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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 09, 2011
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| US 07992283 | Miles |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald N. Miles (Newark Valley, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential microphone having a perimeter slit formed around the microphone diaphragm that replaces the backside hole previously required in conventional silicon, micromachined microphones. The differential microphone is formed using silicon fabrication techniques applied only to a single, front face of a silicon wafer. The backside holes of prior art microphones typically require that a secondary machining operation be performed on the rear surface of the silicon wafer during fabrication. This secondary operation adds complexity and cost to the micromachined microphones so fabricated. Comb fingers forming a portion of a capacitive arrangement may be fabricated as part of the differential microphone diaphragm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/343564 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/594 |
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| US 07992431 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Zuyan Shen (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Qing Zhu (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is direct to a piezoelectric microcantilever for static contact and dynamic noncontact atomic force microscopy which may be carried out in solution. The piezoelectric microcantilever, which includes a piezoelectric layer and a non-piezoelectric layer is capable of self actuation and detection. The piezoelectric layer may be constructed from a lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3)0.65—(PbTiO3)0.35(PMN0.65-PT0.35)(PMN-PT), zirconate titanate (PZT)/SiO2 or from any lead-free piezoelectric materials such as doped sodium-potassium niobate-lithium niobate. The piezoelectric layers of the microcantilevers may have dielectric constants of from 1600-3000 and thicknesses below 10 μm. Also disclosed are methods for fabricating microcantilever sensors and methods for atomic force microscopy employing the microcantilevers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946534 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
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| US 07992587 | Kartalov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); W. French Anderson (Azusa, California); Christopher I. Walker (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | By use of the vias a microfluidic autoregulator is fabricated comprising an origin of a fluid, a sink for the fluid, a main flow channel coupling the origin and the sink, a valve communicated to the main flow channel to selectively control flow of fluid therethrough, and means dependent on flow through the main flow channel for creating a pressure differential across the valve to at least partially activate the valve to control flow of fluid through the main flow channel. The means for dependent on flow for creating a pressure differential comprises either a dead-end detour channel from the flow channel to the valve, or a loop channel fed back to the control chamber of the valve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/606312 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/505.130 |
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| US 07992999 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Xu (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Chaim-Gadi Wollstein (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Hiroshi Ishikawa (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Joel Steven Schuman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A fully automated optic nerve head assessment system, based on spectral domain optical coherence tomography, provides essential disc parameters for clinical analysis, early detection, and monitoring of progression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/427184 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993609 | LaValley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A container is provided for holding a chemical compound or mixture. Areas are provided on the surface of the container which allow for gaseous by-products from the chemical contained within the container to permeate from a chamber through the surface of the container. A septum is over-molded into the surface of the container. The septum is formed in such a manner that it provides a sealing effect to close an opening in the container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317894 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993627 | Citron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (South San Francisco, California); Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Citron (Thousand Oaks, California); Dennis J. Selkoe (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts); Peter A. Seubert (San Francisco, California); Dale B. Schenk (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of screening compounds for their ability to alter the production of Aβ(x≧41) alone or in combination with Aβ(x≦40). The methods involve administering compounds to cells, specifically measuring the amounts of Aβ(x≦40) and Aβ(x≧41) produced by the cells, and comparing these amounts to that produced by the cells without administration of the compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, December 30, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/335035 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| US 07993647 | Kopp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey B. Kopp (Bethesda, Maryland); Terence M. Phillips (Washington, District of Columbia); Ulrich Schubert (Jena/Thuringen, Germany); John Yewdell (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies to HIV-1 Vpr and hybridoma cell lines that produce the monoclonal antibodies to HIV-1 Vpr. Methods for use of such antibodies in the detection of HIV-1 infection are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/630880 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/148.100 |
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| US 07993658 | Kolattukudy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pappachan E. Kolattukudy (Orlando, Florida); Tatiana Sirakova (Orlando, Florida); Vinod S. Dubey (Waukegan, Illinois); Jaiyanth Daniel (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel methods for screening for compounds useful in treating or preventing tuberculosis. In exemplary embodiments, screening methods are based on the implementation or manipulation of triacylglycerol synthase like polypeptides or polynucleotides encoding the same. The methods are useful in identifying agents active against TB infection. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546368 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
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| US 07993672 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leaf Huang (Durham, North Carolina); Xiang Gao (Nashville, Tennessee); Frank L. Sorgi (Sonoma, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel stable, concentrated, biologically active and ready-to-use lipid-comprising drug delivery complexes and methods for their production are described. The biological activity of the complexes produced are comparable to the formulations prepared according to the prior art admixture method and upon purification, the complexes produced by the method of this invention are 50 to 500 fold more concentrated than the complexes formed by admixture. The method described herein provides for the large scale production of lipid-comprising drug delivery systems useful for gene therapy and other applications. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/637544 |
| 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 424/450 |
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| US 07993681 | Roth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark B. Roth (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the use of oxygen antagonists for inducing stasis in tissue, including all or part of organs. It includes methods and apparatuses for achieving stasis in tissue, so as to preserve and/or protect them. In specific embodiments, preservation methods and apparatuses for preserving tissue for transplantation purposes is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/972063 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/708 |
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| US 07993738 | Ma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter X. Ma (Ann Arobor, Michigan); Xiaohua Liu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Modified porous materials are disclosed having interconnected, complexly shaped three-dimensional surfaces. The modification is accomplished by crosslinking the three-dimensional surfaces or by incorporating, in situ, an inorganic material onto or into three-dimensional surfaces. The porous materials are macro structures including at least one of nano-features, micro-features, and combinations thereof. The modifying accomplishes changing surface properties of the porous materials, changing the three-dimensional surfaces, and/or rendering the porous materials substantially stable in a predetermined environment. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/020488 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/304.400 |
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| US 07993821 | Chiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); Jason S. Kuo (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for concentrating and isolating Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) from body fluids. One embodiment of the present invention includes a micro-fabricated or nano-fabricated device having channels configured for separating and excluding. Embodiments in accordance with the present invention utilize features that reduce the hydrodynamic pressure experienced by the cells during the separation, isolation and concentration processes, and therefore reduce the likelihood of cell lysis or other damage to the cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/766044 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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07993857 — Determination of AM-binding proteins and the association of adrenomedullin (AM) therewith
| US 07993857 | Cuttitta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Cuttitta (Adamstown, Maryland); Ted H. Elsasser (Berwyn Heights, Maryland); Alfredo Martinez (McLean, Virginia); Rubén Pío (Pamplona, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the isolation, identification, and purification of adrenomedullin (AM)-binding proteins. Also, provided are methods for utilizing the purified AM-binding proteins, or functional portions thereof, to diagnose, treat, and monitor AM-related diseases, for example, diseases or disorders associated with abnormally elevated AM levels. In addition, the present invention provides a newly identified complex between AM and a specific AM-binding protein 1 (AMBP-1); which has been isolated and identified herein as factor H (fH). The invention also provides AM/AMBP complexes, particularly AM/FH complexes, and antibodies specifically reactive with this complexes. Further provided are methods for identifying and purifying complexes of AM and an AM binding protein using anti-AM/fH antibodies, and methods for treating conditions such as cancer or diabetes utilizing compositions comprising these antibodies. The present invention additionally provides methods for identifying antagonists agents that inhibit the function of AM, factor H, or the AM/factor H complex. The invention also provides methods for treating conditions such as cancer or diabetes using these antagonist agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/638747 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993858 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John O'Connor (New Rochelle, New York); Steven Birken (Dumont, New Jersey); Galina Kovalevskaya (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of predicting pregnancy outcome in a subject by determining the amount of an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of hCG in a sample. The present invention further provides a method for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated molecular isoforms of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in a sample. The present invention also provides a diagnostic kit for determining the amount of early pregnancy associated hCG in a sample. The present invention additionally provides an antibody which specifically binds to an early pregnancy associated molecular isoform of human chorionic gonadotropin. Finally, the present invention provides methods for detecting trophoblast or non-trophoblast malignancy in a sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/807513 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993863 | Zetter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce R. Zetter (Wayland, Massachusetts); Lere Bao (Newton, Massachusetts); Jacqueline Banyard (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | We have discovered a protein in humans, herein referred to as collagen like gene (CLG) product (SEQ ID NOS: 12 and 13), that is expressed in human prostate cancer and breast cancer cell lines but not in normal adult, placenta, lung, liver, skeletal muscle, kidney or pancreas tissues. We have also discovered that the level of CLG mRNA expression correlates positively with the metastatic potential of the cancer cell lines tested. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/508440 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
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| US 07993865 | Targan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan R. Targan (Santa Monica, California); Jonathan Braun (Tarzana, California); Christopher L. Sutton (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of diagnosing Crohn's disease in a subject by determining the presence or absence or IgA anti-OmpC antibodies in the subject, where the presence of the IgA anti-OmpC antibodies indicates that the subject has Crohn's disease. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/561024 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
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| US 07993866 | Targan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan R. Targan (Santa Monica, California); Jonathan Braun (Tarzana, California); Christopher L. Sutton (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of diagnosing Crohn's disease in a subject by determining the presence or absence or IgA anti-OmpC antibodies in the subject, where the presence of the IgA anti-OmpC antibodies indicates that the subject has Crohn's disease. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352578 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993867 | Targan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephan R. Targan (Santa Monica, California); Jonathan Braun (Tarzana, California); Christopher L. Sutton (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of diagnosing Crohn's disease in a subject by determining the presence or absence or IgA anti-OmpC antibodies in the subject, where the presence of the IgA anti-OmpC antibodies indicates that the subject has Crohn's disease. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352579 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.320 |
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| US 07993872 | Deiters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Deiters (La Jolla, California); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNAsyn-thetases, pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561121 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 07993879 | Tsien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California); Atsushi Miyawaki (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluorescent indicators including a binding protein moiety, a donor fluorescent protein moiety, and an acceptor fluorescent protein moiety are described. The binding protein moiety has an analyte-binding region which binds an analyte and causes the indicator to change conformation upon exposure to the analyte. The donor moiety and the acceptor moiety change position relative to each other when the analyte binds to the analyte-binding region. The donor moiety and the acceptor moiety exhibit fluorescence resonance energy transfer when the donor moiety is excited and the distance between the donor moiety and the acceptor moiety is small. The indicators can be used to measure analyte concentrations in samples, such as calcium ion concentrations in cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334622 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.700 |
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| US 07993880 | Willis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas D. Willis (San Francisco, California); Paul Hardenbol (Los Altos, California); Maneesh Jain (Menlo Park, California); Viktor Stolc (Cupertino, California); Mostafa Ronaghi (Palo Alto, California); Ronald W. Davis (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to novel methods of multiplexing nucleic acid reactions, including amplification, detection and genotyping. The invention relies on the use of precircle probes that are circularized in the presence of the corresponding target nucleic acids, cleaved, and then amplified. |
| FILED | Friday, February 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709319 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
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| US 07993895 | Eid et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Eid (Palo Alto, California); Devon Murphy (Mountain View, California); Geoffrey Otto (San Carlos, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, devices, systems and methods for reducing and/or preventing photodamage of one or more reactants in illuminated analytical reactions by one or more of incorporating photodamage mitigating agents within the reaction mixture and/or interrogating different observation regions of the reaction mixture for a period that is less than a photodamage threshold period. |
| FILED | Friday, December 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/566153 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07993905 | Singhvi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Singhvi (Potomac, Maryland); Amit Kumar (San Jose, California); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel I. C. Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a device for adhering cells in a specific and predetermined position, and associated methods. The device includes a plate defining a surface and a plurality of cytophilic islands that adhere cells, isolated by cytophobic regions to which cells do not adhere, contiguous with the cytophilic islands. The islands or the regions or both may be formed of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166287 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/283.100 |
