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Patent Details for Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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| US 07951278 | Santiago et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Standford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California); Tarun Khurana (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of indirectly detecting at least one directly undetectable analyte of interest. According to the method, a leading electrolyte and a trailing electrolyte are provided. In addition, a mixture of the at least one directly undetectable analyte and at least two directly detectable spacer molecules is provided. The directly detectable spacer molecules and the directly undetectable analyte are then concentrated and separated into zones using isotachophoresis. A displacement between the zones of directly detectable spacer molecules is then used to determine the presence of the directly undetectable analyte. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880479 |
| ART UNIT | 1795 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/549 |
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| US 07951300 | Bhandari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajmohan Bhandari (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sandeep Negi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Florian Solzbacher (Salt Lake City, Utah); Richard A. Normann (Park City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for wafer-scale fabrication of needle arrays can include mechanically modifying a wafer to produce a plurality of vertically-extending columns. The columns are etched to round and reshape the columns into substantially uniformly shaped needles. Needle arrays having needle width non-uniformity of less than about 3% and length non-uniformity of less than about 2% can be produced. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/807764 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/11 |
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| US 07951334 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Linette Demers (Evanston, Illinois); David S. Ginger (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of direct-write nanolithography to generate anchored, nanoscale patterns of nucleic acid on different substrates is described, including electrically conductive and insulating substrates. Modification of nucleic acid, including oligonucleotides, with reactive groups such as thiol groups provides for patterning with use of appropriate scanning probe microscopic tips under appropriate conditions. The reactive groups provide for chemisorption or covalent bonding to the substrate surface. The resulting nucleic acid features, which exhibit good stability, can be hybridized with complementary nucleic acids and probed accordingly with use of, for example, nanoparticles functionalized with nucleic acids. Patterning can be controlled by selection of tip treatment, relative humidity, and nucleic acid structure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/044738 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
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| US 07951356 | Thorpe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip E. Thorpe (Dallas, Texas); Steven W. King (Foothill Ranch, California); Boning Gao (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention embodies the surprising discovery that Tissue Factor (TF) compositions and variants thereof specifically localize to the blood vessels within a vascularized tumor following systemic administration. The invention therefore provides methods and compositions comprising coagulant-deficient Tissue Factor for use in effecting specific coagulation and for use in tumor treatment. The TF compositions and methods of present invention may be used alone, as TF conjugates with improved half-life, or in combination with other agents, such as conventional chemotherapeutic drugs, targeted immunotoxins, targeted coaguligands, and/or in combination with Factor VIIa (FVIIa) or FVIIa activators. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/573835 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.490 |
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| US 07951360 | Wittrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Dane Wittrup (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Balaji M. Rao (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Douglas A. Lauffenburger (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to IL-2 mutants with increased affinity for the IL-2 alpha-receptor subunit (IL-2Rα). The invention thus includes IL-2 mutants with improved biological potency. The invention also includes methods for directed evolution of IL-2α using yeast surface display to generate mutants with increased affinity for IL-2Rα. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/535083 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
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| US 07951362 | Pasqualini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Renata Pasqualini (Houston, Texas); Wadih Arap (Houston, Texas); Mikhail G. Kolonin (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns compositions comprising and methods of identification and use of targeting peptides for placenta or adipose tissue. In certain embodiments, the targeting peptides comprise part or all of SEQ ID NO:5-11, SEQ ID NO:13-22 or SEQ ID NO:144. The peptides may be attached to various therapeutic agents for targeted delivery. Adipose-targeting peptides may be used in methods for weight control, inducing weight loss and treating lipodystrophy syndrome. Adipose-targeting may also be accomplished using other binding moieties selectively targeted to adipose receptors, such as a prohibitin receptor protein complex. Placenta-targeting peptides may be used to interfere with pregnancy, induce labor and/or for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents to placenta and/or fetus. In other embodiments, receptors identified by binding to placenta-targeting peptides may be used to screen compounds for potential teratogenicity. An exemplary placental receptor is FcRn/β2M, and compounds that bind to FcRn/β2M are potential teratogens. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242427 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 07951364 | Poznansky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Poznansky (Charlestown, Massachusetts); Edward M. Brown (Milton, Massachusetts); David T. Scadden (Weston, Massachusetts); Ivona T. Olszak (Charlestown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for modulating movement of eukaryotic cells with migratory capacity. More specifically, the invention relates to methods and compositions for modulating movement of CaR receptor expressing cells of hematopoietic, neural, epithelial, endothelial, or mesenchymal origin, in a specific site in a subject. The foregoing are useful, inter alia, in the treatment of conditions characterized by a need to modulate migratory-cell movement associated with specific sites in a subject. Specific sites include sites of inflammation and modulation of migratory-cell movement is movement away from an agent source, or repulsion. The invention also relates to methods for manipulating hematopoeitic progenitor cells and related products. In particular the invention includes methods and products for using CaR receptor-related compositions to enhance mobilization of hematopoietic progenitor cells, to improve the efficiency of targeting cells to the bone marrow, and/or to modulate hematopoietic progenitor cell function. |
| FILED | Monday, May 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/429902 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 07951367 | Gan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Gan (San Francisco, California); Lennart Mucke (San Francisco, California); Erik Roberson (Vestavia Hills, Alabama); Sarah Mueller-Steiner (Uitikon Waldegg, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of increasing cathepsin B-induced cleavage of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide in a cell or tissue, the method generally involving contacting the cell or tissue with an agent that increases the level of cathepsin B in the cell or tissue. The present invention further provides variant cathepsin B polypeptides that are resistant to inhibition by a cysteine protease inhibitor; as well as nucleic acids encoding the variants, and host cells comprising the nucleic acids. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/985601 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.630 |
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| US 07951374 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hua E. Yu (Glendora, California); Richard Jove (Glendora, California); Marcin Kortylewski (Rancho Cuamonga, California); Drew M. Pardoll (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of enhancing antitumor activity of an immune cell comprising contacting the immune cell with a Stat3 inhibitor are described. Also described are methods of killing a tumor cell or inhibiting tumor growth in a subject comprising contacting an immune cell of the subject with a Stat3 inhibitor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/300619 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/178.100 |
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| US 07951383 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter L. Collins (Bethesda, Maryland); Mario H. Skiadopoulos (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides isolated nucleic acids encoding recombinant genomes or antigenomes of Human Parainfluenza Viruses that are useful as vaccines. The recombinant genomes or antigenomes can be incorporated into expression vectors for production of recombinant viruses in vitro. The invention also provides recombinant Human Parainfluenza viruses having one or more mutations that attenuate replication of the virus in a host. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785364 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/211.100 |
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| US 07951384 | Morrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trudy Morrison (Northborough, Massachusetts); Homer D. Pantua (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses the method of making and using a novel, non-infective, paramyxovirus vaccine. Paramyxovirus structural proteins within a virus-like particle (VLP) comprise one example of such a vaccine. It is observed that the presence of matrix protein, alone, is sufficient and necessary to provide an effective VLP release. Co-expression of four paramyxovirus structural proteins, however, result in the release of non-infective VLPs with densities and efficiencies of release similar to that of infective particles. Representative diseases wherein a VLP vaccine might be useful include, but are not limited to, Newcastle disease, measles, respiratory syncytial virus infection, and parainfluenza 3 virus infection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/497888 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/214.100 |
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| US 07951531 | Stapleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack T. Stapleton (Iowa City, Iowa); Jinhua Xiang (Iowa City, Iowa); Qing Chang (Iowa City, Iowa); James McLinden (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | GB virus C (GBV-C or hepatitis G virus) is a flavivirus that frequently leads to chronic viremia in humans. The invention provides compositions and methods involving a-GBV-C NS5A peptide or polypeptide for inhibiting and treating HIV infections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345662 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 07951542 | Ramsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surgene, LLC (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky); Mark D. Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relate to genetic markers of psychotic disorders, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for determinations of a SULT4A1-1 haplotype are described. Furthermore, the invention provides methods and compositions involving treatment of psychotic disorders using the haplotype status. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858917 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07951543 | Ramsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Suregene, LLC (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky); Mark D. Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relate to genetic markers of psychotic disorders, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for determinations of a SULT4A1-1 haplotype are described. Furthermore, the invention provides methods and compositions involving treatment of psychotic disorders using the haplotype status. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859056 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07951544 | Reed |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Sante Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present invention, there are provided methods for determining a prognosis of disease free or overall survival in a patient suffering from cancer. Also provided are methods for predicting the risk of tumor recurrence or spread in an individual having a cancer tumor. Methods for screening a cancer patient to determine the risk of tumor metastasis; methods for determining the proper course of treatment for a patient suffering from cancer; and kits for use in practising the invention methods. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/030497 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07951560 | Myette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Myette (Belmont, Massachusetts); Zachary Shriver (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Maitland W. McLean (Orkney, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to Δ4,5 glycuronidase, related compositions, and methods of use thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/616764 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07951576 | Lau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lau (Wayland, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for preparing cells and viruses such as poxviruses are provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/718455 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
