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Patent Details for Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 08020220 | McElroy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Land and Armaments (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael McElroy (Gilbert, Arizona); Fielder Stanton Lyons (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A helmet system that enables a user of the helmet system to customize the helmet system according to personal taste, a task at hand, responsibilities within a tactical group (e.g., communications, command, etc.), and/or according to other parameters. The customization of the helmet system may include a customization of electronics modules carried on the helmet system that optionally provide communications, environment detection, health or biometrics monitoring, power, information transmission/reception, information processing, and/or other functionalities. The customization of the helmet system may include a customization of structural components that enable the user to balance the structural protection provided to the user against other considerations. The other considerations may include, for example, weight, form factor, comfort, and/or other considerations. |
| FILED | Monday, October 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/246272 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/467 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020366 | Cowan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis C. Cowan (East Hampton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine is piloted with a pilot flow of fuel delivered to a combustor as a liquid. A first additional flow of the fuel is also delivered to the combustor as a liquid. A second additional flow of the fuel is vaporized and delivered to the combustor as a vapor. A fuel injector may have passageways associated with each of the three flows. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869273 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.463 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020432 | Ballato |
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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) | Arthur Ballato (Oceanport, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A rigid, planar, non-resonating boundary is introduced parallel to the surface of the piezoelectric resonator in a measurand chamber in order to both reduce the separation space (l) between the resonator and confining wall and confine the measurand fluid between those surfaces in order to reliably measure acoustic viscosity independently form the mass density (ρ) of the measurand fluid. The hypothesis is that when the penetration depth (δ) is comparable to the separation distance (l) between the resonator and the confining wall, then resonator perturbation is a sensitive function of the abbreviated separation space. Variations in the spacing between the resonator and confining wall are accomplished by adjusting the rigid, planar, non-resonating boundary, or confining wall, with a means for lateral movement. The ability to accurately adjust and control small spaces thereby enables MEMS versions of viscometers and associated types of fluid sensors. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/453489 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020505 | Galway |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Galway (Virginia Beach, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for securing a surface water vessel to a floating station. The surface water vessel may be an unmanned surface vehicle, and the floating station may be attached to a larger parent ship. According to the invention, the surface water vessel includes a forwardly projecting elongated probe and the floating station includes a receiver having a receiver opening for receiving the elongated probe therein. The elongated probe includes a spherical tip having a circumferential groove. The receiver includes movable spheres that are moved into engagement with the circumferential groove, thereby locking the probe within the receiver. This locking arrangement secures the surface water vessel to the floating station. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079063 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/249 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020835 | Bulow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff A. Bulow (Syracuse, New York); Stephen G. Race (Liverpool, New York); Budd S. Honda (Baldwinsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for electronic module insertion and removal such as when high insertion/extraction forces are exerted in small spaces. To secure or unsecure the module a frame is mounted to a cabinet housing the high insertion module. The frame includes a lever assembly that fixedly rotates about an axle attached at each end to a hub. The hub is allowed to rotate to one or more fixed angular positions that move the lever proximity relative to the front surface of the high insertion module. Applying a pressure to the lever rotates the lever until the module is either secured or unsecured from its cabinet. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982594 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force 254/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021524 | Suh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong-Seok Suh (Seoul, South Korea); Ray Henry Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar Abdulahadovic Zakhidov (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to processes for the combination of injecting charge in a material electrochemically via non-faradaic (double-layer) charging, and retaining this charge and associated desirable properties changes when the electrolyte is removed. The present invention is also directed to compositions and applications using material property changes that are induced electrochemically by double-layer charging and retained during subsequent electrolyte removal. In some embodiments, the present invention provides reversible processes for electrochemically injecting charge into material that is not in direct contact with an electrolyte. Additionally, in some embodiments, the present invention is directed to devices and other material applications that use properties changes resulting from reversible electrochemical charge injection in the absence of an electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, October 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/580362 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/242 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021542 | Kirts |
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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) | Richard Eugene Kirts (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A water recovery method and apparatus which uses a desiccant, such as lithium chloride, to recover water vapor from the engine exhaust of a vehicle. The apparatus uses liquid-contactor to transfer water vapor from the vehicle exhaust to the liquid desiccant. The desiccant is then transferred to a reverse osmosis system which separates the liquid desiccant into potable water and a concentrated desiccant. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865993 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/96.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021549 | Kirts |
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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) | Richard Eugene Kirts (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for desalinating seawater which uses an ammonia bicarbonate forward osmosis desalination process. Seawater is pumped through one side of a membrane assembly. A draw solution is pumped through the other side of the membrane assembly. The draw solution withdraws water molecules from the seawater through the membrane into the draw solution. A draw solution separator receives a heated draw solution which then decomposes into ammonia, carbon dioxide and water. Potable water is separated from ammonia has and carbon dioxide gas. The ammonia gas and carbon dioxide gas are recombined with a portion of the potable water stream to reform the ammonium bicarbonate draw solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865897 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/257.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021791 | Plichta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washingotn, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Plichta (Howell, New Jersey); Mary A. Hendrickson (Forked River, New Jersey); Ronald J. Thompson (Howell, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical cell includes an anode composed of a salt, a cathode insulated from the anode and a non-aqueous electrolyte in contact with the anode. The electrolyte may include an organic solvent that comprises at least approximately one percent by volume trimethylene carbonate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809063 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/322 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021830 | Van Dyke |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Van Dyke (Winston Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A liquid plasma expander or resuscitation fluid composition for use in a subject in need thereof, comprising, consisting of; or consisting essentially of: (a) a keratin derivative (preferably alpha keratose, gamma keratose, or combinations thereof, and with basic alpha keratose preferred over acidic alpha keratose); and (b) an electrolyte solution, with the keratin derivative solubilized in the electrolyte solution to form a homogeneous liquid composition. Blood substitutes formed therefrom and methods of making and using the same are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209773 |
| 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 08021884 | Wick |
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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) | Charles H. Wick (Darlington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for detecting the presence of submicron sized particles in a sample taken from the environment. More particularly, the system may be used to detect and identify bacteria by detecting the presence of bacterial pili which have been separated from bacterial cells in the sample. The system includes means for collecting a sample from the environment, separating pili from bacteria in the sample, and purifying and concentrating the submicron sized pili in the sample based on the size of the pili. The purified and concentrated pili are detected with an apparatus which includes an electrospray assembly having an electrospray capillary, a differential mobility analyzer which receives output from the capillary, and a condensation particle counting device for counting the number of pili sized particles that pass through the differential mobility analyzer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/964032 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021991 | Hughes 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) | Harold L Hughes (West River, Maryland); Bernard J Mrstik (Alexandria, Virginia); Reed K Lawrence (Purcellville, Virginia); Patrick J McMarr (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Oxide films are deposited under conditions generating a silicon-rich oxide in which silicon nanoclusters form either during deposition or during subsequent annealing. Such deposition conditions include those producing films with optical indices (n) greater than 1.46. The method of the present invention reduces the TID radiation-induced shifts for the oxides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365951 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/787 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022006 | Dressick 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) | Walter J. Dressick (Waldorf, Maryland); Cynthia N. Kostelansky (Alexandria, Virginia); Terence L. Schull (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalyst nanoparticle covalently bonded to a surface ligand wherein the surface ligand has a peripheral functional group having a property suitable to ensure solubility in a fluid such as a hydroxylic solvent, water, lower molecular weight alcohol, methanol, ethanol, iso-propanol, or and mixtures thereof. The peripheral functional group can have an ability to couple the catalyst nanoparticle to a second catalyst nanoparticle or to a bridging material. The peripheral functional group can be capable of interacting with a surface functional group on a conductive electrode substrate. The covalently-bound ligand bearing a peripheral functional group can have a charge opposite to or chemical reactivity amenable with that of the surface functional group. A method of making a catalyst nanoparticle comprising bonding a surface ligand to a catalyst nanoparticle wherein the bonding is via a covalent bond and the surface ligand has a peripheral functional group. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/513435 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022012 | Moeckly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Superconductor Technologies, Inc. (Santa Barbara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian H. Moeckly (Menlo Park, California); Ward S. Ruby (Palm City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for fabricating thin films on a substrate includes a vacuum chamber, a rotatable platen configured to hold one or more substrates within the vacuum chamber, and a housing disposed within the vacuum chamber. The housing contains a heating element and is configured to enclose an upper surface of the platen and a lower portion configured to partially enclose an underside surface of the platen which forms a reaction zone. A heated evaporation cell is operatively coupled to the lower portion of the housing and configured to deliver a pressurized metallic reactant to the reaction zone. The device includes a deposition zone disposed in the vacuum chamber and isolated from the reaction zone and is configured to deposit a deposition species to the exposed underside of the substrates when the substrates are not contained in the reaction zone. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209142 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/470 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022394 | Solomon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gemma Solomon (Chicago, Illinois); David Andrews (Alexandria, Virginia); Mark Ratner (Glencoe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A molecular quantum interference device for use in molecular electronics. In one embodiment, the device includes a molecular quantum interference unit having a first terminal group and a second terminal group between which quantum interference affects electrical conduction, a molecular spacer having a first terminal group and a second terminal group and coupled to the molecular quantum interference unit through a chemical bonding between the first terminal group of the molecular spacer and the second terminal group of the molecular quantum interference unit, a first electrode electrically coupled to the molecular quantum interference unit and configured to supply charge carriers to or receive charge carriers from the molecular quantum interference unit, and a second electrode electrically coupled to the molecular spacer and configured to receive charge carriers from or supply charge carriers to the molecular spacer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338648 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022416 | Huber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Hullinger Huber (Scotia, New York); Ching-Yeu Wei (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A functional block for assembly includes at least one element and a patterned magnetic film comprising at least one magnetic region attached to the element. A wafer includes a host substrate comprising a number of elements. The wafer further includes a patterned magnetic film attached to the elements and comprising a number of magnetic regions. The magnetic regions are attached to respective ones of the elements. A method of manufacture includes forming a number of magnetic regions on a host substrate having an array of elements. The forming step provides at least one of the magnetic regions for a respective group comprising at least one of the elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/254096 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022454 | Rappe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Marshall Rappe (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Na Sai (Austin, Texas); Alexie Michelle Kolpak (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Ferroelectric structures and methods of making the structures are presented. The ferroelectric structures can include an electrode in contact with a ferroelectric thin film. The contact can be arranged so that a portion of the atoms of the ferroelectric thin film are in contact with at least a portion of the atoms of the electrode. The electrode can be made of metal, a metal alloy, or a semiconducting material. A second electrode can be used and placed in contact with the ferroelectric thin film. Methods of making and using the ferroelectric structures are also presented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/817052 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022603 | Kiefer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joachim R. Kiefer (Losheim am See, Germany); Joachim Vendulet (Niederkirchen, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A piezoelectric actuator (2) comprising a stack of one or more piezoelectric elements (4) defining an external surface, and passivation means (20) applied to the external surface of the stack, wherein the passivation means (20) includes a self-supporting polyimide material (20b) (e.g. in the form of a layer, film or membrane). |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/223910 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022776 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Daquan Huang (Dallas, Texas); Tim Richard LaRocca (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to coupled circuits and methods of coupling circuits having a power supply wherein a plurality of transistors are inductively coupled directly to the power supply for providing a single DC supply voltage directly to each of the plurality of transistors, and wherein a plurality of transformers have primary and secondary windings, the primary and secondary windings providing, at least in part, inductive loads for inductively coupling the plurality of transistors to the power supply, the plurality of transformers also providing an AC signal path for coupling neighboring ones of the plurality of transistors together. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/997354 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/36.L00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022857 | Carcone |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Carcone (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A submarine warfare radar training system 10 includes an underwater vehicle 15 towing a float device 40 and a radar reflective target 45. The radar reflective target 45 is configured as a hollow tube-shaped element 50 having circular open leading and trailing open circular end to allow water to flow through the target as it is towed. The target 45 includes a positive buoyancy material layer 60 and is horizontally oriented during towing. The float device 40 is configured to support the radar reflective target 45 open leading end above the water surface 30 as the float device 40 and radar reflective target 45 are towed along the water surface to deliver air into the hollow cross-section. The radar reflective target 45 has an adjustable RCS which can be increased or decreased by lengthening or shortening the radar reflective target. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700285 |
| 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 342/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023116 | Zumberge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Zumberge (San Diego, California); Jonathan Berger (San Diego, California); Robert L. Parker (San Diego, California); Matthew Dzieciuch (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and devices for digitally resolving quadrature fringe signals from interferometers such as optical interferometers and interferometer-based sensing devices. In one implementation, two quadrature fringe signals from an interferometer which causes two signals in two signal paths to interfere with each other are sampled to obtain digital data samples from the two quadrature fringe signals. The digital data samples are used to perform a linear least square fitting to establish coefficients for an ellipse traced by the two quadrature fringe signals as a phase difference between the two signal paths changes. A pair of digital data samples are respectively obtained from the two quadrature signals at a given moment and are used to compute a corresponding phase difference between the two signal paths of the interferometer from established coefficients of the ellipse. The coefficient for the ellipse can be updated over time. This digital processing allows for real time processing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754963 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023175 | Morgan |
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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) | Brian Carl Morgan (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment comprises a dynamic display based on a program image element which will only generate a preprogrammed image. As an example, the image element may comprise electrically-driven MEMS mirrors. This example may be embedded in an ID card. At the time of issue of the ID card, pixels in the mirror array will be permanently programmed as either ‘alive’ or ‘dead’ in a pattern matching the photo of the person in question. When stimulated, only ‘alive’ pixels will actuate, creating an image for comparison to the adjacent printed photo. Due to its dynamic behavior, delicate mechanical structures, and single-time hard-wiring, duplication of, or tampering with, this secondary dynamic image will be nearly impossible. The ID car is but one exemplary application and other embodiments, applications, and methods are described in the specification and claims. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/367087 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023195 | Alekseyev-Popov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gentex Corporation (Carbondale, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrey Vadimovich Alekseyev-Popov (Mount Kisco, New York); John Fernando Cueva (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser eye protection (LEP) system for a helmet having a helmet-mounted display (HMD) system. The LEP system includes a large outer visor, which provides ballistic protection, LEP and a display surface for the HMD, and a smaller inner visor, which also provides LEP. LEP is split between the two visors, so that the outer visor can block light in a wavelength that overlaps with the peak wavelength range of the HMD without impairing the wearer's ability to view HMD imagery. The outer visor also preferably does not block near IR light, which allows image-enhancement devices to be positioned within the protective envelope of the outer visor while the smaller inner visor protects the wearer from near IR threats. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256959 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023267 | Streyle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Jay Streyle (Walker, Michigan); Benjamin Jon Vander Ploeg (Kentwood, Michigan); Meredith Marie Steenwyk (Kentwood, Michigan); Danny Weldon Coxon (Conklin, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An avionics chassis comprises a housing having opposing walls, a pair of spaced card rails with one rail mounted to each of the opposing walls where each rail has a channel to define an effective slot between the rails, a circuit card assembly comprising a PCB and a thermal plane in overlying relationship with the PCB, with the PCB defining a first primary plane, and the thermal plane defining a second primary plane and the spatial relationship between them is such that the planes are located within the slot when the circuit card assembly is mounted to the card rails and the thermal plane is conductively coupled to a rail to form a first conductive path from the thermal plane to one of the walls and the PCB is conductively coupled to a rail to form a second conductive path from the PCB to one of the walls. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487834 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/707 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023307 | Carter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard J. Carter (Los Altos, California); Frederic Amerson (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for handling peripheral signals in an extensible three dimensional circuit includes forming an extensible three dimensional circuit with a plurality of stacked crossbar arrays and at least one class of traveling lines which travel vertically and laterally through the circuit. The method also includes alternating the traveling direction of bundles of traveling lines such that there are a substantially equal number of undriven lines and underutilized lines which exit out of a given side of the circuit and creating loopback traces which connect the undriven traveling lines and the underutilized traveling lines to form driven traveling lines with a full complement of memory elements and eliminate addressing gaps within the circuit. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771158 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023423 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Licensing Company, LLC (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cho-Yu Jason Chiang (Clinton, New Jersey); Gary Levin (Bedminster, New Jersey); Yitzchak Gottlieb (Edison, New Jersey); Ritu Chadha (Hillsborough, New Jersey); Shih-wei Li (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A solution to the problem of automated policy generation for mobile ad hoc networks includes an optimization-based, utility-driven approach aimed at generating optimal policies with respect to the given network objectives. The combination of optimization heuristics and network simulation is used to solve the problem. Specifically, the problem of automated generation of network management policies based on available network plans and related information is solved by converting the policy generation into the following optimization problem: given network information and objectives as input, generate optimal policies as output. The optimization process is guided by a utility function based on performance evaluation criteria reflecting the network objectives. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825365 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023544 | Bour et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Bour (Cupertino, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California); Zhihong Yang (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The AlGaN upper cladding layer of a nitride laser diode is replaced by a non-epitaxial layer, such as metallic silver. If chosen to have a relatively low refractive index value, the mode loss from absorption in the non-epitaxial cladding layer is acceptably small. If also chosen to have a relatively high work-function, the non-epitaxial layer forms an electrical contact to the nitride semiconductors. An indium-tin-oxide layer may also be employed with the non-epitaxial cladding layer. |