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| US 07993919 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren J. Leonard (Bethesda, Maryland); Peter Lipsky (Rockville, Maryland); Herbert C. Morse, III (Rockville, Maryland); Catherine Rachel Ettinger (Bethesda, Maryland); Rosanne Spolski (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed herein for inducing differentiation of a B cell progenitor into a memory B cells and/or a plasma cell. The method includes contacting a population of cells including a mature B cell or a B cell progenitor with an effective amount of IL-21, and isolating memory B cells or plasma cells. In one embodiment, the B cell progenitor is an immature B cell. A method is also disclosed for enhancing an immune response. The method includes contacting a population of cells including a B cell progenitor with an effective amount of IL-21, and isolating memory B cells or plasma cells. The memory B cells arid/or the plasma cell are then introduced into the subject to enhance the immune response. A method is also disclosed for treating a subject with a condition comprising a specific deficiency of at least one of memory B cells and plasma cells. A method is disclosed for identifying an agent with a physiological effect on one or more of a memory B cell and a plasma cell differentiation. A method is also disclosed for identifying agents that inhibit an activity of IL-21. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/579988 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07993921 | Dugas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Dugas (Stanford, California); Ben A. Barres (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating neural cell proliferation or differentiation. The present invention also provides methods for selecting for bioactive agents effective in regulating proliferation or differentiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892760 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 07994098 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changhan Kim (Madison, Wisconsin); Franco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A prepared substrate upon which light directed DNA synthesis is to occur is exposed to light via an inverse mask pattern to deprotect inactive regions of the substrate where the synthesis is not intended to occur. The deprotected sites are then capped to disable permanently the inactive areas, thereby forming an inverse capped substrate. Unwanted DNA synthesis in the inactive areas is thus prevented, resulting in purer quality DNA, even though such areas may be exposed to light due to diffraction, scattering and flare during subsequent DNA synthesis of the intended active areas of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/298949 |
| 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 56/34 |
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| US 07994115 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gongyi Zhang (Denver, Colorado); Hong-Bing Shu (Denver, Colorado); Yingfang Liu (Denver, Colorado); Liangguo Xu (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are TALL-1 and TALL-1 receptor protein homologues (agonists and antagonists) designed based on the three-dimensional structure of sTALL-1, eBCMA and eBAFF-R; agonist homologues of APRIL; methods of using wild-type APRIL to inhibit the activity of TALL-1; compositions comprising such homologues, nucleic acid molecules encoding such homologues, and therapeutic methods of using such compounds and compositions. Also disclosed are crystalline complexes of sTALL-1 and sTALL-1 in complex with either BCMA or BAFF-R; models of three-dimensional structures of such crystalline complexes and related structures, methods of drug design using any portion of such structures; methods of design and/or identification of regulatory peptides derived from the such structures; compounds identified by drug design using such structures; and the use of such compounds in therapeutic compositions and methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061922 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994119 | Balasubramaniam |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University Of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ambikaipakan Balasubramaniam (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to peptides including tripeptides and to methods for pharmaceutical treatment of mammals using such tripeptides and analogs thereof. More specifically, the invention is directed to neuropeptide Y (“NPY”) receptor antagonists and agonists including O-glycosylated tripeptides, i.e. O-glycopeptides, and extended tripeptides, and their analogs, as well as to PYY analogs, to pharmaceutical compositions containing such tripeptides and PYY analogs, and to methods of treatment of mammals using such tripeptides and PYY analogs. In addition, the invention relates to methods of treatment of mammals using such tripeptides and PYY analogs for control of appetite, blood pressure, cardiovascular response, libido, and circadian rhythm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/658061 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/4.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994124 | Cox |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bolder Biotechnology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Cox (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to therapeutic methods for a protecting an animal from a disease or condition that can be treated by granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) wherein a composition comprising a cysteine variant of G-CSF is provided. Also disclosed herein are preferred cysteine variants of G-CSF for use in the composition. |
| FILED | Monday, November 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/610891 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/7.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994127 | Sur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mriganka Sur (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniela Tropea (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Emanuela Giacometti (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rudolf Jaenisch (Brookline, Massachusetts); Nathan R. Wilson (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for treatment of Rett Syndrome and other disorders of synaptic function and maturation using IGF1, (1-3)IGF-1, (1-3)IGF-1 analog(s) and/or related therapeutic molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134707 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994129 | Donahue |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth W. Donahue (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Black bear parathyroid hormone (PTH) and functional fragments thereof are provided. Also provided are methods of using black bear PTH and functional fragments for increasing cAMP in a bone-forming cell; reducing apoptosis in a bone-forming cell; decreasing the ratio of expression levels of Bax protein to Bcl-2 protein in a bone-forming cell; increasing the expression level of one or more of a bone matrix protein, a transcriptional activator, or a transcriptional regulator in a bone-forming cell; enhancing bone mineral density, increasing bone mass, decreasing bone loss, or reducing the incidence of bone fractures, or any combination thereof, in a subject; also provided are antibodies directed against black bear parathyroid hormone (PTH) and functional fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559285 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994130 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Li (Salt Lake City, Utah); Christopher Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nyall London (Bountiful, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, compositions and methods for inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis are described herein. Methods for producing and screening compounds and compositions capable of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis are also described herein. Pharmaceutical compositions are included in the compositions described herein. The compositions described herein are useful in, for example, methods of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis, including methods of inhibiting vascular permeability and pathologic angiogenesis induced by specific angiogenic, permeability and inflammatory factors, such as, for example VEGF, bFGF and thrombin. Methods for treating specific diseases and conditions are also provided herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/518730 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994132 | Fogelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan M. Fogelman (Beverly Hills, California); Gattadahalli M. Anantharamaiah (Birmingham, Alabama); Mohamad Navab (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides are provided that ameliorate one or more symptoms of scleroderma. In various embodiments, the peptides range in length from about 10 to about 30 amino acids, comprise a class A amphipathic helix, and bear at least one protecting group. The peptides are highly stable and readily administered via an oral route. |
| FILED | Monday, July 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/830687 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994133 | Mochly-Rosen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of changing or otherwise converting the biological activity of a PKC peptide agonist to a peptide antagonist is described. The method involves substituting one or more amino acid residues so as to effect a change in charge in the peptide and/or to otherwise make the sequence similar to a sequence derived from the PKC binding site on the RACK protein for the respective PKC enzyme. Methods of inhibiting the activity of a PKC enzyme, and various peptide antagonists of εPKC are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786370 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994147 | Finkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terri H. Finkel (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Jiyi Yin (Perrysburg, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides cellular gene products which have anti-apoptotic activity in HIV-1 infected cells and provides agents for the inhibition of the cellular gene products. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172731 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07994150 — Micro-RNAs that modulate smooth muscle proliferation and differentiation and uses thereof
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Olson (Dallas, Texas); Eric Small (Dallas, Texas); Mei Xin (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of microRNAs that regulate smooth muscle cell proliferation and differentiation, including the miR-143/miR-145 cluster. Methods of treating restenosis and neointima formation by increasing expression of miR-143 and/or miR-145 are disclosed. The present invention also relates to the identification of two microRNAs, miR-486 and miR-422a, that regulate cell survival in the heart. Methods of treating or preventing cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure, or myocardial infarction by increasing expression of miR-486 and/or miR-422a in heart tissue are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391028 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994219 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Sean P. Colgan (North Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to cause tissue, such as mucosal cells, to express increased amounts of bactericidal permeability increasing protein (BPI) are described. The BPI inducing agents include, for example, lipoxin compounds. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/837693 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/552 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994221 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon); Tové C. Bolken (Jefferson, Oregon); Dennis E. Hruby (Albany, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain novel sulfonyl semicarbazides, carbonyl semicarbazides, semicarbazides, ureas and related compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods for preparing the compounds and methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by hemorrhagic fever viruses is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Arenaviridae (Junin, Machupo, Guanarito, Sabia, Lassa, Tacaribe, Pinchinde, and VSV), Filoviridae (ebola and Marburg viruses), Flaviviridae (yellow fever, omsk hemorrhagic fever and Kyasanur Forest disease viruses), and Bunyaviridae (Rift Valley fever). |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653972 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/615 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994278 | Gallo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nobel Biosciences LLC (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert C. Gallo (Bethesda, Maryland); Joseph Bryant (Baltimore, Maryland); Yanto Lundardi-Iskandar (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to therapeutic polypeptides isolated from beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) found in human early pregnancy urine, now synthetically produced and designated Maternin. The therapeutic polypeptides and their functional equivalents are useful in treating and/or preventing various medical conditions. Examples of therapeutic effects of the therapeutic polypeptides include anti-HIV, anti-cancer, anti-wasting, prohematopoietic (e.g., anemias, radiation-mediated bone marrow damage, and trauma-mediated blood loss), and anti-angiogenic effects. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the therapeutic polypeptides, as well as methods for using the therapeutic polypeptides, functional equivalents and/or pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment and/or prevention of such medical conditions. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/632831 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994298 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Charles L. Sentman (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chimeric immune receptor molecules for reducing or eliminating tumors. The chimeric receptors are composed a C-type lectin-like natural killer cell receptor, or a protein associated therewith, fused to an immune signaling receptor containing an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif. Methods for using the chimeric receptors are further provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/575878 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994301 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Friedman (New York, New York); Yiying Zhang (New York, New York); Ricardo Proenca (Astoria, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Modulators of weight, including, for example, two isoforms of murine and human ob polypeptides, are provided, as well as diagnostic and therapeutic uses and methods comprising such. Also provided are nucleotide sequences, degenerate variations thereof, and proteins expressed by such. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/427410 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994312 | Lindsey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Dilek Dogutan Kiper (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a metalloporphyrin is carried out by reacting (i) a linear tetrapyrrole, said linear tetrapyrrole having a 19-acyl group and a 1-protecting group, with (ii) a metal salt under basic conditions to produce the metalloporphyrin. Products produced by such methods and intermediates useful for carrying out such methods are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/029070 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994313 | Glick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary D. Glick (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Adam Matzger (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to systems and methods for generating new forms of benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine related compounds as well as new compounds and formulations generated by such methods. In particular, the present invention provides high throughput systems and methods for generating and identifying new crystalline benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine related polymorphs and new unsolvated, solvated, and other forms of the compounds that find use as improved drugs and drug formations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/473144 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994320 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides prodrugs derived from the sparingly soluble anticancer isocarbostyril narciclasine, a component of various Narcissus species, said prodrugs having potential for use against animal and human cancers. Also disclosed is an efficient procedure for the synthetic conversion of narciclasine to several more soluble cyclic phosphate compounds, including “narcistatin”. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208191 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994326 | Silverman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Silverman (Northbrook, Illinois); Haitao Ji (Evanston, Illinois); Graham R. Lawton (Smithtown, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptidomimetic compounds as can inhibit neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) for potential treatment in neurodegenerative diseases, such as but not limited to stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/906283 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994362 | Schreiber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart L. Schreiber (Boston, Massachusetts); Jack Taunton (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christian A. Hassig (Somerville, Massachusetts); Timothy F. Jamison (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns the discovery that proteins encoded by a family of genes, termed here HDx-related genes, which are involved in the control of chromatin structure and, thus in transcription and translation. The present invention makes available compositions and methods that can be utilized, for example to control cell proliferation and differentiation in vitro and in vivo. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196878 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/621 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07994592 — Method for integrating micro and nanoparticles into MEMS and apparatus including the same
