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Patent Details for Tuesday, November 08, 2011
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| US 08051640 | Geisler et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert L Geisler (Tehachapi, California); Kevin E Mahaffy (Oak Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solid propellant thrust control system, method, and apparatus for controlling combustion of solid propellants in an opposing grains solid propellant rocket engine (OGRE) is provided. In particular, an opposing grains rocket engine and propulsion system is provided, in which actuator means connected are connected to solid propellant grains disposed in the pressure vessel of the engine. The actuator means are operable to selectively move the solid propellant grains together or apart relative to one another, such that the burning ends of the solid propellant grains decrease or increase relative to one another. This action controls the rate of combustion of the solid propellant grains by varying spacing distance between the burning ends of the solid propellant grains, and enables extinguishment and reignition of the OGRE. Further, a method is providing for controlling the burn rate of solid propellant grains undergoing combustion in an opposing grains rocket engine. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/151900 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/253 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08051697 | Nagel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Nagel (Falls Church, Virginia); R. Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Patrick M. Mills (Arlington, Virginia); Rekha Pai (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to chemical and bioanalytical sensors and sensor systems, particularly to systems incorporating a calibration device for sensors where the calibration device is comprised of an array of micromachined MEMS structures and materials for trapping and retaining calibrant or interferant materials until they are needed and released quantitatively using structure operatively associated with the array. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252537 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/1.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08051839 | Spadafora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holdings S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter J. Spadafora (Leudelange, Luxembourg); Daniel Jeremy Hopley (Chislehurst, United Kingdom); Adrian R. Tolliday (Chatham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of operating a fuel injector including a piezoelectric actuator having a stack of piezoelectric elements, and wherein in use the injector communicates with a fuel rail, the method comprises: applying a discharge current to the actuator for a discharge period so as to discharge the stack from a first differential voltage level across the stack to a second differential voltage level across the stack; maintaining the second differential voltage level for a period of time; and applying a charge current to the actuator for a charge period so as to charge the stack from the second differential voltage level to a third differential voltage level; wherein the third differential voltage level is selected in dependence on at least two engine parameters, the at least two engine parameters selected from: rail pressure; the electric pulse time; and the piezoelectric stack temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283338 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/498 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08051936 | Hebert 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) | James L. Hebert (Waldorf, Maryland); Wallace Louie (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A human-portable modular system is provided for remotely controlling an automotive vehicle by an operator physically unconnected thereto. For a typical vehicle, the system includes a radio control transmitter that sends command signals from the operator, a pedal control assembly, a steering control assembly, an electronics case disposable on the driver's seat, coupling mechanisms that respectively connect said assemblies to the electronics case, and a package for stowing and transporting the transmitter, the electronics case, and the assemblies. The pedal control assembly includes a linkage arm, an actuator pivotably connected to the linkage arm at its proximate end, and first and second arms pivotably connected to the linkage arm to controllably push the respective control pedals for acceleration and braking. The steering control assembly includes a motor that provides torque, and an attachment that couples the motor to the vehicle's steering wheel. The electronics case includes a receiver that receives the command signals from the transmitter, a controller that communicates the command signals to the motor and the actuator, and a portable power supply to provide electrical power to the controller and to the receiver. The package can include shoulder straps to facilitate backpack transport. The coupling mechanisms include detachable hinge connectors to pivotably attach the pedal control and steering control assemblies to the electronics case. The pedal control assembly can further include near the linkage arm's distal end a linkage arm feedback potentiometer that sends an angular position indicator signal to the controller. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214293 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052384 | Blewett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Blewett (Stillman Valley, Illinois); Adrian L. Stoicescu (Roscoe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A centrifugal pump with a volute and at least one stage with an associated impeller and removable diffuser assembly comprises: multiple diffuser segments, each diffuser segment comprising a central passage from an inner curvilinear surface to an outer curvilinear surface and a curvilinear leading engagement surface between a leading end of its curvilinear inner surface and its curvilinear outer surface; multiple curvilinear volute mounting surfaces within the volute, each curvilinear mounting surface receiving a corresponding diffuser segment to mount the diffuser segments in a generally annular pattern about the impeller to form the removable diffuser assembly, with the curvilinear inner surface of each diffuser segment proximate an outer periphery of the impeller and the curvilinear leading engagement surface of each diffuser segment engaging a trailing portion of the curvilinear outer surface of an adjacent one of the diffuser segments; and a volute connecting passage within the volute for coupling the central passages of each diffuser segment to a pump outlet. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/140426 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/208.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052385 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph J. Thompson (Wells, Maine); Susan M. Tholen (Kennebunk, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | An outer seal assembly of a turbine rotor stage is secured within a circumferential groove of the turbine casing in such a manner as to both fix the outer seal assembly in its installed position and also provide for sealing around its outer periphery so as to thereby prevent the leakage of cooling air therearound. A plurality of arcuate elements having an angle-shaped cross sectional profile are provided to interface between radially extending arms of the outer seal assembly and the inner surface of the casing, with a locking mechanism then being applied to secure the two structures in their installed positions. Each of the arcuate elements includes a radially extending panel, a plurality of forwardly extending hooks that are disposed within a groove in the casing, and a second forwardly extending flange that engages the rear surface of the outer seal assembly arm. As the outer seal assembly arm is urged rearwardly during operation, the arcuate element is caused to rotate about a fulcrum in the circumferential groove such that a radially outer edge of the radially extending panel is urged against a casing inner surface so as to thereby enhance the sealing relationship therebetween. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723883 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/209.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052407 | Andrady et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony L. Andrady (Apex, North Carolina); David S. Ensor (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and method for producing fibrous materials in which the apparatus includes an electrospinning element configured to electrospin a substance from which the fibers are to be composed by an electric field extraction of the substance from a tip of the electrospinning element, a collector disposed from the electrospinning element and configured to collect the fibers, a chamber enclosing the collector and the electrospinning element, and a control mechanism configured to control a gaseous environment in which the fibers are to be electrospun. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/935967 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/72.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052484 | Salisbury et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Alan Salisbury (East Hampton, Connecticut); Royce E. Tatton (Ellington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrical connector includes an electrically insulating body having a base mating surface and a stepped mating surface offset from the base mating surface. The electrical connector either has first and second electrically conducting pins extending from the base and stepped mating surfaces, respectively, or has first and second electrically conducting sockets extending from an interior portion of the electrically insulating body to the base and stepped mating surfaces, respectively. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/905682 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/680 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052778 | McFarland et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew R. McFarland (Houston, Texas); Eric G. Burroughs (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A wetted wall cyclone system for sampling an aerosol. In an embodiment, the system comprises a cyclone body including an inlet end, an outlet end, and an inner flow passage extending therebetween. In addition, the system comprises a cyclone inlet tangentially coupled to the cyclone body proximal the inlet end. The cyclone inlet includes an inlet flow channel in fluid communication with the inner flow passage of the cyclone body. Further, the system comprises a skimmer coaxially coupled to the outlet end of the cyclone body. The skimmer comprises a separation end extending into the outlet end of the cyclone body, a free end distal the outlet end of the cyclone body, and an inner exhaust channel in fluid communication with the inner flow passage of the cyclone body. Still further, the system comprises means for reducing the temperature of at least a portion of the cyclone body. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/348709 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052794 | Sumakeris 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) | Joseph John Sumakeris (Apex, North Carolina); Michael James Paisley (Garner, North Carolina); Michael John O'Loughlin (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for locally controlling the stoichiometry of an epitaxially deposited layer on a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method includes directing a first reactant gas and a doping gas across a top surface of a semiconductor substrate and directing a drive gas and a second reactant gas against the substrate separately from the first reactant gas in a manner that rotates the substrate while introducing the second reactant gas at an edge of the substrate to control each reactant separately, thereby compensating and controlling depletion effects and improving doping uniformity in resulting epitaxial layers on the substrate. |
