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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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| US 07963085 | Sypeck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Sypeck (Daytona Beach Shores, Florida); Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of making truss-based periodic cellular solids that have improved structural properties and multifunctional design. Many materials (metals, ceramics, glasses, polymers, composites and even semiconductors) can be shaped into cellular, truss-like architectures with open, closed or mixed types of porosity and then very uniformly arranged in controlled, three-dimensional space-filling arrays. The truss-like elements do not necessarily have a constant cross-section, nor are they necessarily straight or solid throughout (they could be hollow). Their cross sections can be circular, square, triangular, I-beam or other shapes of interest depending on multifunctional needs. When bonded together by solid state, liquid phase, pressing or other methods at points of contact, a cellular structure of highly repeatable cell geometry and few imperfections results. The bonds hold the truss elements together in a desired configuration, allow load to be efficiently transferred amongst them and make the resulting structure significantly more rigid when bent, compressed or sheared. These constructed cellular solids offer a broad range of multifunctional structural uses with a tremendous freedom for choosing the truss type, orientation and distribution. Multiple materials can be intermixed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/479833 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/782.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963098 | Rivera |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Rivera (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon composite duct assembly has a duct body having an opening. The duct body extends along an axis. The opening extends transversely to the axis. The duct body has a carbon composite fabric layer. The duct body has an axial flange extending along the axis and a peripheral flange extending along the opening. The axial flange and the peripheral flange overlap forming a corner of the carbon composite fabric layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761489 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/226.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963099 | Renggli |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard James Renggli (Cincinnatti, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine exhaust nozzle includes a fluted shell terminating in a row of chevrons. The nozzle is radially serpentine circumferentially around the shell and has a circumferentially serpentine trailing edge. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751174 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963115 | Sondergaard 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) | Neal A. Sondergaard (Severna Park, Maryland); William A. Lynch (Cohasset, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic flux enhanced metal fuel combustion system and method for producing energy. The energy may be used to drive a water vessel such as a submarine. The system and method includes a ring-shaped coil of an electromagnet surrounding a combustion chamber. The electromagnet produces a magnetic flux within the combustion chamber that limits contact between charged combustion particles and the sidewalls of the chamber, thereby enhancing the combustion of metallic fuels. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286275 |
| ART UNIT | 3783 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/645 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963151 | Godfrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Akubio Limited (, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Peterson Godfrey (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Mark John Frogley (Huntington, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge for apparatus for analysing a sample comprising a fluid as a flow cell for receiving the sample. The cell is formed from a substantially rigid support surface (102), a sensor comprising an electrical mechanical transducer (92), for example a wafer of quartz crystal and adhesive means, such as double sided adhesive tape (100) attaching the sensor to the support surface. The support surface and sensor are spaced from each other by a membrane, which may form part of the double sides adhesive tape so as to define the flow cell between the support surface and the sensor. The flow cell also has an opening (for example, 111) through which, in use, the sample passes. The sensor, forming part of the flow cell, comes into contact with the sample to enable the sample to be analysed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/817851 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/64.560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963202 | Becker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard F. Becker (Gloversville, New York); Mark D. Witherell (Wynantskill, New York); Jose Santiago (Dover, New Jersey); George E. Hathaway, IV (Sprakers, New York); Ramon Espinosa (Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey); Steve Tauscher (Schuylerville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A finless mortar tube made of a superalloy includes, seriatim, a breech end, a beginning taper point, an ending taper point, a lower clamp region, an upper clamp region, and a muzzle end. The nominal wall thickness of the tube is constant from forward of the breech end to the beginning taper point and the nominal wall thickness of the tube decreases from the beginning taper point to the ending taper point. The mortar tube is capable of a substantial increase in the rate of fire compared to conventional mortar tubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/099948 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/14.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963242 | Wiggin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Wiggin (Jamestown, Rhode Island); David A. Sharp (Newport, Rhode Island); Marc A. Brown (Tubac, Arizona); Christopher C. Mello (Newport, Rhode Island); Frank H. Hitzke (Sarona, Wisconsin); David A. Giroux (South Kingstown, Rhode Island); Douglas L. Veilleux, II (Rochester, Massachusetts); Emily J. Pikor (Bristol, Rhode Island); Edward M. Gaboriault, Jr. (Lincoln, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An anchor holds a variety of mooring system elements, including processor-controlled cable brakes, prior to deployment of the anchor. The anchor is configured to automatically deploy the elements of the mooring system into a desired underwater configuration. A method of deploying an ocean anchor includes controlling cable brakes and results in the elements of the mooring system being deployed into a desired underwater configuration. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/207762 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/293 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963350 | Thielman 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) | Benjamin-Fausto S. Thielman (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Gerhard W. Thielman (Spotsylvania, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A spherical armored mobile platform (SAMP) is provided for at least one operator to enable protected entry and egress from a militarily hostile environment. The SAMP includes a spherical shell, an armored cockpit and a set of wheels. The spherical shell has inner and outer surfaces and features a plurality of cavities that extend therethrough. The cockpit houses a seat, a guidance controller, a display console, and an electric motor connected to a power supply. The cockpit is contained within said shell. The seat is designed to receive the operator. The wheels are driven by the motor and structurally supported by the cockpit. The wheels engage the inner surface and turn in response to the motor. The cavities are disposed within three-sided boundaries of a geodesic dome. The SAMP can further include a plurality of optical sensors disposed on the cockpit, and a signal integrator to present temporally concatenated visual signals into a mosaic at the display console. The SAMP can also include a projectile-firing gun mounted to the cockpit, and a trigger control to enable actuation of the gun in response to the projectile exiting the sphere at an instance that coincides with a cavity of the plurality of cavities. The SAMP includes a steering mechanism that turns orientation direction of the fore lower and aft upper wheels. The SAMP includes a door on the cockpit that slides between first open and closed positions, and a hatch on the sphere that hinges between second open and closed positions. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386179 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964023 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Precision Combustion, Inc. (North Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tianli Zhu (Cheshire, Connecticut); Christian Junaedi (Cheshire, Connecticut); Subir Roychoudhury (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A substrate or method for the sorption of sulfur compounds with a high capacity includes providing a substrate that defines at least one layer of ultra-short-channel-length mesh, coating at least a portion of the substrate with a desired sorbent for sulfur sorption, and passing a flowstream through the substrate and in contact with the sorbent during sorption. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290609 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964045 | Stec, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Stec, III (Long Valley, New Jersey); Gartung Cheng (Edison, New Jersey); Brian E. Fuchs (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Neha Mehta (Randolph, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | High explosive coatings and inks suitable for use in micro-electronic initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms used as safe and arm devices, are prepared from coating compositions of crystalline energetic materials and applied using various methods. These methods include wiping and spraying, as well as, pressure applications using a syringe or the like, and application of thick film ink to write specified patterns on a selected surface. A volatile mobile phase may be added to the coating composition to partially dissolve the energetic material so that, upon evaporation of the mobile phase, the energetic material precipitates and adheres to the selected surface. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466598 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964049 | Kapur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vivek Kapur (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Joseph Anthony Perrotto (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Harry Vaughn Samuelson (Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for making fiber-on-end materials are provided. The materials can be used to make a variety of finished articles. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828606 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964138 | Richardson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Richardson (Gainesville, Florida); Daniel Denevan (Gainesville, Florida); Dwight C. Ramdon (Kingston, Jamaica) |
