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Patent Details for Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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| US 08037600 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth G. Hougham (Ossining, New York); Brian S. Beaman (Cary, North Carolina); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Stefano S. Oggioni (Besana in Brianza, Italy); Enrique Vargas (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of producing a land grid array (LGA) interposer structure, including an electrically insulating carrier plane, and mounting at least one interposer on a first surface of the carrier plane. The interposer possesses a hemi-toroidal configuration in transverse cross-section and is constituted of a dielectric elastomeric material. The method includes arranging a plurality of electrically conductive elements about the surface of the at least one hemi-toroidal interposer and extending radically inwardly and downwardly from an uppermost end thereof into electrical contact with at least one component located on an opposite side of the electrically insulating carrier plane. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/061774 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/884 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037757 | Johnson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Burgess R. Johnson (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Parametric amplification of the output of a MEMS gyroscope is achieved by modulating the sense capacitance, or an auxiliary capacitance having an applied DC voltage. The capacitance modulation is produced by the driven motion of the gyroscope mechanism, so the pump signal of the parametric amplifier is not subject to phase errors in the electronics. The capacitance modulation affects the mechanical gain of the sensor (transfer function from input force to sensor mechanism displacement), as well as the electrical gain of the sensor (transfer function from sensor mechanism displacement to output electrical signal). The mechanical and electrical gains of the sensor become phase-dependent, so the Coriolis rate signal can be amplified while the unwanted quadrature-phase signal is attenuated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113093 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037821 | Dietrich |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Dietrich (Oro Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for reducing transmission of mechanical waves according to various aspects of the present invention comprise a set of isolators and a series of stops configured to isolate a piece of equipment in a projectile. The stops serve to limit the amount of stress loading placed on the isolators during transient events where loads associated with launch of the projectile or deployment of flight control surface might damage the isolators or cause the equipment to fail. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/392268 |
| 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 12/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038347 | Manak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph John Manak (Albany, New York); David Allen Langan (Clifton Park, New York); Bernhard Erich Hermann Claus (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system includes a portable litter including a structural housing and a digital detector positioned in the structural housing to detect X-ray signals corresponding to a region of interest to be imaged. The imaging system further includes at least one X-ray source for generating the X-ray signals, the at least one X-ray source positioned above the portable litter on an open gantry arrangement and configured to generate X-rays from different focal spot locations. |
| FILED | Friday, December 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/962660 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038394 | Stille et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Stratford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brandon L. Stille (Cheshire, Connecticut); William A. Welsh (North Haven, Connecticut); Timothy Fred Lauder (Oxford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotor system includes a multiple of rotor blade yokes mounted to a rotor hub. A lead/lag damper is mounted to each of the rotor blade yokes and to a damper hub. An actuator system is operable to shift a damper hub axis of rotation relative the rotor axis of rotation to minimize 1P damper motions. A method of minimizing 1P damper motions within a rotor system includes shifting the damper hub axis of rotation relative the rotor axis of rotation to oscillate an inner connector of each lead/lag damper in phase with a 1P blade motion to minimize the 1P motion of the damper. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015149 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038999 | Sirbasku |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Sirbasku (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating breast cancer that is at least partially ER+ is disclosed. The method comprises administering at a tumor site in a mammalian subject a pharmaceutically acceptable form of Fe(II) or Fe(III) in a suitable carrier. A four-part program aimed at eradicating breast cancer includes (a) local treatment and prevention of spread from a contained breast site, preferably using local administration of a ferric iron composition, (b) treatment of disseminated (metastatic) breast cancer, (c) reduction in the risk of developing breast cancer, preferably by enhancing dimeric/polymeric IgA and polymeric IgM inhibition of estrogen responsive cell growth, and (d) protection against cancer causing agents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946190 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/155.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039131 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Cohen (Washington, District of Columbia); Panchapakesan Ganesh (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A modification of PbTiO3 perovskite wherein at least part of Pb is replaced by a smaller atom with a similar ionic charge. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401935 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039269 | Maerkl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sebastian J. Maerkl (Palo Alto, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides devices and methods for surface patterning the substrate of a microfluidic device, and for detection and analysis of interactions between molecules by mechanically trapping a molecular complex while substantially expelling solvent and unbound solute molecules. Examples of molecular complexes include protein-protein complexes and protein-nucleic acid complexes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/698757 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039291 | Cornfeld et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Emcore Solar Power, Inc. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur Cornfeld (Sandia Park, New Mexico); Tansen Varghese (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Jacqueline Diaz (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a multijunction solar cell including an upper subcell, a middle subcell, and a lower subcell by providing a first substrate for the epitaxial growth of semiconductor material; forming a first solar subcell on the substrate having a first band gap; forming a second solar subcell over the first solar subcell having a second band gap smaller than the first band gap; forming a graded interlayer over the second subcell; forming a third solar subcell over the graded interlayer having a fourth band gap smaller than the second band gap such that the third subcell is lattice mismatched with respect to the second subcell; attaching a surrogate second substrate over the third solar subcell and removing the first substrate; and etching a first trough around the periphery of the solar cell to the surrogate second substrate so as to form a mesa structure on the surrogate second substrate and facilitate the removal of the solar cell from the surrogate second substrate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816205 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039301 | Kub et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis Kub (Arnold, Maryland); Karl Hobart (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A gate after diamond transistor and method of making comprising the steps of depositing a first dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate, depositing a diamond particle nucleation layer on the first dielectric layer, growing a diamond thin film layer on the first dielectric layer, defining an opening for the gate in the diamond thin film layer, patterning of the diamond thin film layer for a gate metal to first dielectric layer surface, etching the first dielectric layer, depositing and defining a gate metal, and forming a contact window opening in the diamond thin film layer and the first dielectric layer to the ohmic contact. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329452 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039308 | Mitchell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Mitchell (Palo Alto, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a multi-chip module (MCM) are described. This MCM includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die, where a given semiconductor die, which can be the first semiconductor die or the second semiconductor die, includes proximity connectors proximate to a surface of the given semiconductor die. Moreover, the given semiconductor die is configured to communicate signals with the other semiconductor die via proximity communication through one or more of the proximity connectors. Furthermore, the MCM includes an alignment plate and a top plate coupled to the alignment plate. This alignment plate includes a first negative feature configured to accommodate the first semiconductor die and a second negative feature configured to accommodate the second semiconductor die, and the top plate includes a positive feature. Note that the positive feature is coupled to the first semiconductor die, and the positive feature facilitates mechanical positioning of the first semiconductor die. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006227 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/107 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039352 | Mishra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, California); Tomas A. Palacios Gutierrez (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Man-Hoi Wong (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a potential barrier for a nitrogen-face (N-face) nitride-based electronic device, comprising using a thickness and polarization induced electric field of a III-nitride interlayer, positioned between a first III-nitride layer and a second III-nitride layer, to shift, e.g., raise or lower, the first III-nitride layer's energy band with respect to the second III-nitride layer's energy band by a pre-determined amount. The first III-nitride layer and second III-nitride layer each have a higher or lower polarization coefficient than the III-nitride interlayer's polarization coefficient. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127661 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039368 | Drndic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael Fischbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of fabricating nanogaps and various devices composed of nanogaps. The nanogap devices disclosed herein can be used as in a number of electronic, photonic and quantum mechanical devices, including field-effect transistors and logic circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/909356 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039566 | Vougioukalakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios C. Vougioukalakis (Crete, Greece); Robert H. Grubbs (South Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to olefin metathesis catalysts general formula (I): having a thiazol-2-ylidene ligand of general formula (II): The catalysts have been found to be particularly good initiators of (a) ring-closing metathesis reactions used to prepare tetra-substituted cyclic olefins, and (b) cross-metathesis reactions used to prepare tri-substituted and di-substituted olefins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/515702 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 526/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039576 | Laskoski 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) | Matthew Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Teddy M Keller (Fairfax Station, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the formulas below. R is an aromatic-containing group. Each M is an alkali metal. Each m is a positive integer. The value of n is a positive integer. The value p is 0 or 1. If p is 0 then n is 1. A thermoset made by curing a composition containing the below phthalonitrile monomers. A method of reacting a diphenyl acetylene compound with an excess of an aromatic diol in the presence of an alkali metal carbonate to form the above oligomer. A method of reacting a phenoxyphthalonitrile with an acetylene compound to form the phthalonitrile monomer below. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/850854 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039625 | Marder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Zesheng An (Smyrna, Georgia); Jungsheng Yu (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include coronene charge-transport materials, methods of forming coronene charge-transport materials, and methods of using the coronene charge-transport materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/817156 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039655 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); Anna Cherian (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One step ortho-alkylation of anilines with styrenes to give chiral anilines is obtained using a strong acid catalyst, e.g. CF3SO3H. Condensation of the product to give ligand and metallation gives complex which catalyzes polymerization of propylene to give isotactic propylene or regiorandom propylene of low PDI or blocks thereof, depending on polymerization temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/081805 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/138 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039682 | McCall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. McCall (Geneva, Illinois); Joseph A. Kocal (Glenview, Illinois); Alakananda Bhattacharyya (Glen Ellyn, Illinois); Tom N. Kalnes (LaGrange, Illinois); Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrocarbon product stream having hydrocarbons with boiling points in the aviation fuel range is produced from renewable feedstocks such as plant and animal oils. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating, deoxygenating, isomerization, and selectively hydrocracking the feedstock to produce paraffinic hydrocarbons having from about 9 to about 16 carbon atoms and a high iso/normal ratio in a single reaction zone containing a multifunctional catalyst, or set of catalysts, having hydrogenation, deoxygenation, isomerization and selective hydrocracking functions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402078 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039847 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Keon Jae Lee (Tokyo, Japan); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Westmont, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota); Heung Cho Ko (Urbana, Illinois); Shawn Mack (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a high yield pathway for the fabrication, transfer and assembly of high quality printable semiconductor elements having selected physical dimensions, shapes, compositions and spatial orientations. The compositions and methods of the present invention provide high precision registered transfer and integration of arrays of microsized and/or nanosized semiconductor structures onto substrates, including large area substrates and/or flexible substrates. In addition, the present invention provides methods of making printable semiconductor elements from low cost bulk materials, such as bulk silicon wafers, and smart-materials processing strategies that enable a versatile and commercially attractive printing-based fabrication platform for making a broad range of functional semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/844492 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039854 | Hersee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Hersee (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xin Wang (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Xinyu Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments provide semiconductor devices including high-quality (i.e., defect free) group III-N nanowires and uniform group III-N nanowire arrays as well as their scalable processes for manufacturing, where the position, orientation, cross-sectional features, length and the crystallinity of each nanowire can be precisely controlled. A pulsed growth mode can be used to fabricate the disclosed group III-N nanowires and/or nanowire arrays providing a uniform length of about 10 nm to about 1000 microns with constant cross-sectional features including an exemplary diameter of about 10-1000 nm. In addition, high-quality GaN substrate structures can be formed by coalescing the plurality of GaN nanowires and/or nanowire arrays to facilitate the fabrication of visible LEDs and lasers. Furthermore, core-shell nanowire/MQW active structures can be formed by a core-shell growth on the nonpolar sidewalls of each nanowire. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399273 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040273 | Tomich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Tomich (Coppell, Texas); Raymond Samaniego (Plano, Texas); Jerry M. Grimm (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a radar includes multiple antenna elements coupled to an image processing application. The antenna elements have a differing vertical spatial separation relative to one another and are configured to transmit a radio-frequency signal toward a stationary object and receive multiple reflected radio-frequency signals from one or more internal features of the building. The image processing application receives the reflected radio-frequency signals as the antenna elements are moved horizontally with respect to the stationary object. From these reflected radio-frequency signals, the image processing application generates imagery of the stationary object according to phase variations in the plurality of received radio-frequency signals. The imagery depicting vertical characteristics of the one or more internal features of the building. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/502325 |
| 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 342/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040443 | Spillmann 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) | Christopher M Spillmann (Alexandria, Virginia); David A Cylinder (New Egypt, New Jersey); Banahalli R Ratna (Alexandria, Virginia); Jawad Naciri (Herndon, Virginia); Brett D. Martin (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method comprising arranging a first heating element on a first liquid crystal elastomer, arranging a first layer of thermal paste on the first heating element, and arranging a second liquid crystal elastomer on the first layer of thermal paste. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 16, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/049503 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040508 | Holve |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Process Metrix (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald John Holve (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatuses, methods, and systems for measuring mean particle size and concentration of a polydispersion of agglomerates are disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatuses include a light source; a focusing lens to form a probe volume; a first light detector positioned at a first angular position from the beam of light; and a second light detector positioned at a second angular position from the first direction of the beam of light, the mean particle size and concentration being determined using nearly invariant functions of a ratio of the light scattered measured by the first and second detectors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/835302 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/336 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040522 | Heckman 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) | Dwayne W. Heckman (Yorba Linda, California); Ralph B. Morrow, Jr. (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining an accurate phase difference between a phase of a light beam in each of two light paths, the two light paths being in a rotating interferometric fiber optic gyro, by measuring a first phase difference due to angular velocity of the rotating interferometric fiber optic gyro, flipping axes of rotation of photons in the light loops of the rotating interferometric fiber optic gyro, and measuring a second phase difference due to angular velocity of the rotating interferometric fiber optic gyro. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/385452 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041037 | Recht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin H. Recht (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil A. Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ali Rahimi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryptographic method and systems using a keyed one-way function. A sending device uses the keyed one-way function to authenticate one or more receiving devices prerequisite to communication. A multidimensional hypercube is generated, from which is formed a multidimensional vector by randomly selecting one corner of the multidimensional hypercube. The keyed one-way function is computed using the multidimensional vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242132 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041121 | Allred |
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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) | Clark L. Allred (Meford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for rapid processing of large sets of hyperspectral data. A hyperspectral image, with hundreds of thousands to millions of pixels measured at hundreds of wavelengths, can contain over a gigabyte of data. Even modern computers can be quite slow when performing involved calculations on data sets of this size. An algorithm requiring a minimal amount of floating point calculations that still yielded useful results is disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 1998 |
| APPL NO | 09/137868 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/191 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041157 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Foster (Ithaca, New York); Alexander Gaeta (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Jay Sharping (Turlock, California); Amy Turner (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for adjusting intensity, wavelength and higher and lower frequency components of an optical signal. Photonic apparatus receives a first and a second optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion the first optical signal or the second optical signal and adjusts intensity or wavelength of the first optical signal or the second optical signal, in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion. In some embodiments photonic apparatus receives an optical signal comprising a lower frequency component received an amount of time prior to a higher frequency component of the optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion for the optical signal and adjusts the amount of time between the higher frequency component and the lower frequency component in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056224 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/4 |
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| US 08041161 | Lane 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) | Steven A. Lane (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Charles Collier (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to maximize the coupling efficiency between a collimated, free-space optical signal and a fiber optic waveguide using an active optical element to steer and focus the collimated beam driven by an adaptive controller that periodically auto-calibrates the active optical element's parameters to maximize the measured power received by the waveguide using a gradient ascent optimization algorithm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/169694 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/31 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Lambert (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Execution of functions by a non-human being is achieved by providing the non-human being with an I/O interface for receiving information, and permitting the non-human being to execute functions consistent with the abilities of the non-human being. An input/output interface is used to provide the non-human being with sensory information and to accept control information from the non-human being. An input/output processing system converts signals communicated through the input/output interface. An operation control interface is used for controlling the functions executed by the non-human being. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/019970 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
