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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 03, 2011
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| US 07934424 | McKenna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Luna Innovations Incorporated (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. McKenna (White River Junction, Vermont); Joseph S. Heyman (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A material characteristic measurement approach measures an internal state of a material by measuring the nonlinear shift in velocity induced by different acoustic energies. The technology for implementing this measurement approach is relatively simple, robust, permits portable measurements, does not require that an unloaded initial condition of the material be measured or otherwise known in order to determine a characteristic of the material, can be applied using one or more transducers, and does not require physical contact with the material. Some example material characteristics include a residual stress existing without any external mechanical force applied, applied stress, a fatigue state, age, an interference-fit fastener stress, bio-activity, a nanostructure mixture of the material, a heat treatment of the material, a cross-linking of polymers in the material, a bio-growth organization of the material, a clotting factor of blood or blood-like material, a cure of an adhesive or sealant material, or the microstructure of the material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/782229 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07934497 | Grove et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey M. Grove (Red Lion, Pennsylvania); Stephen E. Chase (Jarrettsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular helmet-mask assembly for protecting a user's head and face from hazards such as from chemical and biological warfare agents. The invention includes an impact resistant helmet; a face protection assembly, which can be attached and detached from the helmet; and a transparent, impact resistant lens. The face protection assembly includes an impact resistant face protection shell with a vision port, through which the transparent lens can be positioned; a flexible nosecup assembly positioned to engage the mouth and nose of the user, which also includes a breathe-through airflow assembly and filter unit; and a flexible face seal which surrounds the nosecup assembly and lens and engages the face of the user. An adjustable head harness is attached to the shell or face seal, for adjustably securing the face seal and nosecup to the user's face to maximize comfort and protection while preventing fogging of the lens. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/992684 |
| ART UNIT | 3734 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/201.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07934668 | Cooke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holdings S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Peter Cooke (Gillingham, United Kingdom); Godfrey Greeves (Middlesex, United Kingdom); Nebojsa Milovanovic (Bishops Stortford, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector for use in an internal combustion engine, comprising a nozzle body being provided with a nozzle bore and at least one set of one or more outlets for fluid, an outer valve member received within the nozzle bore and being engageable with a first seating region of the nozzle body to control the flow of a first fluid from a first delivery chamber, the outer valve member being provided with an outer valve bore, and an inner valve member received within the outer valve bore and being engageable with a second seating region of the nozzle body to control the flow of a second fluid from a second delivery chamber. In various embodiments, the fuel injector can be arranged to allow the first and second fluids to be injected separately and/or together. In one embodiment, the first and second fluids can be mixed within the injector before injection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291667 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/533.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07934685 | Spanjers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory G. Spanjers (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique whereby one or more conducting plates electrically-biased negatively with respect to a spacecraft's electrical potential and insulated from the spacecraft surface are located around the spacecraft surface whereby contaminant ions in a plasma surrounding the spacecraft are accelerated through an electric potential, caused to collide with the conductive surface, neutralized through collisions with surface atoms, and then reflected away from the spacecraft as neutral atoms or molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/093989 |
| 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 244/171.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07934902 | Suciu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel L. Suciu (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Brian Merry (Andover, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine engine locates an actuator (55) for the compressor variable guide vanes (54a, b, c) at a location remote from the variable guide vanes. The actuator is connected to the variable guide vanes through a torque rod (56) inside an inlet guide vane. The torque rod rotatably drives an activation ring (57) about the engine centerline. The activation ring is coupled to each of the variable compressor vanes via linkage, such that rotation of the activation ring about the engine centerline causes all of the variable compressor vanes to pivot. With this configuration, a tip turbine engine can be more easily provided with variable compressor vanes for the axial compressor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 01, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/719594 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935181 | Hayes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumimove, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Hayes (Zion, Illinois); Patrick J. Kinlen (Fenton, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A corrosion-responsive agent comprising a neutralized metal salt of a corrosion inhibiting organic anion and methods of making and using it are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/074578 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/14.440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935236 | Marshall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orange S. Marshall (Champaign, Illinois); Sean Morefield (Champaign, Illinois); Michael K. McInerney (Champaign, Illinois); Vincent F. Hock, Jr. (Mahomet, Illinois); Paul D. Femmer (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for de-watering porous material, e.g., concrete. In select embodiments, durable, dimensionally stable anodes (DDAs), preferably configured as arrays on a strip, are impressed into the concrete and a pulsed signal is provided by a DC power supply to the DDAs and cathode rods inserted in soil. The DDAs comprise a valve metal substrate mesh having a semi-conductive coating of a precious metal, cement or ceramic. In select embodiments, conducting grout of a hydraulic cement-based mineral-aggregate may be used to emplace the DDAs. In select embodiments, a single cycle of the signal comprises a pulse train consisting of an initial positive pulse followed by a shorter duration negative pulse and ending with a short off period before re-cycling. The cycles continue until the porous material has been sufficiently treated. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/448887 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/515 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935780 | Hong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brewer Science Inc. (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenbin Hong (Rolla, Missouri); Sunil K. Pillalamarri (Eagan, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | New compositions and methods of using those compositions as bonding compositions are provided. The compositions are preferably thermoplastic and comprise imides, amideimides, and/or amideimide-siloxanes (either in polymeric or oligomeric form) dispersed or dissolved in a solvent system, and can be used to bond an active wafer to a carrier wafer or substrate to assist in protecting the active wafer and its active sites during subsequent processing and handling. The compositions form bonding layers that are chemically and thermally resistant, but that can also be softened to allow the wafers to slide apart at the appropriate stage in the fabrication process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/146148 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935784 | Clinton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gail M. Clinton (Wimberley, Texas); Adam Evans (Webster Groves, Missouri); William D. Henner (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | There is disclosed a pharmaceutical composition for treating solid tumors that overexpress HER-2, comprising an agent selected from the group consisting of (a) an isolated polypeptide having from about 50 to 79 amino acids taken from the sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1 or SEQ ID NO:12, wherein the polypeptide binds to the extracellular domain ECD of HER-2 at an affinity of at least 108, (b) an isolated and glycosylated polypeptide having from about 300 to 419 amino acids taken from the sequence of SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:13, wherein the C terminal 79 amino acids are present, and wherein at least three N-linked glycosylation sites are present, (c) a monoclonal antibody that binds to the ECD of HER-2, and (d) combinations thereof, with the proviso that the agent cannot be the monoclonal antibody alone, and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also disclosed are prognostic and diagnostic assays. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/204102 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935882 | Pickard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hi-Z Technology, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Wayne Pickard (Sherborn, Massachusetts); Frank E. DiLeo (Oxford, Massachusetts); Aleksandr S. Kushch (Poway, California); John C. Bass (La Jolla, California); Markvard Haurbach (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-powered food heater. The food heater includes a burner with an electric fuel pump and an electric blower, a fire box, a water tank and electronic controls. The food heater also includes a set of thermoelectric modules compressed against a heat transfer surface of the tank. Hot exhaust leaving the burner enters the fire box. Some of the heat from the fire box passes through the thermoelectric modules generating sufficient electric power to power the fuel pump and the blower. Water in the tank is heated to its boiling temperature. Heat from the boiling water heats food also contained in the tank. In a preferred embodiment special compression frames provide substantially uniform compression, within desired ranges, of the modules between a portion of the heat transfer surface of the tank and a module cover plate. Fins may be provided on the cover plate or insulating spacers may be added to assure the hot side temperatures of the modules are within desired ranges to provide desired power output without damaging the modules. In a preferred embodiment the modules are compressed against a heat transfer surface on the outside of the tank within the fire box. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354190 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935923 | Cheung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry Cheung (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Luis F. Velásquez-García (Boston, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A quadrupole mass filter (QMF) is provided. The QMF includes a plurality of rectangular shaped electrodes aligned in a symmetric manner to generate a quadrupole field. An aperture region is positioned in a center region parallel to and adjacent to each of the rectangular shaped electrodes. An incoming ion stream enters the aperture region so as to be controlled by the quadrupole field. A plurality of voltage sources provide a r.f. and d.c. signal to the electrodes for generating the quadrupole field. An auxiliary voltage source applies an auxiliary drive signal to the r.f. and d.c. signal to create new stability boundaries within the standard Mathieu stability regions with high-resolution around operating conditions where there are approximately no higher-order resonances. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168407 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935924 | Cheung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry Cheung (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Luis F. Velásquez-García (Boston, Massachusetts); Akintunde I. Akinwande (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A quadrupole mass filter (QMF) is provided. The QMF includes a plurality of rectangular shaped electrodes aligned in a symmetric manner to generate a quadrupole field. An aperture region is positioned in a center region parallel to and adjacent to each of the rectangular shaped electrodes. An incoming ion stream enters the aperture region so as to be controlled by the quadrupole field. |
| FILED | Monday, July 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/168439 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935985 | Mishra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Califonia (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, California); Yi Pei (Goleta, California); Siddharth Rajan (Goleta, California); Man Hoi Wong (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating nitrogen-face (N-face) nitride-based electronic devices with low buffer leakage, comprising isolating a buffer from a substrate with an AlGaInN nucleation layer to suppress impurity incorporation from the substrate into the buffer. A method for fabricating N-face nitride-based electronic devices with low parasitic resistance and high breakdown, comprising capping a device structure with a conductive layer to provide extremely low access and/or contact resistances, is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/059902 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936041 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey B. Johnson (Essex Junction, Vermont); Xuefeng Liu (South Burlington, Vermont); Bradley A. Orner (Fairfax, Vermont); Robert M. Rassel (Colchester, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The structure for millimeter-wave frequency applications, includes a Schottky barrier diode (SBD) with a cutoff frequency (FC) above 1.0 THz formed on a SiGe BiCMOS wafer. A method is also contemplated for forming a Schottky barrier diode on a SiGe BiCMOS wafer, including forming a structure which provides a cutoff frequency (Fc) above about 1.0 THz. In embodiments, the structure which provides a cutoff frequency (Fc) above about 1.0 THz may include an anode having an anode area which provides a cutoff frequency (FC) above about 1.0 THz, an n-epitaxial layer having a thickness which provides a cutoff frequency (FC) above about 1.0 THz, a p-type guardring at an energy and dosage which provides a cutoff frequency (FC) above about 1.0 THz, the p-type guardring having a dimension which provides a cutoff frequency (FC) above about 1.0 THz, and a well tailor with an n-type dopant which provides a cutoff frequency (FC) above about 1.0 THz. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/853973 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/477 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936198 | Sautter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rolf Sautter (Bondorf, Germany); Michael Ju Hyeok Lee (Austin, Texas); Yuen Hung Chan (Poughkeepsie, New York); Juergen Pille (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable clock control circuit includes a base block, a chop block, and a pulse width variation block coupled between the chop block and the base block that receives the chop block output and provides a pulse width variation output to the base block. The pulse width variation block is programmable to vary the chop block output to provide at least three different output pulse widths. The circuit also includes a clock delay block coupled an output of the base block to delay the output pulse and having a clock signal output. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/345758 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936404 | Spillmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Spillmann (Alexandria, Virginia); David Cylinder (New Egypt, New Jersey); Banahalli R. Ratna (Woodbridge, Virginia); Jawad Naciri (Herndon, Virginia); Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprising a first liquid crystal elastomer, a first heating element, a first layer of thermal paste, and a second liquid crystal elastomer. The apparatus further comprising a second heating element, a second layer of thermal paste, and a third liquid crystal elastomer. The heating element can be a nickel-chromium heating element. A method comprising arranging a first heating element on a first liquid crystal elastomer, arranging a first layer of thermal paste on the first heating element, and arranging a second liquid crystal elastomer on the first layer of thermal paste. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/896306 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936453 | Logan, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emcore Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Logan, Jr. (Pasadena, California); Joseph R. Demers (Alhambra, California); Bryon L. Kasper (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for analyzing, identifying or imaging a target including an integrated dual laser module coupled to a pair of photoconductive switches to produce CW signals in the range of frequencies from 100 GHz to over 2 THz focused on and transmitted through or reflected from the target; and a detector for acquiring spectral information from signals received from the target and using a multi-spectral homodyne process to generate an electrical signal representative of some characteristics of the target with resolution less than 250 MHz. The photoconductive switches are activated by laser beams from the dual laser module. The lasers in the module are tuned to different frequencies and have two distinct low frequency identification tones respectively that are used in conjunction with a stable optical filter element to permit precise determination of the offset frequency of the lasers. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/062772 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936847 | Fite et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Fite (Clifton, Virginia); James L. Rasmussen (Colorado Springs, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems of signal cancellation/separation for use in multi-signal communication environments are provided herein. Embodiments of the present invention use a feedback-optimized multi-signal multi-stage estimator with data-aided signal parameter estimation. Embodiments of the present invention require minimal information about the received signals and can be used to separate a desired signal from an interfering signal or two desired signals received on the same frequency. In the latter case, embodiments of the present invention effectively double the capacity of the communication system. Embodiments of the present invention are suitable for environments with intentional and/or unintentional jamming or interference. System embodiments of the present invention can be used as in-line solutions that can be inserted at different points in a receive chain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/783600 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07937229 | Buyukozturk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Buyukozturk (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tzu-Yang Yu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Blejer (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact, far-field radar nondestructive testing (NDT) method is disclosed that is capable of detecting at least one of defects, damages, and reinforcement conditions in near-surface region of multi-layer systems using monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) measurements and applicable to various types of structural elements. The method includes the steps of conducting far-field monostatic ISAR measurements, executing an imaging algorithm, and executing a progressive image focusing algorithm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127376 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07937269 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu Chandra Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip Shilung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for real-time classification of streaming data. In particular, systems and methods for real-time classification of continuous data streams implement micro-clustering methods for offline and online processing of training data to build and dynamically update training models that are used for classification, as well as incrementally clustering the data over contiguous segments of a continuous data stream (in real-time) into a plurality of micro-clusters from which target profiles are constructed which define/model the behavior of the data in individual segments of the data stream. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208893 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07937570 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ronald N. Kalla (Round Rock, Texas); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system has a processor, a memory, and an instruction set architecture (ISA) that includes: an asynchronous memory mover (AMM) store (ST) instruction that initiates an asynchronous memory move operation that moves data from a first memory location having a first real address to a second memory location having a second real address by: (a) first performing a move of the data in virtual address space utilizing a source effective address a destination effective address; and (b) when the move is completed, completing a physical move of the data to the second memory location, independent of the processor. The ISA further provides an AMM terminate ST instruction for stopping an ongoing AMM operation before completion of the AMM operation, and a LD CMP instruction for checking a status of an AMM operation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024546 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42315 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Linnea K. Ista (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a nanostructured device comprising a substrate including nanotroughs therein; and a lipid bilayer suspended on or supported in the substrate. A separation method is also provided comprising the steps of supporting or suspending a lipid bilayer on a substrate; wherein the substrate comprises nanostructures and wherein the lipid bilayer comprises at least one membrane associated biomolecule; and applying a driving force to the lipid bilayer to separate the membrane associated biomolecule from the lipid bilayer and to drive the membrane associated biomolecule into the nanostructures. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825298 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07935045 | Criscione et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College State, Texas); Corinnova Incorporated (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Criscione (College Station, Texas); Lewis Harrison (Arlington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, systems and devices that reduce dyskinesis and hypokinesis. The contoured heart assist device of the present invention includes a selectively inflatable end-systolic heart shaped bladder with one or more contoured supports configured to surround at least a portion of the heart and provide curvatures similar to the proper shape of the heart when the device is pressurized and one or more fluid connections in communication with the selectively inflatable end-systolic heart shaped bladder for pressurization and depressurization. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400148 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935345 | Reason et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Reason (Oakland, California); Jianhui Zhou (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features compositions relating to antibodies that specifically bind to the protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis, fragments thereof, and nucleic acids encoding same. The invention further features methods of using such compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123339 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/164.100 |
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| US 07935351 | Klinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Mei Zheng (Augusta, Georgia); Barry T. Rouse (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides a method of inducing production of vascular endothelial growth factor by a cell. The method includes contacting the cell with a CpG oligonucleotide, thereby inducing the production of vascular endothelial growth factor by the cell. The disclosure further provides a method inducing neovascularization in a tissue. This method includes comprising introducing a CpG oligodeoxynucleotide into an area of the tissue wherein the formation of new blood vessels is desired, thereby inducing neovascularization in the area of the tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839217 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/198.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935352 | Vilalta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vical Incorporated (San Diego, California); The University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Vilalta (San Diego, California); Michal Margalith (Solana Beach, California); Lichun Dong (Seattle, Washington); David Koelle (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method for systemic immune activation which is effective for eliciting both a systemic, non-antigen specific immune response and a strong antigen-specific immune response in a mammal. The method is particularly effective for protecting a mammal from herpes simplex virus. Also disclosed are therapeutic compositions useful in such a method. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581025 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/231.100 |
