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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 04, 2011
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| US 08028351 | Stachler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Stachler (Dayton, Ohio); William L. Grilliot (West Milton, Ohio); William L. Grilliot, Jr. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A gasket system (18) is provided for use with a protective boot (12) and a pant leg (16) of a protective garment (14) for a firefighter or other emergency worker. The boot (12) includes an outer boot (24) and a moisture/vapor barrier liner (26), and the leg (16) includes an outer shell (20) and a moisture/vapor barrier liner (22). The gasket system (18) includes a first gasket (30) fixed to the liner (22) of the pant leg (16) and defining a first annular interlock (34) to encircle a wearer's leg received in the pant leg (16), and a second gasket (32) fixed to at least one of the outer boot (24) and the boot liner (26) and defining a second annular interlock (36) to encircle a wearer's leg received in the boot (12). The first and second interlocks (34,36) are engageable with each other to form a seal with a leg received in both the boot (12) and the pant leg (16). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398370 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Apparel 02/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08028644 | Wagner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cybernet Systems Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Wagner (Simi Valley, California); Amanda Christiana (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles J. Jacobus (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A tactor system transforms cable motion to tactor motion. A housing defining a plane is adapted for placement proximate to the skin of a user. A cable is operative to deform a tactor element in the housing, causing a portion of the element to move outwardly from the plane of the housing, thereby imparting a tactile sensation to the user's skin. For example, tension on the cable may cause a strip of flexible plastic or other suitable material to bend at a living hinge that moves outwardly from the plane of the housing. The cable may be driven by an actuator including. Two or more tactor elements may be disposed next to each other or in the same housing, with different elements being activated at different times to enhance the apparent frequency of the stimulus. For example, a reciprocating mechanism may be used to operate a pair of tactor elements out of phase with respect to one another. The cable may be controlled by a remote reciprocating mechanism, with a physical quick disconnect mechanism provided between the reciprocating mechanism and the cable. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/272922 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Signals and indicators 116/205 |
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| US 08028826 | Woo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy Woo (Flushing, New York); Leon Moy (Flushing, New York); Alan N. Cohen (Wharton, New Jersey); Daniel Lee Prillaman (Flushing, New York); Christina Morales (Mine Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved 25 mm linked cartridge IM ammunition storage system, using existing ammunition cans, that simplifies the design of the storage system, and utilizes standoffs to separate the base of each cartridge from the ends of the ammunition can—thereby allowing the cartridges base IM venting system to vent properly, avoiding pressure build-up, and reducing the risk of explosion or detonation of the propellant. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696265 |
| ART UNIT | 3788 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Special receptacle or package 26/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08028830 | Nematollahi 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) | Khosrow Nematollahi (Carmel, Indiana); Brian Ream (Clay City, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure is disclosed to protect explosive ordnance. The structure comprises an inner ceramic layer. A polyurethane layer encompassing the inner ceramic layer. A third layer is a stainless steel layer encompassing the polyurethane layer with a second polyurethane layer wrapping around the stainless steel layer. A fifth layer is an outer ceramic layer. A sixth layer through tenth layer comprises interconnected aramid fiber fabric (i.e., KEVLAR) impregnated with polyurethane. The structure may be part of an explosive handling system to include a shipping container that decelerates projectiles approaching the explosive device. The container comprises fifteen additional layers to encompass the structure. The first layer is steel encompassing the structure with a second layer through fifteenth layer of the container each being KEVLAR impregnated with polyurethane. Both the composite structure and the shipping container can be made from commercially available products. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/653480 |
| ART UNIT | 3788 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Special receptacle or package 26/317 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08028842 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. McGrath (Blacksburg, Virginia); Ho Bum Park (Austin, Texas); Benny D. Freeman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a membrane, kit, and method of making a hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer membrane. The hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer membrane includes a hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer. The hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer includes one or more hydrophilic monomers having a sulfonated polyarylsulfone monomer and a second monomer and one or more hydrophobic monomers having a non-sulfonated third monomer and a fourth monomer. The sulfonated polyarylsulfone monomer introduces a sulfonate into the hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer prior to polymerization. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/655319 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029021 | Leonard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Industries Inc. (Medina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua J. Leonard (North Branch, Minnesota); Richard Raymond Maki (North Branch, Minnesota); Eric Bjerketvedt (North Branch, Minnesota); Michael D. Schneider (Dalbo, Minnesota); Bradley Robert Morisch (Lindstrom, Minnesota); Brian D. Krosschell (Chisago City, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle (100) is disclosed. The vehicle may include a base portion (104) and a modular portion (112). The base portion may be a four wheel vehicle having an operator area (114) with seating for at least two occupants in a side-by-side arrangement. The modular portion may be coupled to the base portion resulting in a six wheel vehicle. The wheels (102) of the modular portion may be powered by an engine (500) of the base portion. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/092153 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/785 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029295 | Strauss |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Strauss (Flower Mound, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a connector for a composite structure includes at least one conducting element that is coupled to a node of an electrical circuit embedded in a composite structure. The composite structure has two opposing surfaces in which the conducting element is disposed essentially between the surfaces of the composite structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966635 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029431 | Tononi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giulio Tononi (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Brain stimulation is used to promote or induce slow-wave activity thought to be associated with the restorative properties of sleep. In a preferred embodiment, transcranial magnetic stimulation is used to provide neural stimulation at a frequency approximating natural slow-wave activity. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863047 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029602 | Groshens |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Groshens (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell and a method for chemically storing hydrogen. Embodiments of the fuel cell include a mixture having at least one boron-nitrogen-hydrogen compound and a reactive hydride where the mixture has more than about 10 wt % hydrogen density and a hydrogen storage density of about 0.1 kg H21−1. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398249 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/90 |
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| US 08029664 | Gibbons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Gibbons (Torrington, Connecticut); Francis P. Marocchini (Somers, Connecticut); Tomas R. Leutwiler (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable wash flow filter assembly includes a wash velocity control cone movable between a minimal position and a maximum position. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/146562 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029710 | Khoshnevis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are disclosed that are useful for robotic gantry systems that are lightweight while at the same time offering rigidity or stiffness for implementation in Contour Crafting construction and material delivery techniques. The present disclosure is directed to robotic gantry system and material transport apparatus that use of very light structural members that have sufficient compressive strength, but which may otherwise be weak in the presence of bending forces, in conjunction with cables that provide stiffness against bending. Use of such cables provides needed tension while at the same time allowing the robotic gantry system to be very light compared to solid structures, e.g., those with I-beams, etc. Material delivery systems including passive articulated arms are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/934507 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029733 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cepheid (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Chang (Redwood City, California); Lee A. Christel (Palo Alto, California); Gregory T. A. Kovacs (Stanford, California); William A. McMillan (Cupertino, California); M. Allen Northrup (Berkeley, California); Kurt E. Petersen (Santa Clara, California); Farzad Pourahmadi (Femont, California); Steven J. Young (Los Gatos, California); Robert Yuan (Belmont, California); Douglas B. Dority (Mill Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reaction vessel having a reaction chamber for holding a sample is fabricated by producing a housing having a rigid frame defining the minor walls of the chamber. The housing also defines a port for introducing fluid into the chamber. At least one sheet or film is attached to the rigid frame to form at least one major wall of the chamber. In preferred embodiments, two sheets or films are attached to opposite sides of the rigid frame to form two opposing major walls of the chamber, the major walls being connected to each other by the minor walls. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981155 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029774 | Beckman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric J. Beckman (Aspinwall, Pennsylvania); Stephen F. Badylak (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Alan H. Wells (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Jianying Zhang (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Donald Freytes (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition includes at least one biologically active agent covalently attached to a first polymerizing molecule that is adapted to undergo a free radical polymerization. The first polymerizing molecule retains the ability to undergo free radical polymerization after attachment of the bioactive agent thereto. The first polymerizing molecule is preferably biocompatible. The polymerizing molecule can, for example. be dihydroxyphenyl-L-alanine (DOPA) or tyrosine. The composition can also include a second component synthesized by reacting at least one core molecule having a plurality of reactive hydrogen groups with at least one multi-isocyanate functional molecule to create a conjugate including terminal isocyanate groups. The conjugate molecule is reacted with a second polymerizing molecule that is adapted to undergo a free radical polymerization. The second polymerizing molecule includes a reactive hydrogen to react with the isocyanate groups of the conjugate. The second polymerizing molecule retains the ability to undergo the free radical polymerization after reaction with the conjugate. In several embodiments, the first polymerizing molecule and the second polymerizing molecule are the same and dihydroxyphenyl-L-alanine (DOPA) or tyrosine. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/479627 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029804 | Ching 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) | Wei-Mei Ching (Bethesda, Maryland); Chien-Chung Chao (N. Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant chimeric antigens comprising unmodified and modified reactive polypeptide fragments of expressed product of the recombinant 56 kDa proteins of multiple strain of scrub typhus, such as Karp, Kato (Ktr56), Gilliam (Gmr56), and TA763 (TAr56). The invention is useful for detecting prior exposure to a number of strains of scrub typhus, based on the strength of reaction toward the chimeric protein and as a component in vaccine formulations and production of immune globulins for passive prophylaxis and immunity in subjects against heterologous infections. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467533 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029905 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Radek Roucka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds of the formula Gei-x-ySixSny, wherein 0.01<y<0.11, and 0.26<x<0.35, and semiconductor structures comprising such compounds. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, and a Group III-V or II-VI active layer. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, an SiGeSn template layer, and an SiGe, Ge, Group III-V, or Group II-VI active layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908143 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029921 | Harris 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) | Vincent G Harris (Sharon, Massachusetts); Zhaohui Chen (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device including a ferrite layer, a widebandgap semiconductor material layer, and a buffer layer. The buffer layer comprises an interweaving of MgO and BaM. In addition the buffer layer allows a gradual reduction of the interfacial stress, and mediates the strain between a silicon substrate and a ferrite layer of the device. In addition, the buffer layer allows for high crystal alignment resulting in high crystal quality and thereby producing a low microwave loss semiconductor device. The buffer layer also minimizes chemical interdiffusion of atoms between the substrate and the ferrite layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/538452 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/693.100 |
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| US 08029980 | Gartel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei L. Gartel (Chicago, Illinois); Senthil K. Radhakrishnan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provides, among other things, methods for identifying agents that inhibit oncogenic transcription factors, induce apoptosis, inhibit the growth of transformed cells and cancer cells, and potentiate the effects of other agents that induce apoptosis and that inhibit the growth of transformed cells and cancer cells. Embodiments of the invention further provide compositions useful for the same comprising an agent the inhibits one or more oncogenic transcription factors and an agent that induces apoptosis, particular compositions wherein the apoptotic effect of the combination is greater than either agent by itself. Embodiments of the invention further provide for the use of such agents and compositions to treat cancer. In illustrative embodiments the agents that inhibit transcription factor activity are thiazole antibiotics, such as Siomycin and thiostrepton, and the apoptosis inducing agent is a member of the TNF ligand superfamily, such as TNF-alpha. In illustrative embodiments the cancers are those in which both the FoxM1 and the NF-kB oncogenic pathways are activated. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865410 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030070 | Sanchez-Schmitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corp. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma); Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Donald Drake, III (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the normal tissues that interact with vaccines in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471514 |
| 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 435/347 |
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| US 08030074 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978108 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030094 | Walt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Walt (Del Mar, California); Todd A. Dickinson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsphere-based analytic chemistry system is disclosed in which self-encoding microspheres having distinct characteristic optical response signatures to specific target analytes may be mixed together while the ability is retained to identify the sensor type and location of each sensor in a random dispersion of large numbers of such sensors in a sensor array using an optically interrogatable encoding scheme. An optical fiber bundle sensor is also disclosed in which individual microsphere sensors are disposed in microwells at a distal end of the fiber bundle and are optically coupled to discrete fibers or groups of fibers within the bundle. The identities of the individual sensors in the array are self-encoded by exposing the array to a reference analyte while illuminating the array with excitation light energy. A single sensor array may carry thousands of discrete sensing elements whose combined signal provides for substantial improvements in sensor detection limits, response times and signal-to-noise ratios. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834422 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/523 |