| ABSTRACT | An on-demand portable chlorine dioxide generator has a reagent bound medium in a first enclosed volume; a complementary reagent solution in a second enclosed volume, and a structure for selecting between a first position where the complementary reagent solution is forced through the reagent bound medium and a second position where said complementary reagent solution remains isolated from the reagent bound ion exchange medium, where a ClO2 solution is generated only during periods when the structure for forcing is actuated. The ClO2 solution can be discharged for use as a portable sprayer that can be used to treat surfaces infected by anthrax or other biological contaminants. When the bound reagent is chlorite, the complementary reagent is an acid or an oxidant. When the bound reagent is an acid or an oxidant, the complementary reagent solution is a chlorite solution. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/095388 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964139 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Liu (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device comprises a matrix of rotary flow reactors. The microfluidic matrix device offers a solution to the “world-to-chip” interface problem by accomplishing two important goals simultaneously: an economy of scale in reagent consumption is achieved, while simultaneously minimizing pipetting steps. N2 independent assays can be performed with only 2N+1 pipetting steps, using a single aliquot of enzyme amortized over all reactors. The chip reduces labor relative to conventional fluid handling techniques by using an order of magnitude less pipetting steps, and reduces cost by consuming two to three orders of magnitude less reagents per reaction. A PCR format has immediate applications in medical diagnosis and gene testing. Beyond PCR, the microfluidic matrix chip provides a universal and flexible platform for biological and chemical assays requiring parsimonious use of precious reagents and highly automated processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508251 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964143 | Farrow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reginald Conway Farrow (Somerset, New Jersey); Amit Goyal (Harrison, New Jersey); Zafar Iqbal (Morristown, New Jersey); Sheng Liu (Harrison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanotube device and a method of depositing nanotubes for device fabrication are disclosed. The method relates to electrophoretic deposition of nanotubes, and allows a control of the number of deposited nanotubes and positioning within a defined region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765735 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964158 | Condon 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) | Nicholas J. Condon (Greenbelt, Maryland); Steven R. Bowman (Edgewater, Maryland); Shawn P. O'Connor (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for growing a single crystal KPb2Cl5 material using a device including a plug including an axis. The plug includes a first portion defining a cylindrical hole about the axis. The plug includes a second portion defining a first conical hole about the axis. The first conical hole has a first angle. The plug includes a third portion defining a second conical hole about the axis. The second conical hole has a second angle opposite in sign relative to the first angle. The plug includes a fourth portion defining a third conical hole about the axis. The third conical hole has a third angle, the third angle having a same sign as the second angle and being greater than the second angle. The device further includes an ampoule including the plug fused therein. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747564 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964391 | Bjorndal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan Bjorndal (Carlsbad, California); David Lapota (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for testing the toxicity of a test sample comprising: an aqueous suspension of dinoflagellates; a test chamber configured to contain the aqueous suspension of dinoflagellates and the test sample; an optical signal generator configured to emit an excitation signal for exciting the dinoflagellates to emit a fluorescence signal if the dinoflagellates are alive; a first optical transducer configured to produce a first data signal in response to detecting the fluorescence signal; a stimulator configured to introduce a gas into the aqueous suspension for stimulating the dinoflagellates to emit a bioluminescence signal if the dinoflagellates are alive; a second optical transducer configured to produce a second data signal in response to detecting the bioluminescence signal; and a processor configured to compare the first data signal and the second data signal to a control data to generate an output representing the toxicity of the test sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/641343 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — 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 435/288.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964439 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey); Yifang Cao (Princeton, New Jersey); Winston O. Soboyejo (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of depositing a layer of a conductive material, e.g. metal, metal oxide or electroconductive polymer, from a patterned stamp, preferably a soft, elastomeric stamp, to a substrate after an organic layer has been transferred from a patterned stamp to an organic layer over the substrate. The patterned metal or organic layer may be used for example, in a wide range of electronic devices. The present methods are particularly suitable for nanoscale patterning of organic electronic components. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/979448 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964476 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Solar Ovonic LLC (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shengzhong Liu (Rochester Hills, Michigan); Ginger Pietka (Harrison Township, Michigan); Kevin Beernink (Clarkston, Michigan); Arindam Banerjee (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Chi Yang (Troy, Michigan); Subhendu Guha (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for the laser scribing of semiconductor devices includes a laser light source operable to selectably deliver laser illumination at a first wavelength and at a second wavelength which is shorter than the first wavelength. The system further includes a support for a semiconductor device and an optical system which is operative to direct the laser illumination from the light source to the semiconductor device. The optical system includes optical elements which are compatible with the laser illumination of the first wavelength and the laser illumination of the second wavelength. In specific instances, the first wavelength is long wavelength illumination such as illumination of at least 1000 nanometers, and the second wavelength is short wavelength illumination which in specific instances is 300 nanometers or shorter. By the use of the differing wavelengths, specific layers of the semiconductor device may be scribed without damage to subjacent layers. Also disclosed are specific scribing processes. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/053712 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964650 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbonyl-functionalized oligo/polythiophene compounds, and related semiconductor components and related device structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432063 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964701 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Herbert Jacobson (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds that include peptides that inhibit estrogen receptor dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/410612 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964741 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianmin Shi (Rockville, Maryland); Eric W. Forsythe (Silver Spring, Maryland); David C. Morton (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds containing bibenzochalcogenophene structures are provided in which the chalcogenide is sulfur, selenium, or tellurium. The compounds are characterized by planarity, rigid conjugation structure and high charge mobility making them useful as organic semiconductor in optical devices, electronic devices and integrated devices like organic field effect transistors (OFET) for thin film transistor liquid crystal display (LCD), electrophoretic display such as electronic paper, organic light emitting diode (OLED) for flat panel displays, organic radio frequency identification (ORFID) tags, organic photovoltaic (OPV), sensor devices, and analog and digital electronics. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123648 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964897 | Fechner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Fechner (Plymouth, Minnesota); Bradley Larsen (Mound, Minnesota); Gregor Dougal (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Keith Golke (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A process flow for fabricating shallow trench isolation (STI) devices with direct body tie contacts is provided. The process flow follows steps similar to standard STI fabrication methods except that in one of the etching steps, body tie contacts are etched through the nitride layer and STI oxide layer, directly to the body tie. This process flow provides a direct body tie contact to mitigate floating body effects but also eliminates hysteresis and transient upset effects common in non-direct body tie contact configurations, without the critical alignment requirements and critical dimension control of the layout. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/177332 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964991 | Siri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kasemsan Siri (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A channelized uniform distribution power system controls individual channels of power converters with each channel of power converters having uniform output power as the channels are controlled by voltage control signals from respective controllers that are interconnected by a shared current signal and a shared voltage signal for controlling the channels to provide uniform power, with conventional current limiting and voltage regulation functions. Each channel may have a number of converters being parallel-input parallel-output connected converters, series input parallel-output connected converters, and parallel-input series output connected converters. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/378857 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965098 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Wood (Centreville, California); David Rea (Manassas, Virginia); Bin Li (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A current mode logic voter circuit includes three two-input split NOR gates. Each two-input split NOR gate receives a corresponding pair of input signals and generates a pair of first output signals responsive to the input signals. A three input split NOR gate is coupled to the two-input split NOR gates to receive the first output signals and generates a second pair of output signals responsive to the first output signals from the two-input split NOR gates. The two and three-input split NOR gates can be formed from current mode logic buffer circuits, and in one embodiment in the three-input split NOR gate the buffer circuits are hardened. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/595865 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965212 | Turner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Turner (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for improving the dynamic performance of digital-to-analog converters (DAC), by compensating for the unique delay characteristics of each bit in the DAC summing junction to equalize the delays. In one example case, a DAC device is provided that includes a plurality of current sources and a plurality of switches, each switch operatively coupled between a corresponding one of the current sources and a summing junction that is operatively coupled to an analog output. The device further includes a plurality of switch control lines configured to receive a digital input, each switch control line for controlling a corresponding one of the switches. The device further includes a plurality of compensation delay elements, each associated with a corresponding one of the switch control lines and providing a different delay value. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/704889 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/144 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965216 | Petre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Petre (Oak Park, California); Jose Cruz-Albrecht (Oak Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for analog-to-digital signal conversion featuring compressed sensing analog-to-digital converter systems. An analog signal is connected to a time encoder having a pulse frequency. The analog signal frequency is higher than the pulse frequency. The time encoder is configured to generate an excitation vector including a plurality of projection values of the analog signal into a plurality of testing basis functions, and a plurality of known basis functions. The output of the time encoder is connected to an input of a pulse domain demultiplexer, and the pulse domain demultiplexer is connected to the pulse-to-asynchronous digital converter in a predetermined sequence. The pulse-to-asynchronous digital converter is connected to the asynchronous-digital-to-synchronous digital converter in a predetermined sequence. The asynchronous-digital-to-synchronous digital converter is connected a digital signal processor configured to output an estimate of the analog signal. Methods to make the foregoing structure are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262691 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965221 | Nardozza 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) | Vincent J Nardozza (Rome, New York); Marvin R Clinch (Oneida, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for selectively disrupting voice modulated radio communications circuits wherein the original communication is recorded, delayed for a selected period then synchronized with a transmitted signal and reinjected into the transmitted signal thereby preventing the intended recipient of the signal from obtaining any intelligence therefrom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 1969 |
| APPL NO | 04/868979 |
