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Patent Details for Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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| US 08006702 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles P Lin (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of scanning a laser beam across a set of cells includes during a first interval, scanning a laser beam across a set of cells; and during a second interval, deflecting the laser beam away from the set of cells. The first interval is selected to cause microcavitation in at least a portion of the cells from the set of cells. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131612 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/898 |
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| US 08007429 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GT Urological, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable vessel occlusive device and method for occluding a vessel are described, for example to occlude the urethra or bladder neck. The devices and methods described utilize an occlusive member connected to a control mechanism. The occlusive member is reversibly changed from a non-occlusive condition to an occlusive condition, for example by depressing an activation button contained within a resilient, elastomeric cover surrounding the control mechanism. In the occlusive position, an initial tension is applied to the occlusive member through a tensioning suture. The tension is translated into an occlusive pressure applied to the urethra or bladder neck that is sufficient to prevent urinary leakage. The non-occlusive position can be obtained by depressing the de-activation button. The occlusive member is constructed to allow elution of drugs, such as may be required to combat infection or tissue encapsulation from its surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166664 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/30 |
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08007739 — Protein crystallization screening and optimization droplet actuators, systems and methods
| US 08007739 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Vamsee K. Pamula (Durham, North Carolina); Allen E. Eckhardt (Durham, South Carolina); Vijay Srinivasan (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Protein crystallization screening and optimization droplet actuators, systems and methods are provided. According to one embodiment, a screening droplet actuator is provided and includes: (a) a port for introduction of one or more crystallization reagents and/or one or more protein solutions; and (b) a substrate including: (i) an array of two or more mixing wells; and (ii) electric field mediated microfluidics for moving droplets comprising the crystallization reagents and protein solutions into the mixing wells. Optimization droplet actuators, systems including screening droplet actuators, methods of screening protein crystallization conditions, and methods of testing conditions for growing a crystal are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839744 |
| 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 |
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| US 08007778 | Dillmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang H. Dillmann (Solana Beach, California); Jorge Suarez (San Diego, California); Darrell Belke (San Diego, California); Bernd Gloss (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods useful in the regulation of myocardial contraction are disclosed. The methods are useful in the regulation of heart function. The invention reveals that sorcin overexpression enhances cardiac contractile performance and establishes the concept of sorcin as a regulator of myocardial contractility. The invention also provides screening assays that allow for the identification of agents that modulate sorcin expression. Such agents are useful, for example, for diagnosing cardiac contractile function associated disorders in subjects, and treating the subjects with the agents identified as being able to modulate sorcin expression. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/562524 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
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| US 08007781 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzyy-Choou Wu (Stevenson, Maryland); Chien-Fu Hung (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for inducing and enhancing immune responses, such as antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses, using chimeric molecules comprising endoplasmic reticulum chaperone polypeptides and antigenic peptides. In particular, the invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing immune responses induced by polypeptides made in vivo by administered nucleic acid, such as naked DNA or expression vectors, encoding the chimeric molecules. The invention provides a method of inhibiting the growth of a tumor in an individual. The invention also provides novel self-replicating RNA virus constructs for enhancing immune responses induced by chimeric polypeptides made in vivo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014541 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
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| US 08007782 | Dang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Long Dang (Baltimore, Maryland); Chetan Bettegowda (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Bel Air, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Current approaches for treating cancer are limited, in part, by the inability of drugs to affect the poorly vascularized regions of tumors. We have found that spores of anaerobic bacteria in combination with agents which interact with microtubules can cause the destruction of both the vascular and avascular compartments of tumors. Two classes of microtubule inhibitors were found to exert markedly different effects. Some agents that inhibited microtubule synthesis, such as vinorelbine, caused rapid, massive hemorrhagic necrosis when used in combination with spores. In contrast, agents that stabilized microtubules, such as the taxane docetaxel, resulted in slow tumor regressions that killed most neoplastic cells. Remaining cells in the poorly perfused regions of tumors could be eradicated by sponzlated bacteria. Mechanistic studies showed that the microtubule destabilizers, but not the microtubule stabilizers, radically reduced blood flow to tumors, thereby enlarging the hypoxic niche in which spores could germinate. A single intravenous injection of spores plus selected microtubule-interacting agents was able to cause regressions of several tumors in the absence of excessive toxicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/568765 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.410 |
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| US 08007784 | Scott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albany Medical College (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Scott (Clifton Park, New York); John W. Eaton (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a non-immunogenic cellular composition comprising: a cell having a cell surface and antigenic determinants on the cell surface; an optional linker molecule covalently attached to the cell surface; and a hydrophilic, biocompatible, non-immunogenicity providing compound or polymer (e.g., polyethylene glycol or a derivative thereof) covalently attached to the linker molecule or directly to the cell. In one embodiment, the linker molecule is covalently attached directly to the antigenic determinant on the cell surface. In an alternate embodiment, the linker molecule may be covalently attached to a non-antigenic site on the cell surface, but will camouflage the antigenic determinant on the cell surface. Various uses of the resulting non-immunogenic cell are also provided, including a method of decreasing phagocytosis of a cell, a method of decreasing an adverse reaction to a transfusion, a method of decreasing rejection of a transplanted cell, tissue or organ, and a method of decreasing antibody-induced aggregation of cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 01, 1999 |
| APPL NO | 09/323765 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 08007787 | Kraus |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Universit of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jan P. Kraus (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Human cystathionine β-synthase variants are disclosed, as well as a method to produce recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase and variants thereof. More particularly, the role of both the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of human CBS has been studied, and a variety of truncation mutants and modified CBS homologues are described. In addition, a method to express and purify recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) and variants thereof which have only one or two additional amino acid residues at the N-terminus are described. |
| FILED | Saturday, January 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/359287 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.500 |
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| US 08007800 | Shelton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pfizer Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Shelton (Oakland, California); Patrick William Mantyh (Edina, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods and compositions for preventing or treating bone cancer pain including cancer pain associated with bone metastasis by administering an antagonist of nerve growth factor (NGF). The NGF antagonist may be an anti-NGF (such as anti-hNGF) antibody that is capable of binding hNGF. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404759 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100 |
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| US 08007808 | Nowak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Univeristy of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romana A. Nowak (Urbana, Illinois); Robert J. Belton, Jr. (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a composition and method for facilitating the internalization of a therapeutic agent into a cell. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of the extracellular domain of basigin-2, cyclophilin, or anti-basigin-2 antibody or antibody fragment as a delivery moiety for internalization of a therape. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/414959 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
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| US 08008010 | Kuersten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Scott Kuersten (Austin, Texas); Brittan L. Pasloske (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Ligation-enhanced nucleic acid detection assay embodiments for detection of RNA or DNA are described. The assay embodiments rely on ligation of chimeric oligonucleotide probes to generate a template for amplification and detection. The assay embodiments are substantially independent of the fidelity of a polymerase for copying compromised nucleic acid. Very little background amplification is observed and as few as 1000 copies of target nucleic acid can be detected. Method embodiments are particularly adept for detection of RNA from compromised samples such as formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded samples. Heavily degraded and cross-linked nucleic acids of compromised samples, in which classic quantitative real time PCR assays typically fail to adequately amplify signal, can be reliably detected and quantified. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/147847 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08008013 | Gaffney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick M. Gaffney (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Kathy L. Moser (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for the prediction and diagnosis of autoimmune diseases, including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, using single nucleotide polymorphism in TNFAIP3 (A20). |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/272265 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08008014 | Gershow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc H. Gershow (Somerville, Massachusetts); Jene A. Golovchenko (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Branton (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a molecular analysis system, there is provided a structure including a nanopore and first and second fluidic reservoirs. The two reservoirs are fluidically connected via the nanopore. A detector is connected to detect molecular species translocation of the nanopore, from one of the two fluidic reservoirs to the other of the two fluidic reservoirs. A controller is connected to generate a control signal to produce conditions at the nanopore to induce the molecular species to re-translocate the nanopore at least once after translocating the nanopore. This enables a method for molecular analysis in which a molecular species is translocated a plurality of times through a nanopore in a structure between two fluidic reservoirs separated by the structure. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/286787 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08008016 | Horanyi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Horanyi (Athens, Georgia); James Griffith (Watkinsville, Georgia); Bi-Cheng Wang (Athens, Georgia); Francis E. Jenney, Jr. (Hoschton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes vectors and methods for high throughput co-expression. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/501666 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08008020 | 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 P. Cooke (Palo Alto, California); Xiao-Ying Meng (Fremont, California); Tai-Tung Yip (Cupertino, California); Fujun Zhang (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides biomarkers whose concentrations in blood plasma are associated with the presence or absence of PAD in the patient from whom the plasma sample is taken. The invention also provides biomarkers for distinguishing between PAD patients who are long claudicators and PAD patients who are not. In addition, the invention provides methods for identifying additional biomarkers, methods for detecting the biomarkers in patients, and methods for identifying agents, including pharmaceutical agents, which interact with the biomarkers and are useful for preventing or treating PAD in patients. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/597667 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08008021 | Jin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian-Ping Jin (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosing, determining the likelihood of developing cardiac disease by measuring the level of a truncated form of cardiac Troponin T are provided. Also provided are methods for preventing treating or ameliorating a symptom associated with cardiac disease by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a modulator of the posttranslational production of N-terminally truncated forms of cardiac troponin T. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828259 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08008022 | Madura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiran Madura (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Li Chen (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventions relates to kits and methods for diagnosing and monitoring breast cancer. An increase in the level or activity of proteins of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway, and ancillary proteins thereof, as compared to normal control or benign tissue is indicative of breast cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908691 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08008024 | Halperin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Halperin (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves assays, diagnostics, kits, and assay components for determining levels of K41-glycated CD59 in subjects. Treatments for subjects based upon levels of K41-glycated CD59 also are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244851 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08008025 | Zhang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Zhang (Mercer Island, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for diagnosing neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and dementia with Lewy body disease by detecting a pattern of gene product expression in a cerebrospinal fluid sample and comparing the pattern of gene product expression from the sample to a library of gene product expression pattern known to be indicative of the presence or absence of a neurodegenerative disease. The methods also provide for monitoring neurodegenerative disease progression and assessing the effects of therapeutic treatment. Also provided are kits, systems and devices for practicing the subject methods. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259973 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08008041 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575991 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 08008074 | Cao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xu Cao (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of novel receptors for the signaling of PTH and/or fragments of PTH, and the role of cPTH in bone development. The novel PTH receptors identified are selected from the group consisting of LRP5/6, TGFβRII, BMPRII (long form and short form), ActRIIA, and ActRIIB. Specifically, the present invention provides a novel screening tool for identifying compounds that improve bone mass by affecting certain pathways that promote or downregulate bone-forming activity. This promotion of bone-forming activity could provide for treatments for bone-loss or bone density disorders and/or kidney disease. The invention further encompasses the compounds, PTH ligands, and fragments of PTH ligands described herein; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, PTH ligands, or fragments of PTH ligand; and methods of increasing bone density using the compounds, PTH ligands, or fragments of PTH ligands. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/293713 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
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| US 08008093 | Rubenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Scott Rubenstein (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Paula Berkowitz (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Peiqi Hu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Luis Alberto Diaz (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating a blistering disorder, which includes administering to a target tissue in a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a composition that inhibits activation of the HSP27 phosphorylation pathway. |
| FILED | Friday, December 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/791903 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/506 |
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| US 08008224 | Berlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Materia, Inc. (Pasadena, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Berlin (Houston, Texas); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California); Yann Schrodi (Pasadena, California); Ian C. Stewart (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to ruthenium alkylidene complexes having an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand comprising a 5-membered heterocyclic ring having a carbenic carbon atom and at least one nitrogen atom contained within the 5-membered heterocyclic ring, wherein the nitrogen atom is directly attached to the carbenic carbon atom and is substituted by a phenyl ring, and wherein the phenyl ring has a hydrogen at either or both ortho positions and is substituted at at least one ortho or meta position. The invention also relates to an olefin metathesis reactions and particularly to the preparation of tetra-substituted cyclic olefins via a ring-closing metathesis. |
| FILED | Monday, December 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/640400 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/155 |
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| US 08008249 | Ford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byron D. Ford (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Neuregulin, a known neuroprotein, has been found to ameliorate or prevent damage caused by mechanical or chemical assault to blood vessels and, when administered into the cerebral spinal fluid, can ameliorate damage to neuronal tissue caused by stroke or inflammation. Additionally, neuregulin has been found to be useful for enhancement of stem cell migration from the ventricle to the site of injury to the brain. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/688287 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 08008261 | Badley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew D. Badley (Rochester, Minnesota); Gary D. Bren (Chatfield, Minnesota); David J. Schnepple (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides to methods and materials related to apoptosis. For example, methods and materials for modulating apoptosis are provided. In addition, methods and materials for treating a mammal having an apoptosis-associated condition are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/376430 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.900 |
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| US 08008262 | Schepartz Shrader et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alanna Schepartz Shrader (Wilton, Connecticut); Scott A. Hart (San Diego, California); Joshua A. Kritzer (New Haven, Connecticut); Olen M. Stephens (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | β-peptide regions of polypeptides can serve as structural mimics of α-helices in wild type proteins. Because α-helices of one protein often bind to a target protein in a biological pathway, a polypeptide that contains a helical β-peptide region can be used to disrupt this type of protein-protein binding. As a result, polypeptides that contain a helical β-peptide region can be used to treat conditions involving this type of protein-protein binding, such as viral infections and cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/111218 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008266 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acid sequences containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides that modulate an immune response including stimulating a Th1 pattern of immune activation, cytokine production, NK lytic activity, and B cell proliferation are disclosed. The sequences are also useful as a synthetic adjuvant. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/719493 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008271 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zuoshang Xu (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Xugang Xia (Westborough, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel methods for treating dominant gain-of-function diseases. The invention provides methods for targeting regions of the copper zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1), which causes inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with RNAi agent. The invention further provides RNAi resistant replacement genes containing mismatches with their respective RNAi agents. The invention also provides for vectors that express RNAi agent and RNAi resistant replacement gene of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/175369 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008273 | Kerr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William G. Kerr (Syracuse, New York); Caroline Desponts (La Jolla, California); Lia Elena Perez (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns a method for increasing megakaryocyte and megakaryocyte progenitor numbers in vitro or in vivo by suppressing SH2-containing inositol-5-phosphatase (SHIP) function in megakaryocytes or megakaryocyte progenitors expressing the SHIP gene. SHIP function can be suppressed by administering an interfering RNA, or other SHIP inhibitor, to the megakaryocytes or megakaryocyte progenitors in vitro or in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/819711 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008276 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julia Ying Wang (Brookline, Massachusetts); Michael H. Roehrl (Brookline, Massachusetts); Dennis L. Kasper (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three-dimensional molecular structure determination of polymers, three-dimensional computer molecular modeling, rational drug design, and immunomodulatory polymers. In particular the invention is directed to immunomodulatory polymers, as well as to methods for designing, selecting, and screening therapeutic agents having immunomodulatory activity. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470985 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008282 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Iolanda M. Fierro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for the prevention or inhibition of angiogenesis. The method is accomplished by the administration of an effective amount of 15-epi-16-(para-fluoro)-phenoxy-lipoxin A4, LXA4, 15-epi-LXA4 or 15-R/S-methyl, LXA4 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, amides, carboxylic acids, or prodrugs thereof, to a subject in need thereof. As a consequence of the action of the therapeutic agent, angiogenesis is prevented or inhibited in the subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/222458 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008286 | Lynch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin R. Lynch (Charlottesville, Virginia); Timothy L. Macdonald (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods useful for preventing and treating pain, e.g., neuropathic pain, in a subject in need thereof are provided. The compounds can be “S1P modulating” agents that are capable of inducing a detectable change in S1P receptor activity. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179816 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008308 | Hostetler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl Y. Hostetler (Del Mar, California); James R. Beadle (San Diego, California); Ganesh D. Kini (Bristow, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to phosphonate compounds, compositions containing them, processes for obtaining them, and their use for treating a variety of medical disorders, e.g., osteoporosis and other disorders of bone metabolism, cancer, viral infections, and the like. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/701410 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008316 | Tarasova 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) | Nadya I. Tarasova (Frederick, Maryland); Marcin Dyba (Frederick, Maryland); Christopher J. Michejda (North Potomac, Maryland); Maria Michejda, legal representative (North Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An azonafide-based compound of Formula I, a composition comprising the compound, and a method of using the compound to deliver a cytotoxic azonafide derivative to a cell, as well as related compounds and methods for the use thereof to pre-pare an azonafide-based compound of Formula I. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/441029 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008354 | Schimmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aaron D Schimmer (Ontario, Canada); John C. Reed (Rancho Sante Fe, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of identifying death receptor sensitizing compounds and methods of using death receptor sensitizing compounds are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/622229 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/757 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008436 | Dhurandhar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wayne State Univeristy (Detroit, Michigan); Board of Sup. of LSU and Agr. and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil V. Dhurandhar (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Thomas C. Holland (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhong Q. Wang (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Expression of the E4 orf 1 gene of Ad-36 alone has been discovered to be responsible for the increased insulin sensitivity observed in Ad-36 infected animals, including increased adipogenesis. Ad-36 E4 orf 1 protein can be used to increase insulin sensitivity and ameliorate diabetes. Additionally, drugs that mimic the action of Ad-36 E4 orf 1 protein could be found. Ad-36 E4 orf 1 could also be used to increase fat cells in lipodystrophy. We have also discovered that Ad-36 infection in human skeletal muscle cells increased differentiation and insulin independent glucose uptake. It is expected that infection with Ad-36 E4 orf 1 gene will also cause these effects. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/095441 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008463 | Blackshear 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) | Perry J. Blackshear (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Deborah J. Stumpo (Durham, North Carolina); Darryl C. Zeldin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Joan P. Graves (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to RFX4_v3 protein and nucleic acids encoding the RFX4_v3 protein. The present disclosure provides non-human transgenic animals with altered RFX4_v3 genes, and provides assays for the detection of RFX4_v3 and RFX4_v3 polymorphisms associated with disease states. The present disclosure additionally provides methods of determining a subjects' risk of developing congenital hydrocephalus, and treating or inhibiting its development. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/511362 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008468 | Roelvink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Benitec, Inc. (Melbourne, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Petrus W. Roelvink (Campbell, California); David A. Suhy (Castro, California); Alexander A. Kolykhalov (Mountain View, California); Mark A. Kay (Los Altos, California); Jeffery C. Giering (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods suitable for RNAi specifically in the liver so as to treat diseases or disorders. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355516 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008502 | Bergeron |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond J. Bergeron (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel thiazoline acids and derivatives thereof useful as chelators of trivalent metals in therapeutic applications. For example, the thiazoline acid derivatives are useful in diagnosing and treating pathological conditions associated with an excess of trivalent metals in humans and animals. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383854 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008842 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TRS Technologies, Inc. (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoning Jiang (State College, Pennsylvania); Wesley S. Hackenberger (State College, Pennsylvania); Kevin A. Snook (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A piezoelectric composite micromachined ultrasound transducer including single and multilayer 1-D and 2-D arrays having through-wafer-vias (TWVs) that significantly decreased electrical impedance per element, and hence the improved electrical impedance matching to T/R electronics and improved signal to noise ratio is disclosed. The TWVs facilitate integrated interconnection in single element transducers (positive and negative contact on the same side) and array transducers (contact pads array for integration with T/R switches and/or pre-amplifier circuits). |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/258615 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/334 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009189 | Ortyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Keith Frost (Seattle, Washington); Luchuan Liang (Woodinville, Washington); Richard Bauer (Kirkland, Washington); Brian Hall (Seattle, Washington); David Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed, high-resolution flow imaging system is modified to achieve extended depth of field imaging. An optical distortion element is introduced into the flow imaging system. Light from an object, such as a cell, is distorted by the distortion element, such that a point spread function (PSF) of the imaging system is invariant across an extended depth of field. The distorted light is spectrally dispersed, and the dispersed light is used to simultaneously generate a plurality of images. The images are detected, and image processing is used to enhance the detected images by compensating for the distortion, to achieve extended depth of field images of the object. The post image processing preferably involves de-convolution, and requires knowledge of the PSF of the imaging system, as modified by the optical distortion element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132394 |
