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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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| US 08033185 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Anna Markidou (Souni-Limassol, Cyprus); Steven T. Szweczyk (Springfield, Pennsylvania); Hakki Yegingil (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A PEFS (Piezoelectric Finger Sensor) acts as an “electronic finger” capable of accurately and non-destructively measuring both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus of tissues with gentle touches to the surface. The PEFS measures both the Young's compression modulus and shear modulus variations in tissue generating a less than one-millimeter spatial resolution up to a depth of several centimeters. This offers great potential for in-vivo early detection of diseases. A portable hand-held device is also disclosed. The PEF offers superior sensitivity. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837590 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/862.639 |
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| US 08033991 | Sarvazyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories Inc. (Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey); Sergey Tsyuryupa (Westampton, Pennsylvania); Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Louis Y. Korman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A handgrip for colonoscope shaft is equipped with force, torque, and acceleration sensors allowing for a comprehensive characterization of colonoscope shaft motion, including recognition of obstacles and recording of forces and torques applied at various times during a colonoscopy procedure. An electronic unit is adapted to receive sensors data wirelessly and calculate a variety of motion parameters guiding a medical practitioner during the procedure and aimed at making colonoscopy safer and less painful. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558737 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/131 |
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| US 08034214 | McKinney et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tracera LLC (Elkhart, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Collin McKinney (Durham, North Carolina); Rob Musser (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A reciprocating film type evaporator for solvents and other chemicals which eliminates the need for a large powerful motor, and other associated equipment such as rotary gaskets, by using reciprocation, versus 360 degree rotation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786618 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Concentrating evaporators 159/6.100 |
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| US 08034229 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Amy Hines (Monterey Park, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a process for cathodic protection of electrodes wherein negative bias is applied on the electrode. The negative bias is obtained by asymmetric current pulse, which is obtained by negative phase pulsing with higher amplitude than that of the anodic phase. The asymmetric current pulse is obtained by negative phase pulsing with wider pulse width than that of the anodic phase. The asymmetric current pulse may also be obtained by negative phase pulsing with both higher amplitude and wider pulse width than that of the anodic phase. The invention further relates to a process for cathodic protection of electrodes, wherein negative bias is applied on the electrode, and the negative bias is obtained by asymmetric current pulse, where the asymmetric current pulse is obtained by negative phase pulsing with wider pulse width than that of the anodic phase. The wider pulse width is obtained by pulse trains. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/708358 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/740 |
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| US 08034270 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Martin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Said Rizk (Londonderry, New Hampshire); Ajay Ahuja (Needham, Massachusetts); Simon F. Williams (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835926 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034334 | Dudley 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) | Mark E Dudley (Silver Spring, Maryland); Steven A Rosenberg (Potomac, Maryland); John R Wunderlich (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of promoting the regression of a cancer in a mammal comprising: (i) administering to the mammal nonmyeloablative lymphodepleting chemotherapy, and (ii) subsequently administering: (a) autologous T-cells, which have been previously isolated, selected for highly avid recognition of an antigen of the cancer, the regression of which is to be promoted, and rapidly expanded in vitro only once, and, either concomitantly with the autologous T-cells or subsequently to the autologous T-cells, by the same route or a different route, a T-cell growth factor that promotes the growth and activation of the autologous T-cells, or (b) autologous T-cells, which have been previously isolated, selected for highly avid recognition of an antigen of the cancer, the regression of which is to be promoted, modified to express a T-cell growth factor that promotes the growth and activation of the autologous T-cells, and rapidly expanded in vitro only once, whereupon the regression of the cancer in the mammal is promoted. |
| FILED | Friday, September 05, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/526697 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.700 |
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| US 08034347 | Hempstead et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara L. Hempstead (New York, New York); Ramee Lee (New York, New York); Kenneth K. Teng (New York, New York); Pouneh Kermani (Great Neck, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an isolated protein comprising a pro-domain of a proneurotrophin, methods for producing the protein, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the isolated protein. The invention also provides a nucleic acid molecule which encodes the protein and a vector containing the nucleic acid molecule. The present invention further provides a method for cleaving a proneurotrophin protein to a mature neurotrophin. In addition, the invention relates to methods for inducing apoptosis in a cell of a mammal expressing p75 surface receptors or p75 and trk receptors. The methods include causing the p75 receptor to bind a pharmaceutical composition containing a pro-domain of a proneurotrophin or administering to the mammal an effective amount of a cleavage-resistant proneurotrophin and an inhibitor of trk activation. The invention also relates to a method for inhibiting apoptosis of a cell in a mammal by administering an effective amount of a molecule which inhibits binding of a proneurotrophin to a p75 receptor. Also provided, are kits and methods for screening a human for a condition associated with undesired apoptosis. |
| FILED | Friday, July 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/881763 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/158.100 |
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| US 08034350 | Ott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melanie Ott (San Francisco, California); Sara Pagans Lista (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated methylated Tat peptides; and compositions comprising the peptides. The present invention further provides isolated antibodies specific for a Lys-51-methylated Tat polypeptide. Also provided are methods of identifying agents that inhibit Lys-51 methylation of a Tat polypeptide. The present invention further provides methods of treating an immunodeficiency virus infection in a mammalian subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/190414 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
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| US 08034355 | Whelan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Whelan (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jianrong Li (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to an attenuated non-segmented negative-sense RNA virus characterized by at least one mutation in the L gene wherein the mutation reduces viral replication, the methods of manufacturing and methods of use. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/089353 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/224.100 |
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| US 08034384 | Meyerhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Meyerhoff (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Melissa M. Reynolds (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Megan Frost (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Sangyeul Hwang (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yiduo Wu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A material includes a surface and a reactive agent that is located at the surface of the material, covalently attached to a backbone of the material, and/or located within the material. The reactive agent has nitrite reductase activity, nitrate reductase activity, and/or nitrosothiol reductase activity. The reactive agent also converts at least one of nitrites, nitrates and nitrosothiols to nitric oxide when in contact with blood. A reproducible nitrosothiol sensor is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/944034 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034550 | Schwartz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Schwartz (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Arrays of distinct chemically reactive materials used for assaying or screening are assembled by arranging premanufactured strips, each having a linear array of chemically reactive materials on its surface, into a frame to be exposed to a substance to be analyzed. The strips provide great flexibility in generating different types of arrays while still permitting efficiencies to be gained by batch processing of each strip type. The arrays further provide for novel read-out and reaction promotion techniques making use of the ability of the strips to direct and received energy to and from particular sites. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/128928 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 08034556 | Marth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamey Marth (San Diego, California); Kazuaki Ohtsubo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is based on the discovery that the gylcosylation enzyme GnT-4 increases glyocsylation and the stability of glucose transporter (Glut) family members, e.g., by increasing lectin binding. Modulators of GnT-4 activity can therefore be identified and used for the treatment of diabetes or pre-diabetes. In addition, inhibitors of GnT-4 activity can be used for the treatment of cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/569655 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08034557 | Eriksson 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); Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (Albany, New York); The Progeria Research Foundation, Inc. (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | B. Maria H. Eriksson (Solna, Sweden); Francis S. Collins (Rockville, Maryland); Leslie B. Gordon (Foxboro, Massachusetts); W. Ted Brown (Staten Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are point mutations in the LMNA gene that cause HGPS. These mutations activate a cryptic splice site within the LMNA gene, which leads to deletion of part of exon 11 and generation of a mutant Lamin A protein product that is 50 amino acids shorter than the normal protein. In addition to the novel Lamin A variant protein and nucleic acids encoding this variant, methods of using these molecules in detecting biological conditions associated with a LMNA mutation in a subject (e.g., HGPS, arteriosclerosis, and other age-related diseases), methods of treating such conditions, methods of selecting treatments, methods of screening for compounds that influence Lamin A activity, and methods of influencing the expression of LMNA or LMNA variants are also described. Oligonucleotides and other compounds for use in examples of the described methods are also provided, as are protein-specific binding agents, such as antibodies, that bind specifically to at least one epitope of a Lamin A variant protein preferentially compared to wildtype Lamin A, and methods of using such antibodies in diagnosis, treatment, and screening. Also provided are kits for carrying out the methods described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/870234 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08034571 | Handfield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oragenics, Inc. (Alachua, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Handfield (Gainesville, Florida); Ann Progulske-Fox (Keystone Heights, Florida); L. Jeannine Brady (Gainesville, Florida); Jeffrey D. Hillman (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods for obtaining antigens that are expressed by pathogenic microorganism during an infection process, as well as the antigens so obtained. Also disclosed are isolated polynucleotides encoding said antigens, recombinant polypeptides expressed from the isolated polypeptides, antibodies capable of forming immune complexes with the obtained antigens, and various other compositions useful in the detection, diagnosis, prevention and/or treatment of a microbial infection. The methods of the invention utilize pooled sera from patients who have partly or completely undergone infection by a microbial organism in order to obtain genes that are expressed during in vivo but not during in vitro growth of the microbial organism. |
