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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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| US 07941920 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph J. Thompson (Wells, Maine); Susan M. Tholen (Kennebunk, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An outer seal assembly of a turbine rotor stage is secured within a circumferential groove of the turbine casing in such a manner as to both fix the outer seal assembly in its installed position and also provide for sealing around its outer periphery so as to thereby prevent the leakage of cooling air therearound. A plurality of arcuate elements having an angle-shaped cross sectional profile are provided to interface between radially extending arms of the outer seal assembly and the inner surface of the casing, with a locking mechanism then being applied to secure the two structures in their installed positions. Each of the arcuate elements includes a radially extending panel, a plurality of forwardly extending hooks that are disposed within a groove in the casing, and a second forwardly extending flange that engages the rear surface of the outer seal assembly arm. As the outer seal assembly arm is urged rearwardly during operation, the arcuate element is caused to rotate about a fulcrum in the circumferential groove such that a radially outer edge of the radially extending panel is urged against a casing inner surface so as to thereby enhance the sealing relationship therebetween. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723924 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/889.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07941978 | Pollard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Pollard (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas W. Murphey (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A collapsible and deployable hierarchical open lattice assembly comprised of hinge boxes of 12 battens connected by hinge nodes. The hinge nodes are made of a plurality of resilient flexure joints, each joint connected to a batten and giving said batten a 90-degree in-plane rotation capability with a neutral-shaped flexure in a deployed state and a deformed-shaped flexure in a compressed state, whereby a restorative moment is created tending to return said flexure to its neutral state. One or more trusses are formed by sets of four longerons connected to the hinge boxes by the resilient flexure joints. Multiple hub boxes connected by longerons may be used to create a hierarchical truss of trusses in either two or three dimensions. These assemblies may be collapsed to a linear dimension by shearing the hub boxes and trusses in a parallelogram manner. The folding kinematics occur in three stages, which may be performed either sequentially or simultaneously. Initially the trusses connecting the hub boxes are sheared. Then the hub boxes and trusses are sheared in one common dimension to reduce the assembly to a two-dimensional, planar configuration. Finally the hub boxes and trusses are sheared in a perpendicular common dimension to reduce the assembly to a one-dimensional, linear configuration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/644121 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942009 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark M Harris (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida); Wesley D Brown (Jupiter, Florida); Angel M Garcia (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A small gas turbine engine with a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine located downstream of the combustor. The compressor and turbine are supported on a rotary shaft, and a main bearing is support on the rotary shaft, the main bearing being located in a hot zone of the combustor. The main bearing includes cooling air passages within the races to provide cooling for the bearing. A cooling air is diverted from the compressor and passed through the bearing cooling passages for cooling the bearing, and then the cooling air is directed into the combustor. The cooling air is also passed through a guide nozzle before being passed through the bearing to cool both the guide nozzle and the bearing. A swirl cup injector is sued to deliver the compressed air from the compressor and the cooling air from the bearing into the combustor, the swirl cup injector also acting to draw the cooling air through the bearing. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484503 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/782 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942090 | Hoffman |
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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) | Brian Hoffman (Bangor, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An blank firing attachment, with enhanced operating life, for use with gas-operated weapons; wherein, a tungsten carbide stem extending from the attachment is inserted into the bore of the weapon's barrel, the stem having a cross-sectional area less than the cross-sectional area of the bore, to provide backpressure within the barrel to properly cycle the weapon. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425463 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942092 | Kiel 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) | Thomas J. Kiel (Bernardsville, New Jersey); Allen T. Brokaw (Trenton, New Jersey); Frank Petrosillo (West Milford, New Jersey); Katrina A. Tubayan (Union, New Jersey); Matthew J. Hummers (Flanders, New Jersey); Ryan Hooke (Hopatcong, New Jersey); Kirk Deligiannis (Rockaway Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective shield apparatus for a light armor vehicle having a turret includes a generally flat base plate mounted to the turret; an armor plate fixed to the base plate and including a front panel, a first side panel, a second side panel and a rear panel, the armor plate being canted vertically outward from the base plate; each of the first side panel, second side panel and rear panel including a ballistic glass window; a rear bracket connected at one end to a rear of the base plate and at another end to the turret; and a z-bracket connected at one end to the rear of the base plate and at another end the z-bracket bears against the turret. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/185278 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942105 | Dolton |
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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) | John A Dolton (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A scupper plug apparatus is foot-operable, by a person standing next to the scupper, to apply substantially more force for sealing the scupper than is typically achievable through application of force by the hand or arm of a person installing a scupper plug. A resilient body of the scupper plug formed from highly conformable closed-cell foam to closely match the shape of the scupper. A rolling member is used as a cam follower in an actuation arrangement for compressing the resilient body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243548 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942107 | Vosburgh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A payload delivery system for protecting and delivering a payload submerged in a submersion medium includes a containment system. The containment system includes a container and a dehiscing system. The container includes a pressure-resistant shell defining a sealed containment chamber. The dehiscing system is operative to dehisce the shell to open the containment chamber to the submersion medium responsive to a prescribed event and/or a prescribed environmental condition. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/332734 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942160 | Jeon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambidge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noo Li Jeon (Irvine, California); Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Christopher J. Wargo (Highland Park, New Jersey); Insung S. Choi (Yuseong-gu, South Korea); Hongkai Wu (Palo Alto, California); Janelle R. Anderson (Toronto, Canada); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); J. Cooper McDonald (Somerville, Massachusetts); Steven J. Metallo (Silver Spring, Maryland); Howard A. Stone (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic systems, including valves and pumps for microfluidic systems. The valves of the invention include check valves such as diaphragm valves and flap valves. Other valves of the invention include one-use valves. The pumps of the present invention include a reservoir and at least two check valves. The reservoir may be of variable volume. The present invention also relates to a flexible microfluidic system. The present invention additionally relates to a method of making microfluidic systems including those of the present invention. The method includes forming a microfluidic system on a master, connecting a support to the microfluidic system and removing the microfluidic system from the master. The support may remain connected to the microfluidic system or the microfluidic system may be transferred to another substrate. The present invention further relates to a method of manipulating a flow of a fluid in a microfluidic system. This method includes initiating fluid flow in a first direction and inhibiting fluid flow in a second direction and may be practiced with the valves of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/867151 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/15.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942635 | Murray |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Murray (Port St. Lucie, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A small twin spool gas turbine engine with a hollow inner rotor shaft having solid shaft ends and an outer rotor shaft having a cylindrical portion on the compressor end that forms a forward bearing support surface and a turbine rotor disk on the turbine end that forms a aft bearing support surface. The inner rotor shaft includes solid shaft ends that project out from the cylindrical portion of the outer shaft on one end and out from the turbine rotor disk on the other end. An inner bearing housing is secured on the solid shaft ends of the inner rotor shaft. A threaded nut on the inner rotor shafts ends provide a compressive load to the inner bearing housings which results in a tension preload to the inner rotor shaft solid ends so that the bearing assemblies for the forward and aft ends of the twin spools do not become lose from the engine operation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/903556 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942642 | Rini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rini Technologies, Inc. (Oviedo, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel P. Rini (Orlando, Florida); Louis Chow (Winter Park, Florida); H. Randolph Anderson (Clermont, Florida); Jayanta Sankar Kapat (Oviedo, Florida); Bradley Carman (Orlando, Florida); Brian Gulliver (Orange City, Florida); Jose Mauricio Recio (Parkland, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for cooling. In a specific embodiment, the subject invention relates to a lightweight, compact, reliable, and efficient cooling system. The subject system can provide heat stress relief to individuals operating under, for example, hazardous conditions, or in elevated temperatures, while wearing protective clothing. The subject invention also relates to a condenser for transferring heat from a refrigerant to an external fluid in thermal contact with the condenser. The subject condenser can have a heat transfer surface and can be designed for an external fluid, such as air, to flow across the heat transfer surface and allow the transfer of heat from heat transfer surface to the external fluid. In a specific embodiment, the flow of the external fluid is parallel to the heat transfer surface. In another specific embodiment, the heat transfer surface can incorporate surface enhancements which enhance the transfer of heat from the heat transfer surface to the external fluid. In another specific embodiment, an outer layer can be positioned above the heat transfer surface to create a volume between the heat transfer surface and the outer layer through which the external fluid can flow. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/495279 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942989 | Sailor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Sailor (La Jolla, California); Frederic V. Mikulec (Austin, Texas); Joseph D. Kirtland (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An initiator explosive for detonating a second explosive that includes nanocrystalline silicon containing a plurality of pores and a solid state oxidant disposed within said pores. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/731220 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943062 | Swager et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Swager (Newton, Massachusetts); Jye-Shane Yang (Ping-Chen, China PRC); Vance Williams (Vancouver, Canada); Yijun Miao (Falls Church, Virginia); Claus G. Lugmair (San Jose, California); Igor A. Levitsky (Fall River, Massachusetts); Jinsang Kim (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Robert Deans (Grafton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a class of luminescent and conductive polymer compositions having chromophores, and particularly solid films of these compositions exhibiting increased luminescent lifetimes, quantum yields and amplified emissions. These desirable properties can be provided through polymers having rigid groups designed to prevent polymer reorganization, aggregation or π-stacking upon solidification. These polymers can also display an unusually high stability with respect to solvent and heat exposures. The invention also relates to a sensor and a method for sensing an analyte through the luminescent and conductive properties of these polymers. Analytes can be sensed by activation of a chromophore at a polymer surface. Analytes include aromatics, phosphate ester groups and in particular explosives and chemical warfare agents in a gaseous state. The present invention also relates to devices and methods for amplifying emissions by incorporating a polymer having an energy migration pathway and/or providing the polymer as a block co-polymer or as a multi-layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693942 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943067 | Kazakov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytechnic Institute of New York University (Brooklyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sergey Kazakov (White Plains, New York); Marian Kaholek (Bloomfield, New Jersey); Kalle Levon (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes a method for preparing polymer hydrogel spherical particles on a nanometer scale (nanogels). The method includes encapsulating hydrogel-forming components into liposomes, diluting the large unilamellar liposomes suspension to prevent polymerization outside the liposomes, and polymerizing the encapsulated hydrogel-forming components. The lipid bilayer may be solubilized with detergent. The phospholipid and detergent molecules and their micelles may then be removed by dialysis. The resulting nanogels may then be dried by evaporation in a temperature gradient. Poly(acrylamide), poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-1-vinylimidazole) hydrogel particles with a diameter from 30 to 300 nm were detected and characterized by dynamic light scattering technique. The solvent, temperature, pH, and ionic sensitivities of the nanogels were studied. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/218554 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943084 | Johnson 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) | Curtis E. Johnson (Ridgecrest, California); Kelvin T. Higa (Ridgecrest, California); Roger M. Sullivan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention demonstrates a superior, more economical, and scalable process to increase the fluidity of metal powders by surface modification with alkylsilane reagents. This invention discloses that the most efficient process results from treatment with methyltrichlorosilane in hexane. In particular, the fluidity of aluminum powders having mean diameters smaller than 10 micrometers was considerably improved by the process of the present invention. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of the claims. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/752677 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943091 | Beck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl W. Beck (Haysville, Kansas); Rebecca L. Storey (Udall, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical exposure indication device is disclosed. The device is removably attachable to a structure and includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface and an indicating layer overlying the first substrate surface. The indicating layer includes a coating material that is chemically reactive with a pre-determined chemical compound that is known to degrade the structure. When the coating material is exposed to that corrosive compound in a pre-determined level associated with degradation of a metallic structure, the coating material provides a visual indication of the presence of the corrosive compound. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941587 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943148 | Sagripanti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose-Luis Sagripanti (Bel Air, Maryland); Raja Mazumder (Reston, Virginia); Cathy Huey-Hwa Wu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Highly immunoreactive viral peptides are disclosed which are derived from the E protein of major groups of the Flavivirus genus by computational analyses. These peptides are used in reliable diagnostic methods for the detection and diagnosis of Flavivirus, detecting the presence of antibodies against Flavivirus, and to form vaccine composition(s) for the prevention of Flavivirus infections in humans. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061067 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943179 | Little et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Little (Somerville, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A drug delivery system comprising pH triggerable particles is described. The pH triggerable particles comprise and agent(s) to be delivered, which is encapsulated in a matrix comprising a pH trigger agent and a polymer. Agents including nucleic acids may be delivered intracellularly using the inventive pH triggerable particles. Upon exposure to an acidic environment such as the endosome or phagosome of a cell, the particles dissolve or disrupt due to protonation or an increase in solubility of the pH triggering agent. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of preparing and administering these particles are also described. These particles may be particularly useful in genetic vaccination. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002542 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943259 | Cardenas-Valencia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia (Tampa, Florida); Norma Alcantar (Tampa, Florida); Xiaoling Ding (St. Petersburg, Florida); Ryan G. Toomey (Tampa, Florida); Larry Langebrake (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for improving electrochemical power sources through the dispensing encapsulation and dispersion into galvanic chambers of an electrochemical cell. Features of the method include the optimization of the concentration levels of chemicals involved in desired energy producing reactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/958841 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943270 | Blake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CellTech Power LLC (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam P. Blake (Newton, Massachusetts); Tao T. Tao (Hopkinton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to electrochemical devices such as fuel cells and, in particular, to various component configurations including configurations for converting common fuels directly into electricity without additional fuel reforming or processing. Certain aspects of the invention are generally directed to configurations in which an anode of the device surrounds the electrolyte and/or the cathode of the device. In some embodiments, all single cells in a fuel cell stack share a common anode fuel chamber. The anode, in some cases, may be exposed to a fuel. In one set of embodiments, the anode of the device may be fluid during operation of the fuel cell, and in some cases, a porous container may be used to contain the anode during operation of the fuel cell. Other aspects of the invention relate to methods of making such devices, methods of promoting the making or use of such devices, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800050 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943355 | Adjei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Araba A Adjei (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric D Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Bianca A Thomae (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858820 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943362 | Frost |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Frost (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, enzymes, and cells for the biosynthetic production of phloroglucinol from malonyl-CoA, which is ultimately obtained from simple starting materials such as glucose; also provided are methods for preparing derivatives of biosynthetic phloroglucinol, including, e.g., resorcinol. |
| FILED | Friday, April 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/784452 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943388 | Baetzold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Baetzold (North St. Paul, Minnesota); Karl E. Benson (St. Paul, Minnesota); G. Marco Bommarito (Stillwater, Minnesota); Michael P. Daniels (Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota); Albert I. Everaerts (Oakdale, Minnesota); Peggy-Jean P. Flanigan (Woodbury, Minnesota); M. Benton Free (St. Paul, Minnesota); Cary A. Kipke (Woodbury, Minnesota); Brinda B. Lakshmi (Woodbury, Minnesota); Charles M. Leir (Falcon Heights, Minnesota); George G. I. Moore (Afton, Minnesota); Lang N. Nguyen (St. Paul, Minnesota); Rahul R. Shah (Woodbury, Minnesota); Peter A. Stark (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Acoustic sensors, preferably surface acoustic wave sensors, and more preferably shear horizontal surface acoustic wave sensors that include soluble mixed with oligomers and/or polymers formed from such monomers), or multifunctional compounds, for example, that can function as either waveguide materials, immobilization materials for secondary capture agents (e.g., antibodies), or both. |
| FILED | Friday, December 17, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/596953 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943391 | Byrne |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Byrne (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for the precise and accurate potentiometric pH measurements in situ. Embodiments of a potentiometric device according to the invention consist of one or more glass pH-sensitive electrodes connected to a potentiometer. A key feature of the device is that, rather than being calibrated conventionally with buffers, it can be calibrated with an in situ device that measures pH spectrophotometrically. Spectrophotometric pH measurements obtained via sulfonephthalein absorbance measurements are inherently calibrated (do not require buffers). Thus, devices according to the invention allow for continuous potentiometric pH measurements with occasional spectrophotometric calibrations. The spectrophotometric calibration device consists of a spectrophotometer with associated pumps for combining a sulfonephthalein pH indicator with the aqueous medium whose pH is to be measured. The device will record potentiometric pH measurements for an extended period of time until the spectrophotometric device is autonomously activated for another calibration. In this manner precise and accurate pH measurements can be obtained continuously in the environment, and the low energy expenditure of the potentiometric device provides excellent endurance. Also provided is a method and associated devices for spectrophotometrically determining the salinity of an aqueous medium. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180021 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943419 | Baldo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Peumans (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic semiconductor device is provided. The device has a first electrode and a second electrode, with an organic semiconductor layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. An electrically conductive grid is disposed within the organic semiconductor layer, which has openings in which the organic semiconductor layer is present. At least one insulating layer is disposed adjacent to the electrically conductive grid, preferably such that the electrically conductive grid is completely separated from the organic semiconductor layer by the insulating layer. Methods of fabricating the device, and the electrically conductive grid in particular, are also provided. In one method, openings are formed in an electrically conductive layer with a patterned die, which is then removed. In another method, an electrically conductive layer and a first insulating layer are etched through the mask to expose portions of a first electrode. In yet another method, a patterned die is pressed into a first organic semiconductor layer to create texture in the surface of the first organic semiconductor layer, and then removed. An electrically conductive material is then deposited onto the first organic semiconductor layer from an angle to form a grid having openings as a result of the textured surface and the angular deposition. In each of the methods, insulating layers are preferably deposited or otherwise formed during the process to completely separate the electrically conductive layer from previously and subsequently deposited organic semiconductor layers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/241382 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943491 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois); Keon Jae Lee (Tokyo, Japan); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Champaign, Illinois); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, systems and system components for transferring, assembling and integrating features and arrays of features having selected nanosized and/or microsized physical dimensions, shapes and spatial orientations. Methods of the present invention utilize principles of ‘soft adhesion’ to guide the transfer, assembly and/or integration of features, such as printable semiconductor elements or other components of electronic devices. Methods of the present invention are useful for transferring features from a donor substrate to the transfer surface of an elastomeric transfer device and, optionally, from the transfer surface of an elastomeric transfer device to the receiving surface of a receiving substrate. The present methods and systems provide highly efficient, registered transfer of features and arrays of features, such as printable semiconductor element, in a concerted manner that maintains the relative spatial orientations of transferred features. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423192 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943751 | Canary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Wayne Canary (New York, New York); Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York); Lei Zhu (Austin, Texas); Philip Lukeman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a copolymer termed a ladder copolymer because it has two backbones that serve as legs/sides of a ladder structure. These two backbones, one of which is a nucleic acid or nucleic acid-like polymer, are linked together as the legs/sides of a ladder are linked together by the rungs. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330250 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943847 | Kempa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof J. Kempa (Billerica, Massachusetts); Michael J. Naughton (Norwood, Massachusetts); Zhifeng Ren (Newton, Massachusetts); Jakub A. Rybczynski (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and methods for solar conversion using nanoscale cometal structures are disclosed herein. The cometal structures may be coaxial and coplanar. A nanoscale optics apparatus for use as a solar cell comprises a plurality of nanoscale cometal structures each including a photovoltaic material located between a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor. A method of fabricating solar cells comprises preparing a plurality of nanoscale planar structures; coating a plurality of planar surfaces of the plurality of planar structures with a photovoltaic semiconductor while leaving space between the plurality of planar surfaces; and coating the photovoltaic semiconductor with an outer electrical conductor layer, wherein a portion of the outer electrical conductor layer is located between the planar structures to form coplanar structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509269 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943972 | Sriram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saptharishi Sriram (Cary, North Carolina); Matt Willis (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A unit cell of a metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) is provided. The MESFET has a source, a drain and a gate. The gate is between the source and the drain and on an n-type conductivity channel layer. A p-type conductivity region is provided beneath the gate between the source and the drain. The p-type conductivity region is spaced apart from the n-type conductivity channel layer and electrically coupled to the gate. Related methods are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627743 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944115 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baomin Xu (San Jose, California); Meng H. Lean (Santa Clara, California); Scott Jong Ho Limb (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for transporting particles includes a substrate and a plurality of spaced electrically conductive electrodes carried by the substrate. Further included is a carrier medium adapted for the retention and migration of particles disposed therein, wherein the carrier medium is in operational contact with the electrodes, and a vibration generator is positioned in relation to the substrate to impart vibrations into the carrier medium. In an alternative embodiment, the vibration generator is configured to generate an acoustic traveling wave, which includes a vibration component and a motivation component. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/777402 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944121 | Pulskamp 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) | Jeffrey Spencer Pulskamp (Mclean, Virginia); Ronald G. Polcawich (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Co-fabricating of vertical piezoelectric MEMS actuators that achieve large positive and negative displacements through operating electric fields in excess of the coercive field includes forming a large negative displacement vertical piezoelectric MEMS actuator, forming a bottom structural dielectric layer above a substrate layer; forming a bottom electrode layer above the structural dielectric layer; forming an active piezoelectric layer above the bottom electrode layer; forming a top electrode layer above the active piezoelectric layer; forming a top structural layer above the top electrode layer, wherein the x-y neutral plane of the negative displacement vertical piezoelectric MEMS actuator is above the mid-plane of the active piezoelectric layer, wherein the negative displacement vertical piezoelectric MEMS actuator is partially released from the substrate to allow free motion of the actuator; and combining the large negative displacement vertical piezoelectric MEMS actuator and a large positive displacement vertical piezoelectric MEMS actuator on the same the substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/195522 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944253 | Kirichenko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc. (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander F. Kirichenko (Pleasantville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital programmable frequency divider is constructed of Rapid Single Flux Quantum (RSFQ) logic elements. The logic elements may include an RSFQ non-destructive readout cell (NDRO), RSFQ D flip-flop and an RSFQ T flip-flop. A digital word comprising N bits is used to control the amount of frequency division and the frequency divider selectively imparts a respective frequency division for any of 2n states that can be represented by the digital word. The RSFQ logic elements utilize Josephson junctions which operate in superconducting temperature domains. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494876 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Collins, Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott L. Patten (Marion, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a system for providing an optimal power match to an output of an amplifier using a matching network. The system may include a Field-Effect Transistor (FET) amplifier and a load. The system may further include a coupled line matching network connected to and between the FET amplifier and the load. The coupled line matching network may be configured for providing an optimal power match to the FET amplifier in the K band of operation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455824 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944396 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Domains, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elliott R. Brown (Glendale, California); Rodney F. Sinclair (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments provide radio-frequency systems that can automatically detect, focus-on, and track objects in the environment without the need for expensive electronic scanning and phase-shifting components. Some embodiments are directed to retrodirective systems including: (1) quiescently broadcast pseudorandom-modulated radiation, such as pseudorandom bit sequences, in the absence of a target, over a field-of-view comparable to the beam solid angle of a single element in the transmit array; (2) a receive antenna element or array, in a desired spatial relationship with respect to the transmit antenna array, that receives reflected pseudorandom radiation from a target; and (3) an electronic signal-processing and feedback channel between the receive and transmit arrays that carries out cross-correlation between the received radiation and the transmitted pseudorandom signals and computes complex correlation coefficients to form a re-transmitted beam. Some embodiments are useful for short-range applications involving small and fast moving targets. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757324 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944467 | Silveira et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paulo E. X. Silveira (Boulder, Colorado); Ramkumar Narayanswamy (Boulder, Colorado); Robert H. Cormack (Boulder, Colorado); Gregory E. Johnson (Boulder, Colorado); Edward R. Dowski, Jr. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A task-based imaging system for obtaining data regarding a scene for use in a task includes an image data capturing arrangement for (a) imaging a wavefront of electromagnetic energy from the scene to an intermediate image over a range of spatial frequencies, (b) modifying phase of the wavefront, (c) detecting the intermediate image, and (d) generating image data over the range of spatial frequencies. The task-based imaging system also includes an image data processing arrangement for processing the image data and performing the task. The image data capturing and image data processing arrangements cooperate so that signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the task-based imaging system is greater than SNR of the task-based imaging system without phase modification of the wavefront over the range of spatial frequencies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524142 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944864 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Philippe Selo (New York, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A publisher-subscriber system includes a broker configured to receive and distribute at least one data stream from publishers to subscribers in accordance with subscriptions. An annotator/classifier is configured to annotate or classify the data stream by employing one or more additional stream-level attributes to create an annotated data stream wherein the annotated data stream applies the stream-level attribute to all messages therein. Subscribers can subscribe to the annotated data stream created by the annotator/classifier. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445889 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944991 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chunming Zhao (Atlanta, Georgia); Robert J. Baxley (Atlanta, Georgia); Guotong Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a constrained clipping technique for reducing the peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) or crest factor of a multicarrier communications signal. This is a transmitter-side processing technique that does not impose any modification at the receiver. Constrained clipping achieves PAR reduction while simultaneously satisfying spectral mask and error vector magnitude (EVM) constraints that are specified by most modern communications standards. The constrained clipping technique includes two independent processing units, one to satisfy an in-band EVM constraint and the other to satisfy an out-of-band spectral constraint. Achievable PAR reduction results vary depending on a particular standard's requirements, but by using constrained clipping on a QPSK WiMax signal with 256 subcarriers, for example, a 4.5 dB PAR reduction at the 10−2 complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) level can be obtained. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588009 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944997 | Douglas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randal K. Douglas (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An m-code GPS receiver receives m-code GPS communication signals having a multimodal autocorrelation, using an m-code mode identifier unambiguously determining a mode value of one of the m-code modal peaks coherently aligned to a coherent unimodal detected envelope, based on sequential probability estimation in an m-code envelope tracking filter using filter residual estimation or with a coherent m-code and c/a-code tracking filter also based on filter residual estimation, for generating m-code phase errors, for unambiguous and precise m-code code phase tracking in closed feedback loops, for preferred use in navigation systems. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610813 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945061 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Smith (Nashua, New Hampshire); Michael J. Kotrlik (Hooksett, New Hampshire); Edward C. Real (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time implementation of a subspace tracker is disclosed. Efficient architecture addresses the unique computational elements of the Fast Approximate Subspace Tracking (FAST) algorithm. Each of these computational elements can scale with the rank and size of the subspace. One embodiment of architecture described is implemented in digital hardware that performs variable rank subspace tracking using the FAST algorithm. In particular, the FAST algorithm is effectively implemented by a few processing elements, coupled with an efficient Singular Vector Decomposition (SVD), and the realization/availability of high density programmable logic devices. The architecture enables the ability to track the possibly changing dimension of the signal subspace. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/422814 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945086 | Gotkis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yehiel Gotkis (Fremont, California); Sergey Lopatin (Morgan Hill, California); Mehran Nasser-Ghodsi (Hamilton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A first embodiment of the invention relates to a method for evaluating the quality of structures on an integrated circuit wafer. Test structures formed on either on the integrated or on a test wafer are exposed to an electron beam and an electron-beam activated chemical etch. The electron-beam activated etching gas or vapor etches the test structures, which are analyzed after etching to determine a measure of quality of the test structures. The measure of quality may be used in a statistical process control to adjust the parameters used to form device structures on the integrated circuit wafer. The test structures are formed on an integrated circuit wafer having two or more die. Each die has one or more integrated circuit structures. The test structures are formed on scribe lines between two or more adjacent die. Each test structure may correspond in dimensions and/or composition to one or more of the integrated circuit structures. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/622793 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/149 |
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| US 07945165 | Bernasconi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pietro Arturo Bernasconi (Aberdeen, New Jersey); Jane D. LeGrange (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the invention provides an optical signal synchronizer having a plurality of optical channel synchronizers. Each optical channel synchronizer receives a respective input wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) signal and processes it to produce a corresponding output WDM signal, in which optical data packets corresponding to different carrier wavelengths are synchronized to each other regardless of the presence or absence of such synchronization in the input WDM signal. The optical signal synchronizer further has an optical multiplex synchronizer that receives the output WDM signals from the optical channel synchronizers and synchronizes them to each other and to an external reference clock without demultiplexing any of them into individual WDM components. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941201 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945168 | Meyers 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) | Ronald Everett Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith Scott Deacon (Coumbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic signals are tagged with a pre-selected modification, such as a polarization signature to carry data across an obstructed path between sender and receiver. Communication authentication through polarization variation allows for Yuen-Kumar or entangled photon quantum communication protocols to propagate through environmental scattering media such as air, smoke, fog, rain, and water. While ultraviolet light photons are well suited as a carrier for quantum communication signals scattered in air, it is appreciated that visible wavelengths have longer propagation paths in water to convey non-line-of-sight data. A secure signal is scattered by the media and simultaneously communicated to a single recipient or multiple recipients exposed to scattered signal portions. A process of solving the scattering processes through a random scattering media is provided to reconstruct a quantum keyed message at a receiver. The scattering of the signal is utilized herein to provide non-line-of-sight and intentional short-range communication. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859834 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louisa J. Perryman (Rainham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A fault detection method for detecting short circuit faults in an injector arrangement at engine start-up. The injector arrangement comprises one or more piezoelectric fuel injectors, which are connected in a drive circuit. In one aspect of the invention, the potential at a bias point in the drive circuit is determined and compared with a predicted voltage. A short circuit fault signal is generated if the potential at the bias point is not within a predetermined tolerance voltage of the predicted voltage. In another aspect of the invention, a first charge pulse is applied to the injectors to charge the injectors. A discharge current path is provided during a delay period following the first charge pulse by closing a discharge switch. A faulty injector will discharge through the discharge current path during the delay period. A second charge pulse is applied to the injectors following the delay period. Current flow is sensed during the second charge pulse, and a short circuit warning signal is generated if the current flow during the second charge pulse exceeds a predetermined threshold current. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157543 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945808 | Coppinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Coppinger (Milton, New York); Christophe Fagiano (Mouans-Sartoux, France); Christophe Lombard (Saint Paul, France); Gary J. Mincher (Rhinebeck, New York); Christophe Pierre Francois Quintard (Toulouse, France); William G. Tuel, Jr. (Rosendale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A hierarchical fanout connectivity infrastructure is built and used to start a parallel application within a parallel computing environment. The connectivity infrastructure is passed to a checkpoint library, which employs the infrastructure and a defined sequence of events, to perform checkpoint, restart and/or migration operations on the parallel application. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/362660 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D638088 | Hawthorne 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) | Anthony Hawthorne (Vernon, New Jersey); Kenneth R. Jones (Wayne, New Jersey); Richard A. Beckman (Randolph, New Jersey) |
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| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 29/355207 |
| ART UNIT | 2914 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Arms, pyrotechnics, hunting and fishing equipment D22/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland Medical Devices Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hani Kayyali (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Dan Bishop (Tallmadge, Ohio); Brian M. Kolkowski (Leroy, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an integrated sleep diagnosis and treatment device, and more particularly to an integrated apnea diagnosis and treatment device. The present invention additionally relates to methods of sleep diagnosis and treatment. The sleep disorder treatment system of the present invention can use a diagnosis device to perform various forms of analysis to determine or diagnose a subject's sleeping disorder or symptoms of a subject's sleep disorder, and using this analysis or diagnosis can with or in some embodiments without human intervention treat the subject either physically or chemically to improve the sleeping disorder or the symptoms of the sleeping disorder. The diagnostic part of the system can use many different types of sensors and methods for diagnosing the severity of the symptoms of or the sleep disorder itself. The treatment part of the system can use a device to physically or chemically treat the subject's symptoms or sleep disorder itself. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879934 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/538 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943130 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bing Ma (Bramford, Connecticut); Jack A. Elias (Woodbridge, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for the treatment of Th1 and/or Th2 medicated inflammatory diseases, relating to inhibiting CCR5. This is because the present invention demonstrates, for the first time, that expression of IFN-γ, IL-13, and CCR5 mediates and/or is associated with Th1 and/or Th2 inflammatory diseases and that inhibiting CCR5 treats, and even prevents, the diseases. Thus, the Invention relates to the novel discovery that inhibiting CCR5 treats and prevents Th1 and/or Th2 mediated inflammatory disease. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/582610 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 07943136 | Scadden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David T. Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Laura M. Calvi (Rochester, New York); Gregor Adams (Boston, Massachusetts); Henry M. Kronenberg (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for manipulating hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells, mesenchymal stem cells, epithelial stem cells, neural stem cells and related products through activation of the PTH/PTHrP receptor in neighboring cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/621325 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943138 | Ciesielski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Ciesielski (Orchard Park, New York); Robert A. Fenstermaker (Orchard Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions and methods for treating survivin expressing cancers. The compositions contain peptide survivin peptide mimics with improved MHC-I binding characteristics. The method involves administering a survivin peptide mimic with improved MHC-I binding characteristics to an individual to effect inhibition of the growth of survivin expressing cancer cells in the individual. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176052 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943168 | Schlesinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Schlesinger (University City, Missouri); Neelesh Soman (St. Louis, Missouri); Gregory Lanza (St. Louis, Missouri); Samuel A. Wickline (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions which comprise emulsions of nanoparticles for delivery of membrane-integrating peptides are described. The nanoparticles comprise a liquid hydrophobic core coated with a lipid/surfactant layer which contains the membrane-integrating peptides. Methods to use such compositions are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/043063 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943179 | Little et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Little (Somerville, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A drug delivery system comprising pH triggerable particles is described. The pH triggerable particles comprise and agent(s) to be delivered, which is encapsulated in a matrix comprising a pH trigger agent and a polymer. Agents including nucleic acids may be delivered intracellularly using the inventive pH triggerable particles. Upon exposure to an acidic environment such as the endosome or phagosome of a cell, the particles dissolve or disrupt due to protonation or an increase in solubility of the pH triggering agent. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of preparing and administering these particles are also described. These particles may be particularly useful in genetic vaccination. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002542 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943297 | Philpott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Menands, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Philpott (Albany, New York); Barbara Weiser (Albany, New York); Harold Burger (Albany, New York); Christina Kitchen (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and can be indicated by a change in coreceptor usage from CCR5 to CXCR4. The change in coreceptor usage to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients undergoing HAART, the predominant populations of virus can be shifted back to CCR5-mediated entry after the CXCR4-specific strains have emerged. The present invention relates to a diagnostic method to monitor coreceptor use in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The present invention further relates to a diagnostic method applied to HIV-positive individuals undergoing HAART to monitor the suppression of CXCR4 specific strains. The diagnostic methods can be used to assist in selecting antiretroviral therapy and to improve predictions of disease prognosis over time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/872842 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943305 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid. Each type of labeled nucleotide comprises an acceptor fluorophore attached to a phosphate portion of the nucleotide such that the fluorophore is removed upon incorporation into a growing strand. Fluorescent signal is emitted via fluorescent resonance energy transfer between the donor fluorophore and the acceptor fluorophore as each nucleotide is incorporated into the growing strand. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing strand. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279711 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943306 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Yuan-Hao Chang (Burlingame, California); Julie Sneddon (Palo Alto, California); Patrick O. Brown (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for classification of cancers by the expression of a set of genes referred to as the core serum response (CSR), or a subset thereof. The expression pattern of the CSR in normal tissues correlates with that seen in quiescent fibroblasts cultured in the absence of serum, while cancer tissues can be classified as having a quiescent or induced CSR signature. Patients with the induced CSR signature have a higher probability of metastasis. Classification according to CSR signature allows optimization of treatment, and determination of whether on whether to proceed with a specific therapy, and how to optimize dose, choice of treatment, and the like. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/332547 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943307 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid. The method provides a complex comprising a polymerase enzyme, a target nucleic acid molecule, and a primer, wherein the complex is immobilized on a support Fluorescent label is attached to a terminal phosphate group of the nucleotide or nucleotide analog. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The time duration of the signal from labeled nucleotides or nucleotide analogs that become incorporated is distinguished from freely diffusing labels by a longer retention in the observation volume for the nucleotides or nucleotide analogs that become incorporated than for the freely diffusing labels. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336122 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943317 | Ridker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Applera Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Ridker (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Daniel Chasman (Somerville, Massachusetts); Dov Shiffman (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to nucleotide polymorphisms in the human Apo(a) gene and to the use of Apo(a) nucleotide polymorphisms in identifying whether a human subject will respond or not to treatment with acetylsalicylic acid. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/118060 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943318 | Croce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio); Nozomu Yanaihara (Kanagawa, Japan); Curtis C. Harris (Garrett Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods and compositions for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of lung cancer. The invention also provide methods of identifying anti-lung cancer agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/160034 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943319 | Hoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancer Institute (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California); Norihiko Narita (Fukui, Japan); Atsushi Tanemura (Osaka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of detecting a RET mutant in a melanoma cell. Also disclosed is a method of modulating the activity of a RET mutant in a melanoma cell with an agent that interferes with the activity of the RET mutant. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267541 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943330 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chi-Huey Wong (La Jolla, California); Tsui-Ling Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan); Sarah R Hanson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to tailored glycoproteomic methods, and more particularly to methods for the sequencing, mapping and identification of cellular glycoproteins using saccharide-selective bioorthogonal probes. A method is disclosed for saccharide-selective glycoprotein identification (ID) and glycan mapping (GIDmap) that generates glycoproteins tailored with bioorthogonally tagged alkynyl saccharides that can be selectively isolated, allowing for glycoprotein ID and glycan mapping via mass spectromic proteomics, including liquid chromatography-tandmen mass spectroscopy (LC-MS2). LC-MS2 may be used to identify cellular glycans, and more specifically cancer-related glycoproteins. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079157 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943355 | Adjei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Araba A Adjei (Rochester, Minnesota); Eric D Wieben (Rochester, Minnesota); Richard M Weinshilboum (Rochester, Minnesota); Bianca A Thomae (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to cancer also are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858820 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943379 | Beall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nationwide Children's Hospital, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford J. Beall (Gahanna, Ohio); Kelly R. Clark (Columbus, Ohio); Philip R. Johnson, Jr. (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and materials for recombinant adeno-associated virus production. More particularly, in some embodiments the invention contemplates the use of an adenovirus known as Simian Adenovirus 13 (SAdV-13) and Vero cells for production of recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV). |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433876 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943390 | Haidekker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); La Jolla Bioengineering Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Haidekker (Columbia, Missouri); Sheila Grant (Columbia, Missouri); Emmanuel Theodorakis (San Diego, California); Marcos Intaglietta (La Jolla, California); John A. Frangos (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device and a method for measuring viscosity that includes attaching molecular rotors to a solid surface, exposing the solid surface to a fluid having a viscosity to be measured, and taking optical measurements to determine viscosity. The solid surface is preferably quartz, polystyrene or silicate glass, such as a fiber optic probe or a glass cuvette. The molecular rotors are of the type that includes an electron-donor group and electron-acceptor group that are linked by a single bond so that the groups may rotate with respect to one another, and that exhibit a fluorescence emission when rotation is hindered. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426653 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943396 | Weiss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shimon Weiss (Los Angeles, California); James M. Tsay (Los Angeles, California); Fabien Pinaud (Los Angeles, California); Soren Doose (Bielefeld, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A peptide-coated nanoparticle that includes a nanocrystal core surrounded by a graded shell that is composed of at least two different semiconductor molecules. At least one peptide is attached to the surface of the graded shell to render the nanoparticle biocompatible. The nanocrystal core and graded shell are optionally annealed with ultra violet radiation prior to and/or after attachment of the peptide(s). |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/630584 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943568 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth K. Chan (Dublin, Ohio); Jin Xiao (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods useful for the treatment of cancer in subjects in need of such treatment. The compounds are metabolites of the compound FK228 which have been identified as possessing HDAC inhibitory activity and anticancer properties. Further provided are compounds and methods for inducing apoptosis in cancer cells. Further provided are compounds and methods for inhibiting HDAC in cancer cells. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 12/088846 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 07943569 | Gemeinhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Gemeinhart (Chesterton, Indiana); Jovita R. Tauro (Nanuet, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a composition for providing localized delivery of a therapeutic agent to a subject. The instant composition is a hydrophilic matrix-based prodrug system, wherein a protease substrate peptide acts as extracellular protease degradable spacer binding the therapeutic agent to a hydrophilic matrix. Release of the therapeutic agent is achieved by localized activity of extracellular proteases thereby providing minimal toxicity of the therapeutic agent and maximum release with protease activity. Methods for producing the instant composition and providing localized delivery of a therapeutic agent to a subject are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/941389 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.300 |
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| US 07943576 | York et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. York (Logan, Utah); Mie Jung Park (Logan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that enterostatin inhibits angiogenesis in an in vitro adipose tissue angiogenesis model. In concentrations from about 10−6 to about 10−9 M, enterostatin effectively blocked the angiogenic response. Enterostatin will be effective in treating noncancerous and cancerous diseases that involve an increase in angiogenesis, e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, retinopathy of prematurity, neovascular glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and psoriasis. This, antiangiogenic activity was confirmed in two additional tissue cells lines (liver and neuronal cells) using a microarray analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, November 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/095523 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943586 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Zheng (West Grove, Pennsylvania); Jerry D. Glickson (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Britton Chance (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel antineoplastic agents and cancer diagnostic agents that specifically target neo-plastic cells via the GLUT transportation system. More specifically, the invention relates to conjugates of 2-deoxyglucose, wherein a linker, which includes a covalent bond, is attached to 2-deoxyglucose at the 2 position, and the linker is attached to a therapeutic or diagnostic agent. The invention also relates to methods of treating tumor disease and methods of making the novel compounds of the present invention. The agents of the present invention are superior to previous agents as they are targeted via GLUT transporters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/560075 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/42 |
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| US 07943589 | Lieberman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Immune Disease Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judy Lieberman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Deborah Palliser (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Knipe (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a microbicidal composition comprising at least one siRNA. The siRNA is an RNA duplex made of one or two molecules. A portion of the siRNA is identical to a target sequence in an essential gene of a virus. The virus may be a herpesvirus, for example, HSV-1 or HSV-2. Preferably, the herpesvirus is HSV-2. The microbicidal composition further comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also included in the invention are methods to prevent and treat viral infections by administration of the microbicidal composition. Preferably, the microbicidal composition is administered transmucosally. |
| FILED | Monday, June 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/916334 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943600 | Froim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doriana Froim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John M. Essigmann (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Martin G. Marinus (West Boylston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating a subject having a condition associated with an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection. The invention includes administering to a subject a therapeutically effective combination of an antibiotic and a toxic compound (e.g., a nucleic acid damaging agent, an alkylating agent, or a heavy metal containing compound). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/314186 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943631 | Tseng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leon F. Tseng (New Berlin, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates a method of treating drug addiction in an individual by administering to the addicted individual a therapeutically effective amount of dextro-morphine capable of activating an opioid receptor. It is disclosed here that dextro-morphine is suitable for treating addiction to natural opiates, semi-synthetic opiates, fully synthetic opioids, and endogenous opioid peptides, as well as nicotine. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/034438 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943680 | Bowman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher N. Bowman (Boulder, Colorado); Timothy F. Scott (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for inducing reversible chain cleavage of polymer chains in a crosslinked polymeric material. Reversible cleavage of the polymer backbone is capable of relieving stress in the polymeric material as the bonds reform in a less stressed state. The invention also provides methods for making polymeric materials capable of reversible chain cleavage, materials made by the methods of the invention, and linear monomers containing reversible chain cleavage groups which are useful in the materials and methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/815914 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943703 | Shull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Shull (Evanston, Illinois); Murat Guvendiren (Evanston, Illinois); Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of creating a bioadhesive in a substantially aqueous environment is disclosed. The method includes the steps of placing an anionicially polymerized block copolymer containing an amide, which is prepared by reacting a difunctional anionic initiator with a sterically hindered ester of methacrylic acid (SEMA), into a solvent to allow the solvent to swell the block copolymer; reacting the anionically polymerized hindered ester of methacrylic acid with methacrylic acid (MMA); hydrolyzing the anionically polymerized block copolymer with an aqueous solution to afford a methyl methacrylate-methacrylic acid-methyl methacrylate block copolymer (MMA-MAA-MMA); reacting the MMA-MAA-MMA block copolymer with 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl alanine to afford an amide with the MAA portion of the block copolymer; and placing the solvent swollen block copolymer in water. The water is exchanged with the solvent to provide a bioadhesive in an aqueous environment. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395138 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943729 | Zeng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); National Institutes of Health (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gang Zeng (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for obtaining at least one epitope suitable for detecting the presence of an antibody against a tumor associated antigen of a cancer in a sample. Kits, assays, and substrates employing the epitopes of the present invention are disclosed. Also disclosed are epitopes of NY-ESO-1 and XAGE-1b and methods of using thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/182652 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943733 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Chiang Shen (San Marino, California); Nurmamet Amet (Northridge, California); Xiaoying Chen (Alhambra, California); Hsin-Fang Lee (Alhambra, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to fusion proteins. The invention specifically relates to compositions and methods of Tf-based fusion proteins that demonstrate a high-level expression of transferrin (Tf)-based fusion proteins by inserting a helical linker between two protein domains. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340391 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943751 | Canary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Wayne Canary (New York, New York); Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York); Lei Zhu (Austin, Texas); Philip Lukeman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a copolymer termed a ladder copolymer because it has two backbones that serve as legs/sides of a ladder structure. These two backbones, one of which is a nucleic acid or nucleic acid-like polymer, are linked together as the legs/sides of a ladder are linked together by the rungs. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330250 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943756 | Tuschl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Tuschl (New York, New York); Markus Landthaler (New York, New York); Gunter Meister (New York, New York); Sebastien Pfeffer (Strasbourg, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated anti-microRNA molecules. In another embodiment, the invention relates to an isolated microRNA molecule. In yet another embodiment, the invention provides a method for inhibiting microRNP activity in a cell. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794085 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943775 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | King C. Li (Bethesda, Maryland); S. Narasimhan Danthi (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A tissue is imaged to detect the presence of amyloid deposits or other target proteins prior to their aggregation into plaques, with the assistance of the administration of a labeled bifunctional compound of which one functionality binds to the target protein and the second functionality binds to a chaperone protein that is present in the tissue of interest. The two functionalities have different binding affinities, the target-binding functionality having the greater binding affinity, with the result that the bifunctional compound preferentially remains in the tissue when bound to the chaperone and then the target protein while bifunctional compound that is not bound to the target protein will leave the tissue. The inclusion of the chaperone allows the imaging process to detect the non-aggregated proteins by way of the label and the difference in kinetics of the binding to the chaperone and the target protein permits one to distinguish between binding of the bifunctional molecule to the chaperone only and binding to the chaperone and then to the target protein. Certain intermediates toward the synthesis of these bifunctional compounds are novel by themselves, and labeled bifunctional molecules in general that utilize a lysine linker are also disclosed as a novel class of compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762579 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943800 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Christoph Gaul (Liestal, Switzerland); Jon T. Njardarson (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds having formula (I), and additionally provides methods for the synthesis thereof, compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof in the treatment of various disorders including cancer, metastasis and disorders involving increased angiogenesis, wherein R1—R6, Ra—Rc, Q, Y1, Y2 and n are as defined herein. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/551158 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944008 | Parks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sierra Scientific Instruments, LLC (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Parks (Hermosa Beach, California); Chi Cao (North Hollywood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An accurate and low cost macro pressure sensor is described. The pressure sensor includes an array of capacitive sensing elements formed at the intersections of sets of conductors. A lower set of conductors is supported by a substrate and an upper set of conductors is supported on a flexible polymer membrane. Capacitive sensing elements are formed where a conductor in the upper set overlaps a spacer in the lower set. Separators hold the membrane away from the substrate with a separation that, because of deflection of the membrane, varies in relation to the pressure applied to the membrane. As a result, the separation of conductors, and therefore capacitance, in each cell varies in response to the applied pressure. By attaching the membrane to the separators and optionally using slits in the membrane between capacitive sensing elements, measurements made in each capacitive sensing element can be mechanically decoupled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/108479 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07944206 | Frydman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucio Frydman (Rehovot, Israel); Boaz Shapira (Rehovot, Israel); Assaf Tal (Rehovot, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for treating a sample for acquiring high-definition magnetic resonance images (MRI images) or high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra even in the presence of magnetic field distortions within one or multiple scans. The spatial nature and temporal dependence of the field inhomogeneities are determined a priori using any of several literature procedures. A static or oscillating magnetic field gradient is applied on the sample so as to endow spins at different positions within the sample with different resonance frequencies. A phase- and amplitude-modulated radiofrequency (RF) pulse is applied in unison with the magnetic field gradient so as to endow spins at different positions within the sample with a homogeneous excitation/inversion profile. The nature of the spatially-selective RF irradiation is tailored in such a way that, when added on top of the effects of the inhomogeneities, the spins' evolution phases and their signal amplitudes at the time of the acquisition become independent of the inhomogeneities. The spin signals thus created are captured and decoded, so as to obtain the spins' response as if the inhomogeneity was not present. The collected data is processed to a suitable rearrangement and Fourier analysis procedure to retrieve a final undistorted image or spectrum. The magnetic field gradient can be oscillated to impose this kind of inhomogeneity corrections on multiple spatial dimensions sequentially, or simultaneously. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/158364 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945303 | Bates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason H. T. Bates (Essex Junction, Vermont); Charles G. Irvin (Colchester, Vermont); Lennart K. A. Lundblad (Essex Junction, Vermont); John Thompson-Figueroa (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for measuring a pulmonary performance value of a subject. In one embodiment, a system includes one or more imaging devices, each configured to capture one or more images of a subject inside an interior chamber, such as a plethysmograph chamber. An exemplary system also includes an imaging processor in communication with the one or more imaging devices for estimating a change in volume of the subject from information about the one or more images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197288 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945305 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board Of Trustees Of The University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nitin Aggarwal (Champaign, Illinois); Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay (Champaign, Illinois); Yoram Bresler (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for acquiring MR data from a beating heart during subject respiration includes a prescan phase in which a respiratory compensation table and a k-space sampling schedule are produced. The k-space sampling table is produced using a spatio-temporal model of the beating heart and time sequential sampling theory. During the subsequent scan an imaging pulse sequence which is prospectively compensated for respiratory motion is used to acquire k-space data from the subject. The imaging pulse sequence is repeated to play out the phase encodings in the order listed in the k-space sampling schedule. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217805 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945308 | Tropp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James S. Tropp (Berkeley, California); Paul D. Calderon (Castro Valley, California); Daniel Blackburn Vigneron (Corte Madera, California); Lucas Guillermo Carvajal (San Francisco, California); Konstantinos George Karpodinis (Redding, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which a compact pod insertable into the rectum for Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRI/MRS) examination of the prostate and containing two receive coils, each connected to transmit blocking and pre-tuned trap circuitry which can be superimposed within the pod in close proximity, can, without either circuit interfering with the other, efficiently gather, for imaging and tissue analysis, radio frequency signals emanating from magnetically disturbed nuclei in prostate tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/320361 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC Power, LLC (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Radcliff (Vernon, Connecticut); Bruce P. Biederman (West Hartford, Connecticut); Joost J. Brasz (Fayetteville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A pair of organic Rankine cycle systems (20, 25) are combined and their respective organic working fluids are chosen such that the organic working fluid of the first organic Rankine cycle is condensed at a condensation temperature that is well above the boiling point of the organic working fluid of the second organic Rankine style system, and a single common heat exchanger (23) is used for both the condenser of the first organic Rankine cycle system and the evaporator of the second organic Rankine cycle system. A preferred organic working fluid of the first system is toluene and that of the second organic working fluid is R245fa. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/886281 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942038 | Ziminsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Anthony Wayne Krull (Anderson, South Carolina); Timothy Andrew Healy (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method may detect a flashback condition in a fuel nozzle of a combustor. The method may include obtaining a current acoustic pressure signal from the combustor, analyzing the current acoustic pressure signal to determine current operating frequency information for the combustor, and indicating that the flashback condition exists based at least in part on the current operating frequency information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/356828 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/112.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942058 | Turner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Universtiy of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Alan Turner (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods with which changes in microstructure properties such as grain size, grain elongation, texture, and porosity of materials can be determined and monitored over time to assess conditions such as stress and defects. The present invention includes a database of data, wherein a first set of data is used for comparison with a second set of data to determine the conditions of the material microstructure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079925 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942097 | Alam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Kathleen Alam (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Randal L. Schmitt (Tijeras, New Mexico); Eric J. Welle (Niceville, Florida); Sean P. Madden (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A slapper detonator which integrally incorporates an optical wavequide structure for determining whether there has been degradation of the explosive in the explosive device that is to be initiated by the detonator. Embodiments of this invention take advantage of the barrel-like character of a typical slapper detonator design. The barrel assembly, being in direct contact with the energetic material, incorporates an optical diagnostic device into the barrel assembly whereby one can monitor the state of the explosive material. Such monitoring can be beneficial because the chemical degradation of the explosive plays an important in achieving proper functioning of a detonator/initiator device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/397705 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942197 | Fairbanks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael David Fairbanks (Katy, Texas); Thomas Joseph Keltner (Spring, Texas); Billy John McKinzie, II (Houston, Texas); Stephen Palmer Hirshblond (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that includes a plurality of heat sources configured to heat a portion of a formation is described. At least one production well is in the formation. A bottom portion of the production well is a sump in an underburden of the formation below the heated portion of the formation. Fluids from the heated portion of the formation are allowed to flow into the sump. A pump system has an inlet in the sump. A production conduit is coupled to the pump system. The production conduit is configured to transport fluids in the sump out of the formation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/409564 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942527 | Olivier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scot S. Olivier (Livermore, California); Diana C. Chen (Fremont, California); Steven M. Jones (Danville, California); Sean M. McNary (Stockton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Badal Optometer and rotating cylinders are inserted in the AO-OCT to correct large spectacle aberrations such as myopia, hyperopic and astigmatism for ease of clinical use and reduction. Spherical mirrors in the sets of the telescope are rotated orthogonally to reduce aberrations and beam displacement caused by the scanners. This produces greatly reduced AO registration errors and improved AO performance to enable high order aberration correction in a patient eyes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690855 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942568 | Branch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren W. Branch (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Grant D. Meyer (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An active micromixer uses a surface acoustic wave, preferably a Rayleigh wave, propagating on a piezoelectric substrate to induce acoustic streaming in a fluid in a microfluidic channel. The surface acoustic wave can be generated by applying an RF excitation signal to at least one interdigital transducer on the piezoelectric substrate. The active micromixer can rapidly mix quiescent fluids or laminar streams in low Reynolds number flows. The active micromixer has no moving parts (other than the SAW transducer) and is, therefore, more reliable, less damaging to sensitive fluids, and less susceptible to fouling and channel clogging than other types of active and passive micromixers. The active micromixer is adaptable to a wide range of geometries, can be easily fabricated, and can be integrated in a microfluidic system, reducing dead volume. Finally, the active micromixer has on-demand on/off mixing capability and can be operated at low power. |