| ART UNIT | 2447 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009793 | Langheinrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MAYO Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander C. Langheinrich (Giessen, Germany); Erik L. Ritman (Wabasha, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Two x-ray CT images are acquired of arterial plaque using x-rays at two different energy levels. The reconstructed images are normalized by adjusting pixel brightness until pixels depicting a region containing calcium have substantially the same brightness. The normalized images are subtracted to produce an image that depicts iron in the arterial plaque. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/280192 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010202 | Shah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samip Shah (Lake Forest, California); Amy Chu Peishuan Hines (Monterey Park, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A critical element of a retinal prosthesis is the stimulating electrode array, which is placed in close proximity to the retina. It is via this interface that a retinal prosthesis electrically stimulates nerve cells to produce the perception of light. The impedance load seen by the current driver consists of the tissue resistance and the complex electrode impedance. The results show that the tissue resistance of the retina is significantly greater than that of the vitreous humor in the eye. Circuit models of the electrode-retina interface are used to parameterize the different contributors to the overall impedance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943487 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010206 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); John Gord (Venice, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices for inductively coupled implants on the human or animal body are disclosed. An external coil assembly to be used with the implant has a transmitting coil and one or more receiving coils. The number of the receiving coils, their distance from the transmitting coil and their shape is chosen to reduce the influence of a noise signal received by the external coil assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/924423 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Peter Cooke (Gillingham, United Kingdom); Christopher Andrew Goat (Offham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, the method comprising: co-extruding alternating strips of a high permittivity material and a low permittivity material to form a green tape comprising said alternating strips of said high permittivity material and said low permittivity material; cutting said green tape to form a plurality of sheets, each sheet comprising a high permittivity region and at least two low permittivity regions adjacent to the high permittivity region; applying at least one conductive region to each one of two or more of the sheets to overly the high permittivity region and to leave exposed at least one low permittivity region; and stacking a plurality of sheets to form an actuator stack comprising adjacent sheets, wherein the or each conductive region on each sheet is offset with respect to a conductive region on a different sheet within the actuator stack. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011920 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/25.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006423 | Alzamora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Unites States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronny Alzamora (Belleville, New Jersey); John Heinsohn (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Adam Foltz (Budd Lake, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved magazine follower for use in existing magazines such as a 30 round magazine comprises a follower plate, a base plate, and a spring. The follower plate comprises a top plate, a convex follower leg, and a concave follower leg. The external shapes of the top plate, the convex follower leg, and the concave follower leg mirror the interior profile of the magazine, constraining the motion of the follower plate to a well-defined path within the magazine. The method of attaching the spring to the follower plate and the base plate in addition to the shape of the spring keeps the spring from “wobbling” or moving off a vertical axis of the spring as rounds of ammunition are loaded or dispensed. Consequently, the present system reduces binding or jams within the magazine, improving performance and life of the magazine follower. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711630 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/49.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006496 | Carter |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SECCO2 Engines, Inc. (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Preston Henry Carter (Bend, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses and methods related to an engine for converting heat into mechanical output using a working fluid in a closed circulating system are disclosed. In some embodiments, the engine includes a pump to pressurize the working fluid, a regenerative heat exchanger to transfer heat from a first portion of the working fluid to a second portion, a heating device to heat the working fluid, and first and second scroll expanders to expand the working fluid and generate the mechanical output. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283060 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/653 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006544 | Holmes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vextec Corporation (Brentwood, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Holmes (Franklin, Tennessee); Robert G. Tryon, III (Brentwood, Tennessee); John E. Pope (Greenwood, Indiana); Daniel A. Nasser (Terre Haute, Indiana); Michael Oja (Nashville, Tennessee); Animesh Dey (Brentwood, Tennessee); Jesse Hamler (Cookeville, Tennessee); Jonathan Brooks (Gordonsville, Tennessee); James Tryon (Terre Haute, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for testing failure of a material used in a jet engine, and more particularly to an apparatus that uses one or more model jet engine components made from a material used in a full-size jet engine and desired to be tested. The apparatus permits easy removal and disassembly of a jet engine mounted thereon as well as real-time measurements of run-time parameters. The methods and apparatus provide for predicting and analysing failure by a number of fatigue-related mechanisms including creep, fatigue, crack growth, foreign object damage, fretting, erosion, and stress corrosion. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008997 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/112.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006605 | Tunis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hardware, LLC (Pocomoke, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Tunis (Berlin, Maryland); Scott Kendall (Berlin, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An armor panel system has a strike face assemblage formed of a hard material layer of discrete elements or tiles and a fiber reinforcement bonded to the tiles. The fiber reinforcement includes a layer of cup-shaped staples aligned and bonded to an inner surface of an associated tile and having legs that extend into gaps between side edges of adjacent tiles. The tiles and fiber reinforcement are encapsulated in a matrix material. The armor panel system also includes a support and containment assemblage having a support plate and a containment element. The containment element is fastened to and supported by the support plate along a periphery by stitching, which allows the containment element to act as a net to catch and contain fragments. A bonding layer joins the strike face assemblage and the support and containment assemblage. The bonding layer includes a mesh embedded in an adhesive material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973888 |
| 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 08006606 | Petrosillo 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) | Frank Petrosillo (West Milford, New Jersey); Daniel Gennarelli (East Hanover, New Jersey); Louis Campanile (Denville, New Jersey); Chad Young (Macomb, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A protective folding shield for mounting to a rail of a vehicle may include a generally rectangular shield; a base stand fixed to a first side of the shield; a shim fixed to the first side of the shield and spaced apart from the base stand; a hinge fixed to the base stand and the shim; a base fixed to the base stand; a pair of latch bases fixed to the base adjacent a second side of the shield; a pair of latch uprights fixed to the second side of the shield wherein, in a substantially vertical position of the generally rectangular shield, the pair of latch uprights are removably fixed to respective ones of the latch bases; and a plurality of clamps fixed to the base wherein the rail is disposed between the clamps and the base. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652844 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006619 | Kuklinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An underwater supercavitating projectile includes means to form ripples on its surrounding cavity so as to provide well-defined disturbances of the cavity boundary. As the ripples move aft of the supercavitating projectile and into the wake behind the advancing projectile, the ripples detach to form a pattern of vapor bubbles in the wake that are distinct in both size and regularity from the typical vapor bubbles formed as the cavity collapses behind the advecting projectile. Sensors record the track of the projectile along its path based on the distinct acoustic signature of the vapor bubbles. Combined with the acoustic echo from a target, the relative distance of the projectile to the target can be determined using methods known in the art. Multiple projectile trajectories are used to increase the ability to resolve the target by adjusting the aiming of the projectiles to reduce the relative distance. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383433 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles P Lin (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of scanning a laser beam across a set of cells includes during a first interval, scanning a laser beam across a set of cells; and during a second interval, deflecting the laser beam away from the set of cells. The first interval is selected to cause microcavitation in at least a portion of the cells from the set of cells. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131612 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 128/898 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006934 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Phillip Alexander (Colchester, Connecticut); David R. Lyders (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite fairing with embedded heating architecture for ice protection includes heating elements arranged on various fairing plies for heating substantially all of the composite fairing. The heating elements are positioned to provide ice protection to substantial portions of the external surface of the composite fairing. Junctions, busbars, and plated through holes are used for delivering electric current to the heating elements on the various fairing plies. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080051 |
| 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 244/134.D00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006937 | Romano 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) | Marcello Romano (Monterey, California); Paul Oppenheimer (Pacific Grove, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A demountable docking interface mechanism and method for docking and undocking two spacecraft utilizing the demountable docking interface mechanism. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367207 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007663 | Ying et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie Y. Ying (Winchester, Massachusetts); Javier García-Martinez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to mesostructured zeolites. The invention also relates to a method of preparing mesostructured zeolites, as well as using them as cracking catalysts for organic compounds and degradation catalysts for polymers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/136642 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007748 | Boddu 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) | Veera M. Boddu (Champaign, Illinois); Tushar K. Ghosh (Columbia, Missouri); Kent James Hay (Mahomet, Illinois); Dabir S. Viswanath (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Perlite, particularly, perlite in powdered form, is employed to adsorb metals and metal compounds from fluids, in particular gases at elevated temperature. Treatment of perlite by boiling with sulfuric acid or suspending in a suspension of sulfur in carbon disulfide has been shown to significantly expand the surface area of perlite, thus increasing the efficiency of the process. In select embodiments, powdered perlite is treated to expand its surface area and injected into a fluid stream, such as flue gas, held for a specific retention period, and removed for subsequent disposal. In other embodiments powdered perlite is provided in an adsorption bed. Fluids containing metals or metal compounds in vapor form are permitted to pass through the adsorption bed until the expanded perlite powder is saturated (exhausted) with the metal and metal compounds adsorbed thereon. The perlite is then replaced, disposing of the exhausted perlite. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401050 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007989 | Dougherty |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Kirk Dougherty (Playa Del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a patterned ferroelectric layer, having ferroelectric electronic properties, on a substrate. A composite layer, made of ferroelectric layer producing metal acrylate compounds, a photoinitiator compound and an acrylate crosslinking compound is formed on the substrate. A photomask is formed on the composite layer. Unmasked areas of the composite layer are irradiated with ultraviolet light. A solvent removes non-irradiated areas of the composite layer from the substrate. The patterned composite layer is heated in an oxygen atmosphere to cause a chemical reaction among the ferroelectric layer producing metal acrylate compounds and oxygen, a patterned ferroelectric layer being formed on the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/081143 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008053 | Zocchi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni Zocchi (Los Angeles, California); Brian Choi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of altering the conformation of a polypeptide having a known three-dimensional structure is described. The method comprises attaching a first end of a polymer to a first portion of the polypeptide, attaching a second end of the polymer to a second portion of the polypeptide, and altering the mechanical tension of the polymer, thereby altering the conformation of the polypeptide. The alteration of the conformation of the polypeptide may increase or decrease the binding affinity of the polypeptide for a substrate bound by the polypeptide, or alter the catalytic rate of an enzyme. Typically, the polymer is a polynucleotide or polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814275 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | MgO tunnel barriers are formed by depositing a thin layer of Mg on a suitable underlayer, and then directing oxygen and additional Mg towards the Mg layer. The oxygen reacts with the additional Mg and the Mg in the Mg layer to form a MgO tunnel barrier that enjoys excellent tunneling characteristics. The MgO tunnel barriers so formed may be used in magnetic tunnel junctions having tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) values of greater than 100%. The highest TMR values are observed for junctions that have been annealed and that have a (100) crystallographic orientation. |
