FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, April 26, 2011
This page was updated on Monday, March 27, 2023 at 02:00 AM GMT
Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 07930808 | Sadeck |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. Sadeck (East Freetown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible connection and release device which allows quick release while under load. The device comprises a first link; a second link; a first sling having one end attached to the first link; a second sling having one end attached to the second link; a tab attached to the first sling; a grommet contained in the tab; a curved length of a first flexible cable connected between two fixed points in the first sling on either side of the tab; a second flexible cable; and a pin or a third flexible cable. The links are connected together with multiple turns of the second flexible cable which forms a loop at its center. The curved length of the first flexible cable is passed through the loop in the second flexible cable and through the grommet so that a part of the first flexible cable protrudes from the grommet. The pin or third cable is passed through the protruding part of the first flexible cable to lock the first flexible cable in place. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/220398 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc. 024/573.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930923 | Patel et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Florida Board of Trustees (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nirmalkumar G. Patel (Jacksonville, Florida); Jay S. Huebner (Jacksonville, Florida); Brian E. Stadelmaier (Jacksonville, Florida); Jason J. Saredy (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanocrystalline ITO thin film formed on a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) facilitates detection of gaseous compounds emitted from an analyte. Adsorption of gas molecules onto the nanocrystalline ITO thin film changes the resonant frequency of the quartz crystal. Parameters such as the frequency of oscillation, surface resistance, integrated frequency response, integrated surface resistance response, initial response slope, average return to baseline slope, and/or return to baseline time/initial response time ratio of the quartz crystal with the nanocrystalline ITO thin film formed thereon are determined. Using the determined parameters and principal component analysis, principal components for the gaseous compounds are also determined. These determined principal components may be compared with known principal components corresponding to known analytes. The analyte may include any distinguishable substance, in any state that emits at least one gaseous compound that can be adsorbed on the nanocrystalline ITO thin film. Nonlimiting examples of analytes include alcoholic beverages, fruits, explosive compounds, VOCs, petroleum-based fuels, alkanes, aldehydes and ketones. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416922 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930926 | Michaels |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Michaels (Boise, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Permeability of a fluid through a saturated material is determined by measuring the dynamic response of that saturated material to shaking vibrations and/or shear wave propagation, and then mapping the dynamic response (preferably, viscoelastic stiffness and damping properties) to an invented model (called “KVMB”) that yields the property of permeability. The preferred embodiments may use shear waves, inertial effects, and/or transmission effects, but preferably not compression, to force fluids through the pores. The mapping preferably predicts two possible mappings to permeability, coupled and uncoupled. The preferred methods are both internally consistent and directly related to known laws of physics rather than dependent on empirical calibrations. In use, for example, one may use a porosity log (conventional neutron or sonic) and recordings of SH-waves to obtain damping ratio, followed by locating of the damping ratio on a KVMB map that depends on porosity, and choosing of one of the two possible permeabilities indicated by the mapping, wherein the best choice is typically the largely coupled case. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113937 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07930976 | Kellett et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense Company (Simsbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Kellett (Longmeadow, Massachusetts); Carl F. Mallery, Jr. (Simsbury, Connecticut); Robert B. Korcsmaros (New Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure includes a substrate of a first material and a second material coating at least a portion of the substrate, where the second material is different from the first material, where the first and second materials, upon being thermally energized, react with each other in an exothermic and self-sustaining alloying reaction that propagates from a first location within the structure along a travel path to a second location within the structure at a rate that depends upon one or more characteristics of the first and second materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832845 |
| 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 12/275.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931063 | Craig et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon S. W. Craig (Palo Alto, California); Kenneth D. Schatz (Los Altos, California); Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California); Paul S. Drzaic (Morgan Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a device. The method comprises placing a functional element in a first opening formed in a template substrate and transferring the functional element to a device substrate having a second opening formed therein wherein the functional element is held within the second opening and against an adhesive film coupled to the device substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820603 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/379.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931178 | Rome et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lighting Packs, LLC (Straford, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence C Rome (Strafford, Pennsylvania); Andy L Ruina (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A suspended-load backpack designed to permit the load to move relative to the wearer during walking and running so that the large movements between the load and the wearer of the backpack reduce the fluctuations of vertical motion of the load with respect to ground. Because the hip (and thus the pack body) goes up a down a good deal during walking, a large relative movement between the wearer and the load reduces the absolute excursion of the load. This movement may be, in turn, transferred to a motor through, for example, a rack and pinion gear, to convert the mechanical movement to electrical or mechanical energy. Such movement of the suspended-load relative to the wearer also reduces the forces on the wearer's body while walking or running, thus reducing the likelihood of orthopedic injury. The suspended-load backpack includes a suspension system having a first portion connected to shoulder straps directly or through an interface and a second portion connected to the pack body and a compliant mechanism that permits the second portion of the suspension system and the pack body to move up and down relative to the first portion of the suspension system in accordance with a gait of the wearer of the backpack. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957222 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Package and article carriers 224/634 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931231 | Cherepinsky et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Cherepinsky (Sandy Hook, Connecticut); Joseph T. Driscoll (Cheshire, Connecticut); Stella Jang (Bridgeport, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight control system and method which determines an expected power required data in response to a flight control command of the at least one model following control law and utilizes the expected power required data to perform at least one action to control an engine speed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/026560 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/17.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931240 | Kothera et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Techno-Sciences, Inc. (Calverton, Maryland); University of Maryland (Riverdale, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curt S. Kothera (Crofton, Maryland); Benjamin K. S. Woods (College Park, Maryland); Norman M. Wereley (Potomac, Maryland); Peter C. Chen (Clarksville, Maryland); Edward A. Bubert (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for controlling a vehicle, including a fluid contact surface constructed and arranged to act against a fluid passing over the fluid contact surface; and a support structure coupled to the fluid contact surface. The support structure is constructed and arranged to expand or contract between a first position and a second position, such that a first dimension of the support structure changes during movement of the support structure between the first position and the second position, while a second dimension of the support structure remains substantially constant during the movement of the support structure between the first position and the second position. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707052 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931407 | Begin et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis P. Begin (Chandler, Arizona); Bradley R. Tucker (Chandler, Arizona); John P. Hogan (Gilbert, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems are provided for supplying oil from an oil source to a bearing assembly, the bearing assembly including a cage having a forward rail and an aft rail, and at least one bearing disposed therebetween. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847516 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Bearings 384/475 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931437 | Johnson |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Johnson (Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A one piece axial flow turbine case with an inlet volute and an outlet volute with an axial flow turbine positioned between the inlet and outlet volutes, in which the turbine vanes and blades can be installed or removed from one side of the case without disassembling the two volutes. The one piece turbine case eliminates the mating flange, the flange seal, and the flange bolts required in the two piece turbine volute case. The one piece axial flow turbine case reduces the part count, reduces the weight of the turbine, improves the reliability of the turbine, and improved the performance of the turbine. The annular guide vane assembly with an annular outer shroud having guide vanes extending from the shroud is inserted through an opening of the turbine case. The vane outer shroud extends aft to form an outer shroud for the turbine blades. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/903560 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931592 | Currie et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia); Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Currie (Bethesda, Maryland); Makarand Paranjape (Arlington, Virginia); Carl C. Peck (Rockville, Maryland); Robert C. White (Fairfax, Virginia); Thomas W. Schneider (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention pertains to a system and method for transdermal sampling, comprising: at least one sampler for retrieving and transferring at least one analyte obtained transdermally from the skin of a subject; at least one detector system for identifying and quantifying said at least one analyte; and at least one logic module for (i) receiving and storing input data from said at least one detector, (ii) relating the input data to other data obtained from the subject, (iii) displaying output information, (iv) transmitting the output information to another system, and (v) controlling the operation of said at least one sampler and at least one detector. |
| FILED | Monday, March 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/090156 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931762 | Fallis et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| 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 (San Marcos, Texas) |
| 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 | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236041 |