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| US 08030122 | Pepper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Pepper (Malibu, California); Gilmore J. Dunning (Newbury Park, California); Marvin B. Klein (Pacific Palisades, California); Gerald David Bacher (Carlsbad, California); Bruno Pouet (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for a photoinduced electromotive force sensor. The sensor has an active substrate formed of a semi-insulating photoconductor with sufficient carrier trap density to form an effective charge grating and pairs of electrodes disposed on the active substrate, where the sensor is configured to reduce the photovoltaic effect caused by the incident light in the vicinity of the electrodes. The shape or composition of the electrodes may be selected to reduce the photovoltaic effect or the electrodes may be disposed on the substrate to average out the photovoltaic effect arising from each one of the electrodes. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/713062 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/98 |
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| US 08030219 | Kimock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morgan Advanced Ceramics, Inc. (Hayward, California); K Systems Corporation (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred M. Kimock (Macungie, Pennsylvania); Steven J. Finke (Kutztown, Pennsylvania); Richard L. C. Wu (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A coated substrate product is described comprising a substrate and a dielectric coating material comprising carbon, hydrogen, silicon, and oxygen. According to the method, the substrate is processed by plasma cleaning the surface and then depositing a dielectric coating by a suitable plasma process. The coating may contain one or more layers. The substrate may be a rigid material or a thin film or foil. The coated products of this invention have superior dielectric material properties and utility as substrates for the manufacture of rolled or parallel plate capacitors with high energy densities. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/348751 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/758 |
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| US 08030287 | Emmenegger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eveline J. Emmenegger (Seattle, Washington); Gael Kurath (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In this application is described a novel DNA vaccine for Spring viremia of carp virus. The candidate vaccine a SVCV glycoprotein (G) gene from the North Carolina isolate. The DNA vaccine provides protection in vaccinated fish against challenge with the SVCV. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148210 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030291 | Stein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AVI BioPharma Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon); U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (Frederick, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Stein (Corvallis, Oregon); Patrick L. Iversen (Corvallis, Oregon); Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); Dwight D. Weller (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides antisense antiviral compounds and methods of their use and production in inhibition of growth of viruses of the Filoviridae family, and in the treatment of a viral infection. The compounds and methods relate to the treatment of viral infections in mammals including primates by Ebola and Marburg viruses. The antisense antiviral compounds are morpholino oligonucleotides having: a) a nuclease resistant backbone, b) 15-40 nucleotide bases, and c) a targeting sequence of at least 15 bases in length that hybridizes to a target region selected from the following: i) the Ebola virus AUG start site region of VP24; ii) the Ebola virus AUG start site region of VP35; iii) the Marburg virus AUG start site region of VP24; or iv) the Marburg virus AUG start site region of NP. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402455 |
| 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 |
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| US 08030292 | Stein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AVI BioPharma Inc. (Corvallis, Oregon); U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (Frederick, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Stein (Corvallis, Oregon); Patrick L. Iversen (Corvallis, Oregon); Sina Bavari (Frederick, Maryland); Dwight D. Weller (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides antisense antiviral compounds and methods of their use and production in inhibition of growth of viruses of the Filoviridae family, and in the treatment of a viral infection. The compounds and methods relate to the treatment of viral infections in mammals including primates by Ebola and Marburg viruses. The antisense antiviral compounds are morpholino oligonucleotides having: a) a nuclease resistant backbone, b) 15-40 nucleotide bases, and c) a targeting sequence of at least 15 bases in length that hybridizes to a target region selected from the following: i) the Ebola virus AUG start site region of VP24; ii) the Ebola virus AUG start site region of VP35; iii) the Marburg virus AUG start site region of VP24; or iv) the Marburg virus AUG start site region of NP. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402461 |
| 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 08030350 | Gainer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Diffusion Pharmaceuticals LLC (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Gainer (Charlottesville, Virginia); Marc Lanz (Reitnau, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to trans carotenoid compounds and salts thereof as well as compositions thereof, methods for making them, and uses thereof. These compounds are useful in improving diffusivity of oxygen between red blood cells and body tissues in mammals including humans. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361054 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/547 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030377 | Dubey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Gypsum Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ashish Dubey (Grayslake, Illinois); Cesar Chan (Vernon Hills, Illinois); Kumar Natesaiyer (Grayslake, Illinois); Bartley P. Durst (Clinton, Mississippi); Pamela G. Kinnebrew (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Toney K. Cummins (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Nicholas Boone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); William F. Heard (Clinton, Mississippi); Michael J. Roth (Raymond, Mississippi); Thomas Slawson (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-leveling cementitious mixture with excellent flow properties and which hardens with a controlled rate of strength development to an ultra-high compressive strength composite composition for use in making articles such as cementitious armor panel with ballistic and blast resistant properties including: a continuous phase resulting from the curing of an aqueous mixture, in the absence of silica flour, of inorganic cement binder, inorganic mineral filler having a particle size of about 150-450 microns, pozzolanic mineral filler, polycarboxylate based self-leveling agent and water. The cementitious mixture may include alkanolamine, such as triethanolamine, and acid or acid salt, such as tartaric acid. The cementitious composition may be reinforced with reinforcing fibers, e.g. glass fibers, in an amount of about 0.5-6.0% by volume of the overall cementitious composition. The fibers are uniformly dispersed in the cementitious composition before it is cured to form a final cementitious armor panel. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/394448 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030432 | Bruno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Nicole Favreau (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of producing a copolymer of hydroxytyrosol, or its derivative, and at least one flavonoid comprising reacting hydroxytyrosol monomers or derivative with at least one flavonoid in the presence of an enzyme and hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/634971 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/219 |
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| US 08030477 | Cerrina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francesco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael R. Sussman (Madison, Wisconsin); Frederick R. Blattner (Madison, Wisconsin); Sangeet Singh-Gasson (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland Green (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The synthesis of arrays of DNA probes sequences, polypeptides, and the like is carried out using a patterning process on an active surface of a substrate. An image is projected onto the active surface of the substrate utilizing reflective projection optics. The projection optics project a light image onto the active surface of the substrate to deprotect linker molecules thereon. A first level of bases may then be applied to the substrate, followed by development steps, and subsequent exposure of the substrate utilizing a different light image, with further repeats until the elements of a two dimensional array on the substrate surface have an appropriate base bound thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524082 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030521 | Velarde et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen P. Velarde (Pleasant View, Utah); Vincent E. Mancini (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of producing TATB are disclosed. The method comprises providing acid wet TNPG and distilling water from the acid wet TNPG. The TNPG is reacted with an alkoxylating agent to form a solution of 1,3,5-trialkoxy-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene solution, which is reacted with an aminating agent. An alternate method comprises nitrating phloroglucinol in a first vessel to produce TNPG, which is reacted with an alkoxylating agent in a second vessel to form a solution comprising 1,3,5-trialkoxy-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene and at least one of at least one volatile byproduct and at least one nonvolatile byproduct. The at least one of at least one volatile byproduct and at least one nonvolatile byproduct is removed in situ. The 1,3,5-trialkoxy-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene is reacted with an aminating agent. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/744986 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030621 | Lozano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paulo Lozano (Arlington, Massachusetts); Manuel Martinez-Sanchez (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for producing ions can include an emitter having a first end and a second end. The emitter can be coated with an ionic liquid room-temperature molten salt. The apparatus can also include a power supply and a first electrode disposed downstream relative to the first end of the emitter and electrically connected to a first lead of the power supply. The apparatus can also include a second electrode disposed downstream relative to the second end of the emitter and electrically connected to a second lead of the power supply. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/251917 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/423.R00 |
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| US 08030825 | Howarth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas R. Howarth (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method is provided to produce energy from movement of a user. At least one pair of plates is utilized to secure an array of cymbal transducers therebetween. The array of cymbal transducers is electrically interconnected with signal conditioning circuitry and power storage member. Electrical interconnections may comprise parallel and/or series connections between ones or groups of the cymbal transducers. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/284479 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030913 | Lynch |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan J. Lynch (Oxnard, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A detector circuit for an operational bandwidth having a center frequency including a diode, a first inductor in series with the diode, a transmission line coupled across the diode on a first end of the transmission line, the transmission line having an impedance and being in length a quarter wavelength of a frequency near the center frequency of the operational bandwidth, and a capacitor coupled across a second end of the transmission line. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172481 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/76.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030943 | Spuhler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ridgetop Group, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp S. Spuhler (Brookline, Massachusetts); Bert M Vermeire (Mesa, Arizona); James P Hofmeister (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The solder-joint integrity of digital electronic packages, such as FPGAs or microcontrollers that have internally connected input/output buffers, is evaluated by applying a time-varying voltage through one or more solder-joint networks to charge a charge-storage component. Each network includes an I/O buffer on the die in the package and a solder-joint connection, typically one or more such connections inside the package and between the package and a board. The time constant for charging the component is proportional to the resistance of the solder-joint network, hence the voltage across the charge-storage component is a measurement of the integrity of the solder-joint network. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/360046 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/522 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030971 | Chiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meng-Hsueh Chiang (Yilan, Taiwan); Ching-Te Kent Chuang (South Salem, New York); Keunwoo Kim (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for employing multi-gate field effect transistors (FETS) in logic circuits formed from logic gates are provided. Double-gate transistors that conduct only when both transistor gates are active can be used to reduce the number of devices hitherto required in series or “stacked” portions of logic gates. Circuit area can be reduced and performance can be enhanced. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102097 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031037 | Sherrer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nuvotronics, LLC (Redford, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Sherrer (Radford, Virginia); William D. Houck (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are three-dimensional microstructures and their methods of formation. The microstructures are formed by a sequential build process and include microstructural elements which are affixed to one another. The microstructures find use, for example, in coaxial transmission lines for electromagnetic energy. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/608870 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/244 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031319 | Benoit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Benoit (Holden, Massachusetts); Daniel P. Resler (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Steven R. Collins (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert D. O'Shea (Harvard, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are structures and techniques for providing an LC cell having a hermetically sealed cover disposed over a fill hole provided in a superstrate. The superstrate and cover have adhesion layers disposed thereon. Solder is disposed or otherwise provided around the fill hole (e.g. either on the cover or the superstrate or as a separate piece). The cover is then disposed over the fill hole and the solder is reflowed to form the hermetic seal over the fill hole. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474643 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/153 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031338 | Piston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Piston (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark Rizzo (Nottingham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides improved methods for assessing Förster resonance energy transfer using polarized light. Specifically, the methods rely on measuring depolarized light emitted by fluorescent acceptor molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/291111 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031343 | Carothers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel N. Carothers (Oro Valley, Arizona); Jefferson E. Odhner (Amherst, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A waveguide optical gyroscope is disclosed. The waveguide optical gyroscope includes a laser, two detectors, a set of couplers and a set of waveguides. The laser generates a light beam. A first waveguide guides the light beam to travel in a first direction, and a second waveguide guides the light beam to travel in a second direction. The first and second waveguides are coupled to several ring waveguides via the couplers. The first detector detects the arrival of the light beam traveling from the first waveguide, and the second detector detects the arrival of the light beam traveling from the second waveguide. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/525965 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/461 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031713 | Chang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fu-Chung Chang (Rhinebech, New York); Carol L. Soto (Highland, New York); Jian Xiao (LaGrangeville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium manage a plurality of network interfaces. A data packet is accepted at a pseudo network interface. The pseudo network interface manages a plurality of underlying physical network interfaces. The pseudo network interface selects selected physical network interface from the plurality of physical network interfaces for outputting the data packet. The data packet is modified to include a hardware address associated with the selected physical network interface in response to the selecting. The data packet that has been modified is forwarded to the physical network interface that has been selected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/021900 |
