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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 02, 2011
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| US 07987712 | Myhre et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas C. Myhre (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Joseph R. Michel (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A seal assembly for an optical sensor employed in a high temperature environment is disclosed which includes an elongated metal guide tube having a distal end portion defining an open distal end and an inner rear wall, a sapphire window disposed within the distal end portion of the metal guide tube, the sapphire window having a rear end surface abutting the inner rear wall of the distal end portion of the metal guide tube, and a platinum mounting sleeve for securing the sapphire window to the metal guide tube, the platinum mounting sleeve having one portion joined to the metal guide tube and another portion joined to the sapphire window. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316136 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07987791 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana); Christopher Allen Brown (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of disrupting electrical power transmission including the steps of launching a projectile from a hand-held launcher, ejecting a plurality of electrically conductive members from the projectile, and bridging electrical contacts of power transmission equipment. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415754 |
| 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 12/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07987805 | Buescher 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) | James Buescher (San Diego, California); Peter Sullivan (Solana Beach, California); Aaron Bratten (El Cajon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a means by which the attitude or orientation of a submerged object can be changed or altered using a fixed quantity of transferable ballast fluid which has a density less than that of the surrounding fluid in which the object is submerged. In one embodiment, the process utilizes a static negatively buoyant material (which could be a lead weight) to offset the net negative buoyancy of the transferable ballast fluid. In this way, the total overall buoyancy of the system does not change, but by transferring ballast fluid into expandable reservoirs which are physically separated from the static negatively buoyant material, the separation between the center of buoyancy and the center of mass of the object can be changed, and thus the attitude or orientation of the object, if it is unrestrained, may be changed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/473485 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07987813 | Renn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optomec, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Renn (Hudson, Wisconsin); Bruce H. King (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marcelino Essien (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Gregory J. Marquez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Manampathy G. Giridharan (Mason, Ohio); Jyh-Cherng Sheu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and processes for maskless deposition of electronic and biological materials. The process is capable of direct deposition of features with linewidths varying from the micron range up to a fraction of a millimeter, and may be used to deposit features on substrates with damage thresholds near 100° C. Deposition and subsequent processing may be carried out under ambient conditions, eliminating the need for a vacuum atmosphere. The process may also be performed in an inert gas environment. Deposition of and subsequent laser post processing produces linewidths as low as 1 micron, with sub-micron edge definition. The apparatus nozzle has a large working distance—the orifice to substrate distance may be several millimeters—and direct write onto non-planar surfaces is possible. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/349279 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988103 | Land, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | H. Bruce Land, III (Laurel, Maryland); Kenneth R. Grossman (Olney, Maryland); Bohdan Z. Cybyk (Columbia, Maryland); David M. VanWie (Brookeville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and device are provided for manipulating high-speed flows without moving aerodynamic structures. More particularly, a flow control actuator device is provided that is capable of producing a pulsating synthetic jet with high exhaust velocities for manipulating high-speed flows without moving aerodynamic structures. The high exhaust velocities of the actuator device may reach sonic levels of Mach 1 or greater. In one embodiment, the device may be constructed as an array of devices. In such an embodiment, each individual device is preferably reduced to a very small size. In such an embodiment, each individual device can then be fired in temporal patterns to create high-speed synthetic jets of air extending above the surface of the each device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015142 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/207 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988381 | Meyer-Pflug 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) | Albert Meyer-Pflug (Stanhope, New Jersey); Victor N. Kokodis (Wharton, New Jersey); Frank Dindl (Newton, New Jersey); Warren G. Reiner, Jr. (Morristown, New Jersey); Michael Heayn (Wharton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle disabling apparatus may include at least one plunger assembly having a plunger and a toggle operable to pivot inside the vehicle tire. The apparatus may include energetic material disposed adjacent the plunger and configured to force the plunger into a vehicle tire. A method of disabling a vehicle having a tire may include using the vehicle's tire to move the plunger and thereby activate the energetic material; and moving the plunger into the tire using gas produced by the energetic material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206872 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Road structure, process, or apparatus 44/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988470 | Ye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Ye (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to thin film transistors (TFTs) and methods of making TFTs. The active channel of the TFT may comprise one or more metals selected from the group consisting of zinc, gallium, tin, indium, and cadmium. The active channel may also comprise nitrogen and oxygen. To protect the active channel during source-drain electrode patterning, an etch stop layer may be deposited over the active layer. The etch stop layer prevents the active channel from being exposed to the plasma used to define the source and drain electrodes. The etch stop layer and the source and drain electrodes may be used as a mask when wet etching the active material layer that is used for the active channel. |
| FILED | Friday, September 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/884572 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988488 | Orlando |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason John Orlando (Riviera Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A connector assembly comprises a connector having a connector threaded section with threads along a length of an external surface of the connector threaded section; and a barrel nut. The barrel nut comprises a nut threaded section having threads along an internal surface of the nut threaded section, wherein the nut threaded section is barrel shaped having a length and a diameter; a fastening section coupled to the nut threaded section, the fastening section having a length and a non-circular shape comprising a plurality of sides; and a nut circular opening extending through the entire length of the fastening section and the entire length of the nut threaded section; wherein the diameter of the nut threaded section is larger than a diameter of the connector threaded section and smaller than a diameter of an opening in a barrier through which the nut is coupled to the connector. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/437313 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988508 | Langenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKA Products Limited Partnership (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Langenfeld (Nashua, New Hampshire); Ryan K. LaRocque (Pepperell, Massachusetts); Stanley B. Smith, III (Raymond, New Hampshire); James M. Knight (Windham, New Hampshire); Thomas S. Schellinger (North Andover, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A swimming propulsion device. The swimming propulsion device includes a fuselage having a forward section and an aft section, at least one propulsor pivotally connected to the forward section of the fuselage, and in some embodiments, at least one stabilizer affixed to the aft section of the fuselage. The device also includes a swimmer connection mechanism removably attached to the fuselage by a locking mechanism whereby the swimmer connection mechanism connects a swimmer to the device, and a control mechanism attached to the fuselage and the propulsor. A method for efficient swimming is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/186719 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Marine propulsion 440/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988766 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eltron Research and Development Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. White (Boulder, Colorado); Jesse W. Taylor (Westminister, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are adsorbents and methods of using the adsorbents to at least partially remove one or more adsorbates. In an aspect, an adsorbate within a phase is at least partially removed by providing an adsorbent material and contacting the adsorbent material with the phase having an adsorbate, to at least partially remove the adsorbate. Various adsorbents are disclosed having the chemical formula RE1-x-y-zBxB′yB″zOw, where RE is RE is a rare earth metal, B is a trivalent metal ion, B′ is a transition metal ion or an alkaline earth element, B″ is a transition metal ion, 0≦x≦0.25, 0≦y≦0.95, 0≦z≦0.75, w is a number which results in charge balance, and x+y+z<1. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/257811 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988801 | Shortridge 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) | Robert G. Shortridge (Bloomington, Indiana); Christina M. Yamamoto (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Perchlorate-free green flare compositions are disclosed which, when burned, produce green smoke and flames. Methods of producing the compositions are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334096 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988802 | D'Arche 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) | Steven P. D'Arche (Odon, Indiana); Travis Swanson (Bloomfield, Indiana); Brian Melof (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermite torch formulation that consists essentially of a metal fuel, a first oxidizer CuO, a second oxidizer MoO3, and a binder material. When the thermite formulation is reacted, a torch may direct at least one reaction product onto a certain region of an object to deliver a large amount of energy to that region of the object. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/637287 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988930 | Doona 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) | Christopher Doona (Oxford, Massachusetts); Maria Curtin (Easton, Massachusetts); Florence Feeherry (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Satish Kandlikar (Rochester, New York); David Baer (San Antonio, Texas); Kenneth Kustin (San Diego, California); Irwin A. Taub (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barbara Taub, legal representative (Framingham, Massachusetts); Albert T. McManus (Floresville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight, easy-to-carry, reusable, durable, and environmentally-friendly assembly for sterilizing contaminated equipment using conditions of a chemical sterilant, heat, and humidity generated in situ without requiring external electricity, fuels, or other exogenous energy sources for operation. The carry assembly includes a plastic carry-case or insulated aluminum pressure vessel having an inner chamber for accepting microbiologically contaminated objects, a vessel disposed in the chamber for serving as a reaction chamber and/or boiler, a chemical combination which upon mixing generates at least minimally sufficient conditions of the sterilant, heat, and humidity to effect sterilization of the objects, and outlet valves mounted on the carry-case for controllably venting pressures above ambient air pressure. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478155 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988971 | Dimitrov 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); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Rockville, Maryland); Zhu Zhongyu (Frederick, Maryland); Christopher C. Broder (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize Hendra or Nipah virus. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, fully human antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/886307 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/147.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989074 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Robert J. Pieper (Fargo, North Dakota); Abdullah Ekin (Corapolis, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymeric material may be prepared by reacting a mixture comprising an amino functional polyorganosiloxane, polyisocyanate, and polyol. The polyol may comprise a hydroxy-functional poly(meth)acrylate. The polymeric material may be used as a coating for a substrate and may inhibit fouling on a surface exposed to aquatic conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/810696 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989090 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey); The University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Thompson (Anaheim, California); Carsten Borek (Pasadena, California); Kenneth Hanson (Los Angeles, California); Peter Djurovich (Long Beach, California); Yiru Sun (Princeton, New Jersey); Stephen Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Arnold Tamayo (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain iridium compounds which may comprise an iridium(III)-ligand complex having the general formula: (C^N)2—Ir—(N^N). (C^N) and (N^N) may each represent a ligand coordinated to an iridium atom. The iridium compounds may have a primary phosphorescent photoluminescence peak wavelength in the near-infrared (IR) range. Also, organic devices that use certain iridium compounds. The organic device may comprise an organic layer and the organic layer may comprise any of the iridium compounds disclosed herein. Also, organic devices that use certain metalloporphyrin compounds. The metalloporphyrin compounds may comprise a core porphyrin structure with four pyrrole rings. The metalloporphyrin compounds may have a primary phosphorescent photoluminescence peak wavelength in the near-IR range. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546829 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989396 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heng Yu (Mountain View, California); Nader Pourmand (San Mateo, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly specific and versatile surface chemistry for immobilization of amine-terminated probes is disclosed. A bi-layered polymer thin film serves as the platform for coupling the probes, which are preferably oligonucleotides. The process involves sequentially coating a substrate with polyamine and polyacid anhydride. Hydrolyzed polyacid anhydride groups may be converted to non-hydrolyzed groups at about 100° C. prior to probe attachment. The process of coating the substrate requires no harsh chemical pretreatment of substrates such as RCA or Piranha cleaning. In addition, simple thermal activation of the anhydride groups has a low requirement for storage, leading to a long shelf life of modified surfaces. The disclosed surface chemistry is especially compatible with microfabrication processes, and its effective application to magnetic biosensors is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949442 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989505 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhibing Hu (Denton, Texas); Jun Zhou (Denton, Texas); Tong Cai (Denton, Texas); Shijun Tang (Denton, Texas); Manuel Marquez (Midlothian, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The compositions of hydrogel colloidal crystals are made from mixing an aqueous suspension of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (“PNIPAM”)-co-allylamine microgels with dichloromethane, forming a PNIPAM-co-allylamine/dichloromethane mixture. The PNIPAM-co-allylamine/dichloromethane mixture is incubated for a period of time at a given temperature, forming the colloidal crystal material. The colloidal crystals can be stabilized by diffusing a glutaric dialdehyde solution into the colloidal crystal material. The concentration of polymer matrix microgels can determine the orientation of random or columnar crystals. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524703 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of 516/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989671 | Strege et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Environmental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua R. Strege (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Benjamin G. Oster (Thompson, North Dakota); Paul D. Pansegrau (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Chad A. Wocken (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Ted R. Aulich (Gand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a hydrocarbon product by hydrotreating a feedstock comprising triacylglyceride (TAG) in the presence of a nonsulfided hydrotreating catalyst to produce a first product comprising hydrocarbons. A method of producing a transportation fuel by selecting an undoped feedstock comprising virgin TAG, used TAG, or a combination thereof; hydrotreating the undoped feedstock in the presence of an unsulfided hydrotreating catalyst to produce a first product; and subjecting the first product to at least one process selected from aromatization, cyclization, and isomerization; to produce a second hydrocarbon product selected from gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, and diesel fuels. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/264689 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/733 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989781 | Patel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N. Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a detector for monitoring a UV false positive from genuine X-ray positive of color developing radiation sensitive devices. A layer which can be scratched off and is opaque to undesired radiation but transparent to X-ray is printed on the sensor. If the sensor displays a signal (i.e., develops color), whether it is genuine or false positive can be confirmed by scratching off the opaque layer. If the signal is a genuine positive, the whole sensor will be uniformly exposed/colored including the area under the opaque layer. If it is a false positive, the area under the scratched off layer will be of lighter color than the rest of the sensor. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/413505 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/474.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989842 | Kazemi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hooman Kazemi (Thousand Oaks, California); Chanh Nguyen (Calabasas, California); Berinder Brar (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates to a zero-bias heterojunction diode detector with varying impedance. The detector includes a substrate supporting a Schottky structure and an Ohmic contact layer. A metallic contact layer is formed over the Ohmic layer. The Schottky structure comprises a plurality of barrier layers and each of the plurality of barriers layers includes a first material and a second material. In one embodiment, the composition percentage of the second material in each of the barrier layers increases among the plurality of barrier layers from the substrate to the metal layer in order to provide a graded periodicity for the Schottky structure. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395528 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/184 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990322 | Nalbandian |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as respresented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vahakn Nalbandian (Schwenksville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrically small shortened HF and VHF microstrip cylindrical antenna with a reduced antenna length are provided. The electrically small shortened HF and VHF microstrip cylindrical antennas are constructed with concentric, ceramic cylinders having copper coating that operate at low frequencies. The concentric, ceramic cylinders alternate with concentric copper layers in a corrugated alternating structure where certain copper layers function as the ground plane and others function as part of the radiating patch providing both a shortened antenna length and the ability to operate efficiently at low frequencies. It is now possible to provide a ten-fold size reduction with these antennas. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/459116 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990488 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeffrey M. Brake (Newark, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a liquid crystal device, includes: contacting an aqueous solution comprising a surfactant and a receptor molecule with a top surface of a liquid crystal. The liquid crystal is in a holding compartment of a substrate, and the receptor molecule is adsorbed on the top surface of the liquid crystal forming an interface between the liquid crystal and the aqueous solution. The receptor molecule is different than the surfactant. A method of detecting a compound in a flowing stream includes passing an aqueous solution over a top surface of a liquid crystal in a holding compartment of a substrate. The method also includes determining whether a change in the orientation of the liquid crystal occurs as the aqueous solution is passed over the top surface of the liquid crystal. A change in the orientation of the liquid crystal indicates the presence of the compound in the flowing stream. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786317 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/58 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990540 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Boyd (Webster, New York); Daniel J. Gauthier (Durham, North Carolina); Zhimin Shi (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the invention, a highly optically dispersive medium is one in which the absolute value of the group index of refraction of the medium is equal to or greater than four. An optical spectroscopic parameter detection and/or measurement apparatus may be in the form of an interferometer, a spectral interferometer, a spectrometer, a wavemeter, a tunable narrowband filter The embodied devices include a highly dispersive medium that appropriately can facilitate either a slow-light effect or a fast-light effect, which is disposed in a propagation path of an electro-magnetic (EM) input field and, a detector disposed in a manner to detect an output field resulting from the input filed interaction with the highly dispersive medium. Methods involve measuring a spectroscopic parameter using an optical spectroscopic parameter detection and/or measurement apparatus that incorporates a highly dispersive medium. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209353 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
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| US 07990543 | Mello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Mello (Pasadena, California); Ares J. Rosakis (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, techniques and systems for implementing an optical interferometer to measure surfaces, including mapping of instantaneous curvature or in-plane and out-of-plane displacement field gradients of a sample surface based on obtaining and processing four optical interferograms from a common optical reflected beam from the sample surface that are relatively separated in phase by π/2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/203050 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/512 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory cell includes double-gate first and second access devices configured to selectively interconnect cross-coupled inverters with true and complementary bit lines. Each access device has a first gate connected to a READ word line and a second gate connected to a WRITE word line. During a READ operation, the first and second access devices are configured to operate in a single-gate mode with the READ word line “ON” and the WRITE word line “OFF” while the double-gate pull-down devices are configured to operate in a double gate mode. During a WRITE operation, the first and second access devices are configured to operate in a double-gate mode with the READ word line “ON” and the WRITE word line also “ON.” |