| 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 07931794 | Happer et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Happer (Princeton, New Jersey); Yuan-Yu Jau (Princeton, New Jersey); Fei Gong (Princeton, New Jersey); Katharine Estelle Jensen (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method and system for electrolytic fabrication of cells. A cell can be formed of a silicon layer (cathode) sandwiched between layers of glass. One or more holes are formed in the silicon layer. An alkali metal enriched glass material is placed in or associated with the one or more holes. Electrolysis is used to make the alkali metal ions in the alkali metal enriched glass material combine with electrons from the silicon cathode to form neutral alkali metal atoms in the one or more holes. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/591909 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931904 | Kufe |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Kufe (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of identifying and making compounds that inhibit the interaction between MUC1 and either p53 or TBP. Also embraced by the invention are in vivo and in vitro methods of inhibiting such an interaction and of inhibiting the expression of MUC1 by a cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/816402 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931919 | Bakaltcheva et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irina B. Bakaltcheva (Springfield, Virginia); Lloyd Ketchum (Duluth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to stabilized whole-cell plasma, which retains the integrity and overall stability of the proteins and other macromolecules of the plasma. Stabilization is accomplished by the addition of glycine to plasma which allows for stabilization prior to freeze drying. Glycine, in the presence of the salt concentration in the plasma, does not recrystallize and acts as a superior stabilizer for the lyophilized plasma. The stability of the freeze dried plasma may be further improved by addition of protectants including calcium chloride, trisodium citrate, hydroxyethyl starch, ammonium sulfate and citric acid to maintain physiologic pH. Superior stability for a wide variety of plasma proteins and functions is shown. A system for the large scale preparation of sterile lyophilized plasma is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/503373 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931961 | Lucas et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, West Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rick D. Lucas (St. Clairsville, Ohio); Douglas J. Merriman (Wheeling, West Virginia); Gregg W. Wolfe (Weeling, West Virginia); Brian L. Gordon (Wheeling, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite exhaust flue which may be used to shield an area or object from convective, conductive, or radiated heat transfer from hot exhaust combustion gases is described. In certain embodiments, the composite exhaust flue may be used to protect structures from hot exhaust gases and particles such as those produced by cars, trucks, ships, boats, jets, rockets, as well as other vehicles with internal combustion engines, turbines, or rocket motors. In some embodiments, a composite exhaust flue may comprise a ceramic fiber reinforced ceramic composite high temperature face sheet positioned over an insulating layer and a structural support layer comprising a rigid, porous foam material. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170457 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/307.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931978 | Cardenas-Valencia et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (Tampa, Florida); Carl J. Biver (Clearwater, Florida); Lawrence C. Langebrake (Seminole, Florida); John Bumgarner (Clearwater, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Halogenated organic compounds that are inexpensive and are readily available have been used to present the examples of the invention. These chemicals, when in contact with water experience a reaction that releases oxy-halogenated acid. These compounds are weak acids and release hydrogen ions according to their ionization constant keeping a constant level of oxy-halogenated ion. These ions are capable of reacting with catalytic cathodes and can be coupled with anode materials to fabricate galvanic cells. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention include cells with flat and cylindrical form factors having a variety of anodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746326 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932023 | Hoelz et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek J. Hoelz (Indianapolis, Indiana); Robert J. Hickey (Indianapolis, Indiana); Linda H. Malkas (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions to detect the presence of csPCNA isoform by identifying one or more posttranslational modifications are disclosed. Methods to identify csPCNA isoform through posttranslational modifications including methylesterification levels are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/993252 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932096 | Jhaveri et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sulay Jhaveri (Alexandria, Virginia); Mario Ancona (Alexandria, Virginia); Edward E Foos (Alexandria, Virginia); Eddie L Chang (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA strand comprising the steps of providing nanoclusters, combining said nanoclusters with thiolated DNA, incubating said nanoclusters and thiolated DNA mixture, combining said mixture with a solution comprising ethanol and dichloromethane; separating said mixture into an aqueous phase and an organic phase, mixing said aqueous phase with a solution comprising dicholormethane and NaCl, and separating the mixture into an aqueous phase and an organic phase; wherein said organic phase comprises said nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA strand. Further, provided is a nanocluster functionalized with a single DNA strand comprising a nanocluster, said nanocluster being functionalized with a single DNA strand, said DNA strand having a length of about 10 to about 50 bases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574401 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/166 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932212 | Taylor et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology (Belleville, New Jersey); Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alice P. Taylor (Alpharetta, Georgia); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey); Chien-Hsing Chang (Downingtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns methods and compositions for inhibiting angiogenesis and/or tumor growth, survival and/or metastasis. In particular embodiments, the methods and compositions may concern ligands against placenta growth factor (PlGF), such as BP-1, BP-2, BP-3 or BP-4. Some methods may comprise administering one or more PlGF ligands, alone or in combination with one or more other agents, such as chemotherapeutic agents, other anti-angiogenic agents, immunotherapeutic agents or radioimmunotherapeutic agents to a subject. The PlGF ligands are effective to inhibit angiogenesis, tumor cell motility, tumor metastasis, tumor growth and/or tumor survival. In certain embodiments, PlGF ligands may be administered to subjects to ameliorate other angiogenesis related conditions, such as macular degeneration. In some embodiments, PlGF expression levels may be determined by any known method to select those patients most likely to respond to PlGF targeted therapies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/620013 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932492 | Demmons et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Busek Co. Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathaniel Demmons (Mason, New Hampshire); Roy Martin (Grafton, Massachusetts); Vladimir Hruby (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas Roy (Newton, Massachusetts); Douglas Spence (Brookline, Massachusetts); Eric Ehrbar (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jurg Zwahlen (Ipswich, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospray device includes an electrospray emitter adapted to receive electrospray fluid; an extractor plate spaced from the electrospray emitter and having at least one aperature; and a power supply for applying a first voltage between the extractor plate and emitter for generating at least one Taylor cone emission through the aperature to create an electrospray plume from the electrospray fluid, the extractor plate as well as accelerator and shaping plates may include a porous, conductive medium for transporting and storing excess, accumulated electrospray fluid away from the aperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460127 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932514 | Farinelli et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Farinelli (Bronx, New York); George A. Keefe (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Shwetank Kumar (White Plains, New York); Matthias Steffen (Cortlandt Manor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining whether a quantum system comprising a superconducting qubit is occupying a first basis state or a second basis state once a measurement is performed is provided. The method, comprising: applying a signal having a frequency through a transmission line coupled to the superconducting qubit characterized by two distinct, separate, and stable states of differing resonance frequencies each corresponding to the occupation of the first or second basis state prior to measurement; and measuring at least one of an output power or phase at an output port of the transmission line, wherein the measured output power or phase is indicative of whether the superconducting qubit is occupying the first basis state or the second basis state. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/126015 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932718 | Wiegert |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Wiegert (Panama City Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic anomaly sensing system and method uses at least four triaxial magnetometer (TM) sensors with each of the TM sensors having X,Y,Z magnetic sensing axes. The TM sensors are arranged in a three-dimensional array with respective ones of the X,Y,Z magnetic sensing axes being mutually parallel to one another. The three-dimensional array defines a geometry that forms at least one single-axis gradiometer along each of the X,Y,Z magnetic sensing axes. Information sensed by the TM sensors is to generate scalar magnitudes of a magnetic anomaly field measured at each of the TM sensors, comparisons of the scalar magnitudes to at least one threshold value, distance to a source of the magnetic anomaly field using the scalar magnitudes when the threshold value(s) is exceeded, and a magnetic dipole moment of the source using the distance. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383083 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932777 | Zipfel, Jr. et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Gustave Zipfel, Jr. (Summit, New Jersey); Christie Lewis Zipfel (Summit, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A switching amplifier drives balanced piezoelectric or other capacitive or reactive loads with a minimum physical electronics volume, enabling a compact arrangement that can combine amplifier and transducer at the same physical location. Power supply current is minimized by using two or more transducers driven with phase-shifted signals, resulting in stored energy being cycled between the transducers rather than being carried over the power supply lines for storage in a power supply. Auxiliary power supply capacitors to store energy coming out of the load can thus be minimized. The modulation scheme puts the switching frequencies in common-mode while the baseband signals are differential mode. The common-mode switching frequency signals are blocked from the loads by a common-mode inductor. The common-mode inductor can be physically small as a result of the large baseband load currents being in differential mode. Low-volume load filters are made possible by the fact that they are not called upon to filter signals at the fundamental switching frequency but only at higher frequencies. The loads are biased independently of the baseband signals. The switching amplifier can drive balanced loads comprising two, three or more individual load elements. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/783499 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933080 | Sharrow et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph F. Sharrow (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Christopher P. Behre, Jr. (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A mounting mechanism is provided for aligning and securing an optical instrument to a platform. The mechanism includes a housing, a trunnion and a base-plate. The housing receives the optical instrument along a longitudinal axis. The housing includes an attach support for the optical instrument, and an interface having vertically-facing cylindrical-fastener orifices. The trunnion supports the housing at the interface. The trunnion has pluralities of vertical slots and horizontal slots. Each vertical slot overlaps a corresponding vertical orifice. The vertical slots provide elevation displacement to vertically translate and pitch the housing. The horizontal slots provide lateral displacement to horizontally translate and yaw the housing. The base-plate supports the trunnion and is mountable onto the platform. The base-plate has a plurality of horizontally-facing cylindrical-fastener orifices. Each horizontal slot on the trunnion overlaps a corresponding horizontal orifice on the base-plate. Each orifice of the vertically- and horizontally-facing orifices receives a cylindrical-fastener that passes through a counterpart slot of the vertical and horizontal slots. Each cylindrical fastener for each orifice corresponds to a helical screw. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460177 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/819 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933237 | Anjum et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Licensing Company, LLC (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farooq Anjum (Somerset, New Jersey); Latha Kant (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Alexander Poylisher (Brooklyn, New York); Ritu Chadha (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for controlling ingress to a communications network to control quality of service is described. A request to admit a new communications flow is received. A polynomial and its coefficients representing a state of the network is determined and applied to the network state plus the new communications flow to determine whether admission of the new communications flow would cause the network to operate in a stable or unstable state. In response to determining that the network would operate in the unstable state, a communications flow for the ingress device is downgraded in its quality of service. By another approach, it is determined whether the new communications flow exceeds an allocated quota of bandwidth. Admission or rejection of the communications flow can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/645451 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933554 | Hoyt et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reed W. Hoyt (Framingham, Massachusetts); John F. Lanza (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic induction data transmission network comprising a master hub, at least one sensor node communicatively coupled to the master hub and a magnetic induction coil preferably adapted to be worn about a bodypart of a subject such as an individual's waist or neck. In at least one embodiment of the invention, the magnetic induction coil preferably includes a connector which serves as an intermediary between the coil and the hub to allow data communication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/022651 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/41.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933645 | Strychacz et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Strychacz (San Diego, California); Erik Viirre (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of determining early onset of motion sickness by brain imaging. The method discloses an objective means of determining the onset of motion sickness by evaluating a specific region of the brain. The method can also be utilized in evaluating the predisposition toward motion sickness in workers in occupations prone to motion sickness. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398737 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933725 | Krone |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Kevin Krone (Wentzville, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting and/or isolating a fault of a sensor in a system in substantially real time or in non-real time (e.g., using off-line analysis). A spectral energy of a signal of the sensor is determined over a predetermined range of frequencies within a window of samples of the signal. The determined spectral energy is evaluated for consistency with a substantially current state of the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/931995 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933740 | Castelli et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Michail Vlachos (Elmsford, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Arrangements and methods for performing structural clustering between different time series. Time series data relating to a plurality of time series is accepted, structural features relating to the time series data are ascertained, and at least one distance between different time series via employing the structural features is determined. The different time series may be partitioned into clusters based on the at least one distance, and/or the k closest matches to a given time series query based on the at least one distance may be returned. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550571 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933764 | Kang et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Myong Kang (Fairfax, Virginia); Bruce Montrose (Alexandria, Virginia); Jim Luo (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | UDDI is not capable of handling semantic markups for Web services due to its flat data model and limited search capabilities. The present invention provides semantic service description and matchmaking with registries that conforms to UDDI specification. Specifically, the present invention stores complex semantic markups in UDDI data model and uses that information to perform semantic query processing. The present invention does not require any modification to the existing UDDI registries. The add-on modules reside only on clients who wish to take advantage of semantic capabilities. This approach is completely backward compatible and can integrate seamlessly into existing UDDI infrastructure. |
| FILED | Friday, January 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/620336 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933940 | Frigo et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matteo Frigo (Austin, Texas); Volker Strumpen (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Parallel prefix circuits for computing a cyclic segmented prefix operation with a mesh topology are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, the elements (prefix nodes) of the mesh are arranged in row-major order. Values are accumulated toward the center of the mesh and partial results are propagated outward from the center of the mesh to complete the cyclic segmented prefix operation. This embodiment has been shown to be time-optimal. In another embodiment of the present invention, the prefix nodes are arranged such that the prefix node corresponding to the last element in the array is located at the center of the array. This alternative embodiment is not only time-optimal when accounting for wire-lengths (and therefore propagation delays), but it is also asympotically optimal in terms of minimizing the number of segmented prefix operators. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408099 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07934031 | Lines et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew M. Lines (Calabasas, California); Alain J. Martin (Pasadena, California); Uri Cummings (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An asynchronous logic family of circuits which communicate on delay-insensitive flow-controlled channels with 4-phase handshakes and 1 of N encoding, compute output data directly from input data using domino logic, and use the state-holding ability of the domino logic to implement pipelining without additional latches. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433203 |
| ART UNIT | 2182 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07934061 | da Silva et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dilma Menezes da Silva (White Plains, New York); Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy (Austin, Texas); Orran Yaakov Krieger (Newton, Massachusetts); Hazim Shafi (Austin, Texas); Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Robert Brett Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and media for reducing memory latency seen by processors by providing a measure of control over on-chip memory (OCM) management to software applications, implicitly and/or explicitly, via an operating system are contemplated. Many embodiments allow part of the OCM to be managed by software applications via an application program interface (API), and part managed by hardware. Thus, the software applications can provide guidance regarding address ranges to maintain close to the processor to reduce unnecessary latencies typically encountered when dependent upon cache controller policies. Several embodiments utilize a memory internal to the processor or on a processor node so the memory block used for this technique is referred to as OCM. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/145034 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07934190 | Allen et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffery C. Allen (San Diego, California); David F. Schwartz (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes generating at least one matrix representing a two-port, generating gain, noise, and stability functions of a system comprising the two-port, a generator connected to one port of the two-port, the generator having a generator reflectance, and a load connected to the other port of the two-port, the load having a load reflectance, and optimizing the gain, noise, and stability functions. The two-port comprises a non-reactive multi-port modeled by an orthogonal matrix, and at least one amplifier connected to the non-reactive multi-port. The orthogonal matrix is parameterized using an exponential map of skew-symmetric matrices having components restricted to an interval from −π to π. The gain, noise, and stability functions are generated using the generated matrix, the generator reflectance, and the load reflectance, The gain, noise, and stability functions are parameterized by the skew-symmetric matrices. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/238353 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/132 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
| US 07931178 | Rome et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lighting Packs, LLC (Straford, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence C Rome (Strafford, Pennsylvania); Andy L Ruina (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A suspended-load backpack designed to permit the load to move relative to the wearer during walking and running so that the large movements between the load and the wearer of the backpack reduce the fluctuations of vertical motion of the load with respect to ground. Because the hip (and thus the pack body) goes up a down a good deal during walking, a large relative movement between the wearer and the load reduces the absolute excursion of the load. This movement may be, in turn, transferred to a motor through, for example, a rack and pinion gear, to convert the mechanical movement to electrical or mechanical energy. Such movement of the suspended-load relative to the wearer also reduces the forces on the wearer's body while walking or running, thus reducing the likelihood of orthopedic injury. The suspended-load backpack includes a suspension system having a first portion connected to shoulder straps directly or through an interface and a second portion connected to the pack body and a compliant mechanism that permits the second portion of the suspension system and the pack body to move up and down relative to the first portion of the suspension system in accordance with a gait of the wearer of the backpack. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957222 |
| ART UNIT | 3782 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Package and article carriers 224/634 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931588 | Sarvazyan et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories (West Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey); Sergey Tsyuryupa (Westampton, Pennsylvania); Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Brendan Corbin (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Louis Y. Korman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A comprehensive system for objective assessment of colonoscope manipulation includes a handgrip for collecting and transmitting colonoscope handling data including force and motion data; a patient pain monitor for collecting and transmitting data on the level of patient's pain and discomfort; and digital processing means for extracting useful features such as colonoscope tip advancement speed from colonoscope-provided video images. All data is wirelessly transmitted to an electronic unit for processing and displaying on a monitor. A colonoscopy procedure is properly conducted when certain shaft advancement causes appropriate tip advancement, all without an increased level of patient's pain. The system of the invention is aimed at providing objective assessment data allowing for safer and less painful colonoscopies. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558837 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931791 | Tolley et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Luke Tolley (Carbondale, Illinois); Matt McCarroll (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for detecting an interaction between an analyte and a biomolecule. The method comprises separating at least one biomolecule according to its isoelectric point in the presence of a given analyte and detecting an interaction between the analyte and a biomolecule using fluorescence anisotropy. The method may further comprise collecting the analyte-biomolecule complex and analyzing the biomolecule. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923079 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/459 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931864 | Kloepfer et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans G. Kloepfer (Noblesville, Indiana); Thomas P. Kloepfer (Indianapolis, Indiana); Jason Heim (Indianapolis, Indiana); Reinhard Hafellner (Margarethen, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | A meter and test wand system is capable of cooperatively processing an analysis fluid and communicating results to a user. The system includes a meter case including a case front, a case front, a case front, a case bottom, a first case side member, and a second case side member. The first and second case side members connect the case front to case front. The first case side member has a longitudinal dimension between said case front and said case bottom and a latitudinal dimension between said case front and said case front. The first case side member includes a first case ridge; A test wand is capable of receiving an analysis fluid, and includes a cartridge including a cartridge ridge. The cartridge ridge is sized and shaped to matingly engage with said first case ridge to connect said test wand to said meter case. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/655589 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931891 | Friedlander et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Friedlander (Del Mar, California); Matthew R. Ritter (Oceanside, California); Stacey K. Moreno (Spring Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated myeloid-like cell population comprising a majority of cells that are lineage negative, and which express both CD44 antigen, CD11b antigen, and hypoxia inducible factor 1 α (HIF-1 α). These cells have beneficial vasculotrophic and neurotrophic activity when intraocularly administered to the eye of a mammal, particularly a mammal suffering from an ocular degenerative disease. The myeloid-like cells are isolated by treating bone marrow cells, peripheral blood cells or umbilical cord cells with an antibody against CD44 (hyaluronic acid receptor), against CD11b, CD14, CD33, or against a combination thereof and using flow cytometry to positively select CD44 and/or CD11b expressing cells therefrom. The isolated myeloid-like bone marrow cells of the invention can be transfected with a gene encoding a therapeutically useful protein, for delivering the gene to the retina. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/884958 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931893 | McCray, Jr. et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. McCray, Jr. (Iowa City, Iowa); Beverly L. Davidson (North Liberty, Iowa); Colleen Stein (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel pseudotyped retroviral vectors that can transduce human and other cells. Vectors are provided that are packaged efficiently in packaging cells and cell lines to generate high titer recombinant virus stocks expressing novel envelope glycoproteins. The present invention further relates to compositions for gene therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137316 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931896 | Chen |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Sparks Glencoe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions containing soluble B7-H4 (sH4) antagonists in an amount effective to reduce, inhibit, or mitigate an inflammatory response in an individual and methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of inflammatory disorders and autoimmune diseases or disorders are provided. Soluble H4 has been discovered to interfere with B7-H4 activity including B7-H4's activity as an inhibitor of T cell immunity. Thus, interference of sH4 biological activity is an effective method to restore B7-H4 activity and thereby provide an effective method for treating inflammatory diseases or disorders including autoimmune diseases or disorders. B7-H4Ig could also work as an agonist to suppress both humoral and cellular autoimmunity. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/965425 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931904 | Kufe |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Kufe (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of identifying and making compounds that inhibit the interaction between MUC1 and either p53 or TBP. Also embraced by the invention are in vivo and in vitro methods of inhibiting such an interaction and of inhibiting the expression of MUC1 by a cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/816402 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931908 | Burns, Jr. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Philadelphia Health Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Burns, Jr. (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an immunogenic composition comprising MSPk-8 linked to an antigen. Methods of using the composition to induce an immune response in an animal are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/070874 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931943 | Schwartz et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Schwartz (Princeton, New Jersey); Michael Danahy (Lewiston, Maine); Michael Avaltroni (Staten Island, New York); Jing Guo (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Process for forming a coated article by (a) depositing a layer of an omega functionalized organophosphorous compound on an oxide substrate; (b) heating the substrate of step (a) to a temperature sufficient to bond the omega functionalized organophosphorous compound to the oxide substrate; (c) depositing a separate layer onto the layer produced by step (b); and (d) bonding the layers produced by steps (b) and (c) through the omega functional group. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855847 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932034 | Esfandyarpour et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hesaam Esfandyarpour (Stanford, California); Mostafa Ronaghi (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present method involves sequencing by synthesis in which a template strand having an attached primer is immobilized in a small volume reaction mixture. In one embodiment, the reaction mixture is in contact with a sensitive heat sensor, which detects the heat of reaction from incorporation of a complementary base (dNTP) in the presence of appropriate reagents (DNA polymerase, and polymerase reaction buffer). Alternatively, or in addition, a change in pH resulting from the incorporation of nucleotides in the DNA polymerase reaction is measured. A device is provided having delivery channels for appropriate reagents, including dNTPs, which may be delivered sequentially or in a mixture. Preferably, the dNTPs are added in a predetermined sequence, and the dNTP is incorporated or not depending on the template sequence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/959317 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932042 | Ramsey et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Suregene, LLC (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky); Bharat Mehrotra (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark D. Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relate to genetic markers of psychotic disorders, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for determinations of a OPRP genetic signature are described. Furthermore, the invention provides methods and compositions involving treatment of psychotic disorders using the genetic signature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/903891 |
| 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 07932043 | Korth et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of California at San Francisco (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carsten Korth (Duesseldorf, Germany); Vishwanath R. Lingappa (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preparing monoclonal antibodies that differentially bind to a single conformer of a protein of interest are described. Passive immunization using these antibodies as well as use of conformer-specific antibodies as diagnostic reagents for the purpose of stratification of patient populations with regards to disease outcome, drug efficacy or drug sensitivity is also disclosed as well as active immunization with the protein conformer. In the screening techniques, detection can be for example by tissue immunostaining, western blotting or solution IP. A specific mab termed 7VC which shows conformation specificity to CtmPrP, a prion protein conformer that triggers neurodegeneration under specific assay conditions of pH and copper concentration, is described. A second specific antibody termed 19B10 shows conformation specificity for NtmPrP, a prion protein conformer that downregulates total PrP expression and effects cell differentiation. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/490977 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932049 | Tissenbaum et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heidi A. Tissenbaum (Wayland, Massachusetts); Seung Wook Oh (Lewisville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is based at least in part on the discovery of a role for the JNK signaling pathway in longevity. In particular, the present inventors have shown that overexpression of c-jun N-terminal kinase 1 (jnk-1) extends lifespan and that said extended lifespan is associated with DAF-16 phosphorylation by JNK-1 and the consequent DAF-16 localization to the nucleus. Accordingly, the present invention features methods of identifying modulators of longevity in assays featuring organisms and/or cells having a JNK signaling pathway and, optionally, an IR signaling pathway. Also featured is an in vitro method of identifying an agent capable of enhancing longevity featuring an assay composition having a JNK signaling pathway molecule and insulin signaling pathway molecule. Further featured are therapeutic methods for the use of JNK signaling pathway modulators to enhance longevity, to prevent or reduce obesity and to prevent or treat type II diabetes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372469 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932066 | Chang et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan Chang (New York, New York); Patrick S. Moore (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an isolated peptide encoded by a nucleic acid which is at least 30 nucleotides in length and has a sequence which uniquely defines a herpesvirus associated with Kaposis' sarcoma, which herpesvirus is present in and recoverable from the HBL-6 cell line (ATCC Accession No. CRL 11762). |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801641 |
| 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 435/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932067 | Xu et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianchao Xu (Bethany, Connecticut); Gary Desir (Woodbridge, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the identification, isolation and uses of mammalian Monoamine Oxidase C (MAO-C), also known as renalase. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/695843 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932074 | Kapikian et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert Z. Kapikian (Rockville, Maryland); Robert M. Chanock (Bethesda, Maryland); Yasutaka Hoshino (Wheaton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides vaccine compositions for protection against human rotaviral disease without significant reactogenicity. Human×bovine reassortant rotavirus comprising each of the four clinically most important VP7 serotypes of human rotavirus are combined in a multivalent formulation which provides a high degree of infectivity and immunogenicity without producing a transient febrile condition. Methods for producing an immunogenic response without producing a transient febrile condition are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/743338 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932084 | Katz et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam J. Katz (Charlottesville, Virginia); Anna M. Parker (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to adipose tissue-derived stem cells and to methods and compositions for enhancing growth and differentiation of such cells. The invention further relates to growing such cells in serum-free or low serum growth medium, and formulations thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/066348 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932088 | Adams et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Adams (Granger, Indiana); Malcolm J. Fraser (Granger, Indiana); Bharath Balu (South Bend, Indiana); Douglas A. Shoue (North Liberty, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides molecular methods for efficiently transforming the genome of common disease-transmitting parasites, such as Plasmodium falciparum. The transformation efficiencies are improved up to 100 times over those conventionally known. The methods provide high saturation of the target parasite genome, of 50% or greater, and target non-specifically TTAA-rich sites in the parasite genome. The invention also discloses a model that may be used to functionally annotate the genome of the Plasmodium falciparum, thus permitting the design and screening of compounds that may be useful in the control and inhibiting of diseases caused and transmitted by these parasites, including malaria. Highly efficient and multi-site integrating transposons, particularly piggyBac transposons, which provide for random and multi-site integration into parasite genomes in the presence of a helper plasmid, are also presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410333 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932099 | Egan et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nexus DX, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Laswell Egan (Oceanside, California); Graham Peter Lidgard (La Jolla, California); David Dickson Booker (Oceanside, California); Christopher Johann Johnson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for detection of one or more analytes. Analytes include agents or components of infectious agents such as pathogenic virus, as well as enzymes, proteins and biomarkers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/677559 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/514 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932213 | Park et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung Bum Park (Arlington, Massachusetts); David Barnes-Seeman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Angela N. Koehler (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods to facilitate the identification of compounds that are capable of interacting with a biological macromolecule of interest. A composition is provided that comprises an array of chemical compounds attached to a solid support, wherein the density of the array of compounds is at least 1000 spots per cm2. The inventive arrays are generated by: providing a solid support functionalized with a selected chemical moiety capable of interacting with a chemical compound to form an attachment and delivering compounds to the solid support having a density of at least 1000 spots per cm2. The present invention also provides methods for utilizing these arrays to identify small molecule partners for biological macromolecules of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 20, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/370885 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932227 | Laurie et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon W. Laurie (Charlottesville, Virginia); Peisong Ma (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions useful for the regulation of lacritin, syndecan, and lacritin-syndecan interactions and the signaling pathway downstream of lacritin-syndecan interactions. The invention also relates to regulating lacritin-syndecan interaction to regulate ocular cell survival in response to an insult or injury, in protecting against ocular inflammation, and in promoting ocular wound repair. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/212517 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932239 | Raines et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Leonard A. Levin (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions involving a class of boron-protected phenylphosphine agents having increased cell permeability and having improved chemical stability for treating or for preventing neuronal cell death-related diseases or conditions in a human or a non-human animal. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/412353 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932362 | Yajnik et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vandana Yajnik (Brookline, Massachusetts); Herbert Samuels (New Rochelle, New York); Dangsheng Li (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding NRIF3 are described. Polypeptides having amino acid sequences of NRIF3 proteins are also provided. A method is also provided for isolating and cloning NRIF3 cDNA. NRIF3 is useful in development/implementation of high throughput screens to identify novel thyroid hormone receptor (TR) and retinoid X receptor (RXR) agonists and antagonists. Methods are also provided for identifying compounds that directly interfere with the interaction of NRIF3 and TR or RXR. Finally, therapies based on modulation of NRIF3 activity are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480219 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932365 | Lim et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pro Thera Biologics, LLC (East Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yow-Pin Lim (East Providence, Rhode Island); Djuro Josic (North Providence, Rhode Island); Douglas C. Hixson (Barrington, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to Inter-alpha inhibitor proteins (IαIp). The invention further relates to processes for purification of IαIp compositions and their use for treatment of human diseases such as sepsis and septic shock, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and infectious diseases. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/578449 |
| 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 530/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932397 | Hock et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam S. Hock (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the synthesis of catalysts and precursors thereof. Methods of the invention may comprise combining a catalyst precursor and at least one ligand to generate a catalytically active species, often under mild conditions and in high yields. In some cases, a wide variety of catalysts may be synthesized from a single catalyst precursor. Methods of the invention may also include the preparation of catalysts which, under reaction conditions known in the art, may have been difficult or impossible to prepare and/or isolate due to, for example, steric crowding at the metal center. The present invention also provides catalyst compositions, and precursors thereof, which may be useful in various chemical reactions including olefin metathesis. In some cases, methods of the invention may reduce the number of synthetic and purification steps required to produce catalysts and/or other reaction products, as well as reducing time, cost, and waste production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603951 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932491 | Vestal |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virgin Instruments Corporation (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marvin L. Vestal (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass spectrometer includes a pulsed ion source that generates an ion beam comprising a plurality of ions. A first timed ion selector passes a first group of ions. A first ion mirror generates a reflected ion beam comprising the first group of ions that at least partially compensates for an initial kinetic energy distribution of the first group of ions. A second timed ion selector passes a second group of ions. A second ion mirror generates a reflected ion beam comprising the second group of ions that at least partially compensates for an initial kinetic energy distribution of the second group of ions. A timed ion deflector deflects the second group of ions to a detector assembly comprising at least two ion detectors which detects the deflected ion beam. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365354 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932719 | Liimatainen et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timo Liimatainen (Kuopio, Finland); Michael G. Garwood (Medina, Minnesota); Dennis J. Sorce (Cockeysville, Maryland); Shalom Michaeli (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a signal generator and a processor. The signal generator is configured to couple with a magnetic resonance transmitter coil. The processor is configured to execute instructions to control the signal generator. The instructions include forming a sequence of waveforms. The sequence is configured to generate spin relaxation in a fictitious field in a third rotating frame of reference based on at least one magnetic field component that arises based on an effective field in a second rotating frame of reference. The third rotating frame of reference is of a higher order than the second rotating frame of reference and the second rotating frame of reference is of a higher order than the first rotating frame of reference. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/731936 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932721 | Nascimento et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Nascimento (Rockville, Maryland); Afonso C. Silva (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for imaging includes: a radio frequency (RF) coil array having a first RF coil and at least one additional RF coil, where the RF coil array is adapted to generate an image signal; a preamplifier having an input impedance, where the preamplifier is adapted to receive the image signal from the first RF coil; and a transformer to couple the first RF coil to the preamplifier, where impedance of the transformer is adapted to match the input impedance of the preamplifier. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296417 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933644 | Wong et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytoptics Corporation (San Marcos, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lid B. Wong (San Diego, California); Donovan B. Yeates (Escondido, California); Guanglin Li (Chicago, Illinois); Tarun Chandra (Gurnee, Illinois); Mahandas A. Kizhakayil (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method that can simultaneously acquire electrocardiogram or pulse rate data (42, 44, 46), dynamically perform time-frequency (70) and chaotic analysis (60) in real-time, visually display the results in a convenient graphical format (50) and store the results in a computer file format (50). |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/552009 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933721 | Johnson et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alison Jane Johnson (Fort Collins, Colorado); Bradley John Biggerstaff (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Clinical samples can be analyzed using microparticles to determine the serodiagnosis of a viral infection from two candidate viral infections of the same viral group. Serodiagnosis can be determined via a pooled population of subsets of microparticles, with the particles in the pooled population having a bound viral group-reactive antibody and the particles in each subset having at least one characteristic classification parameter that distinguishes between subsets. Viral antigens of antibodies of interest in the same viral-class as the viral group-reactive antibody can be bound to the viral group-reactive antibody on the microparticles, and subsequently exposed to a clinical sample. Binding and labeling can be used. Automated analysis of data from multiplexed flow analysis can determine the presence or absence of antibodies of interest in the sample, thereby diagnosing for two candidate viral infections in a single assay. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336639 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933909 | Trepetin |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Trepetin (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for improving the linkage and security of records is provided. Generally, the present invention can be viewed as providing methods for selecting an ideal identifier, from a series of test identifiers, for linking more than one associated record. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: accessing several parameters for each test identifier; determining if an error rate of the test identifier is an improved error rate over an error rate of an existing identifier; determining if the test identifier reduces linkage error; and selecting the test identifier as the ideal identifier if the test identifier has a lower overall error rate, as determined by the steps of determining if an error rate of the test identifier is an improved error rate over an error rate of an existing identifier and determining if the test identifier reduces linkage error, compared to other test identifiers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935728 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07930947 | Counts |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin T. Counts (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for piercing a drum plug of a drum in order to sample and/or vent gases that may accumulate in a space of the drum is provided. The drum is not damaged and can be reused since the pierced drum plug can be subsequently replaced. The apparatus includes a frame that is configured for engagement with the drum. A cylinder actuated by a fluid is mounted to the frame. A piercer is placed into communication with the cylinder so that actuation of the cylinder causes the piercer to move in a linear direction so that the piercer may puncture the drum plug of the drum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/296609 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.850 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931086 | Nguyen et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Vinh Nguyen (Houston, Texas); Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for heating a subsurface formation are described herein. A heating system for a subsurface formation includes a sealed conduit positioned in an opening in the formation and a heat source. The sealed conduit includes a heat transfer fluid. The heat source provides heat to a portion of the sealed conduit to change phase of the heat transfer fluid from a liquid to a vapor. The vapor in the sealed conduit rises in the sealed conduit, condenses to transfer heat to the formation and returns to the conduit portion as a liquid. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106060 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931588 | Sarvazyan et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories (West Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey); Sergey Tsyuryupa (Westampton, Pennsylvania); Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Brendan Corbin (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Louis Y. Korman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A comprehensive system for objective assessment of colonoscope manipulation includes a handgrip for collecting and transmitting colonoscope handling data including force and motion data; a patient pain monitor for collecting and transmitting data on the level of patient's pain and discomfort; and digital processing means for extracting useful features such as colonoscope tip advancement speed from colonoscope-provided video images. All data is wirelessly transmitted to an electronic unit for processing and displaying on a monitor. A colonoscopy procedure is properly conducted when certain shaft advancement causes appropriate tip advancement, all without an increased level of patient's pain. The system of the invention is aimed at providing objective assessment data allowing for safer and less painful colonoscopies. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558837 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931707 | Grieve et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Malcolm James Grieve (Fairport, New York); Jeffrey G. Weissman (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for removing sulfur from a continuous reformate stream feeding a fuel cell stack. First and second sulfur traps are disposed in parallel between a hydrocarbon reformer and the fuel cell stack. The ends of the sulfur traps are connected to conventional four-way valves such that either trap may be selected for trapping sulfur from the reformate stream, while the other trap is undergoing regeneration by backflushing the accumulated adsorbed sulfur deposits. Thus, the sulfur traps may be used and stripped alternately, permitting continuous supply of desulfurized reformate to the fuel cell assembly. In a currently preferred embodiment, the hot cathode air exhaust is used to assist in stripping the out-of-service trap. In an alternative embodiment, two reformers are provided and the reformers are alternately regenerated along with their respective traps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110043 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931715 | Gonze et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Frank Ament (Troy, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust filter system includes a particulate filter (PF) that is disposed downstream from an engine. The PF filters particulates within an exhaust from the engine. A heating element heats particulate matter in the PF. A fastener limits expansion movement of the heating element relative to the PF. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/673917 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/282.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931727 | Gonze et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Kevin W. Kirby (Calabasas Hills, California); Amanda Phelps (Malibu, California); Daniel J. Gregoire (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A regeneration system comprises a particulate matter (PM) filter including a microwave energy absorbing surface, and an antenna system comprising N antennas and an antenna driver module that sequentially drives the antenna system in a plurality of transverse modes of the antenna system to heat selected portions of the microwave absorbing surface to regenerate the PM filter, where N is an integer greater than one. The transverse modes may include transverse electric (TE) and/or transverse magnetic (TM) modes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/972952 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931734 | Moosmüller et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans Moosmüller (Reno, Nevada); Rajan K. Chakrabarty (Reno, Nevada); W. Patrick Arnott (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a method for selecting particles, such as based on their morphology, is disclosed. In a particular example, the particles are charged and acquire different amounts of charge, or have different charge distributions, based on their morphology. The particles are then sorted based on their flow properties. In a specific example, the particles are sorted using a differential mobility analyzer, which sorts particles, at least in part, based on their electrical mobility. Given a population of particles with similar electrical mobilities, the disclosed process can be used to sort particles based on the net charge carried by the particle, and thus, given the relationship between charge and morphology, separate the particles based on their morphology. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165511 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931764 | Busse et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Busse (South Fork, Colorado); Robert C. Dye (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Timothy J. Foley (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Kelvin T. Higa (Ridgecrest, California); Betty S. Jorgensen (Jemez Springs, New Mexico); Victor E. Sanders (White Rock, New Mexico); Steven F. Son (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to substantially desensitize a metastable intermolecular composite material to electrostatic discharge and friction comprising mixing the composite material with an organic diluent and removing enough organic diluent from the mixture to form a mixture with a substantially putty-like consistency, as well as a concomitant method of recovering the metastable intermolecular composite material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/492817 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931790 | Jacobson et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Jacobson (Knoxville, Tennessee); J. Michael Ramsey (Knoxville, Tennessee); Christopher T. Culbertson (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); William B. Whitten (Lancing, Tennessee); Robert S. Foote (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfabricated device employing a bridging membrane and methods for electrokinetic transport of a liquid phase biological or chemical material using the same are described. The bridging membrane is deployed in or adjacent to a microchannel and permits either ionic current flow or the transport of gas species, while inhibiting the bulk flow of material. The use of bridging membranes in accordance with this invention is applicable to a variety of processes, including electrokinetically induced pressure flow in a region of a microehannel that is not influenced by an electric field, sample concentration enhancement and injection, as well as improving the analysis of materials where it is desired to eliminate electrophoretic bias. Other applications of the bridging membranes according to this invention include the separation of species from a sample material, valving of fluids in a microchannel network, mixing of different materials in a microchannel, and the pumping of fluids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875019 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931792 | Fiechtner et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Fiechtner (Bethesda, Maryland); Eric B. Cummings (Livermore, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a device for separating and concentrating particles suspended in a fluid stream by using dielectrophoresis (DEP) to trap and/or deflect those particles as they migrate through a fluid channel. The method uses fluid channels designed to constrain a liquid flowing through it to uniform electrokinetic flow velocities. This behavior is achieved by connecting deep and shallow sections of channels, with the channel depth varying abruptly along an interface. By careful design of abrupt changes in specific permeability at the interface, an abrupt and spatially uniform change in electrokinetic force can be selected. Because these abrupt interfaces also cause a sharp gradient in applied electric fields, a DEP force also can be established along the interface. Depending on the complex conductivity of the suspended particles and the immersion liquid, the DEP force can controllably complement or oppose the local electrokinetic force transporting the fluid through the channel allowing for manipulation of particles suspended in the transporting liquid. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208471 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931850 | Menoni et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); The Regents of University of California (Oakland, California); JMAR Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmen S. Menoni (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge J. Rocca (Fort Collins, Colorado); Georgiy Vaschenko (San Diego, California); Scott Bloom (Encinitas, California); Erik H. Anderson (El Cerrito, California); Weilun Chao (El Cerrito, California); Oscar Hemberg (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | Ablation of holes having diameters as small as 82 nm and having clean walls was obtained in a poly(methyl methacrylate) on a silicon substrate by focusing pulses from a Ne-like Ar, 46.9 nm wavelength, capillary-discharge laser using a freestanding Fresnel zone plate diffracting into third order is described. Spectroscopic analysis of light from the ablation has also been performed. These results demonstrate the use of focused coherent EUV/SXR light for the direct nanoscale patterning of materials. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861627 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931993 | Morse et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); Alan Jankowski (Livermore, California); Robert T. Graff (Modesto, California); Kerry Bettencourt (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are processes for fabricating microfluidic fuel cell systems with embedded components in which micron-scale features are formed by bonding layers of DuPont Kapton™ polyimide laminate. A microfluidic fuel cell system fabricated using this process is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/153586 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/433 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932052 | DiSpirito et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Angelo DiSpirito (Ames, Iowa); Dong-Won Choi (Ames, Iowa); Jeremy David Semrau (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David Keeney (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions comprising and methods employing methanobactin, as well as methanobactin synthetase sequences. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880886 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932054 | Adney et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Adney (Golden, Colorado); Todd B. Vinzant (Golden, Colorado); Shih-You Ding (Golden, Colorado); Michael E. Himmel (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a thermal tolerant (thermostable) cellulase, AviIII, that is a member of the glycoside hydrolase (GH) family. AviIII was isolated and characterized from Acidothermus cellulolyticus, and, like many cellulases, the disclosed polypeptide and/or its derivatives may be useful for the conversion of biomass into biofuels and chemicals. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425299 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932063 | Dunson, Jr. et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Alliance For Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Dunson, Jr. (Newark, Delaware); Melvin Tucker (Lakewood, Colorado); Richard Elander (Evergreen, Colorado); Susan M. Hennessey (Avondale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Biomass is pretreated using a low concentration of aqueous ammonia at high biomass concentration. Pretreated biomass is further hydrolyzed with a saccharification enzyme consortium. Fermentable sugars released by saccharification may be utilized for the production of target chemicals by fermentation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402757 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932073 | Teter et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarah Teter (Davis, California); Connie Ward (Hamilton, Montana); Joel Cherry (Davis, California); Aubrey Jones (Davis, California); Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Jung Yi (Sacramento, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to variants of a parent glycoside hydrolase, comprising a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 21, 94, 157, 205, 206, 247, 337, 350, 373, 383, 438, 455, 467, and 486 of amino acids 1 to 513 of SEQ ID NO: 2, and optionally further comprising a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 8, 22, 41, 49, 57, 113, 193, 196, 226, 227, 246, 251, 255, 259, 301, 356, 371, 411, and 462 of amino acids 1 to 513 of SEQ ID NO: 2 a substitution at one or more positions corresponding to positions 8, 22, 41, 49, 57, 113, 193, 196, 226, 227, 246, 251, 255, 259, 301, 356, 371, 411, and 462 of amino acids 1 to 513 of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the variants have glycoside hydrolase activity. The present invention also relates to nucleotide sequences encoding the variant glycoside hydrolases and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleotide sequences. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891249 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932106 | Li |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ting Li (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The surface morphology of an LED light emitting surface is changed by applying a reactive ion etch (RIE) process to the light emitting surface. High aspect ratio, submicron roughness is formed on the light emitting surface by transferring a thin film metal hard-mask having submicron patterns to the surface prior to applying a reactive ion etch process. The submicron patterns in the metal hard-mask can be formed using a low cost, commercially available nano-patterned template which is transferred to the surface with the mask. After subsequently binding the mask to the surface, the template is removed and the RIE process is applied for time duration sufficient to change the morphology of the surface. The modified surface contains non-symmetric, submicron structures having high aspect ratio which increase the efficiency of the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498418 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932123 | Rogers et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Heung Cho Ko (Urbana, Illinois); Jongseung Yoon (Urbana, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Alfred J. Baca (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for making a device or device component by providing a multilayer structure having a plurality of functional layers and a plurality of release layers and releasing the functional layers from the multilayer structure by separating one or more of the release layers to generate a plurality of transferable structures. The transferable structures are printed onto a device substrate or device component supported by a device substrate. The methods and systems provide means for making high-quality and low-cost photovoltaic devices, transferable semiconductor structures, (opto-)electronic devices and device components. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/858788 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932437 | Lee |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Weifu Lee (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A designer proton-channel transgenic alga for photobiological hydrogen production that is specifically designed for production of molecular hydrogen (H2) through photosynthetic water splitting. The designer transgenic alga includes proton-conductive channels that are expressed to produce such uncoupler proteins in an amount sufficient to increase the algal H2 productivity. In one embodiment the designer proton-channel transgene is a nucleic acid construct (300) including a PCR forward primer (302), an externally inducible promoter (304), a transit targeting sequence (306), a designer proton-channel encoding sequence (308), a transcription and translation terminator (310), and a PCR reverse primer (312). In various embodiments, the designer proton-channel transgenic algae are used with a gas-separation system (500) and a gas-products-separation and utilization system (600) for photobiological H2 production. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748531 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932637 | Lasseter et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Lasseter (Madison, Wisconsin); Paolo Piagi (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes operating a microsource in a grid mode in which the microsource is connected to a utility grid. The microsource is located in a microgrid and is configured to deliver a power P1 at a frequency ω1. During operation in the grid mode ω1 is a first frequency and P1 is a first power. The first frequency is an operating frequency of the utility grid. The microsource is transferred from the grid mode to an island mode, causing a frequency change such that ω1 changes to a second frequency and a power change such that P1 changes to a second power. The frequency change occurs at a first rate with respect to the power change while ω1 is less than a slope switch frequency. The frequency change occurs at a second rate with respect to the power change while ω1 is greater than the slope switch frequency. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/704060 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/69 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932828 | Britton, Jr. et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Britton, Jr. (Alcoa, Tennessee); Mark A. Buckner (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Gregory R. Hanson (Clinton, Tennessee); William L. Bryan (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are described for space charge dosimeters for extremely low power measurements of radiation in shipping containers. A method includes in situ polling a suite of passive integrating ionizing radiation sensors including reading-out dosimetric data from a first passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor and a second passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor, where the first passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor and the second passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor remain situated where the dosimetric data was integrated while reading-out. Another method includes arranging a plurality of ionizing radiation sensors in a spatially dispersed array; determining a relative position of each of the plurality of ionizing radiation sensors to define a volume of interest; collecting ionizing radiation data from at least a subset of the plurality of ionizing radiation sensors; and triggering an alarm condition when a dose level of an ionizing radiation source is calculated to exceed a threshold. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406725 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933856 | Verspoor et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cornelia Maria Verspoor (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Benjamin Hayden Sims (Los Alamos, New Mexico); John Joseph Ambrosiano (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Timothy James Cleland (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A knowledge-based system and methods to matchmaking and social network extension are disclosed. The system is configured to allow users to specify knowledge profiles, which are collections of concepts that indicate a certain topic or area of interest selected from an. The system utilizes the knowledge model as the semantic space within which to compare similarities in user interests. The knowledge model is hierarchical so that indications of interest in specific concepts automatically imply interest in more general concept. Similarity measures between profiles may then be calculated based on suitable distance formulas within this space. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871692 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07931734 | Moosmüller et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans Moosmüller (Reno, Nevada); Rajan K. Chakrabarty (Reno, Nevada); W. Patrick Arnott (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a method for selecting particles, such as based on their morphology, is disclosed. In a particular example, the particles are charged and acquire different amounts of charge, or have different charge distributions, based on their morphology. The particles are then sorted based on their flow properties. In a specific example, the particles are sorted using a differential mobility analyzer, which sorts particles, at least in part, based on their electrical mobility. Given a population of particles with similar electrical mobilities, the disclosed process can be used to sort particles based on the net charge carried by the particle, and thus, given the relationship between charge and morphology, separate the particles based on their morphology. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165511 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931763 | Petersen et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Petersen (Orlando, Florida); Jennifer Small (Dunlap, Illinois); Metthew Stephens (Ft. Pierce, Florida); Jason Arvanetes (Crestview, Florida); Sudipta Seal (Oviedo, Florida); Sameer Deshpande (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Adding nanoparticles as a catalyst to solid propellant fuel to increase and enhance burn rates of the fuel by up to 10 times or more and/or modifying the pressure index. A preferred embodiment uses TiO2 nanoparticles mixed with a solid propellant fuel, where the nanoparticles are approximately 2% or less of total propellant mixture. The high surface to volume ratio of the nanoparticles improve the performance of the solid propellant fuel. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/580660 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931824 | Gin et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas L. Gin (Longmont, Colorado); Jason E. Bara (Boulder, Colorado); Richard D. Noble (Boulder, Colorado); Xiaohui Zeng (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular surfactant architecture based on room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) has been developed that affords non-polymerizable and polymerizable amphiphiles that form lamellar (L), hexagonal (H) or bicontinuous cubic (Q) LLC phases when mixed with water or RTILs serving as the polar solvent. The amphiphiles are imidazolium salts having two or more imidazolium head groups joined by one or more spacers. Polymerization of the LLC assembly can produce polymeric materials having ordered nanopores, with the ordering of the pores determined by the LLC phase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/773044 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07931838 — Method for making oriented single-walled carbon nanotube/polymer nano-composite membranes
| US 07931838 | Marand et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva Marand (Blacksburg, Virginia); Sangil Kim (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nano-composite membranes and methods for making them are described. The nano-composite membranes a made from a layer of oriented carbon nanotubes fixed in a polymeric matrix. Methods for efficient, facile, and inexpensive fabrication of the nano-composite membranes using a filtration method are also described. The carbon nanotubes may also be modified with chemical functional groups to promote their orientation in the carbon nanotube layer or to confer to them other properties. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847585 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07931850 | Menoni et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); The Regents of University of California (Oakland, California); JMAR Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmen S. Menoni (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jorge J. Rocca (Fort Collins, Colorado); Georgiy Vaschenko (San Diego, California); Scott Bloom (Encinitas, California); Erik H. Anderson (El Cerrito, California); Weilun Chao (El Cerrito, California); Oscar Hemberg (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | Ablation of holes having diameters as small as 82 nm and having clean walls was obtained in a poly(methyl methacrylate) on a silicon substrate by focusing pulses from a Ne-like Ar, 46.9 nm wavelength, capillary-discharge laser using a freestanding Fresnel zone plate diffracting into third order is described. Spectroscopic analysis of light from the ablation has also been performed. These results demonstrate the use of focused coherent EUV/SXR light for the direct nanoscale patterning of materials. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861627 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932299 | Chisholm et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calum Chisholm (Pasadena, California); Sossina M. Haile (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid acid/surface-hydrogen-containing secondary component electrolyte composites, methods of synthesizing such materials, electrochemical device incorporating such materials, and uses of such materials in fuel cells, membrane reactors and hydrogen separations are provided. The stable electrolyte composite material comprises a solid acid component capable of undergoing rotational disorder of oxyanion groups and capable of extended operation at a wide temperature range and a secondary compound with surface hydrogen atoms, which when intimately mixed, results in a composite material with improved conductivity, mechanical and thermal properties, when compared to pure solid acid compound. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268202 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932397 | Hock et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam S. Hock (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Richard R. Schrock (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the synthesis of catalysts and precursors thereof. Methods of the invention may comprise combining a catalyst precursor and at least one ligand to generate a catalytically active species, often under mild conditions and in high yields. In some cases, a wide variety of catalysts may be synthesized from a single catalyst precursor. Methods of the invention may also include the preparation of catalysts which, under reaction conditions known in the art, may have been difficult or impossible to prepare and/or isolate due to, for example, steric crowding at the metal center. The present invention also provides catalyst compositions, and precursors thereof, which may be useful in various chemical reactions including olefin metathesis. In some cases, methods of the invention may reduce the number of synthetic and purification steps required to produce catalysts and/or other reaction products, as well as reducing time, cost, and waste production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603951 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932800 | Lim et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michele H. Lim (Blacksburg, Virginia); Zhenxian Liang (Niskayuna, New York); J. D. van Wyk (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A modified planar Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramic (LTCC) high conductance inductor, embedding a large cross section conductor, supports a stacked arrangement of heat spreader, inductor and active device layers. Interlayer electrical connections connect the layers. Optionally, a DC-DC converter includes the modified planar LTCC high conductance inductor, embedding a large cross section conductor, supporting a stacked arrangement of heat spreader, capacitor and active device layers, the active devices layer including the switching transistors. The active devices layer may include semiconductor dies embedded in a substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/736217 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Inductor devices 336/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933112 | Ayazi et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Mina Raieszadeh (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are one-port and two-port voltage-tunable micro-electromechanical capacitors, switches, and filter devices. High aspect-ratio metal micromachining is used to implement very high quality factor (Q) tunable and fixed capacitors, fixed inductors, and low insertion loss tunable and fixed bandpass LC filters. The tunable capacitors can move in the plane of the substrate by the application of DC voltages and achieve greater than 100% of tuning. A combination of low-loss substrate and highest conductivity metal is used to achieve record high Q and low insertion loss at radio frequencies. The disclosed tunable capacitor structure can also be used as a micromechanical switch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999114 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933915 | Singh et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ambuj Kumar Singh (Santa Barbara, California); Huahai He (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analyzing, querying, and mining graph databases using subgraph and similarity querying. An index structure, known as a closure tree, is defined for topological summarization of a set of graphs. In addition, a significance model is created in which the graphs are transformed into histograms of primitive components. Finally, connected substructures or clusters, comprising paths or trees, are detected in networks found in the graph databases using a random walk technique and a repeated random walk technique. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/711326 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07931734 | Moosmüller et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans Moosmüller (Reno, Nevada); Rajan K. Chakrabarty (Reno, Nevada); W. Patrick Arnott (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a method for selecting particles, such as based on their morphology, is disclosed. In a particular example, the particles are charged and acquire different amounts of charge, or have different charge distributions, based on their morphology. The particles are then sorted based on their flow properties. In a specific example, the particles are sorted using a differential mobility analyzer, which sorts particles, at least in part, based on their electrical mobility. Given a population of particles with similar electrical mobilities, the disclosed process can be used to sort particles based on the net charge carried by the particle, and thus, given the relationship between charge and morphology, separate the particles based on their morphology. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165511 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932492 | Demmons et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Busek Co. Inc. (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathaniel Demmons (Mason, New Hampshire); Roy Martin (Grafton, Massachusetts); Vladimir Hruby (Newton, Massachusetts); Thomas Roy (Newton, Massachusetts); Douglas Spence (Brookline, Massachusetts); Eric Ehrbar (Brookline, Massachusetts); Jurg Zwahlen (Ipswich, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrospray device includes an electrospray emitter adapted to receive electrospray fluid; an extractor plate spaced from the electrospray emitter and having at least one aperature; and a power supply for applying a first voltage between the extractor plate and emitter for generating at least one Taylor cone emission through the aperature to create an electrospray plume from the electrospray fluid, the extractor plate as well as accelerator and shaping plates may include a porous, conductive medium for transporting and storing excess, accumulated electrospray fluid away from the aperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/460127 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933027 | Roth |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald J Roth (Rocky River, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented process for simultaneously measuring the velocity of terahertz electromagnetic radiation in a dielectric material sample without prior knowledge of the thickness of the sample and for measuring the thickness of a material sample using terahertz electromagnetic radiation in a material sample without prior knowledge of the velocity of the terahertz electromagnetic radiation in the sample is disclosed and claimed. Utilizing interactive software the process evaluates, in a plurality of locations, the sample for microstructural variations and for thickness variations and maps the microstructural and thickness variations by location. A thin sheet of dielectric material may be used on top of the sample to create a dielectric mismatch. The approximate focal point of the radiation source (transceiver) is initially determined for good measurements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326436 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933944 | Jandhyala et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vikram Jandhyala (Seattle, Washington); Indranil Chowdhury (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An approach that efficiently solves for a desired parameter of a system or device that can include both electrically large fast multipole method (FMM) elements, and electrically small QR elements. The system or device is setup as an oct-tree structure that can include regions of both the FMM type and the QR type. An iterative solver is then used to determine a first matrix vector product for any electrically large elements, and a second matrix vector product for any electrically small elements that are included in the structure. These matrix vector products for the electrically large elements and the electrically small elements are combined, and a net delta for a combination of the matrix vector products is determined. The iteration continues until a net delta is obtained that is within predefined limits. The matrix vector products that were last obtained are used to solve for the desired parameter. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/778369 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07932434 | Halterman et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis A. Halterman (Middleton, Wisconsin); Zhenyu Liu (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel resistance gene and its encoded protein isolated from the wild potato, Solanum verrucosum, are disclosed. The gene and protein are useful for conferring disease resistance to plants, particularly resistance to potato late blight disease in solanaceous species such as potato, tomato, and tobacco. Compositions and methods that use the genes and proteins of this invention to enhance plant disease resistance are also disclosed, as are transgenic plants that comprise the novel resistance genes and proteins. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191540 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42313 | Erhan et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as repesented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sevim Z. Erhan (Peoria, Illinois); Atanu Adhvaryu (Peoria, Illinois); Zengshe Liu (Morton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Triglyceride oils having unsaturated fatty acid substituents are modified to convert sites of unsaturation to C-2 to C-10 diesters. The resulting derivatives are characterized by thermal and oxidative stability, have low temperature performance properties and are environmentally-friendly. They have utility as hydraulic fluids, lubricants, metal working fluids and other industrial fluids. The triglyceride oils are most easily prepared via epoxidized vegetable oils which are converted to the diesters in either a one- or two-step reaction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/147470 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07933482 | Schmadel et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald C. Schmadel (College Park, Maryland); Howard Dennis Drew (Hyattsville, Maryland); Vivekananda Adiga (Karnataka, India); Max Anton Cubillos-Moraga (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical fiber probe tips and methods for fabricating the same are presented. One method entails immersing a distal end of an optical fiber having a cladding and a core into an etching solution and simultaneously etching the cladding and the core using the etching solution for tapering the cladding and the core to form a tapered cladding and a tapered core tip. The optical fiber probe tips are suitable for near-field, scanning, optical microscopy (NSOM). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/912225 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07933740 | Castelli et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Michail Vlachos (Elmsford, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Arrangements and methods for performing structural clustering between different time series. Time series data relating to a plurality of time series is accepted, structural features relating to the time series data are ascertained, and at least one distance between different time series via employing the structural features is determined. The different time series may be partitioned into clusters based on the at least one distance, and/or the k closest matches to a given time series query based on the at least one distance may be returned. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/550571 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07931588 | Sarvazyan et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories (West Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey); Sergey Tsyuryupa (Westampton, Pennsylvania); Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Brendan Corbin (Tewksbury, Massachusetts); Louis Y. Korman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A comprehensive system for objective assessment of colonoscope manipulation includes a handgrip for collecting and transmitting colonoscope handling data including force and motion data; a patient pain monitor for collecting and transmitting data on the level of patient's pain and discomfort; and digital processing means for extracting useful features such as colonoscope tip advancement speed from colonoscope-provided video images. All data is wirelessly transmitted to an electronic unit for processing and displaying on a monitor. A colonoscopy procedure is properly conducted when certain shaft advancement causes appropriate tip advancement, all without an increased level of patient's pain. The system of the invention is aimed at providing objective assessment data allowing for safer and less painful colonoscopies. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558837 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07932042 | Ramsey et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Suregene, LLC (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky); Bharat Mehrotra (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark D. Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relate to genetic markers of psychotic disorders, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for determinations of a OPRP genetic signature are described. Furthermore, the invention provides methods and compositions involving treatment of psychotic disorders using the genetic signature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/903891 |
| 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 |
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
| US 07933990 | Munger et al. |
|---|---|
| FUNDED BY |
|
| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virnetx, Inc. (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edmund Colby Munger (Crownsville, Maryland); Douglas Charles Schmidt (Severna Park, Maryland); Robert Dunham Short, III (Leesburg, Virginia); Victor Larson (Fairfax, Virginia); Michael Williamson (South Riding, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A plurality of computer nodes communicate using seemingly random Internet Protocol source and destination addresses. Data packets matching criteria defined by a moving window of valid addresses are accepted for further processing, while those that do not meet the criteria are quickly rejected. Improvements to the basic design include (1) a load balancer that distributes packets across different transmission paths according to transmission path quality; (2) a DNS proxy server that transparently creates a virtual private network in response to a domain name inquiry; (3) a large-to-small link bandwidth management feature that prevents denial-of-service attacks at system chokepoints; (4) a traffic limiter that regulates incoming packets by limiting the rate at which a transmitter can be synchronized with a receiver; and (5) a signaling synchronizer that allows a large number of nodes to communicate with a central node by partitioning the communication function between two separate entities. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839969 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2011/fedinvent-patents-20110426.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
Download a copy of the How To Use This Page