| FILED | Monday, September 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/224374 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/83 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052884 | Sullivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arradiance, Inc. (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal T. Sullivan (Lunenburg, Massachusetts); David Beaulieu (Groton, Massachusetts); Anton Tremsin (Lafayette, California); Philippe De Rouffignac (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Michael D. Potter (Churchville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a microchannel plate includes defining a plurality of pores extending from a top surface of a substrate to a bottom surface of the substrate where the plurality of pores has a resistive material on an outer surface that forms a first emissive layer. A second emissive layer is formed over the first emissive layer. The second emissive layer is chosen to achieve at least one of an increase in secondary electron emission efficiency and a decrease in gain degradation as a function of time. A top electrode is formed on the top surface of the substrate and a bottom electrode is formed on the bottom surface of the substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038139 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Etching a substrate: Processes 216/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052908 | Peckerar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin C. Peckerar (Silver Spring, Maryland); Mario Dagenais (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Birendra Dutt (Westchester, California); John D. Barry (College Park, Maryland); Michael D. Messina, Jr. (Southport, Connecticut); Yves Ngu (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanophotolithography mask includes a layer of an electrically conductive optically opaque material deposited on a mask substrate in which regular arrays of sub-wavelength apertures are formed. The plasmonic excitation in the layer perforated with the sub-wavelength apertures arrays under the light incident on the mask produces high resolution far-field radiation patterns of sufficient intensity to expose a photoresist on a wafer when propagated to the same. The fill-factor of the mask, i.e., the ratio of the total apertures area to the total mask area, may lead to a significant increase in mask manufacturing throughput by FIB or electron beam “writing”. The mask demonstrates the defect resiliency and ability to imprint coherent clear features of nano dimensions and shapes on the wafers for integrated circuits design. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114373 |
| ART UNIT | 1742 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053027 | Cole |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented bt the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Melanie Will Cole (Churchville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A compositionally stratified multi-layer Ba1-xSrxTiO3 (BST) heterostructure material is described which includes a lower layer of crystallized Ba1-xSrxTiO3 perovskite oxide where x is in the range of 0.36-0.44, inclusive, deposited on a substrate; an intermediate layer of crystallized Ba1-xSrxTiO3 perovskite oxide where x is in the range of 0.23-0.27, inclusive, in contact with the lower layer; and an upper layer of crystallized Ba1-xSrxTiO3 perovskite oxide where x in the range of 0.08-0.13, inclusive, in contact with the intermediate layer. A phase shifter and/or preselector tunable device including a compositionally stratified multi-layer BST heterostructure material is described according to the present invention. Temperature sensitivity of an inventive phase shifter is reduced by at least 70% in the temperature interval of 20 to 90° C., inclusive, and by at least 14% in the temperature interval of −10 to 20° C., inclusive, compared to a compositionally homogeneous 60/40 BST material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132684 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053057 | Quartarone |
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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) | James R. Quartarone (Loveland, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for improving and increasing sustainable shear force capabilities at an interfacing surface between a rigid material and a flexible material is disclosed. The interface includes at least two superimposed components having different surface roughnesses. A coarse surface roughness component has a surface roughness about 3 orders of magnitude greater than that of a fine surface roughness component. The interface is useful for all types of devices with a rigid-to-flexible interface that needs to resist shear, tension, torsion, compression, or any disturbing steady-state or variable force or forces. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462659 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053094 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Qinglan Huang (Skokie, Illinois); Ji Cui (Acton, Massachusetts); Jonathan Veinot (Palatine, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497109 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053248 | Bakaltcheva et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Irina Bakaltcheva (Springfield, Virginia); Donna Wilder (Washington, District of Columbia); Peter Hmel (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Anne-Marie O'Sullivan (Silver Spring, Maryland); Lloyd Ketchum (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | A suitable container for plasma lyophilization has been designed for lyophilization (lyo-bag), storage, reconstitution and administering of blood products. A rigid support frame for use with a lyo-bag with sidewalls was designed as an external removable supportive system, which provides the necessary stability for the flexible container during lyophilization. A removable bottom wall support sheet was designed for use with any flexible container for lyophilization. |
| FILED | Friday, August 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/573669 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053249 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Jay W. Warrick (Madison, Wisconsin); Michael W. Toepke (Madison, Wisconsin); Ivar Meyvantsson (Madison, Wisconsin); Glenn M. Walker (Cary, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for pumping fluid through a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel has an input port and an output port. The channel is filled with fluid and a pressure gradient is generated between the fluid at the input port and the fluid at the output port. As a result, fluid flows through the channel towards the output port. |
| FILED | Monday, March 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/684949 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/180 |
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| US 08053265 | Foster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Foster (Issaquah, Washington); Ijaz H. Jafri (Woodinville, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Alternative methods of constructing a vertically offset structure are disclosed. An embodiment includes forming a flexible layer having first and second end portions, an intermediate portion coupling the first and second portions, and upper and lower surfaces. The distance between the upper and lower surfaces at the intermediate portion is less than the distance between the upper and lower surfaces at the first and second end portions. The first end portion is bonded to a base member. The second end portion of the flexible layer is deflected until the second end portion contacts the base member. The second end portion is bonded to the base member. |
| FILED | Friday, February 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366799 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053421 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yunping Luo (San Diego, California); Rong Xiang (San Diego, California); Ralph A. Reisfeld (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A DNA vaccine suitable for eliciting an immune response against cancer cells comprises a polynucleotide construct operably encoding an a Fra-1 protein, such as a polyubiquitinated human Fra-1 protein, and IL-18, such as human IL-18, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In a preferred embodiment, the polynucleotide construct is operably incorporated in an attenuated bacterial vector, such as an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium, particularly a doubly attenuated aroA− dam− S. typhimurium. Transformed host cells, methods of inhibiting tumor growth, of vaccinating a patient against cancer, and of delivering genetic material to a mammalian cell in vivo are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462496 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053487 | Ragain, Jr. 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) | James C. Ragain, Jr. (LaFollette, Tennessee); Amer Tiba (Lake Bluff, Illinois); David G. Charlton (Gumee, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention describes an adhesive used for bonding dental and medical biomaterials to hard tissues via a molecular bridge formed from calcium-reactive amines and acrylic or methacrylic ester monomers to hard tissues such as enamel, dentin, and bone. This formulation consists of an acid-stable polymerizable compound with multi-functional acrylate cross-linkers. This formula provides good self-adherence without prior preparation of the hard tissue substrates. The formulation can contain chemical- and/or light-activated free-radical initiators. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/362622 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 522/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053535 | Boudjouk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Boudjouk (Fargo, North Dakota); Thomas Johnson (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Anti-fouling materials may include one or more of a number of suitable copolymers (e.g., block copolymers, graft copolymers, etc.) which provide biocidal and/or fouling release characteristics. The copolymers may include a polysiloxane backbone with one or more polymers grafted onto the polysiloxane backbone. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/827364 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053582 | Irvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Irvin (Ridgecrest, California); Mark H. Mason (Inyokern, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A cross-linked polyisocyanate polymer and a process for preparation of a polymer having the general structure (I) including reacting an effective amount of tetrazole polyol with isocyanate resin, combining at a temperature in the range of about 50° C. to about 100° C. for a time period in the range of about 1 to about 24 hours and cooling to room temperature producing a cross-linked polyisocyanate polymer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/238904 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053683 | Slocum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Slocum (New Milford, Pennsylvania); John G. Davis (Vestal, New York); Jamey Kelsall (Rome, Pennsylvania); John A. Stubecki (Nichols, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An equipment container retention and bonding system including a dagger pin block assembly that includes a mounting dagger pin and a bonding member formed of a compressive electrically conductive material that is retained on a surface of the dagger pin block assembly wherein the bonding member is compressed between the contact surface on the equipment container and the dagger pin block assembly when the fastening mechanism secures the equipment container in the mounting tray to form an EMI/EMC bonding connection between the mounting tray and the equipment container having an electrical resistance of less than 2.5 milli-ohms under vibration and other loading conditions encountered during use of the system. |