| FILED | Friday, April 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/757648 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990804 | Gendron 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) | Marlin L Gendron (Pass Christian, Mississippi); Maura C Lohrenz (Pearl River, Louisiana); Lancelot M Riedlinger (Lacombe, Louisiana); James A. Hammack (Long Beach, Mississippi); Charles B. Martin (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based system and method for real-time display of co-registered historical and current side scan sonar imagery during a side scan sonar survey. Embodiments also include modules for detection of clutter in the current imagery, identification of features, extraction of snippets, filtering based on predetermined size and shape parameters, and determination if a current feature is the same as a previously identified contact from historical imagery. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/125555 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991027 | Savage-Leuchs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias P. Savage-Leuchs (Woodinville, Washington); Lawrence A. Borschowa (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for generating controlled-linewidth laser-seed-signals for high-powered fiber-laser amplifier systems. In some embodiments, the natural chirp (frequency change of laser light over a short start-up time) of a DBR laser diode when driven by pulsed current is used to broaden the linewidth of the laser output, while adjusting the peak current and/or the pulse duration to obtain the desired linewidth. |
| FILED | Monday, March 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/715308 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991165 | Kassal 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) | James J. Kassal (N. Kingston, Rhode Island); Joseph S. Russotti (Norwich, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An acoustic-electronic stethoscope that filters aberrant environmental background noise. The chest piece employs acoustic vents to inhibit resonant amplification of noise and contains a diaphragm design that focuses vibrational energy to a raised ring, which transfers and further focuses the energy to a piezoelectric polymer sensor with dual elements. The ensuing electrical signal is then preamplified with the low frequency sound, comprising predominantly background noise, filtered out. The stethoscope contains a binaural head set and output jack for down loading of data. Furthermore, areas normally subject to exposure and damage to water, such as the chest piece and headset, are water-tight. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/586741 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/67 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991195 | Mathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santosh Mathan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Patricia M. Ververs (Ellicott City, Maryland); Stephen D. Whitlow (Saint Louis Park, Minnesota); Michael C. Dorneich (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of efficiently and effectively triaging an image that may include one or more target entities are provided. A target entity to be searched for in the image is specified. The image, or at least a selected portion of the image, is then divided into a plurality of individual image chips each having a chip size based on the specified target entity. Each image chip is then successively displayed for a presentation time period. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/036763 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991817 | DeHon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre M. DeHon (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Nachiket Kapre (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method that use an associative calculator for calculating a sequence of non-associative operations on a set of input data, comprising: using the associative calculator to calculate from the set of input data an evaluated value of each operation of said sequence as if the non-associative operations were associative operations; detecting if some of the evaluated values are erroneous; if there are erroneous evaluated values, correcting the erroneous evaluated values; and if there are no erroneous evaluated value, outputting as the result of the sequence of non-associative operations the evaluated value of the last operation of the sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, January 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/655745 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991981 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method within a data processing system by which a processor executes an asynchronous memory move (AMM) store (ST) instruction to complete a corresponding AMM operation in parallel with an ongoing (not yet completed), previously issued barrier operation. The processor receives the AMM ST instruction after executing the barrier operation (or SYNC instruction) and before the completion of the barrier operation or SYNC on the system fabric. The processor continues executing the AMM ST instruction, which performs a move in virtual address space and then triggers the generation of the AMM operation. The AMM operation proceeds while the barrier operation continues, independent of the processor. The processor stops further execution of all other memory access requests, excluding AMM ST instructions that are received after the barrier operation, but before completion of the barrier operation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024513 |
| ART UNIT | 2181 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 07988959 | Comer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen R. Comer (Madison, Wisconsin); B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin tissue, and in particular to cultured skin tissue comprising exogenous genes encoding angiogenic growth factors. In some embodiments, the keratinocytes express exogenous angiopoietin-1, HIF-1α, or a member of the VEGF family, preferably VEGF-A. In particularly preferred embodiments, the keratinocytes are incorporated into cultured skin tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886976 |
| 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 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988963 | Banchereau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacques F. Banchereau (Dallas, Texas); Frederic Berard (Saint Genis Laval, France); Patrick Blanco (Talence, France); Eve-Marie Neidhart-Berard (Saint Genis Laval, France); Mahyar Nouri-Shirazi (Dallas, Texas); Anna Karolina Palucka (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel antigen-presenting cells, including but not limited to dendritic cells, that are loaded with antigens from dead or dying cells including allogenic cell lines, and the methods for making such antigen-presenting cells are described. These loaded antigen-presenting cells induce therapeutic immune responses in humans. Such loaded antigen-presenting cells are useful in the management of cancer. Antigen-loaded dendritic cells prepared as described here can prime naïve T cells to differentiate into effector cells able to recognize multiple and/or shared tumor antigens that are expressed either on the tumor cells that are used to load the dendritic cells and/or on other tumor cells. The cytotoxic T cells generated by exposure to antigen-loaded dendritic cells prepared as described here can be used in adoptive therapy. This induction of responses against multiple antigens shared between different cells, for instance tumor cells, as described here is important as it leads to broad immune responses. |
| FILED | Monday, October 16, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 10/110553 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988971 | Dimitrov 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); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Rockville, Maryland); Zhu Zhongyu (Frederick, Maryland); Christopher C. Broder (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that bind or neutralize Hendra or Nipah virus. The invention provides such antibodies, fragments of such antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, fully human antibodies retaining Hendra or Nipah virus-binding ability, and pharmaceutical compositions including such antibodies. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. Additionally, the invention provides for prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/886307 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/147.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988972 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. (Raritan, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Smith (Salt Lake City, Utah); Gary R. Pearson (Sedona, Arizona); D. Elliot Parks (Del Mar, California); Susan Pothen Varghese (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) specific polypeptides ETFTETWNRFITHTE (SEQ. ID NO: 1), GMLEASEGLDGWIHQ (SEQ. ID NO:2), HQQGGWSTLIEDNIP (SEQ. ID NO:3), and KQKHPKKVKQAFNPL (SEQ. ID NO:4) are among those disclosed. Also disclosed are the use of these polypeptides for the production of polypeptide-specific antibodies and the diagnosis and treatment of EBV-associated disease. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957251 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/147.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988974 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael L. Greenberg (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas James Matthews (Henderson, North Carolina); Chin-Ho Chen (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to fusion peptides which exhibit potent anti-retroviral activity. The fusion peptides of the invention comprise a macromolecular carrier group fused to a gp41-derived DP178 (SEQ ID NO:1) peptide corresponding to amino acids 638 to 673 of the HIV-1LA1 gp41 protein, or fragments, analogs or homologs of DP178. The invention further relates to the uses of such fusion peptides as inhibitory of human and non-human retroviral, especially HIV, transmission to uninfected cells. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/253274 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989173 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Sparks Glencoe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Soluble H4 (sH4) levels have been discovered to correlate with the stage or severity of inflammatory disorders including autoimmune disorders. In particular, circulating levels of sH4 can be used as a diagnostic for determining the severity of an inflammatory disorder or the propensity for developing an inflammatory disorder. The severity of an inflammatory disorder can be determined by assaying the levels of sH4 in a subject and comparing the levels of sH4 to reference sH4 concentrations that correlate to specific stages of an inflammatory disorder. The therapeutic efficacy of treatments for inflammatory disorders can also be determined by comparing levels of sH4 before and during treatment. Methods and devices for measuring sH4 are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198014 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 07989185 | Pourmand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Pourmand (San Mateo, California); Lisa Diamond (Ross, California); Jochen Kumm (Redwood City, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid diagnostic assay for influenza virus, particularly avian influenza and more particularly H5N1, is described. The assay is based on amplification of a significant portion of the hemagglutinin (HA) gene and sequencing of several loci within the HA gene, using techniques which can obtain real time sequence information from multiple sites of a target DNA, in particular pyrosequencing and bioluminescence regenerative cycle. The assay contemplates the use of information-rich subsequences within the HA gene, e.g., (1) a glycosylation sequon; (2) receptor binding site; and (3) HA1/HA2 cleavage site. Other subsequences for sequencing include strain and clade markers, which vary among H5N1 strains. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/945960 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989203 | Albert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew L. Albert (Paris, France); Nina Bhardwaj (West Orange, New Jersey); Ralph M. Steinman (Westport, Connecticut); Kayo Inaba (Kyoto, Japan); Robert Darnell (Pelham, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions useful for delivering antigens to dendritic cells which are then useful for inducing antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and T helper cells. This invention also provides assays for evaluating the activity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes. According to the invention, antigens are targeted to dendritic cells by apoptotic cells which may also be modified to express non-native antigens for presentation to the dendritic cells. The dendritic cells which are primed by the apoptotic cells are capable of processing and presenting the processed antigen and inducing cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity or may also be used in vaccine therapies. |