| 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 342/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965228 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); David A. Thompson (El Segundo, California); Frank A. Pisano, III (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna method and system to implement a quasi-compact range technique/technology in which a reflector antenna is used to produce a test field within a test region at a quasi-compact range, which is within a near-field of the reflector antenna but further from the reflector antenna than a compact range of the reflector antenna. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935235 |
| 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 342/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965313 | Orias |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey Orias (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An airport security system includes a scanner scanning and time stamping an article of identification of an individual passing into a secure terminal area. The system further includes security cameras generating respective video signals of overlapping zones of coverage of the secure terminal area. The video signals are recorded and received in a controller generating a seamless video signal therefrom. Reversing of the seamless video signal allows visual tracking of a security breach in the secure terminal area from the time of breach identification scan and time stamp. Faster than real time forwarding of the seamless video signal allows tracking of the security breach from the time stamp to the breacher's present location within the secure terminal area. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/906757 |
| ART UNIT | 2483 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965541 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire); Ovonyx, Inc. (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Li (Chantilly, Virginia); John C. Rodgers (Fairfax, Virginia); Nadim F. Haddad (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-volatile single-event upset (SEU) tolerant latch is disclosed. The non-volatile SEU tolerant latch includes a first and second inverters connected to each other in a cross-coupled manner. The gates of transistors within the first inverter are connected to the drains of transistors within the second inverter via a first feedback resistor. Similarly, the gates of transistors within the second inverter are connected to the drains of transistors within the first inverter via a second feedback resistor. The non-volatile SEU tolerant latch also includes a pair of chalcogenide memory elements connected to the inverters for storing information. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/525458 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965644 | Chang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk K. Chang (Morganville, New Jersey); John M. Sucec (Piscataway, New Jersey); Harshad Tanna (Princeton, New Jersey); John Lee (Howell, New Jersey); Sunil Samtani (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those packets which do not experience any queuing delay in the network, are identified. Fast packets are identified to resolve end-to-end packet delay into its constituent components (deterministic, transmission and queuing delays), estimate path utilization and eliminate the uncertainty (false alarms) that causes the prior art method to lose its effectiveness. An estimation algorithm computes end-to-end transmission delay and end-to-end deterministic delay of fast packets traveling along a path in a network. Examples of deterministic delay include satellite propagation delays and clock effects. Then, based on the results of the fast packet identifying algorithm, two logic branches are followed. A first branch calculates utilization and a second branch calculates narrow link bandwidth. The narrow link bandwidth is determined from the packet pair dispersion. The available bandwidth is obtained from the narrow link bandwidth and the utilization. Estimation of available bandwidth for an end-to-end network path allows traffic sources to judiciously regulate the volume of application traffic injected into the network. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/781971 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965671 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Powerwave Cognition, Inc. (Santa Ana, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur E. Anderson (Placentia, California); Wendell Y. Kishaba (San Diego, California); Timothy J. Hughes (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), each node calculates a bandwidth output value representative of data output requirements for the node relative to the transmit time slots available to the node. This value is shared with other nodes in the MANET and may be employed to more efficiently allocate channel usage among nodes as traffic demands and network topology change. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/242462 |
| ART UNIT | 2473 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965779 | She et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundating, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christy L. She (Allen, Texas); John G. Harris (Gainesville, Florida); Jose C. Principe (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-scale spike detector for performing multi-resolution spike detections of a signal is provided. The spike detector includes a gamma filter having cascaded low-pass filters. The cascaded filters collectively provide different cutoff frequencies, each of the filters having a respective output. One of the filters has an input, at which the signal is received. The spike detector further includes combining circuitry that combines at least some of the respective outputs of the cascaded filters. The differences formed from this combining provide a waveform representation of the input signal. The waveform representation consists essentially of spikes that occur in the signal. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/909060 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965886 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Feng Han (Trenton, New Jersey); Ying Shan (Sammamish, Washington); Harpreet Singh Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a computer implemented process for detecting multi-view multi-pose objects. The process comprises training of a classifier for each intra-class exemplar, training of a strong classifier and combining the individual exemplar-based classifiers with a single objective function. This function is optimized using the two nested AdaBoost loops. The first loop is the outer loop that selects discriminative candidate exemplars. The second loop, the inner loop selects the discriminative candidate features on the selected exemplars to compute all weak classifiers for a specific position such as a view/pose. Then all the computed weak classifiers are automatically combined into a final classifier (strong classifier) which is the object to be detected. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762400 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966132 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S. Lewis (Pasadena, California); Erik Severin (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are compositions and systems useful in remote monitoring of chemical hazards, air quality, and medical conditions, for example, robotic systems to search for and detect explosives, mines, and hazardous chemicals. In addition, the methods, systems and compositions of the invention provide the ability to mine data from a database containing a plurality of chemical fingerprints. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082972 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966454 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshimarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system enables global shared memory (GSM) operations across multiple nodes with a distributed EA-to-RA mapping of physical memory. Each node has a host fabric interface (HFI), which includes HFI windows that are assigned to at most one locally-executing task of a parallel job. The tasks perform parallel job execution, but map only a portion of the effective addresses (EAs) of the global address space to the local, real memory of the task's respective node. The HFI window tags all outgoing GSM operations (of the local task) with the job ID, and embeds the target node and HFI window IDs of the node at which the EA is memory mapped. The HFI window also enables processing of received GSM operations with valid EAs that are homed to the local real memory of the receiving node, while preventing processing of other received operations without a valid EA-to-RA local mapping. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024437 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966478 | Altman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik R. Altman (Danbury, Connecticut); Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing entries searched in a load reorder queue (LRQ) when snoop instructions are executed by a processor, including checking load reorder queue (LRQ) entries located between a load_peril_snoop register and a lrq_tail register for addresses matching the address of the snoop; and setting a snooped bit in the LRQ entry for any matches found. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172497 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42472 | Dybdal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Dybdal (Palos Verdes Estates, California); Denny D. Pidhayny (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for main beam alignment verification includes providing data pertaining to one or more patterns associated with an antenna, measuring power levels of a signal acquired by the antenna, and comparing the measured power levels with the data to determine whether a direction of the signal is incident upon a main beam of the antenna. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/896133 |
| 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 342/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Akubio Limited (, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Peterson Godfrey (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Mark John Frogley (Huntington, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A cartridge for apparatus for analysing a sample comprising a fluid as a flow cell for receiving the sample. The cell is formed from a substantially rigid support surface (102), a sensor comprising an electrical mechanical transducer (92), for example a wafer of quartz crystal and adhesive means, such as double sided adhesive tape (100) attaching the sensor to the support surface. The support surface and sensor are spaced from each other by a membrane, which may form part of the double sides adhesive tape so as to define the flow cell between the support surface and the sensor. The flow cell also has an opening (for example, 111) through which, in use, the sample passes. The sensor, forming part of the flow cell, comes into contact with the sample to enable the sample to be analysed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/817851 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/64.560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963920 | Vilkomerson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DVX, LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vilkomerson (Princeton, New Jersey); Thomas A. Chilipka (E. Windsor, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for monitoring blood flow confined by at least one vessel wall, the system including: at least one implantable diffraction-grating transducer being embedded within or adjacent to a vessel wall, the diffraction-grating transducer being suitable for emitting ultrasound into or receiving Doppler shifted ultrasound from the blood flow; and, a source for pulse-exciting the implantable diffraction grating; wherein, the Doppler shift is indicative of the blood flow. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953276 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/462 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964184 | Cox, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bolder Biotechnology, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The growth hormone supergene family comprises greater than 20 structurally related cytokines and growth factors. A general method is provided for creating site-specific, biologically active conjugates of these proteins. The method involves adding cysteine residues to non-essential regions of the proteins or substituting cysteine residues for non-essential amino acids in the proteins using site-directed mutagenesis and then covalently coupling a cysteine-reactive polymer or other type of cysteine-reactive moiety to the proteins via the added cysteine residue. Disclosed herein are preferred sites for adding cysteine residues or introducing cysteine substitutions into the proteins, and the proteins and protein derivatives produced thereby. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/929478 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964200 | Mrsny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall J. Mrsny (Los Altos Hills, California); Deborah Dean (San Anselmo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in part, to methods and compositions for immunizing against infection by Chlamydia trachomatis. The methods and compositions rely, in part, on administering an immunogenic composition comprising one or more peptides derived from C. trachomatis major outer membrane protein (MOMP) to a subject to be immunized. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise a chimeric immunogen comprising a receptor binding domain, a translocation domain, and a Chlamydia trachomatis antigen. Polynucleotides encoding the chimeric immunogens, expression vectors comprising the polynucleotides, and kits comprising the compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/914734 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew P. Feinberg (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides CpG islands and GC rich regions and methods for identifying methylation states for these CpG islands and GC rich regions. The present invention also provides methods for identifying genes regulated by these CpG islands and GC rich regions, and provides methods for identifying a population of CpG islands and GC rich regions in a genome. |