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Qing He (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | MEMs devices are integrally fabricated with included micro or nanoparticles by providing a mixture of a sacrificial material and a multiplicity of particles, disposing the mixture onto a substrate, fabricating a MEMs structure on the substrate including at least part of the mixture, so that at least some of the mixture is enclosed in the MEMs structure, removing the sacrificial material, and leaving at least some of the multiplicity of particles substantially free and enclosed in the MEMs structure. The step of fabricating a MEMs structure is quite general and is contemplated as including one or a multiplicity of additional steps for creating some type of structure in which the particles, which may be microbeads or nanobeads, are included. A wide variety of useful applications for MEMs integrated with micro or nanoparticles are available. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/182906 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
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| US 07994785 | Fain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean B Fain (Madison, Wisconsin); Walter F. Block (Madison, Wisconsin); James H. Holmes (Madison, Wisconsin); Rafael L. O'Halloran (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring the apparent transverse relaxation time (“T*2”) and apparent diffusion coefficient (“ADC”) of a hyperpolarized gas in a single breath-hold and consequently, with a single dose of the hyperpolarized gas contrast agent, is provided. The method employs a multiple-echo projection acquisition based pulse sequence. Individual images are reconstructed from data acquired during each of the individual echo times. Subsequently, T*2 and ADC are calculated using these reconstructed images. Furthermore, the method produces images indicative of ADC that have isotropic resolution, allowing for more reliable image registration. The inter-echo spacing and diffusion weighting b-value are varied during the pulse sequence employed when practicing the present invention; thus, a significant separation between the effects of diffusion and T*2 decay on the detected MR signals is possible. This separation allows for reliable measurements of these two parameters from a single echo-train. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428015 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995202 | Lundquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Lundquist (San Jose, California); Denis Zaccarin (San Jose, California); Yves Lacroix (San Jose, California); Mark Maxham (Redwood City, California); Mathieu Foquet (Redwood City, California); Stephen Turner (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for real-time monitoring of optical signals from arrays of signal sources, and particularly optical signal sources that have spectrally different signal components. Systems include signal source arrays in optical communication with optical trains that direct excitation radiation to and emitted signals from such arrays and image the signals onto detector arrays, from which such signals may be subjected to additional processing. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704689 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995825 | Jack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifford R. Jack (Rochester, Minnesota); Peter C. O'Brien (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for classifying tissue in a magnetic resonance image, and particularly for measuring a volume of pathological tissue such as white tissue hyperintensity (leukoaraiosis) in the brain based on the segmentation of the intensity histogram of fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) images is described. A magnetic resonance image of the brain of a subject is acquired, and a pixel intensity histogram is constructed from the image. A statistically-based regression analysis is applied to the histogram to determine upper and lower threshold values, which define different types of brain tissue, particularly normal brain, cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), or lesion. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/115334 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
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| US 07995890 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holger Schmidt (Capitola, California); Philip Measor (Scotts Valley, California); Sergei Kuehn (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical waveguide is provided which comprises a non-solid core layer surrounded by a solid-state material, and two light sources capable of introducing light into said non-solid core at opposite ends along a Z-axis of said non-solid core to form two propagating light beams applying force in opposing directions. An integrated optical particle trap device for controlling the placement of small sample particles incorporates the optical waveguide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350003 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996062 | Wacker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Switzerland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank K. Wacker (Tuebingen, Germany); Jeffrey L. Duerk (Avon Lake, Ohio); Jonathan S. Lewin (Baltimore, Maryland); Robbert M. Maes (Schagerbrug, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for confirming location of a catheter tip relative to a targeted location in a blood vessel of a subject and improving visualization of the blood vessels downstream of the catheter tip are provided. The methods comprise acquiring and displaying a first modified MR image of the subject's blood vessels between an insertion site for the catheter and the targeted location; acquiring and displaying a sequence of modified MR images of the blood vessels to monitor advancement of an inserted catheter from the insertion site to an intraluminal stop site at or near the targeted location; delivering a bolus of a magnetic resonance contrast agent through the tip of the catheter and to the intraluminal stop site, wherein the magnetic contrast agent alters the first modified MR image of the subject's blood vessels; acquiring and displaying an updated second MR modified image of the blood vessels at and downstream of the tip of the catheter. Systems and computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions operable to perform computer executable aspects of the present methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/577805 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996076 | Burns et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph W. Burns (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Ronald D. Chervin (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for diagnosing or assessing rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD). Muscle tone or activity variance during rapid eye movement (REM) and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep intervals of a polysomnogram are compared. A threshold based on the NREM data is used to identify a subject-specific threshold for abnormality in the REM variance. A metric that includes the percentage of REM variance exceeding the threshold relates to RBD. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080440 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/546 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996080 | Hartman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Customkynetics, Inc. (Versailles, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric C. Hartman (Versailles, Kentucky); John D. Alton (Lexington, Kentucky); Tarik S. Aweimrin (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, a device facilitates performance of a recumbent stepping exercise using stimulation. The device may include a seat for receiving a human exercise subject and foot receivers for alternately translating to and fro relative to a stationary base along a path of travel between a first position in which the legs are at least partially bent and a second position in which the legs are less bent than in the first position. An electrical stimulator is provided for facilitating the performance of the exercise by the subject moving the foot receivers alternately along the path of travel. In another aspect, adaptive feed-forward control may also be used to enhance the stepping exercise performed using the device. Related methods of performing stepping exercises are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250018 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996092 | Mrva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDI Medical, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph J. Mrva (Euclid, Ohio); Kenneth P. Rundle (Independence, Ohio); Joseph W. Boggs, II (Carrboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, systems, and methods for recording, and/or stimulation, and/or blocking of a nerve make use of a molded nerve cuff electrode. One or more electrodes are positioned in one or more frames within a casing. The exterior surface of the casing is wrapped in an insulating material, and the wrapped casing is positioned within a cover tube. One or more additional electrodes may be positioned anywhere outside of the casing. An applicator tool having a body to hold the molded nerve cuff in an expanded configuration is used to implant the cuff about a nerve. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653578 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996156 | Beger 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) | Richard D. Beger (White Hall, Arkansas); Jon G. Wilkes (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Structure-activity methods based on molecular descriptors that are a combination of structural information about the through-space and through-bond relationships between components of a molecule's structure and spectral data attributable to those components are disclosed. In some embodiments, a molecule is described by multiple sets of such descriptors to account for flexibility in the structure of the molecule. In a particularly disclosed embodiment, predicted 13C—13C COSY data and 13C—13C distance data are used as descriptors. Models of molecular properties may be established using the disclosed spectral data-activity methods and used to predict the properties of molecules. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/383602 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sarabjit Mehta (Calabasas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A processes for manufacturing actuating assembly for tuning a circuit by forming a carrier substrate containing a membrane, a conductive layer, and piezoelectric actuators are disclosed. The process includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a bottom protective layer on a bottom side and etched trenches on a top side; depositing a top protective layer on the top side of the substrate; depositing a first conductive layer on the top protective layer; patterning the first conductive layer; patterning the bottom protective layer to form an etch mask aligned with the patterned first conductive layer; forming a piezoelectric structure on the top side of the substrate; depositing a membrane layer along the top side of the substrate and above the piezoelectric structure; curing the membrane layer; depositing a second conductive layer on the cured membrane layer; depositing a protective photoresist layer on the second conductive layer; patterning and hard-baking the photoresist layer; removing a portion of the substrate from the bottom side of the substrate, forming an etched opening in the substrate; removing a portion of the top protective layer; removing a portion of the second conductive layer to form a patterned second conductive layer; and removing the patterned photoresist layer. Changes in shape of the resulting piezoelectric arrangement allow a deflection of the membrane and a corresponding controllable upward or downward movement of the conductive element. |
| FILED | Friday, November 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622931 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07992424 | Grossenbacher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Griffin Analytical Technologies, L.L.C. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Grossenbacher (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample introduction components of analytical instruments are provided that can include a membrane inlet component in fluid communication with both a mass analyzer component and a sample inlet. The components can also include a valve in fluid communication with the sample inlet and a sampling component. Components can include a sample loop assembly in fluid communication with valve, and a preconcentration assembly in fluid communication with the valve. Sample analysis methods are provided that can include providing sample to a membrane in fluid communication with a mass analyzer to acquire sample parameter data, and providing the sample to a sampling assembly upon acquisition of predefined sample parameter data. Methods can also include providing sample to a first sampling assembly in fluid communication with a detection component to acquire sample parameter data, providing the sample to a second sampling assembly upon acquisition of predefined sample parameter data. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900958 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07992824 | Tchoryk, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan); Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An end effector operatively coupled to an extendable tensile element extended from a first vehicle engages a primary receptacle of a second vehicle. The first and second vehicles are drawn together by retracting the extendable tensile element into the first vehicle until contact therebetween, after which roll axes of the first and second vehicles become substantially aligned responsive to a further retraction of the extendable tensile element into the first vehicle and a resulting tension in the extendable tensile element. At least one alignment post of at least one of the first and second vehicles engages with at least one surface of at least one corresponding secondary receptacle so as to at least substantially align the first and second vehicles in roll responsive to the tension in the extendable tensile element. |
| FILED | Monday, August 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/852710 |
| 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 244/158.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993064 | Shaddock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Mulford Shaddock (Troy, New York); Christopher James Kapusta (Delanson, New York); Glen Peter Koste (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A high temperature optoelectronic device package includes a substrate, an optoelectronic die situated on an upper surface of the substrate, a seal surrounding the optoelectronic die and situated on the upper surface of the substrate and a housing disposed on the seal having a ferrule-seating portion. The housing is disposed on the seal such that a fiber optic center of the ferrule-seating portion is aligned with an active portion of the optoelectronic die. The optoelectronic die is in operative communication with electronic traces of the substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/060430 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/92 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993495 | Kinlen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crosslink Polymer Research, a division of Lumimove, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Kinlen (Fenton, Missouri); Yiwei Ding (Ballwin, Missouri); James K. Bashkin (University City, Missouri); Shifeng Hou (Springfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for decontaminating a surface that is susceptible to contamination by a contaminant by applying to the surface a coating which produces a decontaminating agent for the contaminant in response to a signal, connecting the electroactive coating to a source of a signal, and when the surface is contaminated, applying the signal to the electroactive coating, thereby producing one or more decontaminating agents which neutralize or destroy the contaminant. Coatings for practicing the method and articles that have been protected by the novel coatings are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471877 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993538 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M. King (Boulder, Colorado); Gregor M. Schurmann (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing a beam of energy at the selected regions. The structure can then be processed, with at least a portion of the patterned solid condensate layer on the structure surface, and then the solid condensate layer removed. Further there can be stimulated localized reaction between the solid condensate layer and the structure by directing a beam of energy at at least one selected region of the condensate layer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287573 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993584 | Kim |
