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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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| US 07997057 | Harris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark M. Harris (Jupiter, Florida); Wesley D. Brown (Jupiter, Florida); Angel M. Garcie (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A small gas turbine engine where the compressor and turbine are supported on a rotary shaft, and a main bearing is supported on the rotary shaft, the main bearing being located in a hot zone of the combustor. The main bearing includes cooling air passages within the races to provide cooling for the bearing. A cooling air is diverted from the compressor and passed through the bearing cooling passages for cooling the bearing, and then the cooling air is directed into the combustor. The cooling air is also passed through a guide nozzle before being passed through the bearing to cool both the guide nozzle and the bearing. A swirl cup injector is used to deliver the compressed air from the compressor and the cooling air from the bearing into the combustor, the swirl cup injector also acting to draw the cooling air through the bearing. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487903 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997087 | Venkatasubramanian et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Rama Venkatasubramanian (Cary, North Carolina); Randall G. Alley (Raleigh, North Carolina); Pratima Addepalli (Cary, North Carolina); Anil J. Reddy (Carrboro, North Carolina); Edward P. Siivola (Raleigh, North Carolina); Brooks C. O'Quinn (Mamers, North Carolina); Kip D. Coonley (Durham, North Carolina); John Posthill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Thomas Colpitts (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure, system and method for controlling a temperature of a heat generating device in a solid medium, wherein heat is extracted from the medium into at least one heat extraction device, the heat extraction device dissipates heat into an environment apart from the medium by a heat sink thermally coupled to the heat extraction device; and heat from the medium is dissipated into the heat sink by a first thermal interface material thermally coupling the heat sink to the medium. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/403866 |
| ART UNIT | 3784 — Body Treatment, Kinestherapy, and Exercising |
| CURRENT CPC | Refrigeration 062/3.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997144 | Pekarek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Pekarek (West Lafayette, Indiana); Kevin A. Rosenbaum (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method employing a piezoelectric sensor for quasi-static force measurement substantially free of drift and with improved low-frequency response. The output signal from the sensor is sampled and integrated using digital techniques that include a drift compensation algorithm. The algorithm continually monitors the sensor output and estimates bias errors that will cause the output to drift. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119469 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997179 | Nelson 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) | David A. Nelson (Indian Head, Maryland); David Smith (Valley Falls, New York); Scott Strohman (King George, Virginia); Ken Poe (Welcome, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid water cannon that can be configured in either a recoil mode or recoilless mode. A first barrel is attached to a breech block. Either a second barrel or breech plug is also attached to the breech block on a side opposite the first barrel. With the breech plug attached, the water cannon is in a recoil mode. With the second barrel attached, the water cannon is in a recoilless mode. A chamber containing a propellant charge is in communication with both the first and second barrels. Upon ignition, the propellant charge pushes a charge of water from both barrels simultaneously and in opposite directions. The discharge from the first barrel is used to disable the target ordnance. The discharge from the second barrel counters the recoil. The propellant charge is ignited using an ignition charge in a port intersecting the chamber at an angle other than 90 degrees. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082193 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosive-charge making 086/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997181 | Tunis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hardwire, LLC (Pocomoke, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Tunis (Berlin, Maryland); Scott Kendall (Berlin, Maryland); Stephen L. Kinnebrew (Crisfield, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-layer ballistic or armor panel system includes a hard component strike layer that is a continuous planar assembly of tile elements, the planar assembly having a strike surface and a rear surface. Seams between the tile elements are substantially non-perpendicular to the strike surface, thereby tending to deflect incoming projectiles. Grooves may be formed in one or more of the strike surface and the rear surface of the tile elements to provide a preferential weakness. The armor panel system may also include a reinforcing layer on at least one of the strike surface and the rear surface. A backing layer may be provided after the rear surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/316255 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997203 | Macri |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Macri (Nanjemoy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A warhead including a case, a main explosive being received within the case, an initiator having at least a portion embedded within a main explosive charge, and a releasable coupling intermediate the main explosive charge and the initiator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894625 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/202.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997300 | Wise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel G. Wise (Ellicott City, Maryland); Lawrence J. Hyttinen (Abingdon, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow modulator to control the flow of an aerosol to an aerosol detection and/or monitoring system and other aerosol flow systems includes a chamber having an inlet and an outlet, a diverging section of the chamber beneath the inlet that has a flow divider at the center to divide the aerosol into fractions, a recirculation section in which the divided aerosol fractions are recombined, and a converging section that channels the recombined aerosol fractions to the outlet of the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417305 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/601.180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997904 | Deering |
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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) | Shad H. Deering (Dupont, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In the modern practice of obstetrics, the military is in the position of having experts in both simulation training for obstetric emergencies and teamwork training. The military has the potential to train better and provide the safest environment possible with these resources. Accordingly, an embodiment of the invention provides an obstetrics simulation system, comprising an articulating maternal birthing simulator. The maternal birthing simulator is a full size and full-body female having an intubeable airway with a chest rise component, a forearm having a medication receiving component, and/or a fetal heart sound component. Additionally, the maternal birthing simulator includes a head descent and cervical dilation monitor, a placenta positionable in at least two locations, two or more removable dilating cervices, and/or postpartum vulval suturing inserts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/670250 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998291 | D'Arche et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. D'Arche (Odon, Indiana); Travis Swanson (Bloomfield, Indiana); Brian Molof (Edgewood, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermite torch formulation that includes a metal fuel in the form of a magnalium alloy and an oxidizer in the form of MoO3. When the thermite formulation is reacted, a torch may direct at least one reaction product onto a certain region of an object to deliver a large amount of energy to that region of the object. |
| FILED | Monday, December 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/637278 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998328 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianjun Feng (Huntsville, Alabama); Guiren Wang (Huntsville, Alabama); Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Kapil Pant (Huntsville, Alabama); Shivshankar Sundaram (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for the micro-scale, dielectrophoretic separation of particles are provided. Fluid suspensions of particles are sorted and separated by dielectrophoretic separation chambers that have at least two consecutive, electrically coupled planar electrodes separated by a gap in a fluid flow channel. The gap distance as well as applied potential can be used to control the dielectrophoretic forces generated. Using consecutive, electrically coupled electrodes rather than electrically coupled opposing electrodes facilitates higher flow volumes and rates. The methods and apparatus can be used, for example, to sort living, damaged, diseased, and/or dead cells and functionalized or ligand-bound polymer beads for subsequent identification and/or analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167428 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998699 | Ewert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matt Ewert (Seminole, 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 | Friday, August 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/604779 |
| 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 07998727 | Zang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | IPITEK, Inc. (Carlsbad, California); United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | De Yu Zang (Irvine, California); James G. Grote (Yellow Springs, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device provides a metal contact, a DNA layer, wherein the metal layer and the DNA layer are adapted to form a Schottky barrier junction there between, and a conductive contact with the DNA layer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/118817 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998731 | Daitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Daitch (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Roger Reynolds (Charlottesville, Virginia); Stephen C. Francesconi (Washington, District of Columbia); Bouvard Hosticka (Charlottesville, Virginia); Kathy Terlesky (Charlottesville, Virginia); Eric J. Van Gieson (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a collection device for a substance, and methods related to collecting thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/388760 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/309.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998788 | Guha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Supratik Guha (Chappaqua, New York); Hendrik F. Hamann (Yorktown Heights, New York); Emanuel Tutuc (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for combining nanotechnology with photovoltaics are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a photovoltaic device is provided comprising the following steps. A plurality of nanowires are formed on a substrate, wherein the plurality of nanowires attached to the substrate comprises a nanowire forest. In the presence of a first doping agent and a first volatile precursor, a first doped semiconductor layer is conformally deposited over the nanowire forest. In the presence of a second doping agent and a second volatile precursor, a second doped semiconductor layer is conformally deposited over the first doped layer. The first doping agent comprises one of an n-type doping agent and a p-type doping agent and the second doping agent comprises a different one of the n-type doping agent and the p-type doping agent from the first doping agent. A transparent electrode layer is deposited over the second doped semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/494195 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998904 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zev J. Gartner (Somerville, Massachusetts); Matthew W. Kanan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Nature evolves biological molecules such as proteins through iterated rounds of diversification, selection, and amplification. The present invention provides methods, compositions, and systems for synthesizing, selecting, amplifying, and evolving non-natural molecules based on nucleic acid templates. The sequence of a nucleic acid template is used to direct the synthesis of non-natural molecules such as unnatural polymers and small molecules. Using this method combinatorial libraries of these molecules can be prepared and screened. Upon selection of a molecule, its encoding nucleic acid template may be amplified and/or evolved to yield the same molecule or related molecules for re-screening. The inventive methods and compositions of the present invention allow for the amplification and evolution of non-natural molecules in a manner analogous to the amplification of natural biopolymer such as polynucleotides and protein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/141164 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998916 | Grzyll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mainstream Engineering Corporation (Rockledge, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence R. Grzyll (Merritt Island, Florida); John A. Meyer (Palm Bay, Florida); Dwight D. Back (Pembroke Pines, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | CFC replacement solvent compositions, methods of using the same and methods of making the same. These compositions meet or exceed the solvency, flammability, and compatibility requirements for CFC's while providing similar or improved environmental and toxicological properties. These solvent compositions have applications including, but not limited to, oxygen handling, refrigeration or heat pumps, electronics, implantable prosthetic devices, and optical equipment. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192236 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999001 | Aman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad Javad Aman (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); James C. Burnett (Richmond, Virginia); Kelly Lyn Warfield (Adamstown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds which exhibit antiviral activity against a plurality of viruses belonging to different families such as Bornaviridae, Filoviridae, Paramyxoviridae, Rhabdoviridae, Arenaviridae, Bunyaviridae, Orthomyxoviridae, and Poxviridae. Thus, methods of preventing, inhibiting, or reducing the viral activity of various viruses are provided as well as methods of treating viral infections. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/013640 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999069 | Pasquale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elena B. Pasquale (La Jolla, California); Mitchell Koolpe (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The application is related to the identification of peptides that selectively bind to Eph receptors of the B class. Also disclosed are uses of such peptides in the treatment of a variety of diseases. Additionally, imaging tumors in patients is described by administrating labeled peptides to patients and then obtaining an image of the labeled peptides. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549953 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 07999079 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Peter Amersdorfer (San Diego, California); Isin Geren (San Francisco, California); Jianlong Lou (San Bruno, California); Ali Razai (San Francisco, California); Maria Consuelo Garcia (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to and neutralize botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof and/or other antibodies that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are therefore also useful in the treatment of botulism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646705 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999213 | Winker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce K. Winker (Ventura, California); Yu-Hua K Lin (Oak Park, California); Sridhar Narayanaswamy (Thousand Oaks, California); Bing Wen (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a compact, high-speed deformable mirror for use with an adaptive optic. The mirror or wavefront correction device corrects and/or compensates for wavefront aberrations present in a wavefront received by the optics. The mirror includes a deformable membrane which may be made of a semiconductive, metallic or insulating material. Positioned in close proximity to a front surface of the membrane is a transparent conductor, which may be covered by a window having an anti-reflective coating. A plurality of electrostatic actuators is located in close proximity to a back surface of the membrane, the conductor and actuators separated by a gap of approximately 10 μm. In operation, a bias voltage is applied to the transparent conductor and an actuator voltage is applied to the plurality of actuators. The resultant voltage differential across the membrane defines the amount of membrane deformation, which in turn compensates for distortions in a subsequently reflected wavefront. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/241993 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/201.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999230 | Cole |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron Boyd Cole (Bedford, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable bandwidth selector and method of use is disclosed. The tunable bandwidth selector may include a plurality of spaced apart electron sheets which selectively separate a first bandwidth from an input spectrum. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/545908 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999248 | Levy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale device and a method for creating and erasing of nanoscale conducting regions at the interface between two insulating oxides SrTiO3 and LaAlO3 is provided. The method uses the tip of a conducting atomic force microscope to locally and reversibly switch between conducting and insulating states. This allows ultra-high density patterning of quasi zero or one dimensional electron gas conductive regions, such as nanowires and conducting quantum dots respectively. The patterned structures are stable at room temperature after removal of the external electric field. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054948 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999283 | Chakraborty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arpan Chakraborty (Goleta, California); Bernd Keller (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting device having an encapsulant with scattering features to tailor the spatial emission pattern and color temperature uniformity of the output profile. The encapsulant is formed with materials having light scattering properties. The concentration of these light scatterers is varied spatially within the encapsulant and/or on the surface of the encapsulant. The regions having a high density of scatterers are arranged in the encapsulant to interact with light entering the encapsulant over a desired range of source emission angles. By increasing the probability that light from a particular range of emission angles will experience at least one scattering event, both the intensity and color temperature profiles of the output light beam can be tuned. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818818 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999404 | Fries et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Fries (St. Petersburg, Florida); Chad Lembke (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Activation of a propellant in a constant volume container causes a phase change material to rapidly expand so that the pressure in the container increases. Programmability and sequential actuation are enabled by patterning the phase change material into the integrated device. The pressure generated may be used to activate an energy transducer such as a high pressure turbine, a piezoelectric material, and an elastic strain material. This provides a hybrid actuation system of electrical energy, pneumatic and hydraulic power. The pressure change in a constant volume container is also harnessed to provide a microbattery. |
| FILED | Monday, January 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/007817 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Prime-mover dynamo plants 290/1.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999435 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yet-Ming Chiang (Framingham, Massachusetts); Michael J. Cima (Winchester, Massachusetts); Timothy E. Chin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems, devices, and related methods, involving electrochemical actuation. In some cases, application of a voltage or current to a system or device of the invention may generate a volumetric or dimensional change, which may produce mechanical work. For example, at least a portion of the system may be constructed and arranged to be displaced from a first orientation to a second orientation. Systems such as these may be useful in various applications, including pumps (e.g., infusion pumps) and drug delivery devices, for example. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/035406 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999445 | Baird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loki Incorporated (Rolla, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Baird (Rolla, Missouri); Sergey Shkuratov (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A ferroelectric energy generator system comprises an explosive unit, a ferroelectric element, a first and a second output terminal, and a voltage-controlled switch. The explosive unit may include an explosive charge and a detonator which in combination may supply a shock wave. The ferroelectric element may include a third output terminal coupled to the voltage-controlled switch and a fourth output terminal coupled to the second output terminal. Upon receiving the shock wave, the ferroelectric element may be compressed and depolarized and, as a result, may generate a pulse of voltage between the third and the fourth output terminals. When the voltage reaches a breakdown level, the voltage-controlled switch may close and quickly deliver electric current to a load coupled to the ferroelectric energy generator system. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/501729 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999621 | Hajimiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-differential amplifier is provided. The cross-differential amplifier includes an inductor connected to a direct current power source at a first terminal. A first and second switch, such as transistors, are connected to the inductor at a second terminal. A first and second amplifier are connected at their supply terminals to the first and second switch. The first and second switches are operated to commutate the inductor between the amplifiers so as to provide an amplified signal while limiting the ripple voltage on the inductor and thus limiting the maximum voltage imposed across the amplifiers and switches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686161 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999858 | Nayar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); Sony Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York); Tomoo Mitsunaga (Kawasaki, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The application provides techniques for obtaining a relatively high dynamic range image of a scene using a relatively low dynamic range image sensor exposed to incident light from the scene for capturing an image. The image sensor has a multiplicity of light-sensing elements in an array and each light sensing element has a particular one of a plurality of sensitivity levels to incident light in accordance with a predetermined sensitivity pattern for the array of light-sensing elements and has a response function. Each light sensing element is responsive to incident light from the scene for producing a captured image brightness value at a corresponding one of a multiplicity of pixel positions of a pixel position array. Each one of the multiplicity of pixel positions corresponds to a particular one of the plurality of sensitivity levels of the light sensing elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/959679 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/222.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000267 | Solis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Paio Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ignacio Solis (Santa Cruz, California); Jose J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (San Mateo, California); Rebecca L. Braynard Silberstein (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that communicates a data packet in a network to a target node. In doing so, the system receives a node identifier for the target node, and determines a first positional label, based in part on the node identifier, for reaching a first anchor node from a root node in the network. The first anchor node stores a second positional label for reaching the target node from the root node in the network, which comprises a number of nodes coupled to the root node in a tree topology. The system then retrieves the second positional label from the first anchor node, and communicates the data packet to the target node based in part on the second positional label. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391841 |
| ART UNIT | 2477 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000366 | Bour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Bour (Cupertino, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Zhihong Yang (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor laser diode with a high indium content is provided with a lattice matched cladding layer or layers. One or both of the cladding layers may comprise bulk aluminum gallium indium nitride in the ratio of AlxGa1-x-yInyN and/or a short period superlattice structures of, for example, a plurality of alternating layer pairs of aluminum gallium indium nitride in the ratio of AlxGa1-x-yInyN and gallium indium nitride in the ratio of GasIn1-sN, providing a multi-quantum barrier (MQB) effect. Lattice matching of the cladding layer(s) and active layer reduce or eliminate strain, and the materials chosen for the cladding layers optimizes optical and carrier confinement. Alternatively, the lattice parameters may be selected to provide strain balanced MQBs, e.g., where the barrier layers are tensile-strained and the well layers compressed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/276173 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000575 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin Chen (Corning, New York); Stuart Gray (Corning, New York); Ming-Jun Li (Horseheads, New York); Donnell Thaddeus Walton (Painted Post, New York); Ji Wang (Painted Post, New York); Luis Alberto Zenteno (Painted Post, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical fiber, comprising: (i) a core, (ii) a cladding surrounding the core, (iii) at least one stress member adjacent the fiber core and situated within the cladding, said stress member comprising silica co-doped with B and F. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221015 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000767 | Eden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Gary Eden (Mahomet, Illinois); Ju Gao (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector uses the magneto-optical Kerr effect and exploits the transition region between two magnetization states of a magneto-optical film to detect magnetic fields of less than 100 pT. The magnetic field of a subject is determined by examining the polarization of light reflected from the magneto-optical film. A several μm thick, bismuth doped, YIG film is used for detection as the transition regions are steep, providing large changes in the polarization rotation angle for small variations in the applied magnetic field. The apparatus may be used in the functional imaging of various organs and systems in humans and animals or for the spatial and temporal tracking of nano or micro magnetic particles intentionally introduced into the circulatory or intestinal systems for diagnostic or research purposes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/762223 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/409 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000775 | Pogue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian William Pogue (Hanover, New Hampshire); Daqing Piao (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Shudong Jiang (Hanover, New Hampshire); Hamid Dehghani (Exeter, United Kingdom); Heng Xu (Union City, California); Roger Springett (Hanover, New Hampshire); Subhadra Srinivasan (Keene, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical tomography systems that provide light of multiple distinct wavelengths from a plurality of sources are described. The systems direct light into mammalian tissue, and light from the mammalian tissue is collected at a plurality of reception points. Collected light from each reception point is separated according to its wavelength, and received by a photodetector to produce path attenuation signals representing attenuation along paths between the source locations and the reception points. An image construction system generates a tomographic image of the mammalian tissue from the path attenuation signals. One embodiment of an optical imaging system includes an optical coherence tomography-near infrared probe. The systems and methods may utilize a spectral derivative approach that provides insensitivity to the boundary and boundary artifacts in the signal, thereby improving the quality of the reconstructed images. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/088845 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000835 | Friz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel C. Friz (Grand Prairie, Texas); Mark R. Bates (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, program product, and related methods for gravity stabilizing a suspended load are provided. The apparatus includes an center of gravity stabilized automated adjusting load bar in communication with a mobile cart which allows an operator to enable automated stabilization of a load. The adjusting load bar includes redundant first and second control and drive systems. A third control system can both monitor sensed data and the movement commands of first and second control systems, and can monitor the resulting physical movements. If a movement command and the resulting movement does not match or if there is an out of tolerance mismatch between movement commands of the first and the second control systems, the third control system can automatically detect this condition and shift into an emergency stop condition. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801510 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000876 | Wesquet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alain Wesquet (Niederpallen, Luxembourg); Peter J. Spadafora (Strassen, Luxembourg) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating a fuel injector having a piezoelectric actuator that is operable by applying an electrical drive pulse thereto to activate and deactivate the injector. The method includes monitoring an electrical characteristic of the actuator during a predetermined time period, determining a time-domain data sample corresponding to the monitored electrical characteristic during the predetermined time period, determining a frequency spectrum signature corresponding to the time-domain data sample, and comparing the frequency spectrum signature of the monitored electrical characteristic to a predetermined frequency spectrum signature indicative of an injector event. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825711 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000945 | Rogers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Erick Rogers (Carriere, Mississippi); Timothy Ray Keen (Slidell, Louisiana); Kenneth Todd Holland (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented inversion method for determining characteristics of a bottom roughness field using a numerical wave model is provided. Measured wave heights over an area of interest are compared to predicted wave heights calculated by a wave model using an estimated bottom roughness parameter. If the error between the measured wave heights and the predicted wave heights is within a specified tolerance level, the analysis ends and the value of the bottom roughness parameter used in the wave model is retrieved. If the error is not within the specified tolerance level, an Influence Matrix IM is used to obtain a revised estimated bottom roughness parameter. The wave model is re-run using the revised roughness parameter and the resulting predicted wave heights are compared to the measured wave heights. The inversion continues until the wave height error is within the specified tolerance level. When the inversion ends, the bottom roughness field that produced those predicted wave heights is retrieved. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188400 |