| FILED | Monday, November 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/941862 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/45.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023546 | Strittmatter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Strittmatter (Menlo Park, California); Christopher L. Chua (San Jose, California); Noble M. Johnson (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor light-emitting device has, in place of a traditional separate cladding layer and contact structure, a non-epitaxial contact and waveguide layer. The non-epitaxial contact and waveguide layer is formed of a conductive material and such that it has a recess therein and over the injection region. Air filling the region together with appropriate choice of material for the non-epitaxial contact and waveguide layer creates desired lateral waveguiding. Metallic silver in one choice for this material. The recess may also be filled with a low-loss material having a refractive index higher than that of the material forming the non-epitaxial contact and waveguide layer. Transparent conductive oxides (e.g., indium tin oxide (ITO), zinc oxide (ZnO), etc.), appropriate metal (e.g., gold), or a composite comprising a conductive oxide and a metal, provide low absorption in the UV and near-IR wavelengths of interest, and are thus good candidate materials for within the recess. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564302 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/46.14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023760 | Buck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Buck (San Diego, California); Brian T. Williams (San Diego, California); Elan Sharghi (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes the steps of selecting an image filtering technique, receiving an image from an image source, processing the received image to provide a processed image, and displaying the processed image to a user. Processing the received image includes the steps of adjusting the received image to provide an adjusted image, filtering the adjusted image according to the selected image filtering technique to provide a filtered image, and adjusting the filtered image. The image filtering technique may be selected from histogram equalization, band-pass filtering, adaptive enhancement filtering, or other techniques. The method may be used in an image processing system having memory, a processor, and a display. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952041 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023784 | Beranek |
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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) | Mark W. Beranek (Leonardtown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical subassembly package configuration for monitoring a fiber, the configuration includes a container, an optical subassembly, an optical fiber, and a ferrule. The container has a face, and the optical subassembly is disposed within the container. The optical fiber communicates with the subassembly. The ferrule is attached to the face of the container, the fiber being monitored terminates inside the ferrule. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404550 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/33 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024183 | Navratil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiri Navratil (White Plains, New York); Jagon Pelecanos (Ossining, New York); Ganesh N. Ramaswamy (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for speaker recognition and identification includes transforming features of a speaker utterance in a first condition state to match a second condition state and provide a transformed utterance. A discriminative criterion is used to generate a transform that maps an utterance to obtain a computed result. The discriminative criterion is maximized over a plurality of speakers to obtain a best transform for recognizing speech and/or identifying a speaker under the second condition state. Speech recognition and speaker identity may be determined by employing the best transform for decoding speech to reduce channel mismatch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132079 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024318 | Sample 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) | John T. Sample (Pearl River, Louisiana); Lev I Shulman (New Orleans, Louisiana); Frank P McCreedy (Diamondhead, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and computer system for identifying internet web pages containing documents that comply with a predetermined XML schema. The method includes searching the internet with a search engine for web pages using initial search terms and identifying a first set of HTTP URLs, web crawling at least the first set of HTTP URLs to identify additional HTTP URLs, appending a query to the identified URLs, and evaluating the responses to the query to determine which responses comply with the predetermined XML schema. The XML schema can be a Web Mapping Services schema. The system can store responses that comply with the XML schema in a database of servers, periodically check the database for validity, and convert the map requests for map servers in the database to a GIDB Portal Interface API. |
| FILED | Monday, November 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/627073 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024461 | Ryder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Ryder (San Diego, California); Scott T. Evans (Alpine, California); Eric I. Jensen (Chula Vista, California); Alice Moore (San Diego, California); Alan O. Peterson (La Mesa, California); Robert S. Drew (San Diego, California); Walter M. Seay (Poway, California); Kathy Seay (Poway, California); Jeffrey B. Lee (Lakeside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Communication Assets Survey and Mapping Tool. The method includes collecting and storing agency, communication asset and interoperability data in a database, receiving a request for a display of agency, communication asset and interoperability of a geographic area, retrieving data regarding agency, communication asset and interoperability information from the database, determining interoperability between agencies based on their communication assets data and displaying interoperability information. Features include prioritizing interoperability solutions (a need vs ability analysis), data entry graphical user interface, data export, and community forum. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365540 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024527 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Jerry D. Lewis (Round Rock, Texas); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to a method of data processing in a multiprocessor data processing system, in response to a processor request to read a target granule of a target cache line of data containing multiple granules, a processing unit originates on an interconnect of the multiprocessor data processing system a partial read request that requests permission to read only the target granule of the target cache line. In response to a combined response to the partial read request indicating success, the combined response representing a system-wide response to the partial read request, the processing unit receives the target granule of the target cache line, supplies the target granule to a requesting processor core, and updates a coherency state of the target granule while retaining a coherency state of at least one other granule of the target cache line. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024432 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/146 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024636 | Laprade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Laprade (Palm Bay, Florida); Matthew C. Cobb (W. Melbourne, Florida); Timothy F. Dyson (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A Serially Concatenated Convolutional Code (SCCC) decoding system includes an outer decoder module (208), permutation module (104), and data store (114). The outer decoder module is configured to generate a first sequence of soft-decision bits x[n] for n=0, 1, 2, . . . , N−1. The permutation module is configured to permute the first sequence of soft-decision bits x[n] to generate a second sequence of soft-decision bits y[n]. The first sequence of soft-decision bits x[n] is generated by the outer decoder module in accordance with a mapping v[n]. The second sequence of soft-decision bits y[n] is generated for communication to an inner decoder module (204). The data store contains a mapping v[n]. The mapping v[n] satisfies a mathematical equation v[k+m·(N/M)] modulo (N/M)=v[k] modulo (N/M) for m=0, . . . , M−1 and k=0, . . . , (N/M−1). (NM) is an integer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744440 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/755 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08020694 | Hasson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medi-Physics, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenton C. Hasson (Durham, North Carolina); William Happer (Princeton, New Jersey); Geri T. K. Zollinger (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A transport unit includes a plurality of permanent magnets arranged to provide a magnetic holding field for protecting hyperpolarized gas during storage and/or transport. The permanent magnets are configured in a relatively light weight manner to project a substantially cylindrical magnetic holding field or spherical holding field in space. The magnet arrangements can include primary magnets and field shaping secondary magnets which act to enlarge the region of homogeneity. The permanent magnet arrangement can also be provided with a cylindrical shaped flex sheet magnetically activated to provide the magnetic holding field. The permanent magnet arrangements do not require disassembly to insert or remove one or more containers of hyperpolarized gas in or out of the transport unit. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/335006 |
| ART UNIT | 3728 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Special receptacle or package 26/.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08020790 | Kemppainen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon Kemppainen (Austin, Texas); Gary J. Latham (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved ball mill disruption techniques. In different embodiments, disrupting particles that are not substantially spherical are used. In other embodiments, roughened disrupting particles are used. In other embodiments, larger disrupting particles are used. In each instance, improved disruption can be achieved. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/576661 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid material comminution or disintegration 241/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021298 | Baird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Psychological Applications LLC (South Pomfret, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Baird (South Pomfret, Vermont); John R. Arscott (Northants, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A pain depth mapping system and method may be used to map the location and depth of pain experienced by a user (e.g., a patient). The pain depth mapping system and method is capable of displaying one or more body representations with symptom representations representing the location of the pain. The pain depth mapping system and method allows the user to delineate one or more user-defined pain depth regions on a cross-section of the body representation with the symptom representations to form a pain map. The symptom mapping system and method may also allow the user to vary the pain intensity represented by the symptom representations as the user delineates the user-defined pain depth region(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769993 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021480 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A static fluid and a second fluid are placed into contact along a microfluidic free interface and allowed to mix by diffusion without convective flow across the interface. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the fluids are static and initially positioned on either side of a closed valve structure in a microfluidic channel having a width that is tightly constrained in at least one dimension. The valve is then opened, and no-slip layers at the sides of the microfluidic channel suppress convective mixing between the two fluids along the resulting interface. Applications for microfluidic free interfaces in accordance with embodiments of the present invention include, but are not limited to, protein crystallization studies, protein solubility studies, determination of properties of fluidics systems, and a variety of biological assays such as diffusive immunoassays, substrate turnover assays, and competitive binding assays. |