| FILED | Monday, December 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/308862 |
| 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 07964343 | Hofstadler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Hofstadler (Oceanside, California); Lendell L. Cummins (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for rapid solution capture purification of nucleic acids for subsequent analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry which is efficient and cost-effective relative to existing methods. The present invention also provides kits useful for practicing rapid solution capture of nucleic acids so that purified samples are in condition for analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/844938 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07964345 | Palanisamy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cancer Genetics, Inc. (Rutherford, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nallasivam Palanisamy (North Andover, Massachusetts); Raju S. Chaganti (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Probes and methods of using the probes to detect chromosomal rearrangements and/or deletions are provided. The methods utilize probes that are free of repeat sequences to provide greater selectivity and sensitivity; methods for producing such probes are also disclosed. The probe sets utilized in the detection methods are designed to hybridize to chromosomes at regions outside known breakpoints, instead of spanning the breakpoint as with conventional FISH methods, and, in some instances, are further designed to bind to regions located outside the genes involved in the rearrangement. Methods utilizing probe sets with two and four colors are also described, as are automated methods for analyzing rearrangements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/100135 |
| 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 07964346 | Rubin |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Donald H. Rubin (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences and cellular proteins encoded by these sequences that are involved in infection or are otherwise associated with the life cycle of a pathogen. The invention also relates to modulators of nucleic acid sequences and cellular proteins encoded by these sequences that are involved in infection or are otherwise associated with the life cycle of a pathogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/666453 |
| 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 435/6 |
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| US 07964349 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Winifred Bell (Arlington, Massachusetts); Daniel A. Haber (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Pasi Antero Janne (Newton, Massachusetts); Bruce E. Johnston (Brookline, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Lynch (Newton, Massachusetts); Matthew Meyerson (Concord, Massachusetts); Juan Guillermo Paez (Boston, Massachusetts); William R. Sellers (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Jeffrey E. Settleman (Newton, Massachusetts); Raffaella Sordella (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for determining the responsiveness of cancer to an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) treatment. In a preferred embodiment, the presence of at least one variance in the kinase domain of the erbB1 gene confers sensitivity to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor gefitinib. Thus, a diagnostic assay for these mutations will allow for the administration of gefitinib, erlotinib and other tyrosine kinase inhibitors to those patients most likely to respond to the drug. |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894159 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964350 | Fekete et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Fekete (Austin, Texas); Annalee Nguyen (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample preparation processes for in situ RNA or DNA analysis, methods and compositions therefor are provided. Processes provided herein allow DNA or RNA analysis to be carried out in the same tube or on an aliquot of the prepared sample without centrifugation or extraction. The preparation process can be carried out at room temperature in as little as seven minutes and is amenable to high throughput processing using manual or robotic platforms. |
| FILED | Friday, May 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122274 |
| 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 07964352 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LaserGen, Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weidong Wu (Houston, Texas); Vladislav A. Litosh (Cypress, Texas); Brian P. Stupi (Houston, Texas); Michael L. Metzker (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are novel nucleotides, nucleoside, and their derivatives described herein, that can be used in DNA sequencing technology and other types of DNA analysis. In one embodiment, the nucleotide or nucleoside with an unprotected 3′-OH group is derivatized at the nucleobase to include a fluorescent dye attached via a linker to a photocleavable terminating group. The photocleavable-fluorescent group is designed to terminate DNA synthesis as well as be cleaved so that DNA oligomers can be sequenced efficiently in a parallel format. The design of such rapidly cleavable fluorescent groups on nucleotides and nucleosides can enhance the speed and accuracy of sequencing of large oligomers of DNA in parallel, to allow rapid whole genome sequencing, and the identification of polymorphisms and other valuable genetic information, as well as allowing further manipulation and analysis of nucleic acid molecules in their native state following cleavage of the fluorescent group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268876 |
| 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 07964353 | Markowitz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanford D. Markowitz (Pepper Pike, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This application describes methods and compositions for detecting and treating vimentin-associated neoplasia. Differential methylation of the vimentin nucleotide sequences has been observed in vimentin-associated neoplasia such as colon neoplasia. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322202 |
| 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 07964355 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Investigen, Inc. (Hercules, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maiomiao Wang (Castro Valley, California); Rachel Anne Holmes-Davis (La Cañada Flintridge, California); Rick Blidner (Emeryville, California); Zbigniew Rafinski (Golub-Dobrzyn, Poland); Beata Anna Jedrzejewska (Bydgoszcz, Poland); Jerzy Paczkowski (Bydgoszcz, Poland); Brian David Warner (Martinez, California); Heather Koshinsky (El Cerrito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the methods for assaying an analyte comprising a nucleic acid analog binding substrate in a sample, comprising reacting a catalytic complex comprising a nucleic acid analog, a nucleic acid analog specific binding substrate and a light reactive dye with a light stimulus, and detecting the presence or absence or amount of a reaction product of the catalytic complex and light stimulus. The present invention also relates to a method of assaying a nucleic acid analyte in a sample using an analyte-specific reporter complex. The present invention also relates to a method of assaying an analyte in a sample using a reporter molecule. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/372439 |
| 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 07964359 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Acumen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, California); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Qin Zhao (North Wales, Pennsylvania); Grant A. Krafft (Glenview, Illinois); William L. Klein (Winnetka, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for enhancing the cellular uptake and clearance of soluble oligomeric Aβ peptide assemblies from the environment surrounding both neuronal and non-neuronal cells. Oligomeric Aβ peptide assembly uptake and clearance is achieved via an agent that enhances insulin receptor signaling. Such ADDL uptake enhancers represent effective anti-ADDL therapeutics for use in the therapeutic treatment and/or prophylactic treatment of diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, and the like, in which compromised nerve cell function is linked to the formation and/or the activity of soluble oligomeric Aβ peptide assemblies, also known as ADDLs, and ADDL-related assemblies. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/747324 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964365 | Bottaro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of Americam as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesa, Maryland); Amgen, Inc. (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald P. Bottaro (Kensington, Maryland); Gagani Athauda (Miramar, Florida); Teresa Lynn Burgess (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for measuring c-Met levels in urine and blood samples are provided. Methods for diagnosis and prognosis evaluation for cancer are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/093012 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964369 | Fathman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | C. Garrison Fathman (Stanford, California); Luis Soares (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An active ubiquitin E3 ligase, GRAIL, is crucial in the induction of anergy in cells of the immune system, and in the regulation of cellular proliferation. GRAIL is shown to associate with, and be regulated by Otubain isoforms, including OTUBAIN-1 (DOG, the Destabilizer of GRAIL) and an alternative reading frame splice variant of OTUBAIN-1 (SOG, the Stabilizer of GRAIL). These proteins play opposing roles in the regulation of GRAIL auto-ubiquitination and consequently on its ability to induce anergy and regulate cellular proliferation. DOG serves as an adaptor protein, recruiting the DUB USP8. One major substrate for USP8 is the Ras exchange factor Ras-GRF1, and this protein can be found in a complex with USP8 and GRAIL, which complex is ubiquitinated by GRAIL. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/579049 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964402 | Terskikh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey Terskikh (San Diego, California); Ruchi Bajpai (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | We used Accutase™, a commercially available cell detachment solution, for single cell propagation of pluripotent hESCs. Unlike trypsin dissociation, Accutase treatment does not significantly affect the plating efficiency of hESC dissociation into single cells. Cultures dissociated with Accutase to single cells at each passage maintain a higher proportion of pluripotent cells as compared to collagenase-passaged hESCs. Accutase-treated hESCs can be grown to a high density as monolayers, and yet retain their pluripotency. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/807223 |
