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Patent Details for Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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| US 07966763 | Schneider 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) | John F. Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana); Christopher Brown (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A targeting system for determining the distance to a target and, in response thereto, altering the angular position of a projectile launcher relative to a hand held support. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/125600 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966804 | Snow |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barton Hunter Snow (Wyoming, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for testing a cooling system for use in a gas turbine engine control system is provided. The method includes connecting an inlet of the cooling system to a differential pressure sensor, connecting an outlet of the cooling system to the differential pressure sensor, and determining whether or not a difference in pressure exists between the inlet and outlet, wherein such a pressure difference is indicative of whether cooling fluid is flowing through the cooling system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/485493 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.830 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966868 | Sonnichsen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Test Devices, Inc. (Hudson, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Eric Sonnichsen (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Robert L. Murner (Wilbraham, Massachusetts); Thomas L. Wolf (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A test facility provides high temperature, high pressure and high mass flow fluid to a test object to form a relatively large thermal gradient on the object. Energy in the fluid is recuperated to drive system components, such as a heat exchanger and a turbocharger compressor. A test chamber housing the test object can be arranged to conform to a contour of the test object. A control system permits independent variation of pressure, temperature, cooling fluid and fluid velocity, as well as mechanical loading on the test object. Noncontact, optical inspection measurement techniques can be employed to measure test chamber and/or test object parameters. The test object can be configured to direct cooling airflow to permit various temperature or pressure gradients to be implemented. The test facility is relatively inexpensive to operate and provides a significant cost advantage over testing conducted in a full gas turbine engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/372504 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/112.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966871 | Perryman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louisa J. Perryman (Rainham, United Kingdom); Daniel Jeremy Hopley (Chislehurst, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying an individual short circuit fuel injector, within an injector bank of an engine comprising a plurality of fuel injectors. Each fuel injector has a piezoelectric actuator and an associated injector select switch forming part of an injector drive circuit. The method comprises: (i) charging all of the piezoelectric actuators of the plurality of fuel injectors within the injector bank during a charge phase; (ii) at the end of the charge phase waiting for a delay period; and (iii) subsequently closing an injector select switch of a fuel injector to select said fuel injector. The method further comprises: (iv) determining a stack voltage present on terminals of the piezoelectric actuator of the selected fuel injector and storing the stack voltage in a data store. The stack voltage is indicative of an amount of charge present on the selected injector at the end of the delay period. The method further comprises (v) repeating steps (i) to (iv) for each fuel injector in the injector bank in turn; and (vi) identifying the individual short circuit fuel injector as being the injector which has discharged beyond a predetermined voltage drop limit during the delay period. The method also comprises generating a short circuit fault signal for the identified fuel injector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/427089 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/114.450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966898 | Roukes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California); Chung-Wah Fon (Camarillo, California); Wonhee Lee (Pasadena, California); Hongxing Tang (Pasadena, California); Blake Waters Axelrod (Sierra Madre, California); John Liang Tan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic embedded nanoelectromechanical system (NEMs) force sensor provides an electrical readout. The force sensor contains a deformable member that is integrated with a strain sensor. The strain sensor converts a deformation of the deformable member into an electrical signal. A microfluidic channel encapsulates the force sensor, controls a fluidic environment around the force sensor, and improves the read out. In addition, a microfluidic embedded vacuum insulated biocalorimeter is provided. A calorimeter chamber contains a parylene membrane. Both sides of the chamber are under vacuum during measurement of a sample. A microfluidic cannel (built from parylene) is used to deliver a sample to the chamber. A thermopile, used as a thermometer is located between two layers of parylene. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830612 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966921 | Alday |
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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) | Nathan A. Alday (Ventura, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for interfacing an external store to an under-wing pylon suspension rack on a tactical aircraft. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416211 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/1.530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966923 | Daniels 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) | George A. Daniels (Waterford, Michigan); Paul A. Petrovich (Fowlerville, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A conformable self-healing ballistic armor protective structure has a shell formed of a laminated cloth material having outer and inner lamellae. The outer lamella of the laminated material is a ballistic cloth and the inner lamella is a soft, conformable self-healing, rubber compound. The shell is filled preferably with multiplicity of ceramic particles disposed in a fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879519 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966925 | Tran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trung N. Tran (Torrance, California); Constante A. Loresco (Laguna Niguel, California); Filip A. Reinis (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sealing unit includes a mismatched metal-to-metal seal and an o-ring seal with a vent hole therebetween. The mismatched metal-to-metal seal may provide a sealing surface between two metals that may withstand high temperatures and pressure while avoiding leakage over many cycles. The sealing units of the present invention may provide a seal capable of withstanding pressures greater than about 5,000 psig, and typically greater than 6,000 psig, and more typically greater than 7,000 psig; and temperatures greater than about 300° F., and typically greater than about 400° F., and more typically greater than about 500° F. over a service life of more than 5,000 cycles. By providing a vent hole between the metal-to-metal seal and the o-ring seal, should either seal leak, damage to the other/good seal may be prevented by expelling the leak out of the system. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/673427 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Expansible chamber devices 092/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966936 | Gieseke |
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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) | Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed underwater projectile configuration that includes a cylindrical telescoping cavitator design capable of providing projectile nose shape change where such change to the projectile nose tip geometry results in supercavitation and a concomitant vaporous cavity in the water that reduces projectile drag resistance while maximizing projectile range and where the projectile nose tip further includes a retractable cavitator piston feature. The projectile nose is designed to house a cylindrical cavitator piston that protrudes forward from the projectile and is held in place until launch. Velocity induced hydrodynamic forces on the forward face of this cavitator piston cause the piston to start moving aft and to gradually cause the piston to retract into the projectile nose, until a larger, secondary cavitator is exposed to the vaporous cavity. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383081 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966959 | Shen 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) | Young T. Shen (Potomac, Maryland); Scott Gowing (North Potomac, Maryland); William G. Day (Salisbury, Maryland); Timothy W. Coats (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to an apparatus for mitigating the load impact on a surface watercraft and passengers therein, during high speed travel. The hull includes a damping cavity for mitigating the load impact on the surface watercraft. The damping cavity is positioned on a dry portion of an undersurface of the hull between a forward end and an aft end of the hull. The damping cavity includes a porous plate on the undersurface, and a deck plate within the hull body. The deck plate and the porous plate are separated by a gap, and an inflatable bladder may be positioned in the gap between the plates. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148074 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967223 | Cooke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holdings S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Peter Cooke (Gillingham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injector for use in an internal combustion engine comprises a first valve member and a second valve member, an injection control chamber for fuel, and a set of nozzle outlets; wherein actuation of the second valve member controls the fuel pressure within the injection control chamber, and actuation of the first valve member is regulated by the fuel pressure within the injection control chamber; and wherein the fuel injector is arranged such that actuation of the second valve member establishes a fuel flow path between the injection control chamber and the set of nozzle outlets. The first valve member may be provided with a first valve bore within which the second valve member is received. An injection nozzle and a method of operating a fuel injector are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287892 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/585.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967456 | Beresnev 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) | Leonid Alexseevich Beresnev (Columbia, Maryland); Mikhail Alexseevich Vorontsov (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a deformable mirror for use in adaptive and active optical systems and in optical technology laser communication directed energy systems. The invention utilizes pockets formed in the back of the mirrors substrate. The pockets house actuators that are bonded to the substrate and may adjustably deform the mirror surface depending on the voltage supplied to the actuators. A plurality of mirrors may be combined to form a scalable array or positioned to overcome issues related to the uncontrollable portions of separate individual mirrors. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263016 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/846 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967558 | Scricca |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Scricca (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The hybrid seal assembly includes a seal for use with rotating surfaces which may suffer significant deflections such as for sealing between flanges and mating surfaces typical of annular seal face surface of a diffuser section of a tip turbine engine. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624734 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967562 | Frost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen R. Frost (Wethersfield, Connecticut); John D. Riehl (Hebron, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A fastener for a turbine engine includes a bolt and a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) cap mechanically secured to the bolt. CMC components are attached to an exhaust nozzle case with the fasteners. The fastener includes a bolt made of metal and having a head. A CMC cap is located on the head of the bolt and secured to the bolt by a mechanical device. The mechanical device allows the CMC cap to have a different thermal expansion than the bolt. The CMC cap also acts as a thermal shield for the bolt, aiding in the reduction of a heat signature of the turbine engine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/447441 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/197 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967659 | Erickson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Erickson (Storrs, Connecticut); Paul R. Faughnan, Jr. (East Hampton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing an integral bladed rotor is disclosed. The method includes calculating a cutting path in an area of a blank between adjacent blade locations to approximate contours of adjacent blades. A cutter is plunged into the area at an initial angle and depth that extends from an outer perimeter to the blank to an inner perimeter of the blank, in one example. The blade roots extend from the inner perimeter, and the blade tips terminate near the outer perimeter. The cutter is plunged into the area at an original angle that, in one example, is different than the initial angle. The cutter is rotated about an axis in a spiral-like fashion as the cutter extends further into the blank, along the cutting path. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120786 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967929 | 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); Amy Wilson (Blairstown, New Jersey); Brian E. Fuchs (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Neha Mehta (Succasunna, New Jersey); Paula Cook (Succasunna, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Secondary crystalline high explosives are disclosed which are suitable for filling very small volume loading holes in micro-electric initiators for micro-electro-mechanical mechanisms (MEMS), used as safe and arm (S&A) devices. The explosives are prepared by adding the such a high explosive to an aqueous first volatile mobile phase, adding such a high explosive to a non-aqueous second volatile mobile phase, mixing the first and second volatile mobile phases and then loading the combined phases into the MEMS device and allowing the aqueous and non-aqueous solvents to evaporate depositing the high explosive. Enhanced adhesion between the deposited high explosive and enhanced rheological properties can be obtained by adding a polymeric binder to both mobile phases. |
