golden, Colorado); Robb Ray Walt (Aurora, Colorado); Dustin Duncan (Littleton, Colorado); Michael Walker (Longmont, Colorado); John Steele (Aurora, Colorado); Michael Fields (Arvada, Colorado); Trevor Smith (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for generating a low tar, renewable fuel gas from biomass and using it in other energy conversion devices, many of which were designed for use with gaseous and liquid fossil fuels. An automated, downdraft gasifier incorporates extensive air injection into the char bed to maintain the conditions that promote the destruction of residual tars. The resulting fuel gas and entrained char and ash are cooled in a special heat exchanger, and then continuously cleaned in a filter prior to usage in standalone as well as networked power systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/427231 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910064 | Hamilton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Hamilton (Sunnyvale, California); Robert S. Dubrow (San Carlos, California); Calvin Y. H. Chow (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides nanowire based molecular sensors and methods for detecting analytes in a microfluidic system. Methods for sensing analytes include detecting changed electrical parameters associated with contact of a nanowire with the analyte in a microfluidic system. Sensors of the invention include nanowires mounted in microchambers of a microfluidic system in electrical contact with the detector, whereby electrical parameter changes induced in the nanowire by the analyte can be monitored by the detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/399218 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910297 | Bruno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Operational Technologies Corporation (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John G. Bruno (San Antonio, Texas); Judson C. Miner (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are described for improvement of the serum half life of therapeutic nucleic acids by 3′ conjugation to useful target proteins, or other large molecules with useful function. In one embodiment, a 3′ A, C or G overhang is added to ds-DNA and the primary amines conjugated using biocompatible bifunctional linkers to proteins. The resulting nucleic acid-3′-conjugates are serum nuclease-resistant and retained in vivo for long periods without rapid kidney clearance. Further, the choice of conjugate imparts additional functionality to the nucleic acid-3-conjugate. For example, if the protein in the DNA-protein conjugate is the first component of the complement cascade (Clq or Clqrs) and the DNA aptamer has been developed against surface components of a target cell, it can be used to treat bacterial or parasitic infections and cancers. If the protein is serum albumin or another common (nonimmunogenic) blood protein and the aptamer is directed against a toxin or venom, the aptamer-protein conjugate can be used as an antidote that binds and neutralizes the toxin or venom. Similar DNA (aptamer)-nanotube, -enzyme, and -toxin conjugates could also be used to target and selectively kill bacteria, parasites, and cancer cells in vivo. If the protein is an Fc antibody fragment or C3b protein from the complement system and the aptamer is developed against a bacterial cell capsular material, other cell surface component or viral cell surface component, then the aptamer-3′-protein conjugate can aid in opsonization of the target cells or viruses by phagocytic leukocytes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 15, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058054 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07910308 | Beitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald C. Beitz (Ames, Iowa); Shu Zhang (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania); Travis J. Knight (Slater, Iowa); James M. Reecy (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetic markers associated with fatty acid content in meat products from animals, particularly Angus cattle, are described. The genetic markers are located in the thioesterase-encoding region of the fatty acid synthase gene. The markers allow animals to be characterized for breeding or for identification purposes to indicate animals likely to have a distribution of fatty acids that are healthier, thus generating improved meat products. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177436 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07911517 | Hunt, Jr. 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) | Earle Raymond Hunt, Jr. (Silver Springs, Maryland); David Stone Linden (Dexter, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A charge-coupled-device (CCD) camera system for detecting near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths, involving (a) a color CCD camera having a multitude of channels including red and near-infrared responsive channels, green responsive channels, and blue responsive channels, and (b) filter means which allow near-infrared light to pass and which block red light; wherein the CCD camera system does not include filter means which block near-infrared light. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/980868 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/272 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07910468 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Body of the State of Arizona Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Yan-Yan Fang (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes methods for preparing semiconductor structures, comprising forming a Ge layer on a semiconductor substrate using an admixture of (a) (GeH3)2CH2 and Ge2H6; (b) GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6; or (c) (GeH3)2CH2, GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6, wherein in all cases, Ge2H6 is in excess. The disclosure further provides semiconductor structures formed according to the methods of the invention as well as compositions comprising an admixture of (GeH3)2CH2 and/or GeH3CH3 and Ge2H6 in a ratio of between about 1:5 and 1:30. The methods herein provide, and the semiconductor structures provide, Ge layers formed on semiconductor substrates having threading dislocation density below 105/cm2 which can be useful in semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133225 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/592 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07910722 | Tang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hengli Tang (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) or small hairpin RNA (shRNAs) and compositions comprising same are provided that specifically target human cyclophilin A (CyPA) to effectively inhibit Hepatitis C (HCV) infection in a cell. Such siRNA and shRNAs may have a length of from about 19 to about 29 contiguous nucleotides corresponding to a specific region of human cyclophilin A (CyPA) cDNA of from about nucleotide 155 to about nucleotide 183 having particular potency against CyPA and HCV. Such siRNA and shRNAs may be formulated as naked compositions or as pharmaceutical compositions. DNA polynucleotides, plasmids, and viral or non-viral vectors are also provided that encode siRNA or shRNA molecules, which may be delivered directly to cells or in combination with known delivery agents, such as lipids, polymers, encapsulated lipid particles, such as liposomes. Methods for treating, managing inhibiting, preventing, etc., HCV infection using such siRNA and shRNAs and compositions comprising same are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167402 |
| 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 |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07908928 | Vik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. Vik (Sparland, Illinois); James A. Forck (Peoria, Illinois); Jeffry N Sundermeyer (Dunlap, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A monitoring system is provided, which may include a structural component configured to undergo mechanical loading and a wireless node attached to the structural component. The node may include a strain sensing device configured to measure strain experienced by the structural component at the location of the node. The node may also include a processor configured to predict, based on the strain measurements, fatigue life of the structural component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/589970 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/806 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07909484 | Rubtsov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Rubtsov (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for using a light source to incapacitate a subject by a pattern of temporal flashing and/or color flashing of the light source. The light source is preferably an array of light emitting diodes. A rangefinder may be used to control the light output from the light source to avoid exposing a subject to light energy beyond a maximum permissible exposure threshold. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399701 |
| ART UNIT | 2875 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Illumination 362/311.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
07912284 — Methods and apparatus for filtering video packets for large-scale video stream monitoring
| US 07912284 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Dronette Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ching-Yung Lin (Forest Hills, New York); Olivier Verscheure (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of filtering video packets for video stream monitoring is provided. A video packet of a video stream is received. One or more features are extracted from a specified frame of the video packet via one or more histograms and frequency domain coefficients of the specified frame. One or more concept detectors are implemented on the one or more features creating one or more confidence values. The confidence values are transmitted to a display module for filtering of video packets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119804 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07908902 | Levitsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emitech, Inc (Fall River, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor A. Levitsky (Fall River, Massachusetts); Young-Bin Park (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of vapor sampling and its delivery to the porous sensory element(s) employed in chemical detectors/sensors for vapor(s) identification and quantification. The sampling and delivery system comprises a flow cell in which a sensory membrane is placed parallel to the flow, while an additional flow normal to the membrane is introduced using the Bernoulli effect. The bi-directional flow of vapors increases the interactions between the sensory material and vapor molecules, and enhances sensitivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253056 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, March 22, 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.
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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)
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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)
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