| 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 435/380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964536 | Tainsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Tainsky (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Sorin Draghici (Troy, Michigan); Madhumita Chatterjee (Lake Orion, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A biosensor for use in detecting the presence of diseases, the biosensor comprising a detector for detecting a presence of at least one marker indicative of a specific disease. A method of determining efficacy of a pharmaceutical for treating a disease or staging disease by administering a pharmaceutical to a sample containing markers for a disease, detecting the amount of at least one marker of the disease in the sample, and analyzing the amount of the marker in the sample, whereby the amount of marker correlates to pharmaceutical efficacy or disease stage. Markers for gynecological disease selected from the list in Table 8. An immuno-imaging agent comprising labeled antibodies, whereby the labeled antibodies are isolated and reactive to proteins overexpressed in vivo. Informatics software for analyzing the arrays of claim 1, the software including analyzing means for analyzing the arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060867 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964559 | Bewley |
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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) | Carole A. Bewley (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, e.g., to an isolated polypeptide from a cyanobacterium, Microcystis viridis, which binds specifically to an oligosaccharide comprising the tetrasaccharide Man-alpha-(1→6)Man-beta (1→4) GlcNAc-beta(1→4)GlcNAc. The polypeptide can be obtained, for example, from a cell that expresses a recombinant nucleic acid that encodes a MVL-like polypeptide. The invention also relates to an isolated polypeptide comprising one or more copies of the sequence GPLWSNXEAQXXGPX (SEQ ID NO: 1) and/or one or more copies of the sequence FTGQWXTXVEXXMSV (SEQ ID NO: 2), wherein the polypeptide binds specifically to the above-mentioned oligosaccharide. Conjugates comprising such polypeptides and an effector molecule are also disclosed, as are methods of using such polypeptides or conjugates, e.g., for inhibiting infection by a virus, such as HIV, or for removing a virus, such as HIV, from a sample, such as a bodily fluid or an inanimate object. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/592422 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964564 | Burnett, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Burnett, Jr. (Rochester, Minnesota); Ondrej Lisy (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides of Dendroaspis, including chimeric peptides thereof, are provided, as well as methods of using the peptides as natriuretics, diuretics, and/or vasodilators. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120842 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964570 | Swanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurice S. Swanson (Gainesville, Florida); Rahul N. Kanadia (Gainesville, Florida); Charles A. Thornton (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment of diseases associated with aberrant microsatellite expansions. Methods of the present invention comprise the use of recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors containing a transgene encoding at least one muscleblind protein. The present invention also provides an animal model for a disease associated with aberrant microsatellite expansion. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/591883 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964573 | Remillard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carmelle Remillard (San Diego, California); Lewis J. Rubin (La Jolla, California); Ying Yu (Lake Forest, California); Jason X.-J. Yuan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions related to a polynucleotide encoding a transient receptor potential channel gene. Also disclosed is the use of this polynucleotide, its homologs, fragments, variants and its resultant polypeptides in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease, particularly idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH). This invention also teaches the use of these polynucleotides and polypeptides as assays for drug discovery and therapies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814038 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964576 | Valenzuela et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jesus G. Valenzuela (Rockville, Maryland); Yasmine Belkaid (Norwood, Ohio); Shaden Kamhawi (Rockville, Maryland); David Sacks (Silver Spring, Maryland); Jose M. C. Ribeiro (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selecting and uses of anti-arthropod vector vaccines to prevent Leishmaniasis. The present invention also provides compositions for vaccines to prevent Leishmaniasis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082369 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964577 | Donald |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Carlton D. Donald (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method of treating cancer in a subject by inhibiting expression of PAX2. An example of a cancer treated by the present method is prostate cancer. In the cancer treatment methods disclosed, the method of inhibiting expression of PAX2 can be by administration of a nucleic acid encoding an siRNA for PAX2. A method of treating cancer in a subject by administering DEFB1 is also provided. Similarly, provided is a method of treating cancer in a subject by increasing expression of DEFB1 in the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/090191 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964585 | Berti-Mattera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liliana Berti-Mattera (University Heights, Ohio); Timothy S. Kern (Solon, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating diabetic neuropathy in a subject includes administering to a subject having diabetes or at risk of diabetes a therapeutically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one of sulfasalazine or a composition including 5-aminosalicyclic acid and sulfapyridine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685377 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964598 | Mahley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Mahley (San Francisco, California); Karl H. Weisgraber (Walnut Creek, California); Yadong Huang (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that inhibit apoE4 domain interaction; and compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising the compounds. The present invention provides methods of treating apoE4-related disorders. The methods generally involve administering to an individual in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of an apoE4 domain interaction inhibitor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244268 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/238.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964614 | Ridker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Ridker (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Charles H. Hennekens (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves methods for characterizing an individual's risk profile of developing a future cardiovascular disorder by obtaining a level of the marker of systemic inflammation in the individual. The invention also involves methods for evaluating the likelihood that an individual will benefit from treatment with an agent for reducing the risk of future cardiovascular disorder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158889 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964649 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydrindane analogs that have agonist activity at one or more of the S1P receptors are provided. The compounds are sphingosine analogs, which, after phosphorylation, can behave as agonists at S1P receptors. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470011 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/653 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964701 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Herbert Jacobson (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds that include peptides that inhibit estrogen receptor dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/410612 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964702 | Lokey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Scott Lokey (Santa Cruz, California); Laura A. Schuresko (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a cyclomonomer having actin-binding activity. The cyclomonomer is of utility for the study of the molecular biology of actin polymerization. The cyclomonomer is also useful for the study of and treatment of the toxic effects of Amanita sp. poisoning. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800100 |
| 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 530/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964705 | Emlen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Taligen Therapeutics, Inc. (Aurora, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Woodruff Emlen (Greenwood Village, Colorado); V. Michael Holers (Denver, Colorado); Peter Flynn (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to humaneered anti-factor B antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof with reduced immunogenicity. The humaneered anti-factor B antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are derived from murine monoclonal antibody 1379, which binds factor B in the third short consensus repeat (“SCR”) domain and selectively inhibits activation of the alternative complement pathway by preventing formation of the C3bBb complex. The invention also relates to methods of treating diseases or disorders in which activation of the alternative complement pathway plays a role, and methods of selectively inhibiting activation of the alternative complement pathway in an individual in need thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049233 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964715 | Pham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Marshfield Clinic (Marshfield, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daphne Quynh-Dao Pham (Racine, Wisconsin); Joy J. Winzerling (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The promoter region and various fragments thereof for the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) ribonucleotide reductase small subunit (R2) are disclosed. Nucleic acids and host cells that contain the promoter sequences are also disclosed. Further disclosed are various methods involving the use of these sequences. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/634488 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
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| US 07964720 | Kiper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dilek Dogutan Kiper (Raleigh, North Carolina); Marcin Ptaszek (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a compound of Formula I: is carried out by condensing a pair of compounds of Formula II (which pair may be the same or different), or by condensing a compound of Formula III with a compound Formula IV, to produce a compound of Formula I. The condensing step may be carried out with a metal salt under basic conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, December 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/960057 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964729 | Imperiali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elvedin Lukovic (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dora Carrico-Moniz (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptidyl sensors comprise a metal-binding peptide and one or two kinase recognition sequences with a hydroxyamino acid that can be phosphorylated in the presence of a kinase. |
| FILED | Monday, August 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/511050 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/152 |