| FILED | Monday, December 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/647707 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968016 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Hu Kang (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Unconventional twisted π-electron system electro-optic (EO) chromophores/compounds, compositions and related device structures. Crystallographic analysis of several non-limiting chromophores reveals, for instance, large ring-ring dihedral twist angles and a highly charge-separated zwitterionic structure in the ground state, in both solution phase and solid-state. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/814966 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/586 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968031 | Carper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Melton Carper (Trenton, Ohio); Suresh Sabramanian (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The integral layer provides a ductile interface for attachment locations of a turbine engine component where a metallic surface is adjacent the attachment location. The ductile layer provides a favorable load distribution through the composite at the attachment location, and eliminates the need for a metallic shim. |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938349 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968146 | Wagner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sigurd Wagner (Princeton, New Jersey); Prashant Mandlik (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a coating over a surface is disclosed. The method comprises depositing over a surface, a hybrid layer comprising a mixture of a polymeric material and a non-polymeric material. The hybrid layer may have a single phase or comprise multiple phases. The hybrid layer is formed by chemical vapor deposition using a single source of precursor material. The chemical vapor deposition process may be plasma-enhanced and may be performed using a reactant gas. The precursor material may be an organo-silicon compound, such as a siloxane. The hybrid layer may comprise various types of polymeric materials, such as silicone polymers, and various types of non-polymeric materials, such as silicon oxides. By varying the reaction conditions, the wt % ratio of polymeric material to non-polymeric material may be adjusted. The hybrid layer may have various characteristics suitable for use with organic light-emitting devices, such as optical transparency, impermeability, and/or flexibility. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/931939 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968188 | Gilbert |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EIC Laboratories, Inc. (Norwood, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Gilbert (Brookline, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemically disbondable composition is provided having a matrix functionality and an electrolyte functionality. The matrix functionality provides an adhesive bond to a substrate, and the electrolyte functionality provides sufficient ionic conductivity to the composition to support a faradaic reaction at an interface with an electrically conductive surface in contact with the composition, whereby the adhesive bond is weakened at the interface. The composition may be a phase-separated composition having first regions of substantially matrix functionality and second regions of substantially electrolyte functionality. Adhesive and coating compositions and methods of disbonding also are described. |
| FILED | Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803001 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/355.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968294 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Jindan Yu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, this invention relates to SLIT2 cancer markers that are useful as diagnostic markers and clinical targets for prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388058 |
| 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 07968359 | Hersee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide thin-walled structures and methodologies for their formation. In one embodiment, the thin-walled structure can be formed by disposing a semiconductor material in a patterned aperture using a selective growth mask that includes a plurality of patterned apertures, followed by a continuous growth of the semiconductor material using a pulsed growth mode. The patterned aperture can include at least one lateral dimension that is small enough to allow a threading defect termination at sidewall(s) of the formed thin-walled structure. In addition, high-quality III-N substrate structures and core-shell MQW active structures can be formed from the thin-walled structures for use in devices like light emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, or high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237469 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968438 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Qiming Li (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide semiconductor devices with a high-quality semiconductor material on a lattice mismatched substrate and methods for their manufacturing using low temperature growth techniques followed by an insulator-capped annealing process. The semiconductor material can have high-quality with a sufficiently low threading dislocation (TD) density, and can be effectively used for integrated circuit applications such as an integration of optically-active materials (e.g., Group III-V materials) with silicon circuitry. In an exemplary embodiment, the high-quality semiconductor material can include one or more ultra-thin high-quality semiconductor epitaxial layers/films/materials having a desired thickness on the lattice mismatched substrate. Each ultra-thin high-quality semiconductor epitaxial layer can be formed by capping a low-temperature grown initial ultra-thin semiconductor material, annealing the capped initial ultra-thin semiconductor material, and removing the capping layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835855 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968519 | Deming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Deming (Summerland, California); Miaoer Yu (San Jose, California); Scott A. Curtin (Santa Barbara, California); Jungyeon Hwang (Goleta, California); Michael D. Wyrsta (Goleta, California); Andrew Nowak (Goleta, California); Scott W. Seidel (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the generation of polypeptides having varied material properties are disclosed herein. Methods include means for initiating the polymerization of aminoacid-N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) monomer by combining the monomer with an amido-containing metallacycle, for making self assembling amphiphilic block copolypeptides and related protocols for adding oligo(ethyleneglycol) functionalized aminoacid-N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs) to polyaminoacid chains. Additional methods include means of adding an end group to the carboxy terminus of a polyaminoacid chain by reacting an alloc-protected amino acid amide with a transition metal-donor ligand complex to forming an amido-amidate metallacycle for use in further polymerization reactions. Novel compositions for use in peptide synthesis and design including five and six membered amido-containing metallacycles and block copolypeptides are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/006440 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968525 | Scharf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Scharf (Gainesville, Florida); Xuguo Zhou (Lexington, Kentucky); Faith M. Oi (Gainesville, Florida); Marsha M. Wheeler (Urbana, Illinois); Matthew R. Tarver (Gainesville, Florida); Monique R. Coy (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, matrix compositions and kits for increasing the mortality of termites (R. flavipes) and interfering with termite development using RNA interference techniques to target cellulase, lignocellulase, hexamerin, broad, farnesoic acid methyl transferase, cytochrome P450 and vitellogenin activity are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/324312 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H Vontell (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical connection for a heater for aerospace components having a titanium containing heater element; a copper containing conductor; and a welded or strong mechanical interface transition connecting the titanium containing heater element and the copper containing conduction transition. The transition has a titanium containing component and a copper containing component, where the titanium containing component is joined to the titanium containing heater element. A heater connection for a surface mounted heater for a jet turbine application having a titanium containing heater element, a copper containing conduction transition, and a weld transition connecting the heater element and the copper containing conduction transition. The weld transition has a titanium containing weld. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/647420 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968846 | Talghader et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Talghader (Edina, Minnesota); Yuyan Wang (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Michael S. Sutton (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A cavity thermal detector assembly is presented that allows both tunable narrowband and broadband operation. This allows for high light efficiency, low thermal time constant, and flexibility in designing the optical path. The thermal detector/filter layers are part of the top mirror or mirrors of a Gires-Tournois-type optical cavity and provide absorption and reflection that can be adjusted to the desired width and position of the detected band. Tuning, if desired, can be achieved by applying micromechanical methods. Broadband operation may be achieved by bringing the sensor close to the bottom mirror. In this mode, the sensor or its supports may or may not touch over a small area. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805240 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968959 | Christophersen 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) | Marc Christophersen (Alexandria, Virginia); Bernard F. Phlips (Great Falls, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Gray-tone lithography technology is used in combination with a reactive plasma etching operation in the fabrication method and system of a thick semiconductor drift detector. The thick semiconductor drift detector is based on a trench array, where the trenches in the trench array penetrate the bulk with different depths. These trenches form an electrode. By applying different electric potentials to the trenches in the trench array, the silicon between neighboring trenches fully depletes. Furthermore, the applied potentials cause a drifting field for generated charge carriers, which are directed towards a collecting electrode. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581710 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/429 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969049 | Laskaris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evangelos Trifon Laskaris (Schenectady, New York); Kirubaharan Sivasubramaniam (Clifton Park, New York); James Pelligrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York); William Dwight Gerstler (Niskayuna, New York); James William Bray (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high power density generator contains an armature structure having a plurality of conductors and at least one heat transfer tube thermally coupled to the conductors. The tube is hollow so as to allow a heat transfer fluid to pass through it. The tube is made of a material having a thermal conductivity λ of at least 20 W/mK, an electrical breakdown strength of at least 60 V/mil, and a mechanical strength adequate for handling, manufacturing and operation. In an embodiment of the invention, the tube is made of a ceramic material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/610905 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969073 | Hackenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRS Technologies, Inc. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley S. Hackenberger (State College, Pennsylvania); Kevin A. Snook (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A tangentially poled piezoelectric single crystal ring resonator is disclosed. A single crystal material is machined into elements and formed into a ring structure. The single crystal elements have a <110> poled tangential axis. The elements may also have a <211>, <511> or <322> orientation range in the radial direction. The elements may have a generally wedge shape. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338813 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/357 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969079 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Haibing Peng (Houston, Texas); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon nanotube device in accordance with the invention includes a free-standing membrane that is peripherally supported by a support structure. The membrane includes an aperture that extends through a thickness of the membrane. At least one carbon nanotube extends across the aperture on a front surface of the membrane. The carbon nanotube is also accessible from a back surface of the membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290977 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969088 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Qingwu Wang (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435153 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969224 | Werking |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Werking (Rockford, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a circuit for correcting duty cycle distortion. A delay insertion gate corrects data dependent delay distortion that is generated by CMOS flip-flop circuits. The delay insertion gate includes two field effect transistors and a current mirror. The two transistors each respectively receive an input signal from an upstream circuit. At least one of the transistors is coupled to an output node. The output node temporarily holds a voltage state within the delay insertion gate, correcting any distortion in the duty cycle of the input signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486579 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969288 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam C. Braun (Sunnyvale, California); Jonathan L. Beamer (Menlo Park, California); Louis B. Rosenberg (Pleasanton, California); Dean C. Chang (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A force feedback system provides components for use in a force feedback system including a host computer and a force feedback interface device. An architecture for a host computer allows multi-tasking application programs to interface with the force feedback device without conflicts. One embodiment of a force feedback device provides both relative position reporting and absolute position reporting to allow great flexibility. A different device embodiment provides relative position reporting device allowing maximum compatibility with existing software. Information such as ballistic parameters and screen size sent from the host to the force feedback device allow accurate mouse positions and cursor positions to be determined in the force feedback environment. Force feedback effects and structures are further described, such as events and enclosures. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982593 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/407.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969345 | Abatzoglou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theagenis J. Abatzoglou (Huntington Beach, California); Johan Enmanuel Gonzalez (El Segundo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for implementing a maximum likelihood estimator for making a joint estimation of range, range rate, and acceleration of a target utilizing a pulse doppler radar. The MLE of target motion parameters are determined by keystone processing a baseband signal, and generating a first estimate of the motion parameters based on the processed signal. The first estimate is utilized to set up sampling intervals for the performance of a coarse search. Then a fine search is performed using Newton's method to determine the MLE. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422878 |