| FILED | Monday, March 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/413637 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Conductors and insulators 174/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053715 | Meyers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Everett Meyers (Columbia, Maryland); Keith Scott Deacon (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A preferred embodiment comprises a method and system for generating an image of a subject or area comprising a processor; at least one incoherent light source which illuminates the subject or area; a first receiver for receiving light reflected from the subject or area operatively connected to the processor; a second receiver for receiving light from at least one incoherent light source operatively connected to the processor; the first receiver collecting the amount of light reflected from the subject and transmit a value at specific intervals of time; the second receiver comprising a second detector which detects and transmits spatial information regarding the incoherent light source independent of any data concerning the subject at specific intervals of time; wherein the processor correlates the value transmitted by the first receiver with the spatial information derived from the second receiver at correlating intervals of time to create an image of the subject or area. Alternatively, sound or quantum particles may replace the incoherent light source. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837668 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/208.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053818 | Sambandan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjiv Sambandan (Sunnyvale, California); Ana Claudia Arias (Los Gatos, California); Gregory Lewis Whiting (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film field effect transistor is disclosed which provides improved time-based channel stability. The field effect transistor includes first and second disordered semiconductor layers separated by an insulator. In an embodiment a carrier injection terminal is provided in a thin semiconductor layer closest to the gate terminal. An electric field is established in the thin semiconductor layer. At sufficient field strength, the electric field extends into the second semiconductor layer, which is in contact with the source and drain terminals. At sufficient field strength a channel is established in the second semiconductor layer, permitting current to flow between source and drain terminals. Above a certain gate voltage, there is sufficient free charge is induced in the first semiconductor layer so that the field does not extend into the second semiconductor, effectively shutting off current between source and drain. Single-device transition detection (as well as other applications) may be obtained. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/642132 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054095 | Hougham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gareth Geoffrey Hougham (Ossining, New York); Ali Afzali (Ossining, New York); Steven Allen Cordes (Yorktown Heights, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown, New York); Matthew J. Farinelli (Riverdale, New York); Sherif A. Goma (White Plains, New York); Alphonso P. Lanzetta (Marlboro, New York); Daniel Peter Morris (Purchase, New York); Joanna Rosner (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Nisha Yohannan (Yonkers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A probe structure for an electronic device is provided. In one aspect, the probe structure includes an electrically insulating carrier having one or more contact structures traversing a plane thereof. Each contact structure includes an elastomeric material having an electrically conductive layer running along at least one surface thereof continuously through the plane of the carrier. The probe structure includes one or more other contact structures adapted for connection to a test apparatus. |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/718283 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/755.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054110 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bo Wang (West Columbia, South Carolina); Antonello Monti (Irmo, South Carolina); Jason Bakos (Chapin, South Carolina); Marco Riva (Canonica d'Adda, Italy) |
| ABSTRACT | A driver circuit and integrated circuit implementation of a driver circuit for driving a GaN HFET device is disclosed. The driver circuit includes a resonant drive circuit having an LC circuit with an inductance and a capacitance. The capacitance of the LC circuit includes the gate-source capacitance of the GaN HFET device. The driver circuit further includes a level shifter circuit configured to receive a first signal and to amplify the first signal to a second signal suitable for driving a GaN HFET device. The resonant drive circuit is controlled based at least in part on the second signal such that the resonant drive circuit provides a first voltage to the GaN HFET device to control the GaN HFET device to operate in a conducting state and to provide a second voltage to the GaN HFET device to control the GaN HFET device to operate in a non-conducting state. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/690495 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/109 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054145 | Mohammadi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saeed Mohammadi (Atlanta, Georgia); Ali Ashgar Eftekhar (Atlanta, Georgia); Ali Adibi (Suwanee, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Phononic crystal wave structures and methods of making same are discussed in this application. According to some embodiments, an acoustic structure can generally comprise a phononic crystal slab configured as a micro/nano-acoustic wave medium. The phononic crystal slab can define an exterior surface that bounds an interior volume, and the phononic crystal slab can be sized and shaped to contain acoustic waves within the interior volume of the phononic crystal slab. The phononic crystal slab can comprise at least one defect portion. The defect portion can affect periodicity characteristics of the phononic crystal slab. The defect portion can be shaped and arranged to enable confinement and manipulation of acoustic waves through the defect portion(s) of phononic crystal slab. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433888 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054146 | Soukoulis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Costas M. Soukoulis (Ames, Iowa); Jiangfeng Zhou (Ames, Iowa); Thomas Koschny (Ames, Iowa); Lei Zhang (Ames, Iowa); Gary Tuttle (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides simplified negative index materials (NIMs) using wire-pair structures, 4-gap single ring split-ring resonator (SRR), fishnet structures and overleaf capacitor SRR. In the wire-pair arrangement, a pair of short parallel wires and continuous wires are used. In the 4-gap single-ring SRR, the SRRs are centered on the faces of a cubic unit cell combined with a continuous wire type resonator. Combining both elements creates a frequency band where the metamaterial is transparent with simultaneously negative ∈ and μ. In the fishnet structure, a metallic mesh on both sides of the dielectric spacer is used. The overleaf capacitor SRR changes the gap capacities to small plate capacitors by making the sections of the SRR ring overlap at the gaps separated by a thin dielectric film. This technique is applicable to conventional SRR gaps but it best deploys for the 4-gap single-ring structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559562 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054212 | Holly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sandor Holly (Woodland Hills, California); Nicholas Koumvakalis (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises a transmitter system, a receiver system, and a processor unit. The transmitter system transmits first and second collimated beams having a first and second frequency. The receiver system monitors for a fundamental difference frequency signal having a difference frequency equal to a difference between the first and second frequency and a number of harmonics of the fundamental difference frequency signal. These signals are generated by an object having non-linear electrical characteristics in response to the collimated beams. The processor unit is connected to the transmitter system and the receiver system. The processor unit controls the transmitter and receiver systems to change at least one of the first and second frequencies through a range of frequencies and detect a range of fundamental difference frequency signals and the number of harmonics of the fundamental difference frequency signal in response to transmitting the collimated beams using the range of frequencies. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/412919 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054413 | West et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. West (Hartville, Ohio); Anatoliy Glushchenko (Colorado Springs, Colorado); Guoqiang Zhang (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A new light modulating material using interconnected unidirectionally oriented microdomains of a liquid crystal, dispersed in a stressed polymer structure, is provided. The light modulating material is prepared by dissolving the liquid crystal in an uncured monomer and then curing the monomer so that the polymer forms a well-developed interpenetrating structure of polymer chains or sheets that is uniformly dispersed through the film. When the film is subjected to stress deformation the liquid crystal undergoes a change in its unidirectional orientation. The concentration of the polymer is high enough to hold the shear stress, but is as low as possible to provide the highest switch of the phase retardation when an electric field is applied. The new materials are optically transparent and provide phase modulation of the incident light opposed to the low driving voltage, linear electro-optical response, and absence of hysteresis. It has been shown that these new materials may be successfully used in display applications, optical modulator, and beam steering devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/559872 |
| ART UNIT | 2871 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems 349/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054450 | Peckerar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin C. Peckerar (Silver Spring, Maryland); Mario Dagenais (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Birendra Dutt (Westchester, California); John D. Barry (College Park, Maryland); Michael D. Messina, Jr. (Southport, Connecticut); Yves Ngu (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A stepper system for ultra-high resolution nano-lithography employs a photolithographic mask which includes a layer of an electrically conductive optically opaque material in which periodic arrays of sub-wavelength apertures are formed. The plasmonic excitation in the photolithographic mask exposed to the light of the wavelength in the range of 197 nm-248 nm, produces high resolution far-field radiation patterns of sufficient intensity to expose a photoresist on a wafer. The stepper system demonstrates the resiliency to the mask defects and ability to imprint coherent clear features of nano dimensions (45 nm-500 nm) and various shapes on the wafers for integrated circuits design. The stepper system may be adjusted to image the plane of the highest plasmonic field exiting the mask. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114409 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Photocopying 355/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054712 | Kasper 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) | Rolf G. Kasper (Old Lyme, Connecticut); Peter H. Hulton (Marion, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An autonomous hydrophone position locating and target tracking system employing a string or array of acoustic hydrophone equipped apparatuses that are easily and rapidly deployed over the ocean bottom within a preselected volume of water. For each bottom residing hydrophone, a dedicated cable provides surface location based on satellite generated GPS positioning data. Special real time cable deflection algorithms resident in the base unit electronic processor are continuously updated using the velocity gradient inputs from several in-line velocimeters positioned at different depths along the cable. The shape of the tether cable and the resulting position of the bottom unit mounted hydrophone is then back calculated in real time in three dimensions from the known global position of the surface buoy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587332 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055047 | Sundaram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Padmavathi Sundaram (Palo Alto, California); Sandy A. Napel (Menlo Park, California); Christopher F. Beaulieu (Los Altos, California); Afra J. Zomorodlan (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved surface feature recognition in CT images is provided by extracting a triangulated mesh representation of the surface of interest. Shape operators are computed at each vertex of the mesh from finite differences of vertex normals. The shape operators at each vertex are smoothed according to an iterative weighted averaging procedure. Principal curvatures at each vertex are computed from the smoothed shape operators. Vertices are marked as maxima and/or minima according to the signs of the principal curvatures. Vertices marked as having the same feature type are clustered together by adjacency on the mesh to provide candidate patches. Feature scores are computed for each candidate patch and the scores are provided as output to a user or for further processing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/893366 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055108 | Islam |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cheetah Omni, L.L.C. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mohammed N. Islam (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A broadband light source includes one or more laser diodes that are capable of generating a pump signal having a wavelength shorter than 2.5 microns, a pulse width of at least 100 picoseconds and a pump optical spectral width. The light source also includes one or more optical amplifiers that are coupled to the pump signal and are capable of amplifying the pump signal to a peak power of at least 500 W. The light source further includes a first fiber that is coupled to the one or more optical amplifiers. The first fiber including an anomalous group-velocity dispersion regime and a modulational instability mechanism that operates to modulate the pump signal. In one particular embodiment, the pump signal wavelength resides in the anomalous group-velocity dispersion regime of the first fiber and where different intensities in the pump signal can cause relative motion between different parts of the modulated pump signal produced through modulational instability in the first fiber. The light source also including a nonlinear element that is coupled to the first fiber that is capable of broadening the pump optical spectral width to at least 100 nm through a nonlinear effect in the nonlinear element. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366323 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055141 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young-Kai Chen (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Andreas Bertold Leven (Gillette, New Jersey); Mahmoud Rasras (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey); Kun-Yii Tu (Califon, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for reducing electrical signal intermodulation by processing a balanced electrical signal in the optical domain in a manner adapted to reduce noise and second order intermodulation, and converting the processed optical signal back to an electrical domain signal with either a single or balanced (differential) outputs. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957725 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/212 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08055204 — Methods for detecting and classifying signals transmitted over a radio frequency spectrum