| FILED | Friday, April 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/762170 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021646 | Sulzer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lindsay K. Sulzer (Chicago, Illinois); Steven R. Bull (Boston, Massachusetts); Annelise Emily Barron (Palo Alto, California); Thomas J Meade (Wilmette, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides for compositions and methods of creating and applying contrast agents that find use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In particular, contrast agents that comprise monodisperse, protein polymer backbones capable of chelating multiple paramagnetic ions resulting in high relaxivity for use in enhancing MRI signal intensity. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/952691 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.360 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert J. Wong (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Peptides or antibodies derived from alternative splice forms of proteins associated with a disease or physiologic condition are used as therapeutic or prophylactic agents. Peptides and antibodies derived from alternative splice forms of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family of proteins are particularly useful in preventing or delaying the onset of tumors and inducing tumor regression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 28, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/156932 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021668 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immune Disease Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moonsoo Jin (Ithaca, New York); Timothy Springer (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated polypeptide capable of binding to aCAM-1, comprising the integrin (XL I domain or biologically active portion thereof, wherein one or more residues is substituted, wherein the substituted polypeptide binds ICAM-I at a higher affinity than wild type integrin CCL protein. The invention provides a method for inhibiting ICAM-I and a pharmaceutical composition comprising an integrin (XL I domain polypeptide or biologically active portion of the polypeptides. The invention also provides a method of treating or preventing an LFA-I mediated ICAM-1 associated disease such as inflammation, artherosclerosis, allograft rejection, diabetes, T-cell mediated sensitization reaction, psoriasis, HIV infection, or rheumatoid arthritis. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/097004 |
| 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 08021671 | Kernodle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); The United States of America as represented by The Department of Veteran' Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. Kernodle (Brentwood, Tennessee); Markian R. Bochan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Whole-cell vaccines and methods for their use in producing protective immune responses in vertebrate hosts subsequently exposed to pathogenic bacteria. The present invention involves a method of enhancing antigen presentation by intracellular bacteria in a manner that improves vaccine efficacy. After identifying an enzyme that has an anti-apoptotic effect upon host cells infected by an intracellular microbe, the activity of the enzyme is reduced, thereby modifying the microbe so that it increases immunogenicity. Also, the present invention provides a method of incrementally modifying enzyme activity to produce incrementally attenuated mutants of the microbe from which an effective vaccine candidate can be selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/467644 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
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| US 08021673 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvào Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Florence, Italy); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/078879 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
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| US 08021835 | Rice et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Rice (New York, New York); Matthew J. Evans (New York, New York); Thomas Von Hahn (Hamburg, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the discovery that the Claudin-1 protein functions as a co-receptor for entry of HCV into cells. Methods of inhibiting, preventing or mitigating HCV infections by inhibiting HCV interactions with Claudin-1 are provided. Methods of identifying agents or compounds that interfere with HCV interactions with Claudin-1 are also provided. Finally, useful kits, cell culture compositions, agents, and compounds related to the inhibition of HCV interactions with Claudin-1 are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, May 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299439 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021867 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J. Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Derek Jantz (Durham, North Carolina); Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG (SEQ ID NO: 37) meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/583368 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
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| US 08021872 | Sklar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry A Sklar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Bruce S Edwards (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Frederick W Kuckuck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, provides a flow cytometry apparatus for the detection of particles from a plurality of samples comprising: means for moving a plurality of samples comprising particles from a plurality of respective source wells into a fluid flow stream; means for introducing a separation gas between each of the plurality of samples in the fluid flow stream; and means for selectively analyzing each of the plurality of samples for the particles. The present invention also provides a flow cytometry method employing such an apparatus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/924542 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.300 |
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| US 08021874 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Anderson (Edmond, Oklahoma); Martin-Paul Agbaga (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Richard S. Brush (Midwest City, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to processes for production of Very Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (VLC-PUFAs). The present invention also relates to compositions (e.g., nutritional supplements and food products) containing such VLC-PUFAs. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to methods for biosynthesis and production of the VLC-PUFAs described herein (particularly C28-C38 PUFAs, also referred to herein as supraenes or supraenoics) by the expression, in a production host cell, of the full or partial sequence(s) of Elovl4 DNA/mRNA nucleic acids or ELOVL4 protein sequences encoded thereby, from any species (prokaryotic or eukaryotic) for use in the biosynthesis, production, purification and utilization of VLC-PUFAs in particular by the elongation of C18-C26 saturated fatty acids and PUFAs. The composition of the invention comprises, in various embodiments, a dietary supplement, a food product, a pharmaceutical formulation, a humanized animal milk, an infant formula, a cosmetic item and a biodiesel fuel for example. A pharmaceutical formulation can include, but is not limited to: a drug for treatment of neurodegenerative disease, a retinal disorder, age related maculopathy, a fertility disorder, particularly regarding sperm or testes, or a skin disorder. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361163 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/289.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021877 | Rosenthal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam Rosenthal (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Joel Voldman (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides devices comprising substrates with wells for the patterning of particles or cells. Such devices are loaded with a suspension of particles or cell, and the entrapped particles or cells are transferred to a second substrate, where patterning of individual particles or cells occurs. Methods of cellular analysis, cell growth studies, surface modification, optical display fabrication and curved surface patterning using devices of this invention are described. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400801 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021891 | Rotello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Rotello (Amherst, Massachusetts); Uwe Bunz (Atlanta, Georgia); Chang-Cheng You (Amherst, Massachusetts); Oscar Miranda (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ik-Bum Kim (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods and related apparatus, as can be used for selective protein detection and identification. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313116 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021892 | Jesmanowicz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrzej Jesmanowicz (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a transmitter that produces an RF excitation pulse that is applied to a subject positioned in the MRI system to induce emission of at least one of an NMR signal and an ESR signal therefrom, and that produces a reference signal indicative of the phase of the RF excitation pulse. A first analog-to-digital converter has an input for receiving the reference signal that is synchronous with the RF excitation pulse. One or more additional analog-to-digital converters/processors have inputs for receiving the at least one of NMR signals and ESR signals produced by a subject placed in the MRI system and produce one or more complex digital signals therefrom. A normalizer is connected to receive and normalize the digital reference signal and a mixer is connected to receive the normalized digital reference signal and the digital signal. Accordingly, the mixer is operable to multiply the normalized complex digital reference signal with the complex digital signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/872641 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022013 | Ellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett Ellman (Cardiff, California); Michal Lebl (San Diego, California); Aaron Jones (San Diego, California); Steve Fambro (Carlsbad, California); David Heiner (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a solid-phase support, the method including the steps of providing a substrate having a reaction vessel, dispensing a particle in the reaction vessel, and permanently bonding the particle in the substrate within the reaction vessel. The particle may include a microbead. The particle may include controlled pore glass. A method of synthesis is also disclosed that includes including the steps of providing a solid-phase support including a particle embedded to the substrate adjacent a surface of substrate, the particle being functionalized to covalently attach an intermediate compound of a synthetic reaction, dispensing a liquid including a reagent to the solid-phase support to effect the synthetic reaction, and removing the liquid from the solid-phase support by centrifugation, whereby the intermediate compound remains attached to the substrate by the particle. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/651568 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven A. Porcelli (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | α-Galactosylceramides and glycosylceramides (“ceramide-like glycolipids”) that modulate NK T cells. The ceramide-like glycolipids vary in the cytokines induced in NK T cells and vary in the antigen-presenting cells that are capable of efficiently presenting the compounds to NK T cells. Pharmaceutical compositions of the ceramide-like glycolipids are provided, as are pharmaceutical compositions of the ceramide-like glycolipids combined with dendritic cells. Methods utilizing the ceramide-like glycolipids in vaccines, to activate NK T cells, to stimulate the immune system, and to treat mammals are also provided. The invention also provides methods of evaluating a compound for its ability to activate an NK T cell in the presence of a cell expressing a CD1d protein. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785988 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
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| US 08022046 | Brown et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baxter International, Inc. (Deerfield, Illinois); University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Larry R. Brown (Newton, Massachusetts); Nick Giannoukakis (Coraopolis, Pennsylvania); Massimo Trucco (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided that includes using an antisense approach to reverse and/or delay an autoimmune diabetes condition in vivo. The oligonucleotides are targeted to bind to primary transcripts CD40, CD80, CD86 and their combinations. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426904 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022052 | Parhami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farhad Parhami (Los Angeles, California); Woo-Kyun Kim (Los Angeles, California); Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Khanhlinh Nguyen (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods for using agents to inhibit peroxisome proliferator activated receptor expression. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/520281 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022058 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Robert Marks (Larchmont, New York); Donald W. Landry (New York, New York); Shixian Deng (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula I and salts, hydrates, solvates, complexes, and prodrugs thereof. The present invention further provides methods for synthesizing compounds of Formula I. The invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions of Formula I to treat and prevent disorders and diseases associated with the RyR receptors that regulate calcium channel functioning in cells. Such disorders and diseases include, by way of example only, cardiac disorders and diseases, skeletal muscular disorders and diseases, cognitive disorders and diseases, malignant hyperthermia, diabetes, and sudden infant death syndrome. Cardiac disorder and diseases include, but are not limited to, irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases; exercise-induced irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases; sudden cardiac death; exercise-induced sudden cardiac death; congestive heart failure; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and high blood pressure. Irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases include and exercise-induced irregular heartbeat disorders and diseases include, but are not limited to, atrial and ventricular arrhythmia; atrial and ventricular fibrillation; atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmia; atrial and ventricular tachycardia; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT); and exercise-induced variants thereof. Skeletal muscular disorder and diseases include, but are not limited to, skeletal muscle fatigue, exercise-induced skeletal muscle fatigue, muscular dystrophy, bladder disorders, and incontinence. Cognitive disorders and diseases include, but are not limited to, Alzheimer's Disease, forms of memory loss, and age-dependent memory loss. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/212309 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/211.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022080 | Zhu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Radix Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Potomac, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shuren Zhu (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides new chemical compositions with desirable biological activity and toxicity profiles for the enhanced treatment of malaria. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454046 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022105 | Serhan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Aspirin (ASA) triggers a switch in the biosynthesis of lipid mediators, inhibiting prostanoid production and initiating 15-epi-lipoxin generation, through the acetylation of cyclooxygenase II. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546242 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/543 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022176 | Greene et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark I. Greene (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Ramachandran Murali (Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania); Akihiro Hasegawa (Chiba, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Exocyclic peptide mimetics that disable Fas were developed. A three dimensional model of the Fas receptor-ligand complex was constructed and structurally predicted regions of the receptor that were relevant to binding ligand were used to create constrained peptide mimetics. Exocyclic anti-Fas peptide mimetics were identified that block Fas receptor-ligand interactions, and modulate Fas biological activity both in vitro and in vivo. The mimetics are useful, e.g., for treating Fas-related pathologies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869556 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022177 | Best et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip M. Best (Urbana, Illinois); Janice Jones (Champaign, Illinois); Jared P. Hansen (Peoria, Illinois); Zuojun Lin (Urbana, Illinois); Karen E. Weis (Champaign, Illinois); Po-Ju Chu (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Calcium channels in a variety of tissues may contain different subunits, including several different γ (gamma) subunits. We report studies regarding structural features of certain gamma subunits, for example the N-terminal first transmembrane domain (TM1) of the subunit γ6. We disclose that certain structural motifs, for example a GxxxG-like structural motif as described herein, can mediate subunit function for calcium channels. A particular peptide motif that has been identified as significant for the ability to mediate a decrease in calcium current is GxxxA. Compositions and methods are disclosed which are useful in modifying calcium regulation in mammalian cells. In various embodiments, calcium current is modified. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/537323 |
| 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 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022246 | Lipton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Lipton (La Jolla, California); Takumi Satoh (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Neurite outgrowth-promoting prostaglandins (NEPPs) and other electrophilic compounds bind to Keap1, a negative regulator of the transcription factor Nrf2, and prevent Keap1-mediated inactivation of Nrf2 and, thus, enhance Nrf2 translocation into the nucleus of neuronal cells. Therefore, neuroprotective compositions and related methods are provided that employ such neuroprotective compounds, and prodrugs of such compounds, to cause dissociation of Nrf2 from a Keap1/Nrf2 complex. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/974114 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022361 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daojing Wang (Daly City, California); Peidong Yang (Kensington, California); Woong Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Rong Fan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel and significantly simplified procedures for fabrication of fully integrated nanoelectrospray emitters have been described. For nanofabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters (NM2 emitters), a bottom up approach using silicon nanowires on a silicon sliver is used. For microfabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters (M3 emitters), a top down approach using MEMS techniques on silicon wafers is used. The emitters have performance comparable to that of commercially-available silica capillary emitters for nanoelectrospray mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/298905 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
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| US 08022704 | Qian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongxian Qian (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Fernando E. Boada (Wexford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing a magnetic resonance image using an ultra-short echo time. The method includes applying a pulse sequence to an object, detecting a spirally encoded and phase encoded magnetic resonance signal associated with the object, and reconstructing the magnetic resonance image based on the spirally encoded and phase encoded magnetic resonance signal. The pulse sequence includes a slab-selective radiofrequency pulse, a slab-selective gradient pulse, a plurality of variable duration slice encoding gradient pulses, a plurality of first spiral encoding gradient pulses, and a plurality of second spiral encoding gradient pulses. The detection of the spirally encoded and phase encoded magnetic resonance signal occurs concurrently with the application of one of the plurality of first spiral encoding gradient pulses and with the application of one of the plurality of second spiral encoding gradient pulses. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/784528 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023046 | Lazar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aurel A. Lazar (New York, New York); Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for encoding and decoding signals using a Multi-input Multi-output Time Encoding Machine (TEM) and Time Decoding Machine are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645292 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/723 |
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| US 08023703 | Franaszek 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, National Institues of Health (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek Franaszek (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An image of an anatomical structure can be analyzed to determine an enclosing three-dimensional boundary when the anatomical structure is filled with two substances, such as air and a fluid. Various techniques can be used to determine the enclosing boundary including: analyzing the virtual structure to segment the structure into air and fluid pockets, determining if there are multiple fluid pockets whose surface touches a single air-fluid boundary, determining a separate threshold for respective fluid pockets, resegmenting the virtual anatomical structure using the separate threshold for different fluid pockets, forming a hierarchical pocket tree which represents the relationship between the fluid and air pockets, pruning the pocket tree based on various criteria which corresponds to deleting those pruned portions from the virtual anatomical structure, and resegmenting the remaining virtual anatomical structure using one or more of fuzzy connectedness, two-dimensional gap filling, and level set segmentation. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482682 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08023710 | Summers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald M. Summers (Potomac, Maryland); Jiang Li (Virginia Beach, Virginia); Sharon Greenblum (Kensington, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Various techniques can be used to improve classification of colon polyps candidates found via computed tomographic colonography computer aided detection (CTCCAD). A polyp candidate can be classified as a true positive or a false positive. For example, a two-dimensional projection image of the polyp can be generated from a three-dimensional representation and classified based on features of the projection image. An optimal viewpoint for the projection image can be found via techniques such as maximizing viewpoint entropy. Wavelet processing can be used to extract features from the two-dimensional projection image. Feature extraction can use a piecewise linear orthonormal floating search for locating most predictive neighbors for wavelet coefficients, and support vector machines can be employed for classification. The techniques can be useful for improving accuracy of CTCCAD techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/685127 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
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| US 08023767 | Ning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruola Ning (Fairport, New York); Yan Zhang (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D metal artifacts correction technique corrects the streaking artifacts generated by titanium implants or other similar objects. A cone-beam computed tomography system is utilized to provide 3D images. A priori information (such as the shape information and the CT value) of high density sub-objects is acquired and used for later artifacts correction. An optimization process with iterations is applied to minimize the error and result in accurate reconstruction images of the object. |
| FILED | Monday, March 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/045552 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/275 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Hunt (Portland, Oregon); Robert Westervelt (Lexington, Massachusetts); Ania Bleszynski (Thousand Oaks, California); Jonathan Aguilar (Miami, Florida); Keith Brown (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Dielectrophoretic (DEP) tweezers apparatus and methods for various applications, including particle trapping. Multiple electrodes (e.g., two or three) are disposed on or otherwise constitute an elongated object forming a tip. Exemplary electrode configurations include, but are not limited to, coaxial and triaxial arrangements. A voltage is applied across these electrodes to produce a non-uniform electromagnetic field proximate to the tip thereby creating a dielectrophoretic trap. Once trapped, a particle may be moved to desired locations via manipulation of the elongated object or the medium in which the particle is located. Multiple DEP tweezers apparatus may be arranged to form arrays of tips capable of respectively generating local electromagnetic fields confined to the tips. Such DEP arrays may be employed in nanofabrication processes involving nanolithography or nano-manipulation, as well as data storage and retrieval applications. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388660 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021570 | Gellman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); William C. Pomerantz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides materials and methods that make liquid crystal phases accessible with relatively short β-peptides in aqueous solvents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/762574 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/299.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021891 | Rotello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Rotello (Amherst, Massachusetts); Uwe Bunz (Atlanta, Georgia); Chang-Cheng You (Amherst, Massachusetts); Oscar Miranda (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ik-Bum Kim (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods and related apparatus, as can be used for selective protein detection and identification. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313116 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022394 | Solomon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gemma Solomon (Chicago, Illinois); David Andrews (Alexandria, Virginia); Mark Ratner (Glencoe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A molecular quantum interference device for use in molecular electronics. In one embodiment, the device includes a molecular quantum interference unit having a first terminal group and a second terminal group between which quantum interference affects electrical conduction, a molecular spacer having a first terminal group and a second terminal group and coupled to the molecular quantum interference unit through a chemical bonding between the first terminal group of the molecular spacer and the second terminal group of the molecular quantum interference unit, a first electrode electrically coupled to the molecular quantum interference unit and configured to supply charge carriers to or receive charge carriers from the molecular quantum interference unit, and a second electrode electrically coupled to the molecular spacer and configured to receive charge carriers from or supply charge carriers to the molecular spacer. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338648 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/25 |