| 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 342/25.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969346 | Franceschini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Franceschini (Centerport, New York); David W. Meyers (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Kelly P. Muldoon (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A transponder-based beacon transmitter system in an unmanned aerial vehicle is provided. The transponder-based beacon transmitter system comprises a global positioning system interface communicatively coupled to receive position information indicative of a current location of the unmanned aerial vehicle, a message formatter communicatively coupled to the global positioning system interface, and a transponder-based beacon transmitter. The message formatter formats vehicle identification of the unmanned aerial vehicle and the position information indicative of the current location of the unmanned aerial vehicle into an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast mode-select squitter message. The message formatter operates in one of a military mode, a National Airspace System mode, and a combined military/National Airspace System mode. The transponder-based beacon transmitter transmits the automatic dependent surveillance broadcast mode-select squitter messages from the unmanned aerial vehicle. Receivers in the vicinity of the unmanned aerial vehicle receive unsolicited vehicle identification and location of the unmanned aerial vehicle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/246644 |
| 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 342/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969370 | Dinh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as repesented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent V. Dinh (San Diego, California); Eric W. Hendricks (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluidic antenna is described, using an electromagnetic energy coupler, a non-metallic container coupled to the electromagnetic energy coupler, a fluid having charged particles moving through the non-metallic container at a predetermined rate, and a charge focuser disposed about the non-metallic container, wherein the electromagnetic energy coupler is configured to couple energy between the fluid and at least one of a transmitter and receiver, and the charge focuser is configured to adjust a cross sectional area of charged particles in the fluid to result in a fluid characteristic impedance that approaches that of a surrounding medium, thereby enabling at least one of launching and receiving electromagnetic energy. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390868 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969650 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel L. Marks (Urbana, Illinois); Paul Scott Carney (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A near-field microscope using one or more diffractive elements placed in the near-field of an object to be imaged. A diffractive covers the entire object, thus signal may thereby be gathered from the entire object, and advantageously increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the resulting image, as well as greatly improve the acquisition speed. Near-field microscopy overcomes the limitation of conventional microscopy in that subwavelength and nanometer-scale features can be imaged and measured without contact. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/413633 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970022 | Shapira et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ofer Shapira (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Ken Kuriki (Tochigi, Japan); Nicholas D. Orf (Cambridge, Massachusetts); John D Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Yoel Fink (Brookline, Massachusetts); Alexander Stolyarov (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the disclosure features an article, including a fiber waveguide extending along a waveguide axis, the fiber waveguide including a core extending along the waveguide axis and a confinement region surrounding the core. The confinement region is configured to guide radiation at a first wavelength, λ1, along the waveguide axis and is configured to transmit at least some of the radiation at a second wavelength, λ2, incident on the confinement region along a path, where λ1 and λ2 are different. The core includes a core material selected to interact with radiation at λ1 to produce radiation at λ2. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/161129 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970040 | Sprangle 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) | Phillip A Sprangle (Great Falls, Virginia); Joseph R Penano (Springfield, Virginia); Bahman Hafizi (Bethesda, Maryland); Antonio C Ting (Silver Spring, Maryland); Richard P. Fischer (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of lasers comprising a plurality of laser paths. The apparatus further includes an incoherent combining beam director in the plurality of laser paths. The apparatus also includes a plurality of optical elements in the plurality of laser paths between the plurality of lasers and the beam director. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052196 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970084 | Grayver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Grayver (Los Angeles, California); Eric J. McDonald (Culver City, California); Neil Morgan (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive scaling processor operates in combination with a conventional automatic gain control controller providing an amplification gain A to m-ary symbol-modulated communication signals, the scaling processor scaling by a scaling factor Z the m-ary communication signal for providing an over all gain of an (A)(Z) product minimizing the BER that is optimum for the communications channel for improved BER performance in communication systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900251 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970242 | Shtein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max Shtein (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kevin P. Pipe (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-based electric apparatus includes an elongate, flexible fiber core. The apparatus also includes an electric device layered on the fiber core. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253310 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970244 | Krug et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. Krug (Bellevue, Washington); Jocelyn Y. Takayesu (Tacoma, Washington); Michael Hochberg (Pasadena, California); Dennis G. Koshinz (Bellevue, Washington); Jean A. Nielsen (Kent, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a method for manufacturing an optical ring resonator device is disclosed. The method forms a ring resonator waveguide on a semiconductor substrate, forms an unoriented electro-optic polymer cladding over the ring resonator waveguide, and forms electrodes on the semiconductor substrate. The unoriented electro-optic polymer cladding is configured to change orientation under an applied electric field, and the electrodes are coupled to the optical ring resonator for manipulation of the electric field applied to the oriented electro-optic polymer cladding for rapid voltage tuning of its index. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/849985 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970501 | Kirkland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Kirkland (Redington Beach, Florida); John F. Anderson (Oldsmar, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An inertial navigation system which includes a first control system and a second control system is described. The first control system is configured to estimate a vertical velocity based in part on received vertical acceleration data. The second control system is configured to receive the estimated vertical velocity from the first control system and determine a compensated vertical velocity utilizing the estimated vertical velocity and airspeed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/075171 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970507 | Fregene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kingsley O C Fregene (Andover, Minnesota); Peter Lommel (St. Cloud, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a system and method for autonomously tracking a moving target from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a variety of airframe and sensor payload capabilities so that the target remains within the vehicle's sensor field of view regardless of the specific target motion patterns. The invention uses information about target location, UAV platform type and states, sensor payload capability, and ratio of target-to-UAV speeds to select from a suite of sub-algorithms, each of which generates desired platform positions (in form of waypoints) and/or sensor orientation commands to keep the target in view. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/018669 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970532 | Tehan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Tehan (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David Hursig (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for planning, managing, and executing the flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle are disclosed. In particular, the methods and systems are designed to reduce the likelihood that the UAV will be detected by determining a flight path based on the proximity of the UAV to a point of interest and the visual, acoustic, and infrared signatures of the UAV relative to a point of interest. Additionally, the methods and systems enable a UAV operator to compare a recommend flight path and an altered flight path based on how the altered flight path changes the proximity of the UAV to a point of interest, and changes the visual, acoustic, and infrared signatures of the UAV relative to a point of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753017 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/202 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07970555 — Method for developing a repair process to correct a deformed gas turbine engine component
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garrett Kernozicky (Mansfield, Connecticut); Ephraim C. Davis (No Richland Hills, Texas); Thomas P. Cap (Simsbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of developing a repair process for a gas turbine engine component deformed during engine operation includes determining peak stress locations in a model of the component, applying loads to sample components based on the model to produce geometrical correction values in the samples, generating data from the samples including the loads applied and the geometrical correction values produced, destructively analyzing the samples at the peak stress locations for structural imperfections, and correlating the loads applied to the geometrical correction values produced to determine allowable loads necessary to produce target geometrical correction values in a used component substantially free of structural imperfections. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082865 |
| ART UNIT | 2863 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970583 | Novis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ari Novis (Rocky Hill, Connecticut); Christopher A. Johnson (Tolland, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An actuator control system is disclosed that includes an actuator continuously movable between multiple positions. The controller is configured to command the actuator to a desired actuator position and to apply the command to an actuator model. The controller is configured to compare the modeled and actual actuator positions to determine if the position difference exceeds a fault detection accommodation limit and if the position difference is within a band that is different than the fault detection accommodation limit. The controller is configured to calculate a threshold, which is based upon an estimated load on the actuator. The controller is configured to calculate a band comprised of the threshold applied to the modeled position and to determine if the actual actuator position is within the calculated band. The threshold is calculated at regular intervals, and a fault is declared if the actual actuator position is outside the band for a number of consecutive intervals. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/966065 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970831 | Richardson, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Richardson, Jr. (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | An intelligent email service for a web-based intranet server such as a ColdFusion server that automatically generates emails is provided. The intelligent email service provides a periodic verification of normal email spooler activity. Should the spooler be malfunctioning, the intelligent email service restarts the spooler and notifies the server's system administrator. The intelligent email service also processes any undeliverable email messages by determining, for each undeliverable email, whether mail server or the email itself was at fault. Should the mail server be at fault, the undelivered email is resent. Otherwise, the faulty email is emailed back to the originating party. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/771052 |
| ART UNIT | 2456 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07971033 | Altman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik R. Altman (Danbury, Connecticut); Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reducing the number of load instructions in the load reorder queue (LRQ) that are searched when a load instruction is executed by a processor, including dispatching the load instructions; inserting the load instructions in the LRQ in program order; clearing a load received data field; executing the load instructions; checking load reorder queue (LRQ) entries; re-executing the load instruction of the matching LRQ entry; continuing execution; getting the load data; setting the load received data field; comparing a load sequence number (LSQN) of each load instruction to a snoop_safe register contents; ANDing all the load received data bits if the LSQN is greater in magnitude to the snoop_safe; setting the snoop_safe register to the LSQN of the load instruction; searching the LRQ entry; and setting a load_peril_snoop register to the LRQ index value where the first load instruction younger to the snoop_safe was found. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172521 |