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| US 07951602 | Amster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | I. Jonathan Amster (Athens, Georgia); Robert S. Phillips (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Mass defect labeled peptides and methods of identifying peptides are provided. In particular, embodiments of the present disclosure include mass defect labels for polypeptides that include at least one cysteine and/or at least one tryptophan and methods of using the mass defect labels to identify polypeptides. One embodiment, among others, includes a mass defect labeled peptide including at least one cysteine residue labeled with 2,4-dibromo-acetanilide. Another embodiment, among others, includes a mass defect labeled peptide including at least one tryptophan residue labeled with 4,6-dibromo-2-trifluoromethylphenylsulfenyl chloride. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/845856 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 07951607 | Corcoran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Corcoran (Laramie, Wyoming); Aaron D. Strickland (Trumansburg, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for detecting, identifying and measuring the abundance of chemical nerve agents. Methods and compositions of the present invention are capable of providing selective detection of phosphorous based nerve agents, such as nerve agents that are esters of methyl phosphonic acid derivatives incorporating a moderately good leaving group at the phosphorus. Selectivity in the present invention is provided by a sensor composition having an alpha (α) effect nucleophile group that undergoes specific nucleophilic substitution and rearrangement reactions with phosphorus based nerve agents having a tetrahederal phosphorous bound to oxygen. The present invention includes embodiments employing a sensor composition further comprising a reporter group covalently linked to the alpha effect nucleophile group allowing rapid optical readout of nerve agent detection events, including direct visual readout and optical readout via spectroscopic analysis. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/691636 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/104 |
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| US 07951770 | Kirschner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Austin N. Kirschner (Chicago, Illinois); Jasmina Omerovic (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegov); Richard Longnecker (Chicago, Illinois); Theodore S. Jardetzky (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for modulating Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection in a patient. The compositions may include peptides or peptidomimetics that are related to gp42 and function to inhibit EBV-mediated membrane fusion. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137842 |
| 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 07951774 | Mitra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashim K. Mitra (Overland Park, Kansas); Swapan K. Samanta (Bangalore, India); Ravi S. Talluri (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Stereochemically defined dipeptide esters of nucleoside-analogous antiviral agents including acyclovir and ganciclovir are provided. Certain of these stereochemically defined dipeptide esters are found to have unexpectedly enhanced delivery to and uptake by ocular tissues, crossing the blood-ocular barrier more effectively than other stereochemically defined dipeptide esters. For example, (L-Val)-(D-Val)-acyclovir was found to be taken up more effectively into corneal tissue than were underivatized acyclovir, monoesters (L-Val)-acyclovir or (D-Val)-acyclovir, or diester (L-Val)-(L-Val)-acyclovir. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/277442 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8 |
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| US 07951781 | McCray, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. McCray, Jr. (Iowa City, Iowa); Lokesh Gakhar (Iowa City, Iowa); Rama K. Mallampalli (Iowa City, Iowa); Subramanian Ramaswamy (Iowa City, Iowa); Jennifer Bartlett (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include compositions and methods for lower the surface tension of a liquid-air interface by contacting such interface with all or part of a PLUNC polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/934581 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.600 |
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| US 07951785 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); Children's Hospital, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J Anderson (Altadena, California); Ben Deneen (Alhambra, California); Hae-Ri Song (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compositions comprising NFIA inhibitors, as well as methods of using the same to treat glioma and astrocytomas. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/234366 |
| 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 |
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| US 07951786 | Klinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Rainald Zeuner (Kiel, Germany); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland); Ihsan Gursel (Rockville, Maryland); Mayda Gursel (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to oligodeoxynucleotides that suppress an immune response. Methods are disclosed for preventing or treating inflammatory arthropathies by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. |
| FILED | Friday, November 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325106 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 07951817 | Ananthan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Southern Research Institute (Birmingham, Alabama); University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (Biddeford, Maine); The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tuscon, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subramaniam Ananthan (Birmingham, Alabama); Richard B. Rothman (Baltimore, Maryland); Edward J. Bilsky (Biddeford, Maine); Frank Porreca (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds represented by the formula: wherein R is C1-6 alkyl; C4-6 cycloalkylalkyl; or C3-6 alkenyl; R′ is H or C1-6 alkyl; X is H or OH; Y is alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, arylalkyl or aroyl; and Z is CH or N; provided that X is H, when Z is CH and R is C4 cycloalkylalkyl or C4 alkenyl; prodrugs thereof; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are provided. Compounds of the above formula are useful as analgesics for treating pain; as immunomodulators, to modulate the behavioral effects of drugs of abuse and to modulate the development of tolerance and dependence to μ agonists. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/407000 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/279 |
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| US 07951831 | Hammock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Kara Schmelzer (Davis, California); Ahmet Bora Inceoglu (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods, compositions, and uses of those compositions for making medicaments, for potentiating the beneficial effects of inhibitors of COX-1, COX-2, and 5-LOX, and reducing adverse effects, by also administering inhibitors of soluble epoxide hydrolase (“sEH”), with or without also administering one or more cis-epoxyeicosantrienoic acids. The invention further relates to the use of inhibitors of sEH as analgesics and to methods and compositions of epoxides of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, optionally with an inhibitor of sEH, to reduce pain or inflammation or both. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/330033 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07951841 — Retinal derivatives and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of visual disorders
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krzysztof Palczewski (Bay Village, Ohio); Matthew Batten (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions of and methods for using synthetic retinal derivatives as retinoid replacements and opsin agonists are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629875 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/529 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951845 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josef Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Colleen LePrell (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Jochen Schacht (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Diane Prieskorn (Livonia, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for treating hearing loss includes components that function through different biological mechanisms to provide an additive effect that is equal to or greater than a sum of the effect of the individual components. The composition includes a biologically effective amount of at least one scavenger of singlet oxygen, a donor antioxidant, a third antioxidant, and a vasodilator. A method of treating hearing loss includes the step of internally administering the composition including a biologically effective amount of the at least one scavenger of singlet oxygen, the donor antioxidant, the third antioxidant, and the vasodilator to a mammal within three days of trauma to a middle or inner ear of the mammal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623888 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951898 | Papisov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail I. Papisov (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to biodegradable biocompatible polyketals, methods for their preparation, and methods for treating animals by administration of biodegradable biocompatible polyketals. In one aspect, a method for forming the biodegradable biocompatible polyketals comprises combining a glycol-specific oxidizing agent with a polysaccharide to form an aldehyde intermediate, which is combined with a reducing agent to form the biodegradable biocompatible polyketal. The resultant biodegradable biocompatible polyketals can be chemically modified to incorporate additional hydrophilic moieties. A method for treating animals includes the administration of the biodegradable biocompatible polyketal in which biologically active compounds or diagnostic labels can be disposed. The present invention also relates to chiral polyketals, methods for their preparation, and methods for use in chromatographic applications, specifically in chiral separations. A method for forming the chiral polyketals comprises combining a glycol-specific oxidizing agent with a polysaccharide to form an aldehyde intermediate, which is combined with a suitable reagent to form the chiral polyketal. A method for use in chiral separations includes the incorporation of the chiral polyketals in the mobile phase during a chromatographic separation, or into chiral stationary phases such as gels. The present invention further relates to chiral polyketals as a source for chiral compounds, and methods for generating such chiral compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/620855 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951924 | Sebti |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the present invention concerns RhoB variant polypeptides and isolated degenerate polynucleotides encoding the RhoB variant polypeptides. In another aspect, the present invention concerns nucleic acid constructs containing a polynucleotide encoding a RhoB variant polypeptide, and host cells genetically modified to express such polynucleotides. In another aspect, the present invention provides a method of inhibiting the growth of, and inducing apoptosis in, cancerous cells by contacting the cells with an effective amount of a RhoB variant. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/274368 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951939 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Masahiko Taniguchi (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dazhong Fan (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a porphyrin is carried out by: (a) condensing (i) a 1,9-bis(N,N-)dialkylaminomethyl)dipyrromethane of Formula II: with (ii) a dipyrromethane to produce a reaction product; then (b) oxidizing the reaction product; and then (c) optionally demetallating said reaction product to produce the porphyrin. The reaction is particularly useful for making substituted porphyrins with a wide range of substituents at the A and/or B (the 5 and/or 15) positions. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361715 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951989 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phylonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia McGrath (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chuenlei Parng (Lexington, Massachusetts); George N. Serbedzija (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of screening an agent for activity using teleosts. Methods of screening an agent for angiogenesis activity, toxic activity and an effect cell death activity in teleosts are provided. Methods of screening an agent for an activity in the brain or central nervous system in zebrafish are provided. The invention further provides high throughput methods of screening agents in multi-well plates. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515355 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952073 | Bilhorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Direct Electron, LP (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Bilhorn (San Diego, California); Mark H. Ellisman (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for use with an electron beam for imaging a sample. The apparatus has a down-conversion detector configured to detect an electron microscopy signal generated by the electron beam incident on the sample, a direct bombardment detector adjacent to the down-conversion detector and configured to detect the electron microscopy signal, and a mechanism selectively exposing the down-conversion detector and the direct bombardment detector to the electron microscopy signal. A method using the apparatus is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184995 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952353 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenmiao Lu (Nanyang Heights, Singapore); Yi Lu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for estimating values of a field map to generate a magnetic resonance display image with species separation is provided. A set of MR images is acquired based on an applied magnetic resonance excitation. A set of feasible field map values for each pixel in a field map are determined from the set of MR images. Estimated values of the field map for each pixel are chosen from the set of feasible field map values using a combinatorial optimization algorithm that includes a smoothness constraint. The combinatorial optimization algorithm includes iteratively communicating, between neighboring pixels in the field map, sum-product belief messages that include likelihoods for feasible field map values. Field map values are fixed to most likely field map values if the pixel satisfies the smoothness constraint with its neighboring pixels. A magnetic resonance display image with species separation is generated using the estimated field map. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/436689 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952704 | Ramanujam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nirmala Ramanujam (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Lee G. Wilke (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject matter described herein includes an optical assay system for intraoperative assessment of tumor margins. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a biological sample containment and illumination apparatus for holding a biological sample for illumination by a plurality of electromagnetic radiation probes. The biological sample containment and illumination apparatus includes a plurality of frame members positioned with respect to each other to form an interior space for receiving a biological sample. At least one of the plurality of frame members includes a plurality of probe receiving locations for receiving a plurality of electromagnetic radiation probes. The probe receiving locations position the probes with respect to the biological sample to allow illumination of plural locations of the biological sample by the probes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/830078 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952718 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingde Li (Seattle, Washington); Xiumei Liu (Fremont, California); Joo Ha Hwang (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanically robust minimal form factor OCT probes suitable for medical applications such as needle biopsy, intraluminal and intravascular imaging are achieved in part by employing compound lenses with some or all of the optical elements, including an optical fiber, to be thermally fused in tandem. To achieve a desired working distance without increasing a diameter of the optics assembly, a spacer can be disposed between the optical fiber and focusing optics. The compound lens configuration can achieve higher transverse resolution compared to a single lens at a desired working distance without increasing the probe diameter. In exemplary needle biopsy embodiments, the optical assembly is encapsulated in a glass housing or metal-like housing with a glass window, which is then selectively passed through a hollow needle. Esophageal imaging embodiments are combined with a balloon catheter. Circumferential and three-dimensional spiral scanning can be achieved in each embodiment. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114281 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953557 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric F. Johnson (Encinitas, California); Jason K. Yano (Oceanside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The teachings relates to the three-dimensional structure of a crystal of a cytochrome protein complexed with a ligand. The three-dimensional structure of four cytochrome P450 2A6-ligand complexes are disclosed. Cytochrome P450 2A6-ligand crystal structures, wherein the ligand is an inhibitor molecule, are useful for providing structural information that may be integrated into drug screening and drug design processes. Thus, the teachings also relate to methods for utilizing a crystal structure of a cytochrome P450 2A6-ligand complex for identifying, designing, selecting, or testing inhibitors of the cytochrome protein. Such inhibitors are useful as therapeutics for the treatment or modulation of i) diseases; ii) disease symptoms; or iii) the effect of other physiological events mediated by the cytochrome. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445018 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953600 | Hertz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NovaSpeech LLC (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan R. Hertz (Ithaca, New York); Harold G. Mills (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A speech synthesis system receives symbolic input describing an utterance to be synthesized. In one embodiment, different portions of the utterance are constructed from different sources, one of which is a speech corpus recorded from a human speaker whose voice is to be modeled. The other sources may include other human speech corpora or speech produced using Rule-Based Speech Synthesis (RBSS). At least some portions of the utterance may be constructed by modifying prototype speech units to produce adapted speech units that are contextually appropriate for the utterance. The system concatenates the adapted speech units with the other speech units to produce a speech waveform. In another embodiment, a speech unit of a speech corpus recorded from a human speaker lacks transitions at one or both of its edges. A transition is synthesized using RBSS and concatenated with the speech unit in producing a speech waveform for the utterance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/739452 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Rochford (Litchfield, New Hampshire); Robert F. Madej (Plaistow, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A specialized tool is provided for the removal of components in a microwave module in which a fixed tool having a channeled tip is positioned adjacent the component to be removed, with a hot stream of gas, forced through the channel to the top of the component which serves to heat the component, the component being removed through shearing when the component is forced against the tip. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/577941 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07950271 | Novak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Novak (Austin, Texas); Prabhu Soundarrajan (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for sensing an analyte gas is provided. The apparatus may include a signal amplifier that may include a thin film transistor that may include a semiconducting film that may include a metal oxide capable of chemical interaction with the analyte gas, such as carbon monoxide. The apparatus may be tuned for detecting the analyte gas by varying the gate voltage of the transistor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/103628 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.60 |
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| US 07950563 | Hull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Hull (Sammamish, Washington); John A. Mittleider (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for bearing a tool against a workpiece includes: (a) a pneumatically driven motor unit rotating a drive shaft substantially about a longitudinal drive axis; (b) a process shaft coupled with the drive shaft for rotating the tool substantially about a longitudinal process axis; (c) a flywheel coupled with one shaft of the drive shaft and the process shaft; and (d) at least one urging unit coupled with at least one of the motor unit and the process shaft. The urging unit moves the tool with respect to the workpiece. The flywheel and the one shaft impart inertial rotational energy to the tool after the pneumatic motor achieves a predetermined rotational speed. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/164466 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/2.100 |
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| US 07950899 | Euvino, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Euvino, Jr. (Naugatuck, Connecticut); David R. Lyders (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular fan inlet case includes a center ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of struts each coupled at a first end to the center ring, and at a second end to the outer ring. A plurality of shell members are each configured to be removably coupled to a corresponding strut. Preferably, the plurality of shell members each define a longitudinal groove for being received onto the corresponding strut. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/140789 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07950987 | McCoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard L. McCoy (Tucson, Arizona); Richard K. Morey (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A cabin pressure control system and method improves cabin pressurization during aircraft take-off operations. The cabin pressure control system sets a cabin pressurization rate limit based on a cabin pressurization rate error. The cabin pressurization rate error is derived from a comparison of a sensed cabin pressure rate-of-change value and a predetermined cabin pressurization rate value. |
| FILED | Friday, September 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/234671 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ventilation 454/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951181 | Mahadevan-Jansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anita Mahadevan-Jansen (Nashville, Tennessee); Jonathon D. Wells (Nashville, Tennessee); E. Duco Jansen (Nashville, Tennessee); Peter E. Konrad (Old Hickory, Tennessee); Changquing C. Kao (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in one aspect, relates to a system for stimulating neural tissue of a living subject. The system comprises an energy source capable of generating optical energy, a connector having a first end and a second end capable of transmitting optical energy, and a probe operably coupled to the second end of the connector and having an end portion for delivering optical energy to a target neural tissue. In one embodiment, the energy source comprises a tunable laser. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/071060 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951248 | Fallis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Fallis (Ridgecrest, California); Jennifer A. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrostatic charge dissipation composition having at least one energetic particle component and at least one oxidized electrically active polymer deposited on the energetic component. In another embodiment, the electrostatic charge dissipation composition includes at least one energetic particle component, at least one non-conducting polymer binder, and at least one oxidized electrically active polymer deposited on the energetic/binder composition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235998 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/19.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951299 | Hossein-Zadeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mani Hossein-Zadeh (Pasadena, California); Kerry J. Vahala (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a microresonator is disclosed. Initially, silica is deposited on a substrate, and the substrate is etched to form a pillar, the top portion of which supports the silica. The microresonator is then formed from the silica. Next, the pillar is etched to reduce the overall diameter of the top portion of the pillar so that the microresonator can be disengaged from the pillar. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/034895 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951300 | Bhandari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajmohan Bhandari (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sandeep Negi (Salt Lake City, Utah); Florian Solzbacher (Salt Lake City, Utah); Richard A. Normann (Park City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for wafer-scale fabrication of needle arrays can include mechanically modifying a wafer to produce a plurality of vertically-extending columns. The columns are etched to round and reshape the columns into substantially uniformly shaped needles. Needle arrays having needle width non-uniformity of less than about 3% and length non-uniformity of less than about 2% can be produced. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/807764 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Linette Demers (Evanston, Illinois); David S. Ginger (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of direct-write nanolithography to generate anchored, nanoscale patterns of nucleic acid on different substrates is described, including electrically conductive and insulating substrates. Modification of nucleic acid, including oligonucleotides, with reactive groups such as thiol groups provides for patterning with use of appropriate scanning probe microscopic tips under appropriate conditions. The reactive groups provide for chemisorption or covalent bonding to the substrate surface. The resulting nucleic acid features, which exhibit good stability, can be hybridized with complementary nucleic acids and probed accordingly with use of, for example, nanoparticles functionalized with nucleic acids. Patterning can be controlled by selection of tip treatment, relative humidity, and nucleic acid structure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/044738 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Dunn (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A closed cycle Brayton direct contact reactor/storage tank uses an afterburner to assist in removing metal vapors from the working fluid. The direct contact reactor/storage tank operates by bubbling an inert gas through liquid metal fuel. The inert gas picks up metal vapors from the fuel. The afterburner comprises a predetermined amount of oxygen, O2, being fed to a filter cavity within the reactor/storage tank and having the metal vapors react directly with the O2 forming a solid oxide that remains and does not circulate as part of the working fluid throughout the external parts of the Brayton cycle outside of the reactor/storage tank causing damage to system components. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 1992 |