| ART UNIT | 2466 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031985 | Hochberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Hochberg (Seattle, Washington); Tom Baehr-Jones (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An all-optical XOR logic gate. In one embodiment, a single photon absorption medium is used to provide enhanced optical response of a gate to an applied optical signal. The apparatus described uses at least two gate inputs and an optical modulation structure such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer to perform logical XOR operations on an optical input signal using the gate inputs. The result of the XOR operation is provided as information in an optical output signal representative of the result of the XOR operation impressed on the optical input signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454950 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
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| US 08032032 | Chand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Naresh Chand (Warren, New Jersey); Kevin M. McNeill (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber optic link for platforms with data sources including, e.g., sensors, cameras, radars and antennas. An array of optical transmitter/receiver pairs is coupled to an integrating network of the platform. Data modules are each coupled to certain ones of the data sources and include a receiver for detecting control data, and a modulator for modulating a light signal according to signals from the module's data sources. At least one optical fiber is coupled between a given transmitter/receiver pair of the array, and a corresponding data module. A laser source associated with each transmitter supplies a light signal with the control data to a corresponding data module downstream over an optical fiber. The light signal is modulated by the signals from the module's data sources, and the modulated light signal is returned to an array receiver upstream over an optical fiber. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291970 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032269 | Cherepinsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Cherepinsky (Sandy Hook, Connecticut); Joseph T. Driscoll (Cheshire, Connecticut); William Douglas Kinkead (Wallingford, Connecticut); Leonard M. Wengler, Jr. (Terryville, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A flight control system which detects a failure of a flight control surface and performs at least one action in response to the detected failure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/947040 |
| 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 71/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032310 | Stenger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A Stenger (Herndon, Virginia); Jennifer Thornton (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented biological sequence identifier (CIBSI) system and method for selecting a subsequence from biological sequence data according to at least one selection parameter. The at least one selection parameter corresponds to a likelihood of returning a meaningful result from a similarity search. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/177647 |
| 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 72/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032314 | Barron 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) | Charlie N. Barron (Slidell, Louisiana); Robert W. Helber (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for providing a more accurate synthetic profiles of temperature, salinity and sound speed of the ocean over an area of interest is provided by using a value of the mixed layer depth in addition to values of surface temperature and surface height in an ocean modeling system such as the Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System (MODAS) system developed for the U.S. Navy. The method of the present invention compares the predicted or observed mixed layer depth for the area of interest, for example, as obtained from remote sensing or upper ocean modeling, to a mixed layer depth estimated from an initial synthetic profile, and determines which is deeper, termed the reference mixed layer depth. The method then derives a modified temperature and salinity synthetic profile by setting the temperature and salinity equal to the surface values at depths less than or equal to the reference mixed layer depth and using an algorithm to estimate temperature and salinity at depths below the reference mixed layer depth. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239842 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032356 | Narayanan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shrikanth Narayanan (Santa Monica, California); Panayiotis Georgiou (La Crescenta, California); Murtaza Bulut (Los Angeles, California); Dagen Wang (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Spoken translation system which detects both speech from the information and also detects meta information streams from the information. A first aspect produces an enriched training corpus of information for use in the machine translation. A second aspect uses two different extraction techniques, and combines them by lattice rescoring. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754148 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032763 | Modica et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Modica (Sewell, New Jersey); Kenneth White (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) card is disclosed. The PCMCIA card may include a cryptographic module, a communications interface, and a processor. The cryptographic module may perform Type 1 encryption of data received from a computer into which the card is inserted. The cryptographic module may support High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryption (HAIPE). The communications interface may provide connectivity to a network adapter. The communications interface may include a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. The processor may detect whether a network adapter is coupled to the communications interface, identify a device driver that corresponds to the network adapter, and employ the device driver to provide operative communication between the cryptographic module and the network adapter. The PCMCIA card may contain a datastore that maintains a plurality device drivers. For example, the plurality of device drivers support any one of IEEE 802.x, Ethernet, V.90, or RS-232 network protocols. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777363 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032823 | Tomasic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Slavko Tomasic (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); John Doyle Zimmerman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, a method for processing a user request is provided. The method may include receiving input data from a user including at least natural language associated with a user request; analyzing the user input data with an intermediary agent; selecting at least one form based on analyzing the user input data; and, executing at least one update based on at least one form. |
| FILED | Monday, April 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/405616 |
| ART UNIT | 2176 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032854 | Boersma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maarten Boersma (Holzgerlingen, Germany); Michael Kroener (Ehningen, Germany); Petra Leber (Ehningen, Germany); Silvia M. Mueller (Altdorf, Germany); Jochen Preiss (Boeblingen, Germany); Kerstin Schelm (Stuttgart, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3-stack floorplan for a floating point unit includes: an aligner located in the center of the floating point unit; a frontend located directly above the aligner; a multiplier located directly below the frontend and next to the aligner; an adder located directly next to the multiplier and directly below the aligner; a normalizer located directly above the adder; and a rounder located directly above the normalizer. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201092 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/119 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032857 | McIlrath |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | R3 Logic, Inc. (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa G. McIlrath (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for generating and verifying circuit layouts from computer-aided design tools for vertically integrated, three-dimensional integrated circuits are disclosed. In one instance, a 3-D technology file of these teachings is obtained by providing an identifier for two or more circuit levels, providing for each one of the two or more circuit levels an identifier for a 2-D technology file corresponding to each of the one or more circuit levels and providing a file structure including the two or more circuit levels and each identifier, corresponding to each one of the one or more circuit levels, for the 2-D technology file corresponding to each one of the two or more circuit levels. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233260 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/139 |
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| US 08032888 | Vengerov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Vengerov (Sunnyvale, California); Savvas Gitzenis (Athens, Greece); Declan J. Murphy (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for scheduling a thread on a plurality of processors that includes obtaining a first state of a first processor in the plurality of processors and a second state of a second processor in the plurality of processors, wherein the thread is last executed on the first processor, and wherein the first state of the first processor includes the state of a cache of the first processor, obtaining a first estimated instruction rate to execute the thread on the first processor using an estimated instruction rate function and the first state, obtaining a first estimated global throughput for executing the thread on the first processor using the first estimated instruction rate and the second state, obtaining a second estimated global throughput for executing the thread on the second processor using the second state, comparing the first estimated global throughput with the second estimated global throughput to obtain a comparison result, and executing the thread, based on the comparison result, on one selected from a group consisting of the first processor and the second processor, wherein the thread performs an operation on one of the plurality of processors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/581917 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia); Bayer Cropscience S.A. (Lyons, France); B and G Equipment Company (Plumbsteadville, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary O. Maupin (Cape Coral, Florida); Marc C. Dolan (Wellington, Colorado); Nicholas Hamon (Sparta, New Jersey); Eric J. Snell (Barnesville, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An enclosure is provided having openings for entry of rodents within the enclosure. There is arranged one or more applicators in the form of a suspended flexible web configured to contact rodents entering the chamber and having a chemical on the web for application to the rodents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/586171 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Animal husbandry 119/651 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029445 | Wen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xu Wen (Vancouver, Canada); Septimiu E. Salcudean (Vancouver, Canada); Peter D. Lawrence (Vancouver, Canada); Reza Zahiri-Azar (Vancouver, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for processing ultrasonic image signals is disclosed. The method involves receiving a plurality of input sample values representing reflected sound waves in a ultrasonic system, exponentiating each input sample to produce a plurality of respective exponentiated sample values, conditioning the exponentiated sample values to produce conditioned exponentiated sample values for receipt by an imageformer, and causing the imageformer to produce an image representing the ultrasonic sound waves in response to the conditioned exponentiated sample values. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/705084 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029767 | Gray |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Phanos Technologies, Inc. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D. Gray (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a family of cyanine dyes which fluoresce in the far red and near infra red wavelengths of the spectrum and preferably possess lipophilic side chains. The dyes of the invention are soluble in commercially available membrane staining vehicles, are useful as probes for rapidly staining lipophilic structures such as membranes in cells or isolated from cells, and are well retained therein. Methods of using the dyes to detect stained cells both in vivo and in vitro are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/330073 |
| 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 424/9.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029770 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yaoping Lu (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Allan H. Conney (Princeton, New Jersey); YouRong Lou (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing a caffeine salt complex and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for use in methods for preventing or treating cancer or solar dermatitis. Methods for inducing apoptosis or inhibiting proliferation in a cancer cell or cell which as UVB-induced DNA damage using a caffeine salt complex or methylated xanthine are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/393237 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029781 | Lobel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Lobel (Highland Park, New Jersey); David Sleat (Scotch Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for treating a patient having disorder characterized by a deficient amount of functional CLN2 protein in the affected cells, which comprises administering to the patient an amount of CLN2 protein effective to reduce or eliminate the symptoms caused by the deficiency in CLN2 protein. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/881066 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029788 | Kashmiri 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) | Syed V S Kashmiri (Gaitherburg, Maryland); Eduardo A. Padlan (Kensington, Maryland); Jeffrey Schlom (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed towards mouse-human chimeric variants of CC49 monoclonal antibodies with minimal murine content. A first aspect of the invention provides CDR variants of humanized monoclonal antibody (HuCC49) in which less than all six (three heavy chain and three light chain) Complementarity Determining Regions (CDRs) of CC49 are present. A second aspect of the invention provides SDR variants of humanized monoclonal antibody (HuCC49) in which only Specificity Determining Regions (SDRs) of at least one CDR from CC49 are present. The invention is also directed towards biotechnological methods of making the variants and therapeutic methods of using the variants. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/819920 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029815 | Elford et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Howard L. Elford (Richmond, Virginia); Arturo J. Cardounel (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is the use of ribonucleotide reductase inhibitors in the prevention or treatment of restenosis and other vascular proliferative disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/587706 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/422 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029826 | McGrath |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. McGrath (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features methods of treating a macrophage-associated neurodegenerative disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease (AD), or multiple sclerosis (MS) in a subject by administering chlorite in an amount effective to decrease blood immune cell activation. The invention also features methods of monitoring therapy by assessing blood immune cell activation before and after therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, March 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/378987 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/665 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029980 | Gartel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrei L. Gartel (Chicago, Illinois); Senthil K. Radhakrishnan (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention provides, among other things, methods for identifying agents that inhibit oncogenic transcription factors, induce apoptosis, inhibit the growth of transformed cells and cancer cells, and potentiate the effects of other agents that induce apoptosis and that inhibit the growth of transformed cells and cancer cells. Embodiments of the invention further provide compositions useful for the same comprising an agent the inhibits one or more oncogenic transcription factors and an agent that induces apoptosis, particular compositions wherein the apoptotic effect of the combination is greater than either agent by itself. Embodiments of the invention further provide for the use of such agents and compositions to treat cancer. In illustrative embodiments the agents that inhibit transcription factor activity are thiazole antibiotics, such as Siomycin and thiostrepton, and the apoptosis inducing agent is a member of the TNF ligand superfamily, such as TNF-alpha. In illustrative embodiments the cancers are those in which both the FoxM1 and the NF-kB oncogenic pathways are activated. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/865410 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029986 | Meitinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt(GmbH) (Neuherberg, Germany); Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen (Tuebingen, Germany); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Meitinger (Munich, Germany); Tim Matthias Strom (Munich, Germany); Saskia Biskup (Stuttgart, Germany); Marius Ueffing (Munich, Germany); Elisabeth Kremmer (Freising, Germany); Christian Johannes Gloeckner (Rottenburg-Hailfingen, Germany); Thomas Gasser (Tuebingen, Germany); Petra Herzig (Basel, Switzerland); Friedrich Asmus (Tuebingen, Germany); Nadja Patenge (Rostock, Germany); Alexander Zimprich (Wien, Australia); Matthew J. Farrer (Jacksonville, Florida); Jennifer M. Kachergus (Atlantic Beach, Florida); Sara J. Lincoln (Jacksonville, Florida); Mary M. Hulihan (Atlanta, Georgia); Zibigniew Wszolek (Jacksonville, Florida); Ryan Uitti (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention refers to a newly discovered gene named KASPP for Kinase Associated with Parkinsonism with Pleiomorphic Pathology or alternatively named LRRK2 for Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2, its production, biochemical characterization and use for the detection and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson disease (PD) including, without limitation, sporadic PD, Alzheimer disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and other synucleinopathies and/or tauopathy as well as several polymorphisms and mutations in the KASPP/LRRK2 gene segregated with PD. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/665875 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08030003 — Diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis based on presence of an elevated level of eotaxin-3