| 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 08001394 | Bose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Michael Stephen Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method and a system for managing power in a multi-core microprocessor are provided. A power management control microarchitecture in a chiplet translates a first command comprising a power setting. A chiplet comprises a processor core and associated memory cache. The power management control microarchitecture comprises power mode registers, power mode adjusters, translators, and microarchitectural power management techniques. The power management control microarchitecture sets microarchitectural power management techniques according to the power setting. The global power management controller issues the first command. The global power management controller may reside either on or off of the microprocessor. The global power management controller issues commands either directly for a specific chiplet out of the plurality of chiplets or to the plurality of chiplets and the control slave bus translates the command into sub-commands dedicated to specific chiplets within the plurality of chiplets. Each chiplet may be set to separate power levels. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/023536 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08001405 | Dittmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gero Dittmann (New York, New York); Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi (Tarrytown, New York); Indira Nair (Briarcliff Manor, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Power management techniques include a method for power management of a processor chip which comprises the following steps. An initial operating level is set for the processor chip. After a predetermined time interval, slack is calculated. If the slack is greater than zero, the initial operating level is increased to a next higher level, otherwise the initial operating level is maintained. After the predetermined time interval, the slack is re-calculated and further includes accumulated slack. If the re-calculated slack is greater than zero, the operating level is increased to the next higher level if the processor chip is being operated at the initial operating level, otherwise the operating level is returned to the initial operating level if the processor chip is being operated at the next higher operating level. The steps to re-calculate the slack and either increase the operating level to the next higher level or return the operating level to the initial operating level are repeated. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201821 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Huang (South Pasadena, California); SriniVas R. Sadda (Pasadena, California); Ou Tan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method for comparing the detection of clinically significant diabetic macular edema by an optical coherence tomography (OCT) grid scanning protocol and biomicroscopic examination. Also provided are computer implemented, automated systems for performing the method thereof and computer readable media encoding the method thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/743135 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997730 | Cleveland |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LC Technologies, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dixon Cleveland (Annandale, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining a three-dimensional location and orientation of an eye within a camera frame of reference includes a camera, an illuminator, and a processor. The camera captures an image of the eye. The illuminator generates a reflection off of a corneal surface of the eye. The processor computes a first two-dimensional location of a pupil reflection image and a corneal reflection image from the image of the eye. The processor predicts a second two-dimensional location of a pupil reflection image and the corneal reflection image as a function of a set of three-dimensional position and orientation parameters of the eye within the camera frame of reference. The processor iteratively adjusts the set until the first two-dimensional location is substantially the same as the second two-dimensional location. The set is the three-dimensional location and orientation of an eye. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719924 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998040 | Kram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodger Kram (Nederland, Colorado); Jesse R. Modica (Lafayette, Colorado); Jinger S. Gottschall (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A physical therapy apparatus for use in conjunction with a treadmill provides an assistive force to a forward movement of the legs. A force assistance device is adapted to attach to the feet or legs of a patient positioned on a motorized treadmill to assist in walking therapy by providing an assistive force to a forward movement of the patient's feet or legs. An adjustment device may vary an interface of attachment, for example, the height or direction, between the force assistance device and the patient's feet or legs. A force arresting device may arrest the assistive force provided by the force assistance device during the forward movement of the patient's feet or legs. The force assistance device provides a substantially constant assistance force during the forward movement of the patient's feet or legs. The physical therapy device may also include a force adjustment device connected with the force assistance device to vary the magnitude of the assistive force. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/401168 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998084 | Kline |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority (Charolette, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey A Kline (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the presence of pulmonary embolism is a postoperative patient using the carbox ratio of the patient prior to the surgical procedure and the carbox ratio of the patient after to the surgical procedure. The characteristics of the breath of the patient are obtained prior to a surgical procedure for a baseline and then afterwards if the patient has difficult breathing. The mean carbox ratios from the baseline and post-surgical data collections are then compared to non-invasively predict the likelihood that the patient has developed pulmonary embolism. A decrease in the carbox ratio of more than twenty-five percent (25%) represents an abnormal test and is consistent with possible pulmonary embolism. No change or an increase in the carbox ratio suggests the absence of pulmonary embolism. |
| FILED | Monday, November 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/556738 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998128 | Poston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Therataxis, LLC. (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Poston (Bungay, United Kingdom); Raghu Raghavan (Baltimore, Maryland); Martin L. Brady (Phoenix, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical device for delivering material through tissue into a defined area of a patient may comprise: a material delivery element through which the material may flow out of a delivery end; the delivery end having an opening that can be inserted through a surface of the tissue; and a sealing system proximal to the delivery end that can extend away from the material delivery element along the surface of the tissue and apply pressure to the tissue after the material delivery element has been inserted through the surface of the tissue. A physical barrier may be provided on the material delivery device to reduce back flow loss of delivered material. |
| FILED | Monday, May 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434080 |
| ART UNIT | 3767 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998436 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Multiwell droplet actuators, systems and methods are provided. According to one embodiment, a substrate is provided and comprises: (a) one or more input ports for introduction of one or more reagents and/or samples; (b) a regular array of processing wells; and (c) a network of droplet transport pathways comprising pathways that provide direct or indirect droplet transport from each of the input ports to each of the one or more processing wells. Varying droplet actuators and systems related thereto are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839774 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/509 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998471 | Jacobs, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Jacobs, Jr. (Pelham, New York); Norman L. Letvin (Newton, Massachusetts); Mark Cayabyab (Boston, Massachusetts); Barton F. Haynes (Durham, North Carolina); Hua-Xin Liao (Durham, North Carolina); Jae-Sung Yu (Durham, North Carolina); Avi-Hai Hovav (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are recombinant mycobacteria expressing an HIV-1 antigen and a malarial antigen. Also provided are Mycobacterium smegmatis expressing an HIV-1 antigen. Further provided are vaccines capable of inducing an immune response in a mammal against HIV-1 and the malarial pathogen. Additionally provided are methods of inducing an immune response in a mammal against HIV-1 and a malarial pathogen. Also provided are methods of inducing an immune response in a mammal against HIV-1. The methods comprise infecting the mammal with any of the above-described mycobacteria. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/794373 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998481 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang-Mo Kang (San Francisco, California); Lewis L. Lanier (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating and/or preventing autoimmune and/or inflammatory disease. In particular, the present invention provides therapeutics for impairing the expansion and function of autoreactive T cells, NK cells and/or NKT cells, by modulating NKG2D. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/429354 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998487 | Young et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California); The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Young (San Diego, California); Anette Schneemann (San Diego, California); Marianne Manchester (San Diego, California); Kelly Dryden (San Diego, California); John M. Marlett (San Diego, California); Darly Joseph Manayani (San Diego, California); Godfrey Jonah Anderson Rainey (San Diego, California); Vijay Reddy (San Diego, California); Marc E. Siladi (San Diego, California); Heather M. Scobie (New Haven, Connecticut); Diane Thomas (San Diego, California); Mark Yeager (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Antitoxin and vaccine compositions based on nodavirus VLPs are provided. Anthrax antitoxin and vaccine compositions are provided. Methods of treating toxins with VLP-based antitoxins are provided. Methods of raising an immune response with immunogen decorated VLPs are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/070384 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/196.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998681 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry J. Smith (Manhattan Beach, California); William W. Cruikshank (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes diagnosis and treatment of antibody-mediated inflammatory auto-immune diseases. The biochemical mechanisms underlying such disorders are described as characteristic molecular markers and antibody-mediated ligand-receptor interactions. Specifically, the activation of T-cells by disease specific IgG binding to the IGF-1 receptor is shown to underlie thyroid associated ophthalmopathy associated with Graves' disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Diagnostics for detection of disease are provided, as are therapeutics based on the determination of the mechanisms underlying a particular pathology. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/038509 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
07998682 — Method for assessing atherosclerosis by measuring expression of FOS or DUSP1 in monocytes
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Hwang (Rockville, Maryland); Willmar D. Patino (Rockville, Maryland); Omar Y. Mian (Ashburn, Virginia); Ju-Gyeong Kang (Potomac, Maryland); Satoaki Matoba (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-invasive method for the diagnosis of atherosclerosis is provided. In one example, the method includes assaying the expression of FOS, DUSP1, or both FOS and DUSP1 in monocytes or a cell fraction thereof, or in plasma, serum or peripheral blood from the subject. An increase the expression of FOS, DUSP1, or both FOS and DUSP1 in monocytes in the sample as compared to a control indicates that the subject has atherosclerosis. A method is also provided for determining if a pharmaceutical agent is effective for treatment of atherosclerosis in a subject. The method includes assaying the expression of FOS, DUSP1, or both FOS and DUSP1 in a monocytes treated with the pharmaceutical agent, wherein a decrease the expression of FOS, DUSP1, or both FOS and DUSP1 in monocytes in the sample as compared to a control indicates that the pharmaceutical agent is effective for the treatment of atherosclerosis. The monocytes can be contacted with the agent in vivo or in vitro. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/661714 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 07998698 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young-Mee Park (Williamsville, New York); Gary Y. Yang (E. Amherst, New York); Nithya Ramnath (E. Amherst, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for determining whether an individual is likely to be susceptible to radiation pneumonitis from radiation therapy and for developing a treatment based on the determination of susceptibility. The method involves measuring SOD and GPX activity levels. A high SOD or low GPX activity, or a combination thereof, is indicative that the individual is likely to be susceptible to radiation pneumonitis. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809250 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
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| US 07998707 | Danenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kathleen D. Danenberg (Altadena, California); Peter V. Danenberg (Altadena, California); Steven Swenson (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for rapid, reliable and simple isolation of RNA, DNA and proteins from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples. RNA purified in this manner can be used to monitor gene expression levels. The tissue sample can be a tumor or other pathological tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/278804 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