| FILED | Friday, August 04, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/980845 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08034613 | Slukvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to hematopoietic precursors derived from human embryonic stem cells. In the culture of differentiated cells from human ES cells, the fully committed hematopoietic precursors are CD34+ and CD43+ but not CD45+. If the cells are cultured until they express CD45, then the cells lose the ability to produce differentiated cells of the lymphoid lineages. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520871 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 08034629 | Chapin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen C. Chapin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Patrick Seamus Doyle (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel Colin Pregibon (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are provided for high precision scanning of hydrogel microparticles. The high precision is achieved by one or more modifications to the microparticle composition, or microfluidics apparatus that align the microparticles in a detection channel, or method of preparing a sample for introduction into the apparatus, or some combination. An apparatus comprises a body structure having formed therein a central channel and multiple focusing channels in fluid communication with the central channel through multiple junctions. A width of the central channel is smaller in a portion downstream of each junction. A particle comprises a hydrogel matrix and a probe molecule. The particle has an aspect ratio greater than about three. A method includes loading into a sample fluid inlet a mixture, wherein a number of particles lies within a range from about 15 to about 20 particles/μl. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/552268 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034633 | Geddes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris D. Geddes (Bel-Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for increasing fluorescence detection in surface assay systems while increasing kinetics of a bioreaction therein by providing low-power microwaves to irradiate metallic materials within the system in an amount sufficient to increase heat thereby affecting the kinetics of a bioreaction therein. |
| FILED | Monday, November 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/719731 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/525 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034779 | Distelhorst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark W. Distelhorst (Shaker Heights, Ohio); Yiping Rong (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified polypeptide includes an amino acid sequence consisting of about 10 to 80 amino acids, the amino acid sequence having a sequence identity at least 90% homologous to a portion of SEQ ID NO:1. The polypeptide inhibits binding of Bcl-2 to IP3 receptors of cells that express IP3R and Bcl-2 and induces apoptosis in a cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/190979 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034780 | McPhail et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Kerry Leigh McPhail (Corvallis, Oregon); Rebecca Ann Medina (Corvallis, Oregon); William Henry Gerwick (La Jolla, California); Douglas Eugene Goeger (Albany, Oregon); Todd Leo Capeon (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel antiproliferative compounds, compositions comprising the same, and methods of use thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174216 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.200 |
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| US 08034781 | Tallant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | E. Ann Tallant (Lewisville, North Carolina); Patricia E. Gallagher (Lewisville, North Carolina); Carlos M. Ferrario (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes the use of angiotensin-(1-7) peptide as an anti-cancer therapeutic. Thus, in one embodiment, the present invention comprises a composition to inhibit the growth of cancer cells in an individual comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of an agonist for the angiotensin-(1-7) receptor to inhibit cancer cell growth or proliferation. Application of a pharmaceutically effective amount of angiotensin-(1-7) or angiotensin-(1-7) receptor agonist is associated with an increase in the expression of genes involved in tumor suppression, apoptosis, and/or cell cycle inhibition, and a decrease the expression of known oncogenes, protein kinases, and/or cell cycle progression genes. Cancers treated using the methods and compositions described herein include cancers having an angiotensin-(1-7) receptor, including, but not limited to, breast and lung cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769506 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
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| US 08034792 | Green et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Green (Boylston, Massachusetts); Narendra Wajapeyee (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of treating a tumor in a subject include identifying a subject having, at risk for, or suspected of having a tumor, and administering to the subject an effective amount of an IGFBP7 agent if the tumor has increased Ras-BRAF-MEK-Erk signaling, is dependent for growth and/or survival upon the Ras-BRAF-MEK-Erk signaling pathway, and/or expresses an activated or oncogenic BRAF or RAS. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209028 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08034796 | Capomacchia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony C. Capomacchia (Bishop, Georgia); Solomon T. Garner, Jr. (New Orleans, Louisiana); J. Warren Beach (Hoschton, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutual prodrugs of glucosamine, and derivatives and analogs of glucosamine and an anti-inflammatory agent, compositions thereof, and methods for, e.g., treating disorders and conditions by administration of the compositions are provided. Topical compositions of glucosamine, and derivatives and analogs of glucosamine are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/547898 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/62 |
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| US 08034806 | Conn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | P. Jeffrey Conn (Brentwood, Tennessee); Craig W. Lindsley (Brentwood, Tennessee); Charles David Weaver (Franklin, Tennessee); Alice L. Rodriguez (Nashville, Tennessee); Colleen M. Niswender (Brentwood, Tennessee); Carrie K. Jones (Nashville, Tennessee); Richard Williams (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to bicyclic MGluR5 positive allosteric modulators, for example 6-(phenylethynyl)-3,4-dihydroisoquinolin-1(2H)-one, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as positive allosteric modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 (mGluR5); synthetic methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263224 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/212.80 |
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| US 08034821 | Taunton, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John William Taunton, Jr. (San Francisco, California); Michael Cohen (San Francisco, California); Kevan Shokat (San Francisco, California); Chao Zhang (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Inhibition of protein kinases having one or more cysteine residues within the ATP binding site is effected by contacting the kinase, per se or in a cell or subject, with an inhibitory-effective amount of a compound having a heterocyclic core structure comprised of two or more fused rings containing at least one nitrogen ring atom, and an electrophilic substituent that is capable of reacting with a cysteine residue within the ATP binding site of a kinase. Preferred compounds include certain pyrrolopyrimidines and oxindoles having such an electrophilic substituent and optionally an aromatic or heteroaromatic substituent that is capable of interacting with a threonine or smaller residue located in the gatekeeper position of the kinase. Kinases lacking such cysteine residues may be engineered or modified so that they are capable of being inhibited by such compounds by replacing a valine or other amino acid residue within the ATP binding site by a cysteine residue. |
| FILED | Monday, February 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/698027 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/265.100 |
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| US 08034901 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Adam Godzik (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides Bcl-G polypeptides and encoding nucleic acids. Bcl-G polypeptides include Bcl-GL and Bcl-GS. The invention also provides mouse Bcl-G. The invention also provides vectors containing Bcl-G nucleic acids, host cells containing such vectors, Bcl-G anti-sense nucleic acids and related compositions. The invention additionally provides Bcl-G oligonucleotides that can be used to hybridize to or amplify a Bcl-G nucleic acid. Anti-Bcl-G specific antibodies are also provided. Further provided are kits containing Bcl-G nucleic acids or Bcl-G specific antibodies. Such kits and reagents can be used to diagnose cancer, monitor response to therapy, or predict the prognosis of a cancer patient. The invention additionally provides methods of modulating apoptosis using Bcl-G polypeptides, encoding nucleic acids, or compounds that modulate the activity or expression of Bcl-G polypeptides. The methods for modulating apoptosis can be used to treat diseases such as cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/646747 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034922 | Kay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Kay (Los Altos, California); Dirk Haussecker (Buehlertal, Germany); Dan Cao (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for modulating transcription by RNA polymerases are described. |
| FILED | Friday, August 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/545729 |
| 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 08034928 | Raines et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); The Penn State Research Foundation (Univeristy Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald T. Raines (Madison, Wisconsin); Sunil S. Chandran (Fremont, California); Timothy E. Glass (Columbia, Missouri); Luke D. Lavis (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Latent fluorescent compounds, comprising a fluorescent molecule with one or more blocking groups attached and optionally one or more urea-containing groups are provided. The urea-containing group can be used to further attach one or more molecules of interest, such as proteins, peptides or nucleic acids. The blocking group(s) is released from the latent fluorescent compound by reaction with a trigger, forming the fluorescent molecule which can be detected. Also provided herein are methods of using latent fluorescent compounds to detect triggers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426997 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035016 | Bergey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Earl J. Bergey (South Dayton, New York); Adela Bonoiu (N. Tonawanda, New York); Supriya Mahajan (Amherst, New York); Paras N. Prasad (Williamsville, New York); Indrajit Roy (Amherst, New York); Stanley A. Schwartz (East Amherst, New York); Ken-Tye Yong (Tonawanda, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods and compositions for inhibiting expression of one or more target genes. The compositions contain RNA polynucleotides that can inhibit expression of a target gene via RNA interference (RNAi) electrostatically complexed with surface functionalized gold nanorods (GNRs). The RNA polynucleotides are not covalently bound to the surface functionalized GNRs. The method involves inhibiting expression of a target gene in an individual. The method is performed by administering to the individual an effective amount of a composition containing surface functionalized GNRs electrostatically complexed with RNA polynucleotides, such as siRNA, that can inhibit expression of the target gene via RNAi. The siRNA is not covalently bound to the surface functionalized GNRs. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555609 |
