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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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| US 07926176 | Huber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Hullinger Huber (Scotia, New York); Ching-Yeu Wei (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluidic assembly method includes dispersing a number of functional blocks in a fluid to form a slurry. Each of the functional blocks includes at least one element and a patterned magnetic film comprising at least one region. The fluidic assembly method further includes immersing at least a portion of an article in the fluid. The article includes a substrate, a number of receptor sites disposed on the substrate and a number of magnetic receptors, each of the magnetic receptors being disposed within a respective one of the receptor sites. A method of manufacturing an assembly includes disposing a number of functional blocks over at least a portion of an article, agitating the functional blocks relative to the article and assembling at least a subset of the functional blocks to the magnetic receptors on the article. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254181 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/890.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926275 | Dunn |
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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) | Paul M. Dunn (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A closed cycle Brayton direct contact reactor/storage tank uses a chemical scrubber to assist in removing metal vapors from the working fluid. The direct contact reactor/storage tank operates by bubbling an inert gas through liquid metal fuel. The inert gas picks up metal vapors from the fuel. The chemical scrubber is comprised of a reducible material contained within a filter at the top of the reactor/storage tank. The reducible material on reacting with the metal vapor forms components that are solids at the operating temperature and pressure, thereby preventing metal vapor from circulating throughout the system as part of the working fluid and causing damage to system components. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 1992 |
| APPL NO | 07/926090 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/682 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926276 | Dunn |
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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) | Paul M. Dunn (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid metal fueled Brayton cycle power system with a direct contact heat exchanger. In this invention, a compressor compresses the working gas. A regenerator preheats the compressed working gas and passes the working gas to a reactor/storage tank with liquid metal fuel stored therein. An oxidant is injected into the reactor/storage tank to react with the liquid metal fuel. The compressed working gas bubbles through the liquid metal fuel in the reactor/storage tank and is heated by direct contact with the fuel-oxidant mixture. A turbine expands the heated working gas and thereby withdraws power from the system. The spent working gas exits to the regenerator where it warms the compressed gas. A cooler reduces the working gas temperature and recirculates the gas to the compressor. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 1992 |
| APPL NO | 07/926116 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/682 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926291 | Wilson, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack W Wilson, Jr. (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A small gas turbine engine that operates at high rotational speeds and includes a rotor shaft that is supported on both ends by ball bearings. The aft end ball bearings includes an outer race mounted to the support structure in such a way that axial displacement of the outer race is allowed to prevent axial loads from damaging the ball bearing. The outer race of each bearing is supported by an O-ring to provide damping to the bearings. The O-ring is centered on the outer race, and the outer race is formed thicker than the inner race to provide for a better hoop surface. The outer race in the aft end is preloaded with a coil spring to maintain a load on the bearing during all phases of operation of the engine. The bearings are coated with a dry lubricant to eliminate the need for a liquid lubricant and its supply system. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184846 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/805 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926356 | Lopatin |
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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) | Craig M. Lopatin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An invented apparatus for nondestructively remotely measuring the health of an energetic material, includes a piezoelectric capacitance sensor having an exterior surface that is substantially inert to the energetic material. The piezoelectric capacitance sensor provides an analog signal that is commensurately responsive to the modulus of material in intimate contact with the sensor. The apparatus also includes an interrogator for interrogating the sensor as to a capacitance of the piezoelectric capacitance sensor. The interrogator converts the analog signal of the capacitance into a digital representation. The apparatus further includes a means of communicating the digital representation to a remote communication device. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801772 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/768 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926423 | Rickman 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) | Denis D. Rickman (Clinton, Mississippi); Jon E. Windham (Vicksburg, Mississippi); John Q. Ehrgott, Jr. (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight man-packable system for breaching in a single application reinforced structure such as steel reinforced concrete (SRC) walls. Embodiments comprise two explosive charge arrays installed in a housing that is abutted against a wall using either studs or prop sticks. One embodiment positions a secondary linear shaped charge (LSC) or self-forming fragment charge (SFF) spaced apart from a primary high explosive (HE) charge that contacts the structure. The HE is detonated to remove concrete in a pattern sufficient to enable a human to transit the resultant opening and the secondary charge cuts the reinforcement shortly thereafter enabling a “clean” breach via a single application of the system. In select embodiments the second array is positioned on a hinged frame to increase stand-off from the first array and moves into place to detonate over the opening immediately after detonation of the first array. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/271583 |
| 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 12/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926587 | Gieseke |
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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) | Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A water jet assembly and method of use is provided comprising a tank with cutting fluid, fuel and oxidizer lines, and a tank discharge lines. In operation, the tank is filled with oxidizer; the oxidizer line is closed and cutting fluid is supplied compressing the oxidizer. When the fluid reaches a level, the fluid line is closed and fuel is injected. A spark generator ignites the fuel/oxidizer mixture thereby raising the tank pressure. As the pressure rises, a low pressure valve simultaneously closes at a prescribed level. The vent line and a discharge to a nozzle are opened thereby, forming a gas bubble. When the bubble reaches a desired size and pressure drops below a level, the vent closes, allowing combustion expansion to force fluid through the nozzle to form a cutting jet. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110703 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926598 | Rudakevych |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pavlo E. Rudakevych (Arroyo Grande, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile robot includes a robot chassis having a forward end, a rearward end and a center of gravity. The robot includes a driven support surface to propel the robot and first articulated arm rotatable about an axis located rearward of the center of gravity of the robot chassis. The arm is pivotable to trail the robot, rotate in a first direction to raise the rearward end of the robot chassis while the driven support surface propels the chassis forward in surmounting an obstacle, and to rotate in a second opposite direction to extend forward beyond the center of gravity of the robot chassis to raise the forward end of the robot chassis and invert the robot endwise. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/331380 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926677 | DaSilva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. DaSilva (Lowell, Massachusetts); Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular packaging system of containers each having a generally tubular, hollow container body of a fiber-reinforced composite material with cooperative mating interlocking elements extending axially along its length. The interlocking elements allow the containers to be stacked and palletized in a stable manner. An interface between a closure mechanism and the container body provides a good seal and prevents fraying or brooming of the fiber-reinforced composite material at the end face of the body. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409812 |
| ART UNIT | 3781 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Receptacles 220/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927102 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giles D. Jones (Pomona, California); Quang K. Ha (El Monte, California); Lee Ourn (Riverside, California); Samon Jannati (Diamond Bar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rocket propelled grenade (RPG) simulation device usable with a laser detector is provided. The RPG simulation device comprises a laser transmitter, a switch, a controller, and a housing. The laser transmitter is capable of directing a laser signal to the laser detector, the laser signal comprising information readable by the laser detector, to simulate a launch of a rocket propelled grenade from the RPG simulation device to the laser detector. The switch permits a user to trigger a laser signal from the laser transmitter. The controller is in operable communication with the laser transmitter and the switch, and the controller is operable to respond to triggering of the switch and to simulate the launch of a rocket propelled grenade by directing the laser transmitter to generate and transmit a laser signal. The RPG simulation device can further comprise an anti-tank weapons effect systems simulator (ATWESS) in operable communication with the controller, the ATWESS generating an indicator replicating a physical effect (such as noise, a visual effect, a gaseous effect, muzzle flash, smoke, an audible effect, and/or a blast sound) that occurs when an RPG launches a grenade. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330902 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927422 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia); U.S. Government NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Morten Sommer (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of microfluidic structures enables high throughput screening of protein crystallization. In one embodiment, an integrated combinatoric mixing chip allows for precise metering of reagents to rapidly create a large number of potential crystallization conditions, with possible crystal formations observed on chip. In an alternative embodiment, the microfluidic structures may be utilized to explore phase space conditions of a particular protein crystallizing agent combination, thereby identifying promising conditions and allowing for subsequent focused attempts to obtain crystal growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326741 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927437 | Gangopadhyay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shubhra Gangopadhyay (Columbia, Missouri); Rajesh Shende (Columbia, Missouri); Senthil Subramanian (San Diego, California); Keshab Gangopadhyay (Columbia, Missouri); Shameem Hasan (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A structured, self-assembled nanoenergetic material is disclosed that includes a nanostructure comprising at least one of the group consisting of a fuel and an oxidizer and a plurality of substantially spherical nanoparticles comprising at least the other of the group consisting of a fuel and an oxidizer. The spherical particles are arranged around the exterior surface area of said nanorod. This structured particle assures that the oxidizer and the fuel have a high interfacial surface area between them. Preferably, the nanostructure is at least one of a nanorod, nanowire and a nanowell, and the second shaped nanoparticle is a nanosphere. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/262227 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927438 | Fallis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Fallis (Ridgecrest, California); Jennifer A. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrostatic charge dissipation composition having at least one energetic particle component and at least one oxidized electrically active polymer deposited on the energetic component. In another embodiment, the electrostatic charge dissipation composition includes at least one energetic particle component, at least one non-conducting polymer binder, and at least one oxidized electrically active polymer deposited on the energetic/binder composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/195975 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927439 | Forbes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry W. Forbes (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Chak P. Wong (Silver Spring, Maryland); G. William Lawrence (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method and a composition where, on command, a distributed number of micron size voids are created in an energetic material. The voids are hot spots, which change the shock compression sensitivity of the explosive composition by a factor of 2 to 10. The composition contains SMART materials, which are magnetostrictive materials having a large magnetostrictive coefficient, and in a matter of microseconds following the application of an external electromagnetic field, each of the magnetostrictive nano-structures expands and contracts forming a void, where the sum of the voids increases the shock compression sensitivity of the composition. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228323 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927544 | Federspiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alung Technologies, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Federspiel (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian J. Frankowski (Imperial, Pennsylvania); Brendan C. Mack (Pasadena, California); Scott W. Morley (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Meir Rosenberg (Newton, Massachusetts); Robert G. Svitek (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A paracorporeal respiratory assist lung is configured with an annular cylindrical hollow fiber membrane (fiber bundle) that is rotated at rapidly varying speeds. Fluid (for example, blood) is introduced to the center of the device and is passed radially through the fiber bundle. The bundle is rotated at rapidly changing velocities with a rotational actuator (for example, a motor or magnetic coupling). The rotation of the fiber bundle provides centrifugal kinetic energy to the fluid giving the device pumping capabilities and may create Taylor vortexes to increase mass transfer. Rotation of the fiber bundle increases the relative velocity between the fluid and the hollow fibers and increases the mass transfer. The porosity of the fiber bundle may be varied to enhance gas exchange with the blood. Alternatively, a rotating core may be used with a stationary fiber bundle. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408650 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927547 | Medintz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor L Medintz (Alexandria, Virginia); J Matthew Mauro (Eugene, Oregon); Ellen R Goldman (Germantown, Maryland); George P Anderson (Seabrook, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The biosensor comprises a modular biorecognition element and a modular flexible arm element. The biorecognition element and the flexible arm element are each labeled with a signaling element. The flexible arm contains an analog of an analyte of interest that binds with the biorecognition element, bringing the two signaling elements in close proximity, which establishes a baseline fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). When an analyte of interest is provided to the biosensor, the analyte will displace the analyte analog, and with it, the signaling module of the modular flexible arm, causing a measurable change in the FRET signal in a analyte concentration dependent manner. The modularity of different portions of the biosensor allows functional flexibility. The biosensor operates without additional development reagents, requiring only the presence of analyte or target for function. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/103778 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927595 | June et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl H. June (Rockville, Maryland); Richard G. Carroll (Gaithersburg, Maryland); James L. Riley (Elkridge, Maryland); Daniel C. St. Louis (Rockville, Maryland); Bruce L. Levine (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modulating HIV-1 fusion cofactor expression by manipulating an accessory molecule on the surface of T cells, such as CD28, are described. The invention encompasses methods for modulating HIV-1 fusion cofactor expression by stimulating or inhibiting one or more intracellular signals which result from ligation of a surface receptor on a T cell which binds a costimulatory molecule. In one embodiment, expression of an HIV-1 fusion cofactor, such as CCR5, is downregulated by stimulating a CD28-associated signal in the T cell. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/027205 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/154.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927705 | Bayya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shyam S. Bayya (Ashburn, Virginia); Jasbinder S. Sanghera (Ashburn, Virginia); Guillermo Villalobos (Springfield, Virginia); Geoffrey Chin (Alexandria, Virginia); Ishwar D. Aggarwal (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention pertains to a composite of AlON and a germanate glass, and to a process for bonding AlON to the glass. The composite includes AlON and glass bonded together and having transmission in the visible and mid-infrared wavelength region. The process includes the step of heating them together above the softening temperature of the glass, the composite having excellent, i.e., typically in excess of about 60%, transmission in the 0.4-5 wavelength region. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/250696 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927714 | Carter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emily A. Carter (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Ivan Milas (Summit, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A metallic article for high temperature applications such as a turbine engine component is protected by a thermal barrier coating system on the article's metallic substrate. The thermal barrier coating system includes a bond coat layer of aluminum containing alloy on the metal substrate, an alumina layer on the bond coat layer and a ceramic thermal barrier layer on the alumina layer. The bond coat layer is doped with elemental barium that enhances the creep resistance of the alumina layer, thus, minimizing spallation of the ceramic thermal barrier layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194813 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/629 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927807 | Fries et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida); John H Paul (St. Petersburg, Florida); Andrew Farmer (St. Petersburg, Florida); Matthew Smith (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomous genosensor apparatus and methods for use are provided for the field detection and analysis of ambient chemical, biochemical, biologic, biogenetic, and radiologic materials under field conditions in fluid or gaseous environments, such as marine or aquatic environments or industrial processes. Autonomous genosensors provide integral, self contained units which automatically extract environmental samples, prepare those samples for analytical studies, analyze those samples using studies such as DNA or biomarker analysis, and store or transmit the data produced to a remote computer or computer network. Autonomous genosensors may be used as freestanding units, or may be networked and controlled through a remote computer network. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/705151 |
| 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 07927828 | Stoecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Spidertech, a division of Stoecker and associates, LLC (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William V. Stoecker (Rolla, Missouri); Hernan F. Gomez (Whitmore Lake, Michigan); Jonathan A. Green (Columbia, Missouri); David L. McGlasson (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and immunoassays for diagnosing a bite or sting of a venomous organism in a patient having symptoms consistent with such a bite or sting are provided. A sample of venom is collected from the area of the suspected bite or sting using a swab and then contacted with an antibody that specifically binds to an antigenic site on venom present in the sample. Binding is then detected. The invention is illustrated by examples showing diagnosis of brown recluse spider bite, distinguishing it from other diagnoses with which it is often confused. This extremely sensitive test can detect venom antigens down to about 20 picograms even after the sample has been shipped and stored for periods of up to three weeks during the summer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550130 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927881 | Trogler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Trogler (Del Mar, California); Sara A Urbas (San Diego, California); Sarah J. Toal (Rockville, Maryland); Jason Sanchez (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting an analyze that may be present in ambient air, bound to a surface or as part of complex aqueous media that includes providing a metallole-containing polymer or copolymer, exposing the polymer or copolymer to a suspected analyze or a system suspected of including the analyze, and measuring a quenching of photoluminescence of the metallole-containing polymer or copolymer exposed to the system. Also included is a solid state inorganic-organic polymer sensor for detecting nitroaromatic compounds that includes a substrate and a thin film of a metallole-containing polymer or copolymer deposited on said substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/990832 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928145 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Lu Qiang (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Zn2+-chelating motif-tethered fatty acids as histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors. Compounds performed well in in vitro and in vivo tests. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/597022 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928194 | Ching et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Mei Ching (Bethesda, Maryland); Hua-Wei Chen (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a recombinant immunogenic composition from Rickettsia typhi. The invention also relates to a method for the use of the recombinant proteins in detection and diagnostic assays and as a component in formulations for the induction of an anti-R. typhi immune response. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881498 |
| 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 530/350 |
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| US 07928249 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Hakan Usta (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are new conjugated compounds (e.g., monomers and polymers) that include ladder-type moieties which can be used for preparing semiconducting materials. Such conjugated compounds can exhibit high n-type carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. Compounds of the present teachings also can exhibit ambipolar semiconducting activity. In addition, the compounds of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability in ambient conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221123 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928278 | Schanze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk S. Schanze (Gainesville, Florida); John R. Reynolds (Gainesville, Florida); James M. Boncella (Gainesville, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida); Benjamin Scott Harrison (Cantonment, Florida); Tim Foley (Gainesville, Florida); Sriram Ramakrishnan (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to a method, apparatus, and composition of matter for producing near-infrared (near-IR) radiation. The subject invention can incorporate a polymer and a metal-containing compound, wherein the metal-containing compound can incorporate a metal-ligand complex, wherein when the metal-ligand complex becomes excited, energy is transferred from the ligand to the metal, wherein, the energy transferred to the metal by sensitization is emitted as near-infrared radiation. In a specific embodiment, the subject invention relates to a composition of matter having a luminescent polymer and a metal containing compound where the metal containing compound incorporates a metal-ligand complex such that the absorption spectrum of the metal-ligand complex at least partially overlaps with the emission spectrum of the luminescent polymer. As the absorption spectrum of the metal-ligand complex at least partially overlaps with the emission spectrum of the luminescent polymer, when the luminescent polymer becomes electronically excited energy can be transferred from the luminescent polymer to the metal-ligand complex. At least a portion of the energy transferred from the luminescent polymer to the metal-ligand complex can then be emitted by the metal-ligand complex as near-infrared radiation. The subject invention can incorporate polymers which are conjugated or non-conjugated and luminescent or non-luminescent. In a specific embodiment, conjugated polymers which are luminescent can be utilized. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/170942 |
| ART UNIT | 3772 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Splint, brace, or bandage 62/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928432 | Nuckolls 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) | Colin Nuckolls (New York, New York); Xuefeng Guo (New York, New York); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to the fabrication of molecular electronics devices from molecular wires and Single Wall Nanotubes (SWNT). In one embodiment, the cutting of a SWNT is achieved by opening a window of small width by lithography patterning of a protective layer on top of the SWNT, followed by applying an oxygen plasma to the exposed SWNT portion. In another embodiment, the gap of a cut SWNT is reconnected by one or more difunctional molecules having appropriate lengths reacting to the functional groups on the cut SWNT ends to form covalent bonds. In another embodiment, the gap of a cut SWNT gap is filled with a self-assembled monolayer from derivatives of novel contorted hexabenzocoranenes. In yet another embodiment, a device based on molecular wire reconnecting a cut SWNT is used as a sensor to detect a biological binding event. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139218 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928471 | Mastro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Mastro (Alexandria, Virginia); Charles R. Eddy, Jr. (Columbia, Maryland); Shahzad Akbar (Colonial Heights, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure including a Si1-xGex substrate and a distributed Bragg reflector layer disposed directly onto the substrate. The distributed Bragg reflector layer includes a repeating pattern that includes at least one aluminum nitride layer and a second layer having the general formula AlyGa1-yN. Another aspect of the present invention is various devices including this structure. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to a method of forming such a structure comprising providing a Si1-xGex substrate and depositing a distributed Bragg reflector layer directly onto the substrate. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to a photodetector or photovoltaic cell device, including a Si1-xGex substrate device, a group III-nitride device and contacts to provide a conductive path for a current generated across at least one of the Si1-xGex substrate device and the group III-nitride device upon incident light. |
| FILED | Monday, December 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566288 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928563 | Bakir et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhannad S. Bakir (Atlanta, Georgia); Deepak Sekar (Atlanta, Georgia); Bing Dang (Atlanta, Georgia); Calvin King, Jr. (Atlanta, Georgia); James D. Meindl (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Three dimensional integrated circuits with microfluidic interconnects and methods of constructing same are provided. According to some embodiments, and microfluidic integrated circuit system can comprise a plurality of semiconductor die wafers each having a top and bottom exterior surface. The semiconductor die wafers can form a stack of die wafers. The die wafers can comprise one or more channels formed through the die wafers. The channels can extend generally between top and bottom exterior surfaces of the semiconductor die wafers. A plurality of micro-pipes can be disposed between adjacent semiconductor die wafers in the stack. The micro-pipes can enable the channels to be in fluid communication with each other. A barrier layer can be disposed within at least one of the channels and the micro-pipes. The barrier layer can be adapted to prevent a coolant flowing through the at least one of the channels and the micro-pipes from leeching into the channels and micro-pipes. Other embodiments are also claimed and described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/128542 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928631 | Aksyuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Anatolyevich Aksyuk (Westfield, New Jersey); Carl Jeremy Nuzman (Union, New Jersey); Maria Elina Simon (New Providence, New Jersey); Alan Weiss (Millburn, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-mechanical actuator includes a comb drive and a deformable connector. The comb drive has a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate. The capacitor plates have teeth capable of inter-digitating. The deformable connector is configured to apply a mechanical restoring force to the first capacitor plate. The deformable connector is configured to restore the first capacitor plate to be at an equilibrium rest position in response to no control voltage being applied across the capacitor. The comb drive is more engaged at the equilibrium rest position than at a mechanical stability threshold of the comb drive. The capacitor plates are disengaged at the equilibrium rest position. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/394950 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928754 | Richmond, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aehr Test Systems (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Paul Richmond, II (Palo Alto, California); John Dinh Hoang (San Jose, California); Jerzy Lobacz (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A burn-in and electrical test system (20) includes a temperature controlled zone (22) and a cool zone (24) separated by a transition zone 25. The temperature controlled zone (22) is configured to receive a plurality of wafer cartridges (26) and connect the cartridges (26) to test electronics (28) and power electronics (30), which are mounted in the cool zone (24). Each of the wafer cartridges (26) contains a semiconductor wafer incorporating a plurality of integrated circuits. The test electronics (28) consists of a pattern generator PCB (100) and a signal driver and fault analysis PCB (102) connected together by a parallel bus (104). The pattern generator PCB (100) and the fault analysis PCB (102) are connected to a rigid signal probe PCB (104) in cartridge (26) to provide a straight through signal path. The probe PCB (104) is rigid in order to allow close control of capacitance between each signal line and a backplane, thus providing impedance controlled interconnections between a semiconductor wafer under test and the test electronics (28). The power distribution system (30) is connected to a probe power PCB (106) in the cartridge (26). The probe power PCB (106) has at least a bendable portion in order to allow it to be positioned closely adjacent to and parallel with the rigid probe PCB (104), yet extend a substantial distance away from the probe PCB (106) at its interconnection (109). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574447 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/762.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Kirichenko (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) employing rapid-single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) logic is disclosed. The ADC has only superconductor active components, and is characterized as being an Nth-order bandpass sigma-delta ADC, with the order “N” being at least 2. The ADC includes a sequence of stages, which stages include feedback loops and resonators. The ADC further includes active superconducting components which directionally couple resonator pairs of adjacent stages. The active superconducting components electrically shield the higher order resonator from the lower order resonator. These active superconductor components include a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) amplifier, which is inductively coupled to the higher order resonator, and may include a Josephson transmission line (JTL), which is configured to electrically connect the SQUID amplifier to the lower order resonator. The first stage of ADC may employ an implicit feedback loop. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/548396 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928893 | Baraniuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Theo P. H. Steeghs (Ilfov, Romania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for developing radar scene and target profiles based on Compressive Sensing concept. An outgoing radar waveform is transmitted in the direction of a radar target and the radar reflectivity profile is recovered from the received radar wave sequence using a compressible or sparse representation of the radar reflectivity profile in combination with knowledge of the outgoing wave form. In an exemplary embodiment the outgoing waveform is a pseudo noise sequence or a linear FM waveform. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296627 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928896 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuanwei Jin (Salisbury, Maryland); José M. F. Moura (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for target focusing and ghost image removal in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is disclosed. Conventional SAR is not designed for imaging targets in a rich scattering environment. In this case, ghost images due to secondary reflections appear in the SAR images. We demonstrate, how, from a rough estimate of the target location obtained from a conventional SAR image and using time reversal, time reversal techniques can be applied to SAR to focus on the target with improved resolution, and reduce or remove ghost images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/217839 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/85 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928901 | Huebschman |
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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) | Benjamin D. Huebschman (Beltsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for producing radar images are provided. In illustrated embodiments, a representative system includes: a transmitter operative to transmit a pulsed signal; a receiver operative to sample the pulsed signal after reflection; a Doppler-shifting mechanism operative to create a Doppler shift in the pulsed signal; and a platform upon which the transmitter and the Doppler-shifting mechanism are mounted, the Doppler shift being associated with relative motion between the Doppler-shifting mechanism and the platform. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252736 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lief M. Hendrickson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable position antenna shield (VPAS) is described that provides a mechanism for attenuating radio interference signals and other electromagnetic waves using a movable shield. The VPAS contains an antenna assembly, an antenna, and a patch variably positioned exterior to the antenna, wherein the patch attenuates passage of electromagnetic radiation such that the passage of electromagnetic radiation through the patch is substantially blocked, the patch being variably positioned to affect the directivity pattern of the antenna. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/128531 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/841 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929097 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wing Kit Choi (Taipei, Taiwan); Shin-Tson Wu (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel nematic liquid crystal (LC) mode is based on the Fringing-Field-Switching of Vertically-Aligned liquid crystals. The VA-FFS mode is capable of generating very fast optical modulation without the use of very thin cell gap. IA major feature of this LC mode is that it has unusual fast relaxation time compared with the conventional nematic LC modes that require a thin cell gap. This fast relaxation occurs even at very low applied voltages and the operation is very stable. The fast-response mechanism of this LC mode involves the confinement of liquid crystal molecular switching within self-imposed thin LC layers. The present invention provides a novel approach to overcome the fundamental problem of the long relaxation time of the conventional nematic liquid crystal modes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906081 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929132 | Lupton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Mark Lupton (Salt Lake City, Utah); Michael H. Bartl (Salt Lake City, Utah); Debansu Chaudhuri (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeremy Galusha (Arlington, Virginia); Nicholas Borys (Salt Lake City, Utah); Manfred Josef Walter (Unterfoehring, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing transmission microscopy on a sample material are disclosed. The sample material is placed on a metal nanoparticle substrate. High intensity light, such as an infrared laser, is focused on the nanoparticle substrate, thereby exciting the silver nanoparticles. The excited nanoparticles emit intensely focused, spectrally broad white light that is able to pass through the sample material without significant scattering even when the sample material is highly diffuse. The emitted light that passes through the sample material is detected and used to generate images and characterize features of the sample material, including the internal structural composition of the sample material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/501068 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929143 | Wilfinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Wilfinger (Palm Harbor, Florida); Eric Bailey (New Port Richey, Florida); Carl Wingard (Oldsmar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated interferometric gyroscope and accelerometer device. An example device includes a cantilever beam, a package having a post connected to one end of the beam, a piezoresistor driver, a piezoresistor sensor, and a semiconductor interferometric optical gyro. The piezoresistor driver is incorporated within the beam at a first area proximate to the post. The driver electro-thermally resonates the beam. The piezoresistor sensor is incorporated within the beam at the first area. The sensor piezoresitively senses a signal that relates to an acceleration force out-of-plane of the beam. The semiconductor interferometric optical gyro is also incorporated within the beam at a second area of the beam. The gyro senses rotational motion about an axis approximately equivalent to the acceleration force out-of-plane of the beam. The gyro includes a waveguide, a laser source and a light detector. The beam is formed from a semiconductor substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330419 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929374 | Grimmett |
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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) | Douglas J. Grimmett (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, computer-readable means, and systems for minimizing false alarm rates and operator loading while conducting multistatic active sonar operations are disclosed. A plurality of sensor nodes is established, with each sensor node including an active sonar source, and a receiver. Each sensor node has a local storage center, and each node is connected to a data fusion center. During active sonar operations, a high threshold (HTH) and a low threshold (LTH) setting is established. For each sensor node, all sonar return data above the LTH setting are stored at its respective storage center. The HTH is set so that only specular echo returns exceed the HTH; when the HTH setting is exceeded, the fusion center retrieves LTH data from each storage center corresponding to the same specular echo return, in order to establish a track for the contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/260133 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929375 | Nuttall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert H. Nuttall (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Richard A. Katz (East Lyme, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a method for improved active sonar using a singular value decomposition filtering and a Volterra-Hermite Basis Expansion to model real active sonar measurements. The fitting model minimizes the sum of the squared errors between a measured channel response, z(t), and model response, y(t), which is a fitted Volterra Series solution. The model requires as input an excitation waveform, x(t), to which is fitted the model response, y(t). A contracted broadband cross-ambiguity function is used to correct the excitation waveform for Doppler and range effects. Once completed, the modeled response can be used to determine the linearity or non-linearity of the channel effects. Appropriate measures can be utilized to reduce these effects on the measured channel response. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768361 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929582 | Delfyett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Delfyett (Orlando, Florida); Jannick Rolland (Pittsford, New York); Panomsak Meemon (Orlando, Florida); Kye-Sung Lee (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of generating a tunable laser beam are disclosed. An example method includes: generating coherent optical beams from a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); combining the coherent optical beams into a combined coherent optical beam; and tuning the combined beam to a selected frequency range to output a coherent optical beam having only the selected frequency range. In some embodiments, the SOAs are arranged in parallel within a resonant cavity, and each coherent optical beam has a different center wavelength that overlaps in bandwidth with another one of the coherent optical beams. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494713 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929728 | Guo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanlin Guo (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Harpreet Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (West Windsor, New Jersey); Ying Shan (West Windsor, New Jersey); Steve Hsu (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for tracking a movable object using a plurality of images, each of which is separated by an interval of time is disclosed. The plurality of images includes first and second images. The method and apparatus include elements for aligning the first and second images as a function of (i) at least one feature of a first movable object captured in the first image, and (ii) at least one feature of a second movable object captured in the second image; and after aligning the first and second images, comparing at least one portion of the first image with at least one portion of the second image. |
| FILED | Monday, December 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295688 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929937 | Koivunen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Visa Koivunen (Espoo, Finland); Athina Petropulu (Bryn Maw, Pennsylvania); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton, New Jersey); Yuanning Yu (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for blind estimation of carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) and separation of user signals in wireless communications systems are provided. Blind estimation of CFOs (i.e., without knowledge of the conditions of the transmitter or the transmission medium/channel) is carried out in order to improve reception quality by a wireless communications device. A received RF signal is over-sampled by a pre-defined over-sampling factor, and polyphase components are extracted from the over-sampled signal. The polyphase components are used to construct a virtual receiver output matrix, e.g., a model of the received signal and its associated output matrix. System response conditions are blindly estimated by applying a blind system estimation algorithm to the virtual receiver output matrix. A plurality of CFO estimates are obtained from the estimated system response conditions, and can be used by an equalizer to adjust receiver parameters in accordance with the CFO estimates so as to maximize reception quality and to extract multiple user signals from the received signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923161 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930074 | Cherepinsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Cherepinsky (Sandy Hook, Connecticut); Michael R. Skaggs (Southbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight control system includes a collective position command module for a lift axis (collective pitch) which, in combination with an active collective system, provides a force feedback such that a pilot may seamlessly command vertical speed, flight path angle or directly change collective blade pitch. The collective position command module utilizes displacement of the collective controller to command direct collective blade pitch change, while a constant force application to the collective controller within a “level flight” detent commands vertical velocity or flight path angle. The “level flight” detent provides a tactile cue for collective position to reference the aircraft level flight attitude without the pilot having to refer to the instruments and without excessive collective controller movement. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687739 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930120 | Cranford, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hayden C. Cranford, Jr. (Cary, North Carolina); Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Jeremy D. Schaub (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and circuit for determining data signal jitter via asynchronous sampling provides a low cost and production-integrable mechanism for measuring data signal jitter. The data signal is edge-detected and sampled by a sampling clock of unrelated frequency the sampled values are collected in a histogram according to a folding of the samples around a timebase. The timebase is determined by sweeping to detect a minimum jitter for the folded data. The histogram for the correct estimated timebase period is representative of the probability density function of the location of data signal edges and the jitter characteristics are determined by the width and shape of the density function peaks. Frequency drift can be corrected by adjusting the timebase used to fold the data across the sample set. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/103689 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/69 |
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| US 07930152 | Coffey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark W. Coffey (Boulder, Colorado); Gabriel G. Colburn (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for simulating a partial differential equation to perform image and signal processing. The method utilizes quantum and classical lattice gas processes to simulate the partial differential equation. The lattice gas processes may be run on a type I quantum computer, type II quantum computer or a classical computer. A system for simulating and solving a partial differential equation comprising a quantum computer and a classical processor. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777205 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