| 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 07971252 | Lippmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Lippmann (Wayland, Massachusetts); Kyle W. Ingols (Arlington, Massachusetts); Keith J. Piwowarski (Leominster, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a method to generate an attack graph includes determining if a potential node provides a first precondition equivalent to one of preconditions provided by a group of preexisting nodes on the attack graph. The group of preexisting nodes includes a first state node, a first vulnerability instance node, a first prerequisite node, and a second state node. The method also includes, if the first precondition is equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, coupling a current node to a preexisting node providing the precondition equivalent to the first precondition using a first edge and if the first precondition is not equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, generating the potential node as a new node on the attack graph and coupling the new node to the current node using a second edge. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/760158 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07966866 | Hansma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Hansma (Goleta, California); Barney Drake (Rena, Nevada); Douglas Rehn (Lompoc, California); Jonathan Adams (Santa Barbara, California); Jason Lulejian (Pismo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and instruments for characterizing a material, such as the properties of bone in a living human subject, using a test probe constructed for insertion into the material and a reference probe aligned with the test probe in a housing. The housing is hand held or placed so that the reference probe contacts the surface of the material under pressure applied either by hand or by the weight of the housing. The test probe is inserted into the material to indent the material while maintaining the reference probe substantially under the hand pressure or weight of the housing allowing evaluation of a property of the material related to indentation of the material by the probe. Force can be generated by a voice coil in a magnet structure to the end of which the test probe is connected and supported in the magnet structure by a flexure, opposing flexures, a linear translation stage, or a linear bearing. Optionally, a measurement unit containing the test probe and reference probe is connected to a base unit with a wireless connection, allowing in the field material testing. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079444 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967439 | Shelhamer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark John Shelhamer (Reisterstown, Maryland); Dale Charles Roberts (Halethorpe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured is a wireless scleral search coil that includes one or more passive, resonant coils and in a particular embodiment two orthogonal, passive, resonant coils, where each coil resonates at a different frequency. Each resonant coil includes a coil-capacitor circuit, each circuit being configured to resonant at a different frequency. Such a wireless scleral search coil is disposed within a biocompatible material that is shaped to conform and rest upon the eye of a subject. Also featured are system including such a wireless scleral search coil, one or more transmitter coils, an assembly of one or more receiver coils and a calculating sub-system for processing signal data to obtain eye measurement information. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920808 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967967 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tesla Laboratories, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Ismail James (Boulder, Colorado); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method for electrochemical modification of liquid streams employing an electrolytic cell which utilizes an oxidation site defined by an anode, an anode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte anolyte where oxidation is effected, a cathode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte catholyte where reduction is effected, a cathode comprising conducting cathode particulates forming a cathode particulates bed and a current feeder device in at least intermittent contact with said cathode particulates where the cathode particulates are in motion and the particulates motion is substantially independent of bulk electrolyte flow, a separator which confines the cathode particulates to the cathode compartment, constrains electrolyte flow through the cathode particulates bed and permits ionic conduction of current between the anode and cathode, a cathode particulates conveyance system that manipulates cathode particulates motion. A separate system circulates the liquid undergoing modification through the electrolytic cell. An unidirectional current driving system drives unidirectional electric current supported by the liquid streams from the anode through the anolyte and the separator and into the catholyte and to the cathode particulates and to the current feeder device during the contact between the cathode particulates and the current feeder device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623658 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968080 | Goodman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Murray Goodman (La Jolla, California); Zelda Goodman, legal representative (La Jolla, California); Sandra Blaj Moore (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are therapeutic and diagnostic somatostatin analogs including radiotherapeutic and radiodiagnostic reagents, and methods of making and use thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/568112 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968101 | Kawaoka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Middleton, Wisconsin); Gabriele Neumann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a composition useful to prepare influenza viruses, e.g., in the absence of helper virus, using vectors which include tandem transcription cassettes containing PolI and/or PolII promoters. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/283498 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968113 | Siegel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biomedical Development Corp. (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg Siegel (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to treat skin to restore barrier homeostasis and to promote normal stratum corneum function by applying to the skin a liquid composition which forms a phase inversion membrane. The amount of solids in the liquid composition is varied so as to provide a desired degree of porosity to the resulting membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011879 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07968126 — Creation of a biological atrioventricular bypass to compensate for atrioventricular block
| US 07968126 | Brink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter R. Brink (Setauket, New York); Ira S. Cohen (Stony Brook, New York); Michael R Rosen (New York, New York); Richard B Robinson (Cresskill, New Jersey); Peter Danilo, Jr. (Hopewell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of creating an atrioventricular bypass tract for a heart comprises growing mesenchymal stem cells into a strip with two ends, attaching one end of the strip onto the atrium of the heart, and attaching the other end of the strip to the ventricle of the heart, to create a tract connecting the atrium to the ventricle to provide a path for electrical signals generated by the sinus node to propagate across the tract and excite the ventricle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/584303 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/569 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968294 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Jindan Yu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, this invention relates to SLIT2 cancer markers that are useful as diagnostic markers and clinical targets for prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388058 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 07968298 | Margolis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonid B. Margolis (Kensington, Maryland); Jean-Charles Grivel (Frederick, Maryland); Paolo Lusso (Milan, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | It has been discovered that herpesviruses can trigger an increase in the production of HIV-suppressive chemokines, and that these chemokines block the CCR5 receptor, which is used as a co-receptor with CD4 in the CCR5-tropic forms of HIV-1 that predominate in early stage HIV-1 infection. Use of live, attenuated or killed herpesviruses, or of herpesvirus proteins which trigger an increase in production of HIV-suppressive chemokines, or of nucleic acids encoding those proteins, can likewise be used to prevent establishment of HIV-1 infection or to inhibit HIV-1 replication. The invention provides uses, methods and compositions related to these discoveries. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/473560 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07968299 | Chait et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Chait (New York, New York); Alan J. Tackett (New York, New York); Jeffrey A. DeGrasse (New York, New York); Marlene Oeffinger (New York, New York); Michael P. Rout (New York, New York); Matthew D. Sekedat (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is method of determining whether or not associations between a given protein and other proteins in a cell are specific. The method comprises (a) providing a first sample of the cells in which the given protein contains a tag, (b) providing a second sample of the same cells, wherein the given protein and the other proteins are metabolically labeled, and wherein neither the given protein nor the other proteins are tagged, (c) mixing and lysing the first cell sample and the second cell sample to provide a mixture of proteins, (d) binding the tag of the given protein to a substrate, (e) isolating proteins associated with the tagged given protein bound to the substrate, whereby the associated proteins comprise: (i) proteins specifically associated with the tagged given protein, (ii) proteins non-specifically associated with the tagged given protein, or (iii) a combination thereof, (f) determining whether each associated protein is unlabeled or a mixture of labeled and unlabeled proteins, wherein if the associated protein is not labeled, then that protein was specifically associated in the cell with the tagged given protein. |
| FILED | Monday, August 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/508736 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 07968306 | Tsao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis H. C. Tsao (Madison, Wisconsin); Keith C. Meyer (Middleton, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of measuring the SFA and sPLA2 activities in a mammalian subject are provided. The methods include: providing a substrate comprising a fluorescently labeled carboxylic acid and a negatively charged phospholipid in an organic solvent such as ethanol, mixing the substrate with phospholipase A2 and a biological sample from the subject, and detecting the fluorescence intensity change to determine the SFA and sPLA2 activity in the sample. A decrease in SFA activity in the test sample as compared to the SFA activity in the control sample indicates that the subject has developed or is about to develop inflammation. An increase in sPLA2 activity in the test sample as compared to the sPLA2 activity in the control sample indicates that the subject has developed or is about to develop inflammation. Further disclosed is a kit for practicing the above methods. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334084 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968345 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pilsoo Kang (Bloomington, Indiana); Yehia S. Mechref (Bloomington, Indiana); Milos V. Novotny (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-phase permethylation procedure is described. For example, solid-phase permethylation can be utilized to prepare permethylated linear and branched, neutral and sialylated oligosaccharides, which can be analyzed by MALDI-MS. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/853759 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968515 | Zlokovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Socratech L.L.C. (Los Angeles, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Berislav V. Zlokovic (Rochester, New York); John H. Griffin (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Protein S is a significant neuroprotectant when administered after focal ischemic stroke and prevents hypoxic/re-oxygenation injury. Purified human plasma-derived or recombinant protein S improves motor neurological function after stroke, and reduced brain infarction and edema. Protein S also enhances post-ischemic reperfusion and reduced brain fibrin and neutrophil deposition. Cortical neurons are protected from hypoxia/re-oxygenation-induced apoptosis. Thus, protein S and variants thereof are prototypes of a class of agents for preventing injury of the nervous system. In particular, a disease or other pathological condition (e.g., stroke) may be treated with such agents having one or more protein S activities (e.g., anti-thrombotic and anti-inflammatory activities, direct cellular neuronal protective effects) although the latter activities are not be required. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/529748 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/14.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07968516 — Treatment of multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases by use of calpin inhibitors
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ProTor Pharma Corporation (Roslyn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred Stracher (Roslyn, New York); Leo Kesner (West Orange, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are compounds and methods for treating or preventing a neurologic, otologic, or ophthalmologic disease in a subject. Also described herein are compounds that can be used as therapeutics. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/663666 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.900 |
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| US 07968520 | Woolf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford J. Woolf (Newton, Massachusetts); Tarek A. Samad (Gullford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention features methods and compositions useful for treating and diseases caused by a dysregulation of the BMP/GDF branch of the TGF-β signaling pathway. Also disclosed are methods for identifying compounds useful for such therapy. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489212 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968527 | Emerson, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Biomedical Research Institute (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles P. Emerson, Jr. (Winchester, Massachusetts); Xingbin Ai (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for inhibiting FGF signaling are described. Methods of the invention include contacting an FGF-responsive cell with exogenous heparan sulfate 6-O endosulfatase (Sulf1) in an amount effective to modify endogenous heparan sulfate, thereby inhibiting FGF signaling. Methods of the invention also include contacting an FGF-responsive cell with an exogenous Sulf1-modified compound, the exogenous Sulf1-modified compound being characterized by the ability to reduce binding of FGF2 or FGF4 to FGFR1. Compositions comprising exogenous Sulf1-modified compounds are also provided for use in conjunction with methods of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, February 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057390 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968539 | Peyton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides a new class of compounds referred to as “reversed chloroquines” (RCQs), which are highly effective against CQR and CQS malaria parasites. RCQs are hybrid molecules, which include an antimalarial quinoline analog (such as chloroquine) moiety and a CQR reversal moiety. Exemplary RCQ chemical structures are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the disclosed RCQ compounds, and methods of using such compounds and compositions for the treatment of malaria and inhibition of CQR or CQS Plasmodium sp. (such as P. falciparum). |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/884547 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968602 | Curley, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); University of California-Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California); Ohio State Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Curley, Jr. (Dublin, Ohio); Margaret Clagett-Dame (Deerfield, Wisconsin); Michael D. Collins (Agoura Hills, California); Victoria V. Abzianidze (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Analogs of 4-[(E)-2-(5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-5,5,8,8-tetramethyl-2-napthalenyl)-1-propenyl]benzoic acid and methods of manufacture and use thereof, such as for use in cancer prevention and treatment. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533354 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/617 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968664 | Hrabie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph A. Hrabie (Frederick, Maryland); Michael L. Citro (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia); Frank DeRosa (Nanuet, New York); Larry K. Keefer (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein provides for novel nitric oxide-releasing polymers that comprise at least two adjacent units derived from acrylonitrile monomer units and containing at least one carbon-bound diazeniumdiolate. The diazeniumdiolated acrylonitrile-derived polymers can be used in medical devices therapeutically. Accordingly, the invention also provides a method of treating a biological disorder and a method of promoting angiogenesis that includes administering a medical device comprising a nitric oxide-releasing polymer comprising at least two adjacent units of acrylonitrile before exposure to nitric oxide and at least one nitric oxide releasing N2O2— group, wherein the N2O2— group is attached directly to the polyacrylonitrile backbone, to a specific location on or within the mammal in an amount effective to treat the biological disorder or promote angiogenesis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/576012 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/341 |