| 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 | Nanotechnology 977/773 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035381 | Lustig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Lustig (Palo Alto, California); Charles H. Cunningham (San Francisco, California); Albert P. Chen (San Francisco, California); Daniel B. Vigneron (Corte Madera, California); John M. Pauly (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method for designing a spectral-spatial pulse for exciting at least one passband and minimally exciting at least one stopband is provided. A uniform shaped spectral envelope is generated. For a plurality of kz≠0, kz dependent weights for a spectral envelope that approximate a kz=0 envelope and provides the at least one passband and the at least one stopband for each of the plurality of kz≠0 is generated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259990 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035387 | De Graaf et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin De Graaf (Hamden, Connecticut); Kevin Koch (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method or determining location(s) at which at least one magnetic article is to be positioned during a magnetic resonance imaging procedure of at least one subject. A magnetic field Bo is applied to a region that includes the at least one subject and does not include the at least one magnetic article. First magnetic resonance information about the region in response to the applied magnetic field BO is received. The first magnetic resonance information relates at least in part to one or more magnetic field inhomogeneities in the region. Based at least in part on the first magnetic resonance information, at least one first location proximate the at least one subject at which at least one paramagnetic article and/or diamagnetic article is to be positioned is determined, so as to at least partially compensate for the one or more magnetic field inhomogeneities. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/087616 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036729 | Lang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint, particularly a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. Information on thickness of cartilage and curvature of cartilage or subchondral bone can be used to plan therapy. Information on movement pattern can be used to plan therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/764010 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036732 | Milner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel contrast mechanism for imaging blood flow using magneto-motive optical Doppler tomography (MM-ODT), Optical Coherence Tomography, and Ultrasound. MM-ODT, OCT, and ultrasound combined with an externally applied temporally oscillating high-strength magnetic field detects erythrocytes moving according to the field gradient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550771 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036751 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Producers, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark Humayan (Glendale, California); James Little (Saugus, California); Kevin Wilkin (Valencia, California); Da-Yu Chang (Rowland Heights, California); Rajat Agrawal (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a retinal prosthesis with an inductive coil mounted to the side of the eye by means of a strap around the eye. This allows for close coupling to an external coil and movement of the entire implanted portion with movement of the eye ball. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498506 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036752 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | While a photolithographed array internal to the retina provides superior resolution, an array external to the retina provides easier implantation and improved manufacturability. Therefore it is advantageous to supply a high-resolution electrode array internal to the sclera, near the fovea and a lower-resolution electrode array eternal to the sclera near the periphery of the retina. Even if a separate lower-resolution array is implanted internal to the sclera, super-choroidal (between the choroid and sclera) or intra-scleral (between the layers of the sclera), it is easier to make a lower-resolution array in a curved shape. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/924458 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036833 | Rimm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Rimm (Branford, Connecticut); Robert L. Camp (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789361 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08033021 | Joshi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts); Alliant Techsystems Inc. (Edina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prakash B. Joshi (Andover, Massachusetts); Bernard L. Upschulte (Nashua, New Hampshire); Alan H. Gelb (Boston, Massachusetts); B. David Green (Methuen, Massachusetts); Dean M. Lester (Brigham, Utah); W. David Starrett (Roy, Utah); Ingvar A. Wallace (Brigham City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A vehicle includes at least one polyoxymethylene structural support member. The polyoxymethylene structural support member includes a polyoxymethylene component that is a propellant that provides thrust to the vehicle upon pyrolysis or combustion of the polyoxymethylene component of the product of pyrolysis of the polyoxymethylene component. The vehicle can be a satellite or other type of spacecraft. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689562 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/897.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033207 | Smith |
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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) | Wayne W. Smith (Columbia, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically actuated weapon system is provided, which may be mounted in a robotic vehicle or device, and controlled remotely by a user. In particular, the electrically actuated weapon system is composed of an electrically actuated weapon, a weapon control means connected thereto, and a controller means remotely located therefrom. The controller means is in wireless communication with the weapon control means, which is operable to control three linear actuators which cycle the weapon. These linear actuator means are controlled electronically, based on communications received from the controller means. Accordingly, if the weapon is stolen, lost, or captured by an enemy combatant during combat, the weapon will cease to be functional. Further, the weapon can be reliably operated from remote locations, as the cycling of the weapon is not dependent upon recoil forces. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466754 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/28.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033224 | Yelverton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Yelverton (Port Walton Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention represents a novel system for controlling the yield of an explosive charge that enables the explosive yield to be selected or decreased from full-yield detonation incrementally down to low-yield detonation using a continuous linear shaped charge jet spiraled around the main charge explosive and deflagrating a selected portion of the main charge explosive. The spiral linear shaped charge jet initiation system activates and projects a liner in a radial direction across a diameter of the main charge explosive in a spiral around its axis at a preselected deflagration velocity toward a main-charge detonation shock front reducing the main charge explosive. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409586 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033504 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mike I. Jones (Azle, Texas); Glenn W. Baird (Forth Worth, Texas); Eric F. Charlton (Grapevine, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention reduces the impact of flowfield forces on objects launched from high speed aircraft during flight. For example, the invention provides a solution for overcoming ejection windblast injuries to pilots and increases the probability of injury-free or low-injury ejection. The gas flow is used to rapidly create a very short duration protective “bubble” in the incoming air flow ahead of the ejecting pilot. The bubble reduces the local flow velocity and aerodynamic forces on the pilot during the injury-critical time period of ejection. The invention also is suitable for reducing the intensity of flowfield forces that act on released military aircraft ordnance, such as bombs and missiles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/145558 |
| ART UNIT | 3643 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/122.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033665 | Ferguson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Physical Sciences, Inc. (Andover, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Daniel Ferguson (Melrose, Massachusetts); Daniel X. Hammer (Bedford, New Hampshire); Nicusor V. Iftimia (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Chad Bigelow (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for imaging an eye includes a housing and a system of optical components disposed in the housing. The apparatus is capable of operating in a line scanning laser ophthalmoscope (LSLO) mode and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) mode. The system of optical components can include a first source to provide a first beam of light for the OCT mode and a second source to provide a second beam of light for the LSLO mode. In the OCT mode, a first optic is used that (i) scans, using a first surface of the first optic, the first beam of light along a retina of an eye in a first dimension, and (ii) descans, using the first surface, a first light returning from the eye in the first dimension to a detection system in the OCT mode. In the LSLO mode, the first optic is used where the second beam of light passes through a second surface of the first optic. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/964518 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033715 | Pérez-Luna et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Hugo Pérez-Luna (Naperville, Illinois); Pravin Ajitkumar Betala (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An indicator composition for determining a thermal or chronological history during shipping or storage of a product. The composition includes a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed throughout a matrix. The nanoparticles turn color while dispersed in the matrix as a function at least one of time and temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/983367 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033814 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd C. Bailey (Fishkill, New York); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Matthew E. Colburn (Hopewell Junction, New York); Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas); Carlton Grant Willson (Austin, Texas); John G. Ekerdt (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An imprint lithography template may be used to form an imprinted layer in a light curable liquid disposed on a substrate. During use, the template may be disposed within a template holder. The template holder may include a body with an opening configured to receive the template, a support plate, and an actuator system coupled to the body. The actuator system may be configured to alter a physical dimension of the template during use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/715915 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033815 | Babbs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel A. Babbs (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Anshuman Cherala (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Chucking mechanisms may include a plurality of chucking sections respectively connecting to a pressure control device to generate individual chucking forces. The individual chucking forces of the chucking sections may be varied by the pressure control device such that a magnitude of separation force is reduced for an imprint lithography system. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/883930 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034202 | Hawkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tommy W. Hawkins (Lancaster, California); Stefan Schneider (Palmdale, California); Gregory W. Drake (Madison, Alabama); Ghanshyam Vaghjiani (Palmdale, California); Steven Chambreau (Boron, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a hypergolic bipropellant formed by combining a IL fuel having a dicyanamide anion and a nitrogen-containing, heterocyclic-based cation with an oxidizer for such fuel. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973978 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/36 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034222 | Myung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nosang V. Myung (Riverside, California); Ashok Mulchandani (Riverside, California); Wilfred Chen (Rowland Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Conducting polymer nanowires can be doped with analyte-binding species to create a nanowire that has a different conductivity depending on the presence or absence of the analyte. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/259557 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034253 | Monzyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Insitute (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce F. Monzyk (Jerome Township, Ohio); Russell R. Greene (West Jefferson, Ohio); Chad M. Cucksey (Columbus, Ohio); John A. McArthur (Westerville, Ohio); F. Michael Von Fahnestock (Columbus, Ohio); Steven C. Lorence (Liberty Township, Ohio); Michael J. Murphy (Dublin, Ohio); Brian J. Blackstone (Pickerington, Ohio); Thomas A. Malloy, IV (Worthington, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and composition for decomposing and detoxifying chemical warfare agents, organic toxic compounds (e.g., pesticides), and for removal of contaminants in materials including fuels. The method and composition are based on ferrate (VI). The ferrate is typically applied to a contaminated surface or volume with a phase transfer catalyst and/or with a carrier. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/718851 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/182.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034419 | Erlat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmet Gun Erlat (Clifton Park, New York); Anil Duggal (Niskayuna, New York); Min Yan (Ballston Lake, New York); Sheila Tandon (Niskayuna, New York); Brian Joseph Scherer (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method relating to graded-composition barrier coatings comprising first and second materials in first and second zones. The compositions of one or both zones vary substantially continuously across a thickness of the zone in order to achieve improved properties such as barrier, flexibility, adhesion, optics, thickness, and tact time. The graded-composition barrier coatings find utility in preventing exposure of devices such as organic electro-luminescent devices (OLEDs) to reactive species found in the environment. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325827 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/569 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034548 | Sawyers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Sawyers (Los Angeles, California); Charlie D. Chen (Los Angeles, California); Derek S. Welsbie (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Using microarray-based profiling of isogenic prostate cancer xenograft models, we found that a modest (2-5 fold) increase in androgen receptor (AR) mRNA was the only expression change consistently associated with developing resistance to antiandrogen therapy. Increased levels of AR confer resistance to anti-androgens by amplifying signal output from low levels of residual ligand and altering the normal response to antagonists. This invention provides cell based assays for use in the examination of new therapeutic modalities and provides insight toward the design of novel antiandrogens. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/583280 |