| APPL NO | 07/926200 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951459 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xia Tang (West Hartford, Connecticut); Tania Bhatia (Middletown, Connecticut); David C. Jarmon (Kensington, Connecticut); Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut); Harry E. Eaton (Woodstock, Connecticut); John G. Smeggil (Simsbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for applying an oxidation resistant coating to an article includes the steps of mixing at least about 10% by volume to up to about 99% by volume of a slurry at least one silica based material having a viscosity of about 1×102 poise to about 1×107 poise at a temperature of about 1,292° F. (700° C.) to about 3,272° F. (1,800° C.) at least about 1% by volume to up to about 90% by volume of the slurry at least one oxygen scavenger, and a liquid medium to form the slurry; coating an article with the slurry to form a slurry coated article; and heat treating under an inert atmosphere the slurry coated article to form an article having at least one oxidation resistant coating layer containing the at least one oxygen scavenger. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603622 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951735 | Weber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J.K. Richard Weber (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Jean Ann Tangeman (Evanston, Illinois); Daniel Scott Hampton (Mundelein, Illinois); Paul C. Nordine (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the use of novel glass materials comprising rare earth aluminate glasses (REA1™ glasses) in the gain medium of solid state laser devices that produce light at infrared wavelengths, typically in the range 1000 to 3000 nm and for infrared optics with transmission to approximately 5000 nm in thin sections. The novel glass materials provide stable hosts for trivalent ytterbium (Yb3+) ions and other optically active species or combinations of optically active species that exhibit fluorescence and that can be optically excited by the application of light. The glass gain medium can be configured as a waveguide or placed in an external laser cavity, or otherwise arranged to achieve gain in the laser waveband and so produce laser action. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100073 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (Murray Hill, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hock Min Ng (Westfield, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprising a structure comprising a group III-nitride and a junction between n-type and p-type group III-nitride therein, the structure having a pyramidal shape or a wedge shape. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/456428 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952225 | Reichard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Diversified Technology, Inc. (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff A. Reichard (Ridgeland, Mississippi); Larry Monroe Ables (Ridgeland, Mississippi); David Bryant Moak, Jr. (Ridgeland, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A modular vehicle power system for a vehicle, the modular vehicle power system obtaining DC power the vehicle and producing AC power and method therefore. A plurality of power modules, each of the plurality of power modules receiving the DC power from the vehicle and producing the AC power, wherein each of the plurality of power modules are independent and interchangeable. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176480 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/10.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952239 | Clark 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) | Arthur E Clark (Adelphi, Maryland); Marilyn Wun-Fogle (Potomac, Maryland); James B Restorff (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are bimetallic strips that incorporate magnetostrictive materials to enhance and provide sensing, actuating and energy harvesting functions. The bimetallic strips include a positive magnetostrictive Fe-based alloy layer and a flexible layer. The flexible layer may be a negative magnetostrictive layer or a permanent magnet layer. One or more permanent magnet materials may also be used in the arrangement. The bimetallic strips are inexpensive and easily manufactured, and have characteristics that enhance sensing and actuator applications, and enables energy harvesting. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/844559 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meena Ganesh (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for detecting defects in a wire or wire harness includes a pair of sensors wrapped around the wire or harness, a data acquisition device for monitoring pulses in the signal produced by the sensors around the wires, and a diagnostics engine. The diagnostics engine includes an analysis module to determine features of the signals captured by the data acquisition device and a decision module for determining whether the pulse represents a defect in the wire, and the location of the defect. The system operates passively and can be used to monitor the wires while they are in use for carrying signals or current and does not require disconnecting the wires to be monitored. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/686052 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/536 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952408 | Eisenstadt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Richard Eisenstadt (Gainesville, Florida); Jae Shin Kim (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Phase noise detection systems for a device under test (DUT) are provided that can be embedded within a chip. According to one embodiment, the embedded phase noise detection system can include an active delay line cell, a phase shifter, and a phase detector. The active delay line and phase shifter separately receive the output signal of the DUT. The phase detector can include a double-balanced mixer followed by an active RC filter. The double-balanced mixer receives, as input, the outputs from the active delay line and phase shifter and can produce different dc voltages proportional to the difference from the input phase quadrature. An auto-adjustment circuit can also be included to help the input signal from the phase shifter to the mixer maintain quadrature. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492893 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952422 | Chuang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Te Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York); Jente Benedict Kuang (Austin, Texas); Hung Cai Ngo (Williamson County, Texas); Kevin John Nowka (Georgetown, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for varying one or more of a supply voltage and reference voltage in an integrated circuit, using independent control of a diode voltage in an asymmetrical double-gate device. An integrated circuit is provided that is controlled by one or more of a supply voltage and a reference voltage. The integrated circuit comprises an independently controlled asymmetrical double-gate device to adjust one or more of the supply voltage and the reference voltage. The independent control may comprise, for example, a back gate bias. The independently controlled asymmetrical double-gate device may be employed in a number of applications, including voltage islands, static RAM, and to improve the power and performance of a processing unit. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511658 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952439 | Heggemeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry P. Heggemeier (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James P. O'Loughlin (Placitas, New Mexico); Matthew T. Domonkos (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Robert Achenbach (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiple microwave oscillators can be phase locked such that the power output of multiple oscillators can be coherently combined to achieve a single output which has the total sum power of the multiple oscillators. Multiple oscillators assembled in a power combining array are phase locked using a locking signal provided at each oscillator via strategic placement of a partial obstruction between combined multiple oscillators and a load. This locking signal includes a minimum threshold level and preselected phase. A method for phase locking multiple microwave oscillators includes steps of combining power output of multiple microwave oscillators to achieve a single output to a load and inserting a partial obstruction between said at least two multiple oscillators and said load. The partial obstruction configured to provide a combined microwave oscillator signal including a minimum threshold and preselected phase. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623631 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952523 | Middour 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) | Jay W Middour (Alexandria, Virginia); Kelia Bynum (Springfield, Virginia); Christopher Huffine (Alexandria, Virginia); Anthony D'Agostino (Arlington, Virginia); Charles Chrisman (Fairfax, Virginia); C Lane Ellis (Alexandria, Virginia); Randolph L. Nichols (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are presented for passive location of transmitters in which two or more receivers time stamp received signals from target transmitters and the time stamped data for each target signal of interest is isolated to identify a peak power time of arrival for the signal at each transmitter from which differential scan observation values are derived, and for each signal of interest a line of position curve is computed based on the differential scan observation value and corresponding receiver locations, and for each signal of interest an estimated target transmitter location is determined based on an intersection of two corresponding line of position curves. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481052 |
| 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 342/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952526 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cheng-Jung Lee (Los Angeles, California); Kevin M. K. H. Leong (Los Angeles, California); Tatsuo Itoh (Rolling Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A dual-band resonator with compact size, such as a resonant type dual-band antenna, which uses an anisotropic metamaterial is described. The artificial anisotropic medium is implemented by employing a composite right/left-handed transmission line. The dispersion relation and the antenna physical size only depend on the composition of the unit cell and the number of cells used. By engineering the characteristics of the unit cells to be different in two orthogonal directions, the corresponding propagation constants can be controlled, thus enabling dual-band antenna resonances. In addition, the antenna dimensions can be markedly minimized by maximally reducing the unit cell size. A dual-band antenna is also described which is designed for operation at frequencies for PCS/Bluetooth applications, and which has a physical size of 1/18λ0× 1/18λ0× 1/19λ0, where λ0 is the free space wavelength at 2.37 GHz. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/844249 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952530 | Gerhard 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) | Erich M. Gerhard (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Heidi R. Pickreign, legal representative (Harvard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an improved buoyant cable antenna system. The system includes a buoyant cable transmission line segment and an antenna segment formed from a flexible memory structure comprised of at least one segment of coiled compression, pinched to form a desired shape and encapsulated in a buoyant encapsulant material. The antenna segment may include a U-shaped keel portion, a horizontal serpentine shaped section, and a vertical element with the horizontal serpentine shaped section floating on the surface of the water and the vertical element extending above the surface of the water. A process for manufacturing the buoyant cable antenna system is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/650764 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/719 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953110 | Dorris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Dorris (Ofallon, Missouri); David E. Corman (Creve Coeur, Missouri); Thomas S. Herm (Frontenac, Missouri); Eric Martens (Crestwood, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided for executing a protocol for tunneling of transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) packets over a tactical link. The tunneling protocol includes interfacing to a host software on a node of a tactical network using a TAP interface; breaking up ethernet packets from the TAP interface into J16.0 messages that include payload data from the ethernet packet and header information that uniquely identifies the J16.0 message for deterministic reassembly of the ethernet packet from the stream of J16.0 messages in which it is included. The J16.0 messages may be transmitted using a fighter data link over a tactical network link. At the destination node of the link, the J16.0 messages may be reassembled into ethernet packets, allowing the tactical network to be implemented as virtual private network having (internet protocol) IP addresses for each node. |
