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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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| US 08015920 | Wilkinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David B. Wilkinson (Xenia, Ohio); James S. Cloyd (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid fuel rocket burn rate control employing electrical energy preheating of the fuel grain at a plurality of locations dispersed over the grain burn face cross-section as a thrust control arrangement. The electrical energy of the preheating is generated by electrical battery cells which are dispersed across the grain cross-section and are triggered from an inert state into energy generation by burn face heat. The preheating situs moves continually in response to movement of the grain burn face; this is achieved through the use of high temperature electrical battery cell materials responding to the approach of the grain burn face by increased chemical activity and decreased electrical resistance. Preferably, the preheating is directly accomplished by the heat from electrical and other losses in the battery cells. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 1987 |
| APPL NO | 07/088350 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08015924 | Maines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren R. Maines (Pensacola, Florida); Michael P. Kramer (Wellsville, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A warhead consisting of a relatively thin metal shell casing and interior open linear cells which run throughout its length manufactured by electrical discharge machining and slip fitting. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474325 |
| 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 12/492 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08015996 | Sadil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andreas Sadil (Newington, Connecticut); William W. Pankey (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine air valve assembly has first and second valving elements. The second element is rotatable about a first axis relative to the first element. The rotation controls a flow of air through the first and second elements. An actuator is coupled by a linkage to the second element. The linkage includes a spindle having a first portion coupled to the actuator to rotate the spindle about a second axis. A guided spherical bearing couples a second portion of the spindle to the second element. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118583 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/625.310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016303 | Ullman 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) | Stuart G. Ullman (Kensington, Maryland); Ryan T. Hayleck (Fulton, Maryland); Michael J. Plackett (Corvallis, Oregon); Reginald B. Page (Gig Harbor, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A dolly is particularly adapted to lift, support and maneuver a four-wheel vehicle. The dolly comprises an adjustable, generally U-shaped frame assembly for each vehicle tire. The frame assembly has pairs of reciprocally opposed first and second frame members adapted to be positioned adjacent opposite sides of a tire and to lift the vehicle by way of the tires. A castering wheel assembly supports the vehicle on a ground surface. The frame assembly is pivotably mounted on a tractor. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/319913 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/79.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016547 | Propheter-Hinckley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle assembly for directing cooling fluid in a vane comprising a hollow airfoil containing at least two cooling chambers. The chambers are separated by a generally radial rib. A metering plate mount is attached to the rib. A metering plate, having at least one aperture for tuning the cooling fluid flow within the airfoil, is adjacent the metering plate mount. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/009716 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016551 | Lin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank F. Lin (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nozzle for radial inflow turbines having an outer surface having a concave shape, and an inner surface having a non-concave, i.e. straight or convex, shape. Also a leading edge may have a hole that is capable of receiving a fastener to secure the nozzle vane to an assembly housing. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/266934 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016650 | Horstman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond H. Horstman (Snohomish, Washington); Scott W. Bohm (Kent, Washington); Kenneth J. Walter (Kent, Washington); Steven L. Williams (Seattle, Washington); Kirk D. Skaggs (Federal Way, Washington); John M. Brown (Kent, Washington); Chao-Hsin Lin (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft air distribution system includes a base and first and second arrays of nozzle air transfer ports in the base. An adjustable flow plate is positioned over the nozzle air transfer ports. A compressible member is located between the base and the adjustable flow plate and between the first and second arrays. First and second air ejector regions are located, respectively, on the sides of the compressible member between the base and the adjustable flow plate to connect to the first and second arrays, and direct air from the first and second arrays from the sides of the base. Fasteners moveably connect the adjustable flow plate to the base and are adjustable to change a size of different sections of the first and second air ejector regions to change an amount of airflow originating from the different sections of these regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609474 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ventilation 454/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016736 | Hlavinka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | CaridianBCT Biotechnologies, LLC (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis J. Hlavinka (Arvada, Colorado); Raymond P. Goodrich (Lakewood, Colorado); Eric T. Hansen (Thronton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for washing multiple units of blood product including providing a centrifuge having a wash cell for each unit of blood product, balancing the centrifuge to accommodate for differences in the wash cells, and transferring supernatant including any wash solution from each unit of blood product on the centrifuge. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/875334 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Imperforate bowl: Centrifugal separators 494/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016757 | Kaczkowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Kaczkowski (Seattle, Washington); Ajay Anand (Elmsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultrasound data are collected from a thermal source and a mass of tissue before initiating therapy to measure two parameters of the bio-heat transfer equation (BHTE). The parameters are the thermal diffusivity (K) of the tissue and the magnitude of the thermal source (Q). Once the parameters have been obtained, the BHTE can be calibrated to the specific mass of tissue and the specific thermal source. The calibrated BHTE can be used to generate a temperature dependence curve calibrated to the thermal source and tissue, and spatio-temporal temperature maps, to facilitate pre-therapy planning. During therapy, ultrasound data are collected to determine if Q changes during therapy, and if so, the BHTE is recalibrated using the new Q value, increasing an accuracy of the temperature estimations. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/537416 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016938 | Durst 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) | Bartley P. Durst (Clinton, Mississippi); Billy D. Neeley (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Edward F. O'Neil (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Toney K. Cummins (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Concrete structures and components with improved strength and toughness. A uniform mix of first constituents comprises: cement of Blaine fineness of 280-360 m2/kg; sand at a mass ratio of 0.75-1.25 of the cement; silica fume at a mass ratio of 0.15-0.4 of the cement; silica flour at a mass ratio of 0.15-0.3 of the cement; and microinclusions at a mass ratio up to 0.35 of the cement. This is then mixed with a blend of second constituents comprising a specified amount of an HRWRA and an amount of water at a mass ratio of 0.2-0.35 of the cement. This is mixed sufficiently to form a uniform cement-based paste to which an amount of macrofibers at a mass ratio of up to 0.35 of the cement is added to yield a uniform product. Nanoinclusions may be added to improve crack resistance and increase density. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775873 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016954 | Saha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arup Saha (Portland, Oregon); Gregory B. Olson (Riverwoods, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A transformation toughened, high-strength steel alloy useful in plate steel applications achieves extreme fracture toughness (Cv & gt; 80 ft-lbs corresponding to KId & equals; 200 ksi.in½) at strength levels of 150-180 ksi yield strength, is weldable and formable. The alloy is characterized by dispersed austenite stabilization for transformation toughening to a weldable, bainitic plate steel and is strengthened by precipitation of M2C carbides in combination with copper and nickel. The desired microstructure is a matrix containing a bainite-martensite mix, BCC copper and M2C carbide particles for strengthening with a fine dispersion of optimum stability austenite for transformation toughening. The bainite-martensite mix is formed by air-cooling from solution treatment temperature and subsequent aging at secondary hardening temperatures to precipitate the toughening and strengthening dispersions. |
| FILED | Friday, November 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/579030 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017091 | Kayagil 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) | Turan A. Kayagil (Arlington, Virginia); Julie A. Richardson (Jackson, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A device consisting of a low-RPM motor wherein the motor spins a flat disk, a peg is attached to the disk, a stationary spring armature wherein the peg can activate the stationary spring armature as the disk rotates, and a tube containing beads in a fluid positioned in a top plate wherein the spring armature can contact the tube. This device can further include a soft closed-cell foam top mounted on the top plate wherein the tube is inserted and maintained by the foam in such a way as to allow for slight motion of the tube induced by the contact by the spring armature. |
| FILED | Monday, November 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601654 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017126 | Quinnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advanvement of Military Medicine Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); Prince Leopoid Institute of Trtopical Medicine (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald Quinnan (Rockville, Maryland); Fatim Cham (Garmantown, Maryland); Guido Van Der Groen (Kontich, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to modified HIV-1 envelope proteins which express epitopes that produce a broadly cross reactive neutralizing response, their methods of use and antibodies which bind to these epitopes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/661210 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017227 | Soroushian et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Parviz Soroushian (Okemos, Michigan); Anagi Manjula Balachandra (Okemos, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Shaped articles with the inherent capability to evolve in response to at least one of external and internal stimuli are described. These articles comprise at least one solid electrolyte with at least one dissolved salt, and at least one interface which involves a solid electrolytes and a conductive solid. Electric potential gradients, generated within the solid electrolyte by at least one of external and internal stimuli, guide and drive the self-healing and adaptation phenomena. The electric potential gradient is generated by at least one of the following effects: (i) direct application of an electric potential across the solid electrolyte; (ii) introduction of interfaces of different electrode potentials between the solid electrolyte and conductive solids; (iii) introduction of an interface between the solid electrolyte and a conductive solid embodying atoms of lower ionization energy than at least one of the atoms forming the ions of the dissolved salt in solid electrolyte; (iv) application of external load and environmental effects which, either directly or when interacting with defects developed in the article during manufacturing and use, generate stress and temperature gradients which, in turn, produce or magnify the potential gradients between the interfaces with solid electrolyte. The mechanisms through which the electric potential gradient generated by different stimuli bring about changes in article performance involve migration of ions and their electrodeposition within the solid electrolyte and at interfaces. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/074071 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017241 | Seshadri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Plextronics, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Venkataramanan Seshadri (Monroeville, Pennsylvania); Brian E. Woodworth (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Christopher Greco (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Darin Laird (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mathew K. Mathai (Monroeville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Conducting polymer systems for hole injection or transport layer applications including a composition comprising: a water soluble or water dispersible regioregular polythiophene comprising (i) at least one organic substituent, and (ii) at least one sulfonate substituent comprising sulfonate sulfur bonding directly to the polythiophene backbone. The polythiophene can be water soluble, water dispersible, or water swellable. They can be self-doped. The organic substituent can be an alkoxy substituent, or an alkyl substituent. OLED, PLED, SMOLED, PV, and ESD applications can be used. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/826394 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/411.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017322 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for detecting and identifying unknown bioagents, including bacteria, viruses and the like, by a combination of nucleic acid amplification and molecular weight determination using primers which hybridize to conserved sequence regions of nucleic acids derived from a bioagent and which bracket variable sequence regions that uniquely identify the bioagent. The result is a “base composition signature” (BCS) which is then matched against a database of base composition signatures, by which the bioagent is identified. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233630 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017323 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Kaori Sakurai (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for expanding the scope of chemical reactions that can be performed during nucleic acid-templated organic syntheses. In particular, nucleic acid-templated chemistries are used to produce reaction intermediates attached to an oligonucleotide that can be used to identify the reaction intermediates and/or the resulting reaction products. The reaction intermediates then are reacted with free reactants (for example, reactants that are difficult or impractical to couple to an oligonucleotide) to produce a reaction product. This approach expands the scope of reagents useful in nucleic acid-templated syntheses to reagents that do not need to be or cannot be tethered to an oligonucleotide. The reagents, however, still permit the synthesis of reaction products attached to oligonucleotides that can be used to identify the reaction products. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336405 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017330 | Sagripanti 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) | Jose-Luis Sagripanti (Bel Air, Maryland); Monica Carrera (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides safe, non-infectious chimeras that include the nucleic acid signature of most bacterial and viral biological threat agents. These chimeras mimic properties of threat agents and are useful as simulants to develop, evaluate, test, and train on nucleic acid-based biodetectors and diagnostic products of interest in biodefense, without the need for accessing or producing virulent agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873777 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017353 | Balagadde et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Balagadde (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemostat is described that includes a growth chamber having a plurality of compartments. Each of the compartments may be fluidly isolated from the rest of the growth chamber by one or more actuatable valves. The chemostat may also include a nutrient supply-line to supply growth medium to the growth chamber, and an output port to remove fluids from the growth chamber. Also, a method of preventing biofilm formation in a growth chamber of a chemostat is described. The method may include the steps of adding a lysis agent to a isolated portion of the growth chamber, and reuniting the isolated portion with the rest of the growth chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/182088 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017358 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsabd, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven Hofstadler (Vista, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for detecting and identifying unknown bioagents, including bacteria, viruses and the like, by a combination of nucleic acid amplification and molecular weight determination using primers which hybridize to conserved sequence regions of nucleic acids derived from a bioagent and which bracket variable sequence regions that uniquely identify the bioagent. The result is a “base composition signature” (BCS) which is then matched against a database of base composition signatures, by which the bioagent is identified. |