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| US 07968675 | Hallahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (Nashville, Tennessee); Shimian Qu (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying a molecule that binds an irradiated tumor in a subject and molecules identified thereby. The method includes the steps of: (a) exposing a tumor to ionizing radiation; (b) administering to a subject a library of diverse molecules; and (c) isolating from the tumor one or more molecules of the library of diverse molecules, whereby a molecule that binds an irradiated tumor is identified. Also provided are therapeutic and diagnostic methods using targeting ligands that bind an irradiated tumor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/111693 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 07968682 | Farrell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Farrell (Tualatin, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are degradation-resistant fibrinogen sealants comprising a first composition comprising one or more of fibrinogen γA/γ′ heterodimers and/or fibrinogen γ′/γ′ homodimers and a second composition comprising thrombin and, optionally, degradation-resistant fibrinogen sealants disclosed herein may further comprise Factor XIII and calcium. Degradation-resistant fibrinogen sealants are suitable for the treatment of trauma, particularly vascular trauma. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/955080 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/382 |
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| US 07968694 | Campos-Neto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio Campos-Neto (Westborough, Massachusetts); Suely S. Kashino (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated Tuberculosis (TB) antigens that are useful in therapeutic and vaccine compositions for stimulating a TB specific immunological response. The identified antigens are also useful in diagnostic assays to determine the presence of active TB in an individual. Accordingly, the present invention includes polypeptide molecules, nucleic acid molecules, vaccine compositions, diagnostic assays, and methods of diagnosis and monitoring treatment related to these TB antigens. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/478366 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 07968698 | Kadonaga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Kadonaga (Del Mar, California); Tamar Gershon (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides core promoter motif ten elements (MTE) and core promoter constructs comprising the MTEs and an initiator element (Inr) in combination with one or both of a TATA box and a downstream promoter element (DPE) which increases gene expression over the strongest known core promoters. Particularly, an optimized or super core promoter is provided which comprises Inr, MTE, TATA box and DPE elements. The present invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising the core promoter constructs. Additionally, methods of increasing production of a protein using the core promoter constructs are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920986 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968701 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Liu (Brooklyn, New York); Liang Ding (Ithaca, New York); Ruojie Sha (Pomona, New York); Nadrian Seeman (New York, New York); James Canary (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a polyribonucleoside ladder copolymer molecule of general formula (I) |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/193600 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968721 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Karen A. Veverka (Cordova, Tennessee); Kiwon Chung (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a process for preparing a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) compound represented by the structure of formula I: wherein X is O; and T, Z, Y, Q, R and R1 are defined herein. The process includes coupling between an amide of formula II and a phenol of formula III followed by a purification step consisting of precipitating the compound of formula (I) in a mixture of alcohol and water alone. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/754626 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968736 | Curran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwelth Systems of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis P. Curran (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Youseung Shin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Nakyen Choy (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Billy W Day (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Raghavan Balachandran (Wesford, Pennsylvania); Charitha Madiraju (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Tiffany Turner (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound of the following structure: wherein R1 is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or a halogen atom; R2 is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe; Ra, Rb and Rc are independently an alkyl group or an aryl group; Rd is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxylalkyl group, —RiSiRaRbRc or a benzyl group, wherein Ri is an alkylene group; Re is an alkyl group, an allyl group, a benzyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or —NRgRh, wherein Rg and Rh are independently H, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R3 is (CH2)n where n is and integer in the range of 0 to 5, —CH2CH(CH3)—, —CH═CH—, —CH═C(CH3)—, or —C≡C—; R4 wherein y1 and y2 are 1 and y3, y4 and y5 are independently 0 or 1, Rk1, Rk2, Rk3, Rk4 and Rk5 are independently H, CH3, or OR2a, and Rs1, Rs2, Rs3, and Rs4 are independently H or CH3, wherein R2a is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe; and R5 is H or OR2b, wherein R2b is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aryl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235720 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968850 | Chinn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garry Chinn (San Mateo, California); Craig S. Levin (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for producing an image. A measurement is obtained, and a projector function is generated using the obtained measurement. The generated projector function is modified based on an a priori image. An image is reconstructed using the modified projector function. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710433 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/363.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970214 | Kadrmas |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan J. Kadrmas (North Salt Lake, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are embodiments of a rotate-and-slant projector that takes advantage of symmetries in the geometry to compute truly volumetric projections to multiple oblique sinograms in a computationally efficient manner. It is based upon the 2D rotation-based projector using the fast three-pass method of shears, and it conserves the 2D rotator computations for multiple projections to each oblique sinogram set. The projector is equally applicable to both conventional evenly-spaced projections and unevenly-spaced line-of-response (LOR) data (where the arc correction is modeled within the projector). The LOR-based version models the exact location of the direct and oblique LORs, and provides an ordinary Poisson reconstruction framework. Speed optimizations of various embodiments of the projector include advantageously utilizing data symmetries such as the vertical symmetry of the oblique projection process, a coarse-depth compression, and array indexing schemes which maximize serial memory access. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/627004 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970580 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Young (New York, New York); Robert Abel (Davie, Florida); Richard A. Friesner (New York, New York); Bruce J. Berne (Irvington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791448 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970581 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Young (New York, New York); Robert Abel (Davie, Florida); Richard A. Friesner (New York, New York); Bruce J. Berne (Irvington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791493 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07967439 | Shelhamer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark John Shelhamer (Reisterstown, Maryland); Dale Charles Roberts (Halethorpe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured is a wireless scleral search coil that includes one or more passive, resonant coils and in a particular embodiment two orthogonal, passive, resonant coils, where each coil resonates at a different frequency. Each resonant coil includes a coil-capacitor circuit, each circuit being configured to resonant at a different frequency. Such a wireless scleral search coil is disposed within a biocompatible material that is shaped to conform and rest upon the eye of a subject. Also featured are system including such a wireless scleral search coil, one or more transmitter coils, an assembly of one or more receiver coils and a calculating sub-system for processing signal data to obtain eye measurement information. |
| FILED | Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/920808 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968016 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Hu Kang (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Unconventional twisted π-electron system electro-optic (EO) chromophores/compounds, compositions and related device structures. Crystallographic analysis of several non-limiting chromophores reveals, for instance, large ring-ring dihedral twist angles and a highly charge-separated zwitterionic structure in the ground state, in both solution phase and solid-state. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/814966 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/586 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968438 | Han et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang M. Han (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Qiming Li (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide semiconductor devices with a high-quality semiconductor material on a lattice mismatched substrate and methods for their manufacturing using low temperature growth techniques followed by an insulator-capped annealing process. The semiconductor material can have high-quality with a sufficiently low threading dislocation (TD) density, and can be effectively used for integrated circuit applications such as an integration of optically-active materials (e.g., Group III-V materials) with silicon circuitry. In an exemplary embodiment, the high-quality semiconductor material can include one or more ultra-thin high-quality semiconductor epitaxial layers/films/materials having a desired thickness on the lattice mismatched substrate. Each ultra-thin high-quality semiconductor epitaxial layer can be formed by capping a low-temperature grown initial ultra-thin semiconductor material, annealing the capped initial ultra-thin semiconductor material, and removing the capping layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835855 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968519 | Deming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy J. Deming (Summerland, California); Miaoer Yu (San Jose, California); Scott A. Curtin (Santa Barbara, California); Jungyeon Hwang (Goleta, California); Michael D. Wyrsta (Goleta, California); Andrew Nowak (Goleta, California); Scott W. Seidel (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the generation of polypeptides having varied material properties are disclosed herein. Methods include means for initiating the polymerization of aminoacid-N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) monomer by combining the monomer with an amido-containing metallacycle, for making self assembling amphiphilic block copolypeptides and related protocols for adding oligo(ethyleneglycol) functionalized aminoacid-N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs) to polyaminoacid chains. Additional methods include means of adding an end group to the carboxy terminus of a polyaminoacid chain by reacting an alloc-protected amino acid amide with a transition metal-donor ligand complex to forming an amido-amidate metallacycle for use in further polymerization reactions. Novel compositions for use in peptide synthesis and design including five and six membered amido-containing metallacycles and block copolypeptides are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/006440 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968673 | Redko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail Y. Redko (East Lansing, Michigan); James E. Jackson (Haslett, Michigan); Volodymyr Tarabara (East Lansing, Michigan); Julian Taurozzi (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyazacrown polymers based on the azacrown monomer 1,4,7,10,13,16,21,24-octaazabicyclo[8.8.8]hexacosane (“H6Aza222”) are disclosed. Azacrown monomer units are preferably linked with a suitable linking agent, and the resulting polymers are can absorb mercury from a water stream and form a stable complex therewith. Methods of making and using the polyazacrown polymers are also disclosed. The polymers have a high absorption capacity for and selectivity towards mercury, which properties are useful for the remediation of mercury-contaminated water. The polymers can be regenerated by the efficient removal of the absorbed mercury. Further, the absorbed mercury that is liberated from the polyazacrown polymers can be effectively concentrated and captured to prevent its re-release into the environment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/070423 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968701 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Liu (Brooklyn, New York); Liang Ding (Ithaca, New York); Ruojie Sha (Pomona, New York); Nadrian Seeman (New York, New York); James Canary (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a polyribonucleoside ladder copolymer molecule of general formula (I) |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/193600 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968836 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); SRU Brosystems, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian T. Cunningham (Champaign, Illinois); Charles Choi (Savoy, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic crystal (PC) sensors, and sensor arrays and sensing systems incorporating PC sensors are described which have integrated fluid containment and/or fluid handling structures. The PC sensors are further integrated into a sample handling device such as a microwell plate. Sensors and sensing systems of the present disclosure are capable of high throughput sensing of analytes in fluid samples, bulk refractive index detection, and label-free detection of a range of molecules, including biomolecules and therapeutic candidates. The present disclosure also provides a commercially attractive fabrication platform for making photonic crystal sensors and systems wherein an integrated fluid containment structure and a photonic crystal structure are fabricated in a single molding or imprinting processing step amendable to high throughput processing. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800082 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969079 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Haibing Peng (Houston, Texas); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A carbon nanotube device in accordance with the invention includes a free-standing membrane that is peripherally supported by a support structure. The membrane includes an aperture that extends through a thickness of the membrane. At least one carbon nanotube extends across the aperture on a front surface of the membrane. The carbon nanotube is also accessible from a back surface of the membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290977 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969088 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Qingwu Wang (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435153 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969263 | Sturgis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Associated Universities, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Kent (Kent, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Silversun Sturgis (Socorro, New Mexico); Nathan J. Gomes (Trent, United Kingdom); Pengbo Shen (Trent, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber wrap and a method of rotating the fiber wrap without twisting a data cable are disclosed. The fiber wrap includes a sun gear, a sun cylinder coupled to the sun gear, a planetary gear in contact with the sun gear, a planetary cylinder coupled to the planetary gear, an outer housing in contact with the planetary gear, and a data cable coupled to the sun cylinder, the planetary cylinder, and the outer housing. The maximum bend radius of the data cable is determined by the equation: wherein λ is optical wavelength and wherein Cs is the stress-optics coefficient, c is the speed of light, R1 is the bend radius at the end of the wrap motion, R2 is the bend radius at the start of the wrap motion, r is the radii of the sun cylinder and the planetary cylinder, and |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/868537 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/135 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969654 | Ersoy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Okan K. Ersoy (West Lafayette, Indiana); Xianfan Xu (West Lafayette, Indiana); Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A volume Fresnel zone plate and a method of producing such a device using a femtosecond laser for direct writing of zone plates. A volume zone plate has a number of Fresnel zone plate layers designed to focus light coherently to a single spot. Embodiments include both low numerical aperture (NA) and high NA zone plates, and provide a significant increase in overall diffraction efficiency over a single Fresnel zone plate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923415 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/565 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970141 | Boneh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); SRI International (Menlo Park, California); The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Boneh (Palo Alto, California); Amit Sahai (Los Angeles, California); Brent Waters (Woodside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for traitor tracing. One embodiment of a method for determining at least one traced private key used by a decoder to decrypt an encrypted message includes defining an input ciphertext, the input ciphertext being associated with a tracing private key and having a sublinear size, calling the decoder on the input ciphertext, and associating the tracing private key with a set of traced private keys if the decoder is able to correctly decrypt the encrypted message in accordance with the input ciphertext, the set of traced private keys including at least one private key. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855008 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970580 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Young (New York, New York); Robert Abel (Davie, Florida); Richard A. Friesner (New York, New York); Bruce J. Berne (Irvington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791448 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970581 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Young (New York, New York); Robert Abel (Davie, Florida); Richard A. Friesner (New York, New York); Bruce J. Berne (Irvington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/791493 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Anas (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a method for forecasting future economic conditions, land utilization and transportation network utilization and performance of a metropolitan area having a plurality of economic zones, the method includes the steps of: a) receiving a set of calibration values from a first input device; b) calculating a set of calibration constants with a first arithmetic logic unit; c) receiving a set of initial values for a set of desired outputs from a second input device, wherein the set of desired outputs includes regional economic, land use and transportation outputs; d) calculating the regional economic and land use outputs with a second arithmetic logic unit, wherein the regional economic and land use outputs include a first group of variable travel demands; e) calculating an origin to destination matrix with a third arithmetic logic unit, wherein the origin to destination matrix includes two-way daily person trips between an origin economic zone and a destination economic zone; f) calculating the transportation outputs with a fourth arithmetic logic unit, wherein the transportation outputs include a second group of variable travel demands; h) repeating steps d) through f) until the first group of variable travel demands is substantially the same as the second group of variable travel demands; and, g) providing the set of desired outputs to an output device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/646111 |
| ART UNIT | 3684 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07966801 | Umeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chukwueloka Umeh (Schenectady, New York); Leonardo C. Kammer (Niskayuna, New York); Minesh Shah (Clifton Park, New York); Jeffrey B. Fortin (Niskayuna, New York); Aaron Knobloch (Mechanicville, New York); William J. Myers (West Chester, Ohio); Alfred Albert Mancini (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An Active Combustion Control System and method provides for monitoring combustor pressure and modulating fuel to a gas turbine combustor to prevent combustion dynamics and/or flame extinguishments. The system includes an actuator, wherein the actuator periodically injects pulsed fuel into the combustor. The apparatus also includes a sensor connected to the combustion chamber down stream from an inlet, where the sensor generates a signal detecting the pressure oscillations in the combustor. The apparatus controls the actuator in response to the sensor. The apparatus prompts the actuator to periodically inject pulsed fuel into the combustor at a predetermined sympathetic frequency and magnitude, thereby controlling the amplitude of the pressure oscillations in the combustor by modulating the natural oscillations. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567950 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966821 | Zupanc et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank J. Zupanc (Phoenix, Arizona); Paul R. Yankowich (Phoenix, Arizona); Michael T. Barton (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine combustor includes a plurality of main fuel injector assemblies, and a plurality of pilot fuel injector assemblies, that are arranged and configured to reduce exhaust gas emissions during engine operation. The plurality of main fuel injector assemblies are arranged in a substantially circular pattern of a first radius, and each includes an outlet port having a first divergence angle. The plurality of pilot fuel injector assemblies are arranged in a substantially circular pattern of a second radius. Each pilot fuel injector assembly is disposed between at least two main fuel injector assemblies, and each includes an outlet port having a second divergence angle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361345 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/751 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966824 | Mengle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinod G. Mengle (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nozzle exit configurations and associated systems and methods are disclosed. An aircraft system in accordance with one embodiment includes a jet engine exhaust nozzle having an internal flow surface and an exit aperture, with the exit aperture having a perimeter that includes multiple projections extending in an aft direction. Aft portions of individual neighboring projections are spaced apart from each other by a gap, and a geometric feature of the multiple can change in a monotonic manner along at least a portion of the perimeter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/502130 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966866 | Hansma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Hansma (Goleta, California); Barney Drake (Rena, Nevada); Douglas Rehn (Lompoc, California); Jonathan Adams (Santa Barbara, California); Jason Lulejian (Pismo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and instruments for characterizing a material, such as the properties of bone in a living human subject, using a test probe constructed for insertion into the material and a reference probe aligned with the test probe in a housing. The housing is hand held or placed so that the reference probe contacts the surface of the material under pressure applied either by hand or by the weight of the housing. The test probe is inserted into the material to indent the material while maintaining the reference probe substantially under the hand pressure or weight of the housing allowing evaluation of a property of the material related to indentation of the material by the probe. Force can be generated by a voice coil in a magnet structure to the end of which the test probe is connected and supported in the magnet structure by a flexure, opposing flexures, a linear translation stage, or a linear bearing. Optionally, a measurement unit containing the test probe and reference probe is connected to a base unit with a wireless connection, allowing in the field material testing. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079444 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968054 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Li (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for receiving, analyzing and communicating results of sensing chemical and/or physical parameter values, using wireless transmission of the data. Presence or absence of one or more of a group of selected chemicals in a gas or vapor is determined, using suitably functionalized carbon nanostructures that are exposed to the gas. One or more physical parameter values, such as temperature, vapor pressure, relative humidity and distance from a reference location, are also sensed for the gas, using nanostructures and/or microstructures. All parameter values are transmitted wirelessly to a data processing site or to a control site, using an interleaving pattern for data received from different sensor groups, using I.E.E.E. 802.11 or 802.15 protocol, for example. Methods for estimating chemical concentration are discussed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715785 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968073 | Clarke et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. F. Clarke (Seabrook, Texas); Daniel L. Feeback (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing stable dispersions of single-walled carbon nanotube structures in solutions are achieved utilizing dispersal agents. The dispersal agents are effective in substantially solubilizing and dispersing single-walled carbon nanotube structures in aqueous solutions by coating the structures and increasing the surface interaction between the structures and water. Exemplary agents suitable for dispersing nanotube structures in aqueous solutions include synthetic and natural detergents having high surfactant properties, deoxycholates, cyclodextrins, chaotropic salts and ion pairing agents. The dispersed nanotube structures may further be deposited on a suitable surface in isolated and individualized form to facilitate easy characterization and further processing of the structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/978333 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968117 | Morrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis R. Morrison (Kemah, Texas); Benjamin Mosier (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are microcapsules comprising a polymer shell enclosing one or more immiscible liquid phases in which a drug or drug precursor are contained in a liquid phase. The microparticles also contain magnetic particles that can be heated by application of an external magnetic field and thus heated to a predetermined Curie temperature. Heating of the particles melts the polymer shell and releases the drug without causing heating of surrounding tissues. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100009 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968280 | Wainwright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Charles River Laboratories, Inc. (Wilmington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman R. Wainwright (Johns Island, South Carolina); Foster T. Jordan (Chapin, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for the detection and/or quantification of a Gram positive bacterial contaminant in a sample. In particular, the invention provides hemocyte-based preparations, methods of making such hemocyte-based preparations, and methods of using such hemocyte-based preparations for the detection and/or quantification of the Gram positive bacterial contaminant. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/292295 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968620 | Gajiwala |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Himansu M. Gajiwala (Layton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An insulation composition that comprises at least one nitrile butadiene rubber, basalt fibers, and nanoclay is disclosed. Further disclosed is an insulation composition that comprises polybenzimidazole fibers, basalt fibers, and nanoclay. The basalt fibers may be present in the insulation compositions in a range of from approximately 1% by weight to approximately 6% by weight of the total weight of the insulation composition. The nanoclay may be present in the insulation compositions in a range of from approximately 5% by weight to approximately 10% by weight of the total weight of the insulation composition. Rocket motors including the insulation compositions and methods of insulating a rocket motor are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/765585 |