| FILED | Monday, January 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/685654 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/466 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953133 | Holonyak, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nick Holonyak, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois); Milton Feng (Champaign, Illinois); Gabriel Walter (Urbana, Illinois); Adam James (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A two terminal semiconductor device for producing light emission in response to electrical signals, includes: a terminal-less semiconductor base region disposed between a semiconductor emitter region and a semiconductor collector region having a tunnel junction adjacent the base region; the base region having a region therein exhibiting quantum size effects; an emitter terminal and a collector terminal respectively coupled with the emitter region and the collector region; whereby application of the electrical signals with respect to the emitter and collector terminals, causes light emission from the base region. Application of the electrical signals is operative to reverse bias the tunnel junction. Holes generated at the tunnel junction recombine in the base region with electrons flowing into the base region, resulting in the light emission. The region exhibiting quantum size effects is operative to aid recombination. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287697 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/43.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953389 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3E Technologies International, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryon K. Coleman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John M. Fossaceca (Frederick, Maryland); William J. Brown (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for wireless intrusion detection, prevention and security management. The method and system provides autonomous wireless intrusion detection and prevention, with minimal or no operator intervention. The method and system includes a smart wireless radio frequency (RF) antenna subsystem with an adaptive RF beamformer for adaptively and dynamically positioning RF null in a wireless RF transmission beam pattern to block one more rouge wireless network devices from accessing a wireless network such as aboard a military ship. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901834 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953500 | Bingham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HK Medical Technologies, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Bingham (New Braunfels, Texas); Richard G. Olsen (Pensacola, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF diathermy coil assembly, including a generally elastically deformable patient conforming garment and a conductive coil secured to the garment. The conductive coil having a woven wire construction such that the coil can deform as the garment elastically deforms. The RF diathermy coil assembly can be used for wound healing in conjunction with muscle stimulation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/028241 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953590 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Liang Gu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Wei Zhang (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for speech-to-speech translation using a translation system includes designating separate input channels for each of a plurality of speakers. In response to speech from a first channel in a first language, the speech from the first channel is translated to a second language, and in response to speech from the second channel in a second language, the speech from the second channel is translated to the first language. Translating the speech from the first channel and translating the speech from the second channel are performed concurrently. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865877 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953593 | Marchisio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evri, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington); Krzysztof Koperski (Seattle, Washington); Jisheng Liang (Bellevue, Washington); Thien Nguyen (Edmonds, Washington); Carsten Tusk (Seattle, Washington); Navdeep S. Dhillon (Seattle, Washington); Lubos Pochman (Breckenridge, Colorado); Matthew E. Brown (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index with document terms as well as information pertaining to the grammatical roles of the terms and ontological and other semantic information. In one embodiment, the enhanced document index is a form of term-clause index, that indexes terms and syntactic and semantic annotations at the clause level. The enhanced document index permits the use of a traditional keyword search engine to process relationship queries as well as to process standard document level keyword searches. In one embodiment, the SQE comprises a Query Processor, a Data Set Preprocessor, a Keyword Search Engine, a Data Set Indexer, an Enhanced Natural Language Parser (“ENLP”), a data set repository, and, in some embodiments, a user interface or an application programming interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401386 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953854 | Elnozahy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy (Austin, Texas); Peter Anthony Walker (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for providing remote access redirect in a host channel adapter of a system area network are provided. The apparatus and method provide a mechanism by which a host channel adapter, in response to receiving a marker message, places selected channel(s) of the host channel adapter in a remote access redirect (RAR) mode of operation. During the RAR mode of operation, memory access messages received by the host channel adapter that are destined for portions of an application memory space marked as being protected are converted to RAR receive messages and redirected to a queue pair associated with an operating system rather than the queue pair for the application. The operating system is responsible for serializing access to application memory pages outside of the host channel adapter. The mechanisms of the present invention may be used to perform a checkpoint data integrity operation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174746 |
| ART UNIT | 2447 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953856 | Pendarakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for autonomic system management in a computing system containing system resources including network resources and multiple resource demands, or processes. The computing system may be a stream-processing system or other real-time computer management system, such as workload management, or a virtualization engine. The system and method enables achieving a better level of performance than would occur in the computing system using only existing mechanism. It permits, with very low computational overhead, achieving or driving the system closer to a user-defined system performance objective. To do so, a system performance equation is defined to determine a level of performance of the system as a function of the allocation of two or more system resources among a plurality of system resource demands or processes. From this system performance equation, a plurality of resource-specific change equations is derived. Each resource-specific change equation is capable of calculating changes in the level of performance of the system attributable to changes in the allocation of one of the system resources. The resource-specific change equation yielding the greatest change in the level of system performance at a given allocation of all of the system resources and the system resource associated with the identified resource-specific change equation are identified. The allocation of the identified associated system resource to at least one system resource demand to provide the largest increase in the level of performance of the system, and allocations for all system resources are adjusted in accordance with the modified allocation of the identified associated system resource. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167183 |
| ART UNIT | 2469 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07954094 | Cascaval et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gheorghe Cascaval (Carmel, New York); Siddhartha Chatterjee (Yorktown Heights, New York); Evelyn Duesterwald (Ossining, New York); Allan Kielstra (Ajax, Canada); Kevin Stoodley (Richmond Hill, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method, computer program product and data processing system to improve runtime performance of executable program code when executed on the data-processing system. During execution, data is collected and analyzed to identify runtime behavior of the program code. Heuristic models are applied to select region(s) of the program code where application of a performance improvement algorithm is expected to improve runtime performance. Each selected region is recompiled using selected performance improvement algorithm(s) for that region to generate corresponding recompiled region(s), and the program code is modified to replace invocations of each selected region with invocations of the corresponding recompiled region. Alternatively or additionally, the program code may be recompiled to be adapted to characteristics of the execution environment of the data processing system. The process may be carried out in a continuous recursive manner while the program code executes, or may be carried out a finite number of times. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389961 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07954166 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Yuhuang Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Chicago, Illinois); Matthew Park (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method of loading tips and other surfaces with patterning compositions or inks for use in deposition. A method of patterning is described, the method comprising: (i) providing at least one array of tips; (ii) providing a plurality of patterning compositions; (iii) ink jet printing at least some of the patterning compositions onto some of the tips; and (iv) depositing at least some of the patterning compositions onto a substrate surface; wherein the ink jet printing is adapted to prevent substantial cross-contamination of the patterning composition on the tips. Good printing reproducibility and control of printing rate can be achieved. The surfaces subjected to ink jet printing can be treated to encourage localization of the ink at the tip. The method is particularly important for high density arrays. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/222464 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Deere and Company (Moline, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl T. Vuk (Denver, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A diesel or HHCI engine has an air intake and an exhaust for products of combustion. A pair of turbochargers receive the products of combustion in a series relationship and an exhaust aftertreatment device receive the products of combustion from the downstream turbine. A power turbine receives the output from the exhaust aftertreatment device and an EGR system of the power turbine passes a selected portion of the output to a point upstream of the upstream turbocharger compressor. A device adds fuel to the aftertreatment device to regenerate the particulate filter and the power turbine recoups the additional energy. The power turbine may be used to drive accessories or the prime output of the engine. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/925128 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/624 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07950453 | Farmayan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Farman Farmayan (Houston, Texas); Steven Paul Giles (Damon, Texas); Joseph Phillip Brignac, Jr. (Katy, Texas); Abdul Wahid Munshi (Houston, Texas); Faraz Abbasi (Sugarland, Texas); Lloyd Anthony Clomburg (Houston, Texas); Karl Gregory Anderson (Missouri City, Texas); Kuochen Tsai (Katy, Texas); Mark Alan Siddoway (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas burner assembly for heating a subsurface formation includes an oxidant conduit, a fuel conduit, and a plurality of oxidizers coupled to the oxidant conduit. At least one of the oxidizers includes a mix chamber for mixing fuel from the fuel conduit with oxidant from the oxidant conduit, an igniter, and a shield. The shield includes a plurality of openings in communication with the oxidant conduit. At least one flame stabilizer is coupled to the shield. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106134 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07950460 | Hermes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Hermes (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Manuel E. Gonzalez (Kingwood, Texas); Brian C. Llewellyn (Kingwood, Texas); James B. Bloys (Katy, Texas); Don M. Coates (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A process is described for replacing at least a portion of the liquid within the annular volume of a casing system within a wellbore with a second liquid. The second liquid is preselected to provide a measure of control of the pressure within the annular volume as the fluid within the volume is being heated. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/641272 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/302 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951247 | Barbee, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy W. Barbee, Jr. (Palo Alto, California); Randall L. Simpson (Livermore, California); Alexander E. Gash (Brentwood, California); Joe H. Satcher, Jr. (Patterson, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sol-gel chemistry is used to prepare igniters comprising energetic multilayer structures coated with energetic booster materials. These igniters can be tailored to be stable to environmental aging, i.e., where the igniters are exposed to extremes of both hot and cold temperatures (−30 C to 150 C) and both low (0%) and high relative humidity (100%). |