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene Livsics (Vienna, Virginia); Mark A. McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Dmitry Dain (Herndon, Virginia); Karl Steadman (Arlington, Virginia); Olga Ritterbush (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for classifying a signal is disclosed. The method can be used by a station or stations within a network to classify the signal as non-cooperative (NC) or a target signal. The method performs classification over channels within a frequency spectrum. The percentage of power above a first threshold is computed for a channel. Based on the percentage, a signal is classified as a narrowband signal. If the percentage indicates the absence of a narrowband signal, then a lower second threshold is applied to confirm the absence according to the percentage of power above the second threshold. The signal is classified as a narrowband signal or pre-classified as a wideband signal based on the percentage. Pre-classified wideband signals are classified as a wideband NC signal or target signal using spectrum masks. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839503 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/67.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055206 | Bass |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of Americas as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jamie Bass (Elnora, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of detecting, processing, and selectively responding to radio frequency transmissions detected by at least one electronic signal observation device deployed above a geographic area. |
| FILED | Monday, August 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/551150 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/67.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055809 | Fertig et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias Fertig (Altdorf, Germany); Tilman Gloekler (Gaertringen, Germany); Ralph C. Koester (Tuebingen, Germany); Alexander Erik Mericas (Austin, Texas); Thomas Pflueger (Leinfelden, Germany); Daniel Becker (Meckenheim, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and associated method for distributing signals with efficiency over a microprocessor. A performance monitoring unit (PMU) sends configuration signals to a unit to monitor an event occurring on the unit. The unit is attached to a configuration bus and an event bus that are daisy-chained from PMU to other units in the microprocessor. The configuration bus transmits configuration signals from the PMU to the unit to set the unit to report the event. The unit sends event signals to the PMU through the event bus. The unit is configured upon receiving configuration signals comprising a base address of a bus ramp of the unit. A number of units and a number of events for monitoring is flexibly selected by adjusting a length of bit fields within configuration signals. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/343594 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056065 | Eichenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre E. Eichenberger (Chappaqua, New York); John K. P. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Kathryn M. O'Brien (South Salem, New York); Nicolas T. Vasilache (Ridgewood, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms for stable transitions in the presence of conditionals for an advanced dual-representation polyhedral loop transformation framework are provided. The mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments address the weaknesses of the known polyhedral loop transformation based approaches by providing mechanisms for performing code generation transformations on individual statement instances in an intermediate representation generated by the polyhedral loop transformation optimization of the source code. These code generation transformations have the important property that they do not change program order of the statements in the intermediate representation. This property allows the result of the code generation transformations to be provided back to the polyhedral loop transformation mechanisms in a program statement view, via a new re-entrance path of the illustrative embodiments, for additional optimization. In addition, mechanisms are provided for ensuring code stabilization in the presence of conditions such that code bloat is not encountered during re-entrance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861512 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08056087 — Effective use of a hardware barrier synchronization register for protocol synchronization
| US 08056087 | Chaudhary et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Piyush Chaudhary (Highland, New York); Rama K. Govindaraju (Hopewell Junction, New York); Chulho Kim (Poughkeepsie, New York); Rajeev Sivaram (West Orange, New Jersey); Hanhong Xue (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A barrier synchronization register, accessible to the nodes in a distributed data processing system, has portions thereof allotted to threads which are present in multiple groups. The barrier synchronization register portion allotted to a given thread has stored therein, over time, group identifier numbers. In this way the state space of a barrier synchronization register is shared over more than one group of process threads. |
| FILED | Monday, September 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/534891 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056090 | Jia |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Jia (West New York, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A communication method for collective operations is provided which eliminates the need for a three layered structure. Instead, the method of the present invention employs a control structure which is specifically designed to keep track of the progress of the collective communication operations and the facilities for the handling of asynchronous message passing. The method of the present invention thus eliminates the need for an intermediary, point-to-point communication layer that is required to follow message matching semantics for sending messages, receiving messages and for awaiting message arrivals. Application layer tasks and user defined programs running in the communication layer share access to the control structure as a mechanism for synchronizing and scheduling the progress of the collective communication operation. |
| FILED | Friday, June 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/771311 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Interprogram communication or interprocess communication 719/314 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories Inc (Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for characterizing elasticity of vaginal tissue are provided. A transvaginal probe is used to deform vaginal tissue during examination. The probe is equipped with pressure sensors and a motion tracking sensor. Stress and strain data is recorded during examination. Elasticity of vaginal tissue is then characterized by calculating a stress gradient defined as a ratio of stress over strain for each point of measurement. Vaginal tactile image may also be compiled to include a family of surfaces representing locations of measurement points at predefined constant levels of stress. Pelvic organ abnormality condition may be detected if the stress gradient is below either a predetermined threshold or a normal stress gradient obtained from clinical data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874583 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/591 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052792 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and methods facilitating the growth and analysis of crystallized materials such as proteins. In accordance with one embodiment, a crystal growth architecture is separated by a permeable membrane from an adjacent well having a much larger volume. The well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity and concentration similar to the solvent and crystallizing agent employed in crystal growth, with diffusion across the membrane stabilizing that process. Alternatively, the well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity calculated to affect the crystallization process. In accordance with the still other embodiment, the well may be configured to contain a material such as a cryo-protectant, which is useful in protecting the crystalline material once formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748838 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052961 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Foundation (Salt Lake, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce (Yihua) Yu (Ellicott City, Utah); Zhong-Xing Jiang (Dundalk, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds having the structure: wherein R1a and R1b are independently H, alkyl, F, or fluoroalkyl; wherein R2a, R2b, R2a′, and R2b′ are independently H, alkyl, F, fluoroalkyl, aryl, or alkenyl; wherein R3 is OH, alkoxyl, NH2, alkylamino, or dialkylamino; wherein R4a and R4b are independently H, alkyl, acyl, or alkyloxycarbonyl; wherein R11, R12, R13, R21, R22, and R23 are independently H, alkyl, F, or fluoroalkyl; and wherein C0, C1, C2 and C2′ are independently chiral or achiral. Also disclosed are processes for making a fluorinated β-amino acid comprising the steps of: providing a diol; treating the diol with a thionyl halide with oxidative workup; reacting the product with an azide salt to yield an azido group; oxidizing the product to yield a carboxyl group; and reducing the azido group to yield an amino group. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/439320 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052970 | Shayman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Shayman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Akira Abe (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Robert Kelly (Trenton, Michigan); Jessica Kollmeyer (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Ye Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for diagnosis and treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus and drug-induced systemic lupus erythematosus. More specifically, the specification describes methods using a lysosomal phospholipase A2 in methods for the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus and drug-induced systemic lupus erythematosus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/495209 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/94.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053181 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah A. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in a subject are disclosed. The methods include detecting the presence of CD8+T cells that specifically recognize an Mtb polypeptide. The methods include in vitro assays for detecting the presence of CD8+T cells in a biological sample, and in vivo assays that detect a delayed type hypersensitivity reaction. The methods can also include detecting Mtb polypeptides and polynucleotides. Reagents for the detection of an Mtb infection are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/282862 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