| FILED | Friday, June 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/450972 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard T. Lee (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for evaluating the likelihood that a subject will benefit from treatment with an agent for reducing the risk of a cardiovascular condition, by evaluating levels of Interleukin 1 Receptor-Like 1 (IL1RL-1) polypeptides in a sample comprising serum from the subject. |
| FILED | Monday, November 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/614970 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
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| US 07989220 | Lakowicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph R. Lakowicz (Ellicott City, Maryland); Henryk Szmacinski (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and kit for determining the quantity of an analyte include providing a functionalized substrate and a reagent. The functionalized substrate includes metallic nanoparticles and a plurality of substantively identical bioactive target molecules affixed to a substrate. The bioactive target molecule binds to a particular analyte. The reagent includes identical detection molecules. Each detection molecule includes a fluorophore, and binds to a particular analyte or competes with a particular analyte for binding to the target molecule. The functionalized substrate is contacted to a test sample and the reagent. The functionalized substrate and a covering solution are exposed to polarized electromagnetic waves that excite the fluorophore. A quantity of the particular analyte in the test sample is determined based on measuring polarization anisotropy of fluorescent emissions from the substrate and the covering solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/427722 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/525 |
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| US 07989396 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heng Yu (Mountain View, California); Nader Pourmand (San Mateo, California); Shan X. Wang (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly specific and versatile surface chemistry for immobilization of amine-terminated probes is disclosed. A bi-layered polymer thin film serves as the platform for coupling the probes, which are preferably oligonucleotides. The process involves sequentially coating a substrate with polyamine and polyacid anhydride. Hydrolyzed polyacid anhydride groups may be converted to non-hydrolyzed groups at about 100° C. prior to probe attachment. The process of coating the substrate requires no harsh chemical pretreatment of substrates such as RCA or Piranha cleaning. In addition, simple thermal activation of the anhydride groups has a low requirement for storage, leading to a long shelf life of modified surfaces. The disclosed surface chemistry is especially compatible with microfabrication processes, and its effective application to magnetic biosensors is demonstrated. |
| FILED | Monday, December 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/949442 |
| ART UNIT | 1639 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/32 |
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| US 07989423 | Savage et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul B. Savage (Mapleton, Utah); Albert Bendelac (Chicago, Illinois); Luc Teyton (Delmar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to galactosylceramide compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625048 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
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| US 07989426 | Campochiaro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Campochiaro (Baltimore, Maryland); Peter Gehlbach (Hunt Valley, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method of prophylactically or therapeutically treating choroidal neovascularization, wherein the method comprises directly administering to the eye a therapeutic factor or a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a therapeutic factor, which he expressed to produce the therapeutic factor, to selectively induce apoptosis of endothelial cells associated with neovascularization of the choroid such that choroidal neovascularization is treated prophylactically or therapeutically. The invention also provides a method of prophylactically or therapeutically treating ocular neovascularization, wherein the method comprises directly administering to the eye a nucleic acid sequence encoding a therapeutic factor to promote apoptosis of endothelial cells associated with neovascularization, such that the nucleic acid is expressed thereby producing the therapeutic factor to treat ocular neovascularization prophylactically or therapeutically. |
| FILED | Monday, November 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/938562 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 07989431 | Rieger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia); Joel M. Linden (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia); Gail W. Sullivan (Charlottesville, Virginia); Lauren J. Murphree (Rockville, Maryland); Robert Alan Figler (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compounds having the following general formula (I): wherein X, R1, R2, R7 and Z are as described herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487235 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
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07989451 — Tricyclic 1,2,4-triazine oxides and compositions for therapeutic use in cancer treatments
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auckland Uniservices Limited (Auckland, New Zealand) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Patrick Hay (Auckland, New Zealand); Adrian Blaser (Auckland, New Zealand); William Alexander Denny (Auckland, New Zealand); Kevin Owen Hicks (Auckland, New Zealand); Ho Huat Lee (Auckland, New Zealand); Karin Pchalek (Auckland, New Zealand); Frederik Bastiaan Pruijn (Auckland, New Zealand); Bronwyn Gae Siim (Auckland, New Zealand); William Robert Wilson (Waiuku, New Zealand); Shangjin Yang (Auckland, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel tricyclic 1,2,4-triazine-1-oxides and novel tricyclic 1,2,4-triazine-1,4-dioxides of formula I and to related analogues, to their preparation, and to their use as hypoxia-selective drugs and radiosensitizers for cancer therapy, both alone or in combination with radiation and/or other anticancer drugs. |
| FILED | Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/887368 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/243 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989501 | Mertins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan D. Mertins (Frederick, Maryland); Susan Elaine Bates (Bethesda, Maryland); David G. Covell (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Geoffrey W. Patton (Wheaton, Maryland); Melinda G. Hollingshead (Frederick, Maryland); Rao Vishnuvajjalla (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods of treating a mammalian subject having renal cancer by administration of certain dimethylsulfonate compounds, such as a 4-[bis[2-[(methylsulfonyl)oxy]ethyl]amino]-benzaldehyde. The present invention further features administration protocols and dosing schedules for methods of treating patients having renal cancer and pharmaceutical compositions suitable for use in the treatment methods provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 12/083583 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/646 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Lambris (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds comprising peptides and peptidomimetics capable of binding the C3 protein and inhibiting complement activation are disclosed. These compounds display improved complement activation-inhibitory activity as compared with currently available compounds. Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the peptides are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/528496 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/327 |
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| US 07989597 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wan-Pin Chang (Edmond, Oklahoma); Jordan Tang (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | This application pertains to antibodies which specifically bind to immunogenic memapsin 2β-secretase peptides for use in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and memapsin 2β-secretase disorders. The application also pertains to immunogenic compositions comprising memapsin 2β-secretase peptides and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489314 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.260 |
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| US 07989606 | Kranias et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Cincinnati (Cincinatti, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Evangelia Kranias (Cincinnati, Ohio); Patricia Rodriguez (Madrid, Spain); Bryan Mitton (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel nucleic acids which encode novel mutant forms of Inhibitor Protein-1 (1-1). In particular, the 1-1 mutant forms comprise altered phosphorylation sites of PKC-α. In addition, the present invention relates to methods of regulating cardiac contractility and function, and for treatment of cardio myopathy and heart failure, which employ the novel nucleic acids and polypeptides. Vectors comprising the novel nucleic acids, Antibodies to the novel proteins, and diagnostic and screening methods associated therewith, are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/162499 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 07989630 | Pike et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health Represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor W. Pike (Bethesda, Maryland); Robert B. Innis (Rockville, Maryland); Sami S. Zoghbi (Great Falls, Virginia); Neva Lazarova (Toronto, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | P-glycoprotein transporter (P-gp) acts as a pump at the blood-brain barrier to exclude a wide range of xenobiotics (e.g., toxins, drugs, etc.) from the brain and is also expressed in a tumor in response to exposure to established or prospective chemotherapeutics (a phenomenon known as multidrug resistance). This invention concerns the preparation and use of radiotracers for imaging P-gp function in vitro and in vivo. Radiotracers of the present invention are avid substrates for P-gp and have structures based on N-Desmethyl-loperamide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/112994 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/217 |
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| US 07989675 | Welsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbus, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Welsh (Riverside, Iowa); Christopher S. Rogers (North Liberty, Iowa); Randall Prather (Rocheport, Missouri); John Engelhardt (Iowa City, Iowa); Ziying Yan (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides transgenic, large non-human animal models of diseases and conditions, as well as methods of using such animal models in the identification and characterization of therapies for the diseases and conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/074632 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991449 | Ehman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard L. Ehman (Rochester, Minnesota); Kiaran P. McGee (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian C. Goss (Wheaton, Illinois); Joel P. Felmlee (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A noble gas is administered to a subject to fill the lungs and magnetic resonance elastography image data is acquired while vibrations are applied to the chest wall. Shear waves are established in the gas-filled lungs by the vibrations and a shear modulus image is reconstructed from the MRE image data that may be used in the diagnosis of lung disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/407759 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
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| US 07991452 | Mistretta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin); Julia Velikina (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin Michael Johnson (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas M. Grist (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Mask projection views are obtained prior to the arrival of a contrast agent during a dynamic contrast enhanced MRA study. After the arrival of the contrast agent, a set of undersampled contrast enhanced projection views are obtained for each of a plurality of time frames. Corresponding mask projection views are subtracted from the contrast enhanced projection views to provide sparse contrast enhanced projection view sets. A phase contrast scan of a region of interest is performed prior to or after the arrival of the contrast agent. The phase contrast image is used as a composite image in a HYPR reconstruction of the sparse projection view sets to produce first pass contrast enhanced images. Iterative HYPR reconstructions can also be performed to remove venous information from the reconstructed images. |