| FILED | Friday, September 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/554420 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008181 | Liliental-Weber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zuzanna Liliental-Weber (El Sobrante, California); Rogerio Luis Maltez (Porto Alegre, Brazil); Hadis Morkoc (Richmond, Virginia); Jinqiao Xie (Raleigh, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Misfit dislocations are redirected from the buffer/Si interface and propagated to the Si substrate due to the formation of bubbles in the substrate. The buffer layer growth process is generally a thermal process that also accomplishes annealing of the Si substrate so that bubbles of the implanted ion species are formed in the Si at an appropriate distance from the buffer/Si interface so that the bubbles will not migrate to the Si surface during annealing, but are close enough to the interface so that a strain field around the bubbles will be sensed by dislocations at the buffer/Si interface and dislocations are attracted by the strain field caused by the bubbles and move into the Si substrate instead of into the buffer epi-layer. Fabrication of improved integrated devices based on GaN and Si, such as continuous wave (CW) lasers and light emitting diodes, at reduced cost is thereby enabled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540274 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008207 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Lun Yu (Fremont, California); Mehran Nasser-Ghodsi (Hamilton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling chemical dry etching to improve smoothness of an etched surface is disclosed. Ions are implanted into a surface to form a volatilizable compound at a temperature low enough to avoid, reduce, or eliminate formation of three-dimensional structures of the volatilizable compound that might create the roughness at an etched surface of the volatilizable compound. The ions are applied in a sufficient energy to penetrate to a predetermined depth of material that is to be removed from the surface in an etching cycle, and in a sufficient dosage to achieve full formation of the volatilizable compound. The surface of the volatilizable compound is exposed to a gas composition for a time duration sufficient to completely etch the volatilizable compound. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/752829 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/705 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008215 | Tandon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheila Tandon (Niskayuna, New York); Gale Petrich (Arlington, Massachusetts); Leslie Kolodziejski (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a buried oxide/crystalline III-V semiconductor dielectric stack is presented. The method includes providing a substrate and forming a layered structure on the substrate comprising of layers of different materials, one of the different materials is selected to be an oxidizable material to form one or more buried low index oxide layers. A first sequence of oxidizing steps are performed on the layered structure by exposing the edges of the layered structure to a succession of temperature increases in the presence of steam from an initial temperature to the desired oxidation temperature for a time interval equal to the sum of the time intervals of the succession of temperature increases. Also, the method includes performing a second sequential oxidizing step with steam on the layered structure at the specific oxidation temperature for a specific time interval. Furthermore, the method includes performing a final sequence of oxidizing steps on the structure by ramping down from the desired oxidation temperature to a final temperature when the oxidizing material is completely oxidized to form the one or more buried low index oxide layers. |
| FILED | Friday, May 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/433736 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008223 | Garcia-Martinez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javier Garcia-Martinez (Alicante, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to mesostructured zeolites. The invention also relates to a method of preparing mesostructured zeolites, as well as using them as cracking catalysts for organic compounds and degradation catalysts for polymers. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/578869 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008256 | Markland, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis S Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California); Steven Swenson (Arcadia, California); Jacek Pinski (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions and methods for treating diseases. In particular aspects, the invention relates to administering a combination of a disintegrin with a microtubule stabilizing agent useful for treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/742389 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008421 | Gaudiana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Konarka Technologies, Inc. (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell Gaudiana (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Richard Kingsborough (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Xiaobo Shi (Manchester, New Hampshire); David Waller (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Photovoltaic cells with silole-containing polymers, as well as related systems, methods and components are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/851559 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008424 | Gaudiana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Konarka Technologies, Inc. (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell Gaudiana (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Richard Kingsborough (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Xiaobo Shi (Manchester, New Hampshire); David Waller (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Photovoltaic cells with thiazole-containing polymers, as well as related components, systems, and methods, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/851591 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/289 |
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| US 08008527 | Chapman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Chapman (Ridgecrest, California); Richard A. Hollins (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition and method of manufacturing the same. Embodiments of an aspect of the invention relate to the formula C(CH2NF2)4 having the name octafluoropentaerythrityltetramine (octafluoro-PETA). In embodiments of another aspect generally relate to a method for manufacturing octafluoropentaerythrityltetramine (octafluoro-PETA) including, basifying pentaerythrityltetramine tetrahydrochloride in an aqueous solution with an aqueous alkali and treating with alkyl chloroformate for producing a tetraalkyl pentaerythrityltetra carbamate, extracting the compound into a nonaqueous solvent suitable for extraction from water and removing the solvent for providing a pure form of tetraethyl pentaerythrityltetracarbamate, bubbling elemental fluorine and/or mixtures of fluorine with an inert gas through tetraalkyl pentaerythrityltetracarbamate in a solvent suitable for direct fluorinations of protected amines until excess fluorine appears, and purifying the resultant octafluoropentaerythrityltetramine. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496962 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/121 |
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| US 08008626 | Kub 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) | Francis J Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Bernard F Phlips (Accokeek, Maryland); Karl D Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland); Eric A Wulf (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) neutron detector comprising a silicon-on-insulator structure, wherein the silicon-on-insulator structure consists of an active semiconductor layer, a buried layer, and a handle substrate, a lateral carrier transport and collection detector structure within the active semiconductor layer of the silicon-on-insulator structure, and a neutron to high energy particle converter layer on the active semiconductor layer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/010996 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008843 | 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 first energy generating system comprises a ferromagnetic generator coupled to a voltage controlled switch. The ferromagnetic generator includes a ferromagnetic element generating a magnetic field and positioned within a pulse generating coil and near an explosive charge. Detonation of the explosive charge decreases the magnetic field and induces a pulse of electric energy in the pulse generating coil. When the magnitude of the electric energy reaches a certain level, the voltage controlled switch closes. A second energy generating system comprises a flux compression generator coupled to a voltage controlled switch. The flux compression generator includes a inductance coil generating a magnetic field within a metallic armature that includes an explosive charge. Detonation of the explosive charge changes the magnetic field and induces a pulse of electric energy in the inductance coil. When the magnitude of the electric energy reaches a certain level, the voltage controlled switch closes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711055 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
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| US 08009084 | Frisbee, Jr. |
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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) | Belmont Frisbee, Jr. (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A special purpose decoder and display unit is designed to present special format radar signals for training. Several display formats ease operator workload while acquiring desired radar formats. A reference tone is recorded along with radar signals on a tape and a phase locked oscillator receives the reference tone which has the same fluctuations that the recorded radar signals have. A controlled computer and the phase locked oscillator feed their signals to a frequency synthesizer that creates a fine tuned signal based on the output signals of the phase locked oscillator and the computer. A timing generator is coupled to receive the output of the frequency synthesizer and it generates special purpose timing signals which are fed to a display. A video input receives radar signals coming from the tape, for example, to generate a sense directed, gain controlled video signal. A planned position indicator converter receives the gain controlled video signal and processes the signal from polar to rectangular coordinates in accordance with directions from the control computer so that a display unit can appropriately show the information contents of the video input signal without the wow and flutter that might otherwise be attributable to speed inconsistencies of the tape. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 1984 |
| APPL NO | 06/610204 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009086 | Grossnickle 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) | Peter C. Grossnickle (San Diego, California); Heidi L. Buck (San Diego, California); Gregory Fleizach (La Jolla, California); Alan Fronk (Oceanside, California); Matthew Fong (Sunnyvale, California); Barry R. Hunt (San Diego, California); Matthew Nicholson (San Diego, California); Brian T. Williams (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and process for the geo-location of an asset given no a priori knowledge regarding time and location of the asset with minimized power consumption is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the system is accurate to about 30 meters CEP (50% circular error probable) using just a short segment, e.g., 100-200 ms, of digitized GPS L1 signal data. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/856878 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009115 | Walton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio); Syntonics LLC (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric K. Walton (Columbus, Ohio); Bruce G. Montgomery (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna made up of small addressable conductive segments, or pixel elements, located in a dielectric space positioned over a two-dimensional pixel element actuator is presented. The small pixel elements can be actuated in less than a millisecond by the actuator to form patterns that create an array of patch antennas and associated transmission lines on the upper surface of the dielectric space. The pixel elements can be formed using small movable conductive particles such as metal flakes or metal chips. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/032261 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/757 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009393 | Katsumata |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shin Katsumata (Rockford, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An electric circuit includes a plurality of electric circuit elements. The circuit is prone to creating voltage spikes on a pair of spaced lines. A jumper line connects the pair of spaced lines. A thermoelectric element is connected on the jumper line such that the voltage spike will pass through a hot node on the thermoelectric element. A cool node of the thermoelectric element is positioned adjacent to components which require cooling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555180 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/18 |