| 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 08034549 | Kruk |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia A. Kruk (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of cancer, such as early or late stage ovarian cancer, in a subject by detecting Bcl-2 in a biological sample from the subject, preferably a urine or blood sample. Bcl-2 may be measured using an agent that detects or binds to Bcl-2 protein or an agent that detects or binds to encoding nucleic acids, such as antibodies specifically reactive with Bcl-2 protein or a portion thereof. The invention further relates to kits for carrying out the methods of the invention. The invention further relates to a device for the rapid detection of Bcl-2 in a bodily fluid and methods for rapidly measuring Bcl-2 in a bodily fluid. |
| FILED | Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704408 |
| 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 08034613 | Slukvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to hematopoietic precursors derived from human embryonic stem cells. In the culture of differentiated cells from human ES cells, the fully committed hematopoietic precursors are CD34+ and CD43+ but not CD45+. If the cells are cultured until they express CD45, then the cells lose the ability to produce differentiated cells of the lymphoid lineages. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/520871 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034688 | Hefner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Hefner (Darnestown, Maryland); Sei-Hyung Ryu (Cary, North Carolina); Anant Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor device includes a drift layer having a first conductivity type and a body region adjacent the drift layer. The body region has a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type and forms a p-n junction with the drift layer. The device further includes a contactor region in the body region and having the first conductivity type, and a shunt channel region extending through the body region from the contactor region to the drift layer. The shunt channel region has the first conductivity type. The device further includes a first terminal in electrical contact with the body region and the contactor region, and a second terminal in electrical contact with the drift layer. The shunt channel region has a length, thickness and doping concentration selected such that: 1) the shunt channel region is fully depleted when zero voltage is applied across the first and second terminals, 2) the shunt channel becomes conductive at a voltages less than the built-in potential of the drift layer to body region p-n junction, and/or 3) the shunt channel is not conductive for voltages that reverse biase the p-n junction between the drift region and the body region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560729 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034719 | Jean 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) | Daniel L. Jean (Odenton, Maryland); Michael Deeds (Port Tobacco, Maryland); Allen Keeney (Upperco, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | To fabricate high aspect ratio metal structures, a two-layer structure is provided on a conductive layer. The two-layer structure includes a first layer adjacent the conductive layer and a second layer adjacent the first layer where the second layer is etchable by a Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) process. Using the DRIE process, at least one selected region of the second layer is completely etched away with the selected region being at least partially aligned with a region of the conductive layer such that the first layer is then exposed thereover. The first layer so-exposed is then removed to expose the region of the conductive layer thereunder. Metal is electroplated onto the exposed conductive layer and any remaining portions of the two-layer structure are then removed. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311584 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034955 | Gribble et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gordon W. Gribble (Hanover, New Hampshire); Tadashi Honda (Hanover, New Hampshire); Michael B. Sporn (Hanover, New Hampshire); Nanjoo Suh (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods useful for chemopreventative treatment of diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, and multiple sclerosis. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/927418 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/241 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035078 | Payton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Payton (Calabasas, California); Michael J. Daily (Thousand Oaks, California); Mike Howard (Westlake Village, California); Craig Lee (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus configured to obtain, process, and relay data to a user in a coherent and useful manner. An active fiducial is equipped with an interface for receiving and transmitting data. The fiducial may transmit its position using a satellite-based position sensing device such as a GPS. Active fiducials may also be equipped with battery power pack regenerated with solar cells. Similarly, the fiducials can be equipped with at least one video camera or other device having a focal plane array and a computer software system, configured to recognize shapes. The fiducials may also be equipped with inductive coils or other means for sensing metal containing compounds. The active fiducials may be equipped with a gas chromatograph. The active fiducials may use a variety of propulsion means including motor driven tracks, motor driven wheels, propellers, or other device or a combination of devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462583 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/221 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035083 | Kozlov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Microtech Instruments, Inc. (Eugene, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir G. Kozlov (Eugene, Oregon); Walter C. Hurlbut (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A source of terahertz radiation at a fundamental terahertz frequency is tunable over a fundamental terahertz frequency range, and is coupled into a first waveguide. The first waveguide supports only a single transverse spatial mode within the fundamental terahertz frequency range. A solid-state frequency multiplier receives from the first waveguide the terahertz radiation and produces terahertz radiation at a harmonic terahertz frequency. A second waveguide receives the harmonic terahertz radiation. The tunable terahertz source can comprise a backward wave oscillator with output tunable over about 0.10-0.18 THz, 0.18-0.26 THz, or 0.2-0.37 THz. The frequency multiplier can comprises at least one varistor or Schottky diode, and can comprise a doubler, tripler, pair of doublers, doubler and tripler, or pair of triplers. The terahertz source can be incorporated into a terahertz spectrometer or a terahertz imaging system. |
| FILED | Monday, April 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/099043 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035112 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Cooper (West Lafayette, Indiana); Asmita Saha (Hillsboro, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | An intermediate product in the fabrication of a MOSFET, including a silicon carbide wafer having a substrate and a drift layer on said substrate, said drift layer having a plurality of source regions formed adjacent an upper surface thereof; a first oxide layer on said upper surface of said drift layer; a plurality of polysilicon gates above said first oxide layer, said plurality of polysilicon gates including a first gate adjacent a first of said source regions; an oxide layer over said first source region of greater thickness than said first oxide layer; and, an oxide layer over said first gate of substantially greater thickness than said oxide layer over said first source region. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429176 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035113 | Moustakas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore D. Moustakas (Dover, Massachusetts); Jasper S. Cabalu (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor sensor, solar cell or emitter, or a precursor therefor, has a substrate and one or more textured semiconductor layers deposited onto the substrate. The textured layers enhance light extraction or absorption. Texturing in the region of multiple quantum wells greatly enhances internal quantum efficiency if the semiconductor is polar and the quantum wells are grown along the polar direction. Electroluminescence of LEDs of the invention is dichromatic, and results in variable color LEDs, including white LEDs, without the use of phosphor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/590687 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035279 | Jakli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antal I. Jakli (Kent, Ohio); John Ernest Harden, Jr. (Streetsboro, Ohio); Samuel Sprunt (Hudson, Ohio); James T. Gleeson (Kent, Ohio); Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided methods for creating energy conversion devices based on the giant flexoelectric effect in non-calamitic liquid crystals. By preparing a substance comprising at least one type of non-calamitic liquid crystal molecules and stabilizing the substance to form a mechanically flexible material, flexible conductive electrodes may be applied to the material to create an electro-mechanical energy conversion device which relies on the giant flexoelectric effect to produce electrical and/or mechanical energy that is usable in such applications as, for example, power sources, energy dissipation, sensors/transducers, and actuators. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727394 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035414 | Gershenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kailiang Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Allen Dalrymple (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of reconfigurable, charge-conserving asynchronous logic elements that interact with their nearest neighbors permits design and implementation of circuits that are asynchronous at the bit level, rather than at the level of functional blocks. These elements pass information by means of charge packets (tokens), rather than voltages. Each cell is self-timed, and cells that are configured as interconnect perform at propagation delay speeds, so no hardware non-local connections are needed. An asynchronous logic element comprises a set of edges for asynchronous communication with at least one neighboring cell, each edge having an input for receiving tokens from neighboring cells and an output for transferring an output charge packet to at least one neighboring cell, and circuitry configured to perform a logic operation utilizing received charge packets as inputs and to produce an output charge packet reflecting the result of the logic operation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422979 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035549 | Malakian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kourken Malakian (Mount Laurel, New Jersey); Stephen J. Salvatore (Mount Laurel, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for calculating a drop track time for a radar system includes receiving characteristics of the radar system as an input, determining in a computer process the characteristics of a target being tracked by the radar system, calculating in a computer process a target track drop time for the target based on the characteristics of the radar system and the target, determining in a computer process whether a value associated with the target being tracked has been updated within the target track drop time, and discontinuing the tracking of the target if a value associated with the target being tracked is not updated within the target track drop time. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/578241 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035551 | Govoni |