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| US 07935357 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvão Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Florence, Italy); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728177 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935364 | Masters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristyn Simcha Masters (Madison, Wisconsin); Tracy Jane Stefonek (Cottage Grove, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a wound dressing that includes a patterned gradient of immobilized growth factor molecules that promote directed migration of cells during dermal wound healing. Growth factor is immobilized on a support substrate to present a gradient pattern of increasing growth factor concentration to migrating cells. Methods of promoting wound healing using the patterned gradient wound dressing and fabrication methods of same are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041881 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935485 | Roth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Roth (Columbia, Maryland); John J. Jeka (Sevema Park, Maryland); Scott M. Williams (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described the identification of genetic variants that contribute to susceptibility to drug-induced vestibular dysfunction, more particularly, GM-induced vestibular dysfunction. Methods, compositions and kits for determining whether an individual has susceptibility for drug-induced vestibular dysfunction are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079860 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07935494 | Kaper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thijs Kaper (Palo Alto, California); Michael Platten (Dossenheim, Germany); Lawrence Steinman (Stanford, California); Wolf Frommer (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for detecting changes in tryptophan concentrations in a cell and methods for identifying agents that modulate cellular tryptophan concentrations. In particular, the present invention provides methods for detecting cellular exchange between tryptophan and kynurenine, and methods for identifying agents that modulate this exchange. The present invention also provides methods for treating a disease associated with immunosuppression in a subject in need thereof. In particular, the present invention is directed toward a method of treating a disease associated with immunosuppression comprising contacting the disease with an agent that modulates cellular Trp/kynurenine exchange. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for identifying an agent that modulates an immunosuppression. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040524 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935500 | Gerber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Gerber (Somerville, Massachusetts); Maria Karayiorgou (Riverdale, New York); Tsuyoshi Miyakawa (Aichi, Japan); Susumu Tonegawa (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides targets, methods, and reagents for the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia and related conditions. The invention provides methods for the diagnosis of schizophrenia and susceptibility to schizophrenia by detection of polymorphisms, mutations, variations, alterations in expression, etc., in calcineurin genes or calcineurin interacting genes, or polymorphisms linked to such genes. The invention provides oligonucleotides, arrays, and antibodies for detection of polymorphisms and variants. The invention provides transgenic mice having alterations in such genes. The invention also provides methods of treating schizophrenia by administering compounds that target these genes. The invention further provides screening methods for identifying such compounds and compounds obtained by performing the screens. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/400348 |
| 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 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935513 | Gerngross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Glycofi, Inc. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tillman U. Gerngross (Hanover, New Hampshire); Stefan Wildt (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Byung-Kwon Choi (Norwich, Vermont); Juergen Hermann Nett (Grantham, New Hampshire); Piotr Bobrowicz (White River Junction, Vermont); Stephen R. Hamilton (Enfield, New Hampshire); Robert C. Davidson (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to eukaryotic host cells having modified oligosaccharides which may be modified further by heterologous expression of a set of glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases to become host-strains for the production of mammalian, e.g., human therapeutic glycoproteins. The invention provides nucleic acid molecules and combinatorial libraries which can be used to successfully target and express mammalian enzymatic activities such as those involved in glycosylation to intracellular compartments in a eukaryotic host cell. The process provides an engineered host cell which can be used to express and target any desirable gene(s) involved in glycosylation. Host cells with modified oligosaccharides are created or selected. N-glycans made in the engineered host cells have a Man5GlcNAc2 core structure which may then be modified further by heterologous expression of one or more enzymes, e.g., glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases, to yield human-like glycoproteins. For the production of therapeutic proteins, this method may be adapted to engineer cell lines in which any desired glycosylation structure may be obtained. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156936 |
| 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 435/254.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ze'ev Ronai (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel therapies for cancer and, in particular, to therapies that are particularly suited to tumor cells resistant to other types of therapies such as radiation, chemotherapy, or combinations of both approaches. The invention provides methods for identifying and implementing strategies to inhibit a transcription factor which, in combination with other factors, renders the cells resistant and inhibits apopotosis of the cells. The invention provides an inhibitory ATF2 N-terminal fragment, specifically a fragment corresponding to amino acid residues 50-100 of ATF2 (termed peptide II). The invention provides methods for inhibiting tumor cell growth with such peptides. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/945133 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935528 | Faris |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rhode Island Hospital, a Lifespan Partner (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald A. Faris (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a primary liver stem cell and a cell doublet consisting of a hepatocyte and the stem cell, both of which are derived from normal liver tissue. Methods of isolating the cells, genetically altering the cells, and using the cells for transplantation are also within the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/039119 |
| 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 435/326 |
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| US 07935530 | Dervan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasedena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter B. Dervan (San Marino, California); Claire S. Jacobs (San Marino, California); Nicholas G. Nickols (Van Nuys, California); Daniel A. Harki (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polyamides with a tail comprising a linker and an end-group. A preferred end-group is isophthalic acid and derivatives thereof. Polyamides of the invention are capable of entering the nucleus of cells. Polyamides of the invention are capable of selectively binding DNA. The invention also relates to methods of using the polyamides in therapy and research. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998446 |
| 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 435/440 |