| FILED | Friday, December 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/966237 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/420 |
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| US 07991477 | McDonald, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. McDonald, III (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the treatment of CNS damage are described, and include inducing in a subject in need of such treatment, a therapeutically effective amount of functional electronic stimulation (FES) sufficient to evoke patterned movement in the subject's muscles, the control of which has been affected by the CNS damage. The induction of FES-evoked patterned movement at least partially restores lost motor and sensory function, and stimulates regeneration of neural progenitor cells in the subject patient. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/557634 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/48 |
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| US 07991478 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); Jordan Matthew Neysmith (Pasadena, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Brian V. Mech (Stevenson Ranch, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a flexible circuit electrode array adapted for neural stimulation, comprising: a polymer base layer; metal traces deposited on said polymer base layer, including electrodes suitable to stimulate neural tissue; a polymer top layer deposited on said polymer base layer and said metal traces at least one tack opening; wherein said polymer base layer, said metal traces and said polymer top layer are thermoformed in a three dimensional shape. The present invention provides further a method of making a flexible circuit electrode array comprising depositing a polymer base layer; depositing metal on said polymer base layer; patterning said metal to form metal traces; depositing a polymer top layer on said polymer base layer and said metal traces; preparing at least one tack opening; and heating said flexible circuit electrode array in a mold to form a three dimensional shape in said flexible circuit electrode array. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821328 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Elpern (Los Angeles, California); Niall McCabe (Torrance, California); Mark Gee (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressor ported shroud takes compressed air from the shroud of the compressor before it is completely compressed and delivers it to foil bearings. The compressed air has a lower pressure and temperature than compressed outlet air. The lower temperature of the air means that less air needs to be bled off from the compressor to cool the foil bearings. This increases the overall system efficiency due to the reduced mass flow requirements of the lower temperature air. By taking the air at a lower pressure, less work is lost compressing the bearing cooling air. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032418 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988746 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | A123 Systems, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yet-Ming Chiang (Framingham, Massachusetts); William D. Moorehead (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Antoni S. Gozdz (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Richard K. Holman (Belmont, Massachusetts); Andrew L. Loxley (Roslindale, Massachusetts); Gilbert N. Riley, Jr. (Marlborough, Massachusetts); Michael S. Viola (Burlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy storage device includes a first electrode comprising a first material and a second electrode comprising a second material, at least a portion of the first and second materials forming an interpenetrating network when dispersed in an electrolyte, the electrolyte, the first material and the second material are selected so that the first and second materials exert a repelling force on each other when combined. An electrochemical device, includes a first electrode in electrical communication with a first current collector; a second electrode in electrical communication with a second current collector; and an ionically conductive medium in ionic contact with said first and second electrodes, wherein at least a portion of the first and second electrodes form an interpenetrating network and wherein at least one of the first and second electrodes comprises an electrode structure providing two or more pathways to its current collector. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886035 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/623.100 |
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| US 07988839 | Dorairaj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rathissh Dorairaj (Hillsboro, Oregon); Robert S. Keynton (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas J. Roussel (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark M. Crain (Georgetown, Indiana); Douglas J. Jackson (New Albany, Indiana); Kevin M. Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); John F. Naber (Goshen, Kentucky); Richard P. Baldwin (Louisville, Kentucky); Danielle B. Franco (Mount Washington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is directed to a capillary electrophoresis apparatus comprising a plurality of separation micro-channels. A sample loading channel communicates with each of the plurality of separation channels. A driver circuit comprising a plurality of electrodes is configured to induce an electric field across each of the plurality of separation channels sufficient to cause analytes in the samples to migrate along each of the channels. The system further comprises a plurality of detectors configured to detect the analytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524357 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
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| US 07988887 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hsing-Lin Wang (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sea Ho Jeon (Dracut, Massachusetts); Nathan H. Mack (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Metal-polymer composites, and methods of making and use thereof, said composites comprising a thermally-cured dense polyaniline substrate; an acid dopant; and, metal nanostructure deposits wherein the deposits have a morphology dependent upon the acid dopant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543640 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/514 |
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| US 07988925 | Ahluwalia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh K. Ahluwalia (Burr Ridge, Illinois); Shabbir Ahmed (Naperville, Illinois); Sheldon H. D. Lee (Willowbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved fuel processor for fuel cells is provided whereby the startup time of the processor is less than sixty seconds and can be as low as 30 seconds, if not less. A rapid startup time is achieved by either igniting or allowing a small mixture of air and fuel to react over and warm up the catalyst of an autothermal reformer (ATR). The ATR then produces combustible gases to be subsequently oxidized on and simultaneously warm up water-gas shift zone catalysts. After normal operating temperature has been achieved, the proportion of air included with the fuel is greatly diminished. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/006468 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/198 |
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| US 07988940 | Sobolevskiy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoly Sobolevskiy (Orlando, Florida); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); Michael J. Knapke (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process and system (18) for reducing NOx in a gas using hydrogen as a reducing agent is provided. The process comprises contacting the gas stream (29) with a catalyst system (38) comprising sulfated zirconia washcoat particles (41), palladium, a pre-sulfated zirconia binder (44), and a promoter (45) comprising at least one of titanium, zinc, or a mixture thereof. The presence of zinc or titanium increases the resistance of the catalyst system to a sulfur and water-containing gas stream. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/773057 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/239.100 |
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| US 07989202 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981451 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 07989206 | Viitanen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul V. Viitanen (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Luan Tao (Havertown, Pennsylvania); Yuying Zhang (New Hope, Pennsylvania); Perry G. Caimi (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Laura McCole (East Fallowfield, Pennsylvania); Min Zhang (Lakewood, Colorado); Yat-Chen Chou (Lakewood, Colorado); Carol M. McCutchen (Wilmington, Delaware); Mary Ann Franden (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Identified are mutants of the promoter of the Z. mobilis glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene, which direct improved expression levels of operably linked heterologous nucleic acids. These are high expression promoters useful for expression of chimeric genes in Zymomonas, Zymobacter, and other related bacteria. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/410495 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/471 |
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| US 07989385 | Sobolevskiy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoly Sobolevskiy (Orlando, Florida); Joseph A. Rossin (Columbus, Ohio); Michael J. Knapke (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved processes for activating a catalyst system used for the reduction of nitrogen oxides are provided. In one embodiment, the catalyst system is activated by passing an activation gas stream having an amount of each of oxygen, water vapor, nitrogen oxides, and hydrogen over the catalyst system and increasing a temperature of the catalyst system to a temperature of at least 180° C. at a heating rate of from 1-20°/min. Use of activation processes described herein leads to a catalyst system with superior NOx reduction capabilities. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/613176 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/217 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent Energy Systems, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycal and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834306 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/403 |
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| US 07990543 | Mello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Mello (Pasadena, California); Ares J. Rosakis (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus, techniques and systems for implementing an optical interferometer to measure surfaces, including mapping of instantaneous curvature or in-plane and out-of-plane displacement field gradients of a sample surface based on obtaining and processing four optical interferograms from a common optical reflected beam from the sample surface that are relatively separated in phase by π/2. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/203050 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/512 |
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| US 07991512 | Chandra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramu Sharat Chandra (Niskayuna, New York); Yan Liu (Ballston Lake, New York); Sumit Bose (Niskayuna, New York); Juan Manuel de Bedout (West Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of power system dispatch control solves power system dispatch problems by integrating a larger variety of generation, load and storage assets, including without limitation, combined heat and power (CHP) units, renewable generation with forecasting, controllable loads, electric, thermal and water energy storage. The method employs a predictive algorithm to dynamically schedule different assets in order to achieve global optimization and maintain the system normal operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/897207 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/291 |
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| US 07991570 | Carrigan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Carrigan (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A determination is made of frequency components associated with a particular bearing or location resulting from sources emitting electromagnetic-wave energy for which a Poynting-Vector can be defined. The broadband frequency components associated with a specific direction or location of interest are isolated from other components in the power spectrum that are not associated with the direction or location of interest. The collection of pointing vectors can be used to characterize the source. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255373 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/66 |