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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) | Yoonkee Kim (Freehold, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for sensing a property of an analyte includes a QCM resonator that has a crystal substrate that includes an electrode depositing surface and an analyte contact surface that are physically separated. The resonator further includes a plurality of electrodes operatively connected with the electrode depositing surface and laterally spaced apart one from another. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313791 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993609 | LaValley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A container is provided for holding a chemical compound or mixture. Areas are provided on the surface of the container which allow for gaseous by-products from the chemical contained within the container to permeate from a chamber through the surface of the container. A septum is over-molded into the surface of the container. The septum is formed in such a manner that it provides a sealing effect to close an opening in the container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317894 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993620 | Lashmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Lashmore (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Joseph J. Brown (Norwich, Vermont); Jared K. Chaffee (Hartland, Vermont); Bruce Resnicoff (Cornish, New Hampshire); Peter Antoinette (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that receives nanomaterials, forms nanofibrous materials therefrom, and collects these nanofibrous materials for subsequent applications. The system is coupled to a chamber that generates nanomaterials, typically carbon nanotubes produced from chemical vapor deposition, and includes a mechanism for spinning the nanotubes into yarns or tows. Alternatively, the system includes a mechanism for forming non-woven sheets from the nanotubes. The system also includes components for collecting the formed nanofibrous materials. Methods for forming and collecting the nanofibrous materials are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488387 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993759 | Nagaraj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bangalore A. Nagaraj (West Chester, Ohio); Mark D. Gorman (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine turbine blade comprising an airfoil section, a platform section, an under platform section, and a dovetail section, an exterior surface of the dovetail section comprising a shank exterior surface and a serrated exterior surface. The blade further comprises a silicon-modified diffusion aluminide layer a surface of a turbine blade section selected from the group consisting of an exterior surface of the under platform section, the exterior surface of the dovetail section, and combinations thereof, the silicon modified diffusion aluminide layer having a concentration of silicon at a surface of the silicon-modified diffusion aluminide layer in the range of about 1 weight percent to about 10 weight percent and a concentration of aluminum at the surface of the silicon modified diffusion aluminide layer in the range of about 5 weight percent to about 25 weight percent. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/968368 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/678 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993844 | Sagripanti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose-Luis Sagripanti (Bel Air, Maryland); Monica Carrera (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides safe, non-infectious chimeras that include the nucleic acid signature of most bacterial and viral biological threat agents. These chimeras mimic properties of threat agents and are useful as simulants to develop, evaluate, test, and train on nucleic acid-based biodetectors and diagnostic products of interest in biodefense, without the need for accessing or producing virulent agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873825 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993870 | Ewert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matt Ewert (St. Petersburg, Florida); Philip Amuso (Tampa, Florida); Andrew Cannons (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method of extracting infectious pathogens from a volume of blood including the steps of creating a fibrin aggregate confining the pathogens and introducing a fibrin lysis reagent to expose the pathogens for analysis. The fibrin lysis reagent is preferably composed of plasminogen and streptokinase frozen in coincident relation until the fibrin lysis reagent is needed whereby streptokinase enzymatically reacts with plasminogen to form plasmin upon thawing. The plasminogen is suspended in an aqueous salt solution prior to freezing including NaCl and Na3PO4. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416775 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/29 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993905 | Singhvi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Singhvi (Potomac, Maryland); Amit Kumar (San Jose, California); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel I. C. Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a device for adhering cells in a specific and predetermined position, and associated methods. The device includes a plate defining a surface and a plurality of cytophilic islands that adhere cells, isolated by cytophobic regions to which cells do not adhere, contiguous with the cytophilic islands. The islands or the regions or both may be formed of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166287 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993906 | Kovacs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory T. A. Kovacs (Palo Alto, California); R. Hollis Whittington (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a sensitive system for measuring the physiological response of an in-vitro cell culture to an environmental parameter. An electrical property of the cell culture is measured as a control signal, and a parameter of a stimulus is adjusted in real time to maintain the control signal at a specified value as the environment of the cell culture is altered, for example, pharmacologically. Artifact reduction and real-time control methods are two key aspects of preferred embodiments of the invention, and enable highly accurate determination of pulse parameters which elicit a desired response. Both aspects must be highly robust to the natural variations inherent in a biological system. This system is beneficial for studying the effects of environmental alterations because extremely small changes in the physiological response can be measured over time, revealing the magnitude and time-dependence of the impact of these alterations on the cell culture. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/137721 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel K. Martin (Nairobi, Kenya) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the diagnosis of visceral, cutaneous and canine leishmaniasis in a subject suspected of being infected with the parasitic protozoa Leishmania is disclosed. Disclosed are antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the detection of antibodies to Leishmania parasite soluble antigens and antigen-capture ELISAs for the detection of Leishmania parasite soluble antigens in host samples. Also disclosed are immunodiagnostic kits for the detection of Leishmania parasite circulating antigens or IgM and IgG antibodies in a sample from subject having visceral, cutaneous or canine leishmaniasis. In these methods and kits, detection may be done photometrically or visually. The methods and kits also allow the visualization of Leishmania amastigotes or promastigotes in a sample. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/544733 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994027 | Tian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia); NIST (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yonglai Tian (Fairfax, Virginia); Rao V. Mulpuri (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Siddharth G. Sundaresan (Vienna, Virginia); Albert V. Davydov (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention grows nanostructures using a microwave heating-based sublimation-sandwich SiC polytype growth method comprising: creating a sandwich cell by placing a source wafer parallel to a substrate wafer, leaving a small gap between the source wafer and the substrate wafer; placing a microwave heating head around the sandwich cell to selectively heat the source wafer to a source wafer temperature and the substrate wafer to a substrate wafer temperature; creating a temperature gradient between the source wafer temperature and the substrate wafer temperature; sublimating Si- and C-containing species from the source wafer, producing Si- and C-containing vapor species; converting the Si- and C-containing vapor species into liquid metallic alloy nanodroplets by allowing the metalized substrate wafer to absorb the Si- and C-containing vapor species; and growing nanostructures on the substrate wafer once the alloy droplets reach a saturation point for SiC. The substrate wafer may be coated with a thin metallic film, metal nanoparticles, and/or a catalyst. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463942 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994098 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Changhan Kim (Madison, Wisconsin); Franco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A prepared substrate upon which light directed DNA synthesis is to occur is exposed to light via an inverse mask pattern to deprotect inactive regions of the substrate where the synthesis is not intended to occur. The deprotected sites are then capped to disable permanently the inactive areas, thereby forming an inverse capped substrate. Unwanted DNA synthesis in the inactive areas is thus prevented, resulting in purer quality DNA, even though such areas may be exposed to light due to diffraction, scattering and flare during subsequent DNA synthesis of the intended active areas of the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/298949 |
| 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 56/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994234 | Lukehart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lukehart (Nashville, Tennessee); Jimmy L. Davidson (Brentwood, Tennessee); Alvin M. Strauss (Nashville, Tennessee); Lang Li (York, Pennsylvania); Blake T. Branson (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite comprising at least one diamond/polymer brush and a method of making the composite comprising covalently bonding at least one polymer to said diamond surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/727661 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 523/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994423 | Marder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Bilal Kaafarani (Beirut, Lebanon); Steve Barlow (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernhard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Benoit Domercq (Atlanta, Georgia); Qing Zhang (Shanghai, China PRC); Takeshi Kondo (Duluth, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include charge-transport materials, methods of forming charge-transport materials, and methods of using the charge-transport materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629262 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994434 | Benner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan F. Benner (Poughkeepsie, New York); Casimer M. DeCusatis (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A shielding apparatus has first and second electrically conductive sheets attached to an interior of a housing. A gap between the first and second electrically conductive sheets has a size based on a predefined desired cutoff frequency, and the widths of the first and second electrically conductive sheets are no more than twice the size of the gap. The lengths of the first and second electrically conductive sheets are at least four times the size of the gap. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388556 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994463 | Flusberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corporation for National Research Initiatives (Reston, Virginia); Science Research Laboratory (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen M. Flusberg (Newton, Massachusetts); Michael A. Huff (Reston, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for fabricating structures such as transducer pedestal structures and transducers fabricated by the methods. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/704116 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994467 | Fushman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilya Fushman (Palo Alto, California); Andrei Faraon (Palo Alto, California); Jelena Vuckovic (Palo Alto, California); Dirk Englund (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the disclosure are directed to optical microcavities and emitters that are spectrally aligned in an arrangement having an array of such microcavity-emitter combinations. The spectral alignment can be selective, in that a portion of the array of microcavity-emitter combinations, or a single microcavity-emitter combination, can be individually spectrally aligned. In specific examples, light is coupled within a semiconductor device having wavelength-dependent structures and optical cavities optically couple to the wavelength-dependent structures. One of the optical cavities and a wavelength-dependent structure are spectrally aligned, independent of another of the optical cavities. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134414 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/216 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994604 | Chow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Chow (East Palo Alto, California); Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); Robert Proebsting (Sonora, California); Arlene Proebsting, legal representative (Sonora, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates reducing the power needed for proximity communication. This system includes an integrated circuit with an array of transmission pads that transmit a signal using proximity communication. A layer of fill metal is located in proximity to this array of transmission pads, wherein the layer of fill metal is “floating” (e.g., not connected to any signal). Leaving this layer of fill metal floating reduces the parasitic capacitance for the array of transmission pads, which can reduce the amount of power needed to transmit the signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317606 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994657 | Kimball et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SolarBridge Technologies, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan W. Kimball (Mahomet, Illinois); Philip T. Krein (Champaign, Illinois); Nicholas D. Benavides (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for supplying energy to a load includes an energy recharge unit, an energy storage unit, an energy converter connected to the energy recharge unit, the energy converter being capable of transferring energy at a power level from the energy recharge unit to an output node, the power level being determined by a power transfer controller, and a bi-directional energy converter connected to the energy storage unit and to the output node. The bi-directional energy converter is capable of converting energy of varying voltages from the energy storage unit to energy of varying current levels to supplement the transferred energy with energy from the energy storage unit so as to maintain a constant voltage on the output node. The bi-directional energy converter is capable of converting the transferred energy to provide charging energy to the energy storage unit when the transferred energy exceeds a demand level of the load while maintaining the constant voltage at the output node. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/615074 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994686 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yet-Ming Chiang (Framingham, Massachusetts); Steven R. Hall (Burlington, Massachusetts); Fernando Tubilla Kuri (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Kyungyeol Song (Seoul, South Korea); Timothy E. Chin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Georg Baetz (Gilching, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally provides devices and methods involving electrochemical actuation. The devices may comprise at least one component capable of exhibiting a volumetric or dimensional change upon application of a voltage. In some cases, the volumetric or dimensional change may produce mechanical work. Some embodiments of the invention may provide devices capable of exhibiting high actuation rates and supporting high amounts of stress (e.g., in tensile and/or compressive loading). In some embodiments, the present invention may provide morphing structures that may be useful in applications such as airfoils. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796138 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994783 | Ledbetter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Univerisity of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Micah P. Ledbetter (Oakland, California); Igor M. Savukov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dmitry Budker (El Cerrito, California); Vishal K. Shah (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Svenja Knappe (Boulder, Colorado); John Kitching (Boulder, Colorado); David J. Michalak (Berkeley, California); Shoujun Xu (Houston, Texas); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integral microfluidic device includes an alkali vapor cell and microfluidic channel, which can be used to detect magnetism for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Small magnetic fields in the vicinity of the vapor cell can be measured by optically polarizing and probing the spin precession in the small magnetic field. This can then be used to detect the magnetic field of in encoded analyte in the adjacent microfluidic channel. The magnetism in the microfluidic channel can be modulated by applying an appropriate series of radio or audio frequency pulses upstream from the microfluidic chip (the remote detection modality) to yield a sensitive means of detecting NMR and MRI. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367292 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994874 | Tripp |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor K. Tripp (Tucker, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a tapered double balun for use with rotationally-symmetrical, frequency-independent antennas that are fed using spiral-mode number 2. The tapered double balun may be used to provide a four-terminal line, where all terminals carry the same voltage, but adjacent terminals are out of phase and opposite terminals are in phase. The antennas may be spirals, sinuous, or other four-arm antennas. The tapered double balun is a stripline device comprising two outer ground planes and a center conductor that is dielectrically separated from the ground planes. The outer ground planes each taper from a wide dimension at the connector end of the device to a narrow dimension at the antenna end of the device. The narrow opposing strips comprising the ground planes are configured to connect to two opposed arms of the antenna. The center conductor is a single conductor at the connector end of the device that tapers to a larger conductor at the antenna end or may bifurcate to form two laterally separated conductors at the antenna end of the device. The center conductor is configured so that, whether single or bifurcated, it connects to the two remaining opposed arms of the antenna. |