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| US 08022454 | Rappe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Marshall Rappe (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Na Sai (Austin, Texas); Alexie Michelle Kolpak (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Ferroelectric structures and methods of making the structures are presented. The ferroelectric structures can include an electrode in contact with a ferroelectric thin film. The contact can be arranged so that a portion of the atoms of the ferroelectric thin film are in contact with at least a portion of the atoms of the electrode. The electrode can be made of metal, a metal alloy, or a semiconducting material. A second electrode can be used and placed in contact with the ferroelectric thin film. Methods of making and using the ferroelectric structures are also presented. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/817052 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
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| US 08022576 | Joannopoulos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Joannopoulos (Belmont, Massachusetts); Aristeidis Karalis (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The electromagnetic energy transfer device includes a first resonator structure receiving energy from an external power supply. The first resonator structure has a first Q-factor. A second resonator structure is positioned distal from the first resonator structure, and supplies useful working power to an external load. The second resonator structure has a second Q-factor. The distance between the two resonators can be larger than the characteristic size of each resonator. Non-radiative energy transfer between the first resonator structure and the second resonator structure is mediated through coupling of their resonant-field evanescent tails. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415650 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/104 |
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| US 08023046 | Lazar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aurel A. Lazar (New York, New York); Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for encoding and decoding signals using a Multi-input Multi-output Time Encoding Machine (TEM) and Time Decoding Machine are disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/645292 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/723 |
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| US 08023412 | Maxemchuk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the city of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas F. Maxemchuk (Mountainside, New Jersey); Congzhou Zhou (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for modeling a mobile ad hoc wireless network are disclosed herein. In some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, methods for modeling a mobile ad hoc wireless network for a predetermined geographical area. An exemplary method includes dividing the geographic area into a network grid including a plurality of network grid elements, locating obstacles, if any, to communication between transmission nodes located in at least two different grid elements from the plurality of network grid elements, locating bottlenecks within the plurality of network grid elements, locating network grid elements from the plurality of network grid elements where wireless transmission is unconstricted, determining a transmission flow rate across the bottlenecks, and comparing the transmission flow rate across the bottlenecks to determine if any of the bottlenecks are not real bottlenecks. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496863 |
| ART UNIT | 2464 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/235 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023552 | Balachandran et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Krishna Balachandran (Morganville, New Jersey); Joseph H Kang (Belle Mead, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | In an ad hoc wireless network, for purposes of neighbor discovery, a transmitting node transmits a beacon within a timeslot and at a frequency that varies from timeslot-to-timeslot according to one or more associated and known pseudo-random or cyclical frequency hopping sequences. When, during a timeslot, the frequency hopping sequence would select a beacon frequency that if transmitted would violate spectrum policy that is in place during that timeslot, then, during that timeslot, a beacon is not transmitted during that timeslot. During each timeslot, a neighbor receiving node attempts to detect and decode a transmitted beacon at a frequency specified by the frequency hopping sequence that it expects a transmitting node to be using. When a receiving node successfully detects and decodes a beacon transmitted by a transmitting node, neighbor discovery between the transmitting and receiving nodes is achieved. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/525495 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08023570 — System and apparatus for error control codes based on layering and linear transformations
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory W. Wornell (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Mitchell Trott (San Mateo, California); Uri Erez (Tel Aviv, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A powerful new class of methods for encoding digital data for reliable transmission over unreliable communication channels is described. With this method, the message bits are divided into multiple submessages and the bits in each layer are encoded using a standard error correction code to provide a plurality of subcodewords. A first linear transformation is applied to each of the subcodewords. The so-transformed subcodewords from the different submessages are then combined to form a first redundancy block to be transmitted. Additional redundancy blocks are generated by repeating this process on the same message but with jointly related nonidentical sets of linear transformations. The result is a set of codewords for each message which are then used to generate a transmitted waveform in one of several different ways, depending upon the application. For example, the codewords can be used in sequence (temporally) to form a rateless code for transmission over channels of unknown quality, in which case a receiver accumulates as many of the codewords as are necessary to successfully decode. As another example, the codewords can be spatially distributed if the channel has multiple-inputs, as would be the case in a multi-antenna system. As still another example, the codewords can be distributed over subchannels in a frequency-division multiplexing system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/027005 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023726 | Sundaresan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aravind Sundaresan (Sunnyvale, California); Ramalingam Chellappa (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Completely automated end-to-end method and system for markerless motion capture performs segmentation of articulating objects in Laplacian Eigenspace and is applicable to handling of the poses of some complexity. 3D voxel representation of acquired images are mapped to a higher dimensional space ( |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937834 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024274 | Parkes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Parkes (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael O. Rabin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stuart M. Shieber (Brookline, Massachusetts); Christopher A. Thorpe (Lincoln, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for conducting verifiably correct auctions that preserves the secrecy of the bids while providing for verifiable correctness and trustworthiness of the auction is disclosed. Some of the elements of the method and apparatus are that the auction operator accepts all bids submitted and follows the published rules of the auction. In one embodiment, the bids are maintained secret from the auctioneer and all bidders until the auction closes and no bidder is able to change or repudiate her bid. In another embodiment, the auction operator computes the auction results and publishes proofs of the results' correctness. In yet another embodiment, any party can check these proofs of correctness via publicly verifiable computations on encrypted bids. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299522 |
| ART UNIT | 3685 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 08020726 | Gorenz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heather M. Gorenz (Albuquerque, New Mexico); John E. Brockmann (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Daniel A. Lucero (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A powder dispersion method and apparatus comprising an air eductor and a powder dispensing syringe inserted into a suction connection of the air eductor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/873689 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Dispensing 222/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021460 | Bleifuss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney L. Bleifuss (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); David J. Englund (Bovey, Minnesota); Iwao Iwasaki (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Andrew J. Lindgren (Grand Rapids, Minnesota); Richard F. Kiesel (Hibbing, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing metallic iron nodules by assembling a shielding entry system to introduce coarse carbonaceous material greater than 6 mesh in to the furnace atmosphere at location(s) where the temperature of the furnace atmosphere adjacent at least partially reduced reducible iron bearing material is between about 2200 and 2650° F. (1200 and 1450° C.), the shielding entry system adapted to inhibit emission of infrared radiation from the furnace atmosphere and seal the furnace atmosphere from exterior atmosphere while introducing coarse carbonaceous material greater than 6 mesh into the furnace to be distributed over the at least partially reduced reducible iron bearing material, and heating the covered at least partially reduced reducible iron bearing material in a fusion atmosphere to assist in fusion and inhibit reoxidation of the reduced material during fusion to assist in fusion and inhibit reoxidation of the reduced material in forming metallic iron nodules. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/569176 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021641 | Curtis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado); Heliovolt Corporation (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin J. Curtis (Lakewood, Colorado); Alexander Miedaner (Boulder, Colorado); Marinus Franciscus Antonius Maria van Hest (Lakewood, Colorado); David S. Ginley (Evergreen, Colorado); Jennifer Leisch (Denver, Colorado); Matthew Taylor (West Simsbury, Connecticut); Billy J. Stanbery (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Precursor compositions containing copper and selenium suitable for deposition on a substrate to form thin films suitable for semi-conductor applications. Methods of forming the precursor compositions using primary amine solvents and methods of forming the thin films wherein the selection of temperature and duration of heating controls the formation of a targeted species of copper selenide. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/658204 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/508 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021891 | Rotello et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Rotello (Amherst, Massachusetts); Uwe Bunz (Atlanta, Georgia); Chang-Cheng You (Amherst, Massachusetts); Oscar Miranda (Amherst, Massachusetts); Ik-Bum Kim (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions, methods and related apparatus, as can be used for selective protein detection and identification. |