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| US 07991857 | Berg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy E. Berg (Rochester, Minnesota); Ahmad A. Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for broadcasting a message in a parallel computer. The parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes connected together using a data communications network. The data communications network optimized for point to point data communications and is characterized by at least two dimensions. The compute nodes are organized into at least one operational group of compute nodes for collective parallel operations of the parallel computer. One compute node of the operational group assigned to be a logical root. Broadcasting a message in a parallel computer includes: establishing a Hamiltonian path along all of the compute nodes in at least one plane of the data communications network and in the operational group; and broadcasting, by the logical root to the remaining compute nodes, the logical root's message along the established Hamiltonian path. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/053902 |
| ART UNIT | 2451 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rathissh Dorairaj (Hillsboro, Oregon); Robert S. Keynton (Louisville, Kentucky); Thomas J. Roussel (Louisville, Kentucky); Mark M. Crain (Georgetown, Indiana); Douglas J. Jackson (New Albany, Indiana); Kevin M. Walsh (Louisville, Kentucky); John F. Naber (Goshen, Kentucky); Richard P. Baldwin (Louisville, Kentucky); Danielle B. Franco (Mount Washington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is directed to a capillary electrophoresis apparatus comprising a plurality of separation micro-channels. A sample loading channel communicates with each of the plurality of separation channels. A driver circuit comprising a plurality of electrodes is configured to induce an electric field across each of the plurality of separation channels sufficient to cause analytes in the samples to migrate along each of the channels. The system further comprises a plurality of detectors configured to detect the analytes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524357 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989067 | DeHeer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walt A. DeHeer (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of making graphite devices, a thin-film graphitic layer disposed against a preselected face of a substrate is created on the preselected face of the substrate. A preselected pattern is generated on the thin-film graphitic layer. At least one functionalizing molecule is attached to a portion of the graphitic layer. The molecule is capable of interacting with π bands in the graphitic layer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/745246 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/408 |
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| US 07989202 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981451 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989534 | Bhiwankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil N. Bhiwankar (Charlton, Massachusetts); Robert A. Weiss (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer-clay nanocomposites and methods of making the same are provided. In an embodiment, a polymer-clay nanocomposite comprises a non-metal salt of an ionomer and a nanostructured layered clay. An example of the ionomer is a tetra-octyl ammonium salt of sulfonated polystyrene, and an example of the clay is sodium-montmorillonite. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777114 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989544 | Emrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd S. Emrick (South Deerfield, Massachusetts); Kurt Breitenkamp (Northampton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer capsules from amphiphilic graft copolymers comprising reactive, hydrophobic polyolefin backbones, and hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) grafts are produced by self-assembly of the polymers at the oil-water interface, and crosslinking the assembly with bis-cyclooctene PEG derivatives in conjunction with ring-open metathesis polymerization catalysts. The use of the graft copolymer architecture in capsule synthesis provides significant opportunities to tune both the surface properties, in terms of recognition, and the membrane properties, in terms of mechanical strength, encapsulation, and release. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/928478 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989586 | Rathore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Osman Rathore (Jacksonville, Florida); Dotsevi Y. Sogah (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Replacement of the amorphous peptide domain of a structural biopolymer, such as silk from silkworms or spiders, with a nonpeptide segment while maintaining the β-sheet forming crystalline segments provides synthetic multiblock copolymers having solid-state structures and mechanical properties similar to the naturally occurring structural biopolymer is described herein. Such synthetic multiblock copolymers may be produced as films or fibers. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/197646 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989851 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yicheng Lu (East Brunswick, New Jersey); Ying Chen (Piscataway, New Jersey); Zheng Zhang (Belle Mead, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides the multifunctional biological and biochemical sensor technology based on the integration of ZnO nanotips with bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices, particularly, quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator (TFBAR). ZnO nanotips provide giant effective surface area and strong bonding sites. Furthermore, the controllable wettability of ZnO nanostructured surface dramatically reduces the liquid consumption and enhances the sensitivity of the biosensor device. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/600556 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990524 | Jureller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin E. Jureller (Chicago, Illinois); Hee Y. Kim (Chicago, Illinois); Norbert F. Scherer (Winnetka, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid-sampling stochastic scanning multiphoton multifocal microscopy (SS-MMM) fluorescence imaging technique enables multiparticle tracking at rates upwards of 1,000 times greater than conventional single point raster scanning. Stochastic scanning of a diffractive optical element may generate a 10×10 hexagonal array of foci with a white noise driven galvanometer to yield a scan pattern that is random yet space-filling. SS-MMM may create a more uniformly sampled image with fewer spatio-temporal artifacts than obtained by conventional or multibeam raster scanning. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/771064 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990540 | Boyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Boyd (Webster, New York); Daniel J. Gauthier (Durham, North Carolina); Zhimin Shi (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to the invention, a highly optically dispersive medium is one in which the absolute value of the group index of refraction of the medium is equal to or greater than four. An optical spectroscopic parameter detection and/or measurement apparatus may be in the form of an interferometer, a spectral interferometer, a spectrometer, a wavemeter, a tunable narrowband filter The embodied devices include a highly dispersive medium that appropriately can facilitate either a slow-light effect or a fast-light effect, which is disposed in a propagation path of an electro-magnetic (EM) input field and, a detector disposed in a manner to detect an output field resulting from the input filed interaction with the highly dispersive medium. Methods involve measuring a spectroscopic parameter using an optical spectroscopic parameter detection and/or measurement apparatus that incorporates a highly dispersive medium. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209353 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/451 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990979 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wencheng Lu (Sunnyvale, California); Sartaj Kumar Sahni (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A recursively partitioned static router-table, the data structure incorporating a first-level partition including subtries and an auxiliary trie. A node of the subtrie includes a path Q(N) from the root R of a trie T to a root N of the subtrie, a stride s for a next-level partition, a mask that characterizes a next-level perfect hash function, and a pointer to the hash table for the next-level partition. At least one of the trie T, the first-level partition, the auxiliary trie, and the next-level partition is represented by a base structure selected from the group consisting of MBT and HSST. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/377032 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/395.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991831 | Dinda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Dinda (Evanston, Illinois); Sam Rossoff (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a system and method for network computing. In an embodiment, the system may include a storage unit for archiving historical user events and historical server events. The system may also include a processing unit for receiving a current user event and generating one or more predicted server events. The processing unit may execute a screen update based on the one or more predicted server events. The system may also include a comparison unit having computer software for comparing one or more predicted server events with one or more server-supplied server events. The one or more server-supplied server events may be generated based on the current user event. In an embodiment, the system also includes an undo unit having computer software for executing an undo algorithm. The undo unit alters the non-matching events to match the server-supplied server events. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830553 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07987776 | Lanning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A woody biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive woody biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein the baling chamber has a front wall consisting of a reciprocating compression platen corresponding in dimensions to the width W and height H of the bale, opposing upper and lower walls corresponding in dimensions to the length L and either of the W and H of the bale, and opposing sidewalls corresponding in dimensions to the L and the other of the W and H of the bale, wherein each chamber wall selected from among the upper wall, the lower wall, and each of the sidewalls can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the selected wall of between (0.11×Pp psi×Aw) pounds and (0.5×Pp psi×Aw×SF) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression system can apply to the material, Aw is the area of the selected wall expressed in square inches, and SF is a safety factor calculated by dividing the design failure load of the compression platen by Pp. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/969125 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07987777 | Lanning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive tall grass biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein the baling chamber has a front wall consisting of a reciprocating compression platen corresponding in dimensions to the width W and height H of the bale, opposing upper and lower walls corresponding in dimensions to the length L and either of the W and H of the bale, and opposing sidewalls corresponding in dimensions to the L and the other of the W and H of the bale, wherein each chamber wall selected from among the upper wall, the lower wall, and the sidewalls can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the selected wall of at least (0.22×Pp×Aw) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression platen can apply to the material and Aw is the area of the selected wall expressed in square inches. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/013929 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07987917 | Kornecki |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted S. Kornecki (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The multi-stage crop termination system includes a main frame assembly connected to first and second roller frames. A first roller is installed in the first roller frame and a second roller is installed in the second roller frame. A compression frame extends between the main frame and the second roller frame so that a downwardly compression force is applied to the second roller. In the preferred embodiment, the first roller is a smooth drum and the second roller is a central cylindrical drum with a plurality of crimping bars extending outwardly from the drum. In operation, crops are flattened by the first roller and then crimped by the second roller. A pivot joint between the first roller frame and the second roller frame ensures that the second roller is able to maintain contact with the ground as the system traverses uneven terrain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170265 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Earth working 172/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988958 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Ministry of Health and Social Development, RF, as represented by the Director of the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Ministry of Health and Social Development, RF (Obolensk, Russian Federation) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman J. Stern (Athens, Georgia); John E. Line (Watkinsville, Georgia); Edward A. Svetoch (Moscow Region, Russian Federation); Boris V. Eruslanov (Moscow Region, Russian Federation); Vladimir V. Perelygin (Moscow Region, Russian Federation); Eugeni V. Mitsevich (Moscow Region, Russian Federation); Irina P. Mitsevich (Moscow Region, Russian Federation); Vladimir P. Levchuk (Moscow Region, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel Enterococcus and Streptococcus bacteriocins produced by novel Enterococcus and Streptococcus strains are used for at least reducing the levels of colonization by at least one target bacteria in animals, especially poultry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099456 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988977 | Klesius et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip H. Klesius (Auburn, Alabama); Craig A. Shoemaker (Notasulga, Alabama); Joyce L. Evans (Chestertown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Safe and effective live vaccines against Aeromonas hydrophila of fish were created through the induction of rifampicin resistance in native Aeromonas hydrophila isolates; these including rifampicin-resistant mutants NRRL-B-50040 and NRRL-B-50041. Single immersion exposure of fish stimulated acquired immunity against virulent Aeromonas hydrophila infection. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380520 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989202 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981451 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989524 | Glenn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Glenn (American Canyon, California); Simon K. Hodson (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-reinforced and starch-based composition can be prepared by combining two fractions. The first fraction can include a gelatinized starch, water, and fibers, wherein the fibers are substantially homogenously mixed with the starch in an amount sufficient to structurally reinforce the mechanical characteristics of the starch-based composition. The second fraction is then combined with the first fraction, wherein the second fraction can include non-gelatinized starch, non-volatile plasticizer, and a water-resistant polymer. The composition is mixed so as to form a thermoplastic composition being capable of expanding when rapidly heated to above the boiling point of water and the softening point of the plasticized starch. Additionally, fiber-reinforced articles can be prepared from a method of processing the starch-based compositions. Such a method includes introducing the fiber-reinforced starch-based composition into a mold, and molding the composition into a fiber-reinforced article. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/184128 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP22055 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc. (Greenwood, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhanao Deng (Ellenton, Florida); Brent Harbaugh (Bradenton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A new Caladium plant named ‘UF331’ particularly distinguished by its lance leaves with large dark green veins and white to red-purple interveinal areas, and demonstrated potential to produce attractive and sun-tolerant plants in outdoor sunny landscapes, and produce attractive pot plants when tubers are forced in containers, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383381 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07987632 | May et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute for Technology Development (Stennis Space Center, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George A. May (Slidell, Louisiana); Mark Allen Lanoue (Long Beach, Mississippi); Matthew Bethel (Slidell, Louisiana); Robert E. Ryan (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | In a system for optimizing crop growth, vegetation is cultivated in a contained environment, such as a greenhouse, an underground cavern or other enclosed space. Imaging equipment is positioned within or about the contained environment, to acquire spatially distributed crop growth information, and environmental sensors are provided to acquire data regarding multiple environmental conditions that can affect crop development. Illumination within the contained environment, and the addition of essential nutrients and chemicals are in turn controlled in response to data acquired by the imaging apparatus and environmental sensors, by an “expert system” which is trained to analyze and evaluate crop conditions. The expert system controls the spatial and temporal lighting pattern within the contained area, and the timing and allocation of nutrients and chemicals to achieve optimized crop development. A user can access the “expert system” remotely, to assess activity within the growth chamber, and can override the “expert system”. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581579 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant husbandry 047/17 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07987674 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack A. Jones (Los Angeles, California); Yi Chao (Pasadena, California); Thomas I. Valdez (Covina, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An energy producing device, for example a submersible vehicle for descending or ascending to different depths within water or ocean, is disclosed. The vehicle comprises a temperature-responsive material to which a hydraulic fluid is associated. A pressurized storage compartment stores the fluid as soon as the temperature-responsive material changes density. The storage compartment is connected with a hydraulic motor, and a valve allows fluid passage from the storage compartment to the hydraulic motor. An energy storage component, e.g. a battery, is connected with the hydraulic motor and is charged by the hydraulic motor when the hydraulic fluid passes through the hydraulic motor. Upon passage in the hydraulic motor, the fluid is stored in a further storage compartment and is then sent back to the area of the temperature-responsive material. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113882 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/641.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07990327 | Romanofsky |
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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) | Robert R Romanofsky (Hinckley, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a cellular reflectarray antenna arranged in an m by n matrix of radiating elements for communication with a satellite includes steps of determining a delay φm,n for each of said m by n matrix of elements of said cellular reflectarray antenna using sub-steps of: determining the longitude and latitude of operation, determining elevation and azimuth angles of the reflectarray with respect to the satellite and converting theta0 (θ0) and phi0 (φ0), determining Δβm,n, the pointing vector correction, for a given inter-element spacing and wavelength, determining Δφm,n, the spherical wave front correction factor, for a given radius from the central element and/or from measured data from the feed horn; and, determining a delay φm,n for each of said m by n matrix of elements as a function of Δβm,n and Δφm,n. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874370 |
| 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 343/754 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991595 | Pao 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) | S. Paul Pao (Williamsburg, Virginia); Khaled S. Abdol-Hamid (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment providing one or more improvements includes software which is robust, efficient, and has a very fast run time for user directed grid enrichment and flow solution adaptive grid refinement. All user selectable options (e.g., the choice of functions, the choice of thresholds, etc.), other than a pre-marked cell list, can be entered on the command line. The ease of application is an asset for flow physics research and preliminary design CFD analysis where fast grid modification is often needed to deal with unanticipated development of flow details. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/138768 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07992134 | Hinchey 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) | Michael G. Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); Joaquin Penn (Seville, Spain); Roy Sterritt (Newtownabbey, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, an agent-oriented specification modeled with MaCMAS, is analyzed, flaws in the agent-oriented specification modeled with MaCMAS are corrected, and an implementation is derived from the corrected agent-oriented specification. Described herein are systems, method and apparatus that produce fully (mathematically) tractable development of agent-oriented specification(s) modeled with methodology fragment for analyzing complex multiagent systems (MaCMAS) and policies for autonomic systems from requirements through to code generation. The systems, method and apparatus described herein are illustrated through an example showing how user formulated policies can be translated into a formal mode which can then be converted to code. The requirements-based programming systems, method and apparatus described herein may provide faster, higher quality development and maintenance of autonomic systems based on user formulation of policies. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536969 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/126 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07987776 | Lanning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A woody biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive woody biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein the baling chamber has a front wall consisting of a reciprocating compression platen corresponding in dimensions to the width W and height H of the bale, opposing upper and lower walls corresponding in dimensions to the length L and either of the W and H of the bale, and opposing sidewalls corresponding in dimensions to the L and the other of the W and H of the bale, wherein each chamber wall selected from among the upper wall, the lower wall, and each of the sidewalls can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the selected wall of between (0.11×Pp psi×Aw) pounds and (0.5×Pp psi×Aw×SF) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression system can apply to the material, Aw is the area of the selected wall expressed in square inches, and SF is a safety factor calculated by dividing the design failure load of the compression platen by Pp. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/969125 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07987777 | Lanning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); James L. Fridley (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A biomass baler having a baling chamber adapted to receive tall grass biomass material, a compression system adapted to compact the material into a rectangular bale in the chamber, and an ejection system adapted to move the bale from the chamber, wherein the baling chamber has a front wall consisting of a reciprocating compression platen corresponding in dimensions to the width W and height H of the bale, opposing upper and lower walls corresponding in dimensions to the length L and either of the W and H of the bale, and opposing sidewalls corresponding in dimensions to the L and the other of the W and H of the bale, wherein each chamber wall selected from among the upper wall, the lower wall, and the sidewalls can withstand a minimum distributed force perpendicular to the selected wall of at least (0.22×Pp×Aw) pounds, wherein Pp is the maximum pressure that the compression platen can apply to the material and Aw is the area of the selected wall expressed in square inches. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/013929 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988766 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eltron Research and Development Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. White (Boulder, Colorado); Jesse W. Taylor (Westminister, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are adsorbents and methods of using the adsorbents to at least partially remove one or more adsorbates. In an aspect, an adsorbate within a phase is at least partially removed by providing an adsorbent material and contacting the adsorbent material with the phase having an adsorbate, to at least partially remove the adsorbate. Various adsorbents are disclosed having the chemical formula RE1-x-y-zBxB′yB″zOw, where RE is RE is a rare earth metal, B is a trivalent metal ion, B′ is a transition metal ion or an alkaline earth element, B″ is a transition metal ion, 0≦x≦0.25, 0≦y≦0.95, 0≦z≦0.75, w is a number which results in charge balance, and x+y+z<1. |