| FILED | Friday, June 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455697 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/26 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994967 | Mountcastle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Technology Service Corporation (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Mountcastle (Huntington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of imaging a moving object, including the steps of acquiring radar data reflected by the moving object, determining a motion state of the moving object; and generating a three-dimensional representation of the moving object based on the determined motion state, is disclosed. The motion state may be a complete solution of translational and rotational motion determined based on at least one of the inertia tensor components of the moving object, or solutions of Euler's torque-free equations of motions. The three-dimensional representation may be generated by reconstructing static patterns of the moving object based on estimated initial translational and rotational conditions of the object. A system for imaging the moving object according to this method is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/759334 |
| 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 342/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994992 | Tam 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) | Daniel Tam (San Diego, California); James H. Schukantz, Jr. (San Diego, California); Robert S. Abramo (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Peder Hansen (San Diego, California); James C. Logan (San Diego, California); David E. Hurdsman (Spring Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-band antenna comprising a conductive structure and a plurality of current probes coupled around the conductive structure. Each current probe is designed to receive and transmit in a substantially different frequency band than the other current probes. The current probes are positioned on the conductive structure so as to effectively create a plurality of transmit/receive antennas such that each respective antenna has a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) of less than or equal to approximately 3:1 for a given range within each respective frequency band. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/867046 |
| 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 343/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995475 | Ramanujan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Architecture Technology Corporation (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranga S. Ramanujan (Hamel, Minnesota); Richard H. Carl (St. Bonifaciues, Minnesota); Barry Trent (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Edward Mandy (Victoria, Minnesota); Clint Sanders (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Jordan C. Bonney (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application relates to an implementation of a reliable transport protocol that provides receiver-based congestion control within a computing system. An exemplary system includes a first network device and a second network device within a network. During a handshake procedure, a transmission rate at which data can be sent as well as an acceptable corruptive loss rate for a data path between the first network device and the second network device in the network is determined. The second network device then receives data sent from the first network device at the transmission rate. When the acceptable corruptive loss rate for received data has been exceeded, the second network device determines an amount by which to reduce the transmission rate, and then sends a notification to the first network device indicating the amount by which to reduce the transmission rate for subsequently transmitted data. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262624 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/232 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995627 | Bouma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wang-Yuhl (William) Oh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Johannes F. De Boer (Amstelveen, Netherlands); Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and source arrangement for filtering an electromagnetic radiation can be provided which may include at least one spectral separating arrangement configured to physically separate one or more components of the electromagnetic radiation based on a frequency of the electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus and source arrangement may also have at least one continuously rotating optical arrangement which is configured to receive at least one signal that is associated with the one or more components. Further, the apparatus and source arrangement can include at least one beam selecting arrangement configured to receive the signal. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627918 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995628 | Wu |
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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) | Dong Ho Wu (Olney, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and a system are implemented in the fabrication of a portable high power terahertz beam source that can produce a tunable, high power terahertz beam over the frequency from 0.1 THz to 2.5 THz. The terahertz source employs a recycling pump beam method and a beam quality control device. The beam quality control device may or may not be required for a high power terahertz beam generation. In exemplary embodiments, a lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal or a lithium niobate crystal doped with 5% magnesium oxide (LiNbO3:MgO) can be used. Other nonlinear optical crystals, including GaSe can be used in place of the LiNbO3 crystal. Through proper alignment of a pump beam, along with recycling a pump beam, high conversion efficiency is achieved, and a high output power beam is produced at terahertz frequencies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710521 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995676 | Fite et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Fite (Clifton, Virginia); John W. Betz (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and systems for enhanced signal acquisition through cross-ambiguity function (CAF) interpolation. In one aspect, the present invention provides methods and systems for CAF interpolation. In an embodiment, a first CAF generated using a low input sampling rate (e.g., 1 sample/chip) is interpolated to generate a second CAF having a higher sample per chip rate. By lowering the initial input sampling rate, cost and complexity of initial synchronization processing can be significantly reduced at the receiver. In another aspect, coherent and non-coherent interpolation methods and systems are provided for time and frequency CAF interpolation. Low cost and low complexity implementations of these methods and systems are also provided with associated CAF peak detection methods and systems. |
| FILED | Friday, January 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/340841 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996195 | Plaia 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) | Joseph M. Plaia (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Luis C. Gominho (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Keith M. DeLoach (Fredericksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for predicting thermal energy transfer from an entrained particle to a wall surface, the entrained particle being incorporated within a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a flow scenario. Initially, the method generates grid geometry for the CFD model to form a plurality of finite element cells; and establishes initial and boundary conditions for the flow scenario. The model determines a characteristic particle size of the entrained particle; inserts the particle into a cell at an initial location; initializes physical conditions of the particle as a particle state; and calculates a time-step based on characteristic cell size and flow velocity. The model integrates state change in the particle state over the time-step in the cell; and computes collision effect in response to the particle crossing a face of the cell. After convergence, the model quantifies energy flux to the wall surface from impingement by the particle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286284 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996201 | Dowd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | McAfee, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Dowd (White Bear Lake, Minnesota); Thomas R. Markham (Anoka, Minnesota); Tomo Foote-Lennox (Maple Grove, Minnesota); David Apostal (Roseville, Minnesota); Raymond Lu (Shoreview, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A network security modeling system which simulates a network and analyzes security vulnerabilities of the network. The system includes a simulator which includes a network vulnerabilities database and a network configuration module having network configuration data. The simulator determines vulnerabilities of the simulated network based on the network configuration data and the vulnerabilities database. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977074 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996205 | Cutts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (Northfield, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Cutts (New London, New Hampshire); Robert Schmidt (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for simulating a distributed business process are disclosed. The methods and apparatus simulate an interdependent business process, such as a financial transaction system, in a secure distributed manner. Each business entity that is part of the interdependent business process models itself on a local client device at any chosen level of detail. A simulation server connects the separate client based simulations into one large simulation. Details of each local simulation may be hidden from other simulation participants. However, interruptions in business flow caused by simulated disruptions introduced at the simulation server and/or a client device are propagated to all of the effected simulation participants via the simulation server. In addition, if a client based model is not available, the server supplies a software agent to replace the inputs and outputs normally associated with that portion of the overall simulation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/828777 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996564 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ronald N. Kalla (Round Rock, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A distributed data processing system executes multiple tasks within a parallel job, including a first local task on a local node and at least one task executing on a remote node, with a remote memory having real address (RA) locations mapped to one or more of the source effective addresses (EA) and destination EA of a data move operation initiated by a task executing on the local node. On initiation of the data move operation, remote asynchronous data move (RADM) logic identifies that the operation moves data to/from a first EA that is memory mapped to an RA of the remote memory. The local processor/RADM logic initiates a RADM operation that moves a copy of the data directly from/to the first remote memory by completing the RADM operation using the network interface cards (NICs) of the source and destination processing nodes, determined by accessing a data center for the node IDs of remote memory. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425093 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996593 | Blackmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Blackmore (Poughkeepsie, New York); Rama K. Govindaraju (Hopewell Junction, New York); Peter H. Hochschild (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing interrupts. The method includes placing at least one physical processor of an information processing system in a simultaneous multi-threading mode. At least a first logical processor and a second logical processor associated with the at least one physical processor are partitioned. The first logical processor is assigned to manage interrupts and the second logical processor is assigned to dispatch runnable user threads. |
| FILED | Monday, February 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/371865 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996893 | Persaud-Deolall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiva Persaud-Deolall (Austin, Texas); Xinya Wang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing an automated task in a role-based access control environment. A set of roles is assigned to a user to form assigned roles, wherein the role-based access control environment allows the user to assume a subset of the assigned roles at a given time. Responsive to receiving a request to execute an automated task, an identity of the user creating the automated task is identified. Responsive to determining that the user creating the automated task is not logged in, a set of session roles are identified based on the identity of the user. A session is created for the automated task. The automated task is performed in the session using the set of session roles. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/760903 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (Palm Bay, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rainer Meinke (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacture of a conductor assembly. The assembly is of the type which, when conducting current, generates a magnetic field or in which, in the presence of a changing magnetic field, a voltage is induced. In an example embodiment one or more first coil rows are formed. The assembly has multiple coil rows about an axis with outer coil rows formed about inner coil rows. A determination is made of deviations from specifications associated with the formed one or more first coil rows. One or more deviations correspond to a magnitude of a multipole field component which departs from a field specification. Based on the deviations, one or more wiring patterns are generated for one or more second coil rows to be formed about the one or more first coil rows. The one or more second coil rows are formed in the assembly. The magnitude of each multipole field component that departs from the field specification is offset. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133676 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/605 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07992309 | Fleming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Fleming (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Carol Fleming, legal representative (Burbank, California); Jeffry J. Sniegowski (Tijeras, New Mexico); Stephen Montague (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A cutting blade is disclosed fabricated of micromachined silicon. The cutting blade utilizes a monocrystalline silicon substrate having a {211} crystalline orientation to form one or more cutting edges that are defined by the intersection of {211} crystalline planes of silicon with {111} crystalline planes of silicon. This results in a cutting blade which has a shallow cutting-edge angle θ of 19.5°. The micromachined cutting blade can be formed using an anisotropic wet etching process which substantially terminates etching upon reaching the {111} crystalline planes of silicon. This allows multiple blades to be batch fabricated on a common substrate and separated for packaging and use. The micromachined cutting blade, which can be mounted to a handle in tension and optionally coated for increased wear resistance and biocompatibility, has multiple applications including eye surgery (LASIK procedure). |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/421025 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Cutlery 030/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07992437 | Tshishiku |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene M. Tshishiku (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid level detector for conductive liquids for vertical installation in a tank, the detector having a probe positioned within a sheath and insulated therefrom by a seal so that the tip of the probe extends proximate to but not below the lower end of the sheath, the lower end terminating in a rim that is provided with notches, said lower end being tapered, the taper and notches preventing debris collection and bubble formation, said lower end when contacting liquid as it rises will form an airtight cavity defined by the liquid, the interior sheath wall, and the seal, the compression of air in the cavity preventing liquid from further entry into the sheath and contact with the seal. As a result, the liquid cannot deposit a film to form an electrical bridge across the seal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/354692 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07992718 | Klunder |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edgar B. Klunder (Bethel Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The method relates to particle separation from a feed stream. The feed stream is injected directly into the froth zone of a vertical flotation column in the presence of a counter-current reflux stream. A froth breaker generates a reflux stream and a concentrate stream, and the reflux stream is injected into the froth zone to mix with the interstitial liquid between bubbles in the froth zone. Counter-current flow between the plurality of bubbles and the interstitial liquid facilitates the attachment of higher hydrophobicity particles to bubble surfaces as lower hydrophobicity particles detach. The height of the feed stream injection and the reflux ratio may be varied in order to optimize the concentrate or tailing stream recoveries desired based on existing operating conditions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/552550 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 29/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993266 | Colston, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Billy W. Colston, Jr. (San Ramon, California); Fred P. Milanovich (Lafayette, California); Pedro Estacio (Mission San Jose, California); John Chang (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an electronic proximity apparatus and a surveillance method using such an apparatus for alerting individuals that are exposed to a contagious disease. When a person becomes symptomatic and is diagnosed as positive for a given contagious agent, individuals that have recently maintained a threshold proximity with respect to an infected individual are notified and advised to seek immediate medial care. Treatment of individuals in the very early phases of infection (pre-symptomatic) significantly reduces contagiousness of the infected population first exposed to the contagious disease, thus preventing spread of the disease throughout the general population. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/375273 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993534 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); Alan Jankowski (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a chemical microreactor includes forming at least one capillary microchannel in a substrate having at least one inlet and at least one outlet, integrating at least one heater into the chemical microreactor, interfacing the capillary microchannel with a liquid chemical reservoir at the inlet of the capillary microchannel, and interfacing the capillary microchannel with a porous membrane near the outlet of the capillary microchannel, the porous membrane being positioned beyond the outlet of the capillary microchannel, wherein the porous membrane has at least one catalyst material imbedded therein. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/412599 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993538 | Golovchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Gavin M. King (Boulder, Colorado); Gregor M. Schurmann (Neuchatel, Switzerland); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for forming a patterned material layer on a structure, by condensing a vapor to a solid condensate layer on a surface of the structure and then localized removal of selected regions of the condensate layer by directing a beam of energy at the selected regions. The structure can then be processed, with at least a portion of the patterned solid condensate layer on the structure surface, and then the solid condensate layer removed. Further there can be stimulated localized reaction between the solid condensate layer and the structure by directing a beam of energy at at least one selected region of the condensate layer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287573 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993583 | Dugan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Christopher Dugan (Modesto, California); Matthew A. Coleman (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic array card and reader system for analyzing a sample. The microfluidic array card includes a sample loading section for loading the sample onto the microfluidic array card, a multiplicity of array windows, and a transport section or sections for transporting the sample from the sample loading section to the array windows. The microfluidic array card reader includes a housing, a receiving section for receiving the microfluidic array card, a viewing section, and a light source that directs light to the array window of the microfluidic array card and to the viewing section. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574095 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993785 | Jankowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan F. Jankowski (Livermore, California); Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); Ravindra S. Upadhye (Pleasanton, California); Mark A. Havstad (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a means to incorporate catalytic materials into the fuel flow field structures of MEMS-based fuel cells, which enable catalytic reforming of a hydrocarbon based fuel, such as methane, methanol, or butane. Methods of fabrication are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/612226 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993872 | Deiters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Deiters (La Jolla, California); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNAsyn-thetases, pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/561121 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994089 | Strasser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Strasser (Houston, Texas); Shirlaine Koh (Houston, Texas); Prasanna Mani (Houston, Texas); Srivastava Ratndeep (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing de-alloyed nanoparticles. In an embodiment, the method comprises admixing metal precursors, freeze-drying, annealing, and de-alloying the nanoparticles in situ. Further, in an embodiment de-alloyed nanoparticle formed by the method, wherein the nanoparticle further comprises a core-shell arrangement. The nanoparticle is suitable for electrocatalytic processes and devices. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206587 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994419 | Pan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Noren Pan (Wilmette, Illinois); Glen Hillier (Spring Grove, Illinois); Duy Phach Vu (San Jose, California); Rao Tatavarti (Des Plaines, Illinois); Christopher Youtsey (Libertyville, Illinois); David McCallum (West Chicago, Illinois); Genevieve Martin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention utilizes epitaxial lift-off in which a sacrificial layer is included in the epitaxial growth between the substrate and a thin film III-V compound solar cell. To provide support for the thin film III-V compound solar cell in absence of the substrate, a backing layer is applied to a surface of the thin film III-V compound solar cell before it is separated from the substrate. To separate the thin film III-V compound solar cell from the substrate, the sacrificial layer is removed as part of the epitaxial lift-off. Once the substrate is separated from the thin film III-V compound solar cell, the substrate may then be reused in the formation of another thin film III-V compound solar cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167583 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994421 | Williams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Voxtel, Inc. (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Williams (Portland, Oregon); David M. Schut (Philomath, Oregon); Andreas Stonas (Albany, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A photovoltaic device has nanoparticles sandwiched between a conductive substrate and a charge selective transport layer. Each of the nanoparticles has a ligand shell attached to the nanoparticle core. A first type of ligand is electron rich and attached to one hemisphere of the nanoparticle core, while a second type of ligand is electron poor and attached to an opposite hemisphere of the core. Consequently, the ligand shell induces an electric field within the nanoparticle, enhancing the photovoltaic effect. The arrangement of ligands types on different sides of the nanoparticle is obtained by a process involving ligand substitution after adhering the nanoparticles to the conductive substrate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290660 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994460 | Steinkraus, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Steinkraus, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Gary W. Johnson (Livermore, California); Anthony J. Ruggiero (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An method and system for laser beam tracking and pointing is based on a conventional position sensing detector (PSD) or quadrant cell but with the use of amplitude-modulated light. A combination of logarithmic automatic gain control, filtering, and synchronous detection offers high angular precision with exceptional dynamic range and sensitivity, while maintaining wide bandwidth. Use of modulated light enables the tracking of multiple beams simultaneously through the use of different modulation frequencies. It also makes the system resistant to interfering light sources such as ambient light. Beam pointing is accomplished by feeding back errors in the measured beam position to a beam steering element, such as a steering mirror. Closed-loop tracking performance is superior to existing methods, especially under conditions of atmospheric scintillation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165425 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994472 | Plettner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomas Plettner (San Ramon, California); Robert L. Byer (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, devices and apparatus are implemented for producing controllable charged particle beams. In one implementation, an apparatus provides a deflection force to a charged particle beam. A source produces an electromagnetic wave. A structure, that is substantially transparent to the electromagnetic wave, includes a physical structure having a repeating pattern with a period L and a tilted angle α, relative to a direction of travel of the charged particle beam, the pattern affects the force of the electromagnetic wave upon the charged particle beam. A direction device introduces the electromagnetic wave to the structure to provide a phase-synchronous deflection force to the charged particle beam. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/485616 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994664 | Ackermann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Adolf Ackermann (Schenectady, New York); Evangelos Trifon Laskaris (Schenectady, New York); Xianrui Huang (Clifton Park, New York); James William Bray (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for cooling a superconducting rotary machine includes a plurality of sealed siphon tubes disposed in balanced locations around a rotor adjacent to a superconducting coil. Each of the sealed siphon tubes includes a tubular body and a heat transfer medium disposed in the tubular body that undergoes a phase change during operation of the machine to extract heat from the superconducting coil. A siphon heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the siphon tubes for extracting heat from the siphon tubes during operation of the machine. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/009146 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994668 | Gerstler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Dwight Gerstler (Niskayuna, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi El-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Murtuza Lokhandwalla (Clifton Park, New York); James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York); Owen Scott Quirion (Clifton Park, New York); Pepe Palafox (Schenectady, New York); Xiaochun Shen (Schenectady, New York); Lembit Salasoo (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical machine comprising a rotor is presented. The electrical machine includes the rotor disposed on a rotatable shaft and defining a plurality of radial protrusions extending from the shaft up to a periphery of the rotor. The radial protrusions having cavities define a fluid path. A stationary shaft is disposed concentrically within the rotatable shaft wherein an annular space is formed between the stationary and rotatable shaft. A plurality of magnetic segments is disposed on the radial protrusions and the fluid path from within the stationary shaft into the annular space and extending through the cavities within the radial protrusions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467382 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994688 | Shu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deming Shu (Darien, Illinois); Jorg M. Maser (Oak Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced mechanical design for laminar weak-link mechanisms with centimeter-level travel range and sub-nanometer positioning resolution is provided. A multiple parallelogram weak-link structure includes a predefined pattern of a plurality of perpendicularly arranged groups of connecting links, each link having at least one pair of weak-link connections. Each of the plurality of perpendicularly arranged groups includes a terminal for mounting to a fixed base. The multiple parallelogram weak-link structure includes a moving part for mounting on a carriage, providing precisely controlled movement with stability in one direction. A two-dimensional (2D) ultra-precision scanning stages assembly for x-ray nanoprobe applications includes multiple redundantly constrained weak-link structures, a vertical ultra-precision positioning stage, and a horizontal ultra-precision positioning stage. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233228 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994783 | Ledbetter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Univerisity of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Micah P. Ledbetter (Oakland, California); Igor M. Savukov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dmitry Budker (El Cerrito, California); Vishal K. Shah (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Svenja Knappe (Boulder, Colorado); John Kitching (Boulder, Colorado); David J. Michalak (Berkeley, California); Shoujun Xu (Houston, Texas); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integral microfluidic device includes an alkali vapor cell and microfluidic channel, which can be used to detect magnetism for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Small magnetic fields in the vicinity of the vapor cell can be measured by optically polarizing and probing the spin precession in the small magnetic field. This can then be used to detect the magnetic field of in encoded analyte in the adjacent microfluidic channel. The magnetism in the microfluidic channel can be modulated by applying an appropriate series of radio or audio frequency pulses upstream from the microfluidic chip (the remote detection modality) to yield a sensitive means of detecting NMR and MRI. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367292 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995191 | Sandusky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Sandusky (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A scannerless 3-D imaging apparatus is disclosed which utilizes an amplitude modulated cw light source to illuminate a field of view containing a target of interest. Backscattered light from the target is passed through one or more loss modulators which are modulated at the same frequency as the light source, but with a phase delay δ which can be fixed or variable. The backscattered light is demodulated by the loss modulator and detected with a CCD, CMOS or focal plane array (FPA) detector to construct a 3-D image of the target. The scannerless 3-D imaging apparatus, which can operate in the eye-safe wavelength region 1.4-1.7 μm and which can be constructed as a flash LADAR, has applications for vehicle collision avoidance, autonomous rendezvous and docking, robotic vision, industrial inspection and measurement, 3-D cameras, and facial recognition. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/477248 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995216 | Van Berkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Van Berkel (Clinton, Tennessee); Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method utilizes an image analysis approach for controlling the collection instrument-to-surface distance in a sampling system for use, for example, with mass spectrometric detection. Such an approach involves the capturing of an image of the collection instrument or the shadow thereof cast across the surface and the utilization of line average brightness (LAB) techniques to determine the actual distance between the collection instrument and the surface. The actual distance is subsequently compared to a target distance for re-optimization, as necessary, of the collection instrument-to-surface during an automated surface sampling operation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/217224 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995877 | Skogen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erik J. Skogen (Albuquerque, New Mexico); James Raring (Goleta, California); Anna Tauke-Pedretti (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical NAND gate is formed from two pair of optical waveguide devices on a substrate, with each pair of the optical waveguide devices consisting of an electroabsorption modulator and a photodetector. One pair of the optical waveguide devices is electrically connected in parallel to operate as an optical AND gate; and the other pair of the optical waveguide devices is connected in series to operate as an optical NOT gate (i.e. an optical inverter). The optical NAND gate utilizes two digital optical inputs and a continuous light input to provide a NAND function output. The optical NAND gate can be formed from III-V compound semiconductor layers which are epitaxially deposited on a III-V compound semiconductor substrate, and operates at a wavelength in the range of 0.8-2.0 μm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/182683 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995892 | Bond et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tiziana Bond (Livermore, California); Garrett Cole (Berkeley, California); Lynford Goddard (Champaign, Illinois); Jeff Kallman (Pleasanton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system in one general embodiment includes a waveguide structure comprising a core of an alloy of Group III-V materials surrounded by an oxide (which may include one or more Group III-V metals), wherein an interface of the oxide and core is characterized by oxidation of the alloy for defining the core. A method in one general approach includes oxidizing a waveguide structure comprising an alloy of Group III-V materials for forming a core of the alloy surrounded by an oxide. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/129503 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996197 | Xavier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick G. Xavier (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for correct and efficient detection of clearances between three-dimensional bodies in computer-based simulations, where one or both of the volumes is subject to translation and/or rotations. The method conservatively determines of the size of such clearances and whether there is a collision between the bodies. Given two bodies, each of which is undergoing separate motions, the method utilizes bounding-volume hierarchy representations for the two bodies and, mappings and inverse mappings for the motions of the two bodies. The method uses the representations, mappings and direction vectors to determine the directionally furthest locations of points on the convex hulls of the volumes virtually swept by the bodies and hence the clearance between the bodies, without having to calculate the convex hulls of the bodies. The method includes clearance detection for bodies comprising convex geometrical primitives and more specific techniques for bodies comprising convex polyhedra. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/654826 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Luongo (St. Petersburg, Florida); Shekhar Bhansali (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel, resistance-based porous silicon sensor with Pd nano structures as the hydrogen sensing layer is presented. The sensor operates at room temperature. The hydrogen sensor of the present includes a p-Type Si substrate that is subjected to porous Si etching to form a nanoporous substrate. The substrate is then coated with a thin layer of Pd and annealed at 900 degrees C. This results in some Pd getting oxidized on porous Si and a thin PdO layer forms on the surface of the substrate. The sensor in accordance with the present invention exhibits an inverse relationship between increased hydrogen concentration versus resistance. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/467341 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993412 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Webster (Lafayette, Indiana); Janice L. McKenzie (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanomaterials for neural and orthopedic prostheses are disclosed. Composite carbon nanofibers enhance neuronal growth and minimize glial scar tissue formation. Methods and compositions to promote neuronal growth and minimize scar tissue formation during prolonged monitoring and treatment of neural tissue are disclosed. Composite polyurethane carbon nanofiber is a suitable material for neural implant. Composite carbon nanomaterials decrease adhesion of astrocytes and fibroblasts. |