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| US 07998717 | 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 (Santa Clara, 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 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/293040 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
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| US 07998734 | High et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine A. High (Merion, Pennsylvania); Roland W. Herzog (Glenolden, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a composition comprising a recombinant adeno-associated viral vector comprising at least two adeno-associated virus inverted terminal repeats, a promoter/regulatory sequence, isolated DNA encoding Factor IX and accompanying 5′ and 3′ untranslated regions and a transcription termination. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932017 |
| 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 435/320.100 |
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| US 07998736 | Morgan 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) | Richard A. Morgan (Columbia, Maryland); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); Cary Hsu (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides for compositions, e.g., pharmaceutical compositions, comprising a T lymphocyte, or a population thereof, expressing at least one recombinant polynucleotide encoding a cytokine that enhances T lymphocyte survival during the contraction phase of an immune response. The invention further provides an isolated T lymphocyte, or population thereof, expressing at least one recombinant polynucleotide encoding the cytokine, wherein the polynucleotide comprises a non-native coding sequence encoding the cytokine. Also provided is the use of such compositions and T lymphocytes, or populations thereof, for the treatment or prevention of a medical condition e.g., cancer. A method of preparing the a T lymphocyte with enhanced T cell survival is further provided herein. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/576621 |
| 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 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998738 | Arnaout |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | M. Amin Arnaout (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Ligand-mimetic monoclonal antibody mAb 107, produced by a hybridoma cell line deposited in the American Type Culture Collection under Accession Number ATCC PTA-11614, which binds to CD11b MIDAS in an activation-independent manner. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/021074 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998739 | Bendelac et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scipps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah); The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert Bendelac (Chicago, Illinois); Dapeng Zhou (Chicago, Illinois); Luc Teyton (Del Mar, California); Paul Savage (Mapleton, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods of activating an NKT cell which include a step of contacting the NKT cell with a sufficient amount of isoglobotrihexosylceramide (iGb3) to induce secretion of a cytokine from the NKT cell, stimulate proliferation of the NKT cell or upregulate expression of a cell surface marker on the NKT cell. Methods of activating an NKT cell population in a subject are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218906 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 07998740 | Sackstein |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Sackstein (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for treating cells with cytokines are provided herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/779650 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 07998743 | Fung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vermillion, Inc. (Austin, Texas); Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric T. Fung (Los Altos, California); John Cooke (Palo Alto, California); Fujun Zhang (Fremont, California); Andrew Wilson (Glen Iris, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides biomarkers including β-2-microglobulin, Cystatin C, hsCRP and glucose as well as methods for using the biomarkers for diagnosing and/or assessing the risk of peripheral artery disease in a subject. In some embodiments, the subject being tested may be suffering from or at risk of other circulatory diseases, including coronary artery disease. Hemoglobin A1c or other proxies for measuring glucose levels may be substituted for or measured in addition to glucose in the context of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/934008 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998923 | Pinaud et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabien Pinaud (Berkeley, California); David King (San Francisco, California); Shimon Weiss (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Particles are bioactivated by attaching bioactivation peptides to the particle surface. The bioactivation peptides are peptide-based compounds that impart one or more biologically important functions to the particles. Each bioactivation peptide includes a molecular or surface recognition part that binds with the surface of the particle and one or more functional parts. The surface recognition part includes an amino-end and a carboxy-end and is composed of one or more hydrophobic spacers and one or more binding clusters. The functional part(s) is attached to the surface recognition part at the amino-end and/or said carboxy-end. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/513567 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 07998926 | Marchalonis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Boad of Regents on Behfl of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Jacob Marchalonis (Tucson, Arizona); Ronald Ross Watson (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Dimers of a peptide from the T-cell receptor (Cys Lys Pro Ile Ser Gly His Asn Ser Leu Phe Trp Tyr Arg Gln Thr) (SEQ ID NO:1) are disclosed for preventing the progression to AIDS in an animal model. Methods for delaying the progression to AIDS and restoring normal immunological responses in an animal model following infection are shown and comprise administering through various systemic routes dimeric T-cell receptor peptide Vβ CDR1 to restore normal levels of Th1 cytokines interleukin 2 and interferon-γ, which are suppressed following infection, and those of Th2 derived cytokines interleukin 5, interleukin 6, interleukin 10, and immunoglobulin G, which are stimulated following infection. |
| FILED | Friday, May 17, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/478194 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.800 |
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| US 07998932 | Cines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Cines (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Khalil Bdeir (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania); Klaus T. Preissner (Glessen, Germany); Triantafylios Chavakis (Chevy Chase, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the inhibition of angiogenesis by neutrophil alpha-defensins. Further, the present invention relates to methods involving the inhibition of endothelial cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix, endothelial cell apoptosis, and endothelial cell angiogenesis mediated by alpha-defensins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/247859 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.300 |
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07998947 — Materials and methods for treatment of cancer and identification of anti-cancer compounds
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Richard Jove (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to the treatment of tumors and cancerous tissues and the prevention of tumorigenesis and malignant transformation through the modulation of JAK/STAT3 intracellular signaling. The subject invention concerns pharmaceutical compositions containing cucurbitacin I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or analog thereof, to a patient, wherein the tumor is characterized by the constitutive activation of the JAK/STAT3 intracellular signaling pathway. The present invention further pertains to methods of moderating the JAK and/or STAT3 signaling pathways in vitro or in vivo using cucurbitacin I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or analog therof. Another aspect of the present invention concerns a method for screening candidate compounds for JAK AND/or STAT3 inhibition and anti-tumor activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/472056 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/177 |
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| US 07998962 | Gerdes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Montana (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Gerdes (Coos Bay, Oregon); David B. Bolstad (Stafford Springs, Connecticut); Brian R. Kusche (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | Racemic mixtures and individual enantiomers of fluorine-18 or carbon-11 radiolabelled 2′-alkyl-6-nitroquipazine ligands are serotonin transporter (SERT) tracers for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The non-radioactive ligand forms possess therapeutic antidepressant in vitro and in vivo pharmacological binding profiles in rodent brain and cells expressing human serotonin transporter (hSERT). Twelve 2′-alkyl-6-nitroquipazine ligands potently bind in sub-nanomolar concentrations to the pre-synaptic SERT binding site where established antidepressant drugs bind and inhibit the re-uptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT). In vivo tracer studies in rats as well as monkey PET scan trial have demonstrated the fluorine-18 and carbon-11 positron radionuclide labeled tracers perform as quantitative tracers of specific binding the SERT protein in live brain. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/887782 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/253.60 |
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| US 07999069 | Pasquale et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elena B. Pasquale (La Jolla, California); Mitchell Koolpe (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The application is related to the identification of peptides that selectively bind to Eph receptors of the B class. Also disclosed are uses of such peptides in the treatment of a variety of diseases. Additionally, imaging tumors in patients is described by administrating labeled peptides to patients and then obtaining an image of the labeled peptides. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549953 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — 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 |
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| US 07999071 | Schlom 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) | Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland); Kwong-Yok Tsang (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel MUC-1 epitopes outside the VNTR region are identified. In addition, the first agonist epitope of MUC-1 is described. The employment of agonist epitopes in peptide, protein and vector-based vaccine may well aid in the development of effective vaccines for a range of human cancers. |
| FILED | Friday, December 10, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/582702 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
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| US 07999075 | Caron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc G. Caron (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Martin Beaulieu (Durham, North Carolina); Raul R. Gainetdinov (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Tatiana D. Sotnikova (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Sébastien Marion (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of screening a candidate compound for βArrestin mediated anti-G protein coupled receptor signaling activity is comprises: (a) contacting said candidate compound to a βArrestin signaling complex or a constituent thereof, under conditions in which a signaling complex is formed; and then (b) detecting the presence or absence of disruption of said signaling complex, disruption of said complex indicating said compound has βArrestin mediated anti-G protein coupled receptor signaling activity. Compositions and kits for carrying out the method are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816764 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 07999077 | Pastan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ira Pastan (Potomac, Maryland); Tomoko Ise (Rockville, Maryland); Laiman Xiang (Fairfax, Virginia); Satoshi Nagata (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Antibodies that specifically bind the extracellular domain of IRTA2 are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, these antibodies do not specifically bind IRTA1, IRTA3, IRTA4, or IRTA5. In one example, the antibodies are humanized antibodies. The antibodies can be conjugated to effector molecules, including detectable labels, radionucleotides, toxins and chemotherapeutic agents. The antibodies that specifically bind IRTA2 are of use to detect B cell malignancies, such as hairy cell leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. These antibodies that specifically bind IRTA2 are also of use to treat B cell malignancies that express IRTA2, such as hairy cell leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/664211 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
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| US 07999079 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Marks (Kensington, California); Peter Amersdorfer (San Diego, California); Isin Geren (San Francisco, California); Jianlong Lou (San Bruno, California); Ali Razai (San Francisco, California); Maria Consuelo Garcia (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to and neutralize botulinum neurotoxin type A (BoNT/A) and the epitopes bound by those antibodies. The antibodies and derivatives thereof and/or other antibodies that specifically bind to the neutralizing epitopes provided herein can be used to neutralize botulinum neurotoxin and are therefore also useful in the treatment of botulism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646705 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
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| US 07999082 | Holers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado); MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); The Regents of the University of Coloraodo (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vernon Michael Holers (Denver, Colorado); Joshua M. Thurman (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Christian Taube (Denver, Colorado); Erwin W. Gelfand (Englewood, Colorado); Gary Steven Gilkeson (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are novel inhibitors of the alternative complement pathway and particularly, novel anti-factor B antibodies. Also disclosed is the use of such inhibitors to reduce or prevent airway hyperresponsiveness and/or airway inflammation by selectively inhibiting the alternative complement pathway, thereby treating diseases in which such conditions play a role. Also disclosed is the use of such inhibitors to reduce or prevent other diseases and conditions, including ischemia-reperfusion injury, by inhibition of the alternative complement pathway. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057047 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.250 |
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| US 08000000 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Kelly H. McClure (Simi Valley, California); Arup Roy (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A visual prosthesis apparatus and a method for limiting power consumption in a visual prosthesis apparatus. The visual prosthesis apparatus comprises a camera for capturing a video image, a video processing unit associated with the camera, the video processing unit configured to convert the video image to stimulation patterns, and a retinal stimulation system configured to stop stimulating neural tissue in a subject's eye based on the stimulation patterns when an error is detected in a forward telemetry received from the video processing unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874690 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/60 |