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| US 08041773 | Abu-Ghazaleh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (Vestal, New York); Weishuai Yang (Ozone Park, New York); Michael Lewis (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Computational grids have traditionally not scaled effectively due to administrative hurdles to resource and user participation. Most production grids are essentially multi-site supercomputer centers, rather than truly open and heterogeneous sets of resources that can join and leave dynamically, and that can provide support for an equally dynamic set of users. Large-scale grids containing individual resources with more autonomy about when and how they join and leave will require self-organizing grid middleware services that do not require centralized administrative control. Dynamic discovery of high-performance variable-size clusters of grid nodes provides an effective solution for implementation of grids. A brute force approach to the problem of identifying these “ad-hoc clusters” would require excessive overhead in terms of both message exchange and computation. Therefore, a scalable solution is provided that uses a delay-based overlay structure to organize nodes based on their proximity to one another, using a small number of delay experiments. This overlay can then be used to provide a variable-size set of promising candidate nodes than can then be used as a cluster, or tested further to improve the selection. Simulation results show that this approach results in effective clustering with acceptable overhead. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236396 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/209 |
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| US 08041833 | Rossbach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis R. Rossbach (Corrales, New Mexico); Michael A. Kvasnak (Bosque Farms, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic network filter for classified partitioning in an ATM network. The filter has a classified network buffer for identifying whether data is classified or unclassified to define invalid and valid data packets. Invalid data packets are dropped from the classified network buffer and valid data packets are sent to an unclassified network for testing without interrupting the operation of the classified network. In one embodiment, the classified network buffer is programmable to adapt to the continually changing requirements of classified networks. |
| FILED | Friday, May 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/137974 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041928 | Burky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Burky (Austin, Texas); Kurt A. Feiste (Austin, Texas); Dung Quoc Nguyen (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Albert Thomas Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An information handling system includes a processor that may perform issue queue virtual load/store instruction operations. The issue queue maintains load and store instructions with a real/virtual dependency flag. The issue queue provides storage resources for real and virtual load/store instructions. Real load/store instructions execute in a load store unit LSU. Virtual load/store instructions are pending execution in the LSU. The LSU may keep track of each virtual load/store instruction within the issue queue by thread, type, and pointer data. Provided that all dependencies are clear for a pending virtual load/store instruction, the LSU marks the pending virtual load/store instruction as real. The pending virtual load/store instruction may then issue to the LSU as a real load/store instruction. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/341930 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42858 | Thorpe 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) | Steven W. Thorpe (North Kingstown, Rhode Island); Robert C. Higgins (Tiverton, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for computer-assisted project analysis. Planned values for successive times for each of a plurality of parameters are stored in a database. Another database receives measured values of the parameters at the successive times. A statistical analysis including comparison, correlation and differentiation functions generate a set of output functions that then are displayed to assist in the analysis of the project. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/730182 |
| ART UNIT | 3624 — 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 75/7.380 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kareem Graham (Mountain View, California); Brian A. Zabel (Mountain View, California); Eugene C. Butcher (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for decreasing demyelinating inflammatory disease in a subject by inhibiting the activity of chemokine-like receptor 1 (CMKLR1). Methods are also provided for screening for agents that find use in treating demyelinating inflammatory disease in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463840 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 08038996 | Mahadevan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daruka Mahadevan (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-CEACAM6 antibodies and antibody fragments, nucleic acids encoding them, methods of their manufacture, and methods to treat cancer using these compounds are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/075891 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/143.100 |
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| US 08038997 | Bagrov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexei Bagrov (Bel Air, Maryland); Olga V. Fedorova (Bel Air, Maryland); Edward G. Lakatta (Bel Air, Maryland); Andrey Simbirtsev (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Alexander Kotov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Nikolai Kolodkin (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are deposited hybridoma cell lines and the monoclonal antibodies produced by these hybridomas, and antigen binding fragments thereof. These monoclonal antibodies and antigen binding fragments specifically bind marinobufagenin. The disclosure also encompasses the use of these monoclonal antibodies or antigen binding fragments in a method for detecting the presence of marinobufagenin in a biological sample. Also provided are methods for the use of these monoclonal antibodies or antigen binding fragments as prophylactic, therapeutic, and diagnostic agents for the detection, inhibition and treatment of a cardiovascular disease, for example, essential hypertension, hypertension associated with preeclampsia, eclampsia, or renal failure, or myocardial fibrosis in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, June 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/993309 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/145.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039003 | Whitehead 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) | Stephen S. Whitehead (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Brian R. Murphy (Bethesda, Maryland); Kathryn A. Hanley (Bethesda, Maryland); Joseph E. Blaney (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions featuring an attenuated dengue virus mutant or an attenuated chimeric dengue virus mutant. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/396376 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl E. Klose (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are Vibrio cholerae comprising a mutated transcriptional regulatory protein (ToxT) amino acid sequence, wherein the mutation results in a reduction in the expression of cholera toxin by the Vibrio cholerae. Also disclosed are Vibrio cholerae comprising a mutated transcriptional regulatory protein (ToxT) amino acid sequence, wherein the mutation results in an increase in transcription of the nucleic acid encoding the mutated ToxT. Vaccines comprising the aforementioned Vibrio cholerae are disclosed. Also disclosed are amino acid sequences that encode a mutated ToxT protein. |
| FILED | Friday, January 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/020398 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/261.100 |
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| US 08039209 | Lindquist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan Lindquist (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Sylvia Krobitsch (Berlin, Germany); Tiago Fleming Outeiro (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Screening methods for identifying substances that provide therapeutic value for various diseases associated with protein misfolding are provided. Genetic and chemical screening methods are provided using a yeast system. The methods of the invention provide a rapid and cost-effective method to screen for compounds that prevent protein misfolding and/or protein fibril formation and/or protein aggregation which includes numerous neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease as well as non-neuronal diseases such as type 2 diabetes. |
| FILED | Monday, February 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/363870 |
| 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 08039210 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenghe Wang (Baltimore, Maryland); Victor Velculescu (Dayton, Maryland); Kenneth W. Kinzler (Baltimore, Maryland); Bert Vogelstein (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Tyrosine phosphorylation, regulated by protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) and kinases (PTKs), is important in signaling pathways underlying tumorigenesis. A mutational analysis of the tyrosine phosphatase gene superfamily in human cancers identified 83 somatic mutations in six PTPs (PTPRF, PTPRG, PTPRT, PTPN3, PTPN13, PTPN14) affecting 26% of colorectal cancers and a smaller fraction of lung, breast and gastric cancers. Fifteen mutations were nonsense, frameshift or splice site alterations predicted to result in truncated proteins lacking phosphatase activity. Five missense mutations in the most commonly altered PTP (PTPRP) were biochemically examined and found to reduce phosphatase activity. Expression of wild-type but not a mutant PTPRT in human cancer cells inhibited cell growth. These observations suggest that the tyrosine phosphatase genes are tumor suppressor genes, regulating cellular pathways that may be amenable to therapeutic intervention. |
| FILED | Monday, May 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/596349 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039218 | Hoon |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Wayne Cancer Institute (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave S. B. Hoon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting circulating melanoma or carcinoma cells in a subject. The method comprises obtaining a body fluid from a subject and detecting the expression of a panel of genes in the body fluid, wherein the expression of the panel of genes indicates the presence of circulating melanoma or carcinoma cells in the subject. Genes useful for detecting melanoma cells includes GalNAc-T, MAGE-A3, MART-1, PAX-3, and TRP-2; genes useful for detecting carcinoma cells include C-Met, MAGE-A3, Stanniocalcin-1, Stanniocalcin-2, mammaglobin, HSP27, GalNAc-T, CK20, and β-HCG. Also disclosed are kits containing agents for detecting the expression of these genes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/227575 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08039225 | Wilkes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Wilkes (Indianapolis, Indiana); Michael Klemsz (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments include methods for diagnosing and treating medical conditions that involve an autoimmune response to connective tissue such as collagen found in organs such as the lung. In one method pulmonary disease and disorders such as Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) are diagnosed by analyzing fluid or tissue samples obtained from a patient for evidence of an autoimmune response to various types of collagen including, for example, Type V. One type of assay for evidence of an autoimmune response to Type V collagen comprises the steps of obtaining a fluid or tissue sample from a patient, contacting at least a portion of the sample with antigen to anti-Type V collagen antibody and monitoring the mixture of sample and antigen for changes indicative of the presence of anti-Type V collagen in the sample. Another embodiment includes treating pulmonary diseases such as IPF by administering a therapeutically effective dose of epitopes of various collagens including Type V collagen. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/082203 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.210 |