| ART UNIT | 1796 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/138 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968648 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martha K. Williams (Titusville, Florida); Trent M. Smith (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polymer blends containing polyhydroxyamide and one or more flammable polymers. The polymer blends are flame retardant and have improved durability and heat stability compared to the flammable polymer portion of the blends. Articles containing the polymer blends are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935093 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968812 | Phelps et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter M. Phelps (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Bryan W. Gaither (Clarksville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible joint may include a conductive compression spring and a pair of non-conductive spring cages disposed at opposite ends of the compression spring to support the compression spring. A conductive member disposed inside the compression spring may extend between the pair of spring cages. One end of the conductive member may be fixed for movement with one of the spring cages and another end of the conductive member may be fixed for movement with the other of the spring cages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/353009 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Circuit makers and breakers 2/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970025 | Livas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Livas (Severna Park, Maryland); James I. Thorpe (Rockville, Maryland); Kenji Numata (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for stabilizing a laser to a frequency reference with an adjustable offset. The method locks a sideband signal generated by passing an incoming laser beam through the phase modulator to a frequency reference, and adjusts a carrier frequency relative to the locked sideband signal by changing a phase modulation frequency input to the phase modulator. The sideband signal can be a single sideband (SSB), dual sideband (DSB), or an electronic sideband (ESB) signal. Two separate electro-optic modulators can produce the DSB signal. The two electro-optic modulators can be a broadband modulator and a resonant modulator. With a DSB signal, the method can introduce two sinusoidal phase modulations at the phase modulator. With ESB signals, the method can further drive the optical phase modulator with an electrical signal with nominal frequency Ω1 that is phase modulated at a frequency Ω2. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496954 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07971095 | Hess et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Hess (Glendale, Arizona); Gerald B. Kelly (Glendale, Arizona); Randy Rogers (Phoenix, Arizona); Kent A. Stange (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | System and methods for providing a recoverable real time multi-tasking computer system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system comprises a real time computing environment, wherein the real time computing environment is adapted to execute one or more applications and wherein each application is time and space partitioned. The system further comprises a fault detection system adapted to detect one or more faults affecting the real time computing environment and a fault recovery system, wherein upon the detection of a fault the fault recovery system is adapted to restore a backup set of state variables. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/058764 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07966841 | Lowenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AIL Research, Inc (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Lowenstein (Princeton, New Jersey); Marc J. Sibilia (Princeton, New Jersey); Jeffrey A. Miller (Hopewell, New Jersey); Thomas Tonon (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass and heat exchanger includes at least one first substrate with a surface for supporting a continuous flow of a liquid thereon that either absorbs, desorbs, evaporates or condenses one or more gaseous species from or to a surrounding gas; and at least one second substrate operatively associated with the first substrate. The second substrate includes a surface for supporting the continuous flow of the liquid thereon and is adapted to carry a heat exchange fluid therethrough, wherein heat transfer occurs between the liquid and the heat exchange fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818711 |
| ART UNIT | 3784 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967567 | Liang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Liang (Palm City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An airfoil for a turbine vane of a gas turbine engine. The airfoil includes an outer wall having pressure and suction sides, and a radially extending cooling cavity located between the pressure and suction sides. A plurality of partitions extend radially through the cooling cavity to define a plurality of interconnected cooling channels located at successive chordal locations through the cooling cavity. The cooling channels define a serpentine flow path extending in the chordal direction. Further, the cooling channels include a plurality of interconnected chambers and the chambers define a serpentine path extending in the radial direction within the serpentine path extending in the chordal direction. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/728887 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967570 | Shi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Shi (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Wayde R. Schmidt (Pomfret Center, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A turbine vane includes a platform; and at least one airfoil mounted to the platform and having a trailing edge and a leading edge, wherein the vane is composed of a functionally graded material having a first material and a second material, wherein the trailing edge includes a greater amount of the first material than the second material, and the leading edge includes a greater amount of the second material than the first material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/829391 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/223.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968004 | Cella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Elliott West Shanklin (Altamont, New York); Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr. (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyfluorene polymers and copolymers having substantial amounts (10-100%) of fluorenes coupled at the 2 and 5 positions of fluorene are useful as active layers in OLED devices where triplet energies >2.10 eV are required. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250770 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968231 | Amine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U Chicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Ilias Belharouak (Westmont, Illinois); Jun Liu (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A material comprising a lithium titanate comprising a plurality of primary particles and secondary particles, wherein the average primary particle size is about 1 nm to about 500 nm and the average secondary particle size is about 1 μm to about 4 μm. In some embodiments the lithium titanate is carbon-coated. Also provided are methods of preparing lithium titanates, and devices using such materials. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/444219 |
| ART UNIT | 1725 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968235 | Amine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois); Jaekook Kim (Gwangju Metropolitan, South Korea); Donald R. Vissers (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to non-aqueous electrolytes having stabilization additives and electrochemical devices containing the same. Thus the present invention provides electrolytes containing an alkali metal salt, a polar aprotic solvent, a first additive that is a substituted or unsubstituted organoamine, substituted or unsubstituted alkane, substituted or unsubstituted alkene, or substituted or unsubstituted aryl compound, and/or a second additive that is a metal(chelato)borate. When used in electrochemical devices with, e.g., lithium manganese oxide spinel electrodes, the new electrolytes provide batteries with improved calendar and cycle life. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/857365 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968484 | Becher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul F. Becher (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hua-Tay Lin (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A high-strength, fracture-resistant silicon nitride ceramic material that includes about 5 to about 75 wt-% of elongated reinforcing grains of beta-silicon nitride, about 20 to about 95 wt-% of fine grains of beta-silicon nitride, wherein the fine grains have a major axis of less than about 1 micron; and about 1 to about 15 wt-% of an amorphous intergranular phase comprising Si, N, O, a rare earth element and a secondary densification element. The elongated reinforcing grains have an aspect ratio of 2:1 or greater and a major axis measuring about 1 micron or greater. The elongated reinforcing grains are essentially isotropically oriented within the ceramic microstructure. The silicon nitride ceramic exhibits a room temperature flexure strength of 1,000 MPa or greater and a fracture toughness of 9 MPa-m(1/2) or greater. The silicon nitride ceramic exhibits a peak strength of 800 MPa or greater at 1200 degrees C. Also included are methods of making silicon nitride ceramic materials which exhibit the described high flexure strength and fracture-resistant values. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/851540 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/97.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968701 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu Liu (Brooklyn, New York); Liang Ding (Ithaca, New York); Ruojie Sha (Pomona, New York); Nadrian Seeman (New York, New York); James Canary (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a polyribonucleoside ladder copolymer molecule of general formula (I) |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/193600 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968764 | Vermerris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Willem Evert Vermerris (Gainesville, Florida); Michael R. Ladisch (Lafayette, Indiana); Nathan S. Mosier (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for increasing yield of fermentable sugars from plant stover are provided. The methods include using plants homozygous for two brown midrib mutations, bm1 and bm3. The methods also include using plants homozygous for a mutation in a gene that results in reduced cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity, and a mutation in a gene that results in reduced 5 -hydroxyconiferaldehyde/5-hydroxyconiferyl alcohol O-methyltransferase activity. The methods also include using transgenic plants that have reduced cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity and reduced 5 -hydroxyconiferaldehyde/5-hydroxyconiferyl alcohol O-methyltransferase activity in comparison with wild-type plants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416006 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/275 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969576 | Buckley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven G. Buckley (Redmond, Washington); Mohammadreza Gharavi (Tehran, Iran); Marco Borchers (Berlin, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques, apparatus and systems for using Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy measurements to optically monitor gas media such as gases in gas combustion chambers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054352 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970047 | Nekoogar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California); Farid U. Dowla (Castro Valley, California); Alex Spiridon (Palo Alto, California); Peter C. Haugen (Livermore, California); Dave M. Benzel (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention presents a simple and novel channel estimation scheme for UWB communication systems. As disclosed herein, the present invention maximizes the extraction of information by incorporating a new generation of transmitted-reference (Tr) transceivers that utilize a single reference pulse(s) or a preamble of reference pulses to provide improved channel estimation while offering higher Bit Error Rate (BER) performance and data rates without diluting the transmitter power. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/646886 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07971073 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chung-Hsing Hsu (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Wu-Chun Feng (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an effective way to reduce energy and power consumption in microprocessor units. Current implementations of DVFS suffer from inaccurate modeling of power requirements and usage, and from inaccurate characterization of the relationships between the applicable variables. A system and method is proposed that adjusts CPU frequency and voltage based on run-time calculations of the workload processing time, as well as a calculation of performance sensitivity with respect to CPU frequency. The system and method are processor independent, and can be applied to either an entire system as a unit, or individually to each process running on a system. |
| FILED | Friday, November 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556651 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07967507 | Levine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, NIST (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zachary H. Levine (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Steven Grantham (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A dimensional reference system for tomography, including X-ray computed tomography and MRI tomography. The system includes a dimensional reference apparatus that comprises plurality of spheres composed of a material having an X-ray absorption property between approximately +500 Hounsfield units and +1200 Hounsfield units. The spheres are spaced apart at a known distance by support structure/spacer unit that has an X-ray absorption property between approximately −100 Hounsfield units and +400 Hounsfield units. After an image that incorporates the dimensional reference apparatus and a measurement subject has been reconstructed, the dimensional reference apparatus provides for measurement of the resultant image voxels in three dimensions. Because solid structural elements such as plastic or glass spheres may not be visible in an MRI, an MRI implementation of the apparatus may be disposed in a fluid-tight enclosure along with water, a contrast-enhancing agent and ethanol. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380930 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968248 | Liu et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Junli Liu (Bothell, Washington); Lorne Roy (Seattle, Washington); David Wine (Seattle, Washington); Leroy Ohlsen (Gold Bar, Washington); Jonathan Mallari (Seattle, Washington); Art Homa (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention disclosed herein relates to fuel cell electrode pair assemblies, not having interposing proton exchange membranes, configured to receive and react with liquid anolyte and liquid catholyte microfluidic flowstreams. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a fuel cell electrode pair assembly, not having an interposing proton exchange membrane, configured to receive and react with a liquid microfluidic anolyte flowstream (e.g., laminarly flowing methanol solution) and a liquid microfluidic catholyte flowstream (e.g., laminarly flowing nitric acid solution), wherein the fuel cell electrode pair assembly comprises: a porous flow-through anode; a porous flow-by cathode confronting and spaced apart from the anode; and a central plenum interposed between and connected to the anode and the cathode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/669895 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/513 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968433 | Nikoobakht |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Babak Nikoobakht (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of fabricating nanowire structures and nanodevices are provided. The methods involve photolithographically depositing a nucleation center on a crystalline surface of a substrate, generating a nanoscale seed from the nucleation center, and epitaxially growing a nanowire across at least a portion of the crystalline surface starting at a nucleation site where the nanoscale seed is located. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/247617 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969296 | Stell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Williams-Pyro, Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew W. Stell (Aledo, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided, which provides reliable fire detection. In one implementation, the automated system includes a combination of sensors configured to measure various factors associated with a hazard, such as a fire or gas leakage, and generate sensor readings. Factors measured can include smoke, carbon monoxide and heat. The system further includes a detection device that is configured to determine whether a hazard or fire exists by performing a fuzzy analysis of sensor readings. The fuzzy analysis includes categorizing respective sensor readings into fuzzy sets, and determining whether the hazard exists based on a combination of the categorizations. In addition the size and direction of a fire can be determined from multiple sensors. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184724 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07969323 | Mitchell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Mitchell (Oviedo, Florida); Anand A. Kulkarni (Oviedo, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida); Edward R. Roesch (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrumented component (18, 19) for use in various operating environments such as within a combustion turbine engine (10). The component (18, 19) may have a substrate, a sensor (50, 94, 134) connected with the substrate for sensing a condition of the component (18, 19) during operation of the combustion turbine (10) and a connector (52, 92, 140) attached to the substrate and in communication with the sensor (50, 94, 134) for routing a data signal from the sensor (50, 94, 134) to a termination location (53). The component (18, 19) may include a wireless telemetry device (54, 76, 96) in communication with the connector (52, 92, 140) for wirelessly transmitting the data signal. Recesses (114, 116) may be formed with a root portion (112, 132) of components (18, 19) within which wireless telemetry device (54, 76, 96) may be affixed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521193 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/870.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970543 | Powell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Powell (Coconut Grove, Florida); Timothy A. Reinhold (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of predicting the destructive capacity of a tropical cyclone based on a new Wind Destructive Potential (WDP) and Storm Surge Destructive Potential (SDP) scales which provide a manner to rate the severity of hurricanes and typhoons, based on information provided in operational forecast and warning products, experimental wind field products, or gridded numerical weather prediction model outputs. These new scales are formulated to be consistent with the physical mechanism through which tropical cyclones impact coastal communities through wind, storm surges and wave damage. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/050836 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07966801 | Umeh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chukwueloka Umeh (Schenectady, New York); Leonardo C. Kammer (Niskayuna, New York); Minesh Shah (Clifton Park, New York); Jeffrey B. Fortin (Niskayuna, New York); Aaron Knobloch (Mechanicville, New York); William J. Myers (West Chester, Ohio); Alfred Albert Mancini (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An Active Combustion Control System and method provides for monitoring combustor pressure and modulating fuel to a gas turbine combustor to prevent combustion dynamics and/or flame extinguishments. The system includes an actuator, wherein the actuator periodically injects pulsed fuel into the combustor. The apparatus also includes a sensor connected to the combustion chamber down stream from an inlet, where the sensor generates a signal detecting the pressure oscillations in the combustor. The apparatus controls the actuator in response to the sensor. The apparatus prompts the actuator to periodically inject pulsed fuel into the combustor at a predetermined sympathetic frequency and magnitude, thereby controlling the amplitude of the pressure oscillations in the combustor by modulating the natural oscillations. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567950 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07966824 | Mengle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vinod G. Mengle (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nozzle exit configurations and associated systems and methods are disclosed. An aircraft system in accordance with one embodiment includes a jet engine exhaust nozzle having an internal flow surface and an exit aperture, with the exit aperture having a perimeter that includes multiple projections extending in an aft direction. Aft portions of individual neighboring projections are spaced apart from each other by a gap, and a geometric feature of the multiple can change in a monotonic manner along at least a portion of the perimeter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/502130 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07970559 | Rogovin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Rogovin (Newbury Park, California); Martin W. Kendig (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention determine the type of damage to a wire, the amount of damage, and the location of the damage based on the wire's broadband impedance measured from a single measurement point. The type of damage is determined by comparing the wire's calculated dielectric function, resistance and inductance to known values that correspond to types of wire damage. The amount of damage is determined by comparing the wire's low-frequency impedance phase to known low-frequency impedance phase information that corresponds to a known amount of wire damage. The location of damage is determined by comparing the wire's high-frequency impedance phase to known high-frequency impedance phase information that corresponds to a known location of wire damage. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210178 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07966841 | Lowenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AIL Research, Inc (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Lowenstein (Princeton, New Jersey); Marc J. Sibilia (Princeton, New Jersey); Jeffrey A. Miller (Hopewell, New Jersey); Thomas Tonon (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A mass and heat exchanger includes at least one first substrate with a surface for supporting a continuous flow of a liquid thereon that either absorbs, desorbs, evaporates or condenses one or more gaseous species from or to a surrounding gas; and at least one second substrate operatively associated with the first substrate. The second substrate includes a surface for supporting the continuous flow of the liquid thereon and is adapted to carry a heat exchange fluid therethrough, wherein heat transfer occurs between the liquid and the heat exchange fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818711 |
| ART UNIT | 3784 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/271 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07967967 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tesla Laboratories, LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick Ismail James (Boulder, Colorado); George Stejic (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a method for electrochemical modification of liquid streams employing an electrolytic cell which utilizes an oxidation site defined by an anode, an anode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte anolyte where oxidation is effected, a cathode compartment comprising liquid electrolyte catholyte where reduction is effected, a cathode comprising conducting cathode particulates forming a cathode particulates bed and a current feeder device in at least intermittent contact with said cathode particulates where the cathode particulates are in motion and the particulates motion is substantially independent of bulk electrolyte flow, a separator which confines the cathode particulates to the cathode compartment, constrains electrolyte flow through the cathode particulates bed and permits ionic conduction of current between the anode and cathode, a cathode particulates conveyance system that manipulates cathode particulates motion. A separate system circulates the liquid undergoing modification through the electrolytic cell. An unidirectional current driving system drives unidirectional electric current supported by the liquid streams from the anode through the anolyte and the separator and into the catholyte and to the cathode particulates and to the current feeder device during the contact between the cathode particulates and the current feeder device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623658 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968113 | Siegel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biomedical Development Corp. (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg Siegel (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided to treat skin to restore barrier homeostasis and to promote normal stratum corneum function by applying to the skin a liquid composition which forms a phase inversion membrane. The amount of solids in the liquid composition is varied so as to provide a desired degree of porosity to the resulting membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011879 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07968525 | Scharf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Scharf (Gainesville, Florida); Xuguo Zhou (Lexington, Kentucky); Faith M. Oi (Gainesville, Florida); Marsha M. Wheeler (Urbana, Illinois); Matthew R. Tarver (Gainesville, Florida); Monique R. Coy (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, matrix compositions and kits for increasing the mortality of termites (R. flavipes) and interfering with termite development using RNA interference techniques to target cellulase, lignocellulase, hexamerin, broad, farnesoic acid methyl transferase, cytochrome P450 and vitellogenin activity are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/324312 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968646 | Laborie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marie-Pierre Laborie (Pullman, Washington); Elvie Brown (Pasco, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are novel methods for making cellulose nanocomposites, comprising biosynthesis of cellulose fibrils in situ using a growth medium comprising a polymer matrix material, under conditions suitable to provide for dispersion of the fibril throughout the growth medium as the fibrils are being formed to provide a cellulose nanocomposite material or film wherein the cellulose fibrils are highly or uniformly dispersed in the cellulose nanocomposite material, and wherein fibril structure and/or nanocomposite composition is customizable. Certain method aspects further comprise removing or separating the cellulose nanocomposite material or film from the medium, and may further comprise washing the cellulose nanocomposite material or film to remove residual medium. Particular aspects further comprise freeze-drying the cellulose nanocomposite material or film, and/or further comprise forming a molded product using the cellulose nanocomposite material or film. Compositions made by the methods are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/197098 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07971252 | Lippmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard P. Lippmann (Wayland, Massachusetts); Kyle W. Ingols (Arlington, Massachusetts); Keith J. Piwowarski (Leominster, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a method to generate an attack graph includes determining if a potential node provides a first precondition equivalent to one of preconditions provided by a group of preexisting nodes on the attack graph. The group of preexisting nodes includes a first state node, a first vulnerability instance node, a first prerequisite node, and a second state node. The method also includes, if the first precondition is equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, coupling a current node to a preexisting node providing the precondition equivalent to the first precondition using a first edge and if the first precondition is not equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, generating the potential node as a new node on the attack graph and coupling the new node to the current node using a second edge. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/760158 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07968539 | Peyton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Peyton (Portland, Oregon); Steven Burgess (Tualatin, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure provides a new class of compounds referred to as “reversed chloroquines” (RCQs), which are highly effective against CQR and CQS malaria parasites. RCQs are hybrid molecules, which include an antimalarial quinoline analog (such as chloroquine) moiety and a CQR reversal moiety. Exemplary RCQ chemical structures are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the disclosed RCQ compounds, and methods of using such compounds and compositions for the treatment of malaria and inhibition of CQR or CQS Plasmodium sp. (such as P. falciparum). |
| FILED | Monday, December 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/884547 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07967204 | Hadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alien Technology Corporation (Morgan Hill, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Hadley (Newark, California); Curt L. Carrender (Morgan Hill, California); John Stephen Smith (San Jose, California); Gordon S. W. Craig (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) device. The RFID device comprises an antenna assembly and a resonator assembly. The antenna assembly comprises a first substrate and an antenna element. The resonator assembly comprises a second substrate having an integrated circuit connected to a resonator loop. The first substrate and the second substrate are attached to one another. The integrated circuit electrically couples to the antenna element without a direct mechanical contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248020 |
| ART UNIT | 2876 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07968688 | Zauderer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurice Zauderer (Pittsford, New York); Elizabeth E. Evans (Bloomfield, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a novel human gene that is differentially expressed in human carcinoma. More specifically, the present invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a novel human polypeptide named C35 that is overexpressed in human breast and bladder carcinoma. This invention also relates to C35 polypeptide, in particular C35 peptide epitopes and C35 peptide epitope analogs, as well as vectors, host cells, antibodies directed to C35 polypeptides, and the recombinant methods for producing the same. The present invention further relates to diagnostic methods for detecting carcinomas, including human breast carcinomas. The present invention further relates to the formulation and use of the C35 gene and polypeptides, in particular C35 peptide epitopes and C35 peptide epitope analogs, in immunogenic compositions or vaccines, to induce antibody or cell-mediated immunity against target cells, such as tumor cells, that express the C35 gene. The invention further relates to screening methods for identifying agonists and antagonists of C35 activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350937 |
| 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 07969216 | Dennis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Dennis (Warrenton, Virginia); Dale A. Rickard (Manassass, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a method and system for both open-loop and closed-loop timing synchronization are provided in which a master clock signal, and a plurality of signals that define greater periods of time, are distributed to a plurality of host devices. A frame-sync signal is used to define a “frame” consisting of a predetermined number of clock periods, and a reset signal is used to define a larger period consisting of a predetermined number of frames. Due to a variety of system parameters, the innate delay time associated with each respective timing distribution path may differ. The system is operable to adjust the timing signals propagated to the plurality of host devices along each respective timing distribution path to compensate for these differences so that each host device remains synchronized with all other host devices. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/614247 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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