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| US 07930469 | Brittain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Brittain (Pflugerville, Texas); Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory system is provided that provides memory system power reduction without reducing overall memory system performance. The memory system comprises a memory hub device integrated in a memory module. The memory hub device comprises a command queue that receives a memory access command from an memory controller via a memory channel at a first operating frequency. The memory system also comprises a memory hub controller integrated in the memory hub device. The memory hub controller reads the memory access command from the command queue at a second operating frequency. By receiving the memory access command at the first operating frequency and reading the memory access command at the second operating frequency an asynchronous boundary is implemented. Using the asynchronous boundary, the memory channel operates at a maximum designed operating bandwidth while the second operating frequency is independently decreased to reduce power being consumed by the set of memory devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018952 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930470 | Brittain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Brittain (Pflugerville, Texas); Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory system is provided that manages thermal conditions at a memory device level transparent to a memory controller. The memory systems comprises a memory hub device integrated in a memory module, a set of memory devices coupled to the memory hub device, and a first set of thermal sensors integrated in the set of memory devices. A thermal management control unit integrated in the memory hub device monitors a temperature of the set of memory devices sensed by the first set of thermal sensors. The memory hub device reduces a memory access rate to the set of memory devices in response to a predetermined thermal threshold being exceeded thereby reducing power used by the set of memory devices which in turn decreases the temperature of the set of memory devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018972 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930504 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method within a data processing system in which a processor handles conflicts, which occur during performance by an asynchronous memory mover of an asynchronous memory move (AMM) operation. The asynchronous memory mover performs an asynchronous memory move (AMM) operation by which the actual data is moved from a source to a destination memory location, independent of the processor. The memory mover sets a flag bit to indicate that the asynchronous memory mover is currently performing an AMM operation at the memory. When the processor receives a memory access operation, the processor checks the value of the flag bit before issuing the new memory access operation, and checks the associated address of the AMM operation to determine possible address conflicts. The processor then evaluates and responds to address conflicts to prevent corruption of data during an AMM operation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024575 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930578 | Bose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Zhigang Hu (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Hans Jacobson (White Plains, New York); Prabhakar N. Kudva (New York, New York); Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York, New York); Victor Zyuban (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of power management of a system of connected components includes initializing a token allocation map across the connected components, wherein each component is assigned a power budget as determined by a number of allocated tokens in the token allocation map, monitoring utilization sensor inputs and command state vector inputs, determining, at first periodic time intervals, a current performance level, a current power consumption level and an assigned power budget for the system based on the utilization sensor inputs and the command state vector inputs, and determining, at second periodic time intervals, a token re-allocation map based on the current performance level, the current power consumption level and the assigned power budget for the system, according to a re-assigned power budget of at least one of the connected components, while enforcing a power consumption limit based on a total number of allocated tokens in the system. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/862559 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia); U.S. Government NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Morten Sommer (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of microfluidic structures enables high throughput screening of protein crystallization. In one embodiment, an integrated combinatoric mixing chip allows for precise metering of reagents to rapidly create a large number of potential crystallization conditions, with possible crystal formations observed on chip. In an alternative embodiment, the microfluidic structures may be utilized to explore phase space conditions of a particular protein crystallizing agent combination, thereby identifying promising conditions and allowing for subsequent focused attempts to obtain crystal growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326741 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927544 | Federspiel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alung Technologies, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Federspiel (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Brian J. Frankowski (Imperial, Pennsylvania); Brendan C. Mack (Pasadena, California); Scott W. Morley (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Meir Rosenberg (Newton, Massachusetts); Robert G. Svitek (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A paracorporeal respiratory assist lung is configured with an annular cylindrical hollow fiber membrane (fiber bundle) that is rotated at rapidly varying speeds. Fluid (for example, blood) is introduced to the center of the device and is passed radially through the fiber bundle. The bundle is rotated at rapidly changing velocities with a rotational actuator (for example, a motor or magnetic coupling). The rotation of the fiber bundle provides centrifugal kinetic energy to the fluid giving the device pumping capabilities and may create Taylor vortexes to increase mass transfer. Rotation of the fiber bundle increases the relative velocity between the fluid and the hollow fibers and increases the mass transfer. The porosity of the fiber bundle may be varied to enhance gas exchange with the blood. Alternatively, a rotating core may be used with a stationary fiber bundle. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408650 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927587 | Blazer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Blazer (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Jakub Tolar (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Catherine M. Verfaillie (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for providing lysosomal enzymes to a subject by administering stem cells, preferably Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells (MAPCs). The invention further relates to methods for treating lysosomal storage disorders by administering stem cells. |
| FILED | Friday, June 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/446560 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927589 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | L. David Williams (Fremont, California); Michael S. Hershfield (Durham, North Carolina); Susan J. Kelly (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Mark G. P. Saifer (San Carlos, California); Merry R. Sherman (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A naturally occurring or recombinant urate oxidase (uricase) covalently coupled to poly(ethylene glycol) or poly(ethylene oxide) (both referred to as PEG), wherein an average of 2 to 10 strands of PEG are conjugated to each uricase subunit and the PEG has an average molecular weight between about 5 kDa and 100 kDa. The resulting PEG-uricase conjugates are substantially non-immunogenic and retain at least 75% of the uricolytic activity of the unmodified enzyme. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833590 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927629 | Simone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Simone (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Vladimir R. Muzykantov (Warwick, Pennsylvania); Thomas D. Dziubla (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling a physical characteristic of polymeric nanocarrier-encapsulated protein particles includes altering or selecting a weight percentage of a hydrophobic polymer block in a total amphiphilic diblock copolymer of a primary emulsion of a double emulsion, freeze-thaw technique. The primary emulsion is formed using a freeze-thaw cycle of the amphiphilic diblock copolymer and a protein having a molecular weight of up to or equal to 300,000 Da. Selection of the hydrophobic polymer block percentage alters one or more characteristics of the resulting nanoparticles, such as shape. Thus, as one aspect, a method of producing filamentous polymeric nanocarrier-encapsulated protein (i.e., active enzyme) particles involves forming a primary emulsion using a freeze-thaw cycle of (i) an amphiphilic diblock copolymer, which has a molecular weight of about 10,000 to about 100,000 Da and comprises a conjugate of the hydrophobic polymer block and a hydrophilic polymer block, wherein the amphiphilic diblock copolymer comprises greater than 81% to about 95% by weight of the hydrophobic polymer block; and a protein having a molecular weight of up to or equal to about 300,000 Da. Various compositions comprising such filamentous-shaped nanocarrier particles, and methods of use for diagnosis and therapy are disclosed. |
| FILED | Saturday, October 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925834 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/497 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927786 | Pulst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan M. Pulst (Los Angeles, California); Duong P. Huynh (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides parkin binding polypeptides and encoding nucleic acids. The invention also provides antibodies specific for the parkin binding polypeptides. The invention additionally provides methods of detecting a parkin binding polypeptide and detecting a nucleic acid encoding a parkin binding polypeptide. The invention further provides methods of using a parkin binding polypeptide. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of identifying a candidate drug for treating Parkinson's disease by contacting a parkin binding polypeptide with one or more compounds and identifying a compound that alters the activity of the parkin binding polypeptide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782375 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927790 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Binghui Shen (Glendora, California); Li Zheng (Temple City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | FEN-1 is involved in processing HIV central DNA flap (CDF) and is a target for intervention of HIV-1 replication. Inhibition of HIV-1 CDF removal by expression of D181A FEN-1 mutant suppresses viral DNA replication, further demonstrating that FEN-1 is a target. Methods of identifying and using molecules that inhibit FEN-1 processing HIV-1 CDF and other methods of inhibiting FEN-1 processing are provided. Useful small molecules specifically suppress FEN-1 cleavage of HIV CDF but have little effect on FEN-1's function in RNA-DNA primer removal. Pentamidine inhibits HIV replication by suppressing FEN-1-mediated HIV-CDF processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/440581 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927793 | Hodge 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); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Hodge (Roswell, Georgia); Natalie J. McDonald (Atlanta, Georgia); Michael W. Shaw (Decatur, Georgia); Donald H. Rubin (Nashville, Tennessee); Anthony Sanchez (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Host nucleic acids and host proteins that participate in viral infection, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), influenza A, and Ebola virus, have been identified. Interfering with or disrupting the interaction between a host nucleic acid or host protein and a virus or viral protein confers an inhibition of or resistance to infection. Thus, interfering with such an interaction in a host subject can confer a therapeutic or prophylactic effect against a virus. The sequences identified can be used to identify agents that reduce or inhibit viral infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/535523 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07927816 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Bin Guo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of identifying an effective compound that modulates the binding of Humanin to Bax or Bid. The invention also provides a method of identifying an effective compound that modulates an activity of Bax or Bid. In addition, the invention provides a method of identifying a Humanin-like compound that binds to Bax or Bid or modulates an activity of Bax or Bid, or inhibits the apoptotic activity of Bax or Bid. The invention further provides an isolated polypeptide containing a mitochondrial-derived form of Humanin (SEQ ID NO:3) or a functional fragment thereof where the fragment contains the methionine at position 16 of SEQ ID NO:3. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206670 |
| 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 07927826 | Riggins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Riggins (Baltimore, Maryland); Janete Cerruti (Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | Follicular thyroid adenoma (FTA) is distinguished from follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) by comparing amount of an expression product of at least one gene selected from the group consisting of DDIT3, ARG2, ITM1, C1orf24, TARSH, and ACO1 in a test follicular thyroid specimen to a normal control thyroid specimen. The test follicular thyroid specimen is identified as FTA if the amount of expression product of TARSH is equal to or greater in the test follicular thyroid specimen than in the normal control thyroid specimen. The test follicular thyroid specimen is identified as FTC if the amount of expression product of DDIT3, ARG2, ITM1, C1orf24, or ACO1 is greater in the test follicular thyroid specimen than in the normal control thyroid specimen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/648771 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927832 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (San Diego, California); Matsuzawa Shu-ichi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, there are provided novel Siah-Mediated-Degradation-Proteins (SMDPs) and/or SCF-Complex Proteins (SCPs). Nucleic acid sequences encoding such proteins and assays employing same are also disclosed. The invention SMDPs and/or SCPs can be employed in a variety of ways, for example, for the production of anti-SMDP and/or SCP antibodies thereto, in therapeutic compositions, and methods employing such proteins and/or antibodies for drug screening, functional genomics and other applications. Also provided are transgenic non-human mammals that express the invention protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132565 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07927840 | Linnen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gen Probe Incorporated (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Linnen (Poway, California); Reinhold B. Pollner (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods and kits for detecting flavivirus nucleic acids. Particularly described are methods for detecting West Nile virus nucleic acids in the 3′ non-coding region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932012 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
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| US 07928062 | Kirken et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Kirken (El Paso, Texas); Barry D. Kahan (Houston, Texas); Stanislaw M. Stepkowski (Pearland, Texas); Waldemar Priebe (Houston, Texas); Izabela Fokt (Spring, Texas); Szymon Kosinski (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for inhibiting or disrupting Janus tyrosine kinase 3 (Jak3) dependent function in cells of lymphoid or myeloid origin, especially for blocking proliferation and function of lymphocytes (e.g., T-cells, B-cells). A Mannich base compound, or a derivative or modified compound, is employed which is capable of selectively inhibiting Jak3 while affecting other protein tyrosine kinase activities to a lesser extent or not at all, to provide beneficial effects such as mitigation of transplant rejection and alleviation of allergic responses with fewer side effects than with conventional immunosuppressive agents. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935147 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11 |