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| US 07935675 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Iowa City, Iowa); Joel N. Kline (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid sequences containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides that modulate an immune response including stimulating a Th1 pattern of immune activation, cytokine production, NK lytic activity, and B cell proliferation are disclosed. The sequences are also useful a synthetic adjuvant. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/337584 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 07935679 | Shaughnessy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Shaughnessy (Little Rock, Arkansas); Bart Barlogie (Little Rock, Arkansas); Fenghuang Zhan (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Gene expression profiling is a powerful tool that has varied utility. It enables classification of multiple myeloma into subtypes and identifing genes directly involved in disease pathogensis and clinical manifestation. The present invention used gene expression profiling in large uniformly treated population of patients with myeloma to identify genes associated with poor prognosis. It also demonstrated that over-expression of CKS1B gene, mainly due to gene amplification that was determined by Fluorescent in-situ hybridization to impart a poor prognosis in multiple myleoma. It is further contemplated that therapeutic strategies that directly target CKS1B or related pathways may represent novel, and more specific means of treating high risk myeloma and may prevent its secondary evolution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/110209 |
| 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 | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry Benowitz (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modulating the axonal outgrowth of central nervous system neurons are provided. Methods for stimulating the axonal outgrowth of central nervous system neurons following an injury (e.g., stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, cerebral aneurism, spinal cord injury and the like) and methods for inhibiting the axonal outgrowth of central nervous system neurons are also provided. Finally, a packed formulation comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising an inosine nucleoside and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier packed with instructions for use of the pharmaceutical composition for treatment of a central nervous system disorder is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/708098 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/45 |
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| US 07935785 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Smith (San Diego, California); Emily I. Chen (Encinitas, California); Steven J. Kridel (Clemmons, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated MMP-2, MMP-9 and MT1-MMP selective substrate polypeptides or functional peptidomimetics. The selective substrate polypeptides contain the following sequences: MMP-2 selective substrate polypeptides contain SEQ ID NOS:1-27, MMP-9 selective substrate polypeptides contain SEQ ID NOS:28-35, and MT1-MMP selective substrate polypeptide contain SEQ ID NOS:36-40. In addition, the invention provides a method of preferentially directing a moiety to a site of MMP-2 activity by administering to a subject an effective amount of an isolated MMP-2 selective substrate polypeptide containing SEQ ID NOS:45-47 linked to a moiety. Also provided is a method of preferentially directing a moiety to a site of MMP-9 activity by administering to a subject an effective amount of an isolated MMP-9 selective substrate polypeptide containing SEQ ID NO:44 linked to a moiety, and preferentially directing a moiety to a site of MT1-MMP activity by administering to a subject an effective amount of an isolated MT1-MMP selective substrate polypeptide containing SEQ ID NOS:36-40 linked to a moiety. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252160 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935804 | Dubensky, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aduro BioTech (Berkeley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Dubensky, Jr. (Piedmont, California); Justin Skoble (Berkeley, California); Peter M. Lauer (Berkeley, California); David N. Cook (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a bacterium containing a polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid encoding a heterologous antigen, as well as fusion protein partners. Also provided are vectors for mediating site-specific recombination and vectors comprising removable antibiotic resistance genes. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/395197 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07936171 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianping Hu (Arlington, Massachusetts); Judith Herzfeld (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A pseudo-Marchand balun, compound balun and tunable multi-resonant coaxial balun, and NMR probes employing each such balun, and a fine balance and impedance adjustment module and a multi-layer transmission line for use in such NMR probes. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313385 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/322 |
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| US 07937153 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable electrode with increased stability having a clustered structure wherein the surface of the electrode is covered with a material comprising openings which are filled with sticks or posts. An implantable electrode with increased stability wherein the surface is of the electrode comprises mesh grids which are filled with sticks which are filed with a conducting or insulating material. A method of manufacturing an electrode with increased stability, comprising: depositing a metal layer on an base layer; applying photoresist layer on the metal layer; patterning the photoresist layer providing openings; electroplating the openings with metal; removing the photoresist layer leaving spaces; and filling the spaces with polymer. A method of manufacturing an electrode with increased stability, comprising: depositing a metal layer on an base layer; applying a polymer layer on the metal layer; applying photoresist layer on the polymer layer; patterning the photoresist layer providing openings; electroplating the openings with metal; and removing the photoresist layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820744 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
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| US RE42325 | Wittwer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl T. Wittwer (Salt Lake City, Utah); Mark G. Herrman (Bountiful, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and devices for analyzing sequence variations in nucleic acid samples comprising multiple loci, each having two, three or more possible allelic sequences. The method involves combining at least a first and second pair of oligonucleotide probes with the nucleic acid sample. The first pair of probes is capable of hybridizing in proximity to each other within a segment of the nucleic acid sample comprising the first locus and the second pair is capable of hybridizing in proximity to each other within a segment of the nucleic acid sample comprising the second locus. The first member of each probe pair comprises a FRET donor and the second member comprises a FRET acceptor, the FRET acceptor of the first probe pair member having a different emission spectrum from the FRET acceptor of the second probe pair. Upon hybridization, the proximity of the first and second member of each probe pair is sufficient to allow fluorescence resonance energy transfer between the FRET donor and the FRET acceptor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765968 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07935511 | San et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ka-Yiu San (Houston, Texas); George N. Bennett (Houston, Texas); Henry Lin (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of increasing yields of succinate using aerobic culture methods and a multi-mutant E. coli strain are provided. Also provided is a mutant strain of E. coli that produces high amounts of succinic acid. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/763424 |
| 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 435/252.330 |
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| US 07935532 | Azpiroz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ricardo Azpiroz (Dallas, Texas); Sunghwa Choe (Seoul, Slovakia); Kenneth Feldmann (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel, polynucleotides isolated from dwarf plants. The dwf4 polynucleotides that encode all, or a portion of, a DWF4 polypeptide, a cytochrome P450 enzyme that mediates multiple steps in synthesis of brassinosteriods. The present invention also relates to isolated polynucleotides that encode regulatory regions of dwf4. Uses of the dwf4 polypeptides and polynucleotides are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388110 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — 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 435/468 |