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| US 08000550 | Yoshida et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroyuki Yoshida (Watertown, Massachusetts); Janne Näppi (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael E. Zalis (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Wenli Cai (Dorchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive density correction (ADC) method and system automatically compensate for pseudo-enhancement (PEH) of voxels in computed tomography (CT) data, such as in fecal-tagged CT colonography (ftCTC), so air (or another low-contrast background) and soft tissues are represented by their usual CT attenuations. ADC estimates an amount of pseudo-enhancement energy that was received by voxels that are near tagged voxels (i.e., voxels that are tagged with a high-contrast agent), based on a first distribution scheme, such as a Gaussian distribution. ADC then iteratively distributes PEH energy received by voxels to neighboring voxels, according to another distribution scheme, which may be another Gaussian function. ADC then subtracts the total amount of PEH energy at each voxel from the CT data of the voxel. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/606433 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
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| US 08000775 | Pogue et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian William Pogue (Hanover, New Hampshire); Daqing Piao (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Shudong Jiang (Hanover, New Hampshire); Hamid Dehghani (Exeter, United Kingdom); Heng Xu (Union City, California); Roger Springett (Hanover, New Hampshire); Subhadra Srinivasan (Keene, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Optical tomography systems that provide light of multiple distinct wavelengths from a plurality of sources are described. The systems direct light into mammalian tissue, and light from the mammalian tissue is collected at a plurality of reception points. Collected light from each reception point is separated according to its wavelength, and received by a photodetector to produce path attenuation signals representing attenuation along paths between the source locations and the reception points. An image construction system generates a tomographic image of the mammalian tissue from the path attenuation signals. One embodiment of an optical imaging system includes an optical coherence tomography-near infrared probe. The systems and methods may utilize a spectral derivative approach that provides insensitivity to the boundary and boundary artifacts in the signal, thereby improving the quality of the reconstructed images. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/088845 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
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| US 08000783 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ying Sun (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Jiang Wu (Norwood, Massachusetts); John DiCecco (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Robert B. Hill (Kingston, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is disclosed for detecting a voltage potential from a tissue membrane. The device includes an input circuit, an output circuit and a digital signal processor. The input circuit receives a membrane voltage potential from an electrode. The output circuit receives an output command signal and provides a current output signal to the electrode. The digital signal processor is coupled to the input circuit and the output circuit. The digital signal processor provides the output command signal, and waits a delay period prior to receiving the membrane voltage signal from the input circuit. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/500720 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/547 |
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| US 08000798 | Gantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cochlear Limited (Macquarie University, NSW, None); University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce J Gantz (Iowa City, Iowa); James Finlay Patrick (Roseville, Australia); John L Parker (Roseville, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode array (30) which is able to be inserted to a desired depth within the cochlea to provide useful percepts for the recipient which will also preferably not cause damage to the sensitive structures of the cochlea. The electrode array (30) is insertable through an opening in the cochlea and into at least the basal region of the cochlea and comprises an elongate carrier (31) having a proximal end, a distal end, and a plurality of electrodes (32) supported by the carrier at respective spaced locations thereon in a region between the proximal end and the distal end. A stabilising collar (35) extends outwardly from the elongate carrier (31) at or adjacent a proximal end thereof and has an abutment surface adapted to abut a portion of the cochlea surface around the cochleostomy and at least substantially prevent movement of the carrier (31) following completion of insertion of the array (30) into the cochlea. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/711116 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/57 |
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| US 08000904 | Keiser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nishla Keiser (Arlington, Massachusetts); Carlos Bosques (Arlington, Massachusetts); Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Pankaj Gandhe (Sayreville, New Jersey); Sasi Raguram (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Aravind Srinivasan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates, in part, to the improved analysis of carbohydrates. In particular, the invention relates to the analysis of carbohydrates, such as N-glycans and O-glycans found on proteins. Improved methods, therefore, for the study of glycosylation patterns on cells, tissue and body fluids are also provided. Information regarding the analysis of glycans, such as the glycosylation patterns on cells, tissues and in body fluids, can be used in diagnostic and treatment methods as well as for facilitating the study of the effects of glycosylation/altered glycosylation on protein function. Such methods are also provided. Methods are also provided to assess protein production processes, to assess the purity of proteins produced, and to select proteins with the desired glycosylation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574161 |
| 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 72/22 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Yongsheng He (Sterling Heights, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for reducing ash comprises a temperature estimator module that estimates a temperature of an electrically heated particulate matter (PM) filter. A temperature and position estimator module estimates a position and temperature of an oxidation wave within the electrically heated PM filter. An ash reduction control module adjusts at least one of exhaust flow, fuel and oxygen levels in the electrically heated PM filter to adjust a position of the oxidation wave within the electrically heated PM filter based on the oxidation wave temperature and position. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/823109 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997076 | Ernst |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cummins, Inc. (Columbus, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy C. Ernst (Columbus, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for converting heat from an engine into work includes a boiler coupled to a heat source for transferring heat to a working fluid, a turbine that transforms the heat into work, a condenser that transforms the working fluid into liquid, a recuperator with one flow path that routes working fluid from the turbine to the condenser, and another flow path that routes liquid working fluid from the condenser to the boiler, the recuperator being configured to transfer heat to the liquid working fluid, and a bypass valve in parallel with the second flow path. The bypass valve is movable between a closed position, permitting flow through the second flow path and an opened position, under high engine load conditions, bypassing the second flow path. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/058810 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/616 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997121 | Daniel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Daniel (North Augusta, South Carolina); Paul P. Woskov (Bedford, Massachusetts); Shanmugavelayutham K. Sundaram (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A milliwave melter monitoring system is presented that has a waveguide with a portion capable of contacting a molten material in a melter for use in measuring one or more properties of the molten material in a furnace under extreme environments. A receiver is configured for use in obtaining signals from the melt/material transmitted to appropriate electronics through the waveguide. The receiver is configured for receiving signals from the waveguide when contacting the molten material for use in determining the viscosity of the molten material. Other embodiments exist in which the temperature, emissivity, viscosity and other properties of the molten material are measured. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/218086 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.10 |
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| US 07997357 | Wassell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APS Technology, Inc. (Wallingford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Ellsworth Wassell (Kingwood, Texas); William Evans Turner (Durham, Connecticut); Daniel E. Burgess (Middletown, Connecticut); Carl Allison Perry (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for damping vibration in a drill string can include a valve assembly having a supply of a fluid, a first member, and a second member capable of moving in relation to first member in response to vibration of the drill bit. The first and second members define a first and a second chamber for holding the fluid. Fluid can flow between the first and second chambers in response to the movement of the second member in relation to the first member. The valve assembly can also include a coil or a valve for varying a resistance of the fluid to flow between the first and second chambers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/109328 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Boring or penetrating the earth 175/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997867 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tom I-P Shih (Ames, Iowa); Sangkwon Na (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for cooling includes a surface to be cooled and at least one film-cooling hole within the surface for allowing a film cooling jet of coolant to reach the surface, each of the at least one film-cooling hole having a diameter. The at least one film-cooling hole is shaped to preserve momentum of the coolant and assist in preventing entrainment of the hot gases. A method of cooling a surface proximate hot gas includes providing coolant through a w-shaped film-cooling hole to form a cool film between the hot gas and the surface and preserving momentum of the coolant using the w-shaped film-cooling hole to assist in preventing entrainment of the hot gases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/975064 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998239 | Nenoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tina M. Nenoff (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Dana A. Powers (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Zhenyuan Zhang (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming stable nanoparticles comprising substantially uniform alloys of metals. A high dose of ionizing radiation is used to generate high concentrations of solvated electrons and optionally radical reducing species that rapidly reduce a mixture of metal ion source species to form alloy nanoparticles. The method can make uniform alloy nanoparticles from normally immiscible metals by overcoming the thermodynamic limitations that would preferentially produce core-shell nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/620633 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/345 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998309 | Kostic et al. |
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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) | Milivoje Kostic (Sycamore, Illinois); Mihajlo Golubovic (Chicago, Illinois); John Hull (Downers Grove, Illinois); Stephen U. S. Choi (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A one step method and system for producing nanofluids by a nanoparticle-source evaporation and deposition of the evaporant into a base fluid. The base fluid such oil or ethylene glycol is placed in a rotating cylindrical drum having an adjustable heater-boat-evaporator and heat exchanger-cooler apparatus. As the drum rotates, a thin liquid layer is formed on the inside surface of the drum. An insulated heater-boat-evaporator having an evaporant material (nanoparticle-source) placed within its boat evaporator is adjustably positioned near a portion of the rotating thin liquid layer, the evaporant material being heated thereby evaporating a portion of the evaporant material and forming nanoparticles, the nanoparticles absorbed by the liquid film to form nanofluid. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729494 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Concentrating evaporators 159/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998417 | Hall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Hall (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus to detect particulate matter. The apparatus includes a sensor electrode, a shroud, and a heater. The electrode measures a chemical composition within an exhaust stream. The shroud surrounds at least a portion of the sensor electrode, exclusive of a distal end of the sensor electrode exposed to the exhaust stream. The shroud defines an air gap between the sensor electrode and the shroud and an opening toward the distal end of the sensor electrode. The heater is mounted relative to the sensor electrode. The heater burns off particulate matter in the air gap between the sensor electrode and the shroud. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196478 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/98 |
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| US 07998627 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Cooper (Oakland, California); Nerine Cherepy (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for preparing particulate carbon fuel and using the particulate carbon fuel in a fuel cell. Carbon particles are finely divided. The finely dividing carbon particles are introduced into the fuel cell. A gas containing oxygen is introduced into the fuel cell. The finely divided carbon particles are exposed to carbonate salts, or to molten NaOH or KOH or LiOH or mixtures of NaOH or KOH or LiOH, or to mixed hydroxides, or to alkali and alkaline earth nitrates. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172343 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/408 |