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc Elliot Rothenberg (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Eotaxin-3, as a marker for eosinophilic esophagitis and methods of assessing, mitigating, and monitoring eosinophilic esophagitis by altering eotaxin-3 and/or CCR3 function, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/721127 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 08030004 | Hoatlin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maureen Hoatlin (Portland, Oregon); Stacie Stone (Oregon City, Oregon); Alexandra Sobeck (Portland, Oregon); Vincenzo Costanzo (Herts, United Kingdom); Jean Gautier (New York, New York); Igor Landais (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for identifying agents for the treatment of cancer and/or Fanconi anemia using Xenopus egg cell free extracts from which the endogenous DNA has been removed. The assays and method described herein are easily adaptable to high throughput techniques for example to screen large numbers of agents as possible agents for the treatment of cancer and/or Fanconi anemia. Kits for carrying out the disclosed assays and methods also are disclosed. Agents identified by these methods are also disclosed as are methods for treating a subject with cancer and/or Fanconi anemia with these agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/096142 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 08030011 | Kiernan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intrinsic Bioprobes, Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Urban A. Kiernan (Chandler, Arizona); Dobrin Nedelkov (Tempe, Arizona); Randall W. Nelson (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented herein are novel blood plasma/serum biomarkers related to cardiovascular disease. These newly identified biomarkers create the basis for multiple (single) assays using traditional bioassay technologies and when used in combination yield exceptional clinical sensitivity and specificity in the determination of myocardial infarction (MI). A multiplexed, mass spectrometric immunoassay (MSIA) able to simultaneously assay for the new/novel biomarkers as well other MI markers is also presented. Means and methods for evaluating data generated using multiple biomarkers in order to validate findings and further the use of the multiplexed MI assay in clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic uses is also included. |
| FILED | Monday, October 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/906885 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030012 | Desprez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre-Yves Desprez (El Cerrito, California); Judith Campisi (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detection and prognosis of breast cancer and other types of cancer. The method comprises detecting expression, if any, for both an Id-1 and an Id-2 genes, or the ratio thereof, of gene products in samples of breast tissue obtained from a patient. When expressed, Id-1 gene is a prognostic indicator that breast cancer cells are invasive and metastatic, whereas Id-2 gene is a prognostic indicator that breast cancer cells are localized and noninvasive in the breast tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/390682 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030013 | Llovet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josep M. Llovet (New York, New York); Scott L. Friedman (Scarsdale, New York); Myron Schwartz (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provide to allow discrimination of dysplastic nodules from early HCC nodules. More specifically, it has been determined that TERT, GPC3, gankyrin, survivin, TOP2A, LYVE1, Ecadherin, IGFBP3, PDGFRA, TGFA, cyclin D1 and HGF are differentially expressed in HCC as compared to normal liver cells and liver cells that have dysplastic, non-cancerous nodules. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/735402 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030017 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Luciferase enzymes with greatly increased thermostability, e.g., at least half lives of 2 hours at 50° C., cDNAs encoding the novel luciferases, and hosts transformed to express the luciferases, are disclosed. Methods of producing the luciferases include recursive mutagenesis. The luciferases are used in conventional methods, some employing kits. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462320 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030027 | Shimizu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuichiro Shimizu (Memphis, Tennessee); Linda M. Hendershot (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for enhancing recombinant antibody production by co-expressing in a host cell a recombinant antibody and ERp23 protein, which facilitates oxidative folding and stability of the recombinant antibody thereby enhancing production. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424116 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 08030028 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Ning Wu (Brookline, Massachusetts); Stephen Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal lysyl-tRNAs, orthogonal lysyl-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of lysyl-tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate homoglutamines into proteins are provided in response to a four base codon. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with homoglutamines using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/590742 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030057 | Linder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Linder (Renens, Switzerland); Samuel K. Sia (New York, New York); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and device for storing and/or delivering fluids, wherein at least a first and a second fluid, such as chemical or biochemical reagents or rinse solutions, are maintained separately from each other in a common vessel and transferred in series from the vessel to a reaction site to carry out a predetermined chemical or biochemical reaction. Separation may be achieved by interposing a third fluid, e.g., a gaseous fluid plug, between the first and second fluids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/587156 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/286.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030072 | Sieber-Blum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Newcastle University (New Castle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom); Univerzita Karlova V Praze (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maya Sieber-Blum (Brookfield, Wisconsin); Milos Grim (Prague, Czech Republic) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes novel methods for isolating a substantially pure cell population of non-embryonic epidermal neural crest stem cells from the bulge-region of mammalian hair follicles. Also disclosed is the substantially pure cell population of follicular bulge-derived neural crest stem cells for medical research and therapeutic use. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/376498 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/368 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030074 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978108 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030280 | Kawakami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yutaka Kawakami (Kanagawa, Japan); Steven A. Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated or purified immunogenic peptide comprising 8-15 contiguous amino acids of gp100 (SEQ ID NO: 121) and related nucleic acids, expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and methods of use. The invention further provides immunogenic peptides derived from gp100 which have been modified to enhance their immunogenicity and related nucleic acids, expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, and methods of use. |
| FILED | Friday, August 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/851729 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030285 | Klinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Ken Ishii (Rockville, Maryland); Daniela Verthelyi (Potomac, Maryland); James J. Mond (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a substantially pure or isolated oligodeoxynucleotide of at least about 10 nucleotides comprising a sequence represented by either the formula: 5′N1N2N3T-CpG-WN4N5N63′ wherein the central CpG motif is unmethylated, W is A or T, and N1, N2, N3, N4, N5, and N6 are any nucleotides, or the formula: 5′RY-CpG-RY3′ wherein the central CpG motif is unmethylated, R is. A or G, and Y is C or T, as well as an oligodeoxynucleotide delivery complex and a pharmacological composition comprising the present inventive oligodeoxynucleotide, and a method of inducing an immune response by administering the present inventive oligodeoxynucleotide to a host. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595211 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030286 | Ryazanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexey G. Ryazanov (Princeton, New Jersey); Hsueh-Ping Chu (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided to increase resistance to cell damage in a subject. The increase in resistance to cell damage in a subject in the subject is accomplished by decreasing activity of eEF2 kinase in the subject. The eEF2 kinase activity can be decreased by decreasing the amount of functional eEF2 kinase produced by the subject, including contacting the eEF2 kinase with a compound that inhibits phosphorylation of eEF2 kinase substrate or decreasing the amount of functional eEF2 kinase is decreased by reducing expression of a gene encoding the eEF2 kinase. |
| FILED | Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/615690 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 08030290 | Rossi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | City of Hope (Duarte, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John J. Rossi (Alta Loma, California); Jiehua Zhou (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for delivery of siRNA to specific cells or tissue. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for cell type-specific delivery of anti-HIV siRNAs via fusion to an anti-gp120 aptamer. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/328994 |
| 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 |
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| US 08030294 | Renshaw |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The McLean Hospital Corporation (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Perry F. Renshaw (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods for treating or preventing psychiatric and substance abuse disorders, involving administration of a therapeutically-effective amount of a cytosine-containing or cytidine-containing compound, creatine-containing compound, adenosine-containing, or adenosine-elevating compound to a mammal. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 15, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 09/810109 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
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| US 08030300 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia); The John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); John L. Musachio (Baltimore, Maryland); Kenneth J. Kellar (Bethesda, Maryland); Yingxian Xiao (Potomac, Maryland); Zhi-Liang Wei (Chicago, Illinois); Hong Fan (Timonium, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds that are ligands for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. A second aspect of the invention relates to the use of a compound of the invention for modulation of a mammalian nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The present invention also relates to the use of a compound of the invention for treating a mammal suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, dyskinesias, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, pain, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, chemical substance abuse, alcoholism, memory deficit, pseudodementia, Ganser's syndrome, migraine pain, bulimia, obesity, premenstrual syndrome or late luteal phase syndrome, tobacco abuse, post-traumatic syndrome, social phobia, chronic fatigue syndrome, premature ejaculation, erectile difficulty, anorexia nervosa, disorders of sleep, autism, mutism or trichtillomania. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/558607 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/210.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030319 | Gangjee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleem Gangjee (Allison Park, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for treating cancer and other pathological proliferating conditions by inhibiting mitosis using at least one pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine having the general formula (16): where X is selected from the group consisting of lower alkyls, heteroalkyls, substituted or unsubstituted aryls or heteroaryls, arylalkyls, and heteroarylalkyls; where R1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyls, heteroalkyls, substituted or unsubstituted aryls or heteroaryls, arylalkyls, and heteroarylalkyls; where R2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyls, heteroalkyls, alkoxys, substituted or unsubstituted aryls or heteroaryls; where R3 is selected from the group consisting of zero, lower alkyls, heteroalkyls, alkenyls, and heteroalkenyls; and where R4 is selected from the group consisting of substituted or unsubstituted aryls or heteroaryls, arylalkyls, heteroarylalkyls, and hydrogen. The compound may inhibit mitosis in cells that have developed multidrug resistance due to P-glycoprotein and MRP1, and facilitate the reversal of P-glycoprotein mediated resistance. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/055732 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/265.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030341 | Lazarus 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); Kobe Gakuin University (Kobe, Japan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence H. Lazarus (Durham, North Carolina); Yoshio Okada (Akashi, Japan); Tingyou Li (Akashi, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to symmetric and asymmetric dimeric Dmt (2′,6′-ditnethyl) compounds and Dmt derivative compounds with dual δ and μ opioid receptor antagonist activity. Also, the present invention provides compositions comprising these compounds and it provides methods of using these compounds. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/065121 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030358 | Jay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Jay (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Russell J. Mumper (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for removing a radioactive element or compound such as systemic transuranic compounds, from mammals comprises a pharmaceutical carrier and a decorporation agent comprising ester and amide derivatives of DTPA. A method of treating a mammal to remove systemic compounds utilizing the DTPA derivatives is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/260549 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/663 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030413 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KNC Ner Acquisition Sub, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis methods for creating polymeric compounds comprising dihydroxyphenyl derivatives (DHPD), or DHPp i.e. polymers modified with DHPD, with desired surface active effects are described. The polymer backbone of DHPp has structural or performance features that can be tailored to control physical properties of DHPp, allowing it to be useful for different applications i.e. tissue adhesives or sealants, adhesion promoting coatings, and antifouling coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/624285 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030442 | Simon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger P. Simon (Portland, Oregon); Zhi-Gang Xiong (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions that inhibit acid sensing ion channels are provided for the prevention and treatment of brain injury, including injury caused by stroke or seizure. The methods and compositions of the invention are additionally effective for the reduction of acidosis in the brain. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/943546 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030446 | Veeraraghavan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire); Board of Regents University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudha Veeraraghavan (Houston, Texas); Michael Simons (Hanover, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to mutant proline-and-arginine rich (PR) peptides with defined structural characteristics for use in inhibiting mammalian 20S proteasome activity and modulating expression of genes regulating the NF-κB pathway. Mutant PR peptides of the present invention differ from wild-type PR peptides by having at least one to three amino acid substitutions, wherein at least one of the amino acid residues at position one, two or three of the mutant PR peptide is positively charged. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/673790 |