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| US 07935754 | Prud'Homme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey); Douglas Adamson (Skillman, New Jersey); Ahmed Abdala (Suez, Egypt) |
| ABSTRACT | An automotive body panel containing a polymer composite formed of at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194016 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
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| US 07935782 | Harth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eva M. Harth (Nashville, Tennessee); Alice E. Van Der Ende (Dickson, Tennessee); Sharon K. Hamilton (Nashville, Tennessee); Teresa A. Croce (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to polymers, crosslinked polymers, functionalized polymers, nanoparticles, and functionalized nanoparticles and methods of making and using same. In one aspect, the invention relates to degradable polymer and degradable nanoparticles. In one aspect, the invention relates to methods of preparing degradable nanoparticles and, more specifically, methods of controlling particle size during the preparation of degradable nanoparticles. In one aspect, the degradable nanoparticles are useful for complexing, delivering, and releasing payloads, including pharmaceutically active payloads. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/265701 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/403 |
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| US 07936392 | Ng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi-Ren Ng (Mountain View, California); Patrick M. Hanrahan (Portola Valley, California); Marc S. Levoy (Stanford, California); Mark A. Horowitz (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Image data is processed to facilitate focusing and/or optical correction. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, an imaging arrangement collects light data corresponding to light passing through a particular focal plane. The light data is collected using an approach that facilitates the determination of the direction from which various portions of the light incident upon a portion of the focal plane emanate from. Using this directional information in connection with value of the light as detected by photosensors, an image represented by the light is selectively focused and/or corrected. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/576438 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/349 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936802 | Singer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Singer (Pepperpike, Ohio); Eric Baer (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Anne Hiltner (Cleveland, Ohio); Christoph Weder (Duedingen, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer film laser is provided that comprises a plurality of extruded polymer layers. The plurality of extruded polymer layers comprises a plurality of alternating dielectric layers of a first polymer material having a first refractive index and a second polymer material having second refractive index different than the first refractive index. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/603262 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07937229 | Buyukozturk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Buyukozturk (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tzu-Yang Yu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Blejer (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact, far-field radar nondestructive testing (NDT) method is disclosed that is capable of detecting at least one of defects, damages, and reinforcement conditions in near-surface region of multi-layer systems using monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) measurements and applicable to various types of structural elements. The method includes the steps of conducting far-field monostatic ISAR measurements, executing an imaging algorithm, and executing a progressive image focusing algorithm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127376 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07937285 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth Y Goldberg (San Francisco, California); Judith Donath (Boston, Massachusetts); Eric J. Paulos (San Francisco, California); David Pescovitz (San Francisco, California); Kelly Dobson (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Matthew Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Anthony Levandowski (Albany, California); Dezhen Song (Albany, California); Dana Spiegel (Boston, Massachusetts); Derek Tang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A collaborative online tele-operation system allows an audience of many participants to simultaneously share control of a single remote actor, such that the actions of the actor are based on the ongoing collective preferences of the audience. |
| FILED | Friday, April 12, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/121955 |
| ART UNIT | 3624 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 07935325 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc. (Danvers, Massachusetts); The Regents of the University of California (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Han (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Jonathan H. Tao (Oceanside, California); Madis Raukas (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Keith A. Klinedinst (Hudson, Massachusetts); Jan B. Talbot (San Diego, California); Kailash A. Mishra (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Rare earth-activated aluminum nitride powders are made using a solution-based approach to form a mixed hydroxide of aluminum and a rare earth metal, the mixed hydroxide is then converted into an ammonium metal fluoride, preferably a rare earth-substituted ammonium aluminum hexafluoride ((NH4)3Al1-xRExF6), and finally the rare earth-activated aluminum nitride is formed by ammonolysis of the ammonium metal fluoride at a high temperature. The use of a fluoride precursor in this process avoids sources of oxygen during the final ammonolysis step which is a major source of defects in the powder synthesis of nitrides. Also, because the aluminum nitride is formed from a mixed hydroxide co-precipitate, the distribution of the dopants in the powder is substantially homogeneous in each particle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/161017 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935419 | Hollingsworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer A. Hollingsworth (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yongfen Chen (Eugene, Oregon); Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Han Htoon (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Javier Vela (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots comprising an inner core having an average diameter of at least 1.5 nm and an outer shell, where said outer shell comprises multiple monolayers, wherein at least 30% of the quantum dots have an on-time fraction of 0.80 or greater under continuous excitation conditions for a period of time of at least 10 minutes. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322813 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935516 | Brigmon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin L. Brigmon (North Augusta, South Carolina); Sandra Story (Greenville, South Carolina); Denis J. Altman (Evans, Georgia); Christopher J. Berry (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel strains of isolated and purified bacteria have been identified which have the ability to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons including a variety of PAHs. Several isolates also exhibit the ability to produce a biosurfactant. The combination of the biosurfactant-producing ability along with the ability to degrade PAHs enhances the efficiency with which PAHs may be degraded. Additionally, the biosurfactant also provides an additional ability to bind heavy metal ions for removal from a soil or aquatic environment. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810918 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936076 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A power system for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, the power system comprises an electric machine (12) further comprising a first excitation source (47), a permanent magnet rotor (28) and a magnetic coupling rotor (26) spaced from the permanent magnet rotor and at least one second excitation source (43), the magnetic coupling rotor (26) also including a flywheel having an inertial mass to store kinetic energy during an initial acceleration to an operating speed; and wherein the first excitation source is electrically connected to the second excitation source for power cycling such that the flywheel rotor (26) exerts torque on the permanent magnet rotor (28) to assist braking and acceleration of the permanent magnet rotor (28) and consequently, the vehicle. An axial gap machine and a radial gap machine are disclosed and methods of the invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/009682 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/1.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936270 | Britton, Jr. et al. |