| FILED | Friday, January 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/331987 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017408 | Meinhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, California); Brian Piorek (Santa Barbara, California); Seung Joon Lee (Santa Barbara, California); Martin Moskovits (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjoy Banerjee (Santa Barbara, California); Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, devices and systems that utilize free-surface fluidics and SERS for analyte detection with high sensitivity and specificity. The molecules can be airborne agents, including but not limited to explosives, narcotics, hazardous chemicals, or other chemical species. The free-surface fluidic architecture is created using an open microchannel, and exhibits a large surface to volume ratio. The free-surface fluidic interface can filter interferent molecules, while concentrating airborne analyte molecules. The microchannel flow enables controlled aggregation of SERS-active probe particles in the flow, thereby enhancing the detector's sensitivity. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/597742 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017458 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Paul D. Byrne (Lowell, Massachusetts); Hyun Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluid media comprising inorganic semiconductor components for fabrication of thin film transistor devices. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322399 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017658 | Tran 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) | Nick E Tran (Washington, District of Columbia); Dennis R Hardy (Alexandria, Virginia); Samuel G Lambrakos (Alexandria, Virginia); John G. Michopoulos (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of: introducing hydrogen and a feed gas containing at least 50 vol % carbon dioxide into a reactor containing a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst; and heating the hydrogen and carbon dioxide to a temperature of at least about 190° C. to produce hydrocarbons in the reactor. An apparatus having: a reaction vessel for containing a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst, capable of heating gases to at least about 190° C.; a hydrogen delivery system feeding into the reaction vessel; a carbon dioxide delivery system for delivering a feed gas containing at least 50 vol % carbon dioxide feeding into the reaction vessel; and a trap for collecting hydrocarbons generated in the reaction vessel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850051 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017682 | Chiesl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas N. Chiesl (Berkeley, California); Annelise E. Barron (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Linear acrylamide copolymer compounds which can comprise monomeric components comprising at least one N-substituted moiety capable of physical cross-linking, and related compositions and methods of use. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803278 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/555 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017743 | Ecker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Bioscience, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Ecker (Encinitas, California); Richard H. Griffey (Vista, California); Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Steven A. Hofstadler (Vista, California); John McNeil (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for detecting and identifying unknown bioagents, including bacteria, viruses and the like, by a combination of nucleic acid amplification and molecular weight determination using primers which hybridize to conserved sequence regions of nucleic acids derived from a bioagent and which bracket variable sequence regions that uniquely identify the bioagent. The result is a “base composition signature” (BCS) which is then matched against a database of base composition signatures, by which the bioagent is identified. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/929707 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/22.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017745 | Sette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Epimmune Inc. (San Diego, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Sette (La Jolla, California); Denise L. Doolan (Rockville, Maryland); Daniel J. Carucci (Washington, District of Columbia); John Sidney (San Diego, California); Scott Southwood (Santee, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides novel Plasmodium falciparum antigens and novel polynucleotides encoding these antigens. Also provided by the subject invention are methods of using these antigens and polynucleotides. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/537642 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017768 | Norris 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) | William P. Norris (Ridgecrest, California); Arnold T. Nielsen (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved method of preparing 2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazaisowurtzitane (2,4,6,8,10,12-hexanitro-2,4,6,8,10,12-hexaazatetracyclo[5.5.0.05,9.03,11]dodecane) (HNIW) is disclosed. The compound is useful as a high energy, high density explosive or propellant oxidizer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 1994 |
| APPL NO | 08/243318 |
| ART UNIT | 1793 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017795 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Zhigang Chen (Fargo, North Dakota); Neena Ravindran (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are coating formulations that include a copolyester and a vinyl ether in which the copolyester is produced by copolymerizing a monomer composition that includes a fused aromatic diacid monomer, an unsaturated diacid monomer, and a polyol. Also disclosed are methods for producing a laser-ablatable film on a surface of a substrate. The method includes coating the substrate with a coating formulation that includes a copolyester and a vinyl ether and polymerizing the coating formulation. The copolyester includes a fused aromatic moiety covalently bonded therein. Novel radiation curable sensitizers that can be used in the preparation of radiation curable polymer films having improved laser ablation properties are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, April 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/408801 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017863 | Forrest et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Michael S. Arnold (Madison, Wisconsin); Jeramy D. Zimmerman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Richard Lunt (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoactive device includes a photoactive region disposed between and electrically connected to two electrodes where the photoactive region includes a first organic photoactive layer comprising a first donor material and a second organic photoactive layer comprising a first acceptor material. The first donor material contains photoactive polymer-wrapped carbon nanotubes and the photoactive region includes one or more additional organic photoactive material layers disposed between the first donor material layer and the acceptor material layer. The photoactive region creates excitons upon absorption of light in the range of about 400 nm to 1450 nm. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419846 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Wicks (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor having a an n-type material and a p-type material, wherein the n-type material and p-type material are joined to form a space-charge-free p-n junction. The energy of the Fermi-level of the n-type material is equal to the energy of the Fermi-level of the p-type material. This allows for the pre-alignment of the Fermi-levels of the n-type and the p-type materials. The semiconductor has minimal or no g-r noise. The semiconductor can be operated at TBLIP in the range of about 220° to about 240° K. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117221 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018095 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi Kumar Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Edward Joseph Seminaro (Milton, New York); Kevin Robert Covi (Glenford, New York); Gerald J. Fahr (Wappingers Fall, New York); Daniel James Barus (Hyde Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A power conversion, control, and distribution system includes multiple bulk power regulator (BPR) subassemblies, a bulk power distribution (BPD) subassembly, and a bulk power controller and hub (BPCH) subassembly. The BPR subassemblies are each configured to provide regulated DC power from both AC input power and DC input power. The BPD subassembly is configured to distribute the regulated DC power. The BPCH subassembly is coupled to the multiple BPR subassemblies and the BPD subassembly. The BPCH subassembly is configured to monitor and control the BPR assemblies and the BPD assembly. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425267 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018096 | Maier, II |
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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) | William Bryan Maier, II (Marina, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An inductive pulse forming network stores electrical energy delivered from an outside prime power supply in the electric field of a low-voltage, high-energy density network capacitor. Through timed actuation of a series of one or more switches, the energy stored in the electric field of the network capacitor is subsequently converted to electrical energy stored in the magnetic field of a network inductor. The energy stored in the network inductor supplies high-current, high-power electrical energy to drive an electromagnetic launcher such as a railgun. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689848 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Cular (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a sensor which integrates a pair of substantially unidirectional surface acoustic wave (SAW) interdigital transducers (IDTs) and a thickness shear mode (TSM) electrode. The sensor provides simultaneous sensing and removal of material from the sensor's surface. The sensing aspect is accomplished through the use of the TSM electrode that is designed to operate between 2 and 100 MHz. The removal of material is accomplished using substantially unidirectional IDTs aligned on the substrate to produce acoustic waves, such as Rayleigh waves, across the entire TSM sensor active area. When liquid is added over the acoustic waves, acoustic streaming occurs, which dislodges material from the sensor's surface. The acoustic waves are designed to operate at a significantly different frequency than the sensor to prevent interference between the two. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483456 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018159 | Fuks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail I. Fuks (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Edl Schamiloglu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a relativistic magnetron with axial extraction, or magnetron with diffraction output (MDO), with a mode converter placed directly within the diffraction output of radiation to effectively convert the operating π-mode into a radiated mode of simpler radiation patterns. |
| FILED | Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154658 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/39.510 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018193 | Pekarek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven D. Pekarek (West Lafayette, Indiana); Philip B. Beccue (Clayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An enhanced torque ripple mitigation algorithm for permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs), the algorithm including compensation for sensor delay. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952999 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/611 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018383 | Schantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Q-Track Corporation (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans Gregory Schantz (Huntsville, Alabama); Alfred Hans Unden (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Eric Richards (Madison, Alabama); Robert Edward Depierre (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A signal-of-opportunity location device (SOLD) that may be situated in a complex radio propagation environment with multiple RF signal obstructions receives RF signals from a distant transmitter. The RF signals from the distant transmitter interact with obstructions in the propagation environment local to the SOLD. The local obstructions perturb the RF signals causing the RF signals to exhibit near field behavior in the complex radio propagation environment. The SOLD receives the locally perturbed signals. The SOLD detects signal characteristics of RF signal components of the received signals and compares these signal characteristics with reference data in a reference data store to determine the current location of the SOLD. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/796643 |