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| US 07965880 | Yoshida et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroyuki Yoshida (Watertown, Massachusetts); Janne Nappi (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael E. Zalis (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Wenli Cai (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A lumen tracking method and system automatically extracts a colon from CT image data by locating landmarks in the image data, based on known anatomic features or other predictable features. If the colon is segmented, the method and system may use the landmarks to evaluate candidate segments for inclusion in the extracted colon. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832306 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 07966053 | Balchandani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Priti Balchandani (Stanford, California); Daniel Spielman (Menlo Park, California); John Pauly (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for performing spectroscopy using an interleaved readout for at least two species. A B0 field is applied. A first spatial-spectral (SPSP) position resolved spectroscopy sequence (PRESS) excitation with a sufficiently narrow band to excite a first species without exciting a second species is applied. A first readout that measures the first species is performed. A second SPSP PRESS excitation with a sufficiently narrow band to excite the second species without exciting the first species is applied. A second readout that measures the second species is performed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/944739 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07963116 | Autrey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | S. Thomas Autrey (West Richland, Washington); Abhijeet J. Karkamkar (Richland, Washington); Anna Gutowska (Richland, Washington); Liyu Li (Richland, Washington); Xiaohong S. Li (Richland, Washington); Yongsoon Shin (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions are disclosed for storing and releasing hydrogen and methods for preparing and using same. These hydrogen storage and releasing materials exhibit fast release rates at low release temperatures without unwanted side reactions, thus preserving desired levels of purity and enabling applications in combustion and fuel cell applications. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435268 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/721 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963165 | Sinha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for non-contact ultrasonic detection of features on or within the walls of hollow pipes are described. An air-coupled, high-power ultrasonic transducer for generating guided waves in the pipe wall, and a high-sensitivity, air-coupled transducer for detecting these waves, are disposed at a distance apart and at chosen angle with respect to the surface of the pipe, either inside of or outside of the pipe. Measurements may be made in reflection or transmission modes depending on the relative position of the transducers and the pipe. Data are taken by sweeping the frequency of the incident ultrasonic waves, using a tracking narrow-band filter to reduce detected noise, and transforming the frequency domain data into the time domain using fast Fourier transformation, if required. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861229 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/623 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963333 | 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, New Mexico); 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 | 12/641257 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963398 | Robl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Robl (Sadieville, Kentucky); John Groppo (Wilmore, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for selective separation of particles from a particle-containing material includes preparing a slurry of the particle-containing material and a dispersant, passing the slurry through a hydraulic classifier in a first direction, establishing a particle flow in a direction that is different from the first direction, and recovering particles having a mean particle size of about 2-7 μm. The flow of particles defines a cross-current flow relative to the slurry feed direction. The method further includes providing the classifier with an interior divider assembly defining at least one inclined channel. The divider assembly typically includes a plurality of substantially parallel dividers separating the classifier into multiple channels having a substantially equal internal volume. A hydraulic classifier for separating particles having a mean particle size of from about 2-7 μm in accordance with the present method is provided also. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/451672 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964022 | Harvey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Harvey (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and sensor device are disclosed that employ metal β-diketonate polymers to selectively capture gas-phase explosives and weaponized chemical agents in a sampling area or volume. The metal β-diketonate polymers can be applied to surfaces in various analytical formats for detection of: improvised explosive devices, unexploded ordinance, munitions hidden in cargo holds, explosives, and chemical weapons in public areas. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367413 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964028 | Harvey |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott D. Harvey (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and sensor device are disclosed that employ metal β-diketonate polymers to selectively capture gas-phase explosives and weaponized chemical agents in a sampling area or volume. The metal β-diketonate polymers can be applied to surfaces in various analytical formats for detection of: improvised explosive devices, unexploded ordinance, munitions hidden in cargo holds, explosives, and chemical weapons in public areas. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/566949 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964324 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Su-Chee Simon Wang (Troy, Michigan); Kailash Chandra Jain (Troy, Michigan); Joseph M. Keller (Grand Blanc, Michigan); Rick D. Kerr (Fenton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for improving performance of an SOFC by impregnation of the cathode with metallic silver. A solution of AgNO3 in acetonitrile is imbibed into a perovskite cathode fabricated on a electrolyte layer supported by an anode, defining an SOFC cell. The cathode imbibition may be repeated a plurality of times as may be needed depending upon the thickness of the cathode. The amount of solution soaked into the cathode results a total final weight percent of Ag in the cathode between about 0.5% and about 10%. The cathode is then fired in air at high temperature to drive off the acetonitrile and to reduce the silver ions to metallic silver. In this way, cathode electrical resistance may be reduced by as much as 52%. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/475626 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/535 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964843 | Vertes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323276 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964848 | Hamby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Hamby (Corvallis, Oregon); Abdollah T. Farsoni (Corvallis, Oregon); Edward Cazalas (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique and device provides absolute skin dosimetry in real time at multiple tissue depths simultaneously. The device uses a phoswich detector which has multiple scintillators embedded at different depths within a non-scintillating material. A digital pulse processor connected to the phoswich detector measures a differential distribution (dN/dH) of count rate N as function of pulse height H for signals from each of the multiple scintillators. A digital processor computes in real time from the differential count-rate distribution for each of multiple scintillators an estimate of an ionizing radiation dose delivered to each of multiple depths of skin tissue corresponding to the multiple scintillators embedded at multiple corresponding depths within the non-scintillating material. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916362 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965094 | Spielberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Spielberger (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Bruce Walker Ohme (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Ronald J. Jensen (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A heater for heating packaged die for burn-in and heat testing is described. The heater may be a ceramic-type heater with a metal filament. The heater may be incorporated into the integrated circuit package as an additional ceramic layer of the package, or may be an external heater placed in contact with the package to heat the die. Many different types of integrated circuit packages may be accommodated. The method provides increased energy efficiency for heating the die while reducing temperature stresses on testing equipment. The method allows the use of multiple heaters to heat die to different temperatures. Faulty die may be heated to weaken die attach material to facilitate removal of the die. The heater filament or a separate temperature thermistor located in the package may be used to accurately measure die temperature. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172317 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/762.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965820 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Marie Miller (Rocky Point, New York); Randy J. Smith (Wading River, New York); John B. Warren (Port Jefferson, New York); Donald Elliott (Hampton Bays, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a fiducial marker having a marking grid that is used to correlate and view images produced by different imaging modalities or different imaging and viewing modalities. More specifically, the invention relates to the fiducial marking grid that has a grid pattern for producing either a viewing image and/or a first analytical image that can be overlaid with at least one other second analytical image in order to view a light path or to image different imaging modalities. Depending on the analysis, the grid pattern has a single layer of a certain thickness or at least two layers of certain thicknesses. In either case, the grid pattern is imageable by each imaging or viewing modality used in the analysis. Further, when viewing a light path, the light path of the analytical modality cannot be visualized by viewing modality (e.g., a light microscope objective). By correlating these images, the ability to analyze a thin sample that is, for example, biological in nature but yet contains trace metal ions is enhanced. Specifically, it is desired to analyze both the organic matter of the biological sample and the trace metal ions contained within the biological sample without adding or using extrinsic labels or stains. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191525 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965868 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy S. Roberts (Livermore, California); Eric F. Breitfeller (Dublin, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of processing infrared imagery to determine projectile trajectories and the locations of shooters with a high degree of accuracy. The method includes image processing infrared image data to reduce noise and identify streak-shaped image features, using a Kalman filter to estimate optimal projectile trajectories, updating the Kalman filter with new image data, determining projectile source locations by solving a combinatorial least-squares solution for all optimal projectile trajectories, and displaying all of the projectile source locations. Such a shooter-localization system is of great interest for military and law enforcement applications to determine sniper locations, especially in urban combat scenarios. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880180 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966618 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for controlling data transfers from an origin compute node to a target compute node that include: receiving, by an application messaging module on the target compute node, an indication of a data transfer from an origin compute node to the target compute node; and administering, by the application messaging module on the target compute node, the data transfer using one or more messaging primitives of a system messaging module in dependence upon the indication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754765 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
07963110 — Systems and methods for improving drivetrain efficiency for compressed gas energy storage
| US 07963110 | Bollinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin R. Bollinger (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Troy O. McBride (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Michael Schaefer (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, systems for providing a constant electrical output from a compressed gas energy storage and recovery system include a hydraulic-pneumatic energy storage and recovery system configured to provide a varying pressure profile at least at one outlet, a hydraulic motor-pump in fluid communication with the outlet, and a control system for enabling the constant electrical output by controlling at least one of pressure, piston position, power, flow rate, torque, RPM, current, voltage, frequency, or displacement per revolution. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723084 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964139 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Liu (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device comprises a matrix of rotary flow reactors. The microfluidic matrix device offers a solution to the “world-to-chip” interface problem by accomplishing two important goals simultaneously: an economy of scale in reagent consumption is achieved, while simultaneously minimizing pipetting steps. N2 independent assays can be performed with only 2N+1 pipetting steps, using a single aliquot of enzyme amortized over all reactors. The chip reduces labor relative to conventional fluid handling techniques by using an order of magnitude less pipetting steps, and reduces cost by consuming two to three orders of magnitude less reagents per reaction. A PCR format has immediate applications in medical diagnosis and gene testing. Beyond PCR, the microfluidic matrix chip provides a universal and flexible platform for biological and chemical assays requiring parsimonious use of precious reagents and highly automated processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508251 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964159 | Bau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haim H. Bau (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Byong Man Kim (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Michael A. Riegelman (Bethesda, Maryland); Yury Gogotsi (Ivyland, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel devices for the study of transport characteristics of complex or simple fluids, interactions among molecules in suspension, interactions between molecules in suspension and wall-bound molecules, and biochemical sensing devices made of reservoirs for fluid containment linked by a nanotubes. Also disclosed are methods of delivering medicaments and monitoring fluidic interactions of molecules or analytes. |