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| US 08039227 | Klein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon B. Klein (Louisville, Kentucky); Michael Merchant (Louisville, Kentucky); Grzegorz Boratyn (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for diagnosing a kidney disease, or the risk thereof, in a subject are provided. The methods comprise determining an amount of at least one peptide biomarker disclosed herein in a biological sample from the subject and comparing the amount of the at least one peptide in the sample with a control level, wherein if the amount determined is different than the control level, the subject is diagnosed as having, or at an increased risk of developing, the kidney disease. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/234401 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
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| US 08039243 | Blattner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick R. Blattner (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a bacterium having a genome that is genetically engineered to be smaller than the genome of its native parent strain. A bacterium with a smaller genome can produce a commercial product more efficiently. The present invention also provides methods for deleting genes and other DNA sequences from a bacterial genome. The methods provide precise deletions and seldom introduces mutations to the genomic DNA sequences around the deletion sites. Thus, the methods can be used to generate a series of deletions in a bacterium without increasing the possibility of undesired homologous recombination within the genome. In addition, some of the methods provided by the present invention can also be used for replacing a region of a bacterial genome with a desired DNA sequence. |
| FILED | Friday, December 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/275094 |
| 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 435/252.800 |
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| US 08039255 | Mercola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Mercola (Del Mar, California); Ruchika Gupta (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The finding that Dickkopf1 (Dkk1) is a dual function protein demonstrates a mechanism for the coordination of cell migration and antagonism of Wnt/β-catenin signaling during developmental and pathological processes. The profile of Dkk proteins expressed by human breast cancers correlates with indicators of outcome: Dkk1 associates with markers of poor prognosis whereas expression of single function Dkk2 or Dkk3 (which inhibit Wnt/β-catenin signaling and promote migration, respectively) correlates with phenotypes reflective of good prognosis. Therefore, the pro-migratory activities of Dkk1 and 3 identified here offer new insights into breast cancer progression and a potential avenue for therapeutic intervention. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/917393 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/366 |
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| US 08039437 | Tykocinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Tykocinski (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Marjaneh Razmara (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Fusion proteins which act on the TWEAK and TRAIL signaling axes are provided. The proteins are useful in the treatment or amelioration of autoimmune diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis, as well as other diseases such as alloimmune diseases and cancer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494680 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12.200 |
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| US 08039502 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Hao-Chieh Chiu (Columbus, Ohio); Dasheng Wang (Dublin, Ohio); John S. Gunn (Powell, Ohio); Larry S. Schlesinger (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of phosphoinositide-dependent kinase-1 (PDK-1) inhibitors of Formula I: wherein X wherein X is —CF3, Ar is selected from and R is selected from where R′ is L-Lys, D-Lys, β-Ala, L-Lue, L-Ile, Phe, SO2CH2CH2NH2, SO2NH2, Asn, Glu or Gyl, and R″ is methyl, ethyl, allyl, CH2CH2OH, CH2CN, CH2CH2CN, CH2CONH2, |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179134 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/406 |
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| US 08039504 | Jordan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Jordan (Corvallis, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania); Susan R. Rippin (Wilmington, Delaware); Dongcheng Dai (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using di, tri, and tetracyclic acylhydrazide derivatives and analogs, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases cased by the orthopoxvirus. |
| FILED | Monday, April 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/785998 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
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| US 08039585 | Csaky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karl G. Csaky (Kensington, Maryland); Hynda Kleinman (Kensington, Maryland); Lourdes Ponce (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Unregulated angiogenesis is associated with a variety of pathological conditions. Tumor growth and metastasis is dependent on the development of new blood vessels. The development of new blood vessels in the eye, or ocular neovascularization, has been implicated in a variety of serious ocular diseases. For instance, choroidal neovascularization is linked to age-related macular degeneration, while retinal neovascularization is linked to diabetic retinopathy. The present invention is based on the discovery of a peptide sequence, C16Y, which inhibits ocular neovascularization and tumor growth in vivo. C16Y is a scrambled version of the C16 peptide sequence from the y1 chain of laminin-1. Unlike C16, which is an angiogenic stimulator, C16Y has been shown to inhibit angiogenesis. The present invention discloses methods of treating ocular neovascularization and cancer using both full-length and truncated versions of the C16Y. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/588884 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/328 |
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| US 08039587 | Khan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/972963 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08039588 | Pancer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); Benaroya Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zeev Pancer (Baltimore, Maryland); Max D. Cooper (Birmingham, Alabama); Chris Amemiya (Seattle, Washington); G. Larry Gartland (Birmingham, Alabama); Goetz R. A. Ehrhardt (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs). |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/568601 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08039589 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Sparks Glencoe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Variant costimulatory polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides, and methods for using the polypeptides and nucleic acids to enhance a T cell response are provided herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932471 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039605 | Kolattukudy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pappachan E. Kolattukudy (Orlando, Florida); Chirajyoti Deb (Oviedo, Florida); Jaiyanth Daniel (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are novel methods for screening for compounds useful in treating or preventing tuberculosis. In exemplary embodiments, screening methods are based on the implementation or manipulation of triacylglycerol hydrolase like polypeptides or polynucleotides encoding the same. The methods are useful in identifying agents active against TB infection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546742 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039668 | Pellecchia |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Burnham Institute for Medical Research (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurizio Pellecchia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using apogossypol and its derivatives for treating inflammation is disclosed. Also, there is described a group of compounds having structure A, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, N-oxide, or solvate thereof are provided: wherein each R is independently H, C(O)X, C(O)NHX, NH(CO)X, SO2NHX, or NHSO2X, wherein X is hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, alkylaryl, substituted alkylaryl, heterocycle, or substituted heterocycle. Compounds of group A may be used for treating various diseases or disorders, such as cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/760380 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040128 | Farrell et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Farrell (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Christopher J. Allen (Euclid, Ohio); Gary M. Brittenham (Euclid, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a magnet assembly to produce a static magnetic field and a set of high-Tc flux transformers to detect a flux change from an item when the item is subjected to the static magnetic field produced by the magnet assembly and to produce a current based on the flux change. Additionally, the apparatus comprises a set of magnetoresistive sensors to detect a field produced by a current produced in the set of high-Tc flux transformers and a scanning mechanism to produce cyclic relative motion between the apparatus and the item. Furthermore, the apparatus comprises a magnetic shield to shield the magnetoresistive sensors, where the shield is an open ended cylinder made from mu-metal, where mu-metal is a very high magnetic permeability iron-nickel alloy. The apparatus additionally comprises a water interface mechanism to fill a gap between the apparatus and the item with water. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423189 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/207.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040135 | Cukur et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tolga Cukur (Foster City, California); Michael Lustig (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for enhancing resolution and contrast in an MRI image is provided. A transient signal acquisition is applied to acquire a plurality of samples of data, comprising reducing transient signal oscillations and acquiring a plurality of MRI samples of data. Transient signal compensation is applied to the plurality of samples of data to provide data with signal compensation. A noise reduction technique is applied to the data with signal compensation. Data resulting from the applying the noise reduction is used to generate an MRI image. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789315 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041412 | Glossop et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands); The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary DHHS (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil David Glossop (Toronto, Canada); Bradford Johns Wood (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for obtaining position sensor space data regarding an endovascular prosthesis within an anatomical region of a patient include at least one position indicating element which is movable within an endovascular prosthesis is tracked by a tracking system. A guidance portion of the endovascular prosthesis constrains movement of position indicating elements within the endovascular prosthesis. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/761134 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08037673 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An emissions control system includes a temperature determination module and an emissions control module. The temperature determination module determines a first temperature of a heater element of a diesel particulate filter (DPF) assembly in an exhaust system and determines a second temperature of a catalyst of the DPF assembly. The emissions control module selectively activates the heater element, selectively initiates a predefined combustion process in an engine based upon the first temperature, and selectively starts a reductant injection process based upon the second temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/946256 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/284 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037828 | Jakaboski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan-Carlos Jakaboski (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Chance G. Hughs (Tijeras, New Mexico); Steven N. Todd (Rio Rancho, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An explosive device that can generate a projectile from the opposite side of a wall from the side where the explosive device is detonated. The projectile can be generated without breaching the wall of the structure or container. The device can optionally open an aperture in a solid wall of a structure or a container and form a high-kinetic-energy projectile from the portion of the wall removed to create the aperture. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337259 |