| FILED | Monday, November 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313116 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022040 | Bertozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carolyn R. Bertozzi (Berkeley, California); Jie Song (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Seung-Wuk Lee (Walnut Creek, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Hydroxyapatite (HA)-binding peptides are selected using combinatorial phage library display. Pseudo-repetitive consensus amino acid sequences possessing periodic hydroxyl side chains in every two or three amino acid sequences are obtained. These sequences resemble the (Gly-Pro-Hyp)x repeat of human type I collagen, a major component of extracellular matrices of natural bone. A consistent presence of basic amino acid residues is also observed. The peptides are synthesized by the solid-phase synthetic method and then used for template-driven HA-mineralization. Microscopy reveal that the peptides template the growth of polycrystalline HA crystals ˜40 nm in size. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/720427 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022265 | Tucker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark D. Tucker (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A reduced weight decontamination formulation that utilizes a solid peracid compound (sodium borate peracetate) and a cationic surfactant (dodecyltrimethylammonium chloride) that can be packaged with all water removed. This reduces the packaged weight of the decontamination formulation by ˜80% (as compared to the “all-liquid” DF-200 formulation) and significantly lowers the logistics burden on the warfighter. Water (freshwater or saltwater) is added to the new decontamination formulation at the time of use from a local source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269070 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment 588/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022361 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daojing Wang (Daly City, California); Peidong Yang (Kensington, California); Woong Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Rong Fan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel and significantly simplified procedures for fabrication of fully integrated nanoelectrospray emitters have been described. For nanofabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters (NM2 emitters), a bottom up approach using silicon nanowires on a silicon sliver is used. For microfabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters (M3 emitters), a top down approach using MEMS techniques on silicon wafers is used. The emitters have performance comparable to that of commercially-available silica capillary emitters for nanoelectrospray mass spectrometry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/298905 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022390 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jin K. Kim (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Malcolm S. Carroll (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A photodetector for detecting infrared light in a wavelength range of 3-25 μm is disclosed. The photodetector has a mesa structure formed from semiconductor layers which include a type-II superlattice formed of alternating layers of InAs and InxGa1-xSb with 0≦x≦0.5. Impurity doped regions are formed on sidewalls of the mesa structure to provide for a lateral conduction of photo-generated carriers which can provide an increased carrier mobility and a reduced surface recombination. An optional bias electrode can be used in the photodetector to control and vary a cut-off wavelength or a depletion width therein. The photodetector can be formed as a single-color or multi-color device, and can also be used to form a focal plane array which is compatible with conventional read-out integrated circuits. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840278 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022987 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Teresa H. Ko (Castro Valley, California); Nina M. Berry (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor node detects a plurality of information-based events. The sensor node determines whether at least one other sensor node is an information neighbor of the sensor node based on at least a portion of the plurality of information-based events. The information neighbor has an overlapping field of view with the sensor node. The sensor node sends at least one communication to the at least one other sensor node that is an information neighbor of the sensor node in response to at least one information-based event of the plurality of information-based events. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/474615 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/143 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023739 | Hohimer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan E. Hohimer (West Richland, Washington); Judi R. Thomson (Guelph, Canada); William J. Harvey (Richland, Washington); Patrick R. Paulson (Pasco, Washington); Mark A. Whiting (Richland, Washington); Stephen C. Tratz (Richland, Washington); Alan R. Chappell (Seattle, Washington); R. Scott Butner (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes, data structures, and apparatuses to represent knowledge are disclosed. The processes can comprise labeling elements in a knowledge signature according to concepts in an ontology and populating the elements with confidence values. The data structures can comprise knowledge signatures stored on computer-readable media. The knowledge signatures comprise a matrix structure having elements labeled according to concepts in an ontology, wherein the value of the element represents a confidence that the concept is present in an information space. The apparatus can comprise a knowledge representation unit having at least one ontology stored on a computer-readable medium, at least one data-receiving device, and a processor configured to generate knowledge signatures by comparing datasets obtained by the data-receiving devices to the ontologies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/237483 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024127 | Zemla |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam T. Zemla (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of finding 3D similarities in protein structures of a first molecule and a second molecule. The method comprises providing preselected information regarding the first molecule and the second molecule. Comparing the first molecule and the second molecule using Longest Continuous Segments (LCS) analysis. Comparing the first molecule and the second molecule using Global Distance Test (GDT) analysis. Comparing the first molecule and the second molecule using Local Global Alignment Scoring function (LGA_S) analysis. Verifying constructed alignment and repeating the steps to find the regions of 3D similarities in protein structures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/782061 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
08020805 — High altitude airship configuration and power technology and method for operation of same
| US 08020805 | 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); James R. Elliott, Jr. (Yorktown, Virginia); Glen C. King (Yorktown, Virginia); Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Jae-Woo Kim (Newport News, Virginia); Sang-Hyon Chu (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A new High Altitude Airship (HAA) capable of various extended applications and mission scenarios utilizing inventive onboard energy harvesting and power distribution systems. The power technology comprises an advanced thermoelectric (ATE) thermal energy conversion system. The high efficiency of multiple stages of ATE materials in a tandem mode, each suited for best performance within a particular temperature range, permits the ATE system to generate a high quantity of harvested energy for the extended mission scenarios. When the figure of merit 5 is considered, the cascaded efficiency of the three-stage ATE system approaches an efficiency greater than 60 percent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831233 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021967 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jijie Zhou (Pasadena, California); Michael Bronikowski (Tujunga, California); Flavio Noca (Pampigny, Switzerland); Elijah B. Sansom (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid transport method and fluid transport device are disclosed. Nanoscale fibers disposed in a patterned configuration allow transport of a fluid in absence of an external power source. The device may include two or more fluid transport components having different fluid transport efficiencies. The components may be separated by additional fluid transport components, to control fluid flow. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/264759 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/492 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022307 | Chu 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) | Andrew W. Chu (Friendswood, Texas); Justin A. Dobbins (Tuscon, Arizona); Robert C. Scully (League City, Texas); Robert C. Trevino (Seabrook, Texas); Greg Y. Lin (Friendswood, Texas); Patrick W. Fink (Missouri City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible, fabric-based circuit comprises a non-conductive flexible layer of fabric and a conductive flexible layer of fabric adjacent thereto. A non-conductive thread, an adhesive, and/or other means may be used for attaching the conductive layer to the non-conductive layer. In some embodiments, the layers are attached by a computer-driven embroidery machine at pre-determined portions or locations in accordance with a pre-determined attachment layout before automated cutting. In some other embodiments, an automated milling machine or a computer-driven laser using a pre-designed circuit trace as a template cuts the conductive layer so as to separate an undesired portion of the conductive layer from a desired portion of the conductive layer. Additional layers of conductive fabric may be attached in some embodiments to form a multi-layer construct. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/772999 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022351 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xinyu Zheng (Monterey Park, California); Thomas J. Cunningham (Pasadena, California); Bedabrata Pain (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A photoelectronic device and an avalanche self-quenching process for a photoelectronic device are described. The photoelectronic device comprises a nanoscale semiconductor multiplication region and a nanoscale doped semiconductor quenching structure including a depletion region and an undepletion region. The photoelectronic device can act as a single photon detector or a single carrier multiplier. The avalanche self-quenching process allows electrical field reduction in the multiplication region by movement of the multiplication carriers, thus quenching the avalanche. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/370066 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/214.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022826 | Mickle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marlin H. Mickle (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alex K. Jones (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); James T. Cain (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Peter J. Hawrylak (Tulsa, Oklahoma); Frank Marx (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Raymond R. Hoare (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A transponder that may be used as an RFID tag includes a passive circuit to eliminate the need for an “always on” active RF receiving element to anticipate a wake-up signal for the balance of the transponder electronics. This solution allows the entire active transponder to have all circuit elements in a sleep (standby) state, thus drastically extending battery life or other charge storage device life. Also, a wake-up solution that reduces total energy consumption of an active transponder system by allowing all non-addressed transponders to remain in a sleep (standby) state, thereby reducing total system or collection energy. Also, the transponder and wake-up solution are employed in an asset tracking system. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/963773 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/572.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022860 | Mukai 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) | Ryan Mukai (Rosamond, California); Victor A. Vilnrotter (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An Advanced Focal Plane Array (“AFPA”) for parabolic dish antennas that exploits spatial diversity to achieve better channel equalization performance in the presence of multipath (better than temporal equalization alone), and which is capable of receiving from two or more sources within a field-of-view in the presence of multipath. The AFPA uses a focal plane array of receiving elements plus a spatio-temporal filter that keeps information on the adaptive FIR filter weights, relative amplitudes and phases of the incoming signals, and which employs an Interference Cancelling Constant Modulus Algorithm (IC-CMA) that resolves multiple telemetry streams simultaneously from the respective aero-nautical platforms. This data is sent to an angle estimator to calculate the target's angular position, and then on to Kalman filters FOR smoothing and time series prediction. The resulting velocity and acceleration estimates from the time series data are sent to an antenna control unit (ACU) to be used for pointing control. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781022 |