| FILED | Friday, July 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177111 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/425 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964290 | Mullner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boise State University (Boise, Idaho); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Mullner (Boise, Idaho); Markus Chmielus (Boise, Idaho); David C. Dunand (Evanston, Illinois); Yuttanant Boonyongmaneerat (Bangkok, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic materials construct and a method to produce the construct are disclosed. The construct exhibits large magnetic-field-induced deformation through the magnetic-field-induced motion of crystallographic interfaces. The construct is a porous, polycrystalline composite structure of nodes connected by struts wherein the struts may be monocrystalline or polycrystalline. If the struts are polycrystalline, they have a “bamboo” microstructure wherein the grain boundaries traverse the entire width of the strut. The material from which the construct is made is preferably a magnetic shape memory alloy, including polycrystalline Ni—Mn—Ga. The construct is preferably an open-pore foam. The foam is preferably produced with a space-holder technique. Space holders may be dissolvable ceramics and salts including NaAlO2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/203112 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/613 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964439 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changsoon Kim (Princeton, New Jersey); Yifang Cao (Princeton, New Jersey); Winston O. Soboyejo (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Forrest (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of depositing a layer of a conductive material, e.g. metal, metal oxide or electroconductive polymer, from a patterned stamp, preferably a soft, elastomeric stamp, to a substrate after an organic layer has been transferred from a patterned stamp to an organic layer over the substrate. The patterned metal or organic layer may be used for example, in a wide range of electronic devices. The present methods are particularly suitable for nanoscale patterning of organic electronic components. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/979448 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964650 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbonyl-functionalized oligo/polythiophene compounds, and related semiconductor components and related device structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432063 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964701 | Andersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas T. Andersen (Albany, New York); James A. Bennett (Delmar, New York); Herbert Jacobson (Albany, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compounds that include peptides that inhibit estrogen receptor dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/410612 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964722 | Bell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Bell (Reno, Nevada); Joseph I. Cline (Reno, Nevada); Christine R. Cremo (Reno, Nevada); Stephen L. Gillett (Reno, Nevada); John H. Frederick (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of Formula (1) are disclosed. Cb is a carbocyclic or heterocyclic group having an atom within the cyclic structure selected from C, N, Si, and Cr and singly bound to A. A is CR, COR, CSR, CNR2, CCN, CCONR2, CNO2, CNNAr, CX1, or N. Cr is a chromophore having a substantially planar cyclic structure. The compounds function as nanometer-scale rotary molecular motors powered and controlled by light energy. The design of the molecular motor devices is flexible so that the rotary direction, drive light wavelength, and other physical characteristics can be varied. The compounds can be chemically functionalized to allow it to be integrated into or attached to a variety of structures. The device can be used in applications where mechanical power, positional control, and information encoding are to be generated at the size scale of individual molecules. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/874356 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964843 | Vertes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Peter Nemes (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI). |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323276 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07965733 | Chan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. Chan (Ithaca, New York); Toby Berger (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems to perform collision detection (CD) in a communication network are disclosed. Methods and systems over multipacket reception (MPR)-capable physical layers are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for transmitting information in a network includes the steps of initiating transmission over a communication channel, monitoring a feedback channel, modifying transmission parameters for the transmission over the communication channel (where modifying includes stopping transmission and adjusting transmission parameters), if a feedback transmission is detected while monitoring the feedback channel, a duration of the feedback transmission being smaller than duration of the transmission over the communication channel, and determining whether transmission was successful, if transmission continues after modifying transmission parameters. Other embodiments of methods for transmitting and receiving information, as well as systems that implement the methods, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375853 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966452 | Yang |
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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) |
| ABSTRACT | A cache memory processing system is disclosed that is coupled to a main memory and a processing unit. The cache memory processing system includes an input, a low order bit data path, a high order bit data path and an output. The input is for receiving input data that includes at least one low order input bit and at least one high order input bit. The low order bit data path is for processing the at least one low order input bit and providing at least one low order output bit. The high order bit data path for processing the at least one high order input bit and providing at least one high order output bit. The high order bit data path includes at least one exclusive or gate. The output is for providing the at least one low order output bit and the at least one high order output bit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017479 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966538 | Bertacco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valeria Bertacco (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Todd Michael Austin (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Smitha Shyam (San Jose, California); Kypros Constantinides (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Sujay Phadke (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting microprocessor hardware faults includes sending at least one input signal to a logic block within the microprocessor, collecting an output response to the input signal from the logic block, and determining whether the output response matches an expected output response of the logic block. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252861 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/736 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966658 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sumeet Singh (San Diego, California); George Varghese (San Diego, California); Cristi Estan (La Jolla, California); Stefan Savage (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Detecting attacks against computer systems by automatically detecting signatures based on predetermined characteristics of the intrusion. One aspect looks for commonalities among a number of different network messages, and establishes an intrusion signature based on those commonalities. Data reduction techniques, such as a hash function, are used to minimize the amount of resources which are necessary to establish the commonalities. In an embodiment, signatures are created based on the data reduction hash technique. Frequent signatures are found by reducing the signatures using that hash technique. Each of the frequent signatures is analyzed for content, and content which is spreading is flagged as being a possible attack. Additional checks can also be carried out to look for code within the signal, to look for spam, backdoors, or program code. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/822226 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07963314 | Forbes Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ATI Properties, Inc. (Albany, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin M. Forbes Jones (Charlotte, North Carolina); Sterry A. Shaffer (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A nucleated casting apparatus including an atomizing nozzle configured to produce a droplet spray of a metallic material, a mold configured to receive the droplet spray and form a preform therein, and a gas injector which can limit, and possibly prevent, overspray from accumulating on the mold. The gas injector can be configured to produce a gas flow which can impinge on the droplet spray to redirect at least a portion of the droplet spray away from a side wall of the mold. In various embodiments, the droplet spray may be directed by the atomizing nozzle in a generally downward direction and the gas flow may be directed in a generally upward direction such that the gas flow circumscribes the perimeter of the mold. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861033 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07963628 | Ready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Ready (Los Altos, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features. By printing each design layer in a printing direction aligned with the parallel layout features, the individual print solution droplets deposited onto the substrate do not dry before adjacent droplets are deposited. Therefore, printed patterns having accurate geometries and consistent electrical properties can be printed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428326 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964440 | Salleo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto Salleo (San Francisco, California); Ana Claudia Arias (San Carlos, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite films formed from blends of semiconducting and insulating materials that phase separate on patterned substrates are provided. Phase separation provides isolated and encapsulated areas of semiconductor on the substrate. Processes for preparing and using such composite films are also provided, along with devices including such composite films. |
| FILED | Monday, December 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/015795 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966658 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sumeet Singh (San Diego, California); George Varghese (San Diego, California); Cristi Estan (La Jolla, California); Stefan Savage (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Detecting attacks against computer systems by automatically detecting signatures based on predetermined characteristics of the intrusion. One aspect looks for commonalities among a number of different network messages, and establishes an intrusion signature based on those commonalities. Data reduction techniques, such as a hash function, are used to minimize the amount of resources which are necessary to establish the commonalities. In an embodiment, signatures are created based on the data reduction hash technique. Frequent signatures are found by reducing the signatures using that hash technique. Each of the frequent signatures is analyzed for content, and content which is spreading is flagged as being a possible attack. Additional checks can also be carried out to look for code within the signal, to look for spam, backdoors, or program code. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/822226 |