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| US 07998632 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York); Gail E. Geiger (Caledonia, New York); John A. MacBain (Carmel, Indiana); Steven R. Shaffer (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An SOFC fuel cell stack system in accordance with the invention including a recycle flow leg for recycling a portion of the anode tail gas into the inlet of an associated hydrocarbon reformer supplying reformate to the stack. The recycle leg includes a controllable pump for varying the flow rate of tail gas. Preferably, a heat exchanger is provided in the leg ahead of the pump for cooling the tail gas via heat exchange with incoming cathode air. A low-wattage electrical reheater is also preferably included between the heat exchanger and the pump to maintain the temperature of tail gas entering the pump, during conditions of low tail gas flow, at a drybulb temperature above the dewpoint of the tail gas. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/133512 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/442 |
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| US 07998711 | Goedegebuur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Peter Gualfetti (San Francisco, California); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Edmund Larenas (Moss Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are variants of Humicola grisea Cel7A (CBH1.1), H. jecorina CBH1 variant or S. thermophilium CBH1, nucleic acids encoding the same and methods for producing the same. The variant cellulases have the amino acid sequence of a glycosyl hydrolase of family 7A wherein one or more amino acid residues are substituted. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825498 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/105 |
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| US 07998713 | Dunson, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James B. Dunson, Jr. (Newark, Delaware); Richard T. Elander (Evergreen, Colorado); Melvin P. Tucker, III (Lakewood, Colorado); Susan Marie Hennessey (Avondale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Ethanol was produced using biocatalysts that are able to ferment sugars derived from treated biomass. Sugars were obtained by pretreating biomass under conditions of high solids and low ammonia concentration, followed by saccharification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402573 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998722 | Viitanen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware); Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul V. Viitanen (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Luan Tao (Havertown, Pennsylvania); Yuying Zhang (New Hope, Pennsylvania); Perry G. Caimi (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Carol M. McCutchen (Wilmington, Delaware); Laura McCole (East Fallowfield, Pennsylvania); Min Zhang (Lakewood, Colorado); Yat-Chen Chou (Lakewood, Colorado); Mary Ann Franden (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Strains of Zymomonas were engineered by introducing a chimeric xylose isomerase gene that contains a mutant promoter of the Z. mobilis glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene. The promoter directs increased expression of xylose isomerase, and when the strain is in addition engineered for expression of xylulokinase, transaldolase and transketolase, improved utilization of xylose is obtained. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/410501 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/252.300 |
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| US 07998724 | Borole et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abhijeet P. Borole (Knoxville, Tennessee); Choo Y. Hamilton (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the removal of mercury from coal prior to combustion is disclosed. The process is based on use of microorganisms to oxidize iron, sulfur and other species binding mercury within the coal, followed by volatilization of mercury by the microorganisms. The microorganisms are from a class of iron and/or sulfur oxidizing bacteria. The process involves contacting coal with the bacteria in a batch or continuous manner. The mercury is first solubilized from the coal, followed by microbial reduction to elemental mercury, which is stripped off by sparging gas and captured by a mercury recovery unit, giving mercury-free coal. The mercury can be recovered in pure form from the sorbents via additional processing. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796173 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998923 | Pinaud et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fabien Pinaud (Berkeley, California); David King (San Francisco, California); Shimon Weiss (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Particles are bioactivated by attaching bioactivation peptides to the particle surface. The bioactivation peptides are peptide-based compounds that impart one or more biologically important functions to the particles. Each bioactivation peptide includes a molecular or surface recognition part that binds with the surface of the particle and one or more functional parts. The surface recognition part includes an amino-end and a carboxy-end and is composed of one or more hydrophobic spacers and one or more binding clusters. The functional part(s) is attached to the surface recognition part at the amino-end and/or said carboxy-end. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/513567 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999116 | Huynh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | My Hang V. Huynh (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Lead-free primary explosives of the formula [MII(A)R(BX)S](CY)T, where A is 1,5-diaminotetrazole, and syntheses thereof are described. Substantially stoichiometric equivalents of the reactants lead to high yields of pure compositions thereby avoiding dangerous purification steps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536381 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999144 | Tonkovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Velocys (Plain City, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Lee Tonkovich (Dublin, Ohio); Bin Yang (Columbus, Ohio); Steven T. Perry (Galloway, Ohio); Terry Mazanec (Solon, Ohio); Ravi Arora (New Albany, Ohio); Francis P. Daly (Delaware, Ohio); Richard Long (New Albany, Ohio); Thomas D. Yuschak (Lewis Center, Ohio); Paul W. Neagle (Westerville, Ohio); Amanda Glass (Galloway, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of oxidative dehydrogenation are described. Surprisingly, Pd and Au alloys of Pt have been discovered to be superior for oxidative dehydrogenation in microchannels. Methods of forming these catalysts via an electroless plating methodology are also described. An apparatus design that minimizes heat transfer to the apparatus' exterior is also described. |
| FILED | Friday, September 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/469847 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/658 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999233 | Derenzo |
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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) | Stephen Derenzo (Pinole, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a system for inspection of stacked cargo containers. One embodiment of the invention generally comprises a plurality of stacked cargo containers arranged in rows or tiers, each container having a top, a bottom a first side, a second side, a front end, and a back end; a plurality of spacers arranged in rows or tiers; one or more mobile inspection devices for inspecting the cargo containers, wherein the one or more inspection devices are removeably disposed within the spacers, the inspection means configured to move through the spacers to detect radiation within the containers. The invented system can also be configured to inspect the cargo containers for a variety of other potentially hazardous materials including but not limited to explosive and chemical threats. |
| FILED | Monday, July 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176475 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/360.100 |
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| US 07999550 | Morrison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank H. Morrison (Berkeley, California); Erika Gasperikova (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | To fully characterize the inductive response of an isolated conductive object, such as buried unexploded ordinance, one needs to measure its response to stimulation by primary magnetic fields in three linearly independent (e.g., approximately orthogonal) directions. In one embodiment this is achieved by measuring the response to magnetic fields of three independent transmitters arranged to have magnetic fields that are linearly independent. According to the apparatus and methods employing the system of this invention, multiple transmitters and receivers of known relative position and orientation on a single platform are used. In a preferred embodiment, matched sets of receiver pairs connected in gradient mode are positioned adjacent to closely spaced pairs of transmitting coils, such that a minor displacement of one or both of the receiver coil pairs relative to the paired transmitting coils will not affect the detected secondary signals emitted by a buried metallic object. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/237668 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999937 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nimisha Srivastava (Goleta, California); Anup K. Singh (Danville, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic devices and methods for flow cytometry are described. In described examples, various sample handling and preparation steps may be carried out within a same microfluidic device as flow cytometry steps. A combination of imaging and flow cytometry is described. In some examples, spiral microchannels serve as incubation chambers. Examples of automated sample handling and flow cytometry are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433156 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/338 |
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| US 08000010 | Crandall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lynn Crandall (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Sighting optics include a front sight and a rear sight positioned in a spaced-apart relation. The rear sight includes an optical element having a first focal length and a second focal length. The first focal length is selected so that it is about equal to a distance separating the optical element and the front sight and the second focal length is selected so that it is about equal to a target distance. The optical element thus brings into simultaneous focus for a user images of the front sight and the target. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831581 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/569 |
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| US 08000011 | Crandall |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lynn Crandall (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of sighting optics according to the teachings provided herein may include a front sight and a rear sight positioned in spaced-apart relation. The rear sight includes an optical element having a first focal length and a second focal length. The first focal length is selected so that it is about equal to a distance separating the optical element and the front sight and the second focal length is selected so that it is about equal to a target distance. The optical element thus brings into simultaneous focus, for a user, images of the front sight and the target. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/785892 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/569 |
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| US 08000447 | Reijonen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jani Petteri Reijonen (Princeton, New Jersey); Frederic Gicquel (Pennington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A gamma ray generator includes an ion source in a first chamber. A second chamber is configured co-axially around the first chamber at a lower second pressure. Co-axially arranged plasma apertures separate the two chambers and provide for restricted passage of ions and gas from the first to the second chamber. The second chamber is formed by a puller electrode having at least one long channel aperture to draw ions from the first chamber when the puller electrode is subject to an appropriate applied potential. A plurality of electrodes rings in the third chamber in third pressure co-axially surround the puller electrode and have at least one channel corresponding to the at least one puller electrode aperture and plasma aperture. The electrode rings increase the energy of the ions to a selected energy in stages in passing between successive pairs of the electrodes by application of an accelerating voltage to the successive pairs of accelerator electrodes. A target disposed co-axially around the plurality of electrodes receives the beam of accelerated ions, producing gamma rays. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512424 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000804 | Wessendorf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kurt O. Wessendorf (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Murat Okandan (Edgewood, New Mexico); David J. Stein (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Pin Yang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Joseph Cesarano, III (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jennifer Dellinger (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode array for neural stimulation is disclosed which has particular applications for use in a retinal prosthesis. The electrode array can be formed as a hermetically-sealed two-part ceramic package which includes an electronic circuit such as a demultiplexer circuit encapsulated therein. A relatively large number (up to 1000 or more) of individually-addressable electrodes are provided on a curved surface of a ceramic base portion the electrode array, while a much smaller number of electrical connections are provided on a ceramic lid of the electrode array. The base and lid can be attached using a metal-to-metal seal formed by laser brazing. Electrical connections to the electrode array can be provided by a flexible ribbon cable which can also be used to secure the electrode array in place. |
| FILED | Friday, October 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/588905 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/116 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08001280 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Dirk Hoenicke (Ossining, New York); Todd E. Takken (Brewster, New York); Burkhard D. Steinmacher-Burow (Wernau, Germany); Pavlos M. Vranas (Bedford Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for enabling high-speed, low-latency global collective communications among interconnected processing nodes. The global collective network optimally enables collective reduction operations to be performed during parallel algorithm operations executing in a computer structure having a plurality of the interconnected processing nodes. Router devices ate included that interconnect the nodes of the network via links to facilitate performance of low-latency global processing operations at nodes of the virtual network and class structures. The global collective network may be configured to provide global barrier and interrupt functionality in asynchronous or synchronized manner. When implemented in a massively-parallel supercomputing structure, the global collective network is physically and logically partitionable according to needs of a processing algorithm. |