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| US 07928068 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuanju Liu (Orange, Connecticut); Sally Frenkel (Flushing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the expression and regulating growth factors in chrondrocytes and developing cartilage, particularly granulin-epithelin precursor (GEP). The invention relates to the modulation and manipulation of these growth factors, GEP, and/or the molecules they interact with, for instance COMP, in cartilage disorders, including arthritis. Assays and screening methods for the determination of the expression and activity of GEP, or of GEP-COMP, are provided, including for screening for the presence or extent of cartilage or arthritic disease and for identifying modulators or compounds/agents for treatment or prevention of cartilage or arthritic diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012521 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.100 |
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| US 07928069 | Prestwich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn D. Prestwich (Salt Lake City, Utah); Xiao Zheng Shu (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yi Luo (Harriman, New York); Kelly R. Kirker (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yanchun Liu (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are crosslinked compounds useful in numerous treatments. Described herein are methods of making crosslinked compounds via (1) die oxidative coupling of two or more thiol compounds or (2) by the reaction between at least one thiol compound with at least one thiol-reactive compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244135 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.200 |
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| US 07928079 | Hrabie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Hrabie (Frederick, Maryland); Larry K. Keefer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds capable of releasing nitric oxide wherein the compounds comprise a saccharide and at least one nitric oxide-releasing diazeniumdiolate [N2O2] functional group, which is bonded directly to a carbon atom of the saccharide, and methods for preparing the same. The invention further comprises the treatment of biological disorders treatable by the administration of nitric oxide. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092184 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/35 |
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| US 07928080 | Townsend et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leroy B. Townsend (Ann Arbor, Michigan); John C. Drach (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel chemical compounds, and methods for their use. In particular, the present invention provides indole derivatives (e.g. as shown in Formula (I)) and related compounds and methods of using indole derivatives and related compounds as therapeutic agents to treat a number of conditions, including those associated with viral infection and cardiovascular diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500311 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
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| US 07928084 | Mitchell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York Blood Center, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | W. Beau Mitchell (Long Island, New York); Mahmoud Yazdani Abyaneh (Brooklyn, New York); Amanda Chen (Brooklyn, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and compositions for preventing and treating conditions associated with platelet aggregation, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition that modifies the interaction of DNAJC10 with αIIbβ3 in a megakaryocyte, thereby altering the expression of αIIbβ3 on the surface of the megakaryocyte. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543836 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928096 | Waterhouse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Waterhouse (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Preeya Kapur (Frederick, Maryland); Larry K. Keefer (Bethesda, Maryland); Joseph A. Hrabie (Frederick, Maryland); Frank De Rosa (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compound of the formula (I): in which at least two of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are N2O2M and related compounds, substrates, compositions, and methods of using such compounds and compositions to treat biological disorders in which a polyphasic release of nitric oxide would be beneficial. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268855 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
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| US 07928127 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Notre Dame University (Notre Dame, Indiana); Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mijoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Masahiro Ikejiri (Osaka, Japan); Mayland Chang (Granger, Indiana); Rafael Fridman (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Shahriar Mobashery (Granger, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds of formulas I-IX, as described herein. Also provided are compositions of compounds of formulas I-IX, methods of making compounds of formulas I-IX, and methods of using compounds of formulas I-IX. The compounds of the invention can be used to inhibit matrix metalloproteinases, and are useful to treat conditions and diseases associated therewith. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/914933 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/336 |
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| US 07928129 | Shoichet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); University of Modena (Reggio Emilia, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Shoichet (San Francisco, California); Fabrio Prati (Reggio Emilia, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | New carboxyphenyl-glycylboronic acid transition-state analog inhibitors, representative of a class of compounds effective against class C β-lactamase AmpC. The new compounds improve inhibition by over two-orders of magnitude compared to analogous glycylboronic acids, with Ki values as low as 1 nM. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901810 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/370 |
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| US 07928145 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Lu Qiang (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Zn2+-chelating motif-tethered fatty acids as histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors. Compounds performed well in in vitro and in vivo tests. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/597022 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
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| US 07928190 | Darnell |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Darnell (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to peptide vaccines, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and associated methodologies that promote the immune-mediated regression of tumors expressing an onconeural antigen, e.g. a cdr-2 antigen, HuD antigen. The cancer peptide vaccines of the present invention are antigenic peptides capable of being faithfully presented on the MHC I complex of a target cell or antigen presenting cell. This external cellular presentation of these peptides promotes a specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated immune response against tumor cells expressing these proteins, thereby, inducing immunological reactivity. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168629 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
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| US 07928195 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Soo Kim (Inchon, South Korea); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding chimeric proteins, and methods for their production and use are disclosed. The chimeric proteins comprise a flexible linker between two zinc finger DNA-binding domains, wherein the linker contains eight or more amino acids between the second conserved histidine residue of the carboxy-terminal zinc finger of the first domain and the first conserved cysteine residue of the amino-terminal zinc finger of the second domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583019 |
| 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 |
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| US 07928199 | Griffin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Griffin (Del Mar, California); Andrew J. Gale (San Diego, California); Elizabeth D. Getzoff (San Diego, California); Jean-Luc Pellequer (Cedex, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of introducing one or more cysteine residues into a polypeptide which permit the stabilization of the polypeptide by formation of at least one bond, preferably a disulfide bond, between different domains of the polypeptide. The invention also relates to polypeptides containing such introduced cysteine residue(s), nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such polypeptides or nucleic acids. The invention also relates to vectors, viral particles and host cells containing such nucleic acids, and methods of using them to produce the polypeptides of the invention. Exemplified polypeptides include plasma proteins, including hepatocyte growth factor activator and plasma hyaluronin binding protein, as well as blood coagulation factors, such as Factor VIII, Factor V, Factor XII and prothrombin. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627197 |
| 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 530/383 |
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| US 07928202 | Frank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Markus H. Frank (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Natasha Y. Frank (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Mohamed H. Sayegh (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for treating a subject by manipulating ABCB5 on a cell as well as related products. The methods include methods of treating cancer using ABCB5 binding molecules such as antibodies and fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/101428 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 07928216 | Dreyfus |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Dreyfus (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | External Guide Sequence (EGS) are described that target proteins required for generation and modification of the immunoglobulin and T-cell repertoire that are useful for treatment or prevention of inflammatory or related diseases. Formulations suitable for administration of an EGS for treatment of inflammatory or related disease are described. The formulations may be administered via inhalation, injection, or orally. The formulations may be in the form of an ointment, lotion, cream, gel, drop, suppository, spray, liquid, powder, granule, solution, suspension, capsule, or tablet. Methods of treating inflammatory or related diseases by administering an effective amount of an EGS in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier are also described. In preferred embodiments, the disease is asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergies, atopic skin disease such as eczema, IL-4 and/or IL-13 dependent malignancies, IL-4 and/or IL-13 dependent autoimmune diseases, atopic diseases, the flu, and diseases caused by IL-4 dependent replication of viruses. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118875 |
| 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 |
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| US 07928290 | Rasochova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow AgroSciences LLC (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lada Rasochova (San Diego, California); Philip Phuoc Dao (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved process for the production of recombinant peptides. In particular, the present invention provides an improved process for the production of recombinant peptides in the form of viral capsid fusion proteins which can be assembled in vivo in plant cell suspension cultures. The invention also includes plasmids, sequences, and plant cells which allow for non-infectious viral capsid fusion peptide production. |
| FILED | Monday, February 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/069601 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/288 |
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| US 07928728 | Wedeen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | the General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Van J. Wedeen (Sommerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for displaying diffusion data includes defining intra-voxel coherence and inter-voxel coherence of the diffusion data. On the basis of the inter-voxel coherence and the intra-voxel coherence, a multiplicity of tracks can be defined. Only those tracks having a selected characteristic are displayed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/816805 |
| ART UNIT | 2831 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07928729 | Hargreaves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Hargreaves (Menlo Park, California); Wenmiao Lu (Palo Alto, California); John M. Pauly (Stanford, California); Garry E. Gold (Stanford, California); Kim B. Pauly (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with slice-direction distortion correction is provided. One or more selective cross-sections with a thickness along a first axis is excited using a RF pulse with a bandwidth, wherein a selective cross-section is either a selective slice or selective slab. A refocusing pulse is applied to form a spin echo. One or more 2D encoded image signals are acquired with readout along a second axis and phase encoding along a third axis. Slice-direction distortion is corrected by resolving the position by resolving the frequency offset. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188031 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 07929134 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhilin Hu (Solon, Ohio); Andrew M. Rollins (Highland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes a spectrometer that includes a set of collimating optics to collimate received EMR to produce a collimated EMR. The spectrometer also includes a first dispersive optical element for dispersing the collimated EMR and a second dispersive optical element spaced apart from the first dispersive optical element to produce further dispersed EMR. The first dispersive optical element and the second dispersive optical element cooperate to disperse received EMR into a plurality of even frequency spaced EMR spectra. The spectrometer also includes a detector positioned to receive the EMR after passing though an optical path that includes the set of collimating optics, the first dispersive optical element, the second dispersive optical element, and a set of focusing optics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154859 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
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| US 07927288 | Gianchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yogesh B. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Tao Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Roma Y. Gianchandani (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor is mounted to a biopsy needle at a location proximate to a tip of the needle. The sensor senses properties of tissue in contact with the sensor and proximate to the tip. |
| FILED | Monday, January 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/625801 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/561 |
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| US 07927422 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia); U.S. Government NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Morten Sommer (Copenhagen NV, Denmark); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of microfluidic structures enables high throughput screening of protein crystallization. In one embodiment, an integrated combinatoric mixing chip allows for precise metering of reagents to rapidly create a large number of potential crystallization conditions, with possible crystal formations observed on chip. In an alternative embodiment, the microfluidic structures may be utilized to explore phase space conditions of a particular protein crystallizing agent combination, thereby identifying promising conditions and allowing for subsequent focused attempts to obtain crystal growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326741 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/200 |