| FILED | Monday, September 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/261879 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951276 | Donchev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todor I. Donchev (Urbana, Illinois); Ivan G. Petrov (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is an apparatus and a method for producing atom clusters based on a gas discharge within a hollow cathode. The hollow cathode includes one or more walls. The one or more walls define a sputtering chamber within the hollow cathode and include a material to be sputtered. A hollow anode is positioned at an end of the sputtering chamber, and atom clusters are formed when a gas discharge is generated between the hollow anode and the hollow cathode. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810904 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/298.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951283 | Stoots et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl M. Stoots (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James E. O'Brien (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James Stephen Herring (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Paul A. Lessing (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Grant L. Hawkes (Sugar City, Idaho); Joseph J. Hartvigsen (Kaysville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Syngas components hydrogen and carbon monoxide may be formed by the decomposition of carbon dioxide and water or steam by a solid-oxide electrolysis cell to form carbon monoxide and hydrogen, a portion of which may be reacted with carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide. One or more of the components for the process, such as steam, energy, or electricity, may be provided using a nuclear power source. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/461337 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/637 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951348 | Shahriari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Y. Shahriari (Evanston, Illinois); Antoine Barnabé (Toulouse, France); Thomas O. Mason (Evanston, Illinois); Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A facile, low temperature and low pressure method for the preparation of a wide range of phase pure ABO2 compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316550 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951377 | Korber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts); The University of Albama at Birmingham Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bette T. Korber (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William Fischer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Hua-Xin Liao (Durham, North Carolina); Barton F. Haynes (Durham, North Carolina); Norman Letvin (Boston, Massachusetts); Beatrice H. Hahn (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to mosaic clade M HIV-1 Env polypeptides and to compositions comprising same. The polypeptides of the invention are suitable for use in inducing an immune response to HIV-1 in a human. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192015 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951500 | Veyo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Veyo (Murrysville, Pennsylvania); Raymond A. George (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment the present invention provides for an anode side gas flow heater for a fuel cell generator that comprises a recirculating anode gas flow 28, at least one burner 24, and an energy source 22. The energy source heats the burner, the anode gas flow passes over the at least one burner and is heated, and the heated anode gas flow is then passed through the anode side of the fuel cell generator 4, where the fuel cell generator is heated. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/440819 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951535 | Vo-Dinh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U-T Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tuan Vo-Dinh (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An oligonucleotide-based SERS molecular probe (SMP) includes a nanoparticle having at least a metal component, and at least one pin loop, the pin loop including a loop sequence complementary to at least one target sequence, a first stem attached to one end of the loop sequence, a second stem attached to the other end of the loop sequence, and at least one SERS active label attached to the first stem. The nanoparticle is attached to the second stem. The probe generates a stronger SERS signal upon irradiation with excitation radiation when not bound to the target sequence as compared to the SERS signal generated following hybridization of the probe with the target sequence. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/972110 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951570 | Goedegebuur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frits Goedegebuur (Rozenlaan, Netherlands); Peter Gualfetti (San Francisco, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Paulien Neefe (Zoetermeer, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a number of homologs and variants of Hypocrea jecorina Cel7A (formerly Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I or CBH1), nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The homologs and variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted and/or deleted. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250227 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951571 | Goedegebuur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Peter Gualfetti (San Francisco, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Edmund Larenas (Moss Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are variants of Humicola grisea Cel7A (CBH1.1), H. jecorina CBH1 variant or S. thermophilium CBH1, nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259843 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951747 | Thoma |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven G. Thoma (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Transition Metal Sulfides (TMS), such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), are the petroleum industry's “workhorse” catalysts for upgrading heavy petroleum feedstocks and removing sulfur, nitrogen and other pollutants from fuels. We have developed an improved synthesis technique to produce SLTMS catalysts, such as molybdenum disulfide, with potentially greater activity and specificity than those currently available. Applications for this technology include heavy feed upgrading, in-situ catalysis, bio-fuel conversion and coal liquefaction. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/417687 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951749 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph T. Yang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yingwel Li (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony J. Lachawiec, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for enhancing hydrogen spillover and storage are disclosed. One embodiment of the method includes doping a hydrogen receptor with metal particles, and exposing the hydrogen receptor to ultrasonification as doping occurs. Another embodiment of the method includes doping a hydrogen receptor with metal particles, and exposing the doped hydrogen receptor to a plasma treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820954 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952075 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zane William Bell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Lynn Allen Boatner (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting an activator, the method including impinging a receptor material that is not predominately water and lacks a photoluminescent material with an activator and generating Cherenkov effect light due to the activator impinging the receptor material. The method further including identifying a characteristic of the activator based on the light. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228661 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/361.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952318 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Lu (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Thomas G. Habetler (Snellville, Georgia); Pinjia Zhang (Atlanta, Georgia); Peter J. Theisen (West Bend, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining stator winding resistance in an AC motor is disclosed. The system includes a circuit having an input connectable to an AC source and an output connectable to an input terminal of an AC motor. The circuit includes at least one contactor and at least one switch to control current flow and terminal voltages in the AC motor. The system also includes a controller connected to the circuit and configured to modify a switching time of the at least one switch to create a DC component in an output of the system corresponding to an input to the AC motor and determine a stator winding resistance of the AC motor based on the injected DC component of the voltage and current. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132484 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/806 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953280 | Theiler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James P. Theiler (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Simon J. Perkins (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A distribution-based anomaly detection platform is described that identifies a non-flat background that is specified in terms of the distribution of the data. A resampling approach is also disclosed employing scrambled resampling of the original data with one class specified by the data and the other by the explicit distribution, and solving using binary classification. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871714 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953561 | Musial et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Musial (Boulder, Colorado); Darris White (Superior, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus (10) for applying at least one load to a specimen (12) according to one embodiment of the invention may comprise a mass (18). An actuator (20) mounted to the specimen (12) and operatively associated with the mass (18) moves the mass (18) along a linear displacement path (22) that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the specimen (12). A control system (26) operatively associated with the actuator (20) operates the actuator (20) to reciprocate the mass (18) along the linear displacement path (22) at a reciprocating frequency, the reciprocating frequency being about equal to a resonance frequency of the specimen (12) in a test configuration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/520011 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953563 | Linn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodman Ray Linn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Eunmo Koo (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a technique for simulating wind interaction with wind turbines. A turbine blade is divided into radial sections. The effect that each of these radial sections has on the velocities in Eulerian computational cells they overlap is determined. The effect is determined using Lagrangian techniques such that the calculations need not include wind components in the radial direction. A force on each radial section of turbine blade is determined. This force depends on the axial and azimuthal components of the fluid flow in the computational cell and the geometric properties of the turbine blade. The force on the turbine blade is fed back to effect the fluid flow in the computational cell for the next time step. |
| FILED | Sunday, October 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249953 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, program product and method optimize the operation of a parallel computer system by, in part, collecting performance data for a set of implementations of a function capable of being executed on the parallel computer system based upon the execution of the set of implementations under varying input parameters in a plurality of input dimensions. The collected performance data may be used to generate selection program code that is configured to call selected implementations of the function in response to a call to the function under varying input parameters. The collected performance data may be used to perform more detailed analysis to ascertain the comparative performance of the set of implementations of the function under the varying input parameters. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/555550 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Linette Demers (Evanston, Illinois); David S. Ginger (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of direct-write nanolithography to generate anchored, nanoscale patterns of nucleic acid on different substrates is described, including electrically conductive and insulating substrates. Modification of nucleic acid, including oligonucleotides, with reactive groups such as thiol groups provides for patterning with use of appropriate scanning probe microscopic tips under appropriate conditions. The reactive groups provide for chemisorption or covalent bonding to the substrate surface. The resulting nucleic acid features, which exhibit good stability, can be hybridized with complementary nucleic acids and probed accordingly with use of, for example, nanoparticles functionalized with nucleic acids. Patterning can be controlled by selection of tip treatment, relative humidity, and nucleic acid structure. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/044738 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951348 | Shahriari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Y. Shahriari (Evanston, Illinois); Antoine Barnabé (Toulouse, France); Thomas O. Mason (Evanston, Illinois); Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A facile, low temperature and low pressure method for the preparation of a wide range of phase pure ABO2 compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316550 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951428 | Hoerr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Hoerr (St. Paul, Minnesota); John V. Carlson (St. Michael, Minnesota); Da-Ren Chen (Creve Coeur, Missouri); David Y. H. Pui (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrospray methods and systems for coating of objects (e.g., medical devices such as a stent structure) with an open matrix coating. The open matrix coating is formed by electrospray using one or more nozzle structures each having at least an inner and outer opening. A first flow of a liquid spray composition is provided to the inner opening and a second flow of a liquid diluent composition is provided to the outer opening (e.g., the liquid diluent composition including at least one solvent, such as a composition having a dielectric constant equal to or greater than 10). |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701200 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/483 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951577 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher John Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Yan-Yeung Luk (Manlius, New York); Sean Francis Campbell (Bothell, Washington); Li-Lin Cheng (Madison, Wisconsin); Chang-Hyun Jang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid crystal compositions that exhibit little or no toxicity with respect to cells include liquid crystals with chemical functional groups such as fluorine atoms, fluorophenyl groups, or difluorophenyl groups. Liquid crystals with little or no toxicity to cell lines may be added to cell culture media or added to components used in cell culture media. Cells may be grown in cell culture media that includes liquid crystals that exhibit little or no toxicity to cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/877029 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951735 | Weber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J.K. Richard Weber (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Jean Ann Tangeman (Evanston, Illinois); Daniel Scott Hampton (Mundelein, Illinois); Paul C. Nordine (Deerfield, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the use of novel glass materials comprising rare earth aluminate glasses (REA1™ glasses) in the gain medium of solid state laser devices that produce light at infrared wavelengths, typically in the range 1000 to 3000 nm and for infrared optics with transmission to approximately 5000 nm in thin sections. The novel glass materials provide stable hosts for trivalent ytterbium (Yb3+) ions and other optically active species or combinations of optically active species that exhibit fluorescence and that can be optically excited by the application of light. The glass gain medium can be configured as a waveguide or placed in an external laser cavity, or otherwise arranged to achieve gain in the laser waveband and so produce laser action. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100073 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951744 | Gao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Gao (Carbondale, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Nano-reagents with catalytic activity are provided herein. The nanocatalyst comprises at least one amino acid attached to a nanoparticle, wherein the reactive side chain of the amino acid catalyzes a chemical or biological reaction. Methods of using these nano-reagents to catalyze reactions in solution or in multiple phases are also provided, as are methods of making these nanocatalysts. |