| FILED | Friday, October 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/257811 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07988959 | Comer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stratatech Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen R. Comer (Madison, Wisconsin); B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to in vitro cultured skin tissue, and in particular to cultured skin tissue comprising exogenous genes encoding angiogenic growth factors. In some embodiments, the keratinocytes express exogenous angiopoietin-1, HIF-1α, or a member of the VEGF family, preferably VEGF-A. In particularly preferred embodiments, the keratinocytes are incorporated into cultured skin tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/886976 |
| 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 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989202 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981451 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07991623 | Estes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacquelynn Estes (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for providing ancillary services consistent with the invention includes placing an icon on an item, the icon corresponding to an ancillary service. Once the icon is placed on the item, the item is sent through a delivery system to a first address plant. Upon receiving an indication that the item cannot be delivered to a recipient at a first address, the ancillary service corresponding to the icon on the item is performed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/344725 |
| ART UNIT | 3687 — 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 75/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991641 | Vegliante et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Vegliante (Alexandria, Virginia); Susan M. LaChance (Gainesville, Virginia); B. Lynn Malcolm (Woodbridge, Virginia); Laurie A. Hayden (Arlington, Virginia); Robin L. McLarney (Centreville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for evaluating and compensating employees based on performance. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided. According to the method, objectives are received for an employee. The objectives are core requirements set as goals for an employee for a time period. Further, organization and unit indicators applicable to the employee's position are received from a database. Ratings are received from an evaluator for the core requirements and the organization indicators. The method further computes an overall rating that is a weighted average of the rated core requirements and the rated organization and unit indicators. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638404 |
| 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 75/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991652 | Chamberlain |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles R. Chamberlain (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Herein is described systems and methods for tracking a product. To track a product, product identification information that identifies the product and product ownership information is received. The product ownership information is updated when the product is transferred to another. The product identification information and product ownership information is stored in a database. |
| FILED | Monday, April 01, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/311465 |
| ART UNIT | 3687 — 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 75/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07991708 | Peng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Y. Peng (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for creating a personalized delivery payment coding includes selecting from a set of designs for delivery payment coding, calculating an appropriate fee, paying an appropriate fee, and printing a selected design on delivery payment coding product paper. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761293 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07987940 | Bryson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Bryson (Dexter, Michigan); Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydraulic pressure accumulator has an interior chamber containing a fire-suppressing gas such as nitrogen. The fire-suppressing gas in the accumulator is fluidly connected to a thermal device, such as a valve with a thermal fuse or a controlled valve triggered by a thermal sensor. The thermal device is designed to open a fluid connection between the accumulator's interior chamber to ambient when the exterior temperature exceeds a determined safety threshold, thereby releasing the fire suppressing gas from the accumulator. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384789 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07989487 | Welsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Welsh (Princeton, New Jersey); Nina Ching Y. Wang (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ni Ai (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for preventing, diagnosing, or treating a condition mediated by an estrogen receptor by administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of formula I, II, or a combination thereof: wherein R1, R3, R4, and R5 are independently selected from H, OH, and ORa; R2 is selected from H, OH, and (C═O)(C1-7)alkyl; Ra is (C1-7)alkyl or (C═O)(C1-7)alkyl; or a derivative of the compound selected from N-oxide derivatives, prodrug derivatives, protected derivatives, isomers, and mixtures of isomers of the compound; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate of the compound or the derivative. Compounds of formula I and II and pharmaceuticals compositions thereof are also presented. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/307565 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/419 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07989664 | Cortright |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virent Energy Systems, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for generating propylene glycol, ethylene glycol and other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols from biomass using hydrogen produced from the biomass. The methods involve reacting a portion of an aqueous stream of a biomass feedstock solution over a catalyst under aqueous phase reforming conditions to produce hydrogen, and then reacting the hydrogen and the aqueous feedstock solution over a catalyst to produce propylene glycol, ethylene glycal and the other polyols, diols, ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and alcohols. The disclosed methods can be run at lower temperatures and pressures, and allows for the production of oxygenated hydrocarbons without the need for hydrogen from an external source. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834306 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 07988854 | Tsukamoto |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chemica Technologies, Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Takuji Tsukamoto (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A dialysate regeneration chamber is provided. In one embodiment, the dialysate regeneration chamber may include a toxin trap configured to selectively trap toxins and repel select cations. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233912 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 07990307 | Lopez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Greenlawn, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred R. Lopez (Commack, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The integrity of operation of a GPS precision aircraft approach and landing system may be compromised by error producing effects of reflected multipath signals. An integrity monitor antenna system as disclosed may utilize both attenuation and shadowing of reflected multipath GPS signals to achieve extreme multipath mitigation of the order of 50 dB suppression. An antenna with a right-hand circular polarization pattern having a sharp cut off at the horizon may provide 30 dB suppression of reflected multipath signals. A signal absorbent ground plane bed of defined dimensions may provide 20 dB attenuation of incident multipath signals. A signal/processor may be employed to derive position error data for integrity monitoring, based upon differentials between a known fixed location and a current GPS-indicated location. Communication of identification of a subset of particular GPS satellites for common usage may also reduce potential error levels. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583636 |
| 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 342/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 07991195 | Mathan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santosh Mathan (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Patricia M. Ververs (Ellicott City, Maryland); Stephen D. Whitlow (Saint Louis Park, Minnesota); Michael C. Dorneich (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of efficiently and effectively triaging an image that may include one or more target entities are provided. A target entity to be searched for in the image is specified. The image, or at least a selected portion of the image, is then divided into a plurality of individual image chips each having a chip size based on the specified target entity. Each image chip is then successively displayed for a presentation time period. |
| FILED | Monday, February 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/036763 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 07991619 | Chaudhari et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Upendra V. Chaudhari (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Mohamed Kamal Omar (Ossining, New York); Ganesh N. Ramaswamy (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method and computer program product for performing blind change detection audio segmentation that combines hypothesized boundaries from several segmentation algorithms to achieve the final segmentation of the audio stream. Automatic segmentation of the audio streams according to the system and method of the invention may be used for many applications like speech recognition, speaker recognition, audio data mining, online audio indexing, and information retrieval systems, where the actual boundaries of the audio segments are required. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/142343 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07991814 | Filippov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hypres, Inc (Elmsford, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timur V. Filippov (Mahopac, New York); Oleg A. Mukhanov (Putnam Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a novel differentiator cell, a novel resample unit cell, and precision synchronization circuitry to ensure proper timing of the circuits and systems at the anticipated ultra-high speed of operation. The novel differentiator cell includes circuitry for combining a carry input signal, a data bit signal and the output signal of a NOT cell and applying the signals as distinct and separate pulses to the input of a toggle flip-flop (TFF) for producing an asynchronous carry output and a clocked data output. The novel differentiator cells can be interconnected to form a multi-bit differentiator circuit using appropriate delay and synchronization circuitry to compensate for delays in producing the carry output of each cell which is applied to a succeeding cell. The novel resample cell includes a non-destructive reset-set flip-flop (RSN) designed to receive a data bit, at its set input, at a slow clock rate, which data is repeatedly read out of the RSN at a fast clock rate, until the RSN is reset. The novel differentiator and resampler cells can be interconnected, for example, to form the differentiator and up-sampling sections of a digital interpolation filter (DIF). Also, the relative clocking of bit slices (columns) in such a DIF may be achieved by using the fast clock signal to synchronize the slow clock which controls data entry. The circuits of the invention can be advantageously implemented with Josephson Junctions in rapid-single-flux-quantum (RSFQ) logic. |
| FILED | Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/895478 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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