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| US 07927794 | Keasling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay D. Keasling (Berkeley, California); Jack D. Newman (Berkeley, California); Douglas J. Pitera (Oakland, California); Sydnor T. Withers, III (Richmond, California); Keith Kinkead Reiling (San Francisco, California); Vincent J. J. Martin (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated, genetically modified host cells, where a host cell is genetically modified with a nucleic acid that includes a nucleotide sequence encoding a biosynthetic pathway enzyme. Synthesis of the enzyme in the host cell results in conversion of a substrate for the enzyme into a biosynthetic pathway intermediate, which intermediate is produced in an amount effective to inhibit growth of the genetically modified host cell. The present invention further provides compositions and kits comprising a subject genetically modified host cell. Subject host cells are useful for identifying a gene product having activity in a biosynthetic pathway. The present invention further provides methods of identifying a gene product having activity in a biosynthetic pathway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/573796 |
| 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 07927859 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Ailen Sánchez (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to increasing the yield of succinate in bacteria by increasing the intracellular availability of cofactors such as NADH. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923635 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.330 |
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| US 07927881 | Trogler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Trogler (Del Mar, California); Sara A Urbas (San Diego, California); Sarah J. Toal (Rockville, Maryland); Jason Sanchez (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting an analyze that may be present in ambient air, bound to a surface or as part of complex aqueous media that includes providing a metallole-containing polymer or copolymer, exposing the polymer or copolymer to a suspected analyze or a system suspected of including the analyze, and measuring a quenching of photoluminescence of the metallole-containing polymer or copolymer exposed to the system. Also included is a solid state inorganic-organic polymer sensor for detecting nitroaromatic compounds that includes a substrate and a thin film of a metallole-containing polymer or copolymer deposited on said substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/990832 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/85 |
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| US 07927883 | Tuli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Atac Tuli (Davis, California); Jan W. Hopmans (Davis, California); Tamir Kamai (Davis, California); Benjamin D. Shaw (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for near real-time in-situ soil solution measurements is presented. An outer sleeve is placed in soil where ionic concentrations of organic or inorganic species are to be measured. A porous section connects with the outer sleeve (the porous section initially loaded with distilled water) equilibrates with the solution present in soil pores to form a solution to be measured. The initial distilled water is displaced within the porous section by a removable plunger. After substantial equilibration of the solution to be measured within the apparatus, the plunger is removed and a removable probe replaced. The probe may be an Ion Selective Electrode, or a transflection dip probe. The probe then may be used under computer control for measurement of solution properties. The Ion Selective Electrode may measure nitrate (NO3−) concentrations. The transflection dip probe may be read with spectrometer with an input deuterium light source. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267895 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/110 |
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| US 07927976 | Menard |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Semprius, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are reinforced composite stamps, devices and methods of making the reinforced composite stamps disclosed herein. Reinforced composite stamps of certain aspects of the present invention have a composition and architecture optimized for use in printing systems for dry transfer printing of semiconductor structures, and impart excellent control over relative spatial placement accuracy of the semiconductor structures being transferred. In some embodiments, for example, reinforced composite stamps of the present invention allow for precise and repeatable vertical motion of the patterned surface of the printing apparatus with self-leveling of the stamp to the surface of a contacted substrate. Reinforced composite stamps of certain aspect of the present invention achieve a uniform distribution of contact forces between the printing apparatus patterned surface and the top surface of a substrate being contacted by the reinforced composite stamp of the printing apparatus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177963 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
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| US 07928056 | 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 | 11/927533 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 07928059 | Vanderby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ray Vanderby (Madison, Wisconsin); Kelley W. Grorud (Janesville, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method and a corresponding pharmaceutical composition for treating damaged cartilage and subchondral bone. Neurogenic compounds in general and neuropeptides in particular have been found to be highly effective in stimulated repair of cartilage and bone damaged due to traumatic injury, ligament disease, and disuse. Preferred active ingredients for use in the method and corresponding pharmaceutical composition include calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), cholecystokinin (CCK), dynorphin, enkephalin, galanin, neuropeptide Y (NPY), neurotensin, somatostatin, substance P (SP), thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431347 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 07928132 | Kohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard D. Kohn (Athens, Ohio); Douglas J. Goetz (Athens, Ohio); Uruguaysito Benavides-Peralta (Athens, Ohio); Mariana Gonzalez-Murguiondo (Athens, Ohio); Norikazu Harii (Yaminashi, Japan); Christopher J. Lewis (Athens, Ohio); Giorgio Napolitano (Pescara, Italy); Nilesh D. Dagia (Athens, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of ameliorating episodes of accute or chronic colitis are provided by using methimazole derivatives and tautomeric cyclic thiones in combination with another pharmaceutical compound. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/912948 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/386 |
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| US 07928195 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin-Soo Kim (Inchon, South Korea); Carl O. Pabo (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding chimeric proteins, and methods for their production and use are disclosed. The chimeric proteins comprise a flexible linker between two zinc finger DNA-binding domains, wherein the linker contains eight or more amino acids between the second conserved histidine residue of the carboxy-terminal zinc finger of the first domain and the first conserved cysteine residue of the amino-terminal zinc finger of the second domain. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583019 |
| 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 |
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| US 07928208 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Martin (Gainesville, Florida); Shifeng Hou (Springfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming DNA nanotubes composed entirely or predominantly from DNA that, The methods of the present invention form single layer or multilayer template-synthesized nanotubes where the bulk of the tube is composed of DNA, and the layers are held together by hybridization of complementary DNA strands. The DNA molecules making up these tubes may be varied as desired, and the DNA is capable of being released from the tube. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/912902 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07928432 | Nuckolls 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) | Colin Nuckolls (New York, New York); Xuefeng Guo (New York, New York); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to the fabrication of molecular electronics devices from molecular wires and Single Wall Nanotubes (SWNT). In one embodiment, the cutting of a SWNT is achieved by opening a window of small width by lithography patterning of a protective layer on top of the SWNT, followed by applying an oxygen plasma to the exposed SWNT portion. In another embodiment, the gap of a cut SWNT is reconnected by one or more difunctional molecules having appropriate lengths reacting to the functional groups on the cut SWNT ends to form covalent bonds. In another embodiment, the gap of a cut SWNT gap is filled with a self-assembled monolayer from derivatives of novel contorted hexabenzocoranenes. In yet another embodiment, a device based on molecular wire reconnecting a cut SWNT is used as a sensor to detect a biological binding event. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139218 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 07928893 | Baraniuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard G. Baraniuk (Houston, Texas); Theo P. H. Steeghs (Ilfov, Romania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for developing radar scene and target profiles based on Compressive Sensing concept. An outgoing radar waveform is transmitted in the direction of a radar target and the radar reflectivity profile is recovered from the received radar wave sequence using a compressible or sparse representation of the radar reflectivity profile in combination with knowledge of the outgoing wave form. In an exemplary embodiment the outgoing waveform is a pseudo noise sequence or a linear FM waveform. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296627 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/25.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929132 | Lupton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Mark Lupton (Salt Lake City, Utah); Michael H. Bartl (Salt Lake City, Utah); Debansu Chaudhuri (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeremy Galusha (Arlington, Virginia); Nicholas Borys (Salt Lake City, Utah); Manfred Josef Walter (Unterfoehring, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing transmission microscopy on a sample material are disclosed. The sample material is placed on a metal nanoparticle substrate. High intensity light, such as an infrared laser, is focused on the nanoparticle substrate, thereby exciting the silver nanoparticles. The excited nanoparticles emit intensely focused, spectrally broad white light that is able to pass through the sample material without significant scattering even when the sample material is highly diffuse. The emitted light that passes through the sample material is detected and used to generate images and characterize features of the sample material, including the internal structural composition of the sample material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/501068 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929411 | Scaglione et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Scaglione (Ithaca, New York); Yao-Win Hong (Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Pramod K. Varshney (Fayetteville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for obtaining data from a number of distributed sources. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/529084 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/208 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929582 | Delfyett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Delfyett (Orlando, Florida); Jannick Rolland (Pittsford, New York); Panomsak Meemon (Orlando, Florida); Kye-Sung Lee (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods of generating a tunable laser beam are disclosed. An example method includes: generating coherent optical beams from a plurality of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs); combining the coherent optical beams into a combined coherent optical beam; and tuning the combined beam to a selected frequency range to output a coherent optical beam having only the selected frequency range. In some embodiments, the SOAs are arranged in parallel within a resonant cavity, and each coherent optical beam has a different center wavelength that overlaps in bandwidth with another one of the coherent optical beams. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494713 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929805 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Z. Wang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ritendra Datta (State College, Pennsylvania); Jia Li (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system and method for the generation of attack-resistant, user-friendly, image-based CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), controlled distortions are applied to randomly chosen images and presented to a user for annotation from a given list of words. An image is presented that contains multiple connected but independent images with the borders between them distorted or otherwise visually obfuscated in a way that a computer cannot distinguish the borders and a user selects near the center of one of the images. The distortions are performed in a way that satisfies the incongruous requirements of low perceptual degradation and high resistance to attack by content-based image retrieval systems. Word choices are carefully generated to avoid ambiguity as well as to avoid attacks based on the choices themselves. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/668853 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/298 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929937 | Koivunen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Visa Koivunen (Espoo, Finland); Athina Petropulu (Bryn Maw, Pennsylvania); H. Vincent Poor (Princeton, New Jersey); Yuanning Yu (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for blind estimation of carrier frequency offsets (CFOs) and separation of user signals in wireless communications systems are provided. Blind estimation of CFOs (i.e., without knowledge of the conditions of the transmitter or the transmission medium/channel) is carried out in order to improve reception quality by a wireless communications device. A received RF signal is over-sampled by a pre-defined over-sampling factor, and polyphase components are extracted from the over-sampled signal. The polyphase components are used to construct a virtual receiver output matrix, e.g., a model of the received signal and its associated output matrix. System response conditions are blindly estimated by applying a blind system estimation algorithm to the virtual receiver output matrix. A plurality of CFO estimates are obtained from the estimated system response conditions, and can be used by an equalizer to adjust receiver parameters in accordance with the CFO estimates so as to maximize reception quality and to extract multiple user signals from the received signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923161 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07926588 | Judzis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Terratek Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arnis Judzis (Salt Lake City, Utah); Alan D. Black (Coral Springs, Florida); Sidney J. Green (Salt Lake City, Utah); Homer A. Robertson (West Jordan, Utah); Ronald G. Bland (Houston, Texas); David Alexander Curry (The Woodlands, Texas); Leroy W. Ledgerwood, III (Cypress, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | To improve drilling performance, a drilling fluid is selected based on one or more criteria and to have at least one target characteristic. Drilling equipment is used to drill a wellbore, and the selected drilling fluid is provided into the wellbore during drilling with the drilling equipment. The at least one target characteristic of the drilling fluid includes an ability of the drilling fluid to penetrate into formation cuttings during drilling to weaken the formation cuttings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337198 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926666 | Herman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Herman (Aiken, South Carolina); David N. Maxwell (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary filtration apparatus for filtering a feed fluid into permeate is provided. The rotary filtration apparatus includes a container that has a feed fluid inlet. A shaft is at least partially disposed in the container and has a passageway for the transport of permeate. A disk stack made of a plurality of filtration disks is mounted onto the shaft so that rotation of the shaft causes rotation of the filtration disks. The filtration disks may be made of steel components and may be welded together. The shaft may penetrate a filtering section of the container at a single location. The rotary filtration apparatus may also incorporate a bellows seal to prevent leakage along the shaft, and an around the shaft union rotary joint to allow for removal of permeate. Various components of the rotary filtration apparatus may be removed as a single assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245843 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07926793 | Stenkamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victoria S. Stenkamp (Richland, Washington); Ward E. TeGrotenhuis (Kennewick, Washington); Robert S. Wegeng (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Advanced wicking structures and methods utilizing these structures are described. The use of advanced wicking structures can promote rapid mass transfer while maintaining high capillary pressure through the use of small pores. Particularly improved results in fluid contacting processes can be achieved by enhanced mixing within a wicking layer within a microchannel. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430077 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas and liquid contact apparatus 261/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927095 | Chorpening et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin T. Chorpening (Morgantown, West Virginia); Jimmy D. Thornton (Morgantown, West Virginia); E. David Huckaby (Morgantown, West Virginia); William Fincham (Fairmont, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-varying voltage is applied to an electrode, or a pair of electrodes, of a sensor installed in a fuel nozzle disposed adjacent the combustion zone of a continuous combustion system, such as of the gas turbine engine type. The time-varying voltage induces a time-varying current in the flame which is measured and used to determine flame capacitance using AC electrical circuit analysis. Flame capacitance is used to accurately determine the position of the flame from the sensor and the fuel/air ratio. The fuel and/or air flow rate (s) is/are then adjusted to provide reduced flame instability problems such as flashback, combustion dynamics and lean blowout, as well as reduced emissions. The time-varying voltage may be an alternating voltage and the time-varying current may be an alternating current. |