| FILED | Monday, January 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/668151 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951850 | Huo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qun Huo (Orlando, Florida); Saiful Khondaker (Oviedo, Florida); Jianhua Zou (Orlando, Florida); Lei Zhai (Oviedo, Florida); Hui Chen (Mountain View, California); Harish Muthuraman (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming carbon nanotube-polymer composites includes the steps of forming a mixture solution including a plurality of carbon nanotubes dispersed in a co-solvent. The co-solvent includes an organic solvent and a second solvent being a short chain fluorinated carboxylic acid having a boiling point below 150° C. which is less oxidizing than nitric acid, and is soluble in both the organic solvent and water. The first polymer is mixed with the mixture solution to form a polymer including mixture. The co-solvent is removed from the polymer mixture to form a dispersed nanotube-polymer composite. The second solvent can be trifluoroacetic acid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/050780 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951912 | Stahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shannon S. Stahl (Madison, Wisconsin); Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Sarah Lee (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Mehmet F. Ilker (Madison, Wisconsin); Bernard Weisblum (Madison, Wisconsin); Denis Kissounko (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of making β-polypeptides. The method includes polymerizing β-lactam-containing monomers in the presence of a base initiator and a co-initiator which is not a metal-containing molecule to yield the product β-polypeptides. Specifically disclosed are methods wherein the base initiator is potassium t-butoxide, lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide (LiN(TMS)2), potassium bis(trimethyl-silyl)amide, and sodium ethoxide, and the reaction is carried out in a solvent such as chloroform, dichloromethane, dimethylsulfoxide, or tetrahydrofuran. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510017 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952047 | Gevelber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cyber Materials LLC (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Alan Gevelber (Auburndale, Massachusetts); Donald Edward Wroblewski (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved automatic feedback control scheme enhances plasma spraying of powdered material through reduction of process variability and providing better ability to engineer coating structure. The present inventors discovered that controlling centroid position of the spatial distribution along with other output parameters, such as particle temperature, particle velocity, and molten mass flux rate, vastly increases control over the sprayed coating structure, including vertical and horizontal cracks, voids, and porosity. It also allows improved control over graded layers or compositionally varying layers of material, reduces variations, including variation in coating thickness, and allows increasing deposition rate. Various measurement and system control schemes are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/199294 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952718 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xingde Li (Seattle, Washington); Xiumei Liu (Fremont, California); Joo Ha Hwang (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanically robust minimal form factor OCT probes suitable for medical applications such as needle biopsy, intraluminal and intravascular imaging are achieved in part by employing compound lenses with some or all of the optical elements, including an optical fiber, to be thermally fused in tandem. To achieve a desired working distance without increasing a diameter of the optics assembly, a spacer can be disposed between the optical fiber and focusing optics. The compound lens configuration can achieve higher transverse resolution compared to a single lens at a desired working distance without increasing the probe diameter. In exemplary needle biopsy embodiments, the optical assembly is encapsulated in a glass housing or metal-like housing with a glass window, which is then selectively passed through a hollow needle. Esophageal imaging embodiments are combined with a balloon catheter. Circumferential and three-dimensional spiral scanning can be achieved in each embodiment. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114281 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952963 | Cheung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Y. H. Cheung (New York, New York); Nicholas F. Maxemchuck (Mountainside, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for telescopic data compression in sensor networks are disclosed herein. An exemplary method of the disclosed subject matter for telescopically compressing data received from a plurality of sensors in a network adapted to detect a field includes broadcasting a first set of sampling positions to sensors, forming a first set of clusters of sensors based on the sampling positions, receiving data from the sensors contained within the clusters, performing local interpolation of the received data, reconstructing a representation of the field using the interpolated data, and determining areas of interest based on the reconstructed representation of the field. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/615874 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953675 | Medioni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Medioni (Los Angeles, California); Philippos Mordohai (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A tensor voting scheme which can be used in an arbitrary number N of dimensions, up to several hundreds. The voting scheme can operate on unorganized point inputs, which can be oriented or unoriented, and estimate the intrinsic dimensionality at each point. Moreover it can estimate the tangent and normal space of a manifold passing through each point based solely on local operations. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/480285 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953926 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qing Yang (Saunderstown, Rhode Island); Xubin He (Cookeville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A SCSI-to-IP cache storage system interconnects a host computing device or a storage unit to a switched packet network. The cache storage system includes a SCSI interface (40) that facilitates system communications with a host computing device or the storage unit, and a Ethernet interface (42) that allows the system to receive data from and send data to the Internet. The cache storage system further comprises a processing unit (44) that includes a processor (46), a memory (48) and a log disk (52) configured as a sequential access device. The log disk (52) caches data along with the memory (48) resident in the processing unit (44), wherein the log disk (52) and the memory (48) are configured as a two-level hierarchical cache. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857319 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07954166 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Yuhuang Wang (Evanston, Illinois); Louise R. Giam (Chicago, Illinois); Matthew Park (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method of loading tips and other surfaces with patterning compositions or inks for use in deposition. A method of patterning is described, the method comprising: (i) providing at least one array of tips; (ii) providing a plurality of patterning compositions; (iii) ink jet printing at least some of the patterning compositions onto some of the tips; and (iv) depositing at least some of the patterning compositions onto a substrate surface; wherein the ink jet printing is adapted to prevent substantial cross-contamination of the patterning composition on the tips. Good printing reproducibility and control of printing rate can be achieved. The surfaces subjected to ink jet printing can be treated to encourage localization of the ink at the tip. The method is particularly important for high density arrays. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/222464 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07951378 | Larrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Planet Biotechnology Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James William Larrick (Woodside, California); Keith Lynn Wycoff (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The immunoadhesions of the present invention are useful in treating rhinovirus infections. The immunoadhesions contain a chimeric ICAM molecule and may optionally also contain J chain and secretory compounds. The chimeric ICAM molecule is a fusion protein that has a rhinovirus receptor protein linked to an immunoglobulin protein. This invention also includes the greatly increased and improved method of producing immunoadhesions in plants. Each of the components of an immunoadhesin is produced in a plant cell and thereby assembles within the plant cell. This method of producing the immunoadhesions of the present invention results in the efficient and economic production of these molecules. The present invention also contemplates the production of immunoadhesions in a variety of eukaryotic cells including plants and mammalian cells. The immunoadhesions of the present invention are useful as a therapeutic against the common cold in humans which is caused by rhinoviruses. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 28, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/258763 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/193.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951542 | Ramsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Surgene, LLC (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky); Mark D. Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relate to genetic markers of psychotic disorders, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for determinations of a SULT4A1-1 haplotype are described. Furthermore, the invention provides methods and compositions involving treatment of psychotic disorders using the haplotype status. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858917 |
| 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 07951543 | Ramsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Suregene, LLC (Jeffersontown, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy L. Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky); Mark D. Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions relate to genetic markers of psychotic disorders, e.g., schizophrenia (SZ), are provided. For example, in certain aspects methods for determinations of a SULT4A1-1 haplotype are described. Furthermore, the invention provides methods and compositions involving treatment of psychotic disorders using the haplotype status. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859056 |
| 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 07953389 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3E Technologies International, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryon K. Coleman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); John M. Fossaceca (Frederick, Maryland); William J. Brown (Sykesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for wireless intrusion detection, prevention and security management. The method and system provides autonomous wireless intrusion detection and prevention, with minimal or no operator intervention. The method and system includes a smart wireless radio frequency (RF) antenna subsystem with an adaptive RF beamformer for adaptively and dynamically positioning RF null in a wireless RF transmission beam pattern to block one more rouge wireless network devices from accessing a wireless network such as aboard a military ship. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901834 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07951537 | Bilyeu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristin D. Bilyeu (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A mutation in the gene encoding the P34 protein in soybean which affects allergenicity is characterized. Soybean homozygous for a mutant allele comprising a four base pair insertion at the start codon of the gene encoding the P34 protein, exhibit significantly reduced P34 protein accumulation. Nucleic acid samples of soybean may be assayed for the presence of this insertion to detect the mutant allele, and soybean containing the allele may be selected for breeding to generate reduced P34 soybean lines. Molecular markers have been developed for detecting the presence or absence of the four base pair insertion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322033 |