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| US 08053186 | Croce |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carlo M. Croce (Columbus, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for reducing the proliferation of ALL cancer cells through targeted interactions with ALL1 fusion proteins. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/664531 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08053190 | Gorin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael B. Gorin (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Johanna Jakobsdottir (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Yvette P. Conley (White Oak, Pennsylvania); Daniel E. Weeks (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Tammy S. Mah-Fraser (Edmonton, Canada); Robert E. Ferrell (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Allelic variations in the genes PLEKHA1 and LOC387715 are identified herein as risk factor for Age Related Maculopathy (ARM). A method is therefore provided for identifying a risk of development of ARM in an individual that comprises identification of allelic variations in PLEKHA1 and/or LOC387715. Related apparatus, such as an array, are identified as being useful in implementing those methods. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/701098 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053192 | Bignell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina Cambridge Ltd. (Essex, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Helen Bignell (Walden, United Kingdom); Louise Fraser (Walden, United Kingdom); Niall Anthony Gormley (Walden, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods for indexing samples during the sequencing of polynucleotide templates, resulting in the attachment of tags specific to the source of each nucleic acid sample such that after a sequencing run, both the source and sequence of each polynucleotide can be determined. Thus, the present invention pertains to analysis of complex genomes (e.g., human genomes), as well as multiplexing less complex genomes, such as those of bacteria, viruses, mitochondria, and the like. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012613 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053197 | Vandenbark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Richard Bartholomew (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods for inhibiting an autoimmune disease by administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a composition that increases FOXP3 expression, thereby inhibiting the autoimmune disease. Further disclosed herein are methods for detecting in a subject an autoimmune disease or a predisposition to an autoimmune disease, and methods for assessing the efficacy of a therapy for an autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/658834 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053199 | Brasier et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Allan R. Brasier (Galveston, Texas); William J. Calhoun (League City, Texas); Gary D. Boetticher (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method for classifying individuals into those who have airway hyperreactvitiy and those with asthma based on cytokine expression patterns. It is contemplated that such a method will enable rapid identification of individuals requiring intensive treatment for asthma, thereby reducing morbidity and improving quality of life for those affected. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/220263 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053207 | Lamango |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Agrlcultural and Mechanical University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nazarius Saah Lamango (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for cancer diagnosis and treatment; in particular, methods for diagnosis and treatment of triple negative breast cancer by measuring the activity of PMPMEase. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 25, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/012942 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053212 | Benner |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Albert Benner (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to nucleoside, nucleotide, and oligonucleotide analogs that incorporate non-standard nucleobase analogs, defined to be those that present a pattern of hydrogen bonds to a paired nucleobase analog in a complementary strand that is different from the pattern presented by adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. The invention is specifically concerned with compositions of matter that present the donor-donor-acceptor, donor-acceptor-donor, and acceptor-donor-donor non-standard hydrogen bonding patterns on pyrimidine analogs, where nucleoside analogs bearing these pyrimidine analogs do not epimerize as easily as those known in the art. The heterocycles on these nucleoside analogs are diaminopyridines and aminopyridones that have electron withdrawing groups attached to the position analogous to the 5-position of the ring in standard pyrimidines, including nitro, cyano, and carboxylic acid derivatives. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/372400 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/91.100 |
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| US 08053235 | Buckner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jane H. Buckner (Seattle, Washington); Mindi R. Walker (Coatesville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for generating mammalian T cell populations comprising antigen-specific CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells from freshly isolated CD4+CD25− T cells. The method comprises selecting CD4+CD25− T cells from a sample obtained from a mammalian subject; determining the MHC Class II type of the subject; inducing the generation of antigen-specific regulatory T cells by contacting the isolated CD4+CD25− T cells in a culture vessel with an induction agent for a time period sufficient to generate antigen-specific CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells; and selecting the CD4+CD25+ antigen-specific regulatory T cells by sorting the cells in the induction culture with a selection agent comprising at least one artificial multimeric MHC Class II/peptide complex that corresponds to the MHC Class II type of the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, October 28, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/261429 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053243 | Janssen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yvonne M. Janssen (Charlotte, Vermont); Albert van der Vliet (Essex Junction, Vermont); Karina Ckless (Essex Junction, Vermont); Niki Reynaert (Burlington, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention, in some aspects, relates to systems and methods for determining oxidized proteins, including nitrosylated proteins such as S-nitrosylated proteins. The systems and methods of the invention can be used in vitro (e.g., in cell or tissue culture) or in vivo. For instance, in some cases, the invention can be used to spatially determine the location and/or concentration of oxidized proteins within cells and/or tissues (e.g., through visual detection). In one set of embodiments, a nitrosylated or otherwise oxidized moiety on a protein may be reacted with a detection entity, which may be, for example, fluorescent, radioactive, electron-dense, able to bind to a signaling entity or a binding partner in order to produce a signal, etc. In some embodiments, other moieties on the protein may be altered or blocked before reaction of the protein with the detection entity. Such moieties on the protein may be, for instance, non-oxidized or non-nitrosylated moieties able to react with the detection entity. Also provided in certain aspects of the present invention are kits for determining oxidized proteins, which may include components such as detection entities, alkylating agents, blocking agents, reducing agents, signaling entities, binding partners, antibodies, instructions, and the like. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/104387 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/106 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053406 | Kachlany |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Charles Kachlany (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition comprising leukotoxin proteins isolated from a bacterium is provided. In this composition, greater than 85% of the leukotoxin proteins are chemically modified at a basic amino acid residue, and the proteins induce cell death in myeloid leukocytes, while remaining substantially non-toxic to lymphoid leukocytes, lymphocytes, and red blood cells. Also provided is a method of selectively inducing cell death in myeloid leukocytes. The method comprises contacting the myeloid leukocytes with a composition comprising leukotoxin proteins. These leukotoxin proteins may be isolated from the NJ4500 strain of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. A method of purifying leukotoxin protein from the NJ4500 strain of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is also provided, as well as an assay that allows for the rapid determination of the activity of a given drug against leukemic cells either taken from a patient or derived from a cell line. The assay is performed in the presence of whole blood or serum. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154843 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053412 | Ting et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kang Ting (Beverly Hills, California); Shunichi Kuroda (Osaka, Japan); Ben Wu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant NELL peptides and methods of preparing the same are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700630 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/16.700 |
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| US 08053414 | Pardoll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew M. Pardoll (Brookville, Maryland); Haruo Tsuchiya (Baltimore, Maryland); Kevin S. Gorski (Baltimore, Maryland); Su-Yi Tseng (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel costimulatory protein molecule, B7-DC, which is a member of the B7 family, is described as is DNA coding therefor and expression vectors comprising this DNA. B7-DC protein, fragments, fusion polypeptides/proteins and other functional derivatives, and transformed cells expressing B7-DC are useful in vaccine compositions and methods. Compositions and methods are disclosed for inducing potent T cell mediated responses that can be harnessed for anti-tumor and anti-viral immunity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932327 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053415 | Achilefu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Achilefu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that have motifs that target the compounds to cells that express integrins. In particular, the compounds have peptides with one or more RD motifs conjugated to an agent selected from an imaging agent and a targeting agent. The compounds may be used to detect, monitor and treat a variety of disorders mediated by integrins. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814215 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053416 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Yuping Tang (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel cerebroside compounds, designated as Turbostatin 1, Turbostatin 2, Turbostatin 3, and Turbostatin 4. These compounds were extracted and isolated from the marine mollusk Turbo stenogyrus, and their structures elucidated. The new compounds exhibit significant cancer cell growth inhibition activity against a variety of murine and human cancer cell lines, and as such appear will be useful in the treatment of various forms of neoplastic disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913169 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