| FILED | Sunday, September 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/864998 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927507 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen Li (El Segundo, California); John J. Vajo (West Hills, California); Robert W. Cumberland (Malibu, California); Ping Liu (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions for hydrogen storage and methods of making such compositions employ an alloy that exhibits reversible formation/deformation of BH4− anions. The composition includes a ternary alloy including magnesium, boron and a metal and a metal hydride. The ternary alloy and the metal hydride are present in an amount sufficient to render the composition capable of hydrogen storage. The molar ratio of the metal to magnesium and boron in the alloy is such that the alloy exhibits reversible formation/deformation of BH4− anions. The hydrogen storage composition is prepared by combining magnesium, boron and a metal to prepare a ternary alloy and combining the ternary alloy with a metal hydride to form the hydrogen storage composition. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404201 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/182.330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927748 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di-Jia Liu (Naperville, Illinois); Junbing Yang (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Xiaoping Wang (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell of the present invention comprises a cathode and an anode, one or both of the anode and the cathode including a catalyst comprising a bundle of longitudinally aligned graphitic carbon nanotubes including a catalytically active transition metal incorporated longitudinally and atomically distributed throughout the graphitic carbon walls of said nanotubes. The nanotubes also include nitrogen atoms and/or ions chemically bonded to the graphitic carbon and to the transition metal. Preferably, the transition metal comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, Mn, and Cr. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787118 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928343 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. King (Champaign, Illinois); Jungchul Lee (Champaign, Illinois); Fabian T. Goericke (Wolfsburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides microcantilever hotplate devices which incorporate temperature compensating strain sensors. The microcantilever hotplate devices of the present invention comprise microcantilevers having temperature compensating strain sensors and resistive heaters. The present invention also provides methods for using a microcantilever hotplate for temperature compensated surface stress measurements, chemical/biochemical sensing, measuring various properties of compounds adhered to the microcantilever hotplate surface, or for temperature compensated deflection measurements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/950029 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/444.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928375 | Mangan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Mangan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Matthew G. Blain (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chris P. Tigges (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Kevin L. Linker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An array of microfabricated linear Paul-Straubel ion traps can be used for mass spectrometric applications. Each ion trap comprises two parallel inner RF electrodes and two parallel outer DC control electrodes symmetric about a central trap axis and suspended over an opening in a substrate. Neighboring ion traps in the array can share a common outer DC control electrode. The ions confined transversely by an RF quadrupole electric field potential well on the ion trap axis. The array can trap a wide array of ions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254932 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928399 | Myjak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell J. Myjak (Richland, Washington); Carolyn E. Seifert (Kennewick, Washington); Scott J. Morris (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for imaging a radiation source, and a device that utilizes these methods that in one embodiment include the steps of: calculating at least one Compton cone of a first parameter of a radiation emission from information received from a sensor occurrence; and tracing this Compton cone on to a unit sphere having preselected characteristics using an estimated angular uncertainty to limit at least a portion of said tracing. In another embodiment of the invention at least two Compton cones are calculated and then intersected upon a predefined surface such as a sphere. These intersection points can then be iterated over a preselected series of prior events. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/518964 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928432 | Nuckolls 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) | Colin Nuckolls (New York, New York); Xuefeng Guo (New York, New York); Philip Kim (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to the fabrication of molecular electronics devices from molecular wires and Single Wall Nanotubes (SWNT). In one embodiment, the cutting of a SWNT is achieved by opening a window of small width by lithography patterning of a protective layer on top of the SWNT, followed by applying an oxygen plasma to the exposed SWNT portion. In another embodiment, the gap of a cut SWNT is reconnected by one or more difunctional molecules having appropriate lengths reacting to the functional groups on the cut SWNT ends to form covalent bonds. In another embodiment, the gap of a cut SWNT gap is filled with a self-assembled monolayer from derivatives of novel contorted hexabenzocoranenes. In yet another embodiment, a device based on molecular wire reconnecting a cut SWNT is used as a sensor to detect a biological binding event. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139218 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928561 | Weaver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Nishayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanton Earl Weaver (Northville, New York); Mehmet Arik (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided. The system includes a device that includes top and bottom thermally conductive substrates positioned opposite to one another, wherein a top surface of the bottom thermally conductive substrate is substantially atomically flat and a thermal blocking layer disposed between the top and bottom thermally conductive substrates. The device also includes top and bottom electrodes separated from one another between the top and bottom thermally conductive substrates to define a tunneling path, wherein the top electrode is disposed on the thermal blocking layer and the bottom electrode is disposed on the bottom thermally conductive substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/449002 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/712 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928608 | Lyons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory R. Lyons (Tijeras, New Mexico); Jay B. Hass (Lee's Summit, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention comprises a terminal unit for a flat cable comprising a BNC-PCB connector having a pin for electrically contacting one or more conducting elements of a flat cable, and a current viewing resistor having an opening through which the pin extends and having a resistor face that abuts a connector face of the BNC-PCB connector, wherein the device is a terminal unit for the flat cable. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110397 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929132 | Lupton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Mark Lupton (Salt Lake City, Utah); Michael H. Bartl (Salt Lake City, Utah); Debansu Chaudhuri (Salt Lake City, Utah); Jeremy Galusha (Arlington, Virginia); Nicholas Borys (Salt Lake City, Utah); Manfred Josef Walter (Unterfoehring, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for performing transmission microscopy on a sample material are disclosed. The sample material is placed on a metal nanoparticle substrate. High intensity light, such as an infrared laser, is focused on the nanoparticle substrate, thereby exciting the silver nanoparticles. The excited nanoparticles emit intensely focused, spectrally broad white light that is able to pass through the sample material without significant scattering even when the sample material is highly diffuse. The emitted light that passes through the sample material is detected and used to generate images and characterize features of the sample material, including the internal structural composition of the sample material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/501068 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929138 | Webb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Webb (Somerville, Massachusetts); Gary M. Hieftje (Bloomington, Indiana); Francisco Andrade (Leeds, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | An ambient atmosphere glow discharge spectrometer is disclosed having a capillary, two electrodes and a means for recording the atomic emissions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336679 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929439 | Underwood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith D. Underwood (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Karl Scott Hemmert (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A network interface controller and network interface control method comprising providing a single integrated circuit as a network interface controller and employing a plurality of network interface cores on the single integrated circuit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243709 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929662 | Warner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin P. Warner (Los Alamos, New Mexico); George J. Havrilla (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Thomasin C. Miller (Bartlesville, Oklahoma); Cris Lewis (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cynthia A. Mahan (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cyndi A. Wells (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus for screening chemicals using micro x-ray fluorescence. A method for screening a mixture of potential pharmaceutical chemicals for binding to at least one target binder involves flow separating a solution of chemicals and target binders into separated components, exposing them to an x-ray excitation beam, detecting x-ray fluorescence signals from the components, and determining from the signals whether or not a binding event between a chemical and target binder has occurred. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/396592 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930584 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Edward Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and program product determine a nodal fault along the boundary, or face, of a computing cell. Nodes on adjacent cell boundaries communicate with each other, and the communications are analyzed to determine if a node or connection is faulty. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248175 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930595 | Gooding |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Michael Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An analytical mechanism for a massively parallel computer system automatically analyzes data retrieved from the system, and identifies nodes which exhibit anomalous behavior in comparison to their immediate neighbors. Preferably, anomalous behavior is determined by comparing call-return stack tracebacks for each node, grouping like nodes together, and identifying neighboring nodes which do not themselves belong to the group. A node, not itself in the group, having a large number of neighbors in the group, is a likely locality of error. The analyzer preferably presents this information to the user by sorting the neighbors according to number of adjoining members of the group. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/425773 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07926296 | Wessling, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis C. Wessling, Jr. (Huntsville, Alabama); James M. Blackwood (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase change material comprising a mixture of water and deuterium oxide is described, wherein the mole fraction of deuterium oxide is selected so that the mixture has a selected phase change temperature within a range between 0° C. and 4° C. The mixture is placed in a container and used for passive storage and transport of biomaterials and other temperature sensitive materials. Gels, nucleating agents, freezing point depression materials and colorants may be added to enhance the characteristics of the mixture. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/808677 |
| ART UNIT | 3784 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07927278 | Selzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Selzer (Los Angeles, California); Howard N. Hodis (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A standardized acquisition methodology assists operators to accurately replicate high resolution B-mode ultrasound images obtained over several spaced-apart examinations utilizing a split-screen display in which the arterial ultrasound image from an earlier examination is displayed on one side of the screen while a real-time “live” ultrasound image from a current examination is displayed next to the earlier image on the opposite side of the screen. By viewing both images, whether simultaneously or alternately, while manually adjusting the ultrasound transducer, an operator is able to bring into view the real-time image that best matches a selected image from the earlier ultrasound examination. Utilizing this methodology, dynamic material properties of arterial structures, such as IMT and diameter, are measured in a standard region over successive image frames. Each frame of the sequence has its echo edge boundaries automatically determined by using the immediately prior frame's true echo edge coordinates as initial boundary conditions. Computerized echo edge recognition and tracking over multiple successive image frames enhances measurement of arterial diameter and IMT and allows for improved vascular dimension measurements, including vascular stiffness and IMT determinations. |