| 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 342/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018614 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Oktay Gunluk (New York, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to the priority threshold based on importance values assigned to all jobs. System constraints are applied to ensure jobs meet set criteria. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132035 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Facsimile and static presentation processing 358/1.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018648 | Cook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Cook (Beavercreek, Ohio); Dean R. Evans (Beavercreek, Ohio); Anatoly Gluschenko (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Victor Yu Reshetnyak (Kyiv, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a photorefractive hybrid cell including a window and a gain media disposed adjacent the window. The gain media includes nanoparticles therein. The window includes a material that forms a space-charge field. The gain media includes a material having refractive index properties that depend on an electric field. The nanoparticles include a material which responds orientationally to the presence of an electric or a magnetic field. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214294 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/342 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018658 | Lo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the Univeristy of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Hwa Lo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluidic adaptive lens devices, and systems employing such lens devices, along with methods of fabricating and operating such lens devices, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a lens material is optimally selected to provide one or more desired characteristics for a variety of applications related to adaptive lens devices. In another embodiment, a fluidic medium is optimally chosen to provide one or more desired characteristics for a variety of applications related to adaptive lens devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256961 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/665 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dana L. Day (Turnersville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for magnetically compensating the magnetic field distortion occasioned by a ferromagnetic portion of the hull of a vessel includes providing a plurality of electromagnets at predetermined locations throughout the vessel replacing the conventional ship-sized air coils and controlling the amount of energizing current provided to each of the plurality of electromagnets, appropriate magnetic field is generated for compensating the magnetic field distortion using a fraction of energizing DC current. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/557876 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018954 | Jamieson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3 Phoenix, Inc. (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Jamieson (Raleigh, North Carolina); Joseph Murray (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Gregg Johnson (Fairfax, Virginia); Sylvan I. Caplan (Owings Mills, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is an apparatus, method and system for time synchronizing data from various sensor types that enables data fusion and transport. To provide this capability, the present invention utilizes an inverted Passive Optical Network (PON) approach for synchronous communication. Further, the present invention introduces an inverted Passive Electrical Network (iPEN) that extends the iPON approach. Data that are in a common format with embedded time synchronization information can easily be integrated or fused and transported over such communication links. The present invention provides the ability to merge and aggregate data from a wide range of disparate sensors and systems while maintaining close synchronization. The present invention is appropriate for synchronization of data, voice, and video onto a single network and/or multi-tiered networks and can also handle signal processing and control technologies at line rates well into the Gigabits per second (Gbps) range. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/847963 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019018 | Cormier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Powerwave Cognition, Inc. (Santa Ana, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Cormier (Anaheim, California); Peter Do (La Mirada, California); Alan V. Ly (Walnut, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention is a method that includes transferring data at an initial mode from a transmitter to a receiver, determining a suggested mode based on the data transferred and determining a count of the data transferred from the transmitter to the receiver. The method also includes transferring the suggested mode and the count to the transmitter and determining a pending mode based on the suggested mode and the count. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/548763 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019090 | Agrawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brij N. Agrawal (Monterey, California); Suranthiran Sugathevan (Vancouver, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Noise effects in a signal for driving a plant are reduced by generating a reference signal from the error signal. A signal generator generates a reference signal for input to a finite impulse response (FIR) filter. The error signal is produced by differencing the transfer function output and a disturbance signal. The error signal is input to the signal generator and to a least mean square calculator. The reference signal is input to a copy of the transfer function that outputs a modified reference signal. The modified reference signal is input to least mean square calculator. An LMS signal that updates the filter coefficients to minimize the mean square error is calculated and the LMS signal and the reference signal are input to the FIR filter with the FIR filter being arranged to process the LMS signal and the reference signal to minimize the error signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/369903 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/71.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inuk Kang (Matawan, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary embodiments, all-optical pattern recognition for an optical input signal is achieved by wavelength-converting the input signal and then passively correlating the wavelength-converted signal based on a specified data pattern. By performing wavelength conversion using a CW laser signal having wavelength stability greater than that of the input signal, errors resulting from wavelength sensitivity of the passive correlator can be reduced. By performing both wavelength conversion and OOK-to-BPSK format conversion prior to the passive correlation, limitations in the number of available OOK patterns can be avoided. By performing the passive correlation in a bi-directional manner, feedback signal can be generated to control the operations of the passive correlator and/or the laser signal source(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874510 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019431 | Nie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaibao Nie (Bothell, Washington); Les Atlas (Seattle, Washington); Jay Rubinstein (Seattle, Washington); Xing Li (Bellevue, Washington); Charles Pascal Clark (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The restoration of melody perception is a key remaining challenge in cochlear implants. A novel sound coding strategy is proposed that converts an input audio signal into time-varying electrically stimulating pulse trains. A sound is first split into several frequency sub-bands with a fixed filter bank or a dynamic filter bank tracking harmonics in sounds. Each sub-band signal is coherently downward shifted to a low-frequency base band. These resulting coherent envelope signals have Hermitian symmetric frequency spectrums and are thus real-valued. A peak detector or high-rate sampler of half-wave rectified coherent envelope signals in each sub-band further converts the coherent envelopes into rate-varying, interleaved pulse trains. Acoustic simulations of cochlear implants using this new technique with normal hearing listeners, showed significant improvement in melody recognition over the most common conventional stimulation approach used in cochlear implants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476979 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chrysler Group LLC (Auburn Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory E. Peterson (Sylvan Lake, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A throttle control system for a vehicle includes a suspension sensor that detects suspension amplitudes of a suspension system of the vehicle, a grade sensor that detects an angular position of the vehicle, and a controller that receives first operational data from the suspension sensor and second operational data from the grade sensor and regulates a throttle of the vehicle based on the first and second operational data. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687105 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019538 | Soehren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne A. Soehren (Wayzata, Minnesota); Christopher A. Lund (Otsego, Minnesota); Lawrence C. Vallot (Shoreview, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A relative navigation system and method are disclosed. The relative navigation system includes a first sensor unit responsive to a motion of a first position, a second sensor unit responsive to a motion of a second position, and a first processing unit associated with at least one of the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit and communicatively coupled to the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit. The first processing unit is configured to generate relative navigation solution information associated with first sensor unit information and second sensor unit information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828116 |
| 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 71/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019542 | Hawkinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wesley J. Hawkinson (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Tom Rolfer (Andover, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of stabilizing heading in an inertial navigation system includes operating an inertial measurement unit comprising horizontal-sensing elements and off-horizontal-sensing elements while the inertial measurement unit is in a first orientation, calibrating the horizontal-sensing elements of the inertial measurement unit based on horizontal aiding measurements, forward-rotating the inertial measurement unit by a selected-rotation angle about a horizontal-rotation axis so that the inertial measurement unit is oriented in a second orientation, operating the forward-rotated inertial measurement unit while the inertial measurement unit is in the second orientation, and calibrating the rotated off-horizontal-sensing elements based on horizontal aiding measurements while the inertial measurement unit is in the second orientation. When the inertial measurement unit is in the first orientation, the horizontal-sensing elements are oriented in a horizontal reference plane. When the inertial measurement unit is in the second orientation, the off-horizontal-sensing elements are oriented in the horizontal reference plane. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/059837 |
| 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 71/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019555 | Ratna 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) | Banahalli Ratna (Woodbridge, Virginia); Amy Blum (Washington, District of Columbia); Carissa Soto (Alexandria, Virginia); Tina Brower (Alexandria, Virginia); Steve Pollack (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically active particle is disclosed, having a virus scaffold. Nanoparticles are bonded to the surface of the virus, and the nanoparticles are connected to each other by, molecular wires. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/911767 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019591 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuqing Gao (Mount Kisco, New York); Liang Gu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Wei Zhang (Ossining, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for automatic user training in speech-to-speech translation includes integrating an automatic user response system configured to be responsive to a plurality of training items and selecting a training item from the plurality of training items. For the selected training item, in response to an utterance in a first language, the utterance is translated into a second language, and a response to the utterance in the second language is generated. A simulated action corresponding with the response in accordance with a user speaking the second language is also generated. The response and simulated action are output as a learning exercise for learning operations of the automatic user response system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865871 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019716 | Griffith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Discovery Machine, Inc. (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd William Griffith (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Robert Douglas Ross (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Brian Joseph Rogosky (Williamsport, Pennsylvania); Jason Randolph Potts (Williamsport, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the automatic examination of knowledge system hierarchies is disclosed. A target TMK hierarchy is represented as a plurality of records in a database. A second TMK hierarchy (a “critic”) is constructed of tasks, subtasks, methods, procedures and actions. The critic hierarchy includes actions that retrieve and examine at least one record of the database representing the target hierarchy. The examination of the record provides a result. The result is of the form of a modification of the processing within the critic hierarchy or of the form of a report or a modification of the target hierarchy's elements, namely, tasks, methods, procedures, actions, class structures, or the relationship between the elements. |
| FILED | Monday, July 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781671 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/59 |
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| US 08019919 | Gower et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. Gower (LaGrangeville, New York); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for enhancing the memory bandwidth available through a memory module of a memory system is provided. The memory system includes a memory hub device integrated in a memory module. The memory system includes a first memory device data interface integrated in the memory hub device that communicates with a first set of memory devices integrated in the memory module. The memory system also includes a second memory device data interface integrated in the memory hub device that communicates with a second set of memory devices integrated in the memory module. In the memory system, the first set of memory devices are separate from the second set of memory devices. In the memory system, the first and second set of memory devices are communicated with by the memory hub device via the separate first and second memory device data interfaces. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850190 |
| ART UNIT | 2182 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020050 | DeCusatis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Casimer M. DeCusatis (Poughkeepsie, New York); Aruna V. Ramanan (Poughkeepsie, New York); Edward J. Seminaro (Milton, New York); Alison B. White (Kingston, New York); Daniel G. Young (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of validating multi-cluster computer interconnects includes calculating a cable interconnect table associated with the multi-cluster computer, and distributing the cable interconnect table to a first transceiver in the first computer cluster and a second transceiver in the second computer cluster. The method also includes connecting a first end of a cable to the first transceiver and a second end of the cable to the second transceiver, transmitting a first neighbor identification from the first cluster to the second cluster, and a second neighbor identification from the second cluster to the first cluster, comparing the first neighbor identification with a desired first neighbor identification from the cable interconnect table to establish a first comparison result and the second neighbor identification with a desired second identification from the cable interconnect table to establish a second comparison result, and generating an alert based on the first and second comparison results. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/428857 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020095 | Braun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam C. Braun (Portland, Oregon); Jonathan L. Beamer (Needham, Massachusetts); Dean C. Chang (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A force feedback system provides components for use in a force feedback system including a host computer and a force feedback interface device. An architecture for a host computer allows multi-tasking application programs to interface with the force feedback device without conflicts. One embodiment of a force feedback device provides both relative position reporting and absolute position reporting to allow great flexibility. A different device embodiment provides relative position reporting device allowing maximum compatibility with existing software. Information such as ballistic parameters and screen size sent from the host to the force feedback device allow accurate mouse positions and graphical object positions to be determined in the force feedback environment. Force feedback effects and structures are further described, such as events and enclosures. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/824593 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08016883 | Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Struan Coleman (New York, New York); David P. Martin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Said Rizk (Salem, New Hampshire); Ajay Ahuja (Needham, Massachusetts); Simon F. Williams (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Interposition and augmentation devices for tendon and ligament repair, including rotator cuff repair, have been developed as well as methods for their delivery using arthroscopic methods. The devices are preferably derived from biocompatible polyhydroxyalkanoates, and preferably from copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. The devices may be delivered arthroscopically, and offer additional benefits such as support for the surgical repair, high initial strength, prolonged strength retention in vivo, flexibility, anti-adhesion properties, improved biocompatibility, an ability to remodel in vivo to healthy tissue, minimal risk for disease transmission or to potentiate infection, options for fixation including sufficiently high strength to prevent suture pull out or other detachment of the implanted device, eventual absorption eliminating future risk of foreign body reactions or interference with subsequent procedures, competitive cost, and long-term mechanical stability. The devices are also particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their eventual absorption should not hinder growth. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/671102 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/13.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017125 | Strominger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack L. Strominger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Masha Fridkis-Hareli (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Random three- and four-amino acid copolymers having lengths of 14-, 35- and 50-amino acid residues are provided. Fifty-mers of FEAK were effective inhibitors of MBP 85-99- or proteolipid protein (PLP) 40-60-specific HLA-DR-2-restricted T cell clones. These copolymers efficiently suppressed the mouse disease EAE, which was induced in a susceptible SJL/J (H-2s) strain of mice with either whole spinal cord homogenate (WSCH) or with the encephalitogenic epitope PLP 139-151 (SEQ ID NO:4). YFAK 50-mer having a molar ratio of about Y 0.8:F 0.2 inhibited binding of biotinylated MBP 85-99 epitope to HLA-DR-2 molecules more efficiently than either unlabeled MBP 85-99 or Copaxone®. YFAK and FAK copolymers efficiently suppressed EAE induced in SJL/J (H-2S) mice with the encephalitogenic epitope PLP 139-151. Copolymers YFAK, VYAK and tryptophan-containing VWAK were efficacious in alleviating severity and duration of symptoms of EAE induced by MBP 85-99 (SEQ ID NO:2), in a humanized mouse model expressing genes for both an HLA-DR-2 linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans and for a T cell receptor from an MS patient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/005239 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017126 | Quinnan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advanvement of Military Medicine Inc. (Rockville, Maryland); Prince Leopoid Institute of Trtopical Medicine (Antwerp, Belgium) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald Quinnan (Rockville, Maryland); Fatim Cham (Garmantown, Maryland); Guido Van Der Groen (Kontich, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to modified HIV-1 envelope proteins which express epitopes that produce a broadly cross reactive neutralizing response, their methods of use and antibodies which bind to these epitopes. |
| FILED | Monday, August 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/661210 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017130 | Nabel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Nabel (Washington, District of Columbia); Nancy J. Sullivan (Kensington, Maryland); Thomas W. Geisbert (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia); Peter B. Jahrling (Middletown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to genetic vaccines for stimulating cellular and humoral immune responses in humans and other hosts, and, in particular, relates to recombinant viruses that express heterologous antigens of pathogenic viruses, in single dose form. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/613018 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/199.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017135 | 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); William R. Freeman (Del Mar, California); Lingyun Cheng (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for treating pathological conditions of ocular tissue by administering to subjects in need thereof therapeutically active complexes that include amphiphilic analogs of the therapeutically active agents. These complexes exhibit low water solubility and are isolated in either crystalline form, amorphous form, or a combination thereof, within a well-defined particle size range. Administration of such complexes of therapeutically active agents to ocular tissue results in extended release of the therapeutically active agent. Indeed, certain complexes persist for up to about 20-30 weeks or longer after intravitreal injection, thereby providing a sustained release of therapeutically active agent into the structures of the eye. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/770885 |
| ART UNIT | 1612 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017155 | Schwendeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. Schwendeman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Samuel E. Reinhold, III (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jichao Kang (Pennington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for encapsulating a biomacromolecule in a pore-containing polymer comprising the steps of providing an encapsulating solution containing the biomacromolecule and the pore-containing polymer; contacting the biomacromolecule with the pore-containing polymer for a time sufficient for the biomacromolecule to enter the pores of the pore-containing polymer; and rearranging the polymer such that the surface pores of the polymer are closed thus encapsulating the biomacromolecule in the pore-containing polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/596524 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/490 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017323 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Kaori Sakurai (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and compositions for expanding the scope of chemical reactions that can be performed during nucleic acid-templated organic syntheses. In particular, nucleic acid-templated chemistries are used to produce reaction intermediates attached to an oligonucleotide that can be used to identify the reaction intermediates and/or the resulting reaction products. The reaction intermediates then are reacted with free reactants (for example, reactants that are difficult or impractical to couple to an oligonucleotide) to produce a reaction product. This approach expands the scope of reagents useful in nucleic acid-templated syntheses to reagents that do not need to be or cannot be tethered to an oligonucleotide. The reagents, however, still permit the synthesis of reaction products attached to oligonucleotides that can be used to identify the reaction products. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/336405 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017326 | Jan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiwen Jan (San Diego, California); Michelle Matter (Martinsville, New Jersey); Jih-Tung Pai (San Diego, California); Erkki Ruoslahti (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of identifying an effective agent that alters the association of a Bit1 polypeptide with an AES polypeptide. The method is practiced by contacting a Bit1 polypeptide, or active fragment thereof, and an AES polypeptide, or active fragment thereof, with an agent under conditions that allow the Bit1 polypeptide or active fragment thereof to associate with the AES polypeptide or active fragment thereof; and detecting an altered association of the Bit1 polypeptide or active fragment thereof and the AES polypeptide or active fragment thereof, where an altered association indicates that the agent is an effective agent that alters the association of a Bit1 polypeptide with an AES polypeptide. Such an effective agent can modulate apoptosis and can be a useful therapeutic agent. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/135068 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017352 | Leech et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agentase, LLC (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna M. Leech (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jessica L. Palumbo (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania); Jason A. Berberich (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Keith E. LeJeune (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An enzyme based nondestructive sensor for the qualitative detection of spoilage in seafood is provided wherein the sensor does not alter the physical composition of the seafood specimen. The sensor comprises a sampling matrix, at least three or more enzymes in contact with the sampling matrix, and at least one indicator compound in contact with the sampling matrix. The enzymes are capable of interacting with four target chemicals comprising putrescine, cadaverine, histamine and tyramine, which are located on the surface of the seafood specimen. The indicator compound is capable of changing the color of the sampling matrix thereby indicating a qualitative visually detectable color change. A method for the nondestructive detection of the quality of a seafood specimen at any given time and for determining the remaining usable shelf life of the seafood specimen is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481201 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017389 | Phillips et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Keck Graduate Institute (Claremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Ian Phillips (Claremont, California); Yao Liang Tang (Pomona, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel method to isolate and expand pure progenitor/stem cells from a primary tissue explant, which produces a population enriched in multipotent functional progenitor/stem cells free of contaminating fibroblasts and other cell types. Cardiac progenitor/stem cells isolated by this method maintain their self-renewal and clonogenic character in vitro and differentiate into normal cells in myocardium, including cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells, after transplantation into ischemic hearts. The present invention also includes substantially pure populations of multipotent progenitor/stem cells, e.g., cardiac progenitor/stem cells, and their use to treat and prevent diseases and injuries, including those resulting from myocardial infarction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983431 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017401 | Abramson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan J. Abramson (Beaverton, Oregon); Benjamin S. Marinov (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying the redox activity of a subject compound is disclosed. The method can be performed aerobically and can include forming a mixture comprising a free-radical precursor and a compound to be tested, and converting the free-radical precursor into a free-radical anion and a free-radical cation. After the free radical cation and the free radical anion have been formed, the relative redox activity of the subject compound may cause a difference in the rate of photo-bleaching of the mixture and/or the rate of superoxide generation. These differences can be quantified and used to identify the redox activity of the subject compound. This sensitive technique for measuring redox activity can be used to screen compounds for various biological applications. Drugs also can be developed based on the relationship between redox activity and biological activity for particular biological applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/884051 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017578 | Brenneman 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); Ramot at Tel-Aviv University Ltd. (Tel-Aviv, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Brenneman (Damascus, Maryland); Illana Gozes (Ramat Hasharon, Israel); Catherine Y. Spong (Arlington, Virginia); Albert Pinhasov (Tel Aviv, Israel); Eliezer Giladi (Ramat Poleg, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an ADNF polypeptide comprising an active core site, the active core site comprising at least one D-amino acid. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising an ADNF polypeptide comprising an active core site, the active core site comprising at least one D-amino acid. In particular, the pharmaceutical composition of the invention is orally active. The invention further provides methods for reducing neuronal cell death, methods for reducing oxidative stress, and methods for reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome using the ADNF polypeptides and the pharmaceutical compositions of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102760 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017593 | Schimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Schimmel (La Jolla, California); Keisuke Wakasugi (Shizuok, Japan); Martin Friedlander (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for inhibiting ocular neovascularization in a patient. The method comprises administering to a patient an ocular neovascularization inhibiting amount of a water-soluble polypeptide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 12, SEQ ID NO: 7, and an ocular neovascularization inhibiting fragment thereof, which includes at least one of amino acid residue signature sequences HVGH (SEQ ID NO:10) and KMSAS (SEQ ID NO:11). A method for assaying the angiogenesis inhibiting activity of a composition is also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319822 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017634 | Sinclair et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts); The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Sinclair (West Roxbury, Massachusetts); Maria Alexander-Bridges (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and compositions for modulating the activity or level of a sirtuin, thereby treating or preventing obesity or an insulin resistance disorder, such as diabetes in a subject. Exemplary methods comprise contacting a cell with a sirtuin activating compound or an inhibitory compound to thereby increase or decrease fat accumulation, respectively. |
| FILED | Friday, July 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/174000 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/356 |
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| US 08017648 | Castro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfredo C. Castro (Winchester, Massachusetts); Michael J. Grogan (Winchester, Massachusetts); Karen J. McGovern (Groton, Massachusetts); Martin Tremblay (Melrose, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating various conditions using derivatives of cyclopamine having the following formula: |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/965675 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/455 |