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| US 08053421 | Luo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yunping Luo (San Diego, California); Rong Xiang (San Diego, California); Ralph A. Reisfeld (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A DNA vaccine suitable for eliciting an immune response against cancer cells comprises a polynucleotide construct operably encoding an a Fra-1 protein, such as a polyubiquitinated human Fra-1 protein, and IL-18, such as human IL-18, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In a preferred embodiment, the polynucleotide construct is operably incorporated in an attenuated bacterial vector, such as an attenuated Salmonella typhimurium, particularly a doubly attenuated aroA− dam− S. typhimurium. Transformed host cells, methods of inhibiting tumor growth, of vaccinating a patient against cancer, and of delivering genetic material to a mammalian cell in vivo are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462496 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 08053422 | Klinman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis M. Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Hidekazu Ikeuchi (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | It is disclosed herein that suppressive ODNs are of use for preventing or delaying the formation of a tumor, reducing the risk of developing a tumor, treating a tumor, preventing conversion of a benign to a malignant lesion, or preventing metastasis. In some embodiments, methods are disclosed herein for treating, preventing or reducing the risk of developing a tumor, such as esophageal, gastrointestinal, liver, lung, skin and colon tumors or a mesothelioma. Generally, the methods disclosed herein include selecting a subject for treatment and administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of one or more suppressive ODN. In some examples, additional agents can also be administered to the subject of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/630315 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
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| US 08053424 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Josef Miller (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Colleen Garbe-LePrell (Ypsilanti, Michigan); Daisuke Yamashita (Yokohama, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for treating hearing loss includes components that function through different biological mechanisms to provide an additive effect that is greater than the effect of the individual components alone. The composition includes a biologically effective amount of vitamin E for inhibiting propagation of lipid peroxidation that contributes to hearing loss. The composition also includes a biologically effective amount of a salicylate for reducing hydroxyl radicals that contribute to hearing loss. A method of treating hearing loss includes the step of internally administering the composition, as described above, to a mammal within three days of trauma to a middle or inner ear of the mammal. In other words, the composition is effective even when administered as late as three days after trauma to a middle or inner ear of a mammal. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/839245 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053443 | Cushman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Cushman (West Lafayette, Indiana); Andrew E. Morrell (Vienna, Virginia); Muthukaman Nagarajan (Hyderabad, India); Yves G. Pommier (Bethesda, Maryland); Keli K. Agama (Germantown, Maryland); Smitha Antony (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | N-Substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds, and pharmaceutical formulations of N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds are described. Also described are processes for preparing N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds. Also described are methods for treating cancer in mammals using the described N-substituted indenoisoquinoline compounds or pharmaceutical formulations thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, November 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/093398 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/284 |
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| US 08053477 | Weber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Weber (Towson, Maryland); Joseph Markowitz (Baltimore, Maryland); France Carrier (Silver Spring, Maryland); Alexander D. MacKerell (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds that bind S100 and inhibit the S100-p53 protein-protein interaction and activate the tumor suppressor activity of p53, and thus which have an antineoplastic effect are disclosed, as well as methods for identifying these compounds, compositions comprising the same, and methods of using the same to treat cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/397239 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/636 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053553 | Strongin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Socpra Sciences Sante Et Humaines (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada); Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California); Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Strongin (La Jolla, California); Michal Lebl (San Diego, California); Robert Day (Lonchamp, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for preventing or reducing harm resulting from pathogen infection. For example, disclosed are peptides that inhibit the processing of toxins normally cleaved by proprotein convertase enzymes. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/115083 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/300 |
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| US 08053558 | Pardoll et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Drew M. Pardoll (Brookville, Maryland); Haruo Tsuchiya (Baltimore, Maryland); Kevin S. Gorski (Baltimore, Maryland); Su-Yi Tseng (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel costimulatory protein molecule, B7-DC, which is a member of the B7 family, is described as is DNA coding therefor and expression vectors comprising this DNA. B7-DC protein, fragments, fusion polypeptides/proteins and other functional derivatives, and transformed cells expressing B7-DC are useful in vaccine compositions and methods. Compositions and methods are disclosed for inducing potent T cell mediated responses that can be harnessed for anti-tumor and anti-viral immunity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/931653 |
| 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 |
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| US 08053569 | Pardridge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Armagen Technologies, Inc. (Santa Monica, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Pardridge (Pacific Palisades, California); Ruben J. Boado (Agoura Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions, methods, and kits for increasing transport of agents across the blood brain barrier while allowing their activity once across the barrier to remain substantially intact. The agents are transported across the blood brain barrier via one or more endogenous receptor-mediated transport systems. In some embodiments the agents are therapeutic, diagnostic, or research agents. |
| FILED | Friday, October 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245710 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.530 |
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| US 08053585 | Hess et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George P. Hess (Ithaca, New York); Barry K. Carpenter (Slaterville Springs, New York); Vishakha R. Shembekar (Ithaca, New York); Yongli Chen (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a photolabile compound including a coumarin family caging group covalently bound to an organic moiety containing a carboxyl group, an amino group, a sulfhydryl group, and/or a hydroxyl group. The photolabile compound, upon absorbing visible light, releases the organic moiety. Also disclosed is a method of making a photolabile compound that releases a biologically active compound upon absorbing visible light by providing an organic moiety and binding a coumarin family caging group to the organic moiety under conditions effective to make the photolabile compound. The present invention also relates to a method of obtaining a biologically active compound in a sample. The method involves adding to a sample a photolabile compound including a coumarin family caging group covalently bound to an organic moiety. The sample is then illuminated with visible light under conditions effective to obtain a biologically active compound including the organic moiety. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402715 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/283 |
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| US 08053627 | Popko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Popko (Chicago, Illinois); Wensheng Lin (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is in the field of neurology. Specifically, the invention relates to the discovery and characterization of molecular components that play a role in neuronal demyelination or remyelination. In addition, the invention relates to the generation of an animal model that exhibits hypomyelination. The compositions and methods embodied in the present invention are particularly useful for drug screening and/or treatment of demyelination disorders. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431782 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054075 | Stuber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias Stuber (Ellicott City, Maryland); Wesley D. Gilson (Pasadena, Maryland); Dara L. Kraitchman (Oxford, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Featured are methods for magnetic resonance imaging of a volume, such a volume having susceptibility-generating objects or interfaces having susceptibility mismatches therein. Such a method includes selectively visualizing one of susceptibility-generating objects or interfaces having susceptibility mismatches as hyperintense signals, where such visualizing includes controlling variable imaging parameters so as to control a geometric extent of a signal enhancing effect, m more particular aspects of the present invention, such selectively visualizing includes attenuating or essentially suppressing signals from fat and/or water, namely on-resonant water protons, so as to thereby enhance a signal(s) associated with magnetic susceptibility gradient(s). Also featured are MRI systems, apparatuses and/or applications programs for execution on a computer system controlling the MRI data acquisition process embodying such methods. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/883534 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/307 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054463 | Morris et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Morris (Ann Arbor, Michigan); William F. Finney (Chicago, Illinois); Matthew Schulmerich (Jackson, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method for measuring a composition of a sample, an illumination surface area of the sample is illuminated using a light source, and light from a plurality of emitting surface areas of the sample is received, each emitting surface area at a different location, the received light scattered by the sample. A cumulative area of the illumination surface area is greater than a cumulative area of two emitting surface areas of the plurality of emitting surface areas. For each emitting surface area, spectral content information associated with received light corresponding to that emitting surface area is determined, and composition information corresponding to a sub-surface region of the sample is determined based on the determined spectral content information. Different shapes of illumination surface areas as well as the plurality of emitting surface areas may advantageously be utilized for various specimen or sample geometries or illumination sources. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/066915 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055041 | Mazaika et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul K. Mazaika (Palo Alto, California); Gary H. Glover (Stanford, California); Allan L. Reiss (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer-implemented method to correct motion and interpolation effects for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis is provided. The method estimates the motion on every voxel of the data and removes those effects to leave a residual signal that can be analyzed to high accuracy. The estimation of the motion includes solving a normal matrix equation based on the local translational motion of each voxel of the head, and a regularization parameter that depends on the local spatial structure of the head. Methods to regularize a matrix from the normal equation using the regularization parameter are also provided. A rolling filter implementation for real-time processing and motion correction is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288854 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055047 | Sundaram et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Padmavathi Sundaram (Palo Alto, California); Sandy A. Napel (Menlo Park, California); Christopher F. Beaulieu (Los Altos, California); Afra J. Zomorodlan (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved surface feature recognition in CT images is provided by extracting a triangulated mesh representation of the surface of interest. Shape operators are computed at each vertex of the mesh from finite differences of vertex normals. The shape operators at each vertex are smoothed according to an iterative weighted averaging procedure. Principal curvatures at each vertex are computed from the smoothed shape operators. Vertices are marked as maxima and/or minima according to the signs of the principal curvatures. Vertices marked as having the same feature type are clustered together by adjacency on the mesh to provide candidate patches. Feature scores are computed for each candidate patch and the scores are provided as output to a user or for further processing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/893366 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