| ART UNIT | 2436 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07963171 | Gregory 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) | Otto J. Gregory (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Tao You (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic strain gage based on reactively sputtered indium-tin-oxide (ITO) thin films is used to monitor the structural integrity of components employed in aerospace propulsion systems operating at temperatures in excess of 1500° C. A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of the thick ITO sensors reveals a partially sintered microstructure comprising a contiguous network of submicron ITO particles with well defined necks and isolated nanoporosity. Densification of the ITO particles was retarded during high temperature exposure with nitrogen thus stabilizing the nanoporosity. ITO strain sensors were prepared by reactive sputtering in various nitrogen/oxygen/argon partial pressures to incorporate more nitrogen into the films. Under these conditions, sintering and densification of the ITO particles containing these nitrogen rich grain boundaries was retarded and a contiguous network of nano-sized ITO particles was established. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228233 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964433 | Bae et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Youngsam Bae (Gardena, California); Harish Manohara (Arcadia, California); Sohrab Mobasser (Santa Monica, California); Choonsup Lee (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a device having an anti-reflection surface. The device comprises a silicon substrate with a plurality of silicon spikes formed on the substrate. A first metallic layer is formed on the silicon spikes to form the anti-reflection surface. The device further includes an aperture that extends through the substrate. A second metallic layer is formed on the substrate. The second metallic layer includes a hole that is aligned with the aperture. A spacer is attached with the silicon substrate to provide a gap between an attached sensor apparatus. Therefore, operating as a Micro-sun sensor, light entering the hole passes through the aperture to be sensed by the sensor apparatus. Additionally, light reflected by the sensor apparatus toward the first side of the silicon substrate is absorbed by the first metallic layer and silicon spikes and is thereby prevented from being reflected back toward the sensor apparatus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462960 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964650 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbonyl-functionalized oligo/polythiophene compounds, and related semiconductor components and related device structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432063 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/772.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964698 | Weiser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik S. Weiser (Yorktown, Virginia); Theodorus J. Dingemans (Leiden, Netherlands); Terry L. St. Clair (Mechanicsville, Virginia); Jeffrey A. Hinkley (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The benefits of liquid crystal polymers and polyetherimides are combined in an all-aromatic thermoplastic liquid crystalline polyetherimide. Because of the unique molecular structure, all-aromatic thermotropic liquid crystal polymers exhibit outstanding processing properties, excellent barrier properties, low solubilities and low coefficients of thermal expansion in the processing direction. These characteristics are combined with the strength, thermal, and radiation stability of polyetherimides. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935036 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07963436 | Mikolajczyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryszard K. Mikolajczyk (Chicago, Illinois); Taurris D. Baskerville (Schaumburg, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for enhancing the security of a cluster box unit which includes a protective enclosure, internal cabinetry, door, hinge and locking system. The cluster box unit may also include outgoing mail compartment doors that are heavily constructed and rigidly reinforced, with the locks carried thereon protectively shielded, and with the extensible bolts of these locks being engaged by brackets that not only lock the outgoing mail compartment doors but also the master loading doors of the cluster box units. The cluster box unit may also include master loading doors are provided with hinges that extend the full height of the doors—hinges that are defined by pivotally interlining elements of extrusions that very sturdily mount the master loading doors, that prevent prying or bending the doors in the vicinities of their hinges. The interfitting elements of the hinge extrusions also permit the doors to be installed on their surrounding door frames quickly and easily, and permit one or both of the master loading doors to be quickly and easily removed for service or replacement when necessary. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/773252 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Deposit and collection receptacles 232/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966663 | Strickland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zoe Camilla Claire Strickland (Bella Vista, Arkansas); Raymond J. Iandolo (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kevin J. Ryan (Ben Lomond, California); Harold E. Stark (Annapolis, Maryland); Deborah A. Kendall (Arlington, Virginia); Christopher J. Brannigan (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A privacy impact assessment is performed to determine and implement privacy requirements for any information resource that uses personal information. Data may be collected and analyzed regarding the information resource and the personal information, and applicable laws, regulations, and policies may be considered to determine privacy requirements. Such requirements may include, for example, access controls, information retention periods, systems requirements, and risk assessments. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/705412 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07964224 | Beavers |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Randy L. Beavers (Dalton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to herbal materials and methods for making such materials in medicinally useful and pharmaceutically acceptable forms. Particularly, the present invention relates generally to Hydrstatis canadensis (goldenseal) materials and methods for making such materials in medicinally useful and pharmaceutically acceptable forms. More particularly, the present invention relates a process which allows the precise standardization of at least two marker compounds, berberine and hydrastine, in both hydro-alcoholic tinctures and solid extracts in the processing of goldenseal materials to produce extracts which qualify as pharmaceutical grade compositions which are suitable for use in clinical or veterinary settings to treat and/or ameliorate diseases, disorders or conditions. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070891 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 07964834 | Weber |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan L Weber (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact instrument enables placement of the instrument such that the image of the laser beam, as retro reflected and diffracted, forms outside the tracking field of view. The target source and beam camera can be located at the focus of a Cassegrain objective. Embodiments include shared objective and twin objective design. With a shared objective design, both the beam projector and profiling camera can see the same focal length. A two objective design can use two different focal lengths. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432806 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/203.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07964705 | Emlen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Taligen Therapeutics, Inc. (Aurora, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Woodruff Emlen (Greenwood Village, Colorado); V. Michael Holers (Denver, Colorado); Peter Flynn (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to humaneered anti-factor B antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof with reduced immunogenicity. The humaneered anti-factor B antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are derived from murine monoclonal antibody 1379, which binds factor B in the third short consensus repeat (“SCR”) domain and selectively inhibits activation of the alternative complement pathway by preventing formation of the C3bBb complex. The invention also relates to methods of treating diseases or disorders in which activation of the alternative complement pathway plays a role, and methods of selectively inhibiting activation of the alternative complement pathway in an individual in need thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049233 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07964200 | Mrsny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall J. Mrsny (Los Altos Hills, California); Deborah Dean (San Anselmo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in part, to methods and compositions for immunizing against infection by Chlamydia trachomatis. The methods and compositions rely, in part, on administering an immunogenic composition comprising one or more peptides derived from C. trachomatis major outer membrane protein (MOMP) to a subject to be immunized. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise a chimeric immunogen comprising a receptor binding domain, a translocation domain, and a Chlamydia trachomatis antigen. Polynucleotides encoding the chimeric immunogens, expression vectors comprising the polynucleotides, and kits comprising the compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/914734 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07964848 | Hamby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Hamby (Corvallis, Oregon); Abdollah T. Farsoni (Corvallis, Oregon); Edward Cazalas (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique and device provides absolute skin dosimetry in real time at multiple tissue depths simultaneously. The device uses a phoswich detector which has multiple scintillators embedded at different depths within a non-scintillating material. A digital pulse processor connected to the phoswich detector measures a differential distribution (dN/dH) of count rate N as function of pulse height H for signals from each of the multiple scintillators. A digital processor computes in real time from the differential count-rate distribution for each of multiple scintillators an estimate of an ionizing radiation dose delivered to each of multiple depths of skin tissue corresponding to the multiple scintillators embedded at multiple corresponding depths within the non-scintillating material. |
| FILED | Friday, October 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/916362 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07963720 | Hoag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | VeruTEK, Inc. (Bloomfield, Connecticut); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Hoag (Bloomfield, Connecticut); John B. Collins (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Rajender S. Varma (Cincinnati, Ohio); Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of decreasing the amount of one or more contaminants in contaminated soil comprise introducing polymer-coated nanoparticles into the contaminated soil, optionally with other reagents. The polymer-coated nanoparticles exhibit an enhanced ability to migrate through the soil and provide greater control of the rate of activation of other chemicals, such as oxidants, in the contaminated soil. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/680103 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/128.750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07964587 | Ames et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce N. Ames (Berkeley, California); Qing Jiang (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-inflammatory compositions include medicaments comprising predetermined amounts of a phytyl substituted chromanol and a prostaglandin E2 inhibitor, wherein: said medicament is in unit dosage form suitable for pharmaceutical administration; said phytyl substituted chromanol is a gamma-tocopherol, delta-tocopherol, gamma-tocotrienol or delta-tocotrienol; said PGE2 inhibitor is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug or an omega-3 fatty acid, such as docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/159917 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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