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| US 08017726 | May et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. May (New Haven, Connecticut); Sankar Ghosh (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides anti-inflammatory compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof for treating inflammatory disorders. The present invention also provides methods of identifying anti-inflammatory compounds and methods of inhibiting NF-κB-dependent target gene expression in a cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/958615 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 08017745 | Sette et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Epimmune Inc. (San Diego, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alessandro Sette (La Jolla, California); Denise L. Doolan (Rockville, Maryland); Daniel J. Carucci (Washington, District of Columbia); John Sidney (San Diego, California); Scott Southwood (Santee, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides novel Plasmodium falciparum antigens and novel polynucleotides encoding these antigens. Also provided by the subject invention are methods of using these antigens and polynucleotides. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/537642 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 08017749 | Das Gupta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tapas Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Ananda Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising CpG rich DNA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The compositions optionally comprise a cupredoxin. The present invention includes specific CpG DNAs from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that are useful for treating cancer and other conditions in patients. These compositions are optionally in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and also optionally comprise a cupredoxin. The present invention further relates to methods to express proteins near cancer cells. These methods may be used to express therapeutic or diagnostic proteins near cancer cells in a patient suffering from cancer or other conditions, and can also be used for diagnosing cancer in a patient. This method uses the gene for azurin from P. aeruginosa as an expression system for azurin or heterologous proteins in P. aeruginosa or heterologous cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/950165 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017752 | Maihle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tumor Biology Investment Group, Inc. (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nita J. Maihle (New Haven, Connecticut); Jill Reiter (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the discovery of soluble isoforms of an Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, or sErbB1 variants, the provision of the sequences of nucleic acids encoding these isoforms, purified recombinant proteins, novel antibodies specific for these isoforms, and the use of immunoassay and other protein assay techniques to measure the concentration of these protein isoforms in a patient biological sample in the femtomolar range. The present invention also provides methods for determining the presence of an ovarian carcinoma in the patient by assaying the concentration of soluble ErbB1 variants in a biological sample from a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/731387 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017754 | Wicker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Development Foundation (Carson City, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason A. Wicker (Galveston, Texas); Melissa C. Whiteman (Rochester, New York); Michael D. T. Barrett (Galveston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions concerning mutant flaviviruses with reduced virulence. In some embodiments the invention concerns nucleotide sequences that encode mutant flaviviral proteins. Viruses comprising mutant NS1 and NS4B genes display reduced virulence are provided. In further aspects of the invention, flavivirus vaccine compositions such as West Nile virus vaccines are provided. In another embodiment the invention provides methods for vaccination against flavivirus infection. |
| FILED | Friday, July 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/995920 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017755 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Allen R. Buskirk (Provo, Utah); Polina D. Kehayova (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | RNA molecules have been shown to play a variety of functional roles in biological processes. RNA sequences can adopt 3-D conformations able to regulate transcription. RNA-based transcriptional regulators when recruited to a DNA template act to promote or suppress the transcription of nearby genes. The regulators are thought to act by mimicing the activation domains of protein transcriptional activators. These RNA-based transcriptional regulators may be engineered to regulate transcription based on the binding of a ligand such as a small molecule. RNA sequences of the regulators may be evolved to produce regulators with a greater degree of transcriptional activation or suppression. The RNA-based system of the present invention is useful in studying biological processes and in altering biological process in a therapeutic context. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852626 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
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| US 08017759 | Rossi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Nan-Sook Lee (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An adenoviral VA1 Pol III expression system for RNAi expression is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/629895 |
| 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 08017917 | Meng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ling-Jian Meng (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an ionizing radiation sensor having a first scintillator for generating photons from incoming ionizing radiation, an imaging intensifier for amplifying the photons, and an electron-multiplying charge-coupled device (EMCCD) coupled to the imaging intensifier for sensing the amplified photons generated by the imaging intensifier. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, October 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259139 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.110 |
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| US 08017938 | Gomez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romel Del Rosario Gomez (Silver Spring, Maryland); Javed Khan (Derwood, Maryland); Herman Pandana (Lanham, Maryland); Konrad Aschenbach (Laurel, Maryland); Michael Fuhrer (Hyattsville, Maryland); Jun Stephen Wei (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A microarray apparatus is provided which contains at least one chip having source and drain electrodes positioned on an array of carbon nanotube transistors which allows for electronic detection of nucleic acid hybridizations, thereby affording both increased sensitivity and the capability of miniaturization. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/723369 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
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| US 08018231 | Sasisekharan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachussetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Istituto di Ricerche Chimiche e Biochimiche G Ronzoni (Milan, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ram Sasisekharan (Bedford, Massachusetts); Ganesh Venkataraman (Bedford, Massachusetts); Rahul Raman (Arlington, Massachusetts); Benito Casu (Milan, Italy); Giangiacomo Torri (Milan, Italy); Marco Guerrini (Varese, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for analyzing polysaccharides. In particular, compositional and sequence information about the polysaccharides are derived. Some methods use NMR in conjunction with another experimental method, such as, capillary electrophoretic techniques for the analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/774335 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 08019043 | Horne et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energetiq Technology Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen F. Horne (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Michael J. Roderick (Everett, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are optical apparatuses and methods for forming optical apparatuses. The optical apparatus includes a plurality of individually fabricated segments and a holder. Each of the plurality of individually fabricated segments include an inner annular surface and an outer contact surface opposite to the inner annular surface. Each of the inner annular reflecting surfaces define a longitudinal segment axis. The holder contacts each of the outer contact surfaces of the plurality of individually fabricated segments. Each of the longitudinal segment axes of the plurality of individually fabricated segments are linearly aligned. |
| FILED | Friday, July 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/505012 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/85 |
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| US 08019428 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Richard P. Williamson (Sherman Oaks, California); Joseph H. Schulman (Santa Clarita, California); Reza P. Rassool (Stevenson Ranch, California); Lee J. Mandell (West Hills, California); Abraham N. Seidman (Beverly Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for improving visual acuity when providing a visual image from a “high” resolution input device to a “low” resolution output device. The described invention is of particular use when the output device is an array of electrodes as part of a retinal prosthesis used to restore vision to a visually-impaired patient. In that various limitations may, within the foreseeable future, limit the density of such an electrode array (and thus the resolution of the output image), the present invention teaches techniques to assign processed pixel subsets of a higher resolution image to a single electrode. By varying the pixel subsets, e.g., by jittering, and/or altering the processing criteria, the perceived visual acuity may be further improved. Alternatively and additionally, such processing may be further extended to drive neighboring electrodes in combination to thus stimulate virtual electrode sites and thus further enhance visual acuity. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880045 |
| 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 08019431 | Nie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kaibao Nie (Bothell, Washington); Les Atlas (Seattle, Washington); Jay Rubinstein (Seattle, Washington); Xing Li (Bellevue, Washington); Charles Pascal Clark (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The restoration of melody perception is a key remaining challenge in cochlear implants. A novel sound coding strategy is proposed that converts an input audio signal into time-varying electrically stimulating pulse trains. A sound is first split into several frequency sub-bands with a fixed filter bank or a dynamic filter bank tracking harmonics in sounds. Each sub-band signal is coherently downward shifted to a low-frequency base band. These resulting coherent envelope signals have Hermitian symmetric frequency spectrums and are thus real-valued. A peak detector or high-rate sampler of half-wave rectified coherent envelope signals in each sub-band further converts the coherent envelopes into rate-varying, interleaved pulse trains. Acoustic simulations of cochlear implants using this new technique with normal hearing listeners, showed significant improvement in melody recognition over the most common conventional stimulation approach used in cochlear implants. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476979 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019557 | Murali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramachandran Murali (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of identifying compounds that modulate intermolecular interactions between a target protein and a modifier are disclosed. Pharmaceutical composition comprising compounds that inhibit intermolecular interactions between a target protein and a modifier are disclosed. Methods of treating individual suffering from inflammatory conditions, undesirable immune responses, immunological conditions and bacterial infections are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/632221 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42700 | Dawson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon); SRI International (Menlo Park, California); Molecular Medicine Research Institute (Sunnyvale, California); Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcia Dawson (La Jolla, California); Joseph A. Fontana (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Xiao-Kun Zhang (La Jolla, California); Mark Leid (Corvallis, Oregon); Ling Jong (Sunnyvale, California); Peter D. Hobbs (Moss Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that are inducers or inhibitors of apoptosis of apoptosis preceded by cell-cycle arrest. In addition, the present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating mammals with leukemia or other forms of cancer or for treating disease conditions caused by apoptosis of cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179865 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/227.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08016944 | Kortshagen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Uwe Kortshagen (Roseville, Minnesota); Elijah J. Thimsen (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Lorenzo Mangolini (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Ameya Bapat (Minneapolis, Minnesota); David Jurbergs (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for producing nanoparticles, including single-crystal semiconductor nanoparticles, are provided. The methods include the step of generating a constricted radiofrequency plasma in the presence of a precursor gas containing precursor molecules to form nanoparticles. Single-crystal semiconductor nanoparticles, including photoluminescent silicon nanoparticles, having diameters of no more than 10 nm may be fabricated in accordance with the methods. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263616 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017036 | Austin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Austin (Princeton, New Jersey); Shuang Fang Lim (Singapore, Singapore); Robert Riehn (Freital, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for forming rare earth element doped oxide, oxyhalide and oxysulfide activated nanoparticles by the following method steps: (a) providing a precursor solution of a water- or alcohol-soluble host metal salt or host metalloid compound and one or more water- or alcohol-soluble rare earth element salts in a polar solution; (b) forming an aerosol of the precursor solution and oxygen; (c) feeding the aerosol to a heated Laval tube (d) igniting the aerosol with a reactive gas flame at the apex of the Laval tube to pyrolyze the salts; and (e) expanding and cooling the pyrolysis gases emerging from the Laval tube so that rare earth element doped nanoparticles precipitate therefrom; wherein one or more of the aerosol particle size, flow rate through the Laval tube and pyrolysis temperature are selected to provide a predetermined particle size and degree of crystallinity without particle aggregation. Rare earth element doped oxide, oxyhalide and oxysulfide activated mono-disperse nanoparticles are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/049124 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4R0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017050 | Freeman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benny D. Freeman (Austin, Texas); Ho Bum Park (Austin, Texas); Bryan D. McCloskey (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes methods and compositions for liquid separation and water purification. The present invention includes a purification membrane having a polymer matrix purification membrane that has been treated with dopamine to form a polydopamine coated membrane with a high water flux and a high hydrophilicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500514 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017353 | Balagadde et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Balagadde (Pasadena, California); Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Emil Kartalov (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemostat is described that includes a growth chamber having a plurality of compartments. Each of the compartments may be fluidly isolated from the rest of the growth chamber by one or more actuatable valves. The chemostat may also include a nutrient supply-line to supply growth medium to the growth chamber, and an output port to remove fluids from the growth chamber. Also, a method of preventing biofilm formation in a growth chamber of a chemostat is described. The method may include the steps of adding a lysis agent to a isolated portion of the growth chamber, and reuniting the isolated portion with the rest of the growth chamber. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/182088 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
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| US 08017376 | Dundon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Lynne H. Albert (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to recombinant microorganisms comprising one or more dihydroxyacid dehydratase (DHAD)-requiring biosynthetic pathways and methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce beneficial metabolites derived from said DHAD-requiring biosynthetic pathways. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may be engineered to overexpress one or more polynucleotides encoding one or more Aft proteins or homologs thereof. In some embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a cytosolically localized DHAD enzyme. In additional embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a mitochondrially localized DHAD enzyme. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/953884 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