| FILED | Friday, March 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/550427 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/23.730 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993905 | Singhvi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rahul Singhvi (Potomac, Maryland); Amit Kumar (San Jose, California); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts); Donald E. Ingber (Boston, Massachusetts); Gabriel P. Lopez (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel I. C. Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregory Stephanopoulos (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a device for adhering cells in a specific and predetermined position, and associated methods. The device includes a plate defining a surface and a plurality of cytophilic islands that adhere cells, isolated by cytophobic regions to which cells do not adhere, contiguous with the cytophilic islands. The islands or the regions or both may be formed of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM). |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166287 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/283.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993926 | Sze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heven Sze (Beltsville, Maryland); Senthilkumar Padmanaban (Greenbelt, Maryland); June Kwak (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventors herein disclose a new transporter that participates in guard cell movement. The inventors have now found that AtCHX20 is preferentially expressed in guard cells using microarray and promoter TGUS analyses. The inventors have also found a guard cell specific promoter which serves as a powerful tool to manipulate the opening and closing of guard cells and thus the ability to control water loss and gas exchange of plants. Such a tool can be particularly useful when applied to crops and other plants of economic importance, thus the present inventors have identified homologous genes in several other plants that fall within the scope of this invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/798624 |
| 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 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993938 | Schaff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Schaff (Ithaca, New York); Jeonghyun Hwang (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a highly doped layer of AlGaN, is practiced by first removing contaminants from a MBE machine. Wafers are then outgassed in the machine at very low pressures. A nitride is then formed on the wafer and an AlN layer is grown. The highly doped GaAlN layer is then formed having electron densities beyond 1×1020 cm−3 at Al mole fractions up to 65% are obtained. These levels of doping application of n-type bulk, and n/p tunnel injection to short wavelength UV emitters. Some applications include light emitting diodes having wavelengths between approximately 254 and 290 nm for use in fluorescent light bulbs, hazardous materials detection, water purification and other decontamination environments. Lasers formed using the highly doped layers are useful in high-density storage applications or telecommunications applications. In yet a further embodiment, a transistor is formed utilizing the highly doped layer as a channel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/360776 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994027 | Tian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia); NIST (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yonglai Tian (Fairfax, Virginia); Rao V. Mulpuri (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Siddharth G. Sundaresan (Vienna, Virginia); Albert V. Davydov (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention grows nanostructures using a microwave heating-based sublimation-sandwich SiC polytype growth method comprising: creating a sandwich cell by placing a source wafer parallel to a substrate wafer, leaving a small gap between the source wafer and the substrate wafer; placing a microwave heating head around the sandwich cell to selectively heat the source wafer to a source wafer temperature and the substrate wafer to a substrate wafer temperature; creating a temperature gradient between the source wafer temperature and the substrate wafer temperature; sublimating Si- and C-containing species from the source wafer, producing Si- and C-containing vapor species; converting the Si- and C-containing vapor species into liquid metallic alloy nanodroplets by allowing the metalized substrate wafer to absorb the Si- and C-containing vapor species; and growing nanostructures on the substrate wafer once the alloy droplets reach a saturation point for SiC. The substrate wafer may be coated with a thin metallic film, metal nanoparticles, and/or a catalyst. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463942 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994129 | Donahue |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth W. Donahue (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Black bear parathyroid hormone (PTH) and functional fragments thereof are provided. Also provided are methods of using black bear PTH and functional fragments for increasing cAMP in a bone-forming cell; reducing apoptosis in a bone-forming cell; decreasing the ratio of expression levels of Bax protein to Bcl-2 protein in a bone-forming cell; increasing the expression level of one or more of a bone matrix protein, a transcriptional activator, or a transcriptional regulator in a bone-forming cell; enhancing bone mineral density, increasing bone mass, decreasing bone loss, or reducing the incidence of bone fractures, or any combination thereof, in a subject; also provided are antibodies directed against black bear parathyroid hormone (PTH) and functional fragments thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559285 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/11.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994423 | Marder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Bilal Kaafarani (Beirut, Lebanon); Steve Barlow (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernhard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia); Benoit Domercq (Atlanta, Georgia); Qing Zhang (Shanghai, China PRC); Takeshi Kondo (Duluth, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include charge-transport materials, methods of forming charge-transport materials, and methods of using the charge-transport materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/629262 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994593 | Takulapalli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bharath R. Takulapalli (Tempe, Arizona); Gerard Laws (Tempe, Arizona); John Devens Gust, Jr. (Mesa, Arizona); Trevor Thornton (Fountain Hills, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid-state field-effect transistor device for detecting chemical and biological species and for detecting changes in radiation is disclosed. The device includes a quantum wire channel section to improve device sensitivity. The device is operated in a fully depleted mode such that a sensed biological, chemical or radiation change causes an exponential change in channel conductance of the transistor. |
| FILED | Monday, June 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135940 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994963 | Sternberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ben Kollock Sternberg (Tuscan, Arizona); Steven Louis Dvorak (Tucson, Arizona); Oleg Gennadyevich Krichenko (Volgograd, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | A target is sensed by an antenna array having a transmitter antenna and a receiver antenna, both of which are caused to be electromagnetically coupled to the target. The antenna array is rotated, and as the array rotates, a change in at least one of the coupling between the transmitter antenna and the target and the coupling between the receiver antenna and the target is detected at multiple rotational orientations of the antenna array. |
| FILED | Friday, July 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/501231 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995627 | Bouma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Eugene Bouma (Quincy, Massachusetts); Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Wang-Yuhl (William) Oh (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Johannes F. De Boer (Amstelveen, Netherlands); Guillermo J. Tearney (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and source arrangement for filtering an electromagnetic radiation can be provided which may include at least one spectral separating arrangement configured to physically separate one or more components of the electromagnetic radiation based on a frequency of the electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus and source arrangement may also have at least one continuously rotating optical arrangement which is configured to receive at least one signal that is associated with the one or more components. Further, the apparatus and source arrangement can include at least one beam selecting arrangement configured to receive the signal. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627918 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995810 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); University of Notre Dame du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kang Li (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Xiaodong Wu (Iowa City, Iowa); Danny Z. Chen (Granger, Indiana); Milan Sonka (Coralville, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and methods for the efficient segmentation of globally optimal surfaces representing object boundaries in volumetric datasets is provided. An optical surface detection system and methods are provided that are capable of simultaneously detecting multiple interacting surfaces in which the optimality is controlled by the cost functions designed for individual surfaces and by several geometric constraints defining the surface smoothness and interrelations. |
| FILED | Friday, June 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474070 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995890 | Schmidt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holger Schmidt (Capitola, California); Philip Measor (Scotts Valley, California); Sergei Kuehn (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical waveguide is provided which comprises a non-solid core layer surrounded by a solid-state material, and two light sources capable of introducing light into said non-solid core at opposite ends along a Z-axis of said non-solid core to form two propagating light beams applying force in opposing directions. An integrated optical particle trap device for controlling the placement of small sample particles incorporates the optical waveguide. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350003 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/129 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07995893 | Bi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lei Bi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gerald F. Dionne (Winchester, Massachusetts); Hyun Suk Kim (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Caroline A. Ross (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A magneto-optical structure is provided. The magneto-optical structure includes a substrate. A waveguide layer is formed on the substrate for guiding electromagnetic radiation received by the magneto-optical structure. The waveguide layer includes magnetic oxide material that comprises ABO3 perovskite doped with transition metal ions on the B site, or transition metal ions doped SnO2, or transition metal ions doped CeO2. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/262739 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996369 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chen Li (Irvine, California); Bin Wang (Shenyang, China PRC); Xaochun Yang (Shenyang, China PRC); Alexander Behm (Irvine, California); Shengyue Ji (Irvine, California); Jiaheng Lu (Beijing, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer process, called VGRAM, improves the performance of these string search algorithms in computers by using a carefully chosen dictionary of variable-length grams based on their frequencies in the string collection. A dynamic programming algorithm for computing a tight lower bound on the number of common grams shared by two similar strings in order to improve query performance is disclosed. A method for automatically computing a dictionary of high-quality grams for a workload of queries. Improvement on query performance is achieved by these techniques by a cost-based quantitative approach to deciding good grams for approximate string queries. An approach for answering approximate queries efficiently based on discarding gram lists, and another is based on combining correlated lists. An indexing structure is reduced to a given amount of space, while retaining efficient query processing by using algorithms in a computer based on discarding gram lists and combining correlated lists. |
| FILED | Sunday, December 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334471 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/673 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996390 | Freire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juliana Freire (Salt Lake City, Utah); Luciano Barbosa (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for organizing a plurality of documents that include forms. An initial set of clusters is defined for the plurality of documents. The initial set of clusters is reclustered based on similarity values calculated in multiple feature spaces. For example, a first feature space may be associated with a content of a document while a second feature space may be associated with a content of a form associated with the document. Each cluster has an associated centroid vector in each feature space that is used to represent the cluster. The similarity between the document and each cluster is calculated in both feature spaces. Each document is assigned to the cluster whose centroid is most similar. The cluster centroids may be recalculated and the process repeated until the cluster assignments become stable. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/032331 |
| ART UNIT | 2162 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/722 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07992760 | Wilks |