| 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 530/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030447 | Motin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir L. Motin (League City, Texas); Sadhana Chauhan (League City, Texas); Scott R. Gilbertson (Galveston, Texas); Anton Agarkov (Galveston, Texas); Pedro Lory (Antwerpen, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to peptide sequences that were identified from combinatorial libraries and could serve as substrates of plague plasminogen activator (Pla). Another aspect of the present invention is drawn to peptides derived from the substrates for Pla as a result of chemical modifications leading to specific inactivation of the proteolytic activity of Pla. Additionally, the present invention is directed to the use of the substrates identified herein in the detection of bacteria expressing omptin family of proteases which includes Y. pestis. Furthermore, the present invention is also directed to the use of the inhibitors identified herein in the prevention and treatment of infection caused by these bacteria. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901978 |
| 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 530/329 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030449 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chae Un Kim (Ithaca, New York); Sol M. Gruner (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Preparation of cryocooled protein crystal is provided by use of helium pressurizing and cryocooling to obtain cryocooled protein crystal allowing collection of high resolution data and by heavier noble gas (krypton or xenon) binding followed by helium pressurizing and cryocooling to obtain cryocooled protein crystal for collection of high resolution data and SAD phasing simultaneously. The helium pressurizing is carried out on crystal coated to prevent dehydration or on crystal grown in aqueous solution in a capillary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700237 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030459 | Papisov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail I. Papisov (Winchester, Massachusetts); Alexander Yurkovetskiy (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to biodegradable biocompatible polyketals, methods for their preparation, and methods for creating animals by administration of biodegradable biocompatible polyketals. In one aspect, a method for forming the biodegradable biocompatible polyketals comprises combining a glycol-specific oxidizing agent with a polysaccharide to form an aldehyde intermediate, which is combined with a reducing agent to form the biodegradable biocompatible polyketal. The resultant biodegradable biocompatible polyketals can be chemically modified to incorporate additional hydrophilic moieties. A method for treating animals includes the administration of the biodegradable biocompatible polyketal in which biologically active compounds or diagnostic labels can be disposed. The present invention also relates to chiral polyketals, methods for their preparation, and methods for use in chromatographic applications, specifically in chiral separations. A method for forming the chiral polyketals comprises combining a glycol-specific oxidizing agent with a polysaccharide to form an aldehyde intermediate, which is combined with a suitable reagent to form the chiral polyketal. A method for use in chiral separations includes the incorporation of the chiral polyketals in the mobile phase during a chromatographic separation, or into chiral stationary phases such as gels. The present invention further relates to chiral polyketals as a source for chiral compounds, and methods for generating such chiral compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521334 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/409 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030473 | Carrington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334776 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030475 | Michalowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Michalowski (Frederick, Maryland); Donald H. Burke-Aguero (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are nucleic acid molecules, and methods of their use, which have a specific structure including a double helical domain and a G-quadruplex domain physically connected by a linker domain which may be nucleosidic or non-nucleosidic. These aptamers demonstrate potent inhibition of phylogenetically diverse primate lentiviral reverse transcriptases, which effect is largely independent of aptamer sequence provided that the aptamer has the specified structure. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471166 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030503 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kosan Biosciences Incorporated (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yue Chen (Hayward, California); Yong Li (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Intermediates in the preparation of epothilones and epothilone analogs are provided along with synthetic methods useful in the synthesis of epothilone compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117876 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/292 |
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| US 08030526 | Hooker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Matthew Hooker (Port Jefferson, New York); Matthias Schonberger (Mains, Germany); Hanno Schieferstein (Aabergen, Germany); Joanna S. Fowler (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Isotopically labeled formaldehyde (*C§H2O) is prepared from labeled methyl iodide (*C§H3I) by reaction with an oxygen nucleophile having a pendant leaving group. The mild and efficient reaction conditions result in good yields of *C§H2O with little or no *C isotopic dilution. The simple, efficient production of 11CH2O is described. The use of the 11CH2O for the formation of positron emission tomography tracer compounds is described. The reaction can be incorporated into automated equipment available to radiochemistry laboratories. The isotopically labeled formaldehyde can be used in a variety of reactions to provide radiotracer compounds for imaging studies as well as for scintillation counting and autoradiography. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488680 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/448 |
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| US 08030926 | Avdievich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai I. Avdievich (Bronx, New York); Hoby P. Hetherington (Woodbridge, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides arrays of counter rotating current surface coils for simultaneous reception and transmission with a volume coil for improved signal-to-noise ratio and radio frequency field homogeneity for in particular high-field (4-8 T) imaging of deep body regions, such as central brain structures. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/224478 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031338 | Piston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Piston (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark Rizzo (Nottingham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides improved methods for assessing Förster resonance energy transfer using polarized light. Specifically, the methods rely on measuring depolarized light emitted by fluorescent acceptor molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/291111 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031829 | Yin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhye Yin (Schenectady, New York); Bruno Kristiaan Bernard DeMan (Clifton Park, New York); Jed Douglas Pack (Glenville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for analytically reconstructing a multi-axial computed tomography (CT) dataset, acquired using one or more longitudinally-offset x-ray beams emitted from multiple x-ray sources is provided. The method comprises acquiring one or more CT axial projection datasets, wherein the CT axial projection datasets are acquired using less than a full scan of data. The method further comprises reconstructing the CT axial projection datasets to generate a reconstructed image volume. The reconstruction comprises back projecting one or more voxels comprising the multi-axial CT dataset, along one or more projection views, based upon a cone-angle weight determined for the voxels, wherein the cone-angle weight for the voxels is determined along a longitudinal direction. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/924829 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/9 |
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| US 08031921 | Manduca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armando Manduca (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael J. Carston (Rochester, Minnesota); Robert J. Wentz (Rochester, Minnesota); C. Daniel Johnson (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for processing CT colonography input image voxel data representative of 3-dimensional images of a colon having gas and stool tagged with stool tagging agent, to remove the stool from the images. The input image voxel data is generated by an imaging instrument having a characteristic point spread function representative of instrument blurring. The point spread function of the instrument can be empirically determined, and the image data processed as a function of the point spread function to accurately identify and remove the tagged stool. In one embodiment of the invention, portions of the image data representative of the tagged stool and colon tissue are dilated as a function of the point spread function. In another embodiment, portions of the image data representative of the tagged stool are convolved with the point spread function to determine the fractional amount of stool present in the image portions, and the tagged stool subtracted by reducing the intensities of the associated portions of the image by an amount proportional to the fractional amount of stool present. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/816264 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08031925 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey S. Morris (Pearland, Texas); Howard Gutstein (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present inventions is directed to a method and computer program product for detecting and quantifying protein spots, including: generating an average gel image by taking a pixel-by-pixel average of the intensities of a plurality of aligned gel images; detecting spots on the average gel image using pinnacle detection; and quantifying spots on individual gels using the maximum intensity within fixed neighborhoods surrounding pinnacle locations found in the average gel image. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/971041 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08032209 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota); Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin He (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Xiaoling Xu (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Bobby Xu (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a non-invasive determination of locations of neural activity in a brain. In particular, methods and systems have been developed that utilize a FINES algorithm for use in three-dimensional (3-D) dipole source localization to locate neural activity in a brain. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372225 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee); Roland D. Seals (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Jonathan S. Morrell (Knoxvlle, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for initiating a process gas plasma. A conductive plate having a plurality of conductive fingers is positioned in a microwave applicator. An arc forms between the conductive fingers to initiate the formation of a plasma. A transport mechanism may convey process materials through the plasma. A spray port may be provided to expel processed materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555459 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/723.MW0 |
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| US 08028679 | Willi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin L. Willi (Dunlap, Illinois); Scott B. Fiveland (Metamora, Illinois); David T. Montgomery (Edelstein, Illinois); Weidong Gong (Dunlap, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for an engine having a first cylinder and a second cylinder is disclosed having a first engine valve movable to regulate a fluid flow of the first cylinder and a first actuator associated with the first engine valve. The control system also has a second engine valve movable to regulate a fluid flow of the second cylinder and a sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a pressure within the first cylinder. The control system also has a controller that is in communication with the first actuator and the sensor. The controller is configured to compare the pressure within the first cylinder with a desired pressure and selectively regulate the first actuator to adjust a timing of the first engine valve independently of the timing of the second engine valve based on the comparison. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/292832 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08028842 | McGrath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James E. McGrath (Blacksburg, Virginia); Ho Bum Park (Austin, Texas); Benny D. Freeman (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a membrane, kit, and method of making a hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer membrane. The hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer membrane includes a hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer. The hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer includes one or more hydrophilic monomers having a sulfonated polyarylsulfone monomer and a second monomer and one or more hydrophobic monomers having a non-sulfonated third monomer and a fourth monomer. The sulfonated polyarylsulfone monomer introduces a sulfonate into the hydrophilic-hydrophobic random copolymer prior to polymerization. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/655319 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029582 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Kevin W. Kirby (Calabasas Hills, California); Amanda Phelps (Malibu, California); Daniel J. Gregoire (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly includes a particulate matter (PM) filter that comprises an upstream end for receiving exhaust gas, a downstream end and multiple zones. An absorbing layer absorbs microwave energy in one of N frequency ranges and is arranged with the upstream end. N is an integer. A frequency selective filter has M frequency selective segments and receives microwave energy in the N frequency ranges. M is an integer. One of the M frequency selective segments permits passage of the microwave energy in one of the N frequency ranges and does not permit passage of microwave energy in the other of the N frequency ranges. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191475 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation 055/282.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029604 | Tonkovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Velocys, Inc. (Plain City, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anna Lee Y. Tonkovich (Dublin, Ohio); Robert D. Litt (Westerville, Ohio); Qiu Dongming (Dublin, Ohio); Laura J. Silva (Plain City, Ohio); Micheal Jay Lamont (Plain City, Ohio); Maddalena Fanelli (Plain City, Ohio); Wayne W. Simmons (Plain city, Ohio); Steven Perry (Galloway, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using microchannel separation systems including absorbents to improve thermal efficiency and reduce parasitic power loss. Energy is typically added to desorb methane and then energy or heat is removed to absorb methane using a working solution. The working solution or absorbent may comprise an ionic liquid, or other fluids that demonstrate a difference in affinity between methane and nitrogen in a solution. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184843 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/178 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029652 | Meyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Meyer (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Milan Sykora (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Photocatalytic materials based on coupling of semiconductor nanocrystalline quantum dots (NQD) and molecular catalysts. These materials have capability to drive or catalyze non-spontaneous chemical reactions in the presence of visible radiation, ultraviolet radiation, or both. The NQD functions in these materials as a light absorber and charge generator. Following light absorption, the NQD activates a molecular catalyst adsorbed on the surface of the NQD via transfer of one or more charges (either electrons or electron-holes) from the NQD to the molecular catalyst. The activated molecular catalyst can then drive a chemical reaction. A photoelectrolytic device that includes such photocatalytic materials is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/605672 |