| 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 07951579 | Hargis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trutees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Arkansas); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy M. Hargis (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Stacy E. Higgins (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Lisa Bielke (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Guillermo I. Tellez (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Lisa A. Newberry (Benton, Arkansas); Gerardo Nava (Urbana, Illinois); Ann M. Donoghue (Springdale, Arkansas); Daniel J. Donoghue (Springdale, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of selecting wide host range bacteriophage capable of growing in a plurality of bacteria including pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria and bacteriophage selected by the methods. Also disclosed are methods of treating a subject infected with a pathogenic bacterium using bacteriophage and methods of decontaminating objects using bacteriophage. Also disclosed are methods of producing vaccines. In another aspect, methods of determining bacterial viability and methods of improving the sensitivity of a biosensor using wide host range bacteriophages are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/473449 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/264 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07951591 | Robl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Robl (Sioux Falls, South Dakota); Jose Cibelli (East Lansing, Michigan); Amy Burnside (Florence, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for obtaining pluripotent (embryonic stem) cells from parthenogenetic embryos, especially primates, are provided. These cells are useful for producing differentiated cells, tissues and organs, especially human and non-human primate cells, tissues and organs. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/374512 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07952193 | Furman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce K. Furman (Poughquag, New York); Yves C. Martin (Ossining, New York); Theodore G. Van Kessel (Millbrook, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for chip cooling. One embodiment of an inventive method for bonding a liquid metal to an interface surface (e.g., a surface of an integrated circuit chip or an opposing surface of a heat sink) includes applying an adhesive to the interface surface. A metal film is then bonded to the adhesive, thereby easily adapting the interface surface for bonding to the liquid metal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/261316 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953705 | Chron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York); National Security Agency (Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward G. Chron (Sunnyvale, California); Joseph P. McCloskey (Columbia, Maryland); David A. Pease (Redwood Estates, California); Elizabeth S. Richards (Columbia, Maryland); Sandeep M. Uttamchandani (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the method maintains access statistics for each of the data items, an age of each of the data items, and an administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. Following this, a retention value is calculated for each of the data items based on the access statistics for each of the data items, the age of each of the data items, and the administrator-defined importance value of each of the data items. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/059136 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/662 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953856 | Pendarakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitrios Pendarakis (Westport, Connecticut); Jeremy I. Silber (New York, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided for autonomic system management in a computing system containing system resources including network resources and multiple resource demands, or processes. The computing system may be a stream-processing system or other real-time computer management system, such as workload management, or a virtualization engine. The system and method enables achieving a better level of performance than would occur in the computing system using only existing mechanism. It permits, with very low computational overhead, achieving or driving the system closer to a user-defined system performance objective. To do so, a system performance equation is defined to determine a level of performance of the system as a function of the allocation of two or more system resources among a plurality of system resource demands or processes. From this system performance equation, a plurality of resource-specific change equations is derived. Each resource-specific change equation is capable of calculating changes in the level of performance of the system attributable to changes in the allocation of one of the system resources. The resource-specific change equation yielding the greatest change in the level of system performance at a given allocation of all of the system resources and the system resource associated with the identified resource-specific change equation are identified. The allocation of the identified associated system resource to at least one system resource demand to provide the largest increase in the level of performance of the system, and allocations for all system resources are adjusted in accordance with the modified allocation of the identified associated system resource. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167183 |
| ART UNIT | 2469 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07952373 | Mok et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verigy (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, Singapore) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sammy Mok (Cupertino, California); Fu Chiung Chong (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Several embodiments of integrated circuit probe card assemblies are disclosed, which extend the mechanical compliance of both MEMS and thin-film fabricated probes, such that these types of spring probe structures can be used to test one or more integrated circuits on a semiconductor wafer. Several embodiments of probe card assemblies, which provide tight signal pad pitch compliance and/or enable high levels of parallel testing in commercial wafer probing equipment, are disclosed. In some preferred embodiments, the probe card assembly structures include separable standard components, which reduce assembly manufacturing cost and manufacturing time. These structures and assemblies enable high speed testing in wafer form. The probes also have built in mechanical protection for both the integrated circuits and the MEMS or thin film fabricated spring tips and probe layout structures on substrates. Interleaved spring probe tip designs are defined which allow multiple probe contacts on very small integrated circuit pads. The shapes of probe tips are preferably defined to control the depth of probe tip penetration between a probe spring and a pad or trace on an integrated circuit device. Improved protective coating techniques for spring probes are also disclosed, offering increased reliability and extended useful service lives for probe card assemblies. |
| FILED | Monday, October 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/552110 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/754.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07953559 | Sundermeyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffry Neil Sundermeyer (Dunlap, Illinois); Nitin R. Patel (Peoria, Illinois); Ryan Paul Allgaier (East Peoria, Illinois); Don Sit (Peoria, Illinois); Timothy Allen Vik (Sparland, Illinois); Jeffrey Dale Baskett (Peoria, Illinois); Hiroko Kyuba (Peoria, Illinois); Daniel Kimsey Dunn, III (Dunlap, Illinois); Byron Edwin Truax (Dunlap, Illinois); Burton Roland Clarke (Cuba, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for constructing a load history database for a structure is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that may include detecting a measurable parameter on the structure utilizing a sensor positioned on the structure and determining a value of external loads acting upon the structure based on the detected parameter. Further, the method may include evaluating the value of the external loads against a pre-established factor. Based on the evaluation, the value of the external loads are selectively stored in the load history database. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227269 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07951349 | Kindler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Kindler (San Marino, California); Sri R. Narayanan (Arcadia, California); Yuhong Huang (West Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for storing and generating hydrogen. The method comprises generating hydrogen and heat from the reaction of a metal or metal compound with water. The heat generated from this reaction may then be converted to other forms of energy such as by passing the heat through a thermal electric device to recover electrical energy for storage in a battery. In an alternative and preferred embodiment, the heat is used to drive additional reactions for generating more hydrogen and is preferably used to drive an endothermic dehydrogenation reaction resulting in increased hydrogen generation and consumption of the heat. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800737 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07952482 | Malocha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Malocha (Winter Springs, Florida); Nikolai Kozlovski (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for coding SAW OFC devices to mitigate code collisions in a wireless multi-tag system. Each device producing plural stepped frequencies as an OFC signal with a chip offset delay to increase code diversity. A method for assigning a different OCF to each device includes using a matrix based on the number of OFCs needed and the number chips per code, populating each matrix cell with OFC chip, and assigning the codes from the matrix to the devices. The asynchronous passive multi-tag system includes plural surface acoustic wave devices each producing a different OFC signal having the same number of chips and including a chip offset time delay, an algorithm for assigning OFCs to each device, and a transceiver to transmit an interrogation signal and receive OFC signals in response with minimal code collisions during transmission. |
| FILED | Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/618034 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 07951531 | Stapleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack T. Stapleton (Iowa City, Iowa); Jinhua Xiang (Iowa City, Iowa); Qing Chang (Iowa City, Iowa); James McLinden (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | GB virus C (GBV-C or hepatitis G virus) is a flavivirus that frequently leads to chronic viremia in humans. The invention provides compositions and methods involving a-GBV-C NS5A peptide or polypeptide for inhibiting and treating HIV infections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/345662 |
| 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 |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 07954094 | Cascaval et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gheorghe Cascaval (Carmel, New York); Siddhartha Chatterjee (Yorktown Heights, New York); Evelyn Duesterwald (Ossining, New York); Allan Kielstra (Ajax, Canada); Kevin Stoodley (Richmond Hill, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method, computer program product and data processing system to improve runtime performance of executable program code when executed on the data-processing system. During execution, data is collected and analyzed to identify runtime behavior of the program code. Heuristic models are applied to select region(s) of the program code where application of a performance improvement algorithm is expected to improve runtime performance. Each selected region is recompiled using selected performance improvement algorithm(s) for that region to generate corresponding recompiled region(s), and the program code is modified to replace invocations of each selected region with invocations of the corresponding recompiled region. Alternatively or additionally, the program code may be recompiled to be adapted to characteristics of the execution environment of the data processing system. The process may be carried out in a continuous recursive manner while the program code executes, or may be carried out a finite number of times. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389961 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07953626 | Wright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann C. Wright (Washington, District of Columbia); Justin P. Parke (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for assessing and tracking operational and functional performance can include compiling performance data for an entity (e.g., an entire enterprise, a corporate business unit, a particular operational region, a particular position, a particular employee, etc.) corresponding to a plurality of indicators corresponding to at least one goal category. The method may further include weighting the performance data corresponding to the plurality of indicators for the entity and generating a performance score for the entity based on the weighted or un-weighted performance data. Another method for assessing performance of at least one entity can be based on a first set of indicators and a second set of indicators reflecting performance of the entity. The method may also include generating goal achievement data for the first set of indicators and the second set of indicators and, based on the generated goal achievement data, generating a summary or composite goal achievement data for the first set of indicators and the second set of indicators by weighting the generated goal achievement data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/954789 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.390 |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, May 31, 2011.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2011/fedinvent-patents-20110531.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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