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| US 08017408 | Meinhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl D. Meinhart (Santa Barbara, California); Brian Piorek (Santa Barbara, California); Seung Joon Lee (Santa Barbara, California); Martin Moskovits (Santa Barbara, California); Sanjoy Banerjee (Santa Barbara, California); Juan G. Santiago (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods, devices and systems that utilize free-surface fluidics and SERS for analyte detection with high sensitivity and specificity. The molecules can be airborne agents, including but not limited to explosives, narcotics, hazardous chemicals, or other chemical species. The free-surface fluidic architecture is created using an open microchannel, and exhibits a large surface to volume ratio. The free-surface fluidic interface can filter interferent molecules, while concentrating airborne analyte molecules. The microchannel flow enables controlled aggregation of SERS-active probe particles in the flow, thereby enhancing the detector's sensitivity. |
| FILED | Friday, April 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/597742 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017682 | Chiesl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas N. Chiesl (Berkeley, California); Annelise E. Barron (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Linear acrylamide copolymer compounds which can comprise monomeric components comprising at least one N-substituted moiety capable of physical cross-linking, and related compositions and methods of use. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803278 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/555 |
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| US 08017755 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Allen R. Buskirk (Provo, Utah); Polina D. Kehayova (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | RNA molecules have been shown to play a variety of functional roles in biological processes. RNA sequences can adopt 3-D conformations able to regulate transcription. RNA-based transcriptional regulators when recruited to a DNA template act to promote or suppress the transcription of nearby genes. The regulators are thought to act by mimicing the activation domains of protein transcriptional activators. These RNA-based transcriptional regulators may be engineered to regulate transcription based on the binding of a ligand such as a small molecule. RNA sequences of the regulators may be evolved to produce regulators with a greater degree of transcriptional activation or suppression. The RNA-based system of the present invention is useful in studying biological processes and in altering biological process in a therapeutic context. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/852626 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018010 | Tigli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Onur Tigli (Vancouver, Washington); Mona Zaghloul (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The design, fabrication, post-processing and characterization of a novel circular design SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) based bio/chemical sensor in CMOS technology is introduced. The sensors are designed in AMI 1.5 μm 2 metal, 2 poly process. A unique maskless post processing sequence is designed and completed. The three post-processing steps are fully compatible with any CMOS technology. This allows any signal control/processing circuitry to be easily integrated on the same chip. ZnO is used as the piezoelectric material for the SAW generation. A thorough characterization and patterning optimization of the sputtered ZnO was carried out. The major novelties that are introduced in the SAW delay line features are: The embedded heater elements for temperature control, compensation and acoustic absorbers that are designed to eliminate edge reflections and minimize triple transit interference. Both of these attributes are designed by using the CMOS layers without disturbing the SAW performance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/166646 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018121 | Cular |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Cular (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a sensor which integrates a pair of substantially unidirectional surface acoustic wave (SAW) interdigital transducers (IDTs) and a thickness shear mode (TSM) electrode. The sensor provides simultaneous sensing and removal of material from the sensor's surface. The sensing aspect is accomplished through the use of the TSM electrode that is designed to operate between 2 and 100 MHz. The removal of material is accomplished using substantially unidirectional IDTs aligned on the substrate to produce acoustic waves, such as Rayleigh waves, across the entire TSM sensor active area. When liquid is added over the acoustic waves, acoustic streaming occurs, which dislodges material from the sensor's surface. The acoustic waves are designed to operate at a significantly different frequency than the sensor to prevent interference between the two. |
| FILED | Friday, June 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483456 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/313.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018283 | Komijani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abbas Komijani (Los Angeles, California); Seyed-Ali Hajimiri (Pasadena, California); Scott D. Kee (Dana Point, California); Ichiro Aoki (San Clemente, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Reconfigurable distributed active transformers are provided. The exemplary embodiments provided allow changing of the effective number and configuration of the primary and secondary windings, where the distributed active transformer structures can be reconfigured dynamically to control the output power levels, allow operation at multiple frequency bands, maintain a high performance across multiple channels, and sustain desired characteristics across process, temperature and other environmental variations. Integration of the distributed active transformer power amplifiers and a low noise amplifier on a semiconductor substrate can also be provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/796432 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019402 | Kryzpow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research Inc (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Kryzpow (University Heights, Ohio); James Elliott (Streetsboro, Ohio); Aaron Rood (Rocky River, Ohio); Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to an electrode harness and more particularly to an electrode harness with various features, which enhance the use and performance of the electrode harness. The present invention further relates to a method of taking biopotential measurements. The electrode harness and methods of the present invention allow for use with most applications where biopotential measurements are taken. The electrode harness can be used in ECG (or EKG), EEG, EMG, and other such biopotential measurement applications. Because of the versatility of various embodiments of the present invention, preferably the electrode harness can be adjusted for different applications or for application to various sized and shaped subjects. The electrode harness is further preferably part of a system, which includes either wireless or tethered bridges between the electrode harness and a monitor, and preferably includes various forms of processors for analyzing the biopotential signal. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/305948 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020216 | Jin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sungho Jin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Probe structures and fabrication techniques are described. The described probe structures can be used as probes for various applications such as conductance measurement probes, field emitter probes, nanofabrication probes, and magnetic bit writing or reading probes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/914108 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 08016254 | Tschaggeny et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho FAlls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles W. Tschaggeny (Woods Cross, Utah); Warren F. Jones (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eberhard Bamberg (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A gimbal is described and which includes a fixed base member defining an axis of rotation; a second member concentrically oriented relative to the axis of rotation; a linear actuator oriented in immediate, adjoining force transmitting relation relative to the base member or to the second member, and which applies force along a linear axis which is tangential to the axis of rotation so as to cause the second member to rotate coaxially relative to the fixed base member; and an object of interest mounted to the second member such that the object of interest is selectively moved relative to the base member about the axis of rotation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061256 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/178.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017176 | Mulhollan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Mulhollan (Dripping Springs, Texas); John C. Bierman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method by which photocathodes(201), single crystal, amorphous, or otherwise ordered, can be surface modified to a robust state of lowered and in best cases negative, electron affinity has been discovered. Conventional methods employ the use of Cs(203) and an oxidizing agent(207), typically carried by diatomic oxygen or by more complex molecules, for example nitrogen trifluoride, to achieve a lowered electron affinity(404). In the improved activation method, a second alkali, other than Cs(205), is introduced onto the surface during the activation process, either by co-deposition, yo-yo, or sporadic or intermittent application. Best effect for GaAs photocathodes has been found through the use of Li(402) as the second alkali, though nearly the same effect can be found by employing Na(406). Suitable photocathodes are those which are grown, cut from boules, implanted, rolled, deposited or otherwise fabricated in a fashion and shape desired for test or manufacture independently supported or atop a support structure or within a framework or otherwise affixed or suspended in the place and position required for use. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321805 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017273 | Lara-Curzio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edgar Lara-Curzio (Lenoir City, Tennessee); Ke An (Knoxville, Texas); James O. Kiggans, Jr. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Nancy J. Dudney (Knoxville, Tennessee); Cristian I. Contescu (Knoxville, Tennessee); Frederick S. Baker (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Beth L. Armstrong (Clinton, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A lightweight, durable lead-acid battery is disclosed. Alternative electrode materials and configurations are used to reduce weight, to increase material utilization and to extend service life. The electrode can include a current collector having a buffer layer in contact with the current collector and an electrochemically active material in contact with the buffer layer. In one form, the buffer layer includes a carbide, and the current collector includes carbon fibers having the buffer layer. The buffer layer can include a carbide and/or a noble metal selected from of gold, silver, tantalum, platinum, palladium and rhodium. When the electrode is to be used in a lead-acid battery, the electrochemically active material is selected from metallic lead (for a negative electrode) or lead peroxide (for a positive electrode). |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110913 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017386 | Howe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg A. Howe (East Lansing, Michigan); Aya Itoh (Tsuruoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to divinyl ether synthase genes, proteins, and methods of their use. The present invention encompasses both native and recombinant wild-type forms of the synthase, as well as mutants and variant forms, some of which possess altered characteristics relative to the wild-type synthase. The present invention also relates to methods of using divinyl ether synthase genes and proteins, including in their expression in transgenic organisms and in the production of divinyl ether fatty acids, and to methods of suing divinyl ether fatty acids, including in the protection of plants from pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644264 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017406 | Stockman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramot At Tel-Aviv University Ltd (Tel-Aviv, Israel); The Georgia State University Research Foundation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark I. Stockman (Atlanta, Georgia); David J. Bergman (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanostructure is used to generate a highly localized nanoscale optical field. The field is excited using surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (SPASER). The SPASER radiation consists of surface plasmons that undergo stimulated emission, but in contrast to photons can be localized within a nanoscale region. A SPASER can incorporate an active medium formed by two-level emitters, excited by an energy source, such as an optical, electrical, or chemical energy source. The active medium may be quantum dots, which transfer excitation energy by radiationless transitions to a resonant nanosystem that can play the same role as a laser cavity in a conventional laser. The transitions are stimulated by the surface plasmons in the nanostructure, causing the buildup of a macroscopic number of surface plasmons in a single mode. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/387307 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017916 | Majewski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanislaw Majewski (Morgantown, Virginia); Marc M. Umeno (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A cardiac imaging system employing dual gamma imaging heads co-registered with one another to provide two dynamic simultaneous views of the heart sector of a patient torso. A first gamma imaging head is positioned in a first orientation with respect to the heart sector and a second gamma imaging head is positioned in a second orientation with respect to the heart sector. An adjustment arrangement is capable of adjusting the distance between the separate imaging heads and the angle between the heads. With the angle between the imaging heads set to 180 degrees and operating in a range of 140-159 keV and at a rate of up to 500kHz, the imaging heads are co-registered to produce simultaneous dynamic recording of two stereotactic views of the heart. The use of co-registered imaging heads maximizes the uniformity of detection sensitivity of blood flow in and around the heart over the whole heart volume and minimizes radiation absorption effects. A normalization/image fusion technique is implemented pixel-by-corresponding pixel to increase signal for any cardiac region viewed in two images obtained from the two opposed detector heads for the same time bin. The imaging system is capable of producing enhanced first pass studies, bloodpool studies including planar, gated and non-gated EKG studies, planar EKG perfusion studies, and planar hot spot imaging. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/824357 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017926 | Norman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Allliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daren R. Norman (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Woo Y. Yoon (Idaho Falls, Idaho); James L. Jones (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kevin J. Haskell (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Brion D. Bennett (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Charles W. Tschaggeny (Woods Cross, Utah); Warren F. Jones (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A collimator including a housing having disposed therein a shield element surrounding a converter core in which a photon beam is generated from electrons emanating from a linear accelerator. A beam channeler longitudinally adjacent the shield element has a beam aperture therethrough coaxially aligned with, and of the same diameter as, an exit bore of the converter core. A larger entry bore in the converter core is coaxial with, and longitudinally separated from, the exit bore thereof. Systems incorporating the collimator are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248737 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/505.