| 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 08030012 | Desprez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pierre-Yves Desprez (El Cerrito, California); Judith Campisi (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detection and prognosis of breast cancer and other types of cancer. The method comprises detecting expression, if any, for both an Id-1 and an Id-2 genes, or the ratio thereof, of gene products in samples of breast tissue obtained from a patient. When expressed, Id-1 gene is a prognostic indicator that breast cancer cells are invasive and metastatic, whereas Id-2 gene is a prognostic indicator that breast cancer cells are localized and noninvasive in the breast tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, March 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/390682 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030028 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Ning Wu (Brookline, Massachusetts); Stephen Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal lysyl-tRNAs, orthogonal lysyl-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of lysyl-tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate homoglutamines into proteins are provided in response to a four base codon. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with homoglutamines using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/590742 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030045 | Jessen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cargill, Incorporated (Wayzata, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Holly Jean Jessen (Chanhassen, Minnesota); Hans H. Liao (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Steven John Gort (Apple Valley, Minnesota); Olga V. Selifonova (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides novel beta-alanine/alpha ketoglutarate aminotransferase nucleic acid and protein sequences having increased biological activity. Also provided are cells containing such enzymes, as well as methods of their use, for example to produce malonyl semialdehyde and downstream products thereof, such as 3-hydroxypropionic acid and derivatives thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/310503 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030074 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978108 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030108 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung Chang Lee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide semiconductor nanowires and nanowire devices/applications and methods for their formation. In embodiments, in-plane nanowires can be epitaxially grown on a patterned substrate, which are more favorable than vertical ones for device processing and three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits. In embodiments, the in-plane nanowire can be formed by selective epitaxy utilizing lateral overgrowth and faceting of an epilayer initially grown in a one-dimensional (1D) nanoscale opening. In embodiments, optical, electrical, and thermal connections can be established and controlled between the nanowire, the substrate, and additional electrical or optical components for better device and system performance. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492265 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030120 | Deng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Toledo (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xunming Deng (Syvania, Ohio); Xianbo Liao (Toledo, Ohio); Wenhui Du (Toledo, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel photovoltaic solar cell and method of making the same are disclosed. The solar cell includes: at least one absorber layer which could either be a lightly doped layer or an undoped layer, and at least a doped window-layers which comprise at least two sub-window-layers. The first sub-window-layer, which is next to the absorber-layer, is deposited to form desirable junction with the absorber-layer. The second sub-window-layer, which is next to the first sub-window-layer, but not in direct contact with the absorber-layer, is deposited in order to have transmission higher than the first-sub-window-layer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/899797 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/96 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030449 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chae Un Kim (Ithaca, New York); Sol M. Gruner (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Preparation of cryocooled protein crystal is provided by use of helium pressurizing and cryocooling to obtain cryocooled protein crystal allowing collection of high resolution data and by heavier noble gas (krypton or xenon) binding followed by helium pressurizing and cryocooling to obtain cryocooled protein crystal for collection of high resolution data and SAD phasing simultaneously. The helium pressurizing is carried out on crystal coated to prevent dehydration or on crystal grown in aqueous solution in a capillary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700237 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030459 | Papisov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail I. Papisov (Winchester, Massachusetts); Alexander Yurkovetskiy (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to biodegradable biocompatible polyketals, methods for their preparation, and methods for creating animals by administration of biodegradable biocompatible polyketals. In one aspect, a method for forming the biodegradable biocompatible polyketals comprises combining a glycol-specific oxidizing agent with a polysaccharide to form an aldehyde intermediate, which is combined with a reducing agent to form the biodegradable biocompatible polyketal. The resultant biodegradable biocompatible polyketals can be chemically modified to incorporate additional hydrophilic moieties. A method for treating animals includes the administration of the biodegradable biocompatible polyketal in which biologically active compounds or diagnostic labels can be disposed. The present invention also relates to chiral polyketals, methods for their preparation, and methods for use in chromatographic applications, specifically in chiral separations. A method for forming the chiral polyketals comprises combining a glycol-specific oxidizing agent with a polysaccharide to form an aldehyde intermediate, which is combined with a suitable reagent to form the chiral polyketal. A method for use in chiral separations includes the incorporation of the chiral polyketals in the mobile phase during a chromatographic separation, or into chiral stationary phases such as gels. The present invention further relates to chiral polyketals as a source for chiral compounds, and methods for generating such chiral compounds. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/521334 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/409 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030477 | Cerrina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francesco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael R. Sussman (Madison, Wisconsin); Frederick R. Blattner (Madison, Wisconsin); Sangeet Singh-Gasson (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland Green (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The synthesis of arrays of DNA probes sequences, polypeptides, and the like is carried out using a patterning process on an active surface of a substrate. An image is projected onto the active surface of the substrate utilizing reflective projection optics. The projection optics project a light image onto the active surface of the substrate to deprotect linker molecules thereon. A first level of bases may then be applied to the substrate, followed by development steps, and subsequent exposure of the substrate utilizing a different light image, with further repeats until the elements of a two dimensional array on the substrate surface have an appropriate base bound thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524082 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030509 | Perry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert James Perry (Niskayuna, New York); Larry Neil Lewis (Scotia, New York); Michael Joseph O'Brien (Clifton Park, New York); Grigorii Lev Soloveichik (Latham, New York); Sergei Kniajanski (Clifton Park, New York); Tunchiao Hubert Lam (Clifton Park, New York); Julia Lam Lee (Niskayuna, New York); Malgorzata Iwona Rubinsztajn (Ballston Spa, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with one aspect, the present invention provides an amino-siloxane composition comprising at least one of structures I, II, III, IV or V said compositions being useful for the capture of carbon dioxide from gas streams such as power plant flue gases. In addition, the present invention provides methods of preparing the amino-siloxane compositions are provided. Also provided are methods for reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in a process stream employing the amino-siloxane compositions of the invention as species which react with carbon dioxide to form an adduct with carbon dioxide. The reaction of the amino-siloxane compositions provided by the present invention with carbon dioxide is reversible and thus, the method provides for multicycle use of said compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512105 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/453 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030526 | Hooker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacob Matthew Hooker (Port Jefferson, New York); Matthias Schonberger (Mains, Germany); Hanno Schieferstein (Aabergen, Germany); Joanna S. Fowler (Bellport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Isotopically labeled formaldehyde (*C§H2O) is prepared from labeled methyl iodide (*C§H3I) by reaction with an oxygen nucleophile having a pendant leaving group. The mild and efficient reaction conditions result in good yields of *C§H2O with little or no *C isotopic dilution. The simple, efficient production of 11CH2O is described. The use of the 11CH2O for the formation of positron emission tomography tracer compounds is described. The reaction can be incorporated into automated equipment available to radiochemistry laboratories. The isotopically labeled formaldehyde can be used in a variety of reactions to provide radiotracer compounds for imaging studies as well as for scintillation counting and autoradiography. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488680 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 568/448 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030633 | Stoddard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BP Corporation North America Inc. (Naperville, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan G. Stoddard (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania); Roger F. Clark (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for monitoring a solid-liquid interface, including providing a vessel configured to contain an at least partially melted material; detecting radiation reflected from a surface of a liquid portion of the at least partially melted material; providing sound energy to the surface; measuring a disturbance on the surface; calculating at least one frequency associated with the disturbance; and determining a thickness of the liquid portion based on the at least one frequency, wherein the thickness is calculated based on L=(2m−1)vs/4f, where f is the frequency where the disturbance has an amplitude maximum, vs is the speed of sound in the material, and m is a positive integer (1, 2, 3, . . . ). |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233989 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/573 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031339 | Steele |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul T. Steele (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system according to one embodiment includes a light source for generating light fringes; a sampling mechanism for directing a particle through the light fringes; and at least one light detector for detecting light scattered by the particle as the particle passes through the light fringes. A method according to one embodiment includes generating light fringes using a light source; directing a particle through the light fringes; and detecting light scattered by the particle as the particle passes through the light fringes using at least one light detector. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/335408 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031414 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (New Port News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chuyu Liu (Newport News, Virginia); Shukui Zhang (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A single lens bullet-shaped laser beam shaper capable of redistributing an arbitrary beam profile into any desired output profile comprising a unitary lens comprising: a convex front input surface defining a focal point and a flat output portion at the focal point; and b) a cylindrical core portion having a flat input surface coincident with the flat output portion of the first input portion at the focal point and a convex rear output surface remote from the convex front input surface. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386917 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/796 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031417 | Halpin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Michael Halpin (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical mount for an optical element includes a mounting plate, a lever arm pivot coupled to mounting plate, and an adjustment plate. The optical mount also includes a flexure pivot mechanically coupling the adjustment plate to the mounting plate and a lever arm. The optical mount further includes a first adjustment device extending from the adjustment plate to make contact with the lever arm at a first contact point. A projection of a line from the first contact point to a pivot point, measured along the lever arm, is a first predetermined distance. The optical mount additionally includes a second adjustment device extending from the adjustment plate to make contact with the lever arm at a second contact point. A projection of a line from the second contact point to the pivot point, measured along the lever arm, is a second predetermined distance greater than the first predetermined distance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/782636 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/819 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031614 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Roy Glenn Musselman (Rochester, Minnesota); Amanda Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Brent Allen Swartz (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin); Brian Paul Wallenfelt (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A massively parallel nodal computer system periodically collects and broadcasts usage data for an internal communications network. A node sending data over the network makes a global routing determination using the network usage data. Preferably, network usage data comprises an N-bit usage value for each output buffer associated with a network link. An optimum routing is determined by summing the N-bit values associated with each link through which a data packet must pass, and comparing the sums associated with different possible routes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539248 |
| ART UNIT | 2461 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031823 | Jenkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Silicon Graphics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Nord Jenkins (Redwood Shores, California); Frank N. Cornett (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of reducing skew between a plurality of signals transmitted with a transmit clock is described. Skew is detected between the received transmit clock and each of received data signals. Delay is added to the clock or to one or more of the plurality of data signals to compensate for the detected skew. The delay added to each of the plurality of delayed signals is updated to adapt to changes in detected skew. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/247122 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/371 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031825 | Akers |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas W. Akers (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-destructive testing apparatus may comprise a photon source and a source material that emits positrons in response to bombardment of the source material with photons. The source material is positionable adjacent the photon source and a specimen so that when the source material is positioned adjacent the photon source it is exposed to photons produced thereby. When the source material is positioned adjacent the specimen, the specimen is exposed to at least some of the positrons emitted by the source material. A detector system positioned adjacent the specimen detects annihilation gamma rays emitted by the specimen. Another embodiment comprises a neutron source and a source material that emits positrons in response to neutron bombardment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/626473 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032892 | Blocksome et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Dong Chen (Croton on Hudson, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Jeffrey J. Parker (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for passing messages in a parallel computer system constructed as a plurality of compute nodes interconnected as a network where each compute node includes a DMA engine but includes only a limited number of byte counters for tracking a number of bytes that are sent or received by the DMA engine, where the byte counters may be used in shared counter or exclusive counter modes of operation. The method includes using rendezvous protocol, a source compute node deterministically sending a request to send (RTS) message with a single RTS descriptor using an exclusive injection counter to track both the RTS message and message data to be sent in association with the RTS message, to a destination compute node such that the RTS descriptor indicates to the destination compute node that the message data will be adaptively routed to the destination node. Using one DMA FIFO at the source compute node, the RTS descriptors are maintained for rendezvous messages destined for the destination compute node to ensure proper message data ordering thereat. Using a reception counter at a DMA engine, the destination compute node tracks reception of the RTS and associated message data and sends a clear to send (CTS) message to the source node in a rendezvous protocol form of a remote get to accept the RTS message and message data and processing the remote get (CTS) by the source compute node DMA engine to provide the message data to be sent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768813 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Behrokh Khoshnevis (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus may include a nozzle assembly configured to extrude material through an outlet; and a controllable robotic arm coupled to the nozzle assembly, the robotic arm having at one end a gripper configured to pick up an element and deposit the element at a desired position relative to the extruded material. The element may be one of: a reinforcement member for a structure being constructed; a segment of a plumbing pipe; an electric network component; and a tile. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/860367 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029698 | Ruckenstein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eli Ruckenstein (Amhert, New York); Mark T. Swihart (Williamsville, New York); Fengjun Hua (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for preparing photoluminescent silicon nanoparticles having uniformly hydrogen-terminated surfaces that are essentially free of residual oxygen. The present invention also relates to a method of preparing a blue-emitting photoluminescent silicon nanoparticle. The present invention further relates to a composition that includes a photoluminescent silicon nanoparticle having a surface that is uniformly hydrogen-terminated and essentially free of residual oxygen. The present invention also relates to a composition including a photoluminescent silicon nanoparticle having a surface that is uniformly coated with an organic layer and essentially free of residual oxygen. The present invention additionally relates to a composition including a photoluminescent silicon nanoparticle stably dispersed in an organic solvent and having a surface that is uniformly coated with an organic layer and essentially free of residual oxygen. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/406940 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.4F0 |