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| US 08009404 | Blinder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gennadiy Blinder (Germantown, Maryland); Gregory F. Pensero (Abingdon, Maryland); Long T. Nguyen (White Marsh, Maryland); William P. Burgess (Finksburg, Maryland); Joseph J. Sedlak (Essex, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided that effectively obviates shortcomings of conventional, diode-ORed, redundant power supply systems by forcing a primary power source to provide power to the system load most the time, even when the primary source provides a lower voltage than that of a secondary power source. This preferential selection of the lower-voltage primary is achieved by interposing a power switching unit between the secondary power source and the ORing diode in front of the load. The power switching unit of the illustrative embodiment comprises a voltage regulator that is regulated at a first voltage level, which is lower than the nominal output voltage level provided by the primary power source. Meanwhile, the primary power source is able to charge the secondary power source, which is a battery in the illustrative embodiment, so that the secondary power source can provide power to the load when the primary power source is either interrupted or falls below the first voltage level. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/962090 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/160 |
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| US 08009520 | Jau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuan-Yu Jau (Princeton, New Jersey); Kiyoshi Ishikawa (Hyogo, Japan); William Happer (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarization gain medium such as an emitting laser diode provides the optical pumping. An atomic vapor cell is positioned in the laser cavity providing spontaneous push-pull optical pumping inside the laser cavity. This causes the laser beam to be modulated at hyperfine-resonance frequency. A clock signal is obtained from electrical modulation across the laser diode. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/116431 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Horology: Time measuring systems or devices 368/156 |
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| US 08009716 | Conway et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua A. Conway (Redondo Beach, California); Jon V. Osborn (Thousand Oaks, California); Ryan A. Stevenson (Maple Valley, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A device having a light cavity includes, at one end, a plasmonic reflector having a grating surface for coupling incoming light into traverse plasmon waves and for coupling the traverse plasmon wave into broaden light, the surface serving to redistribute light within the cavity, the reflector being well suited for use in laser diodes for redistributing filamental cavity laser light into spatially broaden cavity laser light for translating multimodal laser light into unimodal laser light for improved reliability and uniform laser beam creation. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978253 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009995 | Marc 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) | Currie Marc (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Lou W. Janet (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for receiving a digital signal having a plurality of significant bits of resolution. The apparatus includes a mode locked laser comprising a single output. The apparatus also includes a beam divider operable to receive the single output. The apparatus also includes a plurality of optical modulators operable to communicate with said beam divider and operable to receive a respective plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of significant bits of resolution. Optionally, the apparatus also includes a source operable to output a digital waveform with the plurality of signals corresponding to the plurality of significant bits of resolution of the digital waveform, the plurality of signals operable to drive the plurality of optical modulators. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/535724 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010235 | Freeman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip L. Freeman (Maryland Heights, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating a multi-axis machine. The machine linkage is monitored to detect an approach by linkage joint(s) toward singularity. A degree of the approached singularity is determined. The joint(s) approaching singularity are identified. Virtual joints are used to replace the identified joint(s) in a manipulator matrix to modify the manipulator matrix. The modified matrix is used to determine position changes for the linkage links. This method can provide software-based compensation for a wide range of machine configurations, without a priori knowledge of singularities for a given machine. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/514072 |
| ART UNIT | 3665 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010242 | Ginsberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | On Time Systems, Inc. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew L. Ginsberg (Eugene, Oregon); Aran Clauson (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for flight planning determines an optimal route by first assuming that the gross payload of a plane is used for fuel, determining legal routes based on to-capacity fueling, determining available payload for possible flight segments by removing unneeded fuel, selecting an optimal route for a desired payload, and minimizing fueling for the selected route. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/186823 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010470 | Jackson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Science Applications International Corporation (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary M. Jackson (Gambrills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method of behavior prediction includes selecting behavior examples having corresponding antecedent candidates, identifying source text descriptions describing the behavior examples, automatically extracting predictors as common themes across all statements and all behavior examples with a language-independent theme extraction process, flagging each behavior example to indicate a presence or absence of the corresponding extracted antecedents in each of the source text descriptions and creating a data array consisting of antecedent columns and behavior example rows, submitting the data array to a pattern classifier to extract patterns among the antecedent candidates and outcomes by training and validating the pattern classifier and predicting a new occurrence of a target behavior by entering a current state of the antecedents to the trained pattern classifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625087 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010541 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods and systems for the privacy preserving mining of string data with the use of simple template based models. Such template based models are effective in practice, and preserve important statistical characteristics of the strings such as intra-record distances. Discussed herein is the condensation model for anonymization of string data. Summary statistics are created for groups of strings, and use these statistics are used to generate pseudo-strings. It will be seen that the aggregate behavior of a new set of strings maintains key characteristics such as composition, the order of the intra-string distances, and the accuracy of data mining algorithms such as classification. The preservation of intra-string distances is a key goal in many string and biological applications which are deeply dependent upon the computation of such distances, while it can be shown that the accuracy of applications such as classification are not affected by the anonymization process. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540406 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010584 | Craver 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) | Jeffrey T. Craver (Meridianville, Alabama); Michael S. Ellis (Hunstville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A Technology Program Management Model (TPMM) for management of technology development. The TPMM is an activities-based model that is subdivided along technology readiness level (TRL) boundaries into phases of technology development that logically progress from concept to operational capability and readiness for transition to the customer/end user. The TPMM provides a standardized approach to technology development that incorporates systems engineering and programmatic principles and practices with transition management in a stage-gated process for TRL-based maturity assessment. The TPMM includes a relational database that relates the activities to one another, to entry and exit criteria for each phase, and to documentation that demonstrates that the activity meets the requirements of each phase. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235128 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/812 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010764 | Keller, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Walter Keller, Jr. (Austin, Texas); Charles R. Lefurgy (Round Rock, Texas); Hai Huang (Marion, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for decreasing power consumption in memory arrays having usage-driven power management provides decreased power consumption in the memory array of a processing system. Per-page usage information is gathered on memory by a memory controller and periodically evaluated by software. The software distinguishes between more frequently accessed pages and less frequently accessed pages by analyzing the gathered usage information and periodically migrates physical memory pages in order to group less frequently accessed pages and more frequently access pages in separately power-managed memory ranks. When used in conjunction with a usage-driven power management mechanism, the ranks containing the less frequently accessed pages can enter deeper power-saving states and/or any power-saving state for longer periods. Operation may be further enhanced by using packed allocation in the memory ranks containing the less-frequently accessed pages and scattered allocation in the memory ranks having more frequently accessed pages. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/176819 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010926 | Alpert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Alpert (Cedar Park, Texas); Ruchir Puri (Baldwin Place, New York); Shyam Ramji (Lagrangeville, New York); Ashish K. Singh (Austin, Texas); Chin Ngai Sze (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Power, routability and electromigration have become crucial issues in modern microprocessor designs. In high performance designs, clocks are the highest consumer of power. Arranging clocking components with regularity so as to minimize the capacitance on the clock nets can help reduce clock power, however, it may hurt performance due to some loss of flexibility in physically placing those components. The present invention provides techniques to optimally place clock components in a regular fashion so as to minimize clock power within a performance constraint. A rectangular grid is created and clock distribution structures are assigned to the grid intersection points. Latches are then located around the clock distribution structures to minimize an overall distance for connections between the latches and respective clock distribution structures. The horizontal and vertical pitches of the grid may be independently adjusted to achieve a more uniform spread of the clock distribution structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/022849 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010943 | Rouson |
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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) | Damian Rouson (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A data expression is created to be executed on a computer. At least one of the at least two objects is tagged as temporary. A first non-assignment operator is executed to instruct the computer to perform a mathematical operation on object data corresponding to the one of the at least two objects and thereby creating resultant object data corresponding to the one of the at least two objects. The object data corresponding to the one of the at least two objects is overwritten with the resultant object data corresponding to the one of the at least two objects. A first assignment operator is executed to instruct the computer to assign the one of the at least two objects to the second of the at least two objects thereby copying correspondence of the resultant object data to the second of the at least two objects. The overwriting is performed after the executing a first non-assignment operator and prior to the executing a first assignment operator. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855403 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Schmieg (Troy, Michigan); Richard J. Blint (Shelby Township, Michigan); Ling Deng (Sterling Heights, Michigan); Michael B. Viola (Macomb Township, Michigan); Jong-Hwan Lee (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are described to selectively reduce NOx emissions of an internal combustion engine. An exhaust aftertreatment system includes an injection device operative to dispense a hydrocarbon reductant upstream of a silver-alumina catalytic reactor device. A control system determines a NOx concentration and hydrocarbon/NOx ratio based upon selected parameters of the exhaust gas feedstream and dispenses hydrocarbon reductant during lean engine operation. Included is a method to control elements of the feedstream during lean operation. The hydrocarbon reductant may include engine fuel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/533434 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006566 | Sopori et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bhushan L. Sopori (Denver, Colorado); Peter Sheldon (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for screening silicon-based wafers used in the photovoltaic industry is provided herewith. |