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018110 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Pellegrino Alexander (Ballston Lake, New York); Ayman Mohamed Fawzi EL-Refaie (Niskayuna, New York); Murtuza Lokhandwalla (Clifton Park, New York); Manoj Ramprasad Shah (Latham, New York); Jeremy Daniel VanDam (West Coxsackie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An internal permanent magnet (IPM) machine is provided. The IPM machine includes a stator assembly and a stator core. The stator core also includes multiple stator teeth. The stator assembly is further configured with stator windings to generate a magnetic field when excited with alternating currents and extends along a longitudinal axis with an inner surface defining a cavity. The IPM machine also includes a rotor assembly and a rotor core. The rotor core is disposed inside the cavity and configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis. The rotor assembly further includes a shaft. The shaft further includes multiple protrusions alternately arranged relative to multiple bottom structures provided on the shaft. The rotor assembly also includes multiple stacks of laminations disposed on the protrusions and dovetailed circumferentially around the shaft. The rotor assembly further includes multiple permanent magnets for generating a magnetic field, which interacts with the stator magnetic field to produce torque. The permanent magnets are disposed between the stacks. The rotor assembly also includes multiple bottom wedges disposed on the bottom structures of the shaft and configured to hold the multiple stacks and the multiple permanent magnets. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432885 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/156.560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018951 | Blocksome |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for pacing a data transfer between compute nodes on a parallel computer that include: transferring, by an origin compute node, a chunk of an application message to a target compute node; sending, by the origin compute node, a pacing request to a target direct memory access (‘DMA’) engine on the target compute node using a remote get DMA operation; determining, by the origin compute node, whether a pacing response to the pacing request has been received from the target DMA engine; and transferring, by the origin compute node, a next chunk of the application message if the pacing response to the pacing request has been received from the target DMA engine. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/776707 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/395.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018980 | Deri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Deri (Pleasanton, California); Jack Kotovsky (Oakland, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser diode package assembly includes a reservoir filled with a fusible metal in close proximity to a laser diode. The fusible metal absorbs heat from the laser diode and undergoes a phase change from solid to liquid during the operation of the laser. The metal absorbs heat during the phase transition. Once the laser diode is turned off, the liquid metal cools off and resolidifies. The reservoir is designed such that that the liquid metal does not leave the reservoir even when in liquid state. The laser diode assembly further includes a lid with one or more fin structures that extend into the reservoir and are in contact with the metal in the reservoir. |
| FILED | Monday, January 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/693052 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08015819 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell H. Thomas (Yorktown, Virginia); Kevin W. Kinzie (Moore, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disposed at or toward the trailing edge of one or more nozzles associated with a jet engine are injection ports which can selectively be made to discharge a water stream into a nozzle flow stream for the purpose of increasing turbulence in somewhat of a similar fashion as mechanically disposed chevrons have done in the known art. Unlike mechanically disposed chevrons of the known art, the fluid flow may be secured thereby increasing the engine efficiency. Various flow patterns, water pressures, orifice designs or other factors can be made operative to provide desired performance characteristics. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/536790 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016438 | Meyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay L. Meyer (Long Beach, California); Glenn C. Messick (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Carl A. Nardell (Boston, Massachusetts); Martin J. Hendlin (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A spherical mounting assembly for mounting an optical element allows for rotational motion of an optical surface of the optical element only. In that regard, an optical surface of the optical element does not translate in any of the three perpendicular translational axes. More importantly, the assembly provides adjustment that may be independently controlled for each of the three mutually perpendicular rotational axes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236256 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/872 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016543 | Braley et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Scott Braley (Cincinnati, Ohio); James D. Dorer (Brighton, Michigan); Gary D. Roberts (Wadsworth, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine fan blade containment assembly includes a fan case having an inner surface surrounding a jet engine fan and an outer surface. Mounted on the inner surface and across a blade containing region of the fan case is a load spreader layer for initially receiving a point load from a fan blade release (a “blade-out event”). A band layer is mounted to an outer surface of the fan case for carrying at least a portion of a hoop tensile load on the fan case resulting from the blade-out event, and separator film layer is mounted between the outer surface of the fan case and the band layer to retard the formation of stress concentrations in the band layer. In one embodiment, the load spreader layer includes a plurality of circumferentially-arrayed load spreader layer segments. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695435 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08016893 | Weinberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia); Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Weinberg (Brookline, Massachusetts); Constantinos Mavroidis (Arlington, Massachusetts); John M. Vranish (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A gear bearing drive provides a compact mechanism that operates as an actuator providing torque and as a joint providing support. The drive includes a gear arrangement integrating an external rotor DC motor within a sun gear. Locking surfaces maintain the components of the drive in alignment and provide support for axial loads and moments. The gear bearing drive has a variety of applications, including as a joint in robotic arms and prosthetic limbs. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/821095 |
| ART UNIT | 3738 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017190 | Hales et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Hales (Newport News, Virginia); Joel A. Alexa (Hampton, Virginia); Brian J. Jensen (Williamsburg, Virginia); Roberto J. Cano (Yorktown, Virginia); Erik S. Weiser (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A metal/fiber laminate has a plurality of adjacent layers. Each layer is porous and includes an arrangement of fibers. At least one of the layers has its fibers coated with a metal. A polymer matrix permeates each such arrangement. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/906633 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/388.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018815 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Glen C. King (Williamsburg, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Vesuvius, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment generally relates to an optical device suitable for use with an optical medium for the storage and retrieval of data. The optical device includes an illumination means for providing a beam of optical radiation of wavelength λ and an optical path that the beam of optical radiation follows. The optical device also includes a diffractive optical element defined by a plurality of annular sections. The plurality of annular sections having a first material alternately disposed with a plurality of annular sections comprising a second material. The diffractive optical element generates a plurality of focal points and densely accumulated ray points with phase contrast phenomena and the optical medium is positioned at a selected focal point or ray point of the diffractive optical element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/490747 |
| ART UNIT | 2627 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Dynamic information storage or retrieval 369/112.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kansas State University Research Foundation (Manhattan, Kansas); Kansas Environmental Management Associates, LLC (Topeka, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gina Young Becker (Manhattan, Kansas); Sigifredo Castro Diaz (Manhattan, Kansas); Michael Hanson (Edmond, Oklahoma); Kylo Martin Heller (Tescott, Kansas); Dean Thompson (St. Joseph, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved fluidized bed precipitators (20, 46, 62, 74, 108, 112, 134, 168) especially useful for the treatment of waste waters containing soluble phosphorus are provided, having upright, primary fluidized bed sections (22, 48, 64, 76, 110, 114, 136) and obliquely oriented solids settling sections (28, 54, 68, 120, 144) which enhance the settling of small particles (166) and return thereof to the fluidized bed sections (22, 48, 64, 76, 110, 114, 136). The precipitators (20, 46, 62, 74, 108, 112, 134, 168) may also be equipped with a solids detection/withdrawal assembly (178) made up of one or more pressure transducers (180, 182) operable to determine the pressures within the fluidized bed sections 22, 48, 64, 76, 110, 114, 136) as a measure of bed densities, along with a selectively operable valve (172) which may be opened to periodically remove solids without clogging. The precipitators (20, 46, 62, 74, 108, 112, 134, 168) may be used to control soluble phosphorus levels in single- or multiple lagoon (184, 186) waste water systems. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/139281 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017133 | Patti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Inhibitex (Alpharetta, Georgia); The Provost Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin (Dublin, Ireland); The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph M. Patti (Cumming, Georgia); Timothy J. Foster (Dublin, Ireland); Magnus Hook (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Multicomponent vaccines are provided which aid in the prevention and treatment of staphylococcal infections and which include certain selected combinations of bacterial binding proteins or fragments thereof, or antibodies to those proteins or fragments. By careful selection of the proteins, fragments, or antibodies, a vaccine is provided that imparts protection against a broad spectrum of Staphylococcus and other bacterial strains and against proteins that are expressed at different stages of the logarithmic growth curve. In one embodiment of the invention, a composition is provided that includes a fibrinogen binding domain of a fibrinogen binding protein and a bacterial component such as a capsular polysaccharide, and both active and passive vaccines based on these components are also provided, along with methods of treating infection using these compositions and vaccines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710790 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/243.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017170 | Decker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Andrew Decker (Sunderland, Massachusetts); David Julian McClements (Northampton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for stabilizing lipid components is provided in which a protein-lipid emulsification product is formed, and the isoelectric point of the emulsification product is determined. The pH of the emulsion is adjusted below the isoelectric point of the protein component in the emulsion system to form an emulsification product having an overall positive net charge. The lipid oxidation rates of these protein-stabilized emulsions are significantly lower at this pH value than of those above the pI of the protein component used in the emulsion system. As the difference between the pH of the emulsion and the pI of the protein component in the emulsion is increased the inhibition of lipid oxidation is also increased. These stabilized emulsification products are particularly useful in the production of water-based foods requiring the addition of inherently unstable oil or lipid components. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651783 |
| ART UNIT | 1781 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Food or edible material: Processes, compositions, and products 426/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017386 | Howe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregg A. Howe (East Lansing, Michigan); Aya Itoh (Tsuruoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to divinyl ether synthase genes, proteins, and methods of their use. The present invention encompasses both native and recombinant wild-type forms of the synthase, as well as mutants and variant forms, some of which possess altered characteristics relative to the wild-type synthase. The present invention also relates to methods of using divinyl ether synthase genes and proteins, including in their expression in transgenic organisms and in the production of divinyl ether fatty acids, and to methods of suing divinyl ether fatty acids, including in the protection of plants from pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/644264 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017829 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Snyder (West Lafayette, Indiana); Thomas K. Hodges (West Lafayette, Indiana); Leszek A. Lyznik (Johnston, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a method of biocatalytically producing compounds that are commercially valuable but are detrimental to the host cells' development. The transgenic plants produced in accordance with the present invention comprise a novel controlled expression system comprising a promoter (2), a blocking sequence (a), and a structural gene (6), wherein the blocking sequence (a) is flanked by a pair of directly repeated site-specific recombination sequences (4). The blocking sequence (a) prevents expression of the structural gene (6) until removal of the blocking sequence (a) by site-specific recombinase activity encoded by a site-specific recombinase gene (12). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 03, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/486904 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| 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 08017938 | Gomez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Romel Del Rosario Gomez (Silver Spring, Maryland); Javed Khan (Derwood, Maryland); Herman Pandana (Lanham, Maryland); Konrad Aschenbach (Laurel, Maryland); Michael Fuhrer (Hyattsville, Maryland); Jun Stephen Wei (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A microarray apparatus is provided which contains at least one chip having source and drain electrodes positioned on an array of carbon nanotube transistors which allows for electronic detection of nucleic acid hybridizations, thereby affording both increased sensitivity and the capability of miniaturization. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/723369 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08018614 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); James R. H. Challenger (Garrison, New York); Lisa Karen Fleischer (Ossining, New York); Oktay Gunluk (New York, New York); Kirsten Weale Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Richard P. King (Scarsdale, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); David Tao (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Joel Leonard Wolf (Katonah, New York); Laura Wynter (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of choosing jobs to run in a stream based distributed computer system includes determining jobs to be run in a distributed stream-oriented system by deciding a priority threshold above which jobs will be accepted, below which jobs will be rejected. Overall importance is maximized relative to the priority threshold based on importance values assigned to all jobs. System constraints are applied to ensure jobs meet set criteria. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132035 |