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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) | Mark A. Govoni (Abingdon, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulsed compression noise correlation radar uses noise modulation and pulse compression technology to scramble recognizable transmit signal characteristics and reduce transmit energy. The pulsed noise correlation radar advantageously uses pulse compression technology, a pulsed linear frequency modulated noise correlation mixer, and a new and innovative noise fused waveform to automatically correlate the pulsed linear frequency modulated (LFM) noise waveform with the received signal. The pulsed noise correlation radar apparatus and system now make it possible to effectively reduce transmitting power, preserve high band widths through oversampling in the receiver, and achieve multi-channel array frequency diversity. A secure pulsed compression noise correlation radar system and methods for undetected target detection with pulsed noise correlation radar and a pulsed LFM fused noise waveform are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/655688 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035977 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); Robert J. Drost (Mountain View, California); Robert Hopkins (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that reduces power consumption by using capacitive coupling to perform a majority detection operation. The system starts by driving a plurality of signals onto a plurality of driven wires. The signals are then fed from each driven wire through a corresponding coupling capacitor to a single majority detection wire. Next, the system feeds signal on the majority detection wire and a bias voltage to a differential receiver. The output of the differential receiver switches if the signal on the majority-detection wire switches relative to the bias voltage. The system then uses the output of the differential receiver to optimize the signals from the plurality of driven wires for transmission across a long signal route. Optimizing the transmission of signals reduces the power consumed by the computer system. |
| FILED | Monday, April 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/098724 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036023 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reed K. Lawrence (Purcellville, Virginia); Nadim F. Haddad (Oakton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit and method are provided in which a six-transistor (6-T) SRAM memory cell is hardened to single-event upsets by adding isolation-field effect transistors (“iso-fets”) connected between the reference voltage Vdd and the field-effect transistors (“fets”) respectively corresponding to first and second inverters of the memory cell. According to certain embodiments, the control gates of first and second P-iso-fets are respectively tied to the control gates of first and second pull-up P-fets. According to certain embodiments, first and second N-iso-fets are connected between the output nodes of the memory cell and the pull-down N-fets respectively corresponding to the first and second inverters. The control gates of the first and second N-iso-fets are respectively tied to the control gates of the first and second pull-down N-fets. Again according to certain embodiments, one or more of the iso-fets are physically removed from the proximity of other transistors which comprise the memory cell. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/899802 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036137 | Bossler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Bruce Bossler (Chandler, Arizona); Scott Dave Blanchard (Mesa, Arizona); Curtis Lee Cornils (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments include methods performed in time division duplex (TDD) radio communication systems in which information is communicated between a first node (e.g., a base) and a second node (e.g., user equipment) in a context of a data frame that includes a plurality of slots. The second node applies an adjustment to an alignment between a second node transmit clock and a second node receive clock based on a propagation delay between the first node and the second node. The adjusted alignment ensures that second node receive slots and second node transmit slots are non-overlapping with each other in time, and that the second node will operate in a half-duplex mode of operation. The second node transmits a transmit burst during the second node transmit slots, and receives a first node transmit burst from the first node during the second node receive slots. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323182 |
| ART UNIT | 2462 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/252 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036257 | Mailaender |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laurence Mailaender (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In an embodiment of the method, at least one signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) for each antenna configuration in a set of transmission antenna configurations is determined based on an estimated channel characteristic. At least one received signal characteristic is determined for each antenna configuration in the set of antenna configurations based on the determined signal-to-interference-and-noise ratios. One of the antenna configurations in the set of antenna configurations is selected based on the determined received signal characteristics. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/418183 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/148 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036842 | DeVaul et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Aware, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. DeVaul (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel Barkalow (Somerville, Massachusetts); Christopher Elledge (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to achieve an accurate, extremely low power state classification implementation is disclosed. Embodiments include a sequence that matches the data flow from the sensor transducer, through analog filtering, to digital sampling, feature computation, and classification. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/905218 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037001 | Starr |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Starr (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and apparatus for determining a corrective action for a diagnosable system are provided. A failure mode reasoning engine (FMRE) receives an evidence notification. The FMRE determines a plurality of evidentiary-failure-mode-probability rectangles (EFMPRs) based on the evidence notification. A candidate EFMPR in the plurality of EFMPRs is determined. The candidate EFMPR may be determined based on a distance from an origin of an evidentiary-failure-mode-probability graph. An overlap area is determined between the candidate EFMPR and the other EFMPRs in the plurality of EFMPRs. The overlap area is compared to an overlap threshold. If the overlap area is less than the overlap threshold, a reasoned failure mode (i.e., correct diagnosis) and/or a reasoned corrective action for the diagnosable system is determined, based on the candidate EFMPR. The FMRE may report and/or take the reasoned corrective action. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102269 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037366 | Abernathy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Abernathy (Austin, Texas); Mary D. Brown (Austin, Texas); Dung Q. Nguyen (Austin, Texas); Todd A. Venton (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanism is provided for issuing instructions. An instruction dispatch unit receives an instruction for dispatch to one of a plurality of execution units. The instruction dispatch unit analyzes a tag register to determine whether a previous tag associated with a previous instruction has been stored in the tag register. Responsive to the previous tag associated with the previous instruction failing to be stored in the tag register, the instruction dispatch unit storing a tag corresponding to the instruction in the tag register. The instruction dispatch unit dispatches the instruction to an issue queue for issue to the one of the plurality of execution units. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409981 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08033140 | O'Connor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William K. O'Connor (Albany, Oregon); Gilbert E. Rush (Scio, Oregon); Glen F. Soltau (Lebanon, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnesium silicate mineral wools having a relatively high liquidus temperature of at least about 1400° C. and to methods for the production thereof are provided. The methods of the present invention comprise melting a magnesium silicate feedstock (e.g., comprising a serpentine or olivine ore) having a liquidus temperature of at least about 1400° C. to form a molten magnesium silicate, and subsequently fiberizing the molten magnesium silicate to produce a magnesium silicate mineral wool. In one embodiment, the magnesium silicate feedstock contains iron oxide (e.g., up to about 12% by weight). Preferably, the melting is performed in the presence of a reducing agent to produce an iron alloy, which can be separated from the molten ore. Useful magnesium silicate feedstocks include, without limitation, serpentine and olivine ores. Optionally, silicon dioxide can be added to the feedstock to lower the liquidus temperature thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/124421 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/376 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033445 | Girit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caglar O. Girit (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A simple technique to solder submicron sized, ohmic contacts to nanostructures has been disclosed. The technique has several advantages over standard electron beam lithography methods, which are complex, costly, and can contaminate samples. To demonstrate the soldering technique graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon, has been contacted, and low- and high-field electronic transport properties have been measured. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270643 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/179.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033463 | Felten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Felten (Princeton, New Jersey); Joseph A. Calendrino (Ashburn, Virginia); J. Alex Halderman (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for auditing ballots cast in an election, wherein each ballot is associated with a group. A subset of groups from which sample ballots will be chosen is identified. An identifier is printed on each ballot in the subset. Each ballot has a different identifier than every other ballot in its group. A check is performed to determine whether the identifiers were printed correctly on the ballots. If so, a machine re-count of ballots in each group in the subset is performed and the results are compared to the initial tally of ballots associated with the group. If there is a mismatch, a further investigation is triggered. If there is a match, manual verification is performed on sample ballots from each group. The audit may begin prior to completion of voting from all precincts by estimating the number of samples that will be necessary. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833955 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033790 | Vance |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Vance (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple piece turbine airfoil having an outer shell with an airfoil tip that is attached to a root with an internal structural spar is disclosed. The root may be formed from first and second sections that include an internal cavity configured to receive and secure the one or more components forming the generally elongated airfoil. The internal structural spar may be attached to an airfoil tip and place the generally elongated airfoil in compression. The configuration enables each component to be formed from different materials to reduce the cost of the materials and to optimize the choice of material for each component. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239016 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033991 | Sarvazyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories Inc. (Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey); Sergey Tsyuryupa (Westampton, Pennsylvania); Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Louis Y. Korman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A handgrip for colonoscope shaft is equipped with force, torque, and acceleration sensors allowing for a comprehensive characterization of colonoscope shaft motion, including recognition of obstacles and recording of forces and torques applied at various times during a colonoscopy procedure. An electronic unit is adapted to receive sensors data wirelessly and calculate a variety of motion parameters guiding a medical practitioner during the procedure and aimed at making colonoscopy safer and less painful. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558737 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034168 | Wijmans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes G. Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are combustion systems and power plants that incorporate sweep-based membrane separation units to remove carbon dioxide from combustion gases. In its most basic embodiment, the invention is a combustion system that includes three discrete units: a combustion unit, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is a power plant including a combustion unit, a power generation system, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In both of these embodiments, the carbon dioxide capture unit and the sweep-based membrane separation unit are configured to be operated in parallel, by which we mean that each unit is adapted to receive exhaust gases from the combustion unit without such gases first passing through the other unit. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/092489 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034245 | Snezhko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Oleksiy Snezhko (Woodridge, Illinois); Igor Aronson (Darien, Illinois); Wai-Kwong Kwok (Evanston, Illinois); Maxim V. Belkin (Woodridge, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of driving liquid flow at or near a free surface using self-assembled structures composed of magnetic particles subjected to an external AC magnetic field. A plurality of magnetic particles are supported at or near a free surface of liquid by surface tension or buoyancy force. An AC magnetic field traverses the free surface and dipole-dipole interaction between particles produces in self-assembled snake structures which oscillate at the frequency of the traverse AC magnetic field. The snake structures independently move across the free surface and may merge with other snake structures or break up and coalesce into additional snake structures experiencing independent movement across the liquid surface. During this process, the snake structures produce asymmetric flow vortices across substantially the entirety of the free surface, effectuating liquid flow across the free surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174781 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034448 | Peng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huisheng Peng (Shanghai, China PRC); Yuntian Theodore Zhu (Cary, North Carolina); Dean E. Peterson (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Fibrous composite comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes; and a silica-containing moiety having one of the structures: (SiO)3Si—(CH2)n—NR1R2) or (SiO)3Si—(CH2)n—NCO; where n is from 1 to 6, and R1 and R2 are each independently H, CH3, or C2H5. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229046 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034449 | Dooley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Thomas F. Broderick (Lake Forest Park, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel class of flowable biomass feedstock particles with unusually large surface areas that can be manufactured in remarkably uniform sizes using low-energy comminution techniques. The feedstock particles are roughly parallelepiped in shape and characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially with the grain direction and defining a substantially uniform distance along the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L. The particles exhibit a disrupted grain structure with prominent end and surface checks that greatly enhances their skeletal surface area as compared to their envelope surface area. The L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers. The W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers. The L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top surfaces characterized by some surface checking between longitudinally arrayed fibers. The feedstock particles are manufactured from a variety of plant biomass materials including wood, crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse, and bamboo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/907526 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034745 | Goyal |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel articles and methods to fabricate same with self-assembled nanodots and/or nanorods of a single or multicomponent material within another single or multicomponent material for use in electrical, electronic, magnetic, electromagnetic, superconducting and electrooptical devices is disclosed. Self-assembled nanodots and/or nanorods are ordered arrays wherein ordering occurs due to strain minimization during growth of the materials. A simple method to accomplish this when depositing in-situ films is also disclosed. Device applications of resulting materials are in areas of superconductivity, photovoltaics, ferroelectrics, magnetoresistance, high density storage, solid state lighting, non-volatile memory, photoluminescence, thermoelectrics and in quantum dot lasers. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/077923 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035113 | Moustakas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore D. Moustakas (Dover, Massachusetts); Jasper S. Cabalu (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconductor sensor, solar cell or emitter, or a precursor therefor, has a substrate and one or more textured semiconductor layers deposited onto the substrate. The textured layers enhance light extraction or absorption. Texturing in the region of multiple quantum wells greatly enhances internal quantum efficiency if the semiconductor is polar and the quantum wells are grown along the polar direction. Electroluminescence of LEDs of the invention is dichromatic, and results in variable color LEDs, including white LEDs, without the use of phosphor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/590687 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036720 | Conrad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen H. Conrad (Algodones, New Mexico); Gerard P. O'Reilly (Manalapan, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method and apparatus for conserving power in a telecommunications network during emergency situations. A permissible number list of emergency and/or priority numbers is stored in the telecommunications network. In the event of an emergency or power failure, input digits of a call to the telecommunications network are compared to the permissible number list. The call is processed in the telecommunications network and routed to its destination if the input digits match an entry in the permissible number list. The call is dropped without any further processing if the input digits do not match an entry in the permissible number list. Thus, power can be conserved in emergency situations by only allowing emergency and/or priority calls. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399480 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/574 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036876 | Sanfilippo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antonio P. Sanfilippo (Richland, Washington); Stephen C. Tratz (Richland, Washington); Michelle L. Gregory (Richland, Washington); Alan R. Chappell (Seattle, Washington); Paul D. Whitney (Richland, Washington); Christian Posse (Seattle, Washington); Robert L. Baddeley (Richland, Washington); Ryan E. Hohimer (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of defining ontologies, word disambiguation methods, computer systems, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a word disambiguation method includes accessing textual content to be disambiguated, wherein the textual content comprises a plurality of words individually comprising a plurality of word senses, for an individual word of the textual content, identifying one of the word senses of the word as indicative of the meaning of the word in the textual content, for the individual word, selecting one of a plurality of event classes of a lexical database ontology using the identified word sense of the individual word, and for the individual word, associating the selected one of the event classes with the textual content to provide disambiguation of a meaning of the individual word in the textual content. |
| FILED | Friday, November 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/267370 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036997 | Garrity et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Garrity (Okemos, Michigan); Timothy G. Lilburn (Front Royal, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for classifying data and uncovering and correcting annotation errors. In particular, the present invention provides a self-organizing, self-correcting algorithm for use in classifying data. Additionally, the present invention provides a method for classifying biological taxa. |
| FILED | Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/922273 |
| ART UNIT | 4172 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037213 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Bob R. Cernohous (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Sameer Kumar (White Plains, New York); Jeffrey J. Parker (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for replenishing data descriptors in a Direct Memory Access (‘DMA’) injection first-in-first-out (‘FIFO’) buffer that include: determining, by a messaging module on an origin compute node, whether a number of data descriptors in a DMA injection FIFO buffer exceeds a predetermined threshold, each data descriptor specifying an application message for transmission to a target compute node; queuing, by the messaging module, a plurality of new data descriptors in a pending descriptor queue if the number of the data descriptors in the DMA injection FIFO buffer exceeds the predetermined threshold; establishing, by the messaging module, interrupt criteria that specify when to replenish the injection FIFO buffer with the plurality of new data descriptors in the pending descriptor queue; and injecting, by the messaging module, the plurality of new data descriptors into the injection FIFO buffer in dependence upon the interrupt criteria. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/755501 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037517 | Fulp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Errin W. Fulp (Winston-Salem, North Carolina); Ryan J. Farley (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing function-parallel firewalls are disclosed. According to one aspect, a function-parallel firewall includes a first firewall node for filtering received packets using a first portion of a rule set including a plurality of rules. The first portion includes less than all of the rules in the rule set. At least one second firewall node filters packets using a second portion of the rule set. The second portion includes at least one rule in the rule set that is not present in the first portion. The first and second portions together include all of the rules in the rule set. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/316331 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08033445 | Girit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caglar O. Girit (Berkeley, California); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A simple technique to solder submicron sized, ohmic contacts to nanostructures has been disclosed. The technique has several advantages over standard electron beam lithography methods, which are complex, costly, and can contaminate samples. To demonstrate the soldering technique graphene, a single atomic layer of carbon, has been contacted, and low- and high-field electronic transport properties have been measured. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270643 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/179.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08033463 | Felten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Felten (Princeton, New Jersey); Joseph A. Calendrino (Ashburn, Virginia); J. Alex Halderman (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for auditing ballots cast in an election, wherein each ballot is associated with a group. A subset of groups from which sample ballots will be chosen is identified. An identifier is printed on each ballot in the subset. Each ballot has a different identifier than every other ballot in its group. A check is performed to determine whether the identifiers were printed correctly on the ballots. If so, a machine re-count of ballots in each group in the subset is performed and the results are compared to the initial tally of ballots associated with the group. If there is a mismatch, a further investigation is triggered. If there is a match, manual verification is performed on sample ballots from each group. The audit may begin prior to completion of voting from all precincts by estimating the number of samples that will be necessary. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833955 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034197 | Garrison, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Warren M. Garrison, Jr. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-high strength stainless steel alloy with enhanced toughness includes in % by weight: 0 to 0.06% carbon (C); 12.0 to 18% chromium (Cr); 16.5 to 31.0% cobalt (Co); 0 to 8% molybdenum (Mo); 0.5 to 5.0% nickel (Ni); 0 to 0.5% titanium (Ti); 0 to 1.0% niobium (Nb); 0 to 0.5% vanadium (V); 0 to 16% tungsten (W); balance iron (Fe) and incidental deoxidizers and impurities. The heat treating method includes the steps of austenitizing at least once followed by quenching, tempering and sub-zero cooling to obtain no more than about 6-8% retained austenite in the finished alloy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/141595 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034259 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Anderson (Latham, Maryland); Hedi Mattoussi (Alexandria, Virginia); J. Matthew Mauro (Silver Spring, Maryland); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The ionic conjugates include an inorganic particle electrostatically associated with a macromolecule which can interact specifically with predetermined chemical species or biological targets. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/318028 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.6S0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034302 | Alcantar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norma A Alcantar (Tampa, Florida); Julie Harmon (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are chemically active surfaces for the detection of nitroaromatic, nitramine, and nitrate ester compounds, the primary constituents of explosive devices. Transparent conductive composites (TCCs) combine with gold nanoparticles in a conducting polymer matrix to create a conductive, flexible, and electrochromic material. Hybrid, nanostructured surfaces constructed from TCCs are decorated with conjugated conductive oligomer wires. Selective binding of the target to the oligomer alters the electron charge mobility in the TCC, affecting the redox state. The binding event is identified by measuring the conductivity of the TCC and/or through color changes of the TCC. Conjugated oligomers that are functionalized with thiol groups at one end and nitro-derivative receptors at the other provide the bases for selectivity and sensing. The thiol group anchors the oligomer to the metal sites on the TCC surface and the receptor starts the charge transfer mechanism when targeted with the appropriate molecule. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711637 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034579 | Lutz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stefan Lutz (Tucker, Georgia); Zhen Qian (Shanghai, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is relates to novel proteins and peptides having novel and/or enhanced functions and/or behaviors with respect to a native protein or peptide, and methods of making the novel proteins and peptides using techniques of circular permutation and protein engineering. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/776281 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034592 | Elias et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwayne Alexander Elias (Knoxville, Tennessee); Melanie Rose Mormile (Rolla, Missouri); Matthew Brett Begemann (Madison, Wisconsin); Judy Davis Wall (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an isolated haloalkaliphilic microorganism designated as strain sapolanicus belonging to the genus Halanaerobium, which is capable of producing hydrogen from biomass. Methods of producing biohydrogen comprising the fermentation of the microorganism with alkaline pretreated biomass are also provided. Fermentation is preferably carried out without neutralization of the pretreated biomass and at a pH of greater than or equal to about 10. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/635328 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/168 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034607 | Shusta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric V. Shusta (Madison, Wisconsin); Alane E. Wentz (Graftin, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhancing heterologous protein secretion in a yeast cell is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprising the steps of engineering a yeast cell to overexpress at last one gene selected from the group consisting of CCW12, CWP2, SED1, RPP0, ERO1 and their homologs, supplying the yeast cell with a nucleic acid encoding a heterologous protein and obtaining increased expression of the heterologous protein, wherein the expression is increased relative to the protein expression in a yeast cell that does not overexpress a gene selected from the group consisting of CCW12, CWP2, SED1, RPP0, ERO1 and their homologs. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209656 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034650 | Seal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudipta Seal (Oviedo, Florida); Satyajit V. Shukla (Orlando, Florida); Lawrence Ludwig (Merritt Island, Florida); Hyoung Cho (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for selectively determining the presence and measuring the amount of hydrogen in the vicinity of the sensor. The sensor comprises a MEMS device coated with a nanostructured thin film of indium oxide doped tin oxide with an over layer of nanostructured barium cerate with platinum catalyst nanoparticles. Initial exposure to a UV light source, at room temperature, causes burning of organic residues present on the sensor surface and provides a clean surface for sensing hydrogen at room temperature. A giant room temperature hydrogen sensitivity is observed after making the UV source off. The hydrogen sensor of the invention can be usefully employed for the detection of hydrogen in an environment susceptible to the incursion or generation of hydrogen and may be conveniently used at room temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776051 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034974 | Sibi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mukund P. Sibi (Fargo, North Dakota); Craig P. Jasperse (Moorhead, Minnesota); Prabagaran Narayanasamy (Fargo, North Dakota); Sandeep R. Ghorpade (Mumbai, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are β-amino acids that are unsubstituted in the β position; that are substituted in the β position with an aryl group; that are substituted in the α position with an aryl group; that bear two substituents in the α position; and/or that are substituted in the α and β positions with groups which, together with the carbon atoms at the α and β positions, form a ring. Also disclosed are methods for making the above-mentioned β-amino acids and other β-amino acids which involve providing an α,β-unsaturated imide; converting the α,β-unsaturated imide to a 2-substituted-isoxazolidin-5-one; and converting the 2-substituted-isoxazolidin-5-one to a β-amino acid. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/895647 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/553 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035186 | Rafferty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infrared Newco, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Conor S. Rafferty (Newton, Massachusetts); Clifford A. King (Gloucester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A photodetector is formed from a body of semiconductor material substantially surrounded by dielectric surfaces. A passivation process is applied to at least one surface to reduce the rate of carrier generation and recombination on that surface. Photocurrent is read out from at least one electrical contact, which is formed on a doped region whose surface lies entirely on a passivated surface. Unwanted leakage current from un-passivated surfaces is reduced through one of the following methods. (a) The un-passivated surface is separated from the photo-collecting contact by at least two junctions (b) The un-passivated surface is doped to a very high level, at least equal to the conduction band or valence band density of states of the semiconductor (c) An accumulation or inversion layer is formed on the un-passivated surface by the application of an electric field. Electrical contacts are made to all doped regions, and bias is applied so that a reverse bias is maintained across all junctions. |
| FILED | Monday, October 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978276 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/465 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035279 | Jakli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antal I. Jakli (Kent, Ohio); John Ernest Harden, Jr. (Streetsboro, Ohio); Samuel Sprunt (Hudson, Ohio); James T. Gleeson (Kent, Ohio); Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided methods for creating energy conversion devices based on the giant flexoelectric effect in non-calamitic liquid crystals. By preparing a substance comprising at least one type of non-calamitic liquid crystal molecules and stabilizing the substance to form a mechanically flexible material, flexible conductive electrodes may be applied to the material to create an electro-mechanical energy conversion device which relies on the giant flexoelectric effect to produce electrical and/or mechanical energy that is usable in such applications as, for example, power sources, energy dissipation, sensors/transducers, and actuators. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727394 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035414 | Gershenfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kailiang Chen (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Allen Dalrymple (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of reconfigurable, charge-conserving asynchronous logic elements that interact with their nearest neighbors permits design and implementation of circuits that are asynchronous at the bit level, rather than at the level of functional blocks. These elements pass information by means of charge packets (tokens), rather than voltages. Each cell is self-timed, and cells that are configured as interconnect perform at propagation delay speeds, so no hardware non-local connections are needed. An asynchronous logic element comprises a set of edges for asynchronous communication with at least one neighboring cell, each edge having an input for receiving tokens from neighboring cells and an output for transferring an output charge packet to at least one neighboring cell, and circuitry configured to perform a logic operation utilizing received charge packets as inputs and to produce an output charge packet reflecting the result of the logic operation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422979 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08033813 | Cherala et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anshuman Cherala (Austin, Texas); Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas); Pankaj B. Lad (DeSoto, Texas); Steven C. Shackleton (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards a chucking system to hold a substrate, said system including, inter alia, a chuck body having first and second opposed sides, said first side including an array of fluid chambers arranged in rows and columns, said fluid chambers each comprising first and second spaced-apart recesses defining first and second spaced-apart support regions, with said first support region cincturing said second support region and said first and second recesses, and said second support region cincturing said second recess, with said substrate resting against said first and second support regions, with said first recess and a portion of said substrate in superimposition therewith defining a first chamber and said second recess and a portion of said substrate in superimposition therewith defining a second chamber, with each column of said first chambers and each row of said second chambers being in fluid communication with a differing source of fluid to control a flow of fluid in said array of fluid chambers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/616349 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034270 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Martin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Said Rizk (Londonderry, New Hampshire); Ajay Ahuja (Needham, Massachusetts); Simon F. Williams (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835926 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035117 | DenBaars et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Goleta, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven P. DenBaars (Goleta, California); Eric J. Tarsa (Goleta, California); Michael Mack (Santa Barbara, California); Bernd Keller (Goleta, California); Brian Thibeault (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light emitting diode (LED) grown on a substrate doped with one or more rare earth or transition elements. The dopant ions absorb some or all of the light from the LED's active layer, pumping the dopant ion electrons to a higher energy state. The electrons are naturally drawn to their equilibrium state and they emit light at a wavelength that depends on the type of dopant ion. The invention is particularly applicable to nitride based LEDs emitting UV light and grown on a sapphire substrate doped with chromium. The chromium ions absorb the UV light, exciting the electrons on ions to a higher energy state. When they return to their equilibrium state they emit red light and some of the red light will emit from the LED's surface. The LED can also have active layers that emit green, blue and UV light, such that the LED emits green, blue, red and UV light which combines to create white light. Alternatively, it can have one active layer and grown on a sapphire substrate doped with Cr, Ti, and Co such that the substrate absorbs the UV light and emits blue, green, and red light. The invention is also capable of providing a tunable LED over a variety of color shades. The invention is also applicable to solid state lasers having one or more active layers emitting UV light with the laser grown on a sapphire substrate doped with one or more rare earth of transition elements. |