| FILED | Friday, July 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/722981 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006776 | Polsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yarom Polsky (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A pneumatic device control apparatus and method comprising a ported valve slidably fitted over a feed tube of the pneumatic device, and using a compliant biasing device to constrain motion of the valve to provide asymmetric timing for extended pressurization of a power chamber and reduced pressurization of a return chamber of the pneumatic device. The pneumatic device can be a pneumatic hammer drill. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/364600 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Tool driving or impacting 173/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08006827 | Aldred et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek Leslie Aldred (North Hollywood, California); Jeffrey A. Rader (North Hollywood, California); Timothy W. Saunders (North Hollywood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A material transporting system comprises a material transporting apparatus (100) including a material transporting apparatus hopper structure (200, 202), which comprises at least one rotary transporting apparatus; a stationary hub structure (900) constraining and assisting the at least one rotary transporting apparatus; an outlet duct configuration (700) configured to permit material to exit therefrom and comprising at least one diverging portion (702, 702′); an outlet abutment configuration (800) configured to direct material to the outlet duct configuration; an outlet valve assembly from the material transporting system venting the material transporting system; and a moving wall configuration in the material transporting apparatus capable of assisting the material transporting apparatus in transporting material in the material transporting system. Material can be moved from the material transporting apparatus hopper structure to the outlet duct configuration through the at least one rotary transporting apparatus, the outlet abutment configuration, and the outlet valve assembly. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/565269 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Power-driven 198/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007274 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Edward Johnson (Greer, South Carolina); Willy Steve Ziminsky (Simpsonville, South Carolina); Benjamin Paul Lacey (Greer, South Carolina); William David York (Greer, South Carolina); Christian Xavier Stevenson (Inman, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel nozzle assembly is provided. The assembly includes an outer nozzle body having a first end and a second end and at least one inner nozzle tube having a first end and a second end. One of the nozzle body or nozzle tube includes a fuel plenum and a fuel passage extending therefrom, while the other of the nozzle body or nozzle tube includes a fuel injection hole slidably aligned with the fuel passage to form a fuel flow path therebetween at an interface between the body and the tube. The nozzle body and the nozzle tube are fixed against relative movement at the first ends of the nozzle body and nozzle tube, enabling the fuel flow path to close at the interface due to thermal growth after a flame enters the nozzle tube. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249158 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Combustion 431/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007607 | Daniels et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Daniels (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Ronald J. Heaps (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric D Steffler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); William D. Swank (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Combustible structural composites and methods of forming same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a combustible structural composite includes combustible material comprising a fuel metal and a metal oxide. The fuel metal is present in the combustible material at a weight ratio from 1:9 to 1:1 of the fuel metal to the metal oxide. The fuel metal and the metal oxide are capable of exothermically reacting upon application of energy at or above a threshold value to support self-sustaining combustion of the combustible material within the combustible structural composite. Structural-reinforcing fibers are present in the composite at a weight ratio from 1:20 to 10:1 of the structural-reinforcing fibers to the combustible material. Other embodiments and aspects are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233639 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007647 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | YuPo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois); Edward J. St. Martin (Libertyville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioreactor with an anode and a cathode, and a plurality of reaction chambers each having an inlet and an outlet and each including a porous solid ion exchange wafer having ion-exchange resins. Each of the reaction chambers is interleaved between a cation exchange membrane and an anion exchange membrane or between either a cation or an anion exchange membrane and a bipolar exchange membrane. A product chamber is separated from one of the reaction chambers by either a cation or an anion exchange membrane. Recirculation mechanism is provided for transporting material between the reaction chamber inlets and outlets. A method of producing organic acids, amino acids, or amines using the separative bioreactor is disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/005586 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/536 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007749 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Calfornia (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Ger Chang (El Cerrito, California); Shou-Heng Liu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan); Zhao-Rong Liu (Beijing, China PRC); Naiqiang Yan (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is a method for removing mercury from a gas stream comprising contacting the gas stream with a getter composition comprising bromine, bromochloride, sulphur bromide, sulphur dichloride or sulphur monochloride and mixtures thereof. In one preferred embodiment the getter composition is adsorbed onto a sorbent. The sorbent may be selected from the group consisting of flyash, limestone, lime, calcium sulphate, calcium sulfite, activated carbon, charcoal, silicate, alumina and mixtures thereof. Preferred is flyash, activated carbon and silica. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792135 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008041 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575991 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008056 | Aehle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wolfgang Aehle (Leiden, Netherlands); Frits Goedegebuur (Leiden, Netherlands); Lydia Dankmeyer (Leiden, Netherlands); Colin Mitchinson (Half Moon Bay, California); Paulien Neefe (Leiden, Netherlands); Brad Kelemen (Menlo Park, California); Robert Caldwell (Belmont, California); Pauline Teunissen (Leiden, Netherlands) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are variants of H. jecorina CBH2, a Cel6A enzyme. The present invention provides novel cellobiohydrolases that have altered thermostability. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/317110 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008181 | Liliental-Weber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zuzanna Liliental-Weber (El Sobrante, California); Rogerio Luis Maltez (Porto Alegre, Brazil); Hadis Morkoc (Richmond, Virginia); Jinqiao Xie (Raleigh, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Misfit dislocations are redirected from the buffer/Si interface and propagated to the Si substrate due to the formation of bubbles in the substrate. The buffer layer growth process is generally a thermal process that also accomplishes annealing of the Si substrate so that bubbles of the implanted ion species are formed in the Si at an appropriate distance from the buffer/Si interface so that the bubbles will not migrate to the Si surface during annealing, but are close enough to the interface so that a strain field around the bubbles will be sensed by dislocations at the buffer/Si interface and dislocations are attracted by the strain field caused by the bubbles and move into the Si substrate instead of into the buffer epi-layer. Fabrication of improved integrated devices based on GaN and Si, such as continuous wave (CW) lasers and light emitting diodes, at reduced cost is thereby enabled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540274 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008642 | Schweizer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Schweizer (Paderborn, Germany); Jacqueline A. Johnson (Woodridge, Illinois); Anthony R. Lubinsky (East Northport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A computed radiography system including a stimulating light source such as a laser, a photostimulable glass imaging plate (PGIP) substantially transparent to the stimulating light positioned such that the stimulating light impinges the PGIP perpendicularly thereto producing photostimulated luminescence light (PLL), a light collector having a light reflecting inner surface proximate the PGIP for collecting PLL emitted from the PGIP and having a hole or slot therein for admitting stimulating light into the light collector and onto the PGIP. An optical filter in communication with the light collector for blocking stimulating light waves and passing PLL therethrough. A light detector receives PLL from the optical filter and the light collector, mechanism providing relative movement between the PGIP and the stimulating light source, and mechanism including an analog to digital converter for converting the collected and detected PLL to a diagnostic readout. The system is particularly useful in mammography. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156300 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/591 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009283 | LaFortune et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kai N LaFortune (Livermore, California); Randall Hurd (Tracy, California); Scott N Fochs (Livermore, California); Mark D Rotter (San Ramon, California); Lloyd Hackel (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Wavefront control techniques are provided for the alignment and performance optimization of optical devices. A Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor can be used to measure the wavefront distortion and a control system generates feedback error signal to optics inside the device to correct the wavefront. The system can be calibrated with a low-average-power probe laser. An optical element is provided to couple the optical device to a diagnostic/control package in a way that optimizes both the output power of the optical device and the coupling of the probe light into the diagnostics. |
| FILED | Monday, May 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471452 |
| ART UNIT | 4132 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/152.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009356 | Shaner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A. Shaner (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Daniel Wasserman (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) device wherein the tunability derives from controlled variation of the dielectric constant of a semiconducting material (semiconductor) in evanescent-field contact with a metallic array of sub-wavelength apertures. The surface plasmon resonance wavelength can be changed by changing the dielectric constant of the dielectric material. In embodiments of this invention, the dielectric material is a semiconducting material. The dielectric constant of the semiconducting material in the metal/semiconductor interfacial region is controllably adjusted by adjusting one or more of the semiconductor plasma frequency, the concentration and effective mass of free carriers, and the background high-frequency dielectric constant in the interfacial region. Thermal heating and/or voltage-gated carrier-concentration changes may be used to variably adjust the value of the semiconductor dielectric constant. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137882 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/573 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009772 | Ormesher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard C. Ormesher (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John J. Mason (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In the reception of digital information transmitted on a communication channel, a characteristic exhibited by the communication channel during transmission of the digital information is estimated based on a communication signal that represents the digital information and has been received via the communication channel. Concurrently with the estimating, the communication signal is used to decide what digital information was transmitted. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/564396 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/341 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009787 | Akers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas W. Akers (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-destructive testing method may include providing a source material that emits positrons in response to bombardment of the source material with photons. The source material is exposed to photons. The source material is positioned adjacent the specimen, the specimen being exposed to at least some of the positrons emitted by the source material. Annihilation gamma rays emitted by the specimen are detected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/869794 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010318 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Lu (Kenosha, Wisconsin); Thomas G. Habetler (Snellville, Georgia); Ronald G. Harley (Lawrenceville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for nonintrusively determining electric motor efficiency includes a processor programed to, while the motor is in operation, determine a plurality of stator input currents, electrical input data, a rotor speed, a value of stator resistance, and an efficiency of the motor based on the determined rotor speed, the value of stator resistance, the plurality of stator input currents, and the electrical input data. The determination of the rotor speed is based on one of the input power and the plurality of stator input currents. The determination of the value of the stator resistance is based on at least one of a horsepower rating and a combination of the plurality of stator input currents and the electrical input data. The electrical input data includes at least one of an input power and a plurality of stator input voltages. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132151 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010875 | Gara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Dong Chen (Croton On Husdon, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); William T. Flynn (Rochester, Minnesota); James A. Marcella (Rochester, Minnesota); Todd Takken (Brewster, New York); Barry M. Trager (Yorktown Heights, New York); Shmuel Winograd (Scarsdale, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are disclosed for detecting memory chip failure in a computer memory system. The method comprises the steps of accessing user data from a set of user data chips, and testing the user data for errors using data from a set of system data chips. This testing is done by generating a sequence of check symbols from the user data, grouping the user data into a sequence of data symbols, and computing a specified sequence of syndromes. If all the syndromes are zero, the user data has no errors. If one of the syndromes is non-zero, then a set of discriminator expressions are computed, and used to determine whether a single or double symbol error has occurred. In the preferred embodiment, less than two full system data chips are used for testing and correcting the user data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768559 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/773 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08007854 | Wei et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei Wei (Coventry, Connecticut); Haibo Qu (Storrs, Connecticut); Xiaohua Yu (Willimantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic coating with gradient density/porosity and/or incorporated biologically active agents can be fabricated on the surface of substrates, including the surface of implantable medical devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619659 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008018 | Quake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Quake (Stanford, California); Hei-Mun Christina Fan (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present methods are exemplified by a process in which maternal blood containing fetal DNA is diluted to a nominal value of approximately 0.5 genome equivalent of DNA per reaction sample. Digital PCR is then be used to detect aneuploidy, such as the trisomy that causes Down Syndrome. Since aneuploidies do not present a mutational change in sequence, and are merely a change in the number of chromosomes, it has not been possible to detect them in a fetus without resorting to invasive techniques such as amniocentesis or chorionic villi sampling. Digital amplification allows the detection of aneuploidy using massively parallel amplification and detection methods, examining, e.g., 10,000 genome equivalents. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/393803 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008053 | Zocchi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni Zocchi (Los Angeles, California); Brian Choi (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of altering the conformation of a polypeptide having a known three-dimensional structure is described. The method comprises attaching a first end of a polymer to a first portion of the polypeptide, attaching a second end of the polymer to a second portion of the polypeptide, and altering the mechanical tension of the polymer, thereby altering the conformation of the polypeptide. The alteration of the conformation of the polypeptide may increase or decrease the binding affinity of the polypeptide for a substrate bound by the polypeptide, or alter the catalytic rate of an enzyme. Typically, the polymer is a polynucleotide or polypeptide. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814275 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008061 | Apt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Martek Biosciences Corporation (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk Emil Apt (Columbia, Maryland); F. C. Thomas Allnutt (Port Deposit, Maryland); David J. Kyle (Catonsville, Maryland); James Casy Lippmeier (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Most microalgae are obligate photoautotrophs and their growth is strictly dependent on the generation of photosynthetically-derived energy. In this study it is shown that the microalga Phaeodaclylurn tricornutum can be engineered to import glucose and grow in the dark through the introduction of genes encoding glucose transporters. Both the human and Chlorella kessleri glucose transporters facilitated the uptake of glucose by P. tricornutum, allowing the cells to metabolize exogenous organic carbon and thrive, independent of light. This is the first successful trophic conversion of an obligate photoautotroph through metabolic engineering, and it demonstrates that methods of cell nourishment can be fundamentally altered with the introduction of a single gene. Since strains transformed with the glucose transport genes are able to grow non-photosynthetically, they can be exploited for the analysis of photosynthetic processes through mutant generation and characterization. Finally, this work also represents critical progress toward large-scale commercial exploitation of obligate phototrophic algae through the use of microbial fermentation technology, eliminating significant limitations resulting from light-dependent growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842898 |
| 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 435/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008249 | Ford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byron D. Ford (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Neuregulin, a known neuroprotein, has been found to ameliorate or prevent damage caused by mechanical or chemical assault to blood vessels and, when administered into the cerebral spinal fluid, can ameliorate damage to neuronal tissue caused by stroke or inflammation. Additionally, neuregulin has been found to be useful for enhancement of stem cell migration from the ventricle to the site of injury to the brain. |
| FILED | Friday, January 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/688287 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008743 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President And Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jill Becker (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dennis Hausmann (Los Gatos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to materials and processes for thin film deposition on solid substrates. Silica/alumina nanolaminates were deposited on heated substrates by the reaction of an aluminum-containing compound with a silanol. The nanolaminates have very uniform thickness and excellent step coverage in holes with aspect ratios over 40:1. The films are transparent and good electrical insulators. This invention also relates to materials and processes for producing improved porous dielectric materials used in the insulation of electrical conductors in microelectronic devices, particularly through materials and processes for producing semi-porous dielectric materials wherein surface porosity is significantly reduced or removed while internal porosity is preserved to maintain a desired low-k value for the overall dielectric material. The invention can also be used to selectively fill narrow trenches with low-k dielectric material while at the same time avoiding deposition of any dielectric on the surface area outside of the trenches. |
| FILED | Monday, September 27, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/951464 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009197 | Ben-Ezra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moshe Ben-Ezra (Princeton, New Jersey); Shree K. Nayar (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for providing a substantially de-blurred image of a scene from a motion blurred image of the scene are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a primary detector for sensing the motion blurred image and generating primary image information representing the blurred image, a secondary detector for sensing two or more secondary images of the scene and for generating secondary image information representing the two or more secondary images, and a processor for determining motion information from the secondary image information, estimating a point spread function for the motion blurred image from the motion information, and applying the estimated point spread function to the primary image information to generate information representing the substantially de-blurred image. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/341195 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009823 | Parhi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Yongru Gu (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to design low complexity and low power echo and NEXT cancellers based on wordlength reduction technique is presented. A circuit architecture to implement echo and cancellers is also presented. The low complexity and low power design relies on the fact that a TH precoder can be viewed as an IIR filter with an input equal to the sum of the original input to the TH precoder and a compensation signal. The proposed design also relies on the fact that sum of the original input to the TH precoder and the compensation signal has finite levels, which can be represented in less bits than the original input of the echo and NEXT cancellers. An improved design by exploiting the statistics of the compensation signal is also proposed to further bring down the complexity and power consumption of these cancellers. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487041 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/390.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010481 | Sherwood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Peter Sherwood (Santa Barbara, California); Lin Tan (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A pattern matching technique for high throughput network processing includes a simple yet powerful special purpose architecture and a set of novel string matching algorithms that can work in unison. The novel set of algorithms allow for bit-level partitioning of rules such that may be more easily implemented in hardware or software. The result is a device that maintains tight worst case bounds on performance, can be updated with new rules without interrupting operation, compiles in seconds instead of hours, and is ten times more efficient than the existing best known solutions in this area. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/715186 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08007742 | Long et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen E. Long (Gaithersburg, Maryland); David M. Bunk (Bethesda, Maryland); Mariana Arce-Osuna (Queretaro, None) |
| ABSTRACT | A digester-evaporator for partially digesting a sample and for evaporating the solvent after partial digestion. The digester includes at least one reaction coil; a heating element arranged along a portion of the reaction coil; at least a portion of the reaction coil proximate to its output being preheated by the heating element to a degree sufficient to convert a partially digested sample into vapor; a collector spoon with carrier water for collecting sample vapor; and an evaporator portion including an evaporation chamber including a substantially vertically-oriented tube The collector spoon is arranged in the top of the substantially vertically-oriented tube, and a gas supply tube for supplying a preheated gas provided in a top of the substantially vertically-oriented tube so as to create a cyclonic gas flow into the chamber and carry the sample to a container area in a bottom portion of the chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438390 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/530 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009120 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gwynned Thomas (Auburn, Alabama); Andrew Sivulka (Auburn, Alabama); Lloyd Stephen Riggs (Auburn, Alabama); David J. Elton (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Antennas using nonwoven geotextiles with embedded metallic or other wave carrying fibers are described herein. The geotextiles antennas are designed to be an internal, integral part of the nation's infrastructure. Geotextile antennas are flexible and easily conform to natural and manmade surfaces such as exterior building surfaces, for example, roads, roofs and bridges. Geotextile antennas are considerably less vulnerable to damage and probably much less expensive than the current, highly vulnerable and costly cell towers. In particular, geotextiles used in roads are especially well protected by the asphalt pavement above. The fabric-based conformal antenna enhances the usefulness and reliability of the communication infrastructure which is exceedingly vulnerable to vandalism, terrorism and natural disasters. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/713953 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/897 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009545 | Buechel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dorothea Buechel (San Jose, California); Dieter Klaus Weller (San Jose, California); Edward Charles Gage (Lakeville, Minnesota); William Albert Challener (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Christophe Daniel Mihalcea (Newton, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus includes a component having a first surface, a first waveguide for directing electromagnetic radiation to a focal point adjacent to the first surface, a storage medium positioned adjacent to the first surface, a detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation reflected from the storage medium, and a structure positioned adjacent to the focal point for collecting the reflected electromagnetic radiation and for transmitting the reflected electromagnetic radiation toward the detector, wherein the structure comprises a second waveguide including a first cladding layer positioned adjacent to a first side of the first waveguide and having a first end positioned adjacent to the first surface and a second cladding layer positioned adjacent to a second side of the first waveguide and having a first end positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/548688 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/112.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010575 | Heer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Heer (Berkeley, California); Stuart K. Card (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for redistributing interest in a hierarchical data structure representation is provided. A data representation of a hierarchical data structure includes depth levels having one or more blocks of sibling nodes associated with node interest characteristics. Two or more of the sibling nodes are combined as aggregates into elided subsets. One of the elided subsets is selected and expanded to reveal the aggregated sibling nodes. A breadth of the depth level in which the block is located is determined. A further determination that the breadth exceeds a constrained breadth extent for the data representation is made. The breadth is decreased by ordering the sibling nodes in the depth level by their node interest characteristic and by combining at least a portion of the sibling nodes into the elided subset based on the respective node interest characteristics such that the breadth does not exceed the constrained breadth extent. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/628192 |
| ART UNIT | 2158 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/803 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010646 | Bier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric A Bier (Palo Alto, California); Edward W Ishak (Cupertino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state including a presentation of a first instance-representation that represents a first separately-movable instance object and a second instance-representation that represents a second separately-movable instance object. This aspect enables the first instance-representation and detects when the first instance-representation is dropped within a threshold distance of the second instance-representation. When the first instance-representation is dropped, the technology identifies, responsive to the step of detecting, one of a plurality of spatial relationships between the first instance-representation and the second instance-representation. Responsive to the identified spatial relationship, the technology selects an operation, and responsive to the operation modifies a composite object in the relationship data structure. The composite object incorporates an entity/relationship object that is represented by the first separately-movable instance object and an entity/relationship object represented by the second separately-movable instance object. After the composite object as modified, an instance-representation that represents the composite object is presented in the workspace window. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/426919 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/223 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08008914 | Penanen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Konstantin I. Penanen (Glendale, California); Byeong H. Eom (Pasadena, California); Inseob Hahn (La Crescenta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Low field SQUID MRI devices, components and methods are disclosed. They include a portable low field (SQUID)-based MRI instrument and a portable low field SQUID-based MRI system to be operated under a bed where a subject is adapted to be located. Also disclosed is a method of distributing wires on an image encoding coil system adapted to be used with an NMR or MRI device for analyzing a sample or subject and a second order superconducting gradiometer adapted to be used with a low field SQUID-based MRI device as a sensing component for an MRI signal related to a subject or sample. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/687104 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009189 | Ortyn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amnis Corporation (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Ortyn (Bainbridge Island, Washington); David Basiji (Seattle, Washington); Keith Frost (Seattle, Washington); Luchuan Liang (Woodinville, Washington); Richard Bauer (Kirkland, Washington); Brian Hall (Seattle, Washington); David Perry (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A high speed, high-resolution flow imaging system is modified to achieve extended depth of field imaging. An optical distortion element is introduced into the flow imaging system. Light from an object, such as a cell, is distorted by the distortion element, such that a point spread function (PSF) of the imaging system is invariant across an extended depth of field. The distorted light is spectrally dispersed, and the dispersed light is used to simultaneously generate a plurality of images. The images are detected, and image processing is used to enhance the detected images by compensating for the distortion, to achieve extended depth of field images of the object. The post image processing preferably involves de-convolution, and requires knowledge of the PSF of the imaging system, as modified by the optical distortion element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132394 |