| ART UNIT | 2625 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Facsimile and static presentation processing 358/1.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019231 | Kang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Inuk Kang (Matawan, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In exemplary embodiments, all-optical pattern recognition for an optical input signal is achieved by wavelength-converting the input signal and then passively correlating the wavelength-converted signal based on a specified data pattern. By performing wavelength conversion using a CW laser signal having wavelength stability greater than that of the input signal, errors resulting from wavelength sensitivity of the passive correlator can be reduced. By performing both wavelength conversion and OOK-to-BPSK format conversion prior to the passive correlation, limitations in the number of available OOK patterns can be avoided. By performing the passive correlation in a bi-directional manner, feedback signal can be generated to control the operations of the passive correlator and/or the laser signal source(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874510 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020213 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weifeng Chen (Amherst, Massachusetts); Alexandre V. Evfunievski (San Jose, California); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Ralf Rantzau (San Jose, California); Anton Viktorovich Riabov (Ossining, New York); Pankaj Rohatgi (New Rochelle, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland); Ramakrishnan Srikant (San Jose, California); Grant Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for protecting information in a distributed stream processing system, including: assigning a principal label to a processing component; assigning a first channel label to a first communication channel that is input to the processing component; comparing the principal label to the first channel label to determine if the processing component can read data attributes of the first channel label; and reading the data attributes of the first channel label when the principal label is equal to or has precedence over the first channel label, wherein the principal label includes a read label and a write label and at least one of a selection label, an addition label or a suppression label. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/496821 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08017311 | Brockbank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Organ Recovery Systems, Inc. (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelvin G. M. Brockbank (Charleston, South Carolina); Lia H. Campbell (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Kelly M. Ratcliff (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Kristy A. Sarver (Ladson, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Living cellular material may be preserved by incubating the cellular material in a culture medium containing at least one sugar, particularly for at least three hours, and then subjecting the cellular material to a preservation protocol, such as freezing, vitrification, freeze-drying and desiccation. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856650 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017394 | Adkisson, IV et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ISTO Technologies, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huston Davis Adkisson, IV (St. Louis, Missouri); Curt L Milliman (St. Louis, Missouri); Neil Kizer (Crestwood, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for expanding a population of chondrocytes that maintains chondrocyte phenotype during the expansion by culturing the population in a defined serum-free expansion medium containing one or more cytokines and under low attachment conditions. The method further solves diffusion problems during the subsequent stage of extracellular matrix production by use of a perforated polycarbonate substrate that results in a randomly organized cultured neocartilage tissue. Chondrocytes expanded and cultured in this manner can be used in various medical applications to repair cartilaginous tissues that have been injured by trauma or disease. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859524 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019493 | Weigl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harald J. Weigl (Doylestown, Pennsylvania); Neil E. Goodzeit (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A spacecraft includes a plurality of thrusters, a thruster firing logic, an actuator assembly, an attitude control system, and a torque calibration system. The plurality of thrusters is configured to apply torque to the spacecraft. The thruster firing logic is configured to control firing of the plurality of thrusters. The actuator assembly is configured to apply torque to the spacecraft. The attitude control system is configured to sense an attitude of the spacecraft and to provide an attitude control torque. The torque calibration system is configured to provide a thruster feedforward torque. A machine-readable medium includes instructions for a method for providing torque calibration to a spacecraft. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/878029 |
| 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 71/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08016268 | Oliphant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wind Tower Systems, LLC (Heber City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Oliphant (West Jordan, Utah); Jared Quilter (Heber City, Utah); Todd Andersen (Heber City, Utah); Thomas Conroy (Midway, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus used for maintaining a wind tower structure wherein the wind tower structure may have a plurality of legs and may be configured to support a wind turbine above the ground in a better position to interface with winds. The lift structure may be configured for carrying objects and have a guide system and drive system for mechanically communicating with a primary cable, rail or other first elongate member attached to the wind tower structure. The drive system and guide system may transmit forces that move the lift relative to the cable and thereby relative to the wind tower structure. A control interface may be included for controlling the amount and direction of the power into the guide system and drive system thereby causing the guide system and drive system to move the lift relative to said first elongate member such that said lift moves relative to said wind tower structure. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130922 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force 254/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017401 | Abramson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan J. Abramson (Beaverton, Oregon); Benjamin S. Marinov (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying the redox activity of a subject compound is disclosed. The method can be performed aerobically and can include forming a mixture comprising a free-radical precursor and a compound to be tested, and converting the free-radical precursor into a free-radical anion and a free-radical cation. After the free radical cation and the free radical anion have been formed, the relative redox activity of the subject compound may cause a difference in the rate of photo-bleaching of the mixture and/or the rate of superoxide generation. These differences can be quantified and used to identify the redox activity of the subject compound. This sensitive technique for measuring redox activity can be used to screen compounds for various biological applications. Drugs also can be developed based on the relationship between redox activity and biological activity for particular biological applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/884051 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08019988 | Li |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Li (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | In a hybrid peer-to-peer file sharing network including a receiver peer and a provider peer, the receiver sends the provider a ticket [710] obtained from a server authorizing the receiver to obtain a data object O. The receiver obtains a root value of a hash tree for the object, verifies its digital signature, and sends the provider peer a request for a block of data object O and a request for a corresponding set of hash values from the hash tree [714]. The receiver receives from the provider peer the block of O and the corresponding set of hash values of the hash tree [716] that do not contain any hash value in the local hash tree. The receiver sends the provider an acknowledgement of receipt [718], obtains a block key from the provider [720], decrypts the block, verifies the integrity of the block using the subset of hash values and the local hash tree for O, and updates the local hash tree by adding the subset of hash values to the local hash tree, as well as any newly calculated hash values [722]. The provider may submit to a server the acknowledgements as proof of its service to the receiver. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/990898 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08017176 | Mulhollan et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory A. Mulhollan (Dripping Springs, Texas); John C. Bierman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method by which photocathodes(201), single crystal, amorphous, or otherwise ordered, can be surface modified to a robust state of lowered and in best cases negative, electron affinity has been discovered. Conventional methods employ the use of Cs(203) and an oxidizing agent(207), typically carried by diatomic oxygen or by more complex molecules, for example nitrogen trifluoride, to achieve a lowered electron affinity(404). In the improved activation method, a second alkali, other than Cs(205), is introduced onto the surface during the activation process, either by co-deposition, yo-yo, or sporadic or intermittent application. Best effect for GaAs photocathodes has been found through the use of Li(402) as the second alkali, though nearly the same effect can be found by employing Na(406). Suitable photocathodes are those which are grown, cut from boules, implanted, rolled, deposited or otherwise fabricated in a fashion and shape desired for test or manufacture independently supported or atop a support structure or within a framework or otherwise affixed or suspended in the place and position required for use. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321805 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08017458 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois); Paul D. Byrne (Lowell, Massachusetts); Hyun Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluid media comprising inorganic semiconductor components for fabrication of thin film transistor devices. |
| FILED | Monday, February 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322399 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08016543 | Braley et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Scott Braley (Cincinnati, Ohio); James D. Dorer (Brighton, Michigan); Gary D. Roberts (Wadsworth, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine fan blade containment assembly includes a fan case having an inner surface surrounding a jet engine fan and an outer surface. Mounted on the inner surface and across a blade containing region of the fan case is a load spreader layer for initially receiving a point load from a fan blade release (a “blade-out event”). A band layer is mounted to an outer surface of the fan case for carrying at least a portion of a hoop tensile load on the fan case resulting from the blade-out event, and separator film layer is mounted between the outer surface of the fan case and the band layer to retard the formation of stress concentrations in the band layer. In one embodiment, the load spreader layer includes a plurality of circumferentially-arrayed load spreader layer segments. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/695435 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US RE42700 | Dawson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California); Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon); SRI International (Menlo Park, California); Molecular Medicine Research Institute (Sunnyvale, California); Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcia Dawson (La Jolla, California); Joseph A. Fontana (West Bloomfield, Michigan); Xiao-Kun Zhang (La Jolla, California); Mark Leid (Corvallis, Oregon); Ling Jong (Sunnyvale, California); Peter D. Hobbs (Moss Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that are inducers or inhibitors of apoptosis of apoptosis preceded by cell-cycle arrest. In addition, the present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating mammals with leukemia or other forms of cancer or for treating disease conditions caused by apoptosis of cells. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179865 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/227.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Treasury (TREASURY)
| US 08019557 | Murali et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramachandran Murali (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Method of identifying compounds that modulate intermolecular interactions between a target protein and a modifier are disclosed. Pharmaceutical composition comprising compounds that inhibit intermolecular interactions between a target protein and a modifier are disclosed. Methods of treating individual suffering from inflammatory conditions, undesirable immune responses, immunological conditions and bacterial infections are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/632221 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08017376 | Dundon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Lynne H. Albert (Golden, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to recombinant microorganisms comprising one or more dihydroxyacid dehydratase (DHAD)-requiring biosynthetic pathways and methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce beneficial metabolites derived from said DHAD-requiring biosynthetic pathways. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may be engineered to overexpress one or more polynucleotides encoding one or more Aft proteins or homologs thereof. In some embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a cytosolically localized DHAD enzyme. In additional embodiments, the recombinant microorganisms may comprise a mitochondrially localized DHAD enzyme. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/953884 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08016650 | Horstman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Raymond H. Horstman (Snohomish, Washington); Scott W. Bohm (Kent, Washington); Kenneth J. Walter (Kent, Washington); Steven L. Williams (Seattle, Washington); Kirk D. Skaggs (Federal Way, Washington); John M. Brown (Kent, Washington); Chao-Hsin Lin (Redmond, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An aircraft air distribution system includes a base and first and second arrays of nozzle air transfer ports in the base. An adjustable flow plate is positioned over the nozzle air transfer ports. A compressible member is located between the base and the adjustable flow plate and between the first and second arrays. First and second air ejector regions are located, respectively, on the sides of the compressible member between the base and the adjustable flow plate to connect to the first and second arrays, and direct air from the first and second arrays from the sides of the base. Fasteners moveably connect the adjustable flow plate to the base and are adjustable to change a size of different sections of the first and second air ejector regions to change an amount of airflow originating from the different sections of these regions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609474 |
| ART UNIT | 3749 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Ventilation 454/76 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08019544 | Needelman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Needelman (Torrance, California); Rongsheng Li (Hacienda Heights, California); Yeong-Wei A. Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of estimating the alignment of a star sensor (20) for a vehicle (12) includes generating star tracker data. A vehicle attitude and a star sensor attitude are determined in response to the star tracker data. A current alignment sample is generated in response to the vehicle attitude and the star sensor attitude. A current refined estimate alignment signal is generated in response to the current alignment sample and a previously refined estimate alignment signal via a vehicle on-board filter (38). |
| FILED | Monday, January 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/028094 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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