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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 T. Wilks (Gambrills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for purging gas comprises a conduit assembly defining an interior volume. The conduit assembly comprises a first conduit portion having an open first end and an open second end and a second conduit portion having an open first end and a closed second end. The open second end of the first conduit portion is disposed proximate to the open first end of the second conduit portion to define a weld region. The device further comprises a supply element supplying a gas to the interior volume at a substantially constant rate and a vent element venting the gas from the interior volume at a rate that maintains the gas in the interior volume within a pressure range suitable to hold a weld bead in the weld region in equilibrium during formation of a weld to join the first conduit portion and the second conduit portion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/357458 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/42 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993567 | Scott-Carnell 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) | Lisa A. Scott-Carnell (Norfolk, Virginia); Ralph M Stephens (Yorktown, Virginia); Nancy M. Holloway (White Marsh, Virginia); Caroline Rhim (Durham, North Carolina); Laura Niklason (Greenwich, Connecticut); Robert L. Clark (Durham, North Carolina); Emilie J. Siochi (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided for aligning fibers in an electrospinning process. A jet of a fiberizable material is directed towards an uncharged collector from a dispensing location that is spaced apart from the collector. While the fiberizable material is directed towards the collector, an elliptical electric field is generated via the electrically charged dispenser and an oppositely-charged control location. The field spans between the dispensing location and the control location that is within line-of-sight of the dispensing location, and impinges upon at least a portion of the collector. Various combinations of numbers and geometries of dispensers, collectors, and electrodes can be used. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131420 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996112 | Behar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto E. Behar (Hermosa Beach, California); Neville I. Marzwell (Claremont, California); Jonathan N. Wall (Pasadena, California); Michael D. Poole (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A robot and robot system that are capable of functioning in a zero-gravity environment are provided. The robot can include a body having a longitudinal axis and having a control unit and a power source. The robot can include a first leg pair including a first leg and a second leg. Each leg of the first leg pair can be pivotally attached to the body and constrained to pivot in a first leg pair plane that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the body. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/756793 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/258 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07996737 | Ferguson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Ian Ferguson (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit having a fingerprint for identification of a particular instantiation of the circuit is disclosed. The circuit may include a plurality of digital circuits or gates. Each of the digital circuits or gates is responsive to a configuration voltage applied to its analog input for controlling whether or not the digital circuit or gate performs its intended digital function and each of the digital circuits or gates transitioning between its functional state and its at least one other state when the configuration voltage equals a boundary voltage. The boundary voltage varies between different instantiations of the circuit for a majority of the digital circuits or gates and these differing boundary voltages serving to identify (or fingerprint) different instantiations of the same circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 10/584592 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 07992424 | Grossenbacher |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Griffin Analytical Technologies, L.L.C. (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Grossenbacher (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Sample introduction components of analytical instruments are provided that can include a membrane inlet component in fluid communication with both a mass analyzer component and a sample inlet. The components can also include a valve in fluid communication with the sample inlet and a sampling component. Components can include a sample loop assembly in fluid communication with valve, and a preconcentration assembly in fluid communication with the valve. Sample analysis methods are provided that can include providing sample to a membrane in fluid communication with a mass analyzer to acquire sample parameter data, and providing the sample to a sampling assembly upon acquisition of predefined sample parameter data. Methods can also include providing sample to a first sampling assembly in fluid communication with a detection component to acquire sample parameter data, providing the sample to a second sampling assembly upon acquisition of predefined sample parameter data. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900958 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07992491 | Lanning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A baler for making compacted bales of a cellulosic and preferably woody biomass material, the baler comprising: a housing defining a compaction chamber therein, wherein the housing comprises a top wall, an infeed opening defined in the top wall for introducing the material into the compaction chamber, and a hopper system comprising: first and second doors pivotably attached to the housing in opposing array over the infeed opening, wherein each door comprises a pivot having a plurality of fingers extending in planar array therefrom and defining a plurality of recesses disposed therebetween, and wherein the fingers of the first and second doors are staggered such that the fingers of each door are positioned opposite to and receivable by the recesses of the other door, and actuator means for pivoting the doors upwardly to form a chute for directing the material toward the infeed opening, and downwardly to intermesh and preferably interlock the fingers and substantially cover the infeed opening. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/584810 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993609 | LaValley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sterilucent, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick LaValley (Elk River, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A container is provided for holding a chemical compound or mixture. Areas are provided on the surface of the container which allow for gaseous by-products from the chemical contained within the container to permeate from a chamber through the surface of the container. A septum is over-molded into the surface of the container. The septum is formed in such a manner that it provides a sealing effect to close an opening in the container. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/317894 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994027 | Tian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia); NIST (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yonglai Tian (Fairfax, Virginia); Rao V. Mulpuri (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Siddharth G. Sundaresan (Vienna, Virginia); Albert V. Davydov (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention grows nanostructures using a microwave heating-based sublimation-sandwich SiC polytype growth method comprising: creating a sandwich cell by placing a source wafer parallel to a substrate wafer, leaving a small gap between the source wafer and the substrate wafer; placing a microwave heating head around the sandwich cell to selectively heat the source wafer to a source wafer temperature and the substrate wafer to a substrate wafer temperature; creating a temperature gradient between the source wafer temperature and the substrate wafer temperature; sublimating Si- and C-containing species from the source wafer, producing Si- and C-containing vapor species; converting the Si- and C-containing vapor species into liquid metallic alloy nanodroplets by allowing the metalized substrate wafer to absorb the Si- and C-containing vapor species; and growing nanostructures on the substrate wafer once the alloy droplets reach a saturation point for SiC. The substrate wafer may be coated with a thin metallic film, metal nanoparticles, and/or a catalyst. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463942 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07992491 | Lanning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher J. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A baler for making compacted bales of a cellulosic and preferably woody biomass material, the baler comprising: a housing defining a compaction chamber therein, wherein the housing comprises a top wall, an infeed opening defined in the top wall for introducing the material into the compaction chamber, and a hopper system comprising: first and second doors pivotably attached to the housing in opposing array over the infeed opening, wherein each door comprises a pivot having a plurality of fingers extending in planar array therefrom and defining a plurality of recesses disposed therebetween, and wherein the fingers of the first and second doors are staggered such that the fingers of each door are positioned opposite to and receivable by the recesses of the other door, and actuator means for pivoting the doors upwardly to form a chute for directing the material toward the infeed opening, and downwardly to intermesh and preferably interlock the fingers and substantially cover the infeed opening. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/584810 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Presses 1/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07993884 | Jordan 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) | Douglas B. Jordan (Peoria, Illinois); Xin Liang Li (Morton, Illinois); Christopher A. Dunlap (Dunlap, Illinois); Terence R. Whitehead (Peoria, Illinois); Michael A. Cotta (Edelstein, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Xylose-containing plant material may be hydrolyzed to xylose using a β-D-xylosidase which exhibits unexpectedly high activity. The enzyme has a kcat value for catalysis of approximately 185 sec−1 for 1,4-β-D-xylobiose (X2) when measured at a pH of 5.3 and a temperature of 25° C.; this is at least 10-fold greater than reported for other xylosidases at 25° C. and their optimal pH. The enzyme also has an isoelectric point of approximately 4.4. When reacted at a pH between about 4.5 and about 7.7, the β-D-xylosidase exhibits surprisingly high activity for hydrolyzing xylose-containing plant materials to xylose. The xylose released from plant materials may then be converted to other secondary products such as ethanol by fermentation or other reaction. This β-D-xylosidase may be used alone or in combination with other hydrolytic or xylanolytic enzymes for treatment of lignocellulosic or hemicellulosic plant materials or plant material hydrolysates or xylooligosaccharides. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/904577 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994389 | Hill et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis B. Hill (Champaign, Illinois); Glen L. Hartman (Urbana, Illinois); Yan Li (Chicago, Illinois); Brian Diers (Urbana, Illinois); Shawn Carlson (Bondville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Aphis glycines resistance (RAG) genes are provided by this invention, along with methods for identifying their presence using marker-assisted selection. Varieties of G. max and G. soja having resistance to A. glycines have been identified. The RAG genes, as well as the methods, aphid-resistant varieties, and markers disclosed herein may be used to breed new elite lines expressing soybean aphid resistance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/158307 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/267 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07992958 | Ready et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven E. Ready (Los Altos, California); William S. Wong (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features, and by printing each design layer using individual print solution droplets deposited onto the substrate. A printhead alignment operation includes printing a first spot from a first printhead ejector on a first substrate location, positioning a second ejector over the first substrate location and printing a second spot, measuring a distance between the first spot and the second spot, adjusting a rotational orientation between the print head and the substrate to reduce the distance between the first spot and the second spot, and then repeating the printing, measuring and adjusting processes until the first and second spots are separated by a predefined threshold value apart. The design layers are then printed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787367 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994497 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuning Li (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device comprising a polymer of Formula or Structure (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen, halogen, a suitable hydrocarbon, or a heteroatom containing group; R2 is hydrogen, a suitable hydrocarbon, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; R3 and R4 are independently a suitable hydrocarbon, hydrogen, a heteroatom containing group, or a halogen; Ar is an aromatic component; x, y, a, b, and c represent the number of groups or rings, respectively; Z represents sulfur, oxygen, selenium, or NR wherein R is hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl; and n represents the number of repeating units. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253565 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994783 | Ledbetter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Univerisity of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Micah P. Ledbetter (Oakland, California); Igor M. Savukov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Dmitry Budker (El Cerrito, California); Vishal K. Shah (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Svenja Knappe (Boulder, Colorado); John Kitching (Boulder, Colorado); David J. Michalak (Berkeley, California); Shoujun Xu (Houston, Texas); Alexander Pines (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integral microfluidic device includes an alkali vapor cell and microfluidic channel, which can be used to detect magnetism for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Small magnetic fields in the vicinity of the vapor cell can be measured by optically polarizing and probing the spin precession in the small magnetic field. This can then be used to detect the magnetic field of in encoded analyte in the adjacent microfluidic channel. The magnetism in the microfluidic channel can be modulated by applying an appropriate series of radio or audio frequency pulses upstream from the microfluidic chip (the remote detection modality) to yield a sensitive means of detecting NMR and MRI. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367292 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07992630 | Springer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Davis Energy Group, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Springer (Winters, California); Leo I. Rainer (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for nighttime pre-cooling of a building comprising inputting one or more user settings, lowering the indoor temperature reading of the building during nighttime by operating an outside air ventilation system followed, if necessary, by a vapor compression cooling system. The method provides for nighttime pre-cooling of a building that maintains indoor temperatures within a comfort range based on the user input settings, calculated operational settings, and predictions of indoor and outdoor temperature trends for a future period of time such as the next day. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/806059 |
| ART UNIT | 3785 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994320 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Noeleen Melody (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides prodrugs derived from the sparingly soluble anticancer isocarbostyril narciclasine, a component of various Narcissus species, said prodrugs having potential for use against animal and human cancers. Also disclosed is an efficient procedure for the synthetic conversion of narciclasine to several more soluble cyclic phosphate compounds, including “narcistatin”. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208191 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07992948 | Swain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Swain (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jason Z. Moore (Orion, Michigan); Frank C. Maurer (Skokie, Illinois); Albert Shih (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A regenerative brake of the present invention presents a hydraulic device disposed in a front hub of a bicycle wheel. The device allows the bicycle to recapture part of the kinetic energy that would otherwise be lost when braking and make use of that power either by storing it for future use or feeding it back into a power system to be used. The hydraulic device may also be stored in a rear hub of the bicycle wheel. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/567829 |
| ART UNIT | 3657 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems 33/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 07996333 | Furka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Furka (Secaucus, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a method and system of determining efficient routing of a mail piece in a delivery system for delivering mail pieces. The system determines whether or not the mail piece requires urgent delivery. The system determines a weight of the mail piece. Also, the system determines, based on the urgency determination and the weight determination, a most cost-effective place in which to introduce the mail piece into the delivery system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/104237 |
| 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 75/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07993925 | Dickins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross Dickins (Carlton, Australia); Scott W. Lowe (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Gregory J. Hannon (Huntington, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to recombinant vectors for inducible and/or tissue specific expression of double-stranded RNA molecules that interfere with the expression of a target gene. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to the use of Tet (tetracycline)-responsive RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) promoters (e.g., TetON or TetOFF) to direct inducible knockdown in certain cells of an integrated or an endogenous gene, such as p53. The invention also relates to a method for producing transgenic animals (e.g., mice) expressing inducible (such as tetracycline-regulated), reversible, and/or tissue-specific double-stranded RNA molecules that interfere with the expression of a target gene. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156957 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07994512 | Parikh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Primit Parikh (Goleta, California); Umesh Mishra (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | New Group III based diodes are disclosed having a low on state voltage (Vf) and structures to keep reverse current (Irev) relatively low. One embodiment of the invention is Schottky barrier diode made from the GaN material system in which the Fermi level (or surface potential) of is not pinned. The barrier potential at the metal-to-semiconductor junction varies depending on the type of metal used and using particular metals lowers the diode's Schottky barrier potential and results in a Vf in the range of 0.1-0.3V. In another embodiment a trench structure is formed on the Schottky diodes semiconductor material to reduce reverse leakage current. and comprises a number of parallel, equally spaced trenches with mesa regions between adjacent trenches. A third embodiment of the invention provides a GaN tunnel diode with a low Vf resulting from the tunneling of electrons through the barrier potential, instead of over it. This embodiment can also have a trench structure to reduce reverse leakage current. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/173035 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 09, 2011.
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APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
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- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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