| FILED | Friday, December 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/319411 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928381 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Apparati, Inc. (Hollister, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Kelly (Portola Valley, California); Charles E. Bryson, III (Hollister, California); Warren Wu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-dispersive electrostatic energy analyzer for electrons and other charged particles having a generally coaxial structure of a sequentially arranged sections of an electrostatic lens to focus the beam through an iris and preferably including an ellipsoidally shaped input grid for collimating a wide acceptance beam from a charged-particle source, an electrostatic high-pass filter including a planar exit grid, and an electrostatic low-pass filter. The low-pass filter is configured to reflect low-energy particles back towards a charged particle detector located within the low-pass filter. Each section comprises multiple tubular or conical electrodes arranged about the central axis. The voltages on the lens are scanned to place a selected energy band of the accepted beam at a selected energy at the iris. Voltages on the high-pass and low-pass filters remain substantially fixed during the scan. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437986 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928533 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyu Zheng (Monterey Park, California); Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California); Thomas J. Cunningham (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An avalanche photodiode with a nano-scale reach-through structure comprising n-doped and p-doped regions, formed on a silicon island on an insulator, so that the avalanche photodiode may be electrically isolated from other circuitry on other silicon islands on the same silicon chip as the avalanche photodiode. For some embodiments, multiplied holes generated by an avalanche reduces the electric field in the depletion region of the n-doped and p-doped regions to bring about self-quenching of the avalanche photodiode. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191843 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929144 | Polzin 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) | Kurt A. Polzin (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Valentin Korman (Huntsville, Alabama); William K. Witherow (Huntsville, Alabama); Adam Gail Hendrickson (Madison, Alabama); John Elihu Sinko (Oberlin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A free-space optical path of an optical interferometer is disposed in an environment of interest. A light beam is guided to the optical interferometer using a single-mode optical fiber. The light beam traverses the interferometer's optical path. The light beam guided to the optical path is combined with the light beam at the end of the optical path to define an output light. A temporal history of the output light is recorded. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336260 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07929733 | Lehnert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Lehnert (Herndon, Virginia); Jeffrey C. Boushell (Chantilly, Virginia); Peng Yuan (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for identifying an unknown individual from a plurality of enrolled individuals is provided. In an embodiment, the method comprises comparing at least two parameters of the unknown individual to at least two enrolled parameters of the enrolled individuals. The method then determines a score correlating to the closeness of the comparison and then stores the score. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/356061 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929948 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, South Korea); The University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. In another embodiment of the present invention, an authentication server transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs to which the STA is likely to move, so that when the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192699 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930538 | Israel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Israel (Columbia, Maryland); Colin Richmond (Westminster, Maryland); Darrel Sharpe (Millersville, Maryland); Erik Wohlgemuth (Westminster, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of securely transferring files from an un-trusted to a trusted network is disclosed. A file that is an archive file of many component files is separated into constituent files. Each file is stored on a first computer connected to an un-trusted network, and a series of initial checks, such as virus, file size, and file extension are performed. If the files pass, the file is transferred to a second server using a one-way file transfer mechanism. A series of secondary checks, similar to the initial checks is performed on each file transferred. For text files or images, a simplified security rule is applied. An open format transform is performed on proprietary format type files, and embedded file components are separated out. A user-definable security rule set is performed on each open format transform component. If all security tests pass, the file is reassembled and transferred to the trusted network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/268756 |
| ART UNIT | 2439 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07928409 | Perkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Perkins (Boulder, Colorado); Gavin M. King (Boulder, Colorado); Ashley R. Carter (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for aligning, stabilizing and registering two or more structures in one or more dimensional space with picometer-scale precision. Low noise laser light is scattered by at least one or more structure or fiducial marks. One mark may be coupled to each structure to be positioned. The light which has been scattered off the fiducial marks is collected in a photo-sensitive device which enables real-time high-bandwidth position sensing of each structure. One or more of the structures should be mounted on a stage, and the stage can move in either one or more dimensions. The photo-sensitive device generates signals in response to the scattered light received, and the signals are used to modulate the position of the stage in a feedback loop. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/545498 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/491.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929948 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (, South Korea); The University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | In-Sun Lee (Seoul, South Korea); Kyung-Hun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea); Min-Ho Shin (Laurel, Maryland); William Albert Arbaugh (Ellicott City, Maryland); Arunesh Mishra (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A roaming service method for a fast and secure wireless network is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, an AP, which an STA associates with, transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs of the AP. When the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. In another embodiment of the present invention, an authentication server transmits proactive keys needed for roaming to neighbor APs to which the STA is likely to move, so that when the STA moves to one of the neighbor APs, a reassociation is carried out between the STA and the neighbor AP using the already provided proactive key. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192699 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/411 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07927402 | Grzeslak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kazimierz T. Grzeslak (Bedford, New Hampshire); Jason Stockwell (Brookline, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for removing moisture from an optical system at high altitude, the improvement comprises using the difference in flow resistance between the desiccant path and the optical cavity path to enable airflow through the desiccant unit and not through the optical path. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/349953 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928398 | Du et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morpho Detection, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yanfeng Du (Rexford, New York); Naresh Kesavan Rao (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention includes a radiation detecting pixel array. The radiation detecting pixel array includes a substrate, a plurality of radiation detecting pixels arranged in a grid pattern on the substrate, a signal routing array embedded within the substrate in operative communication with the plurality of radiation detecting pixels, and at least two symmetrical communication channels arranged on each of two sides of the grid pattern. The signal routing array is formed of communication channels configured to provide operative communication between any of the plurality of radiation detecting pixels and each of the at least two symmetrical communication channels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/335636 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07928381 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Apparati, Inc. (Hollister, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Kelly (Portola Valley, California); Charles E. Bryson, III (Hollister, California); Warren Wu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-dispersive electrostatic energy analyzer for electrons and other charged particles having a generally coaxial structure of a sequentially arranged sections of an electrostatic lens to focus the beam through an iris and preferably including an ellipsoidally shaped input grid for collimating a wide acceptance beam from a charged-particle source, an electrostatic high-pass filter including a planar exit grid, and an electrostatic low-pass filter. The low-pass filter is configured to reflect low-energy particles back towards a charged particle detector located within the low-pass filter. Each section comprises multiple tubular or conical electrodes arranged about the central axis. The voltages on the lens are scanned to place a selected energy band of the accepted beam at a selected energy at the iris. Voltages on the high-pass and low-pass filters remain substantially fixed during the scan. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437986 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07928875 | Kirichenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dmitri Kirichenko (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A superconducting Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) employing rapid-single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) logic is disclosed. The ADC has only superconductor active components, and is characterized as being an Nth-order bandpass sigma-delta ADC, with the order “N” being at least 2. The ADC includes a sequence of stages, which stages include feedback loops and resonators. The ADC further includes active superconducting components which directionally couple resonator pairs of adjacent stages. The active superconducting components electrically shield the higher order resonator from the lower order resonator. These active superconductor components include a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) amplifier, which is inductively coupled to the higher order resonator, and may include a Josephson transmission line (JTL), which is configured to electrically connect the SQUID amplifier to the lower order resonator. The first stage of ADC may employ an implicit feedback loop. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/548396 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07928286 | Hill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis B. Hill (Champaign, Illinois); Glen L. Hartman (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An Aphis glycines resistance Rag2 gene is provided herein, along with methods for identifying its presence using marker-assisted selection. A cultivar of G. max having resistance to Aphis glycines conferred by the Rag2 gene has been identified. The Rag2 gene, as well as the methods, aphid-resistant varieties, and markers disclosed herein may be used to breed new elite lines expressing soybean aphid resistance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869500 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07927569 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting By and Through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren W. Johnson (Eugene, Oregon); Elisabeth Rather Healey (Tampa, Florida); Jason T. Gatlin (Eugene, Oregon); Zachary L. Mensinger (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Metallic clusters can be produced by contacting a metal salt such as a metal nitrate with an organic reducing agent. Metals can be selected from a group consisting of metals exhibiting octahedral coordination, and nitrates of the selected metal or metals are contacted with, for example nitrosobenzene. Binary, tertiary, or other clusters can be produced. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541889 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07930062 | Barnum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy B. Barnum (Severna Park, Maryland); George Laws (Goldvein, Virginia); Leung M. Shiu (Gaithersburg, Maryland); James E. Goodbar, III (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods that allow for orienting and delivering mail between a postage verifier and a mail sorter. A postage verifier includes an optical character reader for decoding addresses on mail pieces that do not have bar codes. A reverter orients mail from the postage verifier into a position required for processing by the mail sorter. A combination of mail carrying modules carry the mail from the reverter to the mail sorter. The mail sorter prints bar code information on mail lacking bar codes, when the data is available, and sorts the mail based on the bar code information. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444510 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07927852 | Sherman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mountain View Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Merry R. Sherman (San Carlos, California); Mark G. P. Saifer (San Carlos, California); L. David Williams (Fremont, California); Michael S. Hershfield (Durham, North Carolina); Susan J. Kelly (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A naturally occurring or recombinant protein, especially a mutein of porcine urate oxidase (uricase), that is essentially free of large aggregates can be rendered substantially non-immunogenic by conjugation with a sufficiently small number of strands of polymer such that the bioactivity of the protein is essentially retained in the conjugate. Such conjugates are unusually well suited for treatment of chronic conditions because they are less likely to induce the formation of antibodies and/or accelerated clearance than are similar conjugates prepared from protein preparations containing traces of large aggregates. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/882750 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07929017 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manoj Aggarwal (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Harpreet Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Keith Hanna (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Tao Zhao (Plainsboro, New Jersey); David R. Patterson (Yardley, Pennsylvania); David Kalokitis (Robbinsville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A unified approach, a fusion technique, a space-time constraint, a methodology, and system architecture are provided. The unified approach is to fuse the outputs of monocular and stereo video trackers, RFID and localization systems and biometric identification systems. The fusion technique is provided that is based on the transformation of the sensory information from heterogeneous sources into a common coordinate system with rigorous uncertainties analysis to account for various sensor noises and ambiguities. The space-time constraint is used to fuse different sensor using the location and velocity information. Advantages include the ability to continuously track multiple humans with their identities in a large area. The methodology is general so that other sensors can be incorporated into the system. The system architecture is provided for the underlying real-time processing of the sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/192682 |
| ART UNIT | 2483 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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