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| 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 insitu 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 | 12/406680 |
| 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 07937389 | Jiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Jiao (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas E. Potok (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The method and system of the invention involves processing each new document (20) coming into the system into a document vector (16), and creating a document vector with reduced dimensionality (17) for comparison with the data model (15) without recomputing the data model (15). These operations are carried out by a first computer (11) while a second computer (12) updates the data model (18), which can be comprised of an initial large group of documents (19) and is premised on the computing an initial data model (13, 14, 15) to provide a reference point for determining document vectors from documents processed from the data stream (20). |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/072723 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/736 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07935259 | Gavalas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lillian Susan Gavalas (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A filtering apparatus comprises a microporous membrane and an actuator. The membrane is positioned to traverse across the hollow interior of a conduit used for the transport of molecules in bulk. In one example, the pores of the membrane comprise a plurality of open-ended carbon nanotubes. The actuator comprises a transducing material such as a polyvinyledene fluoride film that is operatively positioned in contact with the membrane and is capable of propagating acoustic vibration onto the membrane at a particular frequency so as to hasten the movement of the molecules through the membrane. Similarly, a method of filtering water comprises the steps of: (a) sifting molecules of water through the membrane, the pores of the membrane comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes; and (b) propagating acoustic vibration onto the microporous membrane at a libration frequency of ice so as to hasten movement of the water molecules within the carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167332 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/650 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935297 | Pugel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Diane E. Pugel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an array of pointed structures comprises depositing a ferrofluid on a substrate, applying a magnetic field to the ferrofluid to generate an array of surface protrusions, and solidifying the surface protrusions to form the array of pointed structures. The pointed structures may have a tip radius ranging from approximately 10 nm to approximately 25 μm. Solidifying the surface protrusions may be carried out at a temperature ranging from approximately 10 degrees C. to approximately 30 degrees C. |
| FILED | Monday, March 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/370396 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935414 | Ounaies et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zoubeida Ounaies (College Station, Texas); Cheol Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Hampton, Virginia); Nancy M. Holloway (White Marsh, Virginia); Gregory K. Draughon (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electroactive material comprises multiple layers of electroactive composite with each layer having unique dielectric, electrical and mechanical properties that define an electromechanical operation thereof when affected by an external stimulus. For example, each layer can be (i) a 2-phase composite made from a polymer with polarizable moieties and an effective amount of carbon nanotubes incorporated in the polymer for a predetermined electomechanical operation, or (ii) a 3-phase composite having the elements of the 2-phase composite and further including a third component of micro-sized to nano-sized particles of an electroactive ceramic incorporated in the polymer matrix. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406315 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935601 | Neudeck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip G. Neudeck (Ohmsted Falls, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed that provides a self-aligned nitrogen-implant particularly suited for a Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) semiconductor device preferably comprised of a silicon carbide (SiC). This self-aligned nitrogen-implant allows for the realization of durable and stable electrical functionality of high temperature transistors such as JFETs. The method implements the self-aligned nitrogen-implant having predetermined dimensions, at a particular step in the fabrication process, so that the SiC junction field effect transistors are capable of being electrically operating continuously at 500° C. for over 10,000 hours in an air ambient with less than a 10% change in operational transistor parameters. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/584497 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935754 | Prud'Homme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey); Douglas Adamson (Skillman, New Jersey); Ahmed Abdala (Suez, Egypt) |
| ABSTRACT | An automotive body panel containing a polymer composite formed of at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194016 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07936019 | Raffaelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York); Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); David Wilt (Bay Village, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A power source and methods thereof includes a structure comprising one or more p type layers, one or more n type layers, and one or more intrinsic layers and at least one source of radiation is disposed on at least a portion of the structure. Each of the p type layers is separated from each of the n type layers by one of the intrinsic layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180841 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07934564 | Stell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Williams-Pyro, Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew W. Stell (Aledo, Texas); Preston N. Weintraub (Keller, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A stovetop fire suppression system is provided which senses the stovetop environment, assesses a fire condition, and limits a fuel or electricity heat source upon determination of a stovetop fire condition. Either, or both of, sound or heat may be monitored for the presence of a fire. Sensed day can be processed for spectral density or rate of rise for subsequent comparison to thresholds or predetermined density values. Upon determination of a stovetop fire condition a fire suppression module triggers, for example, a valve or switch to extinguish the stovetop heat source. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240081 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fire extinguishers 169/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07935513 | Gerngross et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Glycofi, Inc. (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tillman U. Gerngross (Hanover, New Hampshire); Stefan Wildt (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Byung-Kwon Choi (Norwich, Vermont); Juergen Hermann Nett (Grantham, New Hampshire); Piotr Bobrowicz (White River Junction, Vermont); Stephen R. Hamilton (Enfield, New Hampshire); Robert C. Davidson (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to eukaryotic host cells having modified oligosaccharides which may be modified further by heterologous expression of a set of glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases to become host-strains for the production of mammalian, e.g., human therapeutic glycoproteins. The invention provides nucleic acid molecules and combinatorial libraries which can be used to successfully target and express mammalian enzymatic activities such as those involved in glycosylation to intracellular compartments in a eukaryotic host cell. The process provides an engineered host cell which can be used to express and target any desirable gene(s) involved in glycosylation. Host cells with modified oligosaccharides are created or selected. N-glycans made in the engineered host cells have a Man5GlcNAc2 core structure which may then be modified further by heterologous expression of one or more enzymes, e.g., glycosyltransferases, sugar transporters and mannosidases, to yield human-like glycoproteins. For the production of therapeutic proteins, this method may be adapted to engineer cell lines in which any desired glycosylation structure may be obtained. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156936 |