| FILED | Monday, July 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/572372 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08001401 | Bellofatto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph E. Bellofatto (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul G. Crumley (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kidsco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Thomas M. Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Rudolf A. Haring (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Mark G. Megerian (Rochester, Minnesota); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Don D. Reed (Mantorville, Minnesota); Richard A. Swetz (Mahopac, New York); Todd Takken (Brewster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for controlling power usage in a computer includes a plurality of computers communicating with a local control device, and a power source supplying power to the local control device and the computer. A plurality of sensors communicate with the computer for ascertaining power usage of the computer, and a system control device communicates with the computer for controlling power usage of the computer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768752 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 07997123 | Espinosa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Horacio D. Espinosa (Winnetka, Illinois); Nicolaie A. Moldovan (Chicago, Illinois); Keun-Ho Kim (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A dispensing device has a cantilever comprising a plurality of thin films arranged relative to one another to define a microchannel in the cantilever and to define at least portions of a dispensing microtip proximate an end of the cantilever and communicated to the microchannel to receive material therefrom. The microchannel is communicated to a reservoir that supplies material to the microchannel. One or more reservoir-fed cantilevers may be formed on a semiconductor chip substrate. A sealing layer preferably is disposed on one of the first and second thin films and overlies outermost edges of the first and second thin films to seal the outermost edges against material leakage. Each cantilever includes an actuator, such as for example a piezoelectric actuator, to impart bending motion thereto. The microtip includes a pointed pyramidal or conical shaped microtip body and an annular shell spaced about the pointed microtip body to define a material-dispensing annulus thereabout. The working microtip may be used to dispense material onto a substrate, to probe a surface in scanning probe microscopy, to apply an electrical stimulus or record an electrical response on a surface in the presence of a local environment created around the tip by the material dispensed from the tip or to achieve other functions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820328 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998330 | Fang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas X. Fang (Champaign, Illinois); Placid M. Ferreira (Champaign, Illinois); Keng Hao Hsu (Savoy, Illinois); Peter Lee Schultz (Urbana, Illinois); Kyle E. Jacobs (Urbana, Illinois); Anil Kumar (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are electrochemical fabrication platforms for making structures, arrays of structures and functional devices having selected nanosized and/or microsized physical dimensions, shapes and spatial orientations. Methods, systems and system components use an electrochemical stamping tool such as solid state polymeric electrolytes for generating patterns of relief and/or recessed features exhibiting excellent reproducibility, pattern fidelity and resolution on surfaces of solid state ionic conductors and in metal. Electrochemical stamping tools are capable high throughput patterning of large substrate areas, are compatible with commercially attractive manufacturing pathways to access a range of functional systems and devices including nano- and micro-electromechanical systems, sensors, energy storage devices, metal masks for printing, interconnects, and integrated electronic circuits. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/122967 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998380 | Turng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lih-Sheng Turng (Madison, Wisconsin); Adam J. Kramschuster (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a highly porous structure is provided. The method includes the step of compounding a biodegradable polymer, a water-soluble polymer and a porogen to form a composite blend. A foaming agent is dissolved into the composite blend and the composite blend is injected into a mold so as to form the structure. Thereafter, the structure is removed from the mold and leached in a fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777555 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999027 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A tire or tire lining comprising a rubber composite, comprising at least one rubber or elastomer matrix and pristine nano graphene platelets dispersed in the matrix. The pristine nano graphene-modified tire or tire lining has a significantly enhanced thermal conductivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583375 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999248 | Levy |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy Levy (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoscale device and a method for creating and erasing of nanoscale conducting regions at the interface between two insulating oxides SrTiO3 and LaAlO3 is provided. The method uses the tip of a conducting atomic force microscope to locally and reversibly switch between conducting and insulating states. This allows ultra-high density patterning of quasi zero or one dimensional electron gas conductive regions, such as nanowires and conducting quantum dots respectively. The patterned structures are stable at room temperature after removal of the external electric field. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054948 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999567 | Jang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wonjin Jang (Jersey City, New Jersey); Christopher D. Moore (Pasadena, California); Alain J. Martin (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Single Event Upset (SEU, also referred to as soft error) tolerant arbiters, bare arbiters, and filters are disclosed. An arbiter provides a filter section, and a bare arbiter, coupled to the filter section. The bare arbiter includes a redundant first input and a redundant second input, and a redundant first output and a redundant second output. A pull-down transistor in the bare arbiter conditionally overpowers a corresponding pull-up transistor in the bare arbiter when a contention condition is present in the bare arbiter. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684010 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999622 | Galton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ian Galton (Del Mar, California); Ashok Swaminathan (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of the invention is a circuit for adaptive phase noise cancellation for a fractional-N PLL. A preferred embodiment employs a split loop filter architecture. Two loop filter halves separately drive half-sized parallel varactors in a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and also drive a differential-input lowpass frequency selective circuit, e.g., a differential-input integrator in a least mean squared (LMS) feedback loop. The output of the differential-input lowpass frequency selective circuit controls the gain matching of a phase noise cancellation path to minimize phase noise arising from quantization error associated with the sequence of divider modulus values in the fractional-N PLL. The two varactor capacitances add together in the VCO tank, so the VCO frequency depends on the common-mode loop filter voltage and is relatively insensitive to differential-mode voltage. In contrast, the differential integrator operates on the differential-mode voltage from the two loop filter halves but attenuates their common-mode voltage. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352293 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000730 | Sayeed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akbar M. Sayeed (Madison, Wisconsin); Vasanthan Raghavan (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication system supporting improved performance in a sparse multi-path environment is provided that uses spatially reconfigurable arrays. The system includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a plurality of antennas and a processor operably coupled to the plurality of antennas. The plurality of antennas are adapted to transmit a first signal toward a the second device and to receive a second signal from the second device. The processor is configured to determine an antenna spacing between the plurality of antennas based on an estimated number of spatial degrees of freedom and an estimated operating signal-to-noise ratio. The second device includes a receiver adapted to receive the first signal from the first device, a transmitter adapted to transmit the second signal toward the first device, and a processor. The processor estimates the number of spatial degrees of freedom and the operating signal-to-noise ratio from the received first signal. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482530 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 07998368 | Kim 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) | Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); Cheol Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Peter T. Lillehei (Yorktown, Virginia); Joycelyn S. Harrison (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are dispersed in an aqueous buffer solution consisting of at least 50 weight percent water and a remainder weight percent that includes a buffer material. The buffer material has a molecular structure defined by a first end, a second end, and a middle disposed between the first and second ends. The first end is a cyclic ring with nitrogen and oxygen heteroatomes, the middle is a hydrophobic alkyl chain, and the second end is a charged group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/272826 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999173 | Ashpis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Ashpis (Beachwood, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar panel cleaning device includes a solar panel having a plurality of photovoltaic cells arranged in rows and embedded in the solar panel with space between the rows. A transparent dielectric overlay is affixed to the solar panel. A plurality of electrode pairs each of which includes an upper and a lower electrode are arranged on opposite sides of the transparent dielectric and are affixed thereto. The electrodes may be transparent electrodes which may be arranged without concern for blocking sunlight to the solar panel. The solar panel may be a dielectric and its dielectric properties may be continuously and spatially variable. Alternatively the dielectric used may have dielectric segments which produce different electrical field and which affects the wind “generated.” |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/689431 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999353 | Odom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teri W. Odom (Chicago, Illinois); Joel A. Henzie (Evanston, Illinois); Eun-Soo Kwak (San Jose, California); Min Hyung Lee (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Composite films comprising two-dimensional hole arrays, and related methods of preparing hole arrays. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493254 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999427 | Wilson 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) | Andrew Wilson (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Andrew Punnoose (Ashburn, Virginia); Katherine Strausser (Houston, Texas); Neil Parikh (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A directed flux motor described utilizes the directed magnetic flux of at least one magnet through ferrous material to drive different planetary gear sets to achieve capabilities in six actuated shafts that are grouped three to a side of the motor. The flux motor also utilizes an interwoven magnet configuration which reduces the overall size of the motor. The motor allows for simple changes to modify the torque to speed ratio of the gearing contained within the motor as well as simple configurations for any number of output shafts up to six. The changes allow for improved manufacturability and reliability within the design. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188039 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999621 | Hajimiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-differential amplifier is provided. The cross-differential amplifier includes an inductor connected to a direct current power source at a first terminal. A first and second switch, such as transistors, are connected to the inductor at a second terminal. A first and second amplifier are connected at their supply terminals to the first and second switch. The first and second switches are operated to commutate the inductor between the amplifiers so as to provide an amplified signal while limiting the ripple voltage on the inductor and thus limiting the maximum voltage imposed across the amplifiers and switches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686161 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000903 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Asministration (NASA) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Li (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for using modified single wall carbon nanotubes (“SWCNTs”) to detect presence and/or concentration of a gas component, such as a halogen (e.g., Cl2), hydrogen halides (e.g., HCl), a hydrocarbon (e.g., CnH2n+2), an alcohol, an aldehyde or a ketone, to which an unmodified SWCNT is substantially non-reactive. In a first embodiment, a connected network of SWCNTs is coated with a selected polymer, such as chlorosulfonated polyethylene, hydroxypropyl cellulose, polystyrene and/or polyvinylalcohol, and change in an electrical parameter or response value (e.g., conductance, current, voltage difference or resistance) of the coated versus uncoated SWCNT networks is analyzed. In a second embodiment, the network is doped with a transition element, such as Pd, Pt, Rh, Ir, Ru, Os and/or Au, and change in an electrical parameter value is again analyzed. The parameter change value depends monotonically, not necessarily linearly, upon concentration of the gas component. Two general algorithms are presented for estimating concentration value(s), or upper or lower concentration bounds on such values, from measured differences of response values. |