| FILED | Monday, July 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/484233 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08036732 | Milner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Milner (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel contrast mechanism for imaging blood flow using magneto-motive optical Doppler tomography (MM-ODT), Optical Coherence Tomography, and Ultrasound. MM-ODT, OCT, and ultrasound combined with an externally applied temporally oscillating high-strength magnetic field detects erythrocytes moving according to the field gradient. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/550771 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08033991 | Sarvazyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories Inc. (Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey); Sergey Tsyuryupa (Westampton, Pennsylvania); Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Louis Y. Korman (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A handgrip for colonoscope shaft is equipped with force, torque, and acceleration sensors allowing for a comprehensive characterization of colonoscope shaft motion, including recognition of obstacles and recording of forces and torques applied at various times during a colonoscopy procedure. An electronic unit is adapted to receive sensors data wirelessly and calculate a variety of motion parameters guiding a medical practitioner during the procedure and aimed at making colonoscopy safer and less painful. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558737 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034168 | Wijmans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes G. Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Timothy C Merkel (Menlo Park, California); Richard W. Baker (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are combustion systems and power plants that incorporate sweep-based membrane separation units to remove carbon dioxide from combustion gases. In its most basic embodiment, the invention is a combustion system that includes three discrete units: a combustion unit, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is a power plant including a combustion unit, a power generation system, a carbon dioxide capture unit, and a sweep-based membrane separation unit. In both of these embodiments, the carbon dioxide capture unit and the sweep-based membrane separation unit are configured to be operated in parallel, by which we mean that each unit is adapted to receive exhaust gases from the combustion unit without such gases first passing through the other unit. |
| FILED | Friday, April 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/092489 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034270 | Martin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tepha, Inc. (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David P. Martin (Arlington, Massachusetts); Said Rizk (Londonderry, New Hampshire); Ajay Ahuja (Needham, Massachusetts); Simon F. Williams (Sherborn, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/835926 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034449 | Dooley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Forest Concepts, LLC (Auburn, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Dooley (Federal Way, Washington); David N. Lanning (Federal Way, Washington); Thomas F. Broderick (Lake Forest Park, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel class of flowable biomass feedstock particles with unusually large surface areas that can be manufactured in remarkably uniform sizes using low-energy comminution techniques. The feedstock particles are roughly parallelepiped in shape and characterized by a length dimension (L) aligned substantially with the grain direction and defining a substantially uniform distance along the grain, a width dimension (W) normal to L and aligned cross grain, and a height dimension (H) normal to W and L. The particles exhibit a disrupted grain structure with prominent end and surface checks that greatly enhances their skeletal surface area as compared to their envelope surface area. The L×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel side surfaces characterized by substantially intact longitudinally arrayed fibers. The W×H dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel end surfaces characterized by crosscut fibers and end checking between fibers. The L×W dimensions define a pair of substantially parallel top surfaces characterized by some surface checking between longitudinally arrayed fibers. The feedstock particles are manufactured from a variety of plant biomass materials including wood, crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse, and bamboo. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/907526 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08033876 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald R. Davis (Brighton, Michigan); Nicolaus A Radford (Houston, Texas); R. Scott Askew (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical connector and method includes a connector and a conforming element proximate to or in contact with the mating end of the connector so as to prevent distortion of a matable end. The matable end of the connector may be of a female or male type and may be of a post, tube, blade, pin, or other configuration. An element made of conforming material, for example, an elastomer, epoxy or rubber type material, is configured and positioned in contact with the matable end of the connector, providing support during assembly to prevent distortion of the matable end. The conforming element may be rectangular, wedge, cylindrical, conical, annular, or of another configuration as required to provide support to the connector pin. The conforming element may be fastened with an adhesive to the matable end to further prevent distortion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/706744 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/825 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034650 | Seal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sudipta Seal (Oviedo, Florida); Satyajit V. Shukla (Orlando, Florida); Lawrence Ludwig (Merritt Island, Florida); Hyoung Cho (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor for selectively determining the presence and measuring the amount of hydrogen in the vicinity of the sensor. The sensor comprises a MEMS device coated with a nanostructured thin film of indium oxide doped tin oxide with an over layer of nanostructured barium cerate with platinum catalyst nanoparticles. Initial exposure to a UV light source, at room temperature, causes burning of organic residues present on the sensor surface and provides a clean surface for sensing hydrogen at room temperature. A giant room temperature hydrogen sensitivity is observed after making the UV source off. The hydrogen sensor of the invention can be usefully employed for the detection of hydrogen in an environment susceptible to the incursion or generation of hydrogen and may be conveniently used at room temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776051 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/48 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08035081 | Sittler |
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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) | Edward C. Sittler (Crofton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A time-of-flight mass spectrometer having a chamber with electrodes to generate an electric field in the chamber and electric gating for allowing ions with a predetermined mass and velocity into the electric field. The design uses a row of very thin parallel aligned wires that are pulsed in sequence so the ion can pass through the gap of two parallel plates, which are biased to prevent passage of the ion. This design by itself can provide a high mass resolution capability and a very precise start pulse for an ion mass spectrometer. Furthermore, the ion will only pass through the chamber if it is within a wire diameter of the first wire when it is pulsed and has the right speed so it is near all other wires when they are pulsed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570166 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08033084 | Peterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Peterson (Martinsburg, West Virginia); Scott D. Wolford (Martinsburg, West Virginia); William C. Anger (Ocala, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The automated bin filling system provides an efficient means of placing a relatively fragile bulk product into a container (such as a bulk storage bin) without substantially damaging the product. Specifically, the bin filling system moves bulk products (preferably fruits or vegetables) from a feed conveyor into a product accumulation section where the product is arranged to be uniformly loaded into a mobile tray. Once the mobile tray is filled, the tray is lowered into the bin and gently deposited. The empty tray is then elevated and retracted to its initial position and the loading cycle is repeated. This process continues until the bin is filled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380799 |
| ART UNIT | 3721 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Package making 053/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08034333 | Valles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Valles (Gainesville, Florida); Roberto M Pereira (Gainesville, Florida); Wayne B Hunter (Port St. Lucie, Florida); David H Oi (Gainesville, Florida); Charles A Strong (Gainesville, Florida); Phat M Dang (Port St. Lucie, Florida); David F Williams (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Unique Solenopsis invicta viruses (SINV) have been identified and their genome sequenced. Oligonucleotide primers have been developed using the isolated nucleic acid sequences of the SINV. The viruses are used as a biocontrol agent for control of fire ants. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/780854 |
| 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 424/93.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08033463 | Felten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward W. Felten (Princeton, New Jersey); Joseph A. Calendrino (Ashburn, Virginia); J. Alex Halderman (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for auditing ballots cast in an election, wherein each ballot is associated with a group. A subset of groups from which sample ballots will be chosen is identified. An identifier is printed on each ballot in the subset. Each ballot has a different identifier than every other ballot in its group. A check is performed to determine whether the identifiers were printed correctly on the ballots. If so, a machine re-count of ballots in each group in the subset is performed and the results are compared to the initial tally of ballots associated with the group. If there is a mismatch, a further investigation is triggered. If there is a match, manual verification is performed on sample ballots from each group. The audit may begin prior to completion of voting from all precincts by estimating the number of samples that will be necessary. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/833955 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/386 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08036679 | Barbeau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Floirda (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean J. Barbeau (Tampa, Florida); Philip L. Winters (Tampa, Florida); Rafael Perez (Temple Terrace, Florida); Miguel Labrador (Tampa, Florida); Nevine Georggi (Valrico, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A location-aware method that dynamically adjusts software parameters in Location-Based Service (LBS) applications in real-time based on environmental conditions and application requirements. The invention saves power expended during position calculations while increasing application performance, optimizes settings for the application based on real-time conditions, and reduces bandwidth used. In an embodiment, the present method comprises a state machine or a plurality of state machines. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/245072 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/456.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08036679 | Barbeau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Floirda (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean J. Barbeau (Tampa, Florida); Philip L. Winters (Tampa, Florida); Rafael Perez (Temple Terrace, Florida); Miguel Labrador (Tampa, Florida); Nevine Georggi (Valrico, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A location-aware method that dynamically adjusts software parameters in Location-Based Service (LBS) applications in real-time based on environmental conditions and application requirements. The invention saves power expended during position calculations while increasing application performance, optimizes settings for the application based on real-time conditions, and reduces bandwidth used. In an embodiment, the present method comprises a state machine or a plurality of state machines. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/245072 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/456.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08036993 | Estes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacquelynn Estes (Warrenton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In the redirection process, items (110a-110n) are sent through a delivery system (130) directed to a recipient (155) at a first address (150) served by a first address plant (140). The recipient (155), however, no longer desires to have items (110a-110n) delivered to the first address (150) served by the first address plant (140), but now desires to have items delivered to an alternative address (160). Items are collected at the first address plant (140) and are held for a period of time specified by the recipient (155). Once this period of time for holding and collecting has expired, the items (110a-110n) are placed in a package (115). This package (115) is then sent through the delivery system (130) to an alternative address plant (145). Once the package (115) is received at the alternative address plant (145), the package (115) is delivered to the recipient (155) at the alternative address (160). |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/363535 |
| ART UNIT | 3627 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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