| FILED | Friday, June 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/155108 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943073 | Simmons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin L. Simmons (Kennewick, Washington); Geoffrey M. Wood (North Saanich, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming improved composite materials using a thermosetting polyester urethane hybrid resin, a closed cavity mold having an internal heat transfer mechanism used in this method, and the composite materials formed by this method having a hybrid of a carbon fiber layer and a fiberglass layer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473642 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943116 | Huber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale L. Huber (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Todd C. Monson (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming non-agglomerated brookite TiO2 nanoparticles without the use of expensive organic surfactants or high temperature processing. Embodiments of this invention use titanium isopropoxide as the titanium precursor and isopropanol as both the solvent and ligand for ligand-stabilized brookite-phase titania. Isopropanol molecules serve as the ligands interacting with the titania surfaces that stabilize the titania nanoparticles. The isopropanol ligands can be exchanged with other alcohols and other ligands during or after the nanoparticle formation reaction. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018828 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/610 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943196 | Melechko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoli V. Melechko (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Timothy E. McKnight (Greenback, Tennessee); Michael A. Guillorn (Ithaca, New York); Bojan Ilic (Ithaca, New York); Vladimir I. Merkulov (Knoxville, Tennessee); Mitchel J. Doktycz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Douglas H. Lowndes (Knoxville, Tennessee); Michael L. Simpson (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, manufactures, machines and compositions are described for nanotransfer and nanoreplication using deterministically grown sacrificial nanotemplates. A method includes depositing a catalyst particle on a surface of a substrate to define a deterministically located position; growing an aligned elongated nanostructure on the substrate, an end of the aligned elongated nanostructure coupled to the substrate at the deterministically located position; coating the aligned elongated nanostructure with a conduit material; removing a portion of the conduit material to expose the catalyst particle; removing the catalyst particle; and removing the elongated nanostructure to define a nanoconduit. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/273316 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943266 | Potnis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shailesh Vijay Potnis (Neenah, Wisconsin); Timothy Joseph Rehg (Huntington Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The solid oxide fuel cell module includes a manifold, a plate, a cathode electrode, a fuel cell and an anode electrode. The manifold includes an air or oxygen inlet in communication with divergent passages above the periphery of the cell which combine to flow the air or oxygen radially or inwardly for reception in the center of the cathode flow field. The latter has interconnects providing circuitous cooling passages in a generally radial outward direction cooling the fuel cell and which interconnects are formed of different thermal conductivity materials for a preferential cooling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257156 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943269 | Yates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Yates (Penfield, New York); Dongxia Liu (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A c-axis-oriented HAP thin film synthesized by seeded growth on a palladium hydrogen membrane substrate. An exemplary synthetic process includes electrochemical seeding on the substrate, and secondary and tertiary hydrothermal treatments under conditions that favor growth along c-axes and a-axes in sequence. By adjusting corresponding synthetic conditions, an HAP this film can be grown to a controllable thickness with a dense coverage on the underlying substrate. The thin films have relatively high proton conductivity under hydrogen atmosphere and high temperature conditions. The c-axis oriented films may be integrated into fuel cells for application in the intermediate temperature range of 200-600° C. The electrochemical-hydrothermal deposition technique may be applied to create other oriented crystal materials having optimized properties, useful for separations and catalysis as well as electronic and electrochemical applications, electrochemical membrane reactors, and in chemical sensors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/392150 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943305 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid. Each type of labeled nucleotide comprises an acceptor fluorophore attached to a phosphate portion of the nucleotide such that the fluorophore is removed upon incorporation into a growing strand. Fluorescent signal is emitted via fluorescent resonance energy transfer between the donor fluorophore and the acceptor fluorophore as each nucleotide is incorporated into the growing strand. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing strand. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279711 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943307 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid. The method provides a complex comprising a polymerase enzyme, a target nucleic acid molecule, and a primer, wherein the complex is immobilized on a support Fluorescent label is attached to a terminal phosphate group of the nucleotide or nucleotide analog. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The time duration of the signal from labeled nucleotides or nucleotide analogs that become incorporated is distinguished from freely diffusing labels by a longer retention in the observation volume for the nucleotides or nucleotide analogs that become incorporated than for the freely diffusing labels. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336122 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943350 | Vlasenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elena Vlasenko (Davis, California); Joel Cherry (Davis, California); Feng Xu (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for degrading a lignocellulosic material, comprising: treating the lignocellulosic material with an effective amount of one or more cellulolytic enzymes in the presence of at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of a secondary alcohol ethoxylate, fatty alcohol ethoxylate, nonylphenol ethoxylate, tridecyl ethoxylate, and polyoxyethylene ether, wherein the presence of the surfactant increases the degradation of lignocellulosic material compared to the absence of the surfactant. The present invention also relates to methods for producing an organic substance, comprising: (a) saccharifying a lignocellulosic material with an effective amount of one or more cellulolytic enzymes in the presence of at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of a secondary alcohol ethoxylate, fatty alcohol ethoxylate, nonylphenol ethoxylate, tridecyl ethoxylate, and polyoxyethylene ether, wherein the presence of the surfactant increases the degradation of lignocellulosic material compared to the absence of the surfactant; (b) fermenting the saccharified lignocellulosic material of step (a) with one or more fermenting microorganisms; and (c) recovering the organic substance from the fermentation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821438 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943366 | Rajgarhia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cargill Inc. (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vineet Rajgarhia (Kingsport, Tennessee); Kari Koivuranta (Helsinki, Finland); Merja Penttilä (Helsinki, Finland); Marja Ilmen (Helsinki, Finland); Pirkko Suominen (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Aristos Aristidou (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Christopher Kenneth Miller (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Stacey Olson (St. Bonifacius, Minnesota); Laura Ruohonen (Helsinki, Finland) |
| ABSTRACT | Yeast cells are transformed with an exogenous xylose isomerase gene. Additional genetic modifications enhance the ability of the transformed cells to ferment xylose to ethanol or other desired fermentation products. Those modifications', include deletion of non-specific or specific aldose reductase gene(s), deletion of xylitol dehydrogenase gene(s) and/or overexpression of xylulokinase. |
| FILED | Monday, May 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/554887 |
| 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 435/255.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943491 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois); Keon Jae Lee (Tokyo, Japan); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Champaign, Illinois); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, systems and system components for transferring, assembling and integrating features and arrays of features having selected nanosized and/or microsized physical dimensions, shapes and spatial orientations. Methods of the present invention utilize principles of ‘soft adhesion’ to guide the transfer, assembly and/or integration of features, such as printable semiconductor elements or other components of electronic devices. Methods of the present invention are useful for transferring features from a donor substrate to the transfer surface of an elastomeric transfer device and, optionally, from the transfer surface of an elastomeric transfer device to the receiving surface of a receiving substrate. The present methods and systems provide highly efficient, registered transfer of features and arrays of features, such as printable semiconductor element, in a concerted manner that maintains the relative spatial orientations of transferred features. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423192 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943548 | Castellano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF Corporation (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Castellano (Ringoes, New Jersey); Ahmad Moini (Princeton, New Jersey); Gerald S. Koermer (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Howard Furbeck (Hamilton, New Jersey); Steven J. Schmieg (Troy, Michigan); Richard J. Blint (Shelby Township, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Catalysts, systems and methods are described to reduce NOx emissions of an internal combustion engine. In one embodiment, an emissions treatment system for an exhaust stream is provided having a catalyst comprising silver and a platinum group metal on a particulate alumina support, the atomic fraction of the platinum group metal being less than or equal to about 0.25. Methods of manufacturing catalysts are described in which silver is impregnated on alumina particles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/533593 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943906 | Smither |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Smither (Hinsdale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a device for high spatial resolution imaging of a plurality of sources of x-ray and gamma-ray radiation are provided. The device comprises a plurality of arrays, with each array comprising a plurality of elements comprising a first collimator, a diffracting crystal, a second collimator, and a detector. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/272483 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945077 | Demos |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stavros G. Demos (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical hyperspectral/multimodal imaging method and apparatus is utilized to provide high signal sensitivity for implementation of various optical imaging approaches. Such a system utilizes long working distance microscope objectives so as to enable off-axis illumination of predetermined tissue thereby allowing for excitation at any optical wavelength, simplifies design, reduces required optical elements, significantly reduces spectral noise from the optical elements and allows for fast image acquisition enabling high quality imaging in-vivo. Such a technology provides a means of detecting disease at the single cell level such as cancer, precancer, ischemic, traumatic or other type of injury, infection, or other diseases or conditions causing alterations in cells and tissue micro structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/292406 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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07942036 — Rheometer allowing direct visualization of continuous simple shear in non-newtonian fluid
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shi-Qing Wang (Streetsboro, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a rheometric device which provides a direct visualization of the subject material. The device also determines the velocity and/or the strain field across the thickness and the morphology to be determined across the same gap. The invention relates both to a device and/or method that can be used in connection with current shearing rheometers, and similar apparatus. The present invention also relates to a process for making a shear rate measurement. The invention provides versatility by allowing multiple angles of visualization which properly characterizes the flow characteristics and shear rates involved. |
| FILED | Friday, August 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891455 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942160 | Jeon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambidge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noo Li Jeon (Irvine, California); Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Christopher J. Wargo (Highland Park, New Jersey); Insung S. Choi (Yuseong-gu, South Korea); Hongkai Wu (Palo Alto, California); Janelle R. Anderson (Toronto, Canada); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); J. Cooper McDonald (Somerville, Massachusetts); Steven J. Metallo (Silver Spring, Maryland); Howard A. Stone (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic systems, including valves and pumps for microfluidic systems. The valves of the invention include check valves such as diaphragm valves and flap valves. Other valves of the invention include one-use valves. The pumps of the present invention include a reservoir and at least two check valves. The reservoir may be of variable volume. The present invention also relates to a flexible microfluidic system. The present invention additionally relates to a method of making microfluidic systems including those of the present invention. The method includes forming a microfluidic system on a master, connecting a support to the microfluidic system and removing the microfluidic system from the master. The support may remain connected to the microfluidic system or the microfluidic system may be transferred to another substrate. The present invention further relates to a method of manipulating a flow of a fluid in a microfluidic system. This method includes initiating fluid flow in a first direction and inhibiting fluid flow in a second direction and may be practiced with the valves of the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/867151 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/15.190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07942818 | Euliano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida); Convergent Engineering, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tammy Y. Euliano (Gainesville, Florida); Neil Russell Euliano, II (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida); Dorothee Marossero (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing a short-acting analgesic agent in the management of pain during labor, wherein the system enables efficient, real-time prediction of contractions for the coordinated administration of analgesia such that the peak effectiveness of the analgesic coincides with the intermittent pain of labor. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627541 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943026 | Broadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Broadley Technologies Corporation (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Broadley (Mission Viejo, California); Herbert P. Silverman (Laguna Beach, California); Ta-Yung Chen (Lake Forest, California); Steven R. Ragsdale (Mukilteo, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A flowing junction reference electrode comprising a liquid junction member matched with a filter. The junction member and the filter are situated between a reference electrolyte solution and a sample solution. An array of nanochannels spans the junction member and provides fluid communication between the electrolyte solution and the sample solution. The filter is configured to allow a greater flux of electrolyte than that associated with the junction member. Preferably, the number of pores is greater than the number of nanochannels. The filter is preferably configured to have pores with an inner diameter that is the same or less than the inner diameter of the nanochannels. In some embodiment, the resistance of the filter is made lower relative to the resistance of the junction member by selecting suitable length, number, and inner diameter size for the pores of the filter relative to the nanochannels of the junction member. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925665 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943049 | Alcantar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norma A. Alcantar (Tampa, Florida); Babu Joseph (Tampa, Florida); Kevin Young (Plant City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Arsenic is a poisonous metalloid which, because of its hydroscopic nature, is primarily transported through water. Most plant species, including the nopal cactus, produce a sticky substance called mucilage. Mucilage swells in water but is insoluble and can precipitate ions, bacteria and particles from aqueous solutions. The invention includes a method of separating particulates and heavy metals such as arsenic (As) from drinking water using natural flocculants obtained from cactus mucilage. The extraction techniques and the methodology for using the cactus mucilage obtain higher As removal than conventional methods, like aluminum sulfate precipitation. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/934932 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/728 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943179 | Little et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. Little (Somerville, Massachusetts); David M. Lynn (Middleton, Wisconsin); Daniel G. Anderson (Framingham, Massachusetts); Robert S. Langer (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A drug delivery system comprising pH triggerable particles is described. The pH triggerable particles comprise and agent(s) to be delivered, which is encapsulated in a matrix comprising a pH trigger agent and a polymer. Agents including nucleic acids may be delivered intracellularly using the inventive pH triggerable particles. Upon exposure to an acidic environment such as the endosome or phagosome of a cell, the particles dissolve or disrupt due to protonation or an increase in solubility of the pH triggering agent. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of preparing and administering these particles are also described. These particles may be particularly useful in genetic vaccination. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/002542 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943208 | Carson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Travis D. Carson (Columbia, Missouri); Sean M. Casey (Reno, Nevada); Isaac K. Iverson (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Wonewoo Seo (Longmont, Colorado); Suk-Wah Tam-Chang (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides materials and methods for making anisotropic solids which may be in the form of films, layers, shaped elements, and other shaped articles. The methods provide anisotropic solids without the need for rolling, rubbing, or stretching to impart orientational alignment of the molecules of the solid. The methods employ organic or organometallic compounds which are soluble orienting molecules. The solvent or solvent system must be sufficiently volatile to be removed without disruption of the molecular orientation. The soluble orienting molecules include those containing one or more hydrophilic and/or ionic groups and the solvent or solvent system can be a polar organic solvent or solvent system or an aqueous solvent or solvent system. The invention also provides novel compounds having quaterrylene, perylene and naphthalene ring systems carrying one or more hydrophilic and/or ionic groups. These novel compounds can exhibit useful absorption and fluorescence properties in solution and in the solid phase and can exhibit useful liquid crystalline properties. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/567673 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943305 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid molecule having a plurality of bases. In its principle, the temporal order of base additions during the polymerization reaction is measured on a molecule of nucleic acid. Each type of labeled nucleotide comprises an acceptor fluorophore attached to a phosphate portion of the nucleotide such that the fluorophore is removed upon incorporation into a growing strand. Fluorescent signal is emitted via fluorescent resonance energy transfer between the donor fluorophore and the acceptor fluorophore as each nucleotide is incorporated into the growing strand. The sequence is deduced by identifying which base is being incorporated into the growing strand. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279711 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943307 | Korlach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas Korlach (Ithaca, New York); Watt W. Webb (Ithaca, New York); Michael Levene (Ithaca, New York); Stephen Turner (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Craighead (Ithaca, New York); Mathieu Foquet (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of sequencing a target nucleic acid. The method provides a complex comprising a polymerase enzyme, a target nucleic acid molecule, and a primer, wherein the complex is immobilized on a support Fluorescent label is attached to a terminal phosphate group of the nucleotide or nucleotide analog. The growing nucleic acid strand is extended by using the polymerase to add a nucleotide analog to the nucleic acid strand. The nucleotide analog added to the oligonucleotide primer as a result of the polymerizing step is identified. The time duration of the signal from labeled nucleotides or nucleotide analogs that become incorporated is distinguished from freely diffusing labels by a longer retention in the observation volume for the nucleotides or nucleotide analogs that become incorporated than for the freely diffusing labels. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336122 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943312 | Hausch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Felix Hausch (Langenselbold, Germany); Gary Gray (Stanford, California); Lu Shan (Houston, Texas); Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Administering an effective dose of glutenase to a Celiac or dermatitis herpetiformis patient reduces levels of toxic gluten oligopeptides, thereby attenuating or eliminating the damaging effects of gluten. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/927525 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943391 | Byrne |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Byrne (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for the precise and accurate potentiometric pH measurements in situ. Embodiments of a potentiometric device according to the invention consist of one or more glass pH-sensitive electrodes connected to a potentiometer. A key feature of the device is that, rather than being calibrated conventionally with buffers, it can be calibrated with an in situ device that measures pH spectrophotometrically. Spectrophotometric pH measurements obtained via sulfonephthalein absorbance measurements are inherently calibrated (do not require buffers). Thus, devices according to the invention allow for continuous potentiometric pH measurements with occasional spectrophotometric calibrations. The spectrophotometric calibration device consists of a spectrophotometer with associated pumps for combining a sulfonephthalein pH indicator with the aqueous medium whose pH is to be measured. The device will record potentiometric pH measurements for an extended period of time until the spectrophotometric device is autonomously activated for another calibration. In this manner precise and accurate pH measurements can be obtained continuously in the environment, and the low energy expenditure of the potentiometric device provides excellent endurance. Also provided is a method and associated devices for spectrophotometrically determining the salinity of an aqueous medium. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180021 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943419 | Baldo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Baldo (Princeton, New Jersey); Peter Peumans (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey); Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic semiconductor device is provided. The device has a first electrode and a second electrode, with an organic semiconductor layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. An electrically conductive grid is disposed within the organic semiconductor layer, which has openings in which the organic semiconductor layer is present. At least one insulating layer is disposed adjacent to the electrically conductive grid, preferably such that the electrically conductive grid is completely separated from the organic semiconductor layer by the insulating layer. Methods of fabricating the device, and the electrically conductive grid in particular, are also provided. In one method, openings are formed in an electrically conductive layer with a patterned die, which is then removed. In another method, an electrically conductive layer and a first insulating layer are etched through the mask to expose portions of a first electrode. In yet another method, a patterned die is pressed into a first organic semiconductor layer to create texture in the surface of the first organic semiconductor layer, and then removed. An electrically conductive material is then deposited onto the first organic semiconductor layer from an angle to form a grid having openings as a result of the textured surface and the angular deposition. In each of the methods, insulating layers are preferably deposited or otherwise formed during the process to completely separate the electrically conductive layer from previously and subsequently deposited organic semiconductor layers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/241382 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943491 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Urbana, Illinois); Keon Jae Lee (Tokyo, Japan); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Champaign, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Champaign, Illinois); Zhengtao Zhu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, systems and system components for transferring, assembling and integrating features and arrays of features having selected nanosized and/or microsized physical dimensions, shapes and spatial orientations. Methods of the present invention utilize principles of ‘soft adhesion’ to guide the transfer, assembly and/or integration of features, such as printable semiconductor elements or other components of electronic devices. Methods of the present invention are useful for transferring features from a donor substrate to the transfer surface of an elastomeric transfer device and, optionally, from the transfer surface of an elastomeric transfer device to the receiving surface of a receiving substrate. The present methods and systems provide highly efficient, registered transfer of features and arrays of features, such as printable semiconductor element, in a concerted manner that maintains the relative spatial orientations of transferred features. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/423192 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/472 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943552 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel encoding system, compositions for use therein and methods for determining the source, location and/or identity of a particular item or component of interest is provided. In particular, the present invention utilizes a collection of one or more sizes of populations of semiconductor nanocrystals having characteristic spectral emissions, to “track” the source or location of an item of interest or to identify a particular item of interest. The semiconductor nanocrystals used in the inventive compositions can be selected to emit a desired wavelength to produce a characteristic spectral emission in narrow spectral widths, and with a symmetric, nearly Gaussian line shape, by changing the composition and size of the semiconductor nanocrystal. Additionally, the intensity of the emission at a particular characteristic wavelength can also be varied, thus enabling the use of binary or higher order encoding schemes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/632922 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943703 | Shull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Shull (Evanston, Illinois); Murat Guvendiren (Evanston, Illinois); Phillip B. Messersmith (Clarendon Hills, Illinois); Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of creating a bioadhesive in a substantially aqueous environment is disclosed. The method includes the steps of placing an anionicially polymerized block copolymer containing an amide, which is prepared by reacting a difunctional anionic initiator with a sterically hindered ester of methacrylic acid (SEMA), into a solvent to allow the solvent to swell the block copolymer; reacting the anionically polymerized hindered ester of methacrylic acid with methacrylic acid (MMA); hydrolyzing the anionically polymerized block copolymer with an aqueous solution to afford a methyl methacrylate-methacrylic acid-methyl methacrylate block copolymer (MMA-MAA-MMA); reacting the MMA-MAA-MMA block copolymer with 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl alanine to afford an amide with the MAA portion of the block copolymer; and placing the solvent swollen block copolymer in water. The water is exchanged with the solvent to provide a bioadhesive in an aqueous environment. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395138 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943751 | Canary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Wayne Canary (New York, New York); Nadrian C. Seeman (New York, New York); Lei Zhu (Austin, Texas); Philip Lukeman (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a copolymer termed a ladder copolymer because it has two backbones that serve as legs/sides of a ladder structure. These two backbones, one of which is a nucleic acid or nucleic acid-like polymer, are linked together as the legs/sides of a ladder are linked together by the rungs. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330250 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943908 | Smolyaninov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Smolyaninov (Columbia, Maryland); Yu-Ju Hung (Fremont, California); Christopher C. Davis (Bowie, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In a sensor system, an active sensor chip includes an array of periodically-patterned dielectric active sensor patches of different periodicities and geometries formed on a metal film. A specimen under study is positioned on each patch, and the active sensor chip is interrogated by illumination the patches in a predetermined sequence to result in a fluorescence response from each patch enhanced by SPP. The intensity of the fluorescence response is controlled by varying the wavelength, incidence angle, azimuthal orientation and polarization direction of the excitation light beam as the function of the periodicity of the illuminated patch. The system is compatible with commercial fluorescence microscopes and scanned laser interrogation systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017575 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/458.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945107 | Bae et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Soonmin Bae (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Fréderic Durand (Boston, Massachusetts); Sylvain Paris (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides gradient preservation of an input image. A method of providing gradient preservation of an input image, comprises the steps of: computing gradient fields of the input image; computing gradient fields of a remapped image, wherein the remapped image is the input image remapped; comparing a gradient of the remapped image to a predefined range of acceptable values, wherein the acceptable values depend on the input gradient; changing values of the gradient of the remapped image if the values of the gradient of the remapped image are not within the predefined range of acceptable values depending on the input gradient, resulting in x and y components of a modified gradient; and reconstructing the input image using the x and y components of the modified gradient. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/725096 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945305 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board Of Trustees Of The University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nitin Aggarwal (Champaign, Illinois); Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay (Champaign, Illinois); Yoram Bresler (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for acquiring MR data from a beating heart during subject respiration includes a prescan phase in which a respiratory compensation table and a k-space sampling schedule are produced. The k-space sampling table is produced using a spatio-temporal model of the beating heart and time sequential sampling theory. During the subsequent scan an imaging pulse sequence which is prospectively compensated for respiratory motion is used to acquire k-space data from the subject. The imaging pulse sequence is repeated to play out the phase encodings in the order listed in the k-space sampling schedule. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/217805 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07943142 | Zimba et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul V. Zimba (Corpus Christi, Texas); Kevin R. Beauchesne (Hollywood, South Carolina); Peter D. Moeller (James Island, South Carolina); Richard E. Triemer (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a purified toxin isolated from Euglena sanguinea. More specifically the toxin, termed euglenophycin, is an alkaloid having herbicidal and cytotoxicity against plant and mammalian cells. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/566884 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/195.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943159 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Winchester, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aijun Zhang (Silver Spring, Maryland); Tracy C. Leskey (Shepherdstown, West Virginia); Christopher J. Bergh (Winchester, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for attracting male Synanthedon scitula, containing a male Synanthedon scitula attracting effective amount of Z,Z-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate, optionally E,Z-2,13-octadecadienyl acetate, optionally Z,E-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate, and optionally a carrier material or carrier; the composition containing less than about 0.3% E,Z-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate based on the molar amount of the Z,Z-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate in the composition. A method for attracting male Synanthedon scitula to an object or area, involving treating an object or area with a male Synanthedon scitula attracting composition containing a male Synanthedon scitula attractant effective amount of Z,Z-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate, optionally E,Z-2,13-octadecadienyl acetate, optionally Z,E-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate, and optionally a carrier material or carrier; the composition containing less than about 0.3% E,Z-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate based on the molar amount of the Z,Z-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate in the composition. A method for inhibiting (antagonizing) male Synanthedon scitula attraction to female Synanthedon scitula, involving exposing a Synanthedon scitula population to a composition containing E,Z-3,13-octadecadienyl acetate in a quantity sufficient to inhibit (antagonize) male Synanthedon scitula attraction to female Synanthedon scitula, and optionally a carrier material or carrier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327010 |
| ART UNIT | 1613 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943766 | Inglett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Inglett (Peoria, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel low-carbohydrate digestible hydrocolloidal composition is separated from a cereal-based substrate by means of a specific sequence of steps for treating an aqueous slurry of the substrate. These all-natural compositions are low in digestible carbohydrates, principally starches, and rich in soluble fiber, principally β-glucan, as well as proteins. The hydrocolloidal products are recovered in high yields, are smooth in texture, have unexpected thickening properties, have a bland flavor, and are useful for texturizing food, especially bakery products. These hydrocolloidal products can also be used as food ingredients for increasing the nutritional level of foods and supplements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/075564 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945098 | Vahey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Vahey (Madison, Wisconsin); JunYong Zhu (Madison, Wisconsin); Charles Timothy Scott (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for reliably determining anatomical properties of a tree having a plurality of growth rings spaced from each other in a radial direction. The method involves preparing a sample from a tree to be analyzed, and preparing an image of the sample at a resolution sufficient to analyze at least one of the earlywood and latewood portions of one or more rings. The image is used to determine at least one anatomical property of the sample based on the image, the anatomical property being selected from the group consisting of sample density, tracheid wall thickness, and tracheid exterior dimension. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804115 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07944864 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Henrique Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Philippe Selo (New York, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A publisher-subscriber system includes a broker configured to receive and distribute at least one data stream from publishers to subscribers in accordance with subscriptions. An annotator/classifier is configured to annotate or classify the data stream by employing one or more additional stream-level attributes to create an annotated data stream wherein the annotated data stream applies the stream-level attribute to all messages therein. Subscribers can subscribe to the annotated data stream created by the annotator/classifier. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445889 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945570 | Papadimitriou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Spyridon Papadimitriou (White Plains, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method, system, and a computer readable article of manufacture identify local patterns in at least one time series data stream. A data stream is received that comprises at least one set of time series data. The at least one set of time series data is formed into a set of multiple ordered levels of time series data. Multiple ordered levels of hierarchical approximation functions are generated directly from the multiple ordered levels of time series data. A set of approximating functions are created for each level. A current window with a current window length is selected from a set of varying window lengths. The set of approximating functions created at one level in the multiple ordered levels is passed to a subsequent level as a set of time series data. The multiple ordered levels of hierarchical approximation functions are stored into memory after being generated. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/551033 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945947 | Chudow |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric B. Chudow (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of giving a user high-level access privileges if a combination of keystrokes is sent to a desktop is disclosed. Each terminal services session is enumerated and sessions identified. Unidentified sessions have a user-definable process associated with the session. Desktops registered in the terminal services session are identified, and if a new desktop is identified, a thread is created to attach to that desktop and hook the desktop's low-level keyboard input. The keyboard input is then monitored for a pre-defined combination of keystrokes, and if found, a command shell starts, giving the user higher-level access privileges. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998913 |
| ART UNIT | 2432 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07942058 | Turner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Universtiy of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Alan Turner (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods with which changes in microstructure properties such as grain size, grain elongation, texture, and porosity of materials can be determined and monitored over time to assess conditions such as stress and defects. The present invention includes a database of data, wherein a first set of data is used for comparison with a second set of data to determine the conditions of the material microstructure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079925 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943063 | Lucht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Lucht (Wakefield, Rhode Island); William B. Euler (Narragansett, Rhode Island); Yu Wang (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal indicator material which comprises a plurality of polythiophenes having a second low temperature color and a high temperature color. The polythiophenes are structured and arranged to exhibit a color change from the second low temperature color to the high temperature color when the thermal indicator material is exposed to a temperature that meets or exceeds a pre-determined temperature and to exhibit a color change from the high temperature color to a first low temperature color when the thermal indicator material is exposed to a decline in temperature from a temperature that meets or exceeds the predetermined temperature to a temperature of within the range of between about 5 to 20° C. below the pre-determined temperature that occurs in a time period of greater than 2.0 seconds. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/405027 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/408.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07942107 | Vosburgh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Vosburgh (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A payload delivery system for protecting and delivering a payload submerged in a submersion medium includes a containment system. The containment system includes a container and a dehiscing system. The container includes a pressure-resistant shell defining a sealed containment chamber. The dehiscing system is operative to dehisce the shell to open the containment chamber to the submersion medium responsive to a prescribed event and/or a prescribed environmental condition. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/332734 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/319 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07943026 | Broadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Broadley Technologies Corporation (Irvine, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott T. Broadley (Mission Viejo, California); Herbert P. Silverman (Laguna Beach, California); Ta-Yung Chen (Lake Forest, California); Steven R. Ragsdale (Mukilteo, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A flowing junction reference electrode comprising a liquid junction member matched with a filter. The junction member and the filter are situated between a reference electrolyte solution and a sample solution. An array of nanochannels spans the junction member and provides fluid communication between the electrolyte solution and the sample solution. The filter is configured to allow a greater flux of electrolyte than that associated with the junction member. Preferably, the number of pores is greater than the number of nanochannels. The filter is preferably configured to have pores with an inner diameter that is the same or less than the inner diameter of the nanochannels. In some embodiment, the resistance of the filter is made lower relative to the resistance of the junction member by selecting suitable length, number, and inner diameter size for the pores of the filter relative to the nanochannels of the junction member. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925665 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07944647 | Dugas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Research Corporation (White Bear Lake, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew P. Dugas (St. Paul, Minnesota); Jeffrey A. Wallhoff (New Brighton, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical path or waveguide for a laser-assisted transducing head is disclosed. The optical path extends between the poles of the transducing head to near the write gap. A solid-state laser is attached to or incorporated into the slider or head and is positioned to direct thermal energy through a waveguide and onto a track of a read/write surface to lower the coercivity of the recording medium to facilitate the write process. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463864 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval 360/125.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 07945526 | Birdwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Douglas Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Dale V. Stansberry (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jared Pendleton (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An item is organized and presented by displaying a table, wherein the table displays a plurality of data comprising DNA profile analysis results including an observation characterizing the at least one item, and wherein an analysis result is based on a decision made by an expert system according to a rule base. An observation comprises one of concordance, a locus having a concordance error, an off-ladder peak, a peak height imbalance and a peak falling in an overlap region between loci. The rule base comprises rules related to background noise, spike, broad peak, duplicate allele, bleed-through peak, pull-up peak, stutter peak, −A peak and global filter rules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886702 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07942646 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Foundation, Inc (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Zhou (Orlando, Florida); Liping Zheng (Cerritos, California); Louis Chow (Orlando, Florida); Jayanta S. Kapat (Oviedo, Florida); Thomas X. Wu (Oviedo, Florida); Krishna M. Kota (Orlando, Florida); Xiaoyi Li (Orlando, Florida); Dipjyoti Acharya (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed centrifugal compressor for compressing fluids includes a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) having a hollow shaft, the being supported on its ends by ball bearing supports. A permanent magnet core is embedded inside the shaft. A stator with a winding is located radially outward of the shaft. The PMSM includes a rotor including at least one impeller secured to the shaft or integrated with the shaft as a single piece. The rotor is a high rigidity rotor providing a bending mode speed of at least 100,000 RPM which advantageously permits implementation of relatively low-cost ball bearing supports. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/752021 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07943588 | DeLeo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joyce A. DeLeo (Lebanon, New Jersey); Flobert Y. Tanga (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for preventing or treating neuropathic pain. Using an agent to decrease the expression or activity of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), behavioral hypersensitivity is attenuated thereby preventing or treating neuropathic pain in a subject in need of such treatment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/691783 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07945572 | Lapin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett D. Lapin (Alexandria, Virginia); David W. Porter (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for automatically mining massive intelligence databases to discover sequential patterns therein using a novel combination of forward and reverse temporal processing techniques as an enhancement to well known pattern discovery algorithms. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/053224 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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