| FILED | Friday, April 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/416505 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | LC Technologies, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dixon Cleveland (Annandale, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for determining a three-dimensional location and orientation of an eye within a camera frame of reference includes a camera, an illuminator, and a processor. The camera captures an image of the eye. The illuminator generates a reflection off of a corneal surface of the eye. The processor computes a first two-dimensional location of a pupil reflection image and a corneal reflection image from the image of the eye. The processor predicts a second two-dimensional location of a pupil reflection image and the corneal reflection image as a function of a set of three-dimensional position and orientation parameters of the eye within the camera frame of reference. The processor iteratively adjusts the set until the first two-dimensional location is substantially the same as the second two-dimensional location. The set is the three-dimensional location and orientation of an eye. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719924 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998328 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CFD Research Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianjun Feng (Huntsville, Alabama); Guiren Wang (Huntsville, Alabama); Sivaramakrishnan Krishnamoorthy (Madison, Alabama); Kapil Pant (Huntsville, Alabama); Shivshankar Sundaram (Madison, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for the micro-scale, dielectrophoretic separation of particles are provided. Fluid suspensions of particles are sorted and separated by dielectrophoretic separation chambers that have at least two consecutive, electrically coupled planar electrodes separated by a gap in a fluid flow channel. The gap distance as well as applied potential can be used to control the dielectrophoretic forces generated. Using consecutive, electrically coupled electrodes rather than electrically coupled opposing electrodes facilitates higher flow volumes and rates. The methods and apparatus can be used, for example, to sort living, damaged, diseased, and/or dead cells and functionalized or ligand-bound polymer beads for subsequent identification and/or analysis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/167428 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999027 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A tire or tire lining comprising a rubber composite, comprising at least one rubber or elastomer matrix and pristine nano graphene platelets dispersed in the matrix. The pristine nano graphene-modified tire or tire lining has a significantly enhanced thermal conductivity. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/583375 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 07998511 | Abbas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Archer Daniels Midland Company (Decatur, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Abbas (Champaign, Illinois); Thomas P. Binder (Decatur, Illinois); Kyle E. Beery (Decatur, Illinois); Michael J. Cecava (Decatur, Indiana); Perry H. Doane (Decatur, Indiana); David P. Holzgraefe (Quincy, Illinois); Leif P. Solheim (Decatur, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the production of ethanol and a modified animal feed is provided. The method replaces the starch in known corn-based animal feed with biomass fiber treated to make it more digestible by animals. The process includes wherein the pericarp and germ are removed from the corn kernel and processed for by-products. The starch and protein are also removed and separated. The starch is then fermented and distilled to ethanol and stillage. The bioavailable modified animal feed comprises the pericarp and germ removed from corn kernels and optionally by-products of the pericarp and germ processing, and lignocellulosic materials. The modified animal feed may optionally include energy materials such as animal and vegetable fats, vegetable soapstocks, or glycerin, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/354407 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999074 | Stern et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Ministry of Health and Social Development, RF, as represented by the Director of the State Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Ministry of Health and Social Development, RF (Obolensk, Russian Federation) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman J Stern (Athens, Georgia); Edward A Svetoch (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Boris V Eruslanov (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Vladimir V Perelygin (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Vladimir P Levchuk (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Nikolay N Urakov (Olympic vill., Russian Federation); Larisa I Volodina (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Yuri N. Kovalev (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Tamara Y. Kudryavtseva (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Victor D. Pokhilenko (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Valery N. Borzenkov (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Olga E. Svetoch (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Eugeni V. Mitsevich (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Irina P. Mitsevich (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel bacteriocins produced by novel bacterial strains are used for at least reducing the levels of colonization by at least one target bacteria in animals, especially poultry. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727660 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 07997680 | 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 positioning the printhead and printing a spot onto the substrate from each ejector, determining a vertical offset between an expected location of each spot along a vertical axis and the actual location of the spot along the vertical axis, calculating a linear fit line for the vertical offset of each spot plotted against an expected location of the spot along a horizontal axis, calculating the slope of the linear fit line, and rotating the printhead relative to the substrate according to an angle defined by the slope of the linear fit line. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787371 |
| ART UNIT | 2853 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Incremental printing of symbolic information 347/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08001157 | Bier |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A Bier (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the disclosed technology enable a knowledge worker to easily and efficiently develop and maintain a comprehension state of a document collection. One aspect of the technology includes a methods, apparatus, and program products that alter a relationship data structure representing a comprehension state responsive to manipulation, in a workspace window, of a first instance-representation of a first separately-movable instance object representing a first entity/relationship object in the relationship data structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426893 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/802 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 07999082 | Holers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver, Colorado); MUSC Foundation for Research Development (Charleston, South Carolina); The Regents of the University of Coloraodo (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vernon Michael Holers (Denver, Colorado); Joshua M. Thurman (Greenwood Village, Colorado); Christian Taube (Denver, Colorado); Erwin W. Gelfand (Englewood, Colorado); Gary Steven Gilkeson (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are novel inhibitors of the alternative complement pathway and particularly, novel anti-factor B antibodies. Also disclosed is the use of such inhibitors to reduce or prevent airway hyperresponsiveness and/or airway inflammation by selectively inhibiting the alternative complement pathway, thereby treating diseases in which such conditions play a role. Also disclosed is the use of such inhibitors to reduce or prevent other diseases and conditions, including ischemia-reperfusion injury, by inhibition of the alternative complement pathway. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/057047 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08001115 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis Herbert Davis (Columbia, Missouri); Matthew Nicholas Klaric (Columbia, Missouri); Grant Jason Scott (Columbia, Missouri); Chi-Ren Shyu (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and medium are provided for identifying terrestrial objects that have changed in a certain manner. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that includes one or more inputs, which are related to 1) a first terrestrial object (“first object”) and 2) source change-detection information that describes change associated with the first object; applying the query to a dataset that includes indexed information that describes the imagery; based on the one or more inputs, receiving a query result by identifying a set of regions in the dataset that are respectively associated with change information that is similar to that of the source change-detection information; and presenting on a presentation device indications of at least a portion of the identified set of regions. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254610 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08001137 | Hess |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian M. Hess (Bolton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of identifying connected data in relational database by receiving relational database, receiving data components from relational database, initializing a first table and a second table with data identifiers and connection information, initializing a third table with data identifiers, initializing a transition table; replacing each entry in the third table with a user-definable relationship of its corresponding identifier in the second table, its corresponding connected data component identifier in the second table, and the identifier to which an equivalent identifier transitioned in the transition table; updating the transition table, updating the second table, returning to the replacement step if the third table changed, and, otherwise, identifying the received data components as connected that correspond to entries in the third table that are equal. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/589899 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 07999621 | Hajimiri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-differential amplifier is provided. The cross-differential amplifier includes an inductor connected to a direct current power source at a first terminal. A first and second switch, such as transistors, are connected to the inductor at a second terminal. A first and second amplifier are connected at their supply terminals to the first and second switch. The first and second switches are operated to commutate the inductor between the amplifiers so as to provide an amplified signal while limiting the ripple voltage on the inductor and thus limiting the maximum voltage imposed across the amplifiers and switches. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686161 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/297 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 07997026 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon, by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Webster (Portland, Oregon); Jinhe Bai (Hood River, Oregon); Clark Seavert (Wilsonville, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preserving fruit-bearing cut-limbs from cutting at an orchard to receiving by a remote consumer includes cutting a live, fruit-bearing limb off a fruit tree in an orchard; and bagging the cut limb with perforated film substantially to seal the limb therein substantially continuously from the time of cutting at the orchard to the time of receiving by the remote consumer. After the cutting and before the bagging, the method can include dipping the cut end of the limb in a solution of water substantially continuously from cutting at the orchard to receiving by the remote consumer and/or coating the cut limb including the fruit and leaves thereon using a moisture-retentive agent. A perishable-fruit distribution method includes cutting an intact fruit- and leaf-bearing limb from a live tree in an orchard; treating the cut-limb to extend the useful life of the intact fruit and leaf thereon; placing the treated cut-limb with the intact fruit and leaf thereon in a shipping container; and delivering the treated, containerized cut-limb with the intact fruit and leaf thereon within the shipping container to a consumer remote from the orchard. A coating and a shipping container also are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/818849 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant husbandry 047/58.1FV |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 07996971 | Newton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M. Newton (Dardenne Prairie, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of a seal removal tool may include a handle, a seal grasping member, and a biasing member. The handle may have an end with a curved surface to roll back a seal. The seal grasping member may be adapted to move from an open extended position into a closed position in order to grasp and secure a seal. The biasing member may bias the seal grasping member towards the closed position. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861820 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/243.550 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07997528 | Lang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aereon Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James D. Lang (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Runway length requirement for take-off and landing of an aircraft is reduced by taking advantage of dynamic lift overshoot, and in some cases, dynamic stall. In take-off and landing, the angle of attack is rapidly increased so that the lift coefficient exceeds the maximum predicted by the steady flow lift curve. By increasing the angle of attack at an appropriate rate, the increased lift coefficient can be maintained, without loss of control, until the aircraft touches down in the case of a landing, or until the aircraft can begin a normal climb, in the case of take-off. A low aspect ratio lifting body is preferred because of its more gradual stall behavior, and the potential to use dynamic stall for further deceleration before touchdown. Vortex fences can be oscillated to delay the onset of stall, and, in cruise, to energize the boundary-layer and reduce drag and/or control roll and/or yaw. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653729 |
| 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 244/75.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07998690 | Liang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Tsan-Tang Liang (Avon, Connecticut); W. David Hager (Bloomfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of detecting and/or prognosing congestive heart failure by detecting a proteolytic fragment of caspase-3 such as the p17 fragment or the p12 fragment. The congestive heart failure can be of any etiology, such as systolic or diastolic heart failure, ischemic or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/765351 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999236 | McDevitt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mropho Detection, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Bruno McDevitt (Niskayuna, New York); Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard (Albany, New York); Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus (Niskayuna, New York); Scott Stephen Zelakiewicz (Niskayuna, New York); Joseph Bendahan (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Dual modality detection devices and methods are provided for detecting nuclear material, the devices include a neutron detector including multiple neutron detection modules; and a gamma detector including multiple gamma detection modules, where the multiple neutron detection modules and the multiple gamma detection modules are integrated together in a single unit to detect simultaneously both gamma rays and neutrons. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704827 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 07999698 | Annati et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Annati (Albuquerque, New Mexico); David E. Ekhaguere (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for anti-collision lights on a UAV. A method for passive anti-collision lights on a Micro-Aerial Vehicle (“MAV”) including determining a location of the MAV using a flight management computer configured to fly the MAV on a programmed path using data from a global positioning system and an inertial navigation system. The flight management system transmits light activation data and selectively activates at least one navigation light located on a visible surface of the MAV using the light activation data from the flight management computer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133040 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/945 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08000896 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ketao Liu (Cerritos, California); Yeong-Wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Jeffrey L. Lee (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a resolver system has at least one resolver and at least one amplifier in electrical communication with each resolver. A reference circuit is in electrical communication with the amplifiers. The reference circuit provides reference signals to the amplifiers. A non-linearity calibration and compensation circuit in communication with each amplifier uses the amplified reference signals to provide scale factors, so as to enhance a precision of the resolver system. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/019513 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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