| ART UNIT | 2447 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010591 | Mojarradi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammad M. Mojarradi (La Canada, California); Benjamin Blalock (Knoxville, Texas); Sorin Cristoloveanu (Seyssinet-Pariset, France); Suheng Chen (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kerem Akarvardar (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A differential output analog multiplier circuit utilizing four G4-FETs, each source connected to a current source. The four G4-FETs may be grouped into two pairs of two G4-FETs each, where one pair has its drains connected to a load, and the other par has its drains connected to another load. The differential output voltage is taken at the two loads. In one embodiment, for each G4-FET, the first and second junction gates are each connected together, where a first input voltage is applied to the front gates of each pair, and a second input voltage is applied to the first junction gates of each pair. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804893 |
| ART UNIT | 2193 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers: Arithmetic processing and calculating 78/839 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010931 | French et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew C. French (Falls Church, Virginia); Li Wang (Boise, Idaho); Deepak Agarwal (Austin, Texas); Azadeh Davoodi (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A configurable logic tool that allows minimization of dynamic power within an FPGA design without changing user-entered specifications. The minimization of power may use minimized clock nets as a first order operation, and a second order operation that minimizes other factors, such as area of placement, area of clocks and/or slack. |
| FILED | Monday, February 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678994 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08007429 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GT Urological, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable vessel occlusive device and method for occluding a vessel are described, for example to occlude the urethra or bladder neck. The devices and methods described utilize an occlusive member connected to a control mechanism. The occlusive member is reversibly changed from a non-occlusive condition to an occlusive condition, for example by depressing an activation button contained within a resilient, elastomeric cover surrounding the control mechanism. In the occlusive position, an initial tension is applied to the occlusive member through a tensioning suture. The tension is translated into an occlusive pressure applied to the urethra or bladder neck that is sufficient to prevent urinary leakage. The non-occlusive position can be obtained by depressing the de-activation button. The occlusive member is constructed to allow elution of drugs, such as may be required to combat infection or tissue encapsulation from its surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166664 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008061 | Apt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Martek Biosciences Corporation (Columbia, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kirk Emil Apt (Columbia, Maryland); F. C. Thomas Allnutt (Port Deposit, Maryland); David J. Kyle (Catonsville, Maryland); James Casy Lippmeier (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Most microalgae are obligate photoautotrophs and their growth is strictly dependent on the generation of photosynthetically-derived energy. In this study it is shown that the microalga Phaeodaclylurn tricornutum can be engineered to import glucose and grow in the dark through the introduction of genes encoding glucose transporters. Both the human and Chlorella kessleri glucose transporters facilitated the uptake of glucose by P. tricornutum, allowing the cells to metabolize exogenous organic carbon and thrive, independent of light. This is the first successful trophic conversion of an obligate photoautotroph through metabolic engineering, and it demonstrates that methods of cell nourishment can be fundamentally altered with the introduction of a single gene. Since strains transformed with the glucose transport genes are able to grow non-photosynthetically, they can be exploited for the analysis of photosynthetic processes through mutant generation and characterization. Finally, this work also represents critical progress toward large-scale commercial exploitation of obligate phototrophic algae through the use of microbial fermentation technology, eliminating significant limitations resulting from light-dependent growth. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842898 |
| 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 435/257.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009823 | Parhi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Leanics Corporation (Maple Grove, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keshab K. Parhi (Maple Grove, Minnesota); Yongru Gu (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to design low complexity and low power echo and NEXT cancellers based on wordlength reduction technique is presented. A circuit architecture to implement echo and cancellers is also presented. The low complexity and low power design relies on the fact that a TH precoder can be viewed as an IIR filter with an input equal to the sum of the original input to the TH precoder and a compensation signal. The proposed design also relies on the fact that sum of the original input to the TH precoder and the compensation signal has finite levels, which can be represented in less bits than the original input of the echo and NEXT cancellers. An improved design by exploiting the statistics of the compensation signal is also proposed to further bring down the complexity and power consumption of these cancellers. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487041 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Telephonic communications 379/390.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08008242 | Imam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Syed H. Imam (Walnut Creek, California); Gregory M. Glenn (American Canyon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The biodegradable abrasive compositions consist of a plant-based natural abrasive agent, calcium carbonate, polymeric material, and a binder. The natural abrasives may consist of a plant-based cereal grains or fibers. The polymeric materials of the preferred embodiments include starch and poly-vinyl alcohol, either alone or in combination. The products associated with the biodegradable abrasive compositions are gently abrasive and readily disposable films or coatings. The products are designed to maximize the use of agricultural bi-products and avoid harm the environment. |
| FILED | Monday, August 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538493 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Cleaning compositions for solid surfaces, auxiliary compositions therefor, or processes of preparing the compositions 510/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008542 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuelu Wang (Shanghai, China PRC); Joanne Chory (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides recombinant cells and transgenic plants that display selectively increased or decreased response to brassinosteroids, resulting in increased yield. Methods of modulating brassinosteroid responses, and of modulating plant phenotypes, are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008398 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08008764 | Joseph et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas James Joseph (Danbury, Connecticut); John Ulrich Knickerbocker (Monroe, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure and a method for forming the same. The structure includes a substrate, a first interposer on the substrate, a second interposer on the substrate, and a first bridge. The first and second interposers are electrically connected to the substrate. The first bridge is electrically connected to the first and second interposers. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110579 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/686 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08010541 | Aggarwal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charu C. Aggarwal (Mohegan Lake, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel methods and systems for the privacy preserving mining of string data with the use of simple template based models. Such template based models are effective in practice, and preserve important statistical characteristics of the strings such as intra-record distances. Discussed herein is the condensation model for anonymization of string data. Summary statistics are created for groups of strings, and use these statistics are used to generate pseudo-strings. It will be seen that the aggregate behavior of a new set of strings maintains key characteristics such as composition, the order of the intra-string distances, and the accuracy of data mining algorithms such as classification. The preservation of intra-string distances is a key goal in many string and biological applications which are deeply dependent upon the computation of such distances, while it can be shown that the accuracy of applications such as classification are not affected by the anonymization process. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540406 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Education (ED)
| US 08007405 | Burnfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital (Lincoln, Nebraska); Nutech Ventures (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith M. Burnfield (Lincoln, Nebraska); Yu Shu (Lincoln, Nebraska); Adam P. Taylor (Lincoln, Nebraska); Thad W. Buster (Gretna, Nebraska); Carl A. Nelson (Lincoln, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved rehabilitation and exercise machine is provided which allows a person with physical limitations, disabilities or chronic conditions to use the machine in order to rehabilitate their muscles, improve joint flexibility, and enhance cardiovascular fitness. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/898645 |
| ART UNIT | 3764 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Exercise devices 482/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08010686 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Campbell (Arlington, Virginia); Jon L. Cook (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A digital certificate is provided to a customer having an electronic account linked to the customer's physical address. Using the digital certificate, the customer performs electronic transactions with a third party. A proofing workstation receives a request from a third party to validate the digital certificate. The proofing workstation communicates with a proofing server that maintains a list of valid certificates and a list of revoked certificates. The proofing server sends a response to the proofing workstation, where it is received by the third party. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/219657 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08007030 | Wood |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Wood (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A frame extension device for the reduction of aerodynamic drag and for improved performance of bluff base ground vehicles by increasing the pressure on the base of the vehicle by stabilizing the wake flow. The device is particularly suited for tractor-trailers utilizing a roll-up type rear door in that it does not block any part of the door opening. The device may be of sufficient thickness to support the weight of an unloading device. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386289 |
| ART UNIT | 3612 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles: Bodies and tops 296/180.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08007573 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vishal Bansal (Overland Park, Kansas); Benjamin Hale Winkler (Albany, New York); Hieu Minh Duong (Rosemead, California); Tamaki Ryo (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A filter includes a membrane having pores and that is air permeable. A nanoparticle precursor is dispersed throughout the pores, and the nanoparticle precursor is responsive to a stimulus to form a catalytically active nanoparticle. An associated method is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863441 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08008353 | McGrath |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. McGrath (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for modulating macrophage proliferation in an individual afflicted with or at risk for a macrophage-associated disease are provided. The methods employ a polyamine analog, or salt or protected derivative thereof. Macrophage proliferation has been implicated in a number of serious disorders, including AIDS (HIV)-associated dementia, AIDS-associated non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and Alzheimer's disease. The invention also provides methods for aiding diagnosis and monitoring therapy of a macrophage-associated non-HIV associated dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease. The invention also provides methods of delaying development of macrophage-associated non-HIV associated dementias, including Alzheimer's disease, which entail administration of an agent which modulates macrophage proliferation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/022153 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/635 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08009429 | Sundstrom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lance L. Sundstrom (Pinellas Park, Florida); Rainer Blomberg (Palm Harbor, Florida); Michael J. Gillespie (Seminole, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Thermal management features are described for use with electrical components. In some examples, an assembly includes a printed board that includes a thermally conductive thermal attach pad thermally connected to a heat sink, an electrically conductive attach pad that is separate from the thermally conductive attach pad, and an electrically conductive trace electrically connected to the electrically conductive attach pad. An electrical component can be electrically connected to the electrically conductive attach pad and the electrically conductive trace of the printed board. A thermal interface material is disposed adjacent at least a portion of a side surface of the electrical component and in contact with the thermally conductive attach pad. In this manner, the assembly may provide a thermally conductive pathway from an electrical component to the heat sink. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728947 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/719 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, August 30, 2011.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
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APPL NO
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
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