| 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 12/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08037945 | Fink et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel D. Fink (Aiken, South Carolina); Fernando F. Fondeur (North Augusta, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An atomic force microscope is provided that includes a micro thermal analyzer with a tip. The micro thermal analyzer is configured for obtaining topographical data from a sample. A raman spectrometer is included and is configured for use in obtaining chemical data from the sample. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082572 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Tool driving or impacting 173/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038763 | Eichhorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan W. Eichhorn (University Park, Maryland); Shenghu Zhou (Greenbelt, Maryland); Gregory Scott Jackson (University Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Au—Pt heteroaggregate dendritic nanostructures and AuPt alloy nanoparticles, and their use as anodic catalysts in fuel cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638572 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038773 | Ochs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jupiter Oxygen Corporation (Schiller Park, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas L. Ochs (Albany, Oregon); Cathy A. Summers (Albany, Oregon); Steve Gerdemann (Albany, Oregon); Danylo B. Oryshchyn (Philomath, Oregon); Paul Turner (Independence, Oregon); Brian R. Patrick (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of reducing pollutants exhausted into the atmosphere from the combustion of fossil fuels. The disclosed process removes nitrogen from air for combustion, separates the solid combustion products from the gases and vapors and can capture the entire vapor/gas stream for sequestration leaving near-zero emissions. The invention produces up to three captured material streams. The first stream is contaminant-laden water containing SOx, residual NOx particulates and particulate-bound Hg and other trace contaminants. The second stream can be a low-volume flue gas stream containing N2 and O2 if CO2 purification is needed. The final product stream is a mixture comprising predominantly CO2 with smaller amounts of H2O, Ar, N2, O2, SOX, NOX, Hg, and other trace gases. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/753393 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038887 | Bakajin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olgica Bakajin (San Leandro, California); Jason Holt (Berkeley, California); Aleksandr Noy (Belmont, California); Hyung Gyu Park (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoporous membranes comprising single walled, double walled, and multiwalled carbon nanotubes embedded in a matrix material were fabricated for fluid mechanics and mass transfer studies on the nanometer scale and commercial applications. Average pore size can be 2 nm to 20 nm, or seven nm or less, or two nanometers or less. The membrane can be free of large voids spanning the membrane such that transport of material such as gas or liquid occurs exclusively through the tubes. Fast fluid, vapor, and liquid transport are observed. Versatile micromachining methods can be used for membrane fabrication. A single chip can comprise multiple membranes. These membranes are a robust platform for the study of confined molecular transport, with applications in liquid and gas separations and chemical sensing including desalination, dialysis, and fabric formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/064604 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/652 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038946 | Harper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Namadics, Inc. (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ross James Harper (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Marcus la Grone (Cushing, Oklahoma); Mark Fisher (Stillwater, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The current invention provides a passive sampling device suitable for collecting and detecting the presence of target analytes. In particular, the passive sampling device is suitable for detecting nitro-aromatic compounds. The current invention further provides a passive sampling device reader suitable for determining the collection of target analytes. Additionally, the current invention provides methods for detecting target analytes using the passive sampling device and the passive sampling device reader. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999144 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039096 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Eaton Corporation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong Zhu (Farmington Hills, Michigan); Robert Milner (Warren, Michigan); Alaa AbdelAzim Elmoursi (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A coating includes a first layer of a ceramic alloy and a second layer disposed on the first layer and including carbon. The coating has a hardness of from 10 to 20 GPa and a coefficient of friction of less than or equal to 0.12. A method of coating a substrate includes cleaning the substrate, forming the first layer on the substrate, and depositing the second layer onto the first layer to thereby coat the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493713 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039106 | 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. At least 80% of the particles pass through a ¼ inch screen having a 6.3 mm nominal sieve opening but are retained by a No. 10 screen having a 2 mm nominal sieve opening. The feedstock particles are manufactured from a variety of plant biomass materials including wood, crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse, and bamboo. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966198 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039266 | Tinnacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruth M. Tinnacher (Lakewood, Colorado); Bruce D. Honeyman (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to radiolabel natural organic matter by reduction with a hydrogen labeled reducing agent, and compositions, are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856594 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/157 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039413 | Hollingsworth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel P. Hollingsworth (Oakland, California); Joshua D. Kuntz (Livermore, California); Zachary M. Seeley (Pullman, Washington); Thomas F. Soules (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a method for forming a transparent ceramic preform includes forming a suspension of oxide particles in a solvent, adding the suspension to a mold of a desired shape, and uniformly curing the suspension in the mold for forming a preform. The suspension includes a dispersant but does not include a gelling agent. In another embodiment, a method includes creating a mixture without a gelling agent, the mixture including: inorganic particles, a solvent, and a dispersant. The inorganic particles have a mean diameter of less than about 2000 nm. The method also includes agitating the mixture, adding the mixture to a mold, and curing the mixture in the mold at a temperature of less than about 80° C. for forming a preform. Other methods for forming a transparent ceramic preform are also described according to several embodiments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/603247 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/152 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039438 | Sederoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); U.S. Department of Agricultue/NCAUR (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heike Sederoff (Raleigh, North Carolina); Steven C Huber (Savoy, Illinois); Carolyn A Larabell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic peptides derived from sucrose synthase, and having homology to actin and actin-related proteins, sharing a common motif, useful for causing acting bundling and preventing actin depolymerization. Peptides exhibiting the common motif are described, as well as specific synthetic peptides which caused bundled actin and inhibit actin depolymerization. These peptides can be useful for treating a subject suffering from a disease characterized by cells having neoplastic growth, for anti-cancer therapeutics, delivered to subjects solely, or concomitantly or sequentially with other known cancer therapeutics. These peptides can also be used for stabilizing microfilaments in living cells and inhibiting growth of cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/576757 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039740 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | RoseStreet Labs Energy, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Joel W. Ager, III (Berkeley, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A single P-N junction solar cell is provided having two depletion regions for charge separation while allowing the electrons and holes to recombine such that the voltages associated with both depletion regions of the solar cell will add together. The single p-n junction solar cell includes an alloy of either InGaN or InAlN formed on one side of the P-N junction with Si formed on the other side in order to produce characteristics of a two junction (2J) tandem solar cell through only a single P-N junction. A single P-N junction solar cell having tandem solar cell characteristics will achieve power conversion efficiencies exceeding 30%. |