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| US 08029709 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Wu (Cincinnati, Ohio); Charles Scott (Thornhill, Canada); Carlos Co (Cincinnati, Ohio); Chia-Chi Ho (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the encapsulation of liquid particles within nanometer thick polymer shells utilizes an interfacial free radical alternating copolymerization process. Encapsulating a liquid material includes providing a mixture comprising the liquid material to be encapsulated, a hydrophobic monomer in a non-polar solution and a hydrophilic monomer in a polar solution. The liquid material is compatible in either the polar solution or the non-polar solution. The polar solution and the non-polar solution are not miscible in each other. The mixture is homogenized to form an emulsion, and then polymerized by an initiator which initiates an interfacial free radical alternating copolymerization process. The copolymerization process is optimally constrained to proceed only at the hydrophobic and hydrophilic interface thus forming a polymer around the liquid material. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/263310 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029734 | Dai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hongjie Dai (Sunnyvale, California); Robert J. Chen (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanotubes are functionalized in a broadly applicable manner. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are noncovalently functionalized. The functionalized SWNTs are highly versatile, being useful for a variety of implementations, including for the immobilization of molecules, for circuit arrangements, molecular electronics and for molecular sensors. In addition, stable suspensions of functionalized SWNTs in solutions can be achieved, as well as the self-assembly of nanotubes with unperturbed sp2 structures and thus their electronic characteristics. |
| FILED | Friday, March 29, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/473101 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/98 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029905 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Radek Roucka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds of the formula Gei-x-ySixSny, wherein 0.01<y<0.11, and 0.26<x<0.35, and semiconductor structures comprising such compounds. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, and a Group III-V or II-VI active layer. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, an SiGeSn template layer, and an SiGe, Ge, Group III-V, or Group II-VI active layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908143 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030017 | Wood et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Promega Corporation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith V. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Monika G. Wood (Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin); Mary P. Hall (Waunakee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Luciferase enzymes with greatly increased thermostability, e.g., at least half lives of 2 hours at 50° C., cDNAs encoding the novel luciferases, and hosts transformed to express the luciferases, are disclosed. Methods of producing the luciferases include recursive mutagenesis. The luciferases are used in conventional methods, some employing kits. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462320 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030057 | Linder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Linder (Renens, Switzerland); Samuel K. Sia (New York, New York); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and device for storing and/or delivering fluids, wherein at least a first and a second fluid, such as chemical or biochemical reagents or rinse solutions, are maintained separately from each other in a common vessel and transferred in series from the vessel to a reaction site to carry out a predetermined chemical or biochemical reaction. Separation may be achieved by interposing a third fluid, e.g., a gaseous fluid plug, between the first and second fluids. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/587156 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/286.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030077 | Simpson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth J. Simpson (West Lafayette, Indiana); Ronald D. Wampler (Midvale, Utah); David J. Kissick (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting and evaluating the quality of protein crystals are provided comprising subjecting a sample to second order non-linear optical imaging and detecting the second harmonic generation signal. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537775 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030356 | Toscano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John P. Toscano (Glen Arm, Maryland); Frederick Arthur Brookfield (Abingdon, United Kingdom); Andrew D. Cohen (New York, New York); Stephen Martin Courtney (Abingdon, United Kingdom); Lisa Marie Frost (Abingdon, United Kingdom); Vincent Jacob Kalish (Annapolis, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to N-hydroxysulfonamide derivatives that donate nitroxyl (HNO) under physiological conditions and are useful in treating and/or preventing the onset and/or development of diseases or conditions that are responsive to nitroxyl therapy, including heart failure and ischemia/reperfusion injury. Novel N-hydroxysulfonamide derivatives release NHO at a controlled rate under physiological conditions, and the rate of HNO release is modulated by varying the nature and location of functional groups on the N-hydroxysulfonamide derivatives. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/724792 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030413 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KNC Ner Acquisition Sub, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis methods for creating polymeric compounds comprising dihydroxyphenyl derivatives (DHPD), or DHPp i.e. polymers modified with DHPD, with desired surface active effects are described. The polymer backbone of DHPp has structural or performance features that can be tailored to control physical properties of DHPp, allowing it to be useful for different applications i.e. tissue adhesives or sealants, adhesion promoting coatings, and antifouling coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/624285 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030449 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chae Un Kim (Ithaca, New York); Sol M. Gruner (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Preparation of cryocooled protein crystal is provided by use of helium pressurizing and cryocooling to obtain cryocooled protein crystal allowing collection of high resolution data and by heavier noble gas (krypton or xenon) binding followed by helium pressurizing and cryocooling to obtain cryocooled protein crystal for collection of high resolution data and SAD phasing simultaneously. The helium pressurizing is carried out on crystal coated to prevent dehydration or on crystal grown in aqueous solution in a capillary. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/700237 |
| 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 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030473 | Carrington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334776 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030477 | Cerrina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francesco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael R. Sussman (Madison, Wisconsin); Frederick R. Blattner (Madison, Wisconsin); Sangeet Singh-Gasson (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland Green (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The synthesis of arrays of DNA probes sequences, polypeptides, and the like is carried out using a patterning process on an active surface of a substrate. An image is projected onto the active surface of the substrate utilizing reflective projection optics. The projection optics project a light image onto the active surface of the substrate to deprotect linker molecules thereon. A first level of bases may then be applied to the substrate, followed by development steps, and subsequent exposure of the substrate utilizing a different light image, with further repeats until the elements of a two dimensional array on the substrate surface have an appropriate base bound thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524082 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030546 | Reuber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | T. Lynne Reuber (San Mateo, California); Oliver Ratcliffe (Oakland, California); Karen S. Century (Albany, California); Neal I. Gutterson (Oakland, California); Roger Canales (Redwood City, California); Emily L. Queen (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Transcription factor polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs, including expression vectors, have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these constructs have been shown to be more resistant to disease (in some cases, to more than one pathogen), or more tolerant to an abiotic stress (in some cases, to more than one abiotic stress). The abiotic stress may include, for example, salt, hyperosmotic stress, water deficit, heat, cold, drought, or low nutrient conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077535 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030620 | Donnelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Houston (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent M. Donnelly (Houston, Texas); Demetre J. Economou (Houston, Texas); Paul Ruchhoeft (Houston, Texas); Lin Xu (Houston, Texas); Sri Charan Vemula (Leuven, Belgium); Manish Kumar Jain (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for creating a plurality of substantially uniform nano-scale features in a substantially parallel manner in which an array of micro-lenses is positioned on a surface of a substrate, where each micro-lens includes a hole such that the bottom of the hole corresponds to a portion of the surface of the substrate. A flux of charged particles, e.g., a beam of positive ions of a selected element, is applied to the micro-lens array. The flux of charged particles is focused at selected focal points on the substrate surface at the bottoms of the holes of the micro-lens array. The substrate is tilted at one or more selected angles to displace the locations of the focal points across the substrate surface. By depositing material or etching the surface of the substrate, several substantially uniform nanometer sized features may be rapidly created in each hole on the surface of the substrate in a substantially parallel manner. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435545 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031092 | Sun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nan Sun (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are described relating to dual-mode based digital background calibration of pipelined ADCs, for gain variations and device mismatches. Errors caused by gain insufficiency, nonlinearity, and capacitor mismatches are corrected by operating one ADC in two circuit configurations. These two modes are so arranged that their digital outputs differ in the presence of gain nonlinearity, gain insufficiency, and capacitor mismatches. The output difference is measured by randomly choosing one of the two operation modes at each sampling clock and digitally correlating the resulting digital output sequence. The measured output difference, which represents ADC errors, is used to remove the errors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/649274 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031227 | Neal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Homer A. Neal (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Cang Ye (Little Rock, Arkansas); Jeremy Herr (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A position tracking system includes an infrared-sensitive device, such as an infrared camera that generates signals in response to detected infrared light in a field of view of the infrared-sensitive device. A processor is responsive to the signals generated by the infrared-sensitive device for determining a position of the detected infrared light. The processor also generates tilt and pan signals based on the position of the detected infrared light. A tilt and pan mechanism moves a visible-light video camera in response to the tilt and pan signals from the processor. The active infrared light-emitting device includes a loop having at least two infrared light-emitting elements disposed along the loop, on opposite sides of the loop. A control box is disposed in the loop and is in electrical communication with the infrared light-emitting elements. When the loop is disposed around an object that rotates relative to the infrared-sensitive device, a constantly unimpeded viewing channel is provided between the infrared-sensitive device and at least one of the elements due to the positioning of the elements. The position information obtained from the infrared-sensitive device is used to direct a visible-light camera to track the active infrared light-emitting device in a manner similar to that performed by a human camera operator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/369572 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/169 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031338 | Piston et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Piston (Nashville, Tennessee); Mark Rizzo (Nottingham, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides improved methods for assessing Förster resonance energy transfer using polarized light. Specifically, the methods rely on measuring depolarized light emitted by fluorescent acceptor molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/291111 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031514 | Somu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sivasubramanian Somu (Boston, Massachusetts); Ahmed Busnaina (Ashland, Massachusetts); Nicol McGruer (Dover, Massachusetts); Peter Ryan (Waltham, Massachusetts); George G. Adams (West Newton, Massachusetts); Xugang Xiong (Boston, Massachusetts); Taehoon Kim (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-volatile bistable nano-electromechanical switch is provided for use in memory devices and microprocessors. The switch employs carbon nanotubes as the actuation element. A method has been developed for fabricating nanoswitches having one single-walled carbon nanotube as the actuator. The actuation of two different states can be achieved using the same low voltage for each state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/594954 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031926 | Sutko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Sutko (Reno, Nevada); Nelson George Publicover (Reno, Nevada); Joshua David Larkin (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Locations of the origins of “discrete events,” e.g., photons or other units of radiant energy are acquired from a specimen with reference to a scan frame or other region of interest of the specimen. The location of origin of a discrete event can be determined from the corresponding location datum as derived from a scan-drive signal, a positional feed-back signal, or by a point in time during a unit of sampling time (“image-acquisition period”) at which the event is detected. A probability-density function (PDF) is associated with the detected locations. Summing or other processing of the PDFs is performed to produce imagable data. From the data, images can be produced that require fewer discrete events to converge to an ideal density distribution associated with an image feature than required by pixel-based binning methods. Stored data can be mapped into pixels or voxels of a display or otherwise processed, including post hoc processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/986371 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032209 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota); Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin He (Arden Hills, Minnesota); Xiaoling Xu (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Bobby Xu (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is a non-invasive determination of locations of neural activity in a brain. In particular, methods and systems have been developed that utilize a FINES algorithm for use in three-dimensional (3-D) dipole source localization to locate neural activity in a brain. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372225 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/544 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032746 | Boppana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajendra V. Boppana (San Antonio, Texas); William H. Winsborough (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A Tamper-Resistant Communication layer (TRC) adapted to mitigate ad hoc network attacks launched by malicious nodes is presented. One embodiment of the invention utilizes TRC, which is a lean communication layer placed between a network layer and the link layer of a network protocol stack. All aspects of the network protocol stack, with the exception of the routing protocol and data packet forwarding mechanism in the network layer, are unchanged. TRC takes charge of certain key functions of a routing protocol in order to minimize network attacks. Additionally, TRC implements highly accurate self-monitoring and reporting functionality that can be used by nodes in the network to detect compromised nodes. TRC of a node controls its ability to communicate with other nodes by providing non-repudiation of communications. The tamper-resistant nature of TRC provides high assurance that it cannot be bypassed or compromised. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820365 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman J Stern (Athens, Georgia); Edward A Svetoch (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Boris V Eruslanov (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Vladimir V Perelygin (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Vladimir P Levchuk (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Larisa I Volodina (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Yuri N. Kovalev (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Tamara Y. Kudryavtseva (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Victor D. Pokhilenko (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Valery N. Borzenkov (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Olga E. Svetoch (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Eugeni V. Mitsevich (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation); Irina P. Mitsevich (Serpukhov District, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel bacteriocins and/or the novel lactic acid-producing strains are used for at least reducing the levels of colonization by at least one target bacteria in animals, especially poultry. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797796 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/282.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029902 | Denes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ferencz S. Denes (Newbury Park, California); Sorin Odisei Manolache (Madison, Wisconsin); Luis Emilio Cruz-Barba (Guadalajara, Mexico); Alvaro de Jesus Martinez-Gomez (Guadalajara, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Bactericidal substrates and methods of functionalizing the surface of substrates with quaternary ammonium and quaternary phosphonium groups using non-equilibrium RF plasmas are provided. The methods include the step of treating the surface of a substrate with a plasma to create surface active sites. Some methods include the step of reacting the surface active sites with linker molecules, which are then reacted with quaternary ammonium precursor molecules to provide a substrate surface functionalized with quaternary ammonium precursor groups. Other methods react the surface active sites with polymer precursor molecules under plasma conditions to form a covalently-bound polymer layer having reactive sites. The polymer reactive sites are reacted with quaternary phosphonium precursor molecules to provide a substrate surface functionalized with quaternary phosphonium groups. Also provided are bactericidal substrates having immobilized, covalently-bound quaternary ammonium or quaternary phosphonium groups. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/609045 |