| 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 435/254.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07937280 | Leung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | i2 Technologies US, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heung-Wah Leung (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jonathan Cherneff (Milton, Massachusetts); Feng Liu (Winchester, Massachusetts); Tassio Carvallo (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system (10) for planning and scheduling service events for one or more assets includes a demand optimizer engine (12) that receives information regarding future service requirements for an asset and operating characteristics of the asset. The demand optimizer engine (12) also generates a service plan identifying one or more planned service events during which one or more services are to be performed on the asset and identifying a planned start time and a planned end time for each service event so as to minimize the amount of time the asset is non-operational and the costs associated with each service event. The system (10) also includes a supply optimizer engine (14) that receives the service plan from the demand optimizer engine (12) and generates a service schedule for one or more of the planned service events based on information regarding the flow of one or more parts used in conjunction with the services of each planned service event. The service schedule includes a scheduled start time and a scheduled end time for the one or more planned service events. The supply optimizer engine (14) communicates the service schedule to the demand optimizer engine (12) and the demand optimizer engine (12) modifies the service plan according to the service schedule received from the supply optimizer engine (14). |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/011572 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07936019 | Raffaelle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York); Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryne P. Raffaelle (Honeoye Falls, New York); David Wilt (Bay Village, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A power source and methods thereof includes a structure comprising one or more p type layers, one or more n type layers, and one or more intrinsic layers and at least one source of radiation is disposed on at least a portion of the structure. Each of the p type layers is separated from each of the n type layers by one of the intrinsic layers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/180841 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07937269 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu Chandra Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip Shilung Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for real-time classification of streaming data. In particular, systems and methods for real-time classification of continuous data streams implement micro-clustering methods for offline and online processing of training data to build and dynamically update training models that are used for classification, as well as incrementally clustering the data over contiguous segments of a continuous data stream (in real-time) into a plurality of micro-clusters from which target profiles are constructed which define/model the behavior of the data in individual segments of the data stream. |
| FILED | Monday, August 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/208893 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07935376 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kellogg Company (Battle Creek, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lori Ann Wilson (Hickory Corners, Michigan); John William Colyn (Battle Creek, Michigan); Grace Lai (Portage, Michigan); Craig Morris (Pullman, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a storage stable buoyant waxy grain wherein the waxy grain is waxy triticale and waxy wheat. The starch in the waxy grain is gelatinized throughout and the cooked waxy grains of this invention can be stored for prolonged times in air tight or conventional cereal containers having a liner without acquiring rancid odors or tastes even in the absence of preservatives that inhibit the development of rancidity. Preferably, the waxy wholegrain is a waxy wheat having a protein content of no more than 14% by dry weight. The processes for preparing the waxy wholegrain food products of this invention are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/356763 |
| ART UNIT | 1789 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07937246 | Farritor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shane Michael Farritor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Sheng Lu (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for determining a trend in vertical track modulus are described. Vertical deflection data is collected along a particular section of railroad track. A first set of vertical track modulus is determined, based in part, on the collected vertical deflection data. At a second time, vertical deflection data is again collected along the particular section of railroad track to be used in determining a second set of vertical track modulus. At least the first and second sets of vertical track modulus are analyzed to determine a mathematical algorithm that facilitates developing a trend in the vertical track modulus of the railroad track. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206345 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07935357 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvão Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Florence, Italy); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728177 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07937229 | Buyukozturk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oral Buyukozturk (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Tzu-Yang Yu (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Blejer (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-contact, far-field radar nondestructive testing (NDT) method is disclosed that is capable of detecting at least one of defects, damages, and reinforcement conditions in near-surface region of multi-layer systems using monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) measurements and applicable to various types of structural elements. The method includes the steps of conducting far-field monostatic ISAR measurements, executing an imaging algorithm, and executing a progressive image focusing algorithm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127376 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07936878 | Kune et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denis Foo Kune (St. Paul, Minnesota); Patrick S. Gonia (Maplewood, Minnesota); Thomas L. Phinney (Glendale, Arizona); Joseph John Kimball (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present system having a secure wireless infrastructure with a key server acting as a key distribution center. The key server may be the core of the network, securely admitting new nodes or devices, deploying and updating keys and authorizing secure communications sessions. The system may also share secure keying information with a new device not already a member of a secure wireless network. The keying information may be used for authentication or encryption or both, and may be provided to the new device in a manner or mode which is not susceptible to exposure outside of the secure network. The keying information shared with the new device may be regarded as a birth key. Then the new device may send a birth key encrypted request to join the secure network via an exposed communication mode. The key server may respond with a birth key encrypted key encryption key. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869627 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 03, 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-20110503.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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