| FILED | Friday, July 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/777963 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039847 | Nuzzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph G. Nuzzo (Champaign, Illinois); John A. Rogers (Champaign, Illinois); Etienne Menard (Durham, North Carolina); Keon Jae Lee (Tokyo, Japan); Dahl-Young Khang (Urbana, Illinois); Yugang Sun (Westmont, Illinois); Matthew Meitl (Raleigh, North Carolina); Zhengtao Zhu (Rapid City, South Dakota); Heung Cho Ko (Urbana, Illinois); Shawn Mack (Goleta, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a high yield pathway for the fabrication, transfer and assembly of high quality printable semiconductor elements having selected physical dimensions, shapes, compositions and spatial orientations. The compositions and methods of the present invention provide high precision registered transfer and integration of arrays of microsized and/or nanosized semiconductor structures onto substrates, including large area substrates and/or flexible substrates. In addition, the present invention provides methods of making printable semiconductor elements from low cost bulk materials, such as bulk silicon wafers, and smart-materials processing strategies that enable a versatile and commercially attractive printing-based fabrication platform for making a broad range of functional semiconductor devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/844492 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040053 | D'Andrade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian D'Andrade (Westampton, New Jersey); James Esler (Levittown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic light emitting device is provided. The device includes an anode and a cathode. A first emissive layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. The first emissive layer includes a first non-emitting organic material, which is an organometallic material present in the first emissive layer in a concentration of at least 50 wt %. The first emissive layer also includes a first emitting organic material. A second emissive layer is disposed between the first emissive layer and the cathode, preferably, in direct contact with the first emissive layer. The second emissive material includes a second non-emitting organic material and a second emitting organic material. The first and second non-emitting materials, and the first and second emitting materials, are all different materials. A first non-emissive layer is disposed between the first emissive layer and the anode, and in direct contact with the first emissive layer. The first non- emissive layer comprises the first non-emissive organic material. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/332945 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040586 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina); David Schurig (Durham, North Carolina); Anthony F. Starr (San Diego, California); Jack J. Mock (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | One exemplary metamaterial is formed from a plurality of individual unit cells, at least a portion of which have a different permeability than others. The plurality of individual unit cells are arranged to provide a metamaterial having a gradient index along at least one axis. Such metamaterials can be used to form lenses, for example. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424300 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041969 | 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); Amanda E. Peters (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian E. Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for reducing power consumption while performing collective operations on a plurality of compute nodes that include: receiving, by each compute node, instructions to perform a type of collective operation; selecting, by each compute node from a plurality of collective operations for the collective operation type, a particular collective operation in dependence upon power consumption characteristics for each of the plurality of collective operations; and executing, by each compute node, the selected collective operation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127035 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08042167 | 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); Stephen J. Tarsa (Duxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for firewall policy optimization are disclosed. According to one method, a firewall policy including an ordered list of firewall rules is defined. For each rule, a probability indicating a likelihood of receiving a packet matching the rule is determined. The rules are sorted in order of non-increasing probability in a manner that preserves the firewall policy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/390976 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE42844 | Sprouse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc. (Canoga Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth M. Sprouse (Northridge, California); David R. Matthews (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump for transporting particulate material includes an inlet, an outlet, a passageway, a first and second load beam, a first and second scraper seal, and a first and second drive assembly. The inlet introduces the particulate material into the passageway and the outlet expels the particulate material from the passageway. The passageway is defined by a first belt assembly and a second belt assembly that are opposed to each other. The first and second load beams are positioned within the first belt assembly and the second belt assembly, respectively. The first scraper seal and a second scraper seal are positioned proximate the passageway and the outlet. The first drive assembly is positioned within an interior section of the first belt assembly and drives the first belt assembly and the second drive assembly is positioned within an interior section of the second belt assembly and drives the second belt assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326066 |
| ART UNIT | 3651 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Conveyors: Power-driven 198/626.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Robert Cook (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Lee Doyle (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Timothy Wilson (Litchfield, New Hampshire); Michael Neil Scott (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire); Dimitri Deserranno (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, pneumatic cylinder assemblies are coupled in series pneumatically, thereby reducing a range of force produced by or acting on the pneumatic cylinder assemblies during expansion or compression of a gas. |
| FILED | Friday, September 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/879595 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038763 | Eichhorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan W. Eichhorn (University Park, Maryland); Shenghu Zhou (Greenbelt, Maryland); Gregory Scott Jackson (University Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Au—Pt heteroaggregate dendritic nanostructures and AuPt alloy nanoparticles, and their use as anodic catalysts in fuel cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/638572 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/351 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038926 | Gogotsi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yury Gogotsi (Warminster, Pennsylvania); Davide Mattia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention concerns methods for producing carbon nanotubes with embedded nanoparticles comprising providing a template comprising an anodized aluminum oxide membrane with a pore diameter of 20-200 nm; contacting the template with a solution containing nanoparticles; exposing the template and solution containing nanoparticles to sonication; removing the template from the solution; forming a carbon structure via chemical deposition of carbon on said template; and removing the template by exposing the template to a basic solution. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/398315 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/492 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08038947 | Thompson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard B. Thompson (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are sensor devices, methods, systems, and kits for measuring the concentration of at least one target analyte. Sensor devices may be mounted into an optical system for measuring the target analyte. Example sensor devices may also be removably mounted in a holder that enables the sensor device to be inserted into a container that allows the sensor device to contact an analyte containing sample. Further provided are methods that include contacting a sensor device with an analyte-containing sample; determining analyte concentration; and optionally repeating these steps to determine if the analyte concentration spikes or exceeds a predetermined level, which may trigger an alarm response. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/099952 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/82.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039368 | Drndic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marija Drndic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Michael Fischbein (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods of fabricating nanogaps and various devices composed of nanogaps. The nanogap devices disclosed herein can be used as in a number of electronic, photonic and quantum mechanical devices, including field-effect transistors and logic circuits. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/909356 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039588 | Pancer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama); Benaroya Research Institute (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zeev Pancer (Baltimore, Maryland); Max D. Cooper (Birmingham, Alabama); Chris Amemiya (Seattle, Washington); G. Larry Gartland (Birmingham, Alabama); Goetz R. A. Ehrhardt (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods related to variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs). |
| FILED | Monday, May 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/568601 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039625 | Marder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seth Marder (Atlanta, Georgia); Zesheng An (Smyrna, Georgia); Jungsheng Yu (Atlanta, Georgia); Bernard Kippelen (Decatur, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure include coronene charge-transport materials, methods of forming coronene charge-transport materials, and methods of using the coronene charge-transport materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/817156 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039655 | Coates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geoffrey W. Coates (Ithaca, New York); Anna Cherian (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One step ortho-alkylation of anilines with styrenes to give chiral anilines is obtained using a strong acid catalyst, e.g. CF3SO3H. Condensation of the product to give ligand and metallation gives complex which catalyzes polymerization of propylene to give isotactic propylene or regiorandom propylene of low PDI or blocks thereof, depending on polymerization temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/081805 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/138 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039669 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christen Bell Smith (Madison, Wisconsin); Denis A. Kissounko (Madison, Wisconsin); Samuel H. Gellman (Madison, Wisconsin); Shannon S. Stahl (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and reagents for the metathesis of secondary amides via a transacylation mechanism employing catalytic quantities of an imide initiator and a Brønsted base. Equilibrium-controlled exchange between various amide reactant pairs is demonstrated for substrates bearing a variety of N-alkyl and N-aryl substituents. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325484 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08040586 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Smith (Durham, North Carolina); David Schurig (Durham, North Carolina); Anthony F. Starr (San Diego, California); Jack J. Mock (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | One exemplary metamaterial is formed from a plurality of individual unit cells, at least a portion of which have a different permeability than others. The plurality of individual unit cells are arranged to provide a metamaterial having a gradient index along at least one axis. Such metamaterials can be used to form lenses, for example. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424300 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041037 | Recht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin H. Recht (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil A. Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ali Rahimi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryptographic method and systems using a keyed one-way function. A sending device uses the keyed one-way function to authenticate one or more receiving devices prerequisite to communication. A multidimensional hypercube is generated, from which is formed a multidimensional vector by randomly selecting one corner of the multidimensional hypercube. The keyed one-way function is computed using the multidimensional vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242132 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041157 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Foster (Ithaca, New York); Alexander Gaeta (Ithaca, New York); Michal Lipson (Ithaca, New York); Jay Sharping (Turlock, California); Amy Turner (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for adjusting intensity, wavelength and higher and lower frequency components of an optical signal. Photonic apparatus receives a first and a second optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion the first optical signal or the second optical signal and adjusts intensity or wavelength of the first optical signal or the second optical signal, in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion. In some embodiments photonic apparatus receives an optical signal comprising a lower frequency component received an amount of time prior to a higher frequency component of the optical signal. A waveguide provides an anomalous group velocity dispersion for the optical signal and adjusts the amount of time between the higher frequency component and the lower frequency component in response to the anomalous group velocity dispersion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056224 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041773 | Abu-Ghazaleh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Binghamton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (Vestal, New York); Weishuai Yang (Ozone Park, New York); Michael Lewis (Vestal, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Computational grids have traditionally not scaled effectively due to administrative hurdles to resource and user participation. Most production grids are essentially multi-site supercomputer centers, rather than truly open and heterogeneous sets of resources that can join and leave dynamically, and that can provide support for an equally dynamic set of users. Large-scale grids containing individual resources with more autonomy about when and how they join and leave will require self-organizing grid middleware services that do not require centralized administrative control. Dynamic discovery of high-performance variable-size clusters of grid nodes provides an effective solution for implementation of grids. A brute force approach to the problem of identifying these “ad-hoc clusters” would require excessive overhead in terms of both message exchange and computation. Therefore, a scalable solution is provided that uses a delay-based overlay structure to organize nodes based on their proximity to one another, using a small number of delay experiments. This overlay can then be used to provide a variable-size set of promising candidate nodes than can then be used as a cluster, or tested further to improve the selection. Simulation results show that this approach results in effective clustering with acceptable overhead. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236396 |
| ART UNIT | 2454 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041931 | John et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lizy K. John (Austin, Texas); Tao Li (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to predict a branch within a first operating context, such as a user context, using a first strategy; and to predict a branch within a second operating context, such as an operating system context, using a second strategy. In some embodiments, apparatus and systems may comprise one or more first storage locations to store branch history information associated with a first operating context, and one ore more second storage locations to store branch history information associated with a second operating context. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/046066 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08037777 | Boedo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen Boedo (Canandaigua, New York); William Grande (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A microbearing device includes at least one inner bearing structure, at least one outer bearing structure, and one or more fasteners. Each of the one or more fasteners is connected between the inner bearing structure and the outer bearing structure and the inner bearing structure is substantially elastic. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/200331 |
| ART UNIT | 3656 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Machine element or mechanism 074/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039099 | Sullivan |
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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) | Thomas A. Sullivan (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Polymer coated aerogel comprising aerogel substrate comprising a substantially uniform polymer coating. In an embodiment, the polymer coated aerogel is comprised of a porosity and has a compressive modulus greater than the compressive modulus of the aerogel substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/848332 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/319.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039834 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhong L. Wang (Marietta, Georgia); Xudong Wang (Atlanta, Georgia); Jinhui Song (Atlanta, Georgia); Jun Zhou (Atlanta, Georgia); Jr-Hau He (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A semiconducting device includes a substrate, a piezoelectric wire, a structure, a first electrode and a second electrode. The piezoelectric wire has a first end and an opposite second end and is disposed on the substrate. The structure causes the piezoelectric wire to bend in a predetermined manner between the first end and the second end so that the piezoelectric wire enters a first semiconducting state. The first electrode is coupled to the first end and the second electrode is coupled to the second end so that when the piezoelectric wire is in the first semiconducting state, an electrical characteristic will be exhibited between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/760002 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041463 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael G. Pollack (Durham, North Carolina); Philip Paik (Chula Vista, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A droplet actuator drive including a detection apparatus for sensing a property of a droplet on a droplet actuator; circuitry for controlling the detection apparatus electronically coupled to the detection apparatus; a droplet actuator cartridge connector arranged so that when a droplet actuator cartridge electronically is coupled thereto: the droplet actuator cartridge is aligned with the detection apparatus; and the detection apparatus can sense the property of the droplet on a droplet actuator; circuitry for controlling a droplet actuator coupled to the droplet actuator connector; and the droplet actuator circuitry may be coupled to a processor. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/707081 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041655 | Hinchey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Adminstrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michnel G. Hinchey (Bowie, Maryland); Roy Sterritt (Newtownabbey, Ireland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments an autonomic unit transmits an otoacoustic signal to counteract a potentially harmful incoming signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836352 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041661 | Curtis |
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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) | Steven A. Curtis (Dayton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for determining stability of a neural system. The method includes tracking a function world line of an N element neural system within at least one behavioral space, determining whether the tracking function world line is approaching a psychological stability surface, and implementing a quantitative solution that corrects instability if the tracked function world line is approaching the psychological stability surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861687 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08038479 | Searfass |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NanoRidge Materials (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Searfass (Tomball, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical connectors comprising carbon nanotubes, at least one polymer, and a metallic electrical conductor are described. The carbon nanotubes are dispersed in the polymer to create an electrically-conducting polymer dispersion. The metallic electrical conductor contacts the electrically-conducting polymer dispersion to form the electrical connector. The electrical connectors include standard electrical connections for incorporation into standard electrical circuit applications. Methods to prepare the electrical connectors are described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315716 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/658 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039833 | Ong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Ping Liu (Mississauga, Canada); Lu Jiang (Oakville, Canada); Yu Qi (Mississauga, Canada); Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/783595 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041037 | Recht et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin H. Recht (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Neil A. Gershenfeld (Somerville, Massachusetts); Ali Rahimi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A cryptographic method and systems using a keyed one-way function. A sending device uses the keyed one-way function to authenticate one or more receiving devices prerequisite to communication. A multidimensional hypercube is generated, from which is formed a multidimensional vector by randomly selecting one corner of the multidimensional hypercube. The keyed one-way function is computed using the multidimensional vector. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/242132 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08042094 | Napoli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ellis Amalgamated LLC (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joshua Napoli (Arlington, Massachusetts); Won-Suk Chun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Purtell, II (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Gregg E. Favalora (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for accessing graphical information including receiving one or more graphics commands written in an application programming interface (API). The graphics commands are converted into a graphical language that facilitates the execution of the commands for a plurality of output devices of one or more types. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/176057 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08039438 | Sederoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); U.S. Department of Agricultue/NCAUR (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Heike Sederoff (Raleigh, North Carolina); Steven C Huber (Savoy, Illinois); Carolyn A Larabell (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Synthetic peptides derived from sucrose synthase, and having homology to actin and actin-related proteins, sharing a common motif, useful for causing acting bundling and preventing actin depolymerization. Peptides exhibiting the common motif are described, as well as specific synthetic peptides which caused bundled actin and inhibit actin depolymerization. These peptides can be useful for treating a subject suffering from a disease characterized by cells having neoplastic growth, for anti-cancer therapeutics, delivered to subjects solely, or concomitantly or sequentially with other known cancer therapeutics. These peptides can also be used for stabilizing microfilaments in living cells and inhibiting growth of cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/576757 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039688 | Hanley-Bowdoin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Linda Hanley-Bowdoin (Raleigh, North Carolina); Beverly Orozco (Raleigh, North Carolina); Wilhelm Gruissem (Forch, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | Transgenic plants with increased resistance to geminivirus infection, and nucleic acid constructs useful in producing such plants, are described. In addition, methods of making the transgenic plants of the present invention are included. The transgenic plants express a mutant AL1/C1 geminivirus protein, which increases resistance to infection by at least one geminivirus, compared to a non-transformed control plant. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433085 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041150 | Rammer 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) | Douglas R. Rammer (Janesville, Wisconsin); Samuel L. Zelinka (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus are provided for the determination of a surface area of a fastener, such as a threaded fastener. Specifically, an image of the fastener is acquired, and the image is separated into at least two regions, for instance three regions, and the surface area of each region is determined. The surface areas determined for each region are summed to determine the surface area of the fastener. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998116 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08038430 | Swanson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc. (Plano, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Swanson (Portland, Oregon); Lucien M. Rucker (Beaverton, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of coating metal wire with extrudate using an extrusion system. The method includes the steps of advancing the metal wire through an extrusion die of the extrusion system and extruding molten extrudate over the metal wire as the metal wire is advanced through the extrusion die. Image data is generated, using one or several electronic cameras, concurrently with the advancing, and extruding to provide visual feedback indicative of the concentricity or non-concentricity of extrudate surrounding the metal wire as the metal wire exits the extrusion die. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/578281 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/378.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039106 | 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. At least 80% of the particles pass through a ¼ inch screen having a 6.3 mm nominal sieve opening but are retained by a No. 10 screen having a 2 mm nominal sieve opening. The feedstock particles are manufactured from a variety of plant biomass materials including wood, crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse, and bamboo. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966198 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039587 | Khan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/972963 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08041002 | Gatten et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Morpho Detection, Inc. (Newark, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Alan Gatten (Pleasanton, California); Ugo DiGirolamo (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, computer-readable mediums, and systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method detects at least one faulty X-ray detector signal and adjusts a conveyor speed and/or a gantry speed in accordance with the detection to increase information for image reconstruction. In another embodiment, a method detects a high volume time. Upon detection of the high volume time conveyor speed and gantry speed is increased during the high volume time. After expiration of the high volume time, the conveyor speed and gantry speed is reduced. In yet other embodiments, the computer-readable mediums and systems are also provided which perform similar features recited by the above methods. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/848593 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08040259 | Glover |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Glover (Yarrow Point, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for alerting to traffic proximity in the airport environment. Knowledge of the geographic position, speed, rate of change of speed, heading (or track-angle) and/or altitude of own-aircraft (or vehicle) and another, potentially conflicting aircraft (or vehicle) are used to calculate a predicted distance between the two aircraft (or vehicles) at given point of time in the future. If separation distance is predicted to be less than a predetermined acceptable value, then an alert message (aural, visual or both) is issued to the pilot or operator of the vehicle. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623679 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/961 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08038992 | Graham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kareem Graham (Mountain View, California); Brian A. Zabel (Mountain View, California); Eugene C. Butcher (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for decreasing demyelinating inflammatory disease in a subject by inhibiting the activity of chemokine-like receptor 1 (CMKLR1). Methods are also provided for screening for agents that find use in treating demyelinating inflammatory disease in a subject. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463840 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08040291 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Yang (McLean, Virginia); Felice M. Vanin (Rome, Italy); Xi Shao (Potomac, Maryland); Quirino Balzano (Annapolis, Maryland); Neil Goldsman (Takoma Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An F-inverted compact antenna for ultra-low volume Wireless Sensor Networks is developed with a volume of 0.024λ×0.06λ×0.076λ, ground plane included, where λ is a resonating frequency of the antenna. The radiation efficiency attained is 48.53% and the peak gain is −1.38 dB. The antenna is easily scaled to higher operating frequencies up to 2500 MHz bands with comparable performance. The antenna successfully transmits and receives signals with tolerable errors. It includes a standard PCB board with dielectric block thereon and helically contoured antenna wound from a copper wire attached to the dielectric block and oriented with the helix axis parallel to the PCB. The antenna demonstrates omnidirectional radiation patterns and is highly integratable with WSN, specifically in Smart Dust sensors. The antenna balances the trade offs between performance and overall size and may be manufactured with the use of milling technique and laser cutters. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470905 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/895 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08037762 | La Rosa Flores et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon Acting by and through The State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres H. La Rosa Flores (Beaverton, Oregon); Richard Nordstrom (Hillsboro, Oregon); Sudhaprasanna Kumar Padigi (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Scanning probe microscopes include a probe tip coupled to a tuning fork or other acoustic resonator so as to apply a shear force when contacted to a specimen surface based on an applied acoustic signal. A secondary ultrasonic transducer is in acoustic communication with the specimen and a resonant structure. Probe tip-specimen displacement can be detected based on whispering gallery mode ultrasonic waves in the resonant structure using the secondary transducer, and such displacements maintained using feedback control based on whispering gallery mode acoustic wave magnitude. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/809196 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/606 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08041649 | Mougey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent J. Mougey (Alexandria, Virginia); Adrian B. Goulbourne (Silver Spring, Maryland); Ossam Manea (Leesburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are disclosed for calculating a delivery date. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving, at a delivery processor, origin data corresponding to an origin delivery office that receives an item to be sent, the origin data comprising origin location information, a scan date reflecting a date the item is scanned at the origin delivery office, and a scan time reflecting a time the item is scanned at the origin delivery office. The delivery processor determines whether the scan time is before a cut-off acceptance time for scanning items at the origin delivery office and sets a start date and time based on the scan time determination. The delivery processor also determines a first estimated date and time that the item will be scanned at an outbound delivery office, and determines a second estimated date and time that the item will be scanned at an inbound delivery office. Thereafter, the delivery processor calculates the estimated delivery date based on the start date and time, the first estimated date and time, and the second estimated date and time, and provides the estimated delivery date to a source data processor. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953575 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — 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 75/330 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08037894 | Kelekar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intermolecular, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California); Gaurav Verma (Sunnyvale, California); Kurt Weiner (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure gauge may be coupled to a supply line which carries liquid from a bottle to either one or more mixing vessels and/or one or more reactors in a combinatorial processing tool. A control device may monitor the pressure measured by the pressure gauge, and the control device may be configured to change the pressure supplied to the bottle based on a comparison of the measured pressure to a pre-determined pressure value. The control device may adjust the pressure provided to the bottle using a pressure regulator coupled to the pressure source. By changing the pressure provided to the bottle, the control device may maintain a relatively constant flow rate of fluids from the liquid source into one or more mixing vessels and/or the one or more reactors. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/965442 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid handling 137/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039149 | Amatucci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn G. Amatucci (Peapack, New Jersey); Mathieu Bervas (Aix en Provence, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to bismuth oxyfluoride nanocomposites used as positive electrodes in primary and rechargeable electromechanical energy storage systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355430 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039257 | Beschorner |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E Beschorner (Omaha, Nebraska) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention includes the composition of organ grafts accommodated prior to transplantation and therefore resistant to rejection by preformed antibodies. Accommodation is achieved within the donor animal by administration of sub-lethal levels of accommodation inducing factors derived from animals sensitized to the donor. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/897297 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08039593 | Kuan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chien-Tsun Kuan (Cary, North Carolina); Darell D Bigner (Mebane, North Carolina); Ira H Pastan (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides high affinity antibodies suitable for forming immunotoxins that inhibit the growth of cells expressing human glycoprotein NMB, including glioblastoma multiform cells, anaplastic astrocytoma cells, anaplastic oligodendroglioma cells, oligodendroglioma cells, and melanoma cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/092228 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08041118 | Fowell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Fowell (Rolling Hills Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In an exemplary embodiment, a pattern is recognized from digitized images. A first image metric is computed from a first digitized image and a second image metric is computed from a second digitized image. A composite image metric is computed as a function of the first image metric and the second image metric, and a pattern is identified by comparing the composite image metric against a reference image metric. The function may be a simple average or a weighted average. The image metric may include a separation distance between features, or a measured area of a feature, or a central angle between two arcs joining a feature to two other features, or an area of a polygon whose vertices are defined by features, or a second moment of a polygon whose vertices are defined by features. The images may include without limitation images of friction ridges, irises, or stars. |
| FILED | Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/707674 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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