| ART UNIT | 1787 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030413 | Lee |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KNC Ner Acquisition Sub, Inc. (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthesis methods for creating polymeric compounds comprising dihydroxyphenyl derivatives (DHPD), or DHPp i.e. polymers modified with DHPD, with desired surface active effects are described. The polymer backbone of DHPp has structural or performance features that can be tailored to control physical properties of DHPp, allowing it to be useful for different applications i.e. tissue adhesives or sealants, adhesion promoting coatings, and antifouling coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/624285 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/328.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030473 | Carrington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334776 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030477 | Cerrina et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francesco Cerrina (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael R. Sussman (Madison, Wisconsin); Frederick R. Blattner (Madison, Wisconsin); Sangeet Singh-Gasson (Madison, Wisconsin); Roland Green (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The synthesis of arrays of DNA probes sequences, polypeptides, and the like is carried out using a patterning process on an active surface of a substrate. An image is projected onto the active surface of the substrate utilizing reflective projection optics. The projection optics project a light image onto the active surface of the substrate to deprotect linker molecules thereon. A first level of bases may then be applied to the substrate, followed by development steps, and subsequent exposure of the substrate utilizing a different light image, with further repeats until the elements of a two dimensional array on the substrate surface have an appropriate base bound thereto. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/524082 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/25.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08029736 | Parrish |
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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) | Clyde F. Parrish (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Nitric oxide (NO) is oxidized into nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by the high temperature decomposition of a hydrogen peroxide solution to produce the oxidative free radicals, hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl. The hydrogen peroxide solution is impinged upon a heated surface in a stream of nitric oxide where it decomposes to produce the oxidative free radicals. Because the decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide solution occurs within the stream of the nitric oxide, rapid gas-phase oxidation of nitric oxide into nitrogen dioxide occurs. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/923163 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/177 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030061 | Shuler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Shuler (Ithaca, New York); Gregory T. Baxter (Salinas, California); Aaron Sin (Ithaca, New York); Robert Andrew Harrison (Toronto, Canada); Scott Meyers (Norristown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, in vitro cell cultures, systems, and methods are provided for microscale cell culture analogous (CCA) device. |
| FILED | Friday, September 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/530381 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/288.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030873 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Wilson (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Andrew Punnoose (Ashburn, Virginia); Katherine Strausser (Houston, Texas); Neil Parikh (North Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile robotic unit features a main body, a plurality of legs for supporting the main body on and moving the main body in forward and reverse directions about a base surface, and a drive assembly. According to an exemplary embodiment each leg includes a respective pivotal hip joint, a pivotal knee joint, and a wheeled foot adapted to roll along the base surface. Also according to an exemplary embodiments the drive assembly includes a motor operatively associated with the hip and knee joints and the wheeled foot for independently driving pivotal movement of the hip joint and the knee joint and rolling motion of the wheeled foot. The hip joint may include a ball-and-socket-type joint interconnecting top portion of the leg to the main body, such that the hip joint is adapted to pivot said leg in a direction transverse to a forward-and-reverse direction. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/187926 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/568.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08031449 | Burns 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) | Bradley M. Burns (Titusville, Florida); Norman N. Blalock (Rockledge, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A short circuit protection system includes an inductor, a switch, a voltage sensing circuit, and a controller. The switch and inductor are electrically coupled to be in series with one another. A voltage sensing circuit is coupled across the switch and the inductor. A controller, coupled to the voltage sensing circuit and the switch, opens the switch when a voltage at the output terminal of the inductor transitions from above a threshold voltage to below the threshold voltage. The controller closes the switch when the voltage at the output terminal of the inductor transitions from below the threshold voltage to above the threshold voltage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/485979 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08029662 | Varma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajender S. Varma (Cincinnati, Ohio); Yuhong Ju (Cincinnati, Ohio); Subhas Sikdar (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed sorbents are for adsorbing sulfur compounds, particularly sulfur-containing aromatic compounds, from liquid hydrocarbon fuels such as gasoline, cracked gasoline, diesel, high sulfur liquid fossil fuels, ultra-low sulfur fuel (ULSF) in fuel cell applications, and mixtures thereof. The sorbent compositions comprise one or more silicates having one or more metal nitrates admixed together. The one or more metal nitrates include iron (II) or (III), zinc (II), cadmium (II) and mercury (II) nitrate. The method of preparing and using the sorbents is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134536 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Mineral oils: Processes and products 28/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08029674 | Lytle |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darren Alan Lytle (Hamilton, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for treatment of water to convert ammonia to nitrate including: feeding water containing dissolved ammonia, as an influent introducing water to be treated, into a packed column containing filter media as packing; introducing air through a diffuser at the bottom of the packed column to maintain the water saturated with oxygen throughout the packed column; establishing colonies of bacteria converting ammonia to nitrate within the column; and removing an ammonia-free and nitrite-fee effluent from the column. |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/457107 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/617 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08032763 | Modica et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Modica (Sewell, New Jersey); Kenneth White (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) card is disclosed. The PCMCIA card may include a cryptographic module, a communications interface, and a processor. The cryptographic module may perform Type 1 encryption of data received from a computer into which the card is inserted. The cryptographic module may support High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryption (HAIPE). The communications interface may provide connectivity to a network adapter. The communications interface may include a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. The processor may detect whether a network adapter is coupled to the communications interface, identify a device driver that corresponds to the network adapter, and employ the device driver to provide operative communication between the cryptographic module and the network adapter. The PCMCIA card may contain a datastore that maintains a plurality device drivers. For example, the plurality of device drivers support any one of IEEE 802.x, Ethernet, V.90, or RS-232 network protocols. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777363 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08032924 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Weifeng Chen (Amherst, Massachusetts); Alexandre V. Evfimievski (San Jose, California); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Ralf Rantzau (San Jose, California); Anton Viktorovich Riabov (Ossining, New York); Pankaj Rohatgi (New Rochelle, New York); Angela Marie Schuett (Columbia, Maryland); Ramakrishnan Srikant (San Jose, California); Grant Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for protecting information in a distributed stream processing system, including: assigning a principal label to a processing component; assigning a first channel label to a first communication channel that is input to the processing component; comparing the principal label to the first channel label to determine if the processing component can read data attributes of the first channel label; and reading the data attributes of the first channel label when the principal label is equal to or has precedence over the first channel label, wherein the principal label includes a read label and a write label and at least one of a selection label, an addition label or a suppression label. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/130308 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08029905 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Radek Roucka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds of the formula Gei-x-ySixSny, wherein 0.01<y<0.11, and 0.26<x<0.35, and semiconductor structures comprising such compounds. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, and a Group III-V or II-VI active layer. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, an SiGeSn template layer, and an SiGe, Ge, Group III-V, or Group II-VI active layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908143 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08030473 | Carrington et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James C. Carrington (Corvallis, Oregon); Edwards Allen (O'Fallon, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to generate siRNAs in vivo is described, as are constructs and compositions useful in the method. The method does not depend on the use of DNA or synthetic constructs that contain inverted duplications or dual promoters so as to form perfect or largely double-stranded RNA. Rather, the method depends on constructs that yield single-stranded RNA transcripts, and exploits endogenous or in vivo-produced miRNAs or siRNAs to initiate production of siRNAs. The miRNAs or siRNAs guide cleavage of the transcript and set the register for production of siRNAs (usually 21 nucleotides in length) encoded adjacent to the initiation cleavage site within the construct. The method results in specific formation of siRNAs of predictable size and register (phase) relative to the initiation cleavage site. The method can be used to produce specific siRNAs in vivo for inactivation or suppression of one or more target genes or other entities, such as pathogens. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/334776 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08030070 | Sanchez-Schmitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corp. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma); Darrell J. Irvine (Arlington, Massachusetts); William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Donald Drake, III (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the normal tissues that interact with vaccines in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471514 |
| 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 435/347 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 08032462 | Mueller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Kansas City, Missouri); Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia); Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio); Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Lee Mueller (Kansas City, Missouri); Thomas Edwin Schaadt (Westerville, Ohio); Steven Joseph Harris (Worthington, Ohio); Eric Lendl (Bedford, Texas); V. Srinivas Nori (Norcross, Georgia); Steven Q. Purser (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Balancing image cash letters (“ICLs”) and ICL items during electronic check processing includes determining whether each item has been presented to a receiving institution for payment. A tracking module can track an incoming ICL/item's processing status using records comprising information regarding the ICL/item's status for electronic check processing events. The tracking module can present the ICL/item's processing status in one or more reports. The tracking module can balance an ICL by comparing an incoming ICL value amount with an outgoing ICL value amount. The incoming ICL value amount comprises the total value of the items in the incoming ICL. The outgoing ICL value amount comprises the total value of the items in the incoming ICL that have been presented to a receiving institution via one or more outgoing ICLs. If the amounts match, then the incoming ICL is balanced. If not, then the ICL is not balanced. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/482379 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08029905 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a Body Corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Radek Roucka (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel compounds of the formula Gei-x-ySixSny, wherein 0.01<y<0.11, and 0.26<x<0.35, and semiconductor structures comprising such compounds. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, and a Group III-V or II-VI active layer. The present invention also provides novel semiconductor structures comprising silicon substrates, an SiGe buffer layer, an SiGeSn template layer, and an SiGe, Ge, Group III-V, or Group II-VI active layer. |
| FILED | Friday, March 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908143 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 08031333 | Zaugg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. (Arlington, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Zaugg (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a distance to an object is presented. A first photon and a second photon are simultaneously generated. The first photon is reflected off an object. The second photon is directed to an optical cavity. An arrival of the first photon is correlated with an arrival of the second photon, and the distance to the object is at least partially determined using the correlation. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/032204 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/5.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08030546 | Reuber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. (Hayward, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | T. Lynne Reuber (San Mateo, California); Oliver Ratcliffe (Oakland, California); Karen S. Century (Albany, California); Neal I. Gutterson (Oakland, California); Roger Canales (Redwood City, California); Emily L. Queen (San Leandro, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Transcription factor polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs, including expression vectors, have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these constructs have been shown to be more resistant to disease (in some cases, to more than one pathogen), or more tolerant to an abiotic stress (in some cases, to more than one abiotic stress). The abiotic stress may include, for example, salt, hyperosmotic stress, water deficit, heat, cold, drought, or low nutrient conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077535 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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