| 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 342/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08024133 | Homer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Margie L. Homer (Pasadena, California); Darrell L. Jan (South Pasadena, California); April D. Jewell (Medford, Massachusetts); Adam Kisor (Pasadena, California); Kenneth S. Manatt (Tujunga, California); Allison M. Manfreda (Pasadena, California); Margaret A. Ryan (Pasadena, California); Abhijit V. Shevade (Altadena, California); Charles Taylor (Claremont, California); Tuan A. Tran (Upland, California); Shiao-Pin S. Yen (Altadena, California); Hanying Zhou (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor system for detecting and estimating concentrations of various gas or liquid analytes. In an embodiment, the resistances of a set of sensors are measured to provide a set of responses over time where the resistances are indicative of gas or liquid sorption, depending upon the sensors. A concentration vector for the analytes is estimated by satisfying a criterion of goodness using the set of responses. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Monday, November 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986784 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08021056 | Arnold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AB Sciex, LLC (Framingham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Don W. Arnold (Livermore, California); Kenneth R. Hencken (Pleasanton, California); Sammy S. Datwani (Dublin, California); Patrick Pak-Ho Leung (Belmont, California); Douglas R. Cyr (Livermore, California); Jason E. Rehm (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A junction is made between a first microfluidic substrate (12) having an elongate component (303) protruding from it and a second microfluidic substrate (22) having a corresponding conduit (261). Each of the substrates has a pair of alignment features, for example planar orthogonal surfaces (13, 15; 23, 25) or grooves (141, 151; 241, 251) in opposite sides of the substrate. The substrates are placed on an alignment jig 6 having location features (63, 65) corresponding to the alignment features. The elongate component can be surrounded by a compressible gasket 40). The substrates are pushed towards each other so that the elongate component enters the conduit and the gasket, if any, is compressed. A fluid-tight junction results so long as the substrates are maintained in the necessary position, either by permanent means, or, if a junction which can be disassembled is needed, by maintaining pressure between the substrates. Novel apparatus and novel microfluidic assemblies, including microfluidic chips having grooves in their sides, are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874055 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021771 | Weller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dieter Klaus Weller (San Jose, California); Edward Charles Gage (Lakeville, Minnesota); Ganping Ju (Sewickley, Pennsylvania); Bin Lu (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film structure including a plurality of grains of a first magnetic material having a first Curie temperature embedded in a matrix of a second material having a second Curie temperature, wherein the second Curie temperature is lower than the first Curie temperature and the second material comprises one or more of an oxide, a sulfide, a nitride, and a boride. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684380 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/836 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022864 | Jordan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Ronald Jordan (Boulder, Colorado); James Harwood Churnside (Boulder, Colorado); Paul Ernest Johnston (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Signal processing is used to detect transient signals in the presence of noise. Two embodiments are disclosed. In both embodiments, the time series from a remote sensor is broken into a number of short time series. The power spectrum of each short time series are then calculated along with the mean noise level. The moments of each peak in every power spectrum are calculated and the peak with the largest power selected from each power spectrum. A histogram of the moments from these selected peaks is generated and normalized to become a measured PDF. In addition, a pre-determined PDF is derived, in the same method as above, from theoretically calculated noise, numerically simulated noise, or measured noise. Comparison between the measured and pre-determined PDF's establish the detection of a transient signal. The first embodiment compares the area between the measured and pre-determined PDF's against a threshold to determine detection. In a second embodiment, the differences between the measured and pre-determined PDF's are weighted and summed to form a score. This score is compared to a threshold to determine detection. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937262 |
| 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 342/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08023269 | Mitchell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida); Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Mitchell (Oviedo, Florida); Anand A. Kulkarni (Oviedo, Florida); Ramesh Subramanian (Oviedo, Florida); Edward R. Roesch (Orlando, Florida); Rod Waits (Sunnyvale, California); Roberto Schupbach (Fayetteville, Arkansas); John R. Fraley (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Alexander B. Lostetter (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Brice McPherson (Fayetteville, Arkansas); Bryon Western (West Fork, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit assembly (34) resistant to high-temperature and high g centrifugal force is disclosed. A printed circuit board (42) is first fabricated from alumina and has conductive traces of said circuit formed thereon by the use of a thick film gold paste. Active and passive components of the circuit assembly are attached to the printed circuit board by means of gold powder diffused under high temperature. Gold wire is used for bonding between the circuit traces and the active components in order to complete the circuit assembly (34). Also, a method for manufacturing a circuit assembly resistant to elevated temperature is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/192340 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/739 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08021852 | Sutovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Sutovsky (Columbia, Missouri); Antonio Miranda-Vizuete (Sevilla, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention concerns compositions and methods for evaluating fertility in humans and animals. The invention may also be used to identify reproductive cancers such as testicular cancer. In various embodiments of the invention, an Sptrx-3 enzyme is used as a fertility marker. Sptrx-3 may be detected in accordance with the invention in vitro or in vivo. |
| FILED | Monday, June 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/815294 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08022175 | Kapczynski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darrell R. Kapczynski (Bishop, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-peptide monoclonal antibodies (MAb's) specific for Exotic Newcastle Disease (END) are used for rapid diagnostic identification between poultry infected with vaccine strains of NDV (LaSota/B1) and END virus (ENDV). Exotic Newcastle Disease is a contagious and fatal viral disease of birds and poultry. The present invention provides for diagnostic detection of ENDV in commercial poultry. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727594 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08021671 | Kernodle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee); The United States of America as represented by The Department of Veteran' Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas S. Kernodle (Brentwood, Tennessee); Markian R. Bochan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Whole-cell vaccines and methods for their use in producing protective immune responses in vertebrate hosts subsequently exposed to pathogenic bacteria. The present invention involves a method of enhancing antigen presentation by intracellular bacteria in a manner that improves vaccine efficacy. After identifying an enzyme that has an anti-apoptotic effect upon host cells infected by an intracellular microbe, the activity of the enzyme is reduced, thereby modifying the microbe so that it increases immunogenicity. Also, the present invention provides a method of incrementally modifying enzyme activity to produce incrementally attenuated mutants of the microbe from which an effective vaccine candidate can be selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/467644 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08021673 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvào Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Florence, Italy); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Friday, April 01, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/078879 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08024082 | Richter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Gerard Richter (Wynantskill, New York); Weizhong Yan (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for optimizing energy storage component usage in a vehicle comprising one of a hybrid vehicle and an electric vehicle, the vehicle comprising a computer programmed to identify if a vehicle position is associated with link data in a database of historical power usage data, the link data comprising measured historical power usage data for a link of vehicle travel. If the vehicle position is associated with the link data, the computer is programmed to obtain the link data of the link from the database, the link data absent terrain information from the database. The computer is also programmed to determine an expected vehicle power usage of the vehicle based on the obtained link data and optimize the energy storage component usage based on the expected vehicle power usage and based on efficiency and life cycle costs of an energy storage component of the vehicle if the vehicle position is associated with the link data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401726 |
| 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 71/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08024183 | Navratil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jiri Navratil (White Plains, New York); Jagon Pelecanos (Ossining, New York); Ganesh N. Ramaswamy (Mohegan Lake, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for speaker recognition and identification includes transforming features of a speaker utterance in a first condition state to match a second condition state and provide a transformed utterance. A discriminative criterion is used to generate a transform that maps an utterance to obtain a computed result. The discriminative criterion is maximized over a plurality of speakers to obtain a best transform for recognizing speech and/or identifying a speaker under the second condition state. Speech recognition and speaker identity may be determined by employing the best transform for decoding speech to reduce channel mismatch. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132079 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08020587 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A piston-in-sleeve accumulator includes a cleaning element positioned on the piston and configured to remove and prevent debris from lodging between the piston and a cylindrical nonpermeable sleeve within which the piston slides. A seal on the piston is positioned to engage an opposing surface in the event of a leak, and thereby prevent the possibility of a complete drainage of pressurized fluid from occurring through the accumulator's fluid port. A position contactor switch is further provided to signal position of the piston within the accumulator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156734 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipes and tubular conduits 138/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08024156 | Casler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Casler (Montrose, Colorado); Joan L. Mitchell (Longmont, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Computation of variance or variance of the autocorrelation over a moving window of various sizes of a signal containing noise and possibly a small digital signal provides a sensitive, frequency independent indication of the likelihood of the presence of a small pulse, chirp or even spread spectrum digital signal possibly obscured by noise or larger signals in the signal to much lower signal-to-noise ratios than previously possible. Large signals in the signal which may also obscure any small signal are removed to a different signal path from the noise and small signals by subtraction after compression and reconstruction of the large signal. The compression noise thus added to the signal may also increase sensitivity of the variance of the autocorrelation to small signals obscured by the large signals. Controlling storage in response to the computed variance or variance of the autocorrelation allows substantial avoidance or limitation of storage of signals which contain only noise. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/825882 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08021298 | Baird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Psychological Applications LLC (South Pomfret, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Baird (South Pomfret, Vermont); John R. Arscott (Northants, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A pain depth mapping system and method may be used to map the location and depth of pain experienced by a user (e.g., a patient). The pain depth mapping system and method is capable of displaying one or more body representations with symptom representations representing the location of the pain. The pain depth mapping system and method allows the user to delineate one or more user-defined pain depth regions on a cross-section of the body representation with the symptom representations to form a pain map. The symptom mapping system and method may also allow the user to vary the pain intensity represented by the symptom representations as the user delineates the user-defined pain depth region(s). |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769993 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08022037 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Li (Altadena, California); Mei Chen (Altadena, California); David T. Woodley (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wound healing composition comprising an amount of heat shock protein effective to promote wound healing and a method thereof to apply the composition. A preferred heat shock protein is either full-length hsp90α or the middle domain plus the charged sequence of hsp90α. The composition is topically applied to skin wounds, covering the outer surface of the wound. The heat shock protein acts by promoting migration of both human epidermal keratinocyte and dermal fibroblasts to the wound in order to close, heal, and remodel the wound. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522446 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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