| US 08052034 | Fleming et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Fleming (Boulder, Colorado); David H. Lammlein (Houston, Texas); George E. Cook (Brentwood, Tennessee); Don Mitchell Wilkes (Nashville, Tennessee); Alvin M. Strauss (Nashville, Tennessee); David R. Delapp (Ashland City, Tennessee); Daniel A. Hartman (Fairhope, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Friction stir methods are disclosed for processing at least one workpiece using a rotary tool with rotating member for contacting and processing the workpiece. The methods include oscillating the rotary tool laterally with respect to a selected propagation path for the rotating member with respect to the workpiece to define an oscillation path for the rotating member. The methods further include obtaining force signals or parameters related to the force experienced by the rotary tool at least while the rotating member is disposed at the extremes of the oscillation. The force signals or parameters associated with the extremes can then be analyzed to determine a lateral position of the selected path with respect to a target path and a lateral offset value can be determined based on the lateral position. The lateral distance between the selected path and the target path can be decreased based on the lateral offset value. |
| FILED | Friday, November 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/940237 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/112.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052783 | Baker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick S. Baker (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A rotary adsorber for continuous bulk separations is disclosed. The rotary adsorber includes an adsorption zone in fluid communication with an influent adsorption fluid stream, and a desorption zone in fluid communication with a desorption fluid stream. The fluid streams may be gas streams or liquid streams. The rotary adsorber includes one or more adsorption blocks including adsorbent structure(s). The adsorbent structure adsorbs the target species that is to be separated from the influent fluid stream. The apparatus includes a rotary wheel for moving each adsorption block through the adsorption zone and the desorption zone. A desorption circuit passes an electrical current through the adsorbent structure in the desorption zone to desorb the species from the adsorbent structure. The adsorbent structure may include porous activated carbon fibers aligned with their longitudinal axis essentially parallel to the flow direction of the desorption fluid stream. The adsorbent structure may be an inherently electrically-conductive honeycomb structure. |
| FILED | Friday, August 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/510450 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/125 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052857 | Townsend |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Barrett Technology, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Townsend (Weston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic device has a base and at least one finger having at least two links that are connected in series on rotary joints with at least two degrees of freedom. A brushless motor and an associated controller are located at each joint to produce a rotational movement of a link. Wires for electrical power and communication serially connect the controllers in a distributed control network. A network operating controller coordinates the operation of the network, including power distribution. At least one, but more typically two to five, wires interconnect all the controllers through one or more joints. Motor sensors and external world sensors monitor operating parameters of the robotic hand. The electrical signal output of the sensors can be input anywhere on the distributed control network. V-grooves on the robotic hand locate objects precisely and assist in gripping. The hand is sealed, immersible and has electrical connections through the rotary joints for anodizing in a single dunk without masking. In various forms, this intelligent, self-contained, dexterous hand, or combinations of such hands, can perform a wide variety of object gripping and manipulating tasks, as well as locomotion and combinations of locomotion and gripping. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/515107 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052875 | Oder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EXPORTech Company, Inc. (Export, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robin R. Oder (Export, Pennsylvania); Russell E. Jamison (Burrell, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for continuous separation of magnetic particles from non-magnetic fluids including particular rods, magnetic fields and flow arrangements. |
| FILED | Monday, January 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/655634 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052892 | Cella et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York); Elliott West Shanklin (Altamont, New York); Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr. (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Polyfluorene polymers and copolymers having substantial amounts (10-100%) of fluorenes coupled at the 2 and 5 positions of fluorene are useful as active layers in OLED devices where triplet energies >2.10 eV are required. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250765 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/301.350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052951 | Menchhofer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Menchhofer (Clinton, Tennessee); Frederick C. Montgomery (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Frederick S. Baker (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are structures formed as bulk support media having carbon nanotubes formed therewith. The bulk support media may comprise fibers or particles and the fibers or particles may be formed from such materials as quartz, carbon, or activated carbon. Metal catalyst species are formed adjacent the surfaces of the bulk support material, and carbon nanotubes are grown adjacent the surfaces of the metal catalyst species. Methods employ metal salt solutions that may comprise iron salts such as iron chloride, aluminum salts such as aluminum chloride, or nickel salts such as nickel chloride. Carbon nanotubes may be separated from the carbon-based bulk support media and the metal catalyst species by using concentrated acids to oxidize the carbon-based bulk support media and the metal catalyst species. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/417887 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053128 | Mergler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher M. Mergler (West Henrietta, New York); Sean M. Kelly (Pittsford, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An emergency shutdown apparatus for a solid-oxide fuel cell system, including a fuel cell stack, comprises a reservoir containing a reducing fluid, a valve enabling or preventing flow of the reducing fluid from the reservoir to the fuel cell stack, a timing circuit operating and controlling the valve, and a battery powering the timing circuit. The apparatus for an emergency system shutdown is able to operate independently of the main power plant and does not require any active control from the solid-oxide fuel cell system. The disclosed apparatus is entirely a stand-alone component that may be added to any conventional solid-oxide fuel cell system. The apparatus in accordance with the invention can be recharged, allowing the same hardware to be used over and over, however, a disposable unit could be used if found to be desirable. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082334 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/442 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053376 | 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); Jenny R. Morber (Atlanta, Georgia); Jin Liu (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | In a method of making a polymer structure on a substrate a layer of a first polymer, having a horizontal top surface, is applied to a surface of the substrate. An area of the top surface of the polymer is manipulated to create an uneven feature that is plasma etched to remove a first portion from the layer of the first polymer thereby leaving the polymer structure extending therefrom. A light emitting structure includes a conductive substrate from which an elongated nanostructure of a first polymer extends. A second polymer coating is disposed about the nanostructure and includes a second polymer, which includes a material such that a band gap exists between the second polymer coating and the elongated nanostructure. A conductive material coats the second polymer coating. The light emitting structure emits light when a voltage is applied between the conductive substrate and the conductive coating. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492333 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053536 | Chichak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kelly Scott Chichak (Clifton Park, New York); Larry Neil Lewis (Scotia, New York); James Anthony Cella (Clifton Park, New York); Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to process comprising reacting a polyfluorenes comprising at least one structural group of formula I with an iridium (III) compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are independently alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or a combination thereof; R5is H or CHO; R3 and R4 are independently hydrogen, alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or a combination thereof; R11 and R12 taken together form a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic or bicyclic heteroaromatic ring; R13 is independently at each occurrence halo, nitro, hydroxy, amino, alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, substituted alkoxy, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, or substituted arylalkyl; Ar is aryl, heteroaryl, substituted aryl, substituted heteroaryl, or a combination thereof; X is selected from a direct bond, alky, substituted alkyl, and combinations thereof; Y is CHO or NH2; Z is CHO or NH2 where Z does not equal Y; and p is 0, 1 or 2. The invention also relates to the polyfluorenes, which are products of the reaction, and the use of the polyfluorenes in optoelectronic devices. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/328805 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/540 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054146 | Soukoulis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Costas M. Soukoulis (Ames, Iowa); Jiangfeng Zhou (Ames, Iowa); Thomas Koschny (Ames, Iowa); Lei Zhang (Ames, Iowa); Gary Tuttle (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides simplified negative index materials (NIMs) using wire-pair structures, 4-gap single ring split-ring resonator (SRR), fishnet structures and overleaf capacitor SRR. In the wire-pair arrangement, a pair of short parallel wires and continuous wires are used. In the 4-gap single-ring SRR, the SRRs are centered on the faces of a cubic unit cell combined with a continuous wire type resonator. Combining both elements creates a frequency band where the metamaterial is transparent with simultaneously negative ∈ and μ. In the fishnet structure, a metallic mesh on both sides of the dielectric spacer is used. The overleaf capacitor SRR changes the gap capacities to small plate capacitors by making the sections of the SRR ring overlap at the gaps separated by a thin dielectric film. This technique is applicable to conventional SRR gaps but it best deploys for the 4-gap single-ring structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/559562 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055878 | Chatterjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siddhartha Chatterjee (Yorktown Heights, New York); John A. Gunnels (Brewster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and structure of distributing elements of an array of data in a computer memory to a specific processor of a multi-dimensional mesh of parallel processors includes designating a distribution of elements of at least a portion of the array to be executed by specific processors in the multi-dimensional mesh of parallel processors. The pattern of the designating includes a cyclical repetitive pattern of the parallel processor mesh, as modified to have a skew in at least one dimension so that both a row of data in the array and a column of data in the array map to respective contiguous groupings of the processors such that a dimension of the contiguous groupings is greater than one. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/052216 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08052792 | Hansen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl L. Hansen (Pasadena, California); Stephen R. Quake (San Marino, California); James M. Berger (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to microfluidic devices and methods facilitating the growth and analysis of crystallized materials such as proteins. In accordance with one embodiment, a crystal growth architecture is separated by a permeable membrane from an adjacent well having a much larger volume. The well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity and concentration similar to the solvent and crystallizing agent employed in crystal growth, with diffusion across the membrane stabilizing that process. Alternatively, the well may be configured to contain a fluid having an identity calculated to affect the crystallization process. In accordance with the still other embodiment, the well may be configured to contain a material such as a cryo-protectant, which is useful in protecting the crystalline material once formed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/748838 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053094 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Qinglan Huang (Skokie, Illinois); Ji Cui (Acton, Massachusetts); Jonathan Veinot (Palatine, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497109 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053387 | Flytzani-Stephanopoulus et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulus (Winchester, Massachusetts); Howard M. Saltsburg (Newton, Massachusetts); Qi Fu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention contemplates a method of making a catalytic material, and uses of the material. The catalytic material is made by depositing catalytic metals, such as gold or platinum, on substrate materials, such as lanthanum-doped ceria or other oxides. The catalytic metal, which comprises both crystalline and non-crystalline structures, is treated, for example with aqueous basic NaCN solution, to leach away at least some of the crystalline metallic component. The remaining noncrystalline metallic component associated with the substrate exhibits catalytic activity that is substantially similar to the catalyst as prepared. The use of the catalyst in an apparatus such as a reactor or analytic instrument is contemplated, as is the use of the catalyst in efficient, cost-effective reactions, such as removal of carbon monoxide from fuel gases, for example by performing the water gas shift reaction. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/534110 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/304 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053415 | Achilefu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Achilefu (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds that have motifs that target the compounds to cells that express integrins. In particular, the compounds have peptides with one or more RD motifs conjugated to an agent selected from an imaging agent and a targeting agent. The compounds may be used to detect, monitor and treat a variety of disorders mediated by integrins. |
| FILED | Friday, January 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814215 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053508 | Korkut et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sibel Korkut (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A painted polymer part containing a conductive polymer composition containing at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g, wherein the painted polymer part has been electrospray painted. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208692 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053514 | Laine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard M. Laine (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Santy Sulaiman (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluoride catalyzed rearrangement reactions of polymeric silsesquioxanes [RSiO1.5]n involve reacting at least one silsesquioxane material with a catalytic amount of an organic fluoride at a temperature ranging from about −50° C. to about 120° C. thereby forming a reaction mixture for a period ranging from 60 minutes to 48 hours. To the reaction mixture, a quenching agent is added to remove fluoride from the reaction mixture. A silsesquioxane cage compound can be isolated from the reaction mixture using a precipitation or other extraction process. |
| FILED | Friday, October 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/609708 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/588 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053638 | Anand et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Ardmore, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajith Anand (Ardmore, Oklahoma); Kirankumar Mysore (Ardmore, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for enhancing the efficiency of Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of host cells such as plant cells. Plant expression constructs comprising a gene encoding a VIP2 or VIP2-like polypeptide are provided, as well as methods for utilizing such constructs to enhance Agrobacterium-mediated transformation efficiency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835237 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053705 | Shin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yung C. Shin (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Laser assisted machining process and machine utilizing multiple distributed laser units that are strategically distributed around the workpiece being machined to simultaneously heat the workpiece, creating a desired temperature distribution for laser assisted machining. Sequential incremental heating from different directions and positions are used, resulting in longer tool life and shorter machining time. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/517543 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric heating 219/121.760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053972 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Philips Lumileds Lighting Company LLC (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason Heine (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Jeffrey N. Miller (Los Altos Hills, California); Ronald L. Moon (Atherton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A light-emitting device comprising a population of quantum dots (QDs) embedded in a host matrix and a primary light source which causes the QDs to emit secondary light and a method of making such a device. The size distribution of the QDs is chosen to allow light of a particular color to be emitted therefrom. The light emitted from the device may be of either a pure (monochromatic) color, or a mixed (polychromatic) color, and may consist solely of light emitted from the QDs themselves, or of a mixture of light emitted from the QDs and light emitted from the primary source. The QDs desirably are composed of an undoped semiconductor such as CdSe, and may optionally be overcoated to increase photoluminescence. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700711 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08054145 | Mohammadi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saeed Mohammadi (Atlanta, Georgia); Ali Ashgar Eftekhar (Atlanta, Georgia); Ali Adibi (Suwanee, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Phononic crystal wave structures and methods of making same are discussed in this application. According to some embodiments, an acoustic structure can generally comprise a phononic crystal slab configured as a micro/nano-acoustic wave medium. The phononic crystal slab can define an exterior surface that bounds an interior volume, and the phononic crystal slab can be sized and shaped to contain acoustic waves within the interior volume of the phononic crystal slab. The phononic crystal slab can comprise at least one defect portion. The defect portion can affect periodicity characteristics of the phononic crystal slab. The defect portion can be shaped and arranged to enable confinement and manipulation of acoustic waves through the defect portion(s) of phononic crystal slab. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433888 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08052069 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tian-Bing Xu (Hampton, Virginia); Xiaoning Jiang (State College, Pennsylvania); Ji Su (Yorktown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention comprises a high performance, vertical, zero-net mass-flux, synthetic jet actuator for active control of viscous, separated flow on subsonic and supersonic vehicles. The present invention is a vertical piezoelectric hybrid zero-net mass-flux actuator, in which all the walls of the chamber are electrically controlled synergistically to reduce or enlarge the volume of the synthetic jet actuator chamber in three dimensions simultaneously and to reduce or enlarge the diameter of orifice of the synthetic jet actuator simultaneously with the reduction or enlargement of the volume of the chamber. The jet velocity and mass flow rate for the present invention will be several times higher than conventional piezoelectric synthetic jet actuators. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/393238 |
| ART UNIT | 3752 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 239/102.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052324 | Gregory et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Providence, Rhode Island); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto Gregory (Wakefield, Rhode Island); Gustave Fralick (Middleburg Heights, Ohio); John Wrbanek (Sheffield Village, Ohio); Tao You (Waukegan, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film ceramic thermocouple (10) having two ceramic thermocouple (12, 14) that are in contact with each other in at least on point to form a junction, and wherein each element was prepared in a different oxygen/nitrogen/argon plasma. Since each element is prepared under different plasma conditions, they have different electrical conductivity and different charge carrier concentration. The thin film thermocouple (10) can be transparent. A versatile ceramic sensor system having an RTD heat flux sensor can be combined with a thermocouple and a strain sensor to yield a multifunctional ceramic sensor array. The transparent ceramic temperature sensor that could ultimately be used for calibration of optical sensors. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700287 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052854 | Hunter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary W. Hunter (Oberlin, Ohio); Jennifer C. Xu (Olmsted Township, Ohio); Chung Chiun Liu (Cleveland Heights, Ohio); Benjamin J. Ward (Northfield Center, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas sensor includes a substrate and a pair of interdigitated metal electrodes selected from the group consisting of Pt, Pd, Au, Ir, Ag, Ru, Rh, In, and Os. The electrodes each include an upper surface. A first solid electrolyte resides between the interdigitated electrodes and partially engages the upper surfaces of the electrodes. The first solid electrolyte is selected from the group consisting of NASICON, LISICON, KSICON, and β″-Alumina (beta prime-prime alumina in which when prepared as an electrolyte is complexed with a mobile ion selected from the group consisting of Na+, K+, Li+, Ag+, H+, Pb2+, Sr2+ or Ba2+). A second electrolyte partially engages the upper surfaces of the electrodes and engages the first solid electrolyte in at least one point. The second electrolyte is selected from the group of compounds consisting of Na+, K+, Li+, Ag+, H+, Pb2+, Sr2+ or Ba2+ ions or combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754255 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08052860 | Engelhaupt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darell E. Engelhaupt (Madison, Alabama); Mikhail V. Gubarev (Huntsville, Alabama); William David Jones (Huntsville, Alabama); Brian D. Ramsey (Huntsville, Alabama); Carl M. Benson (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are provided for the shaping and polishing of the surface of a material selected from the group consisting of electrically semi-conductive materials and conductive materials. An electrically non-conductive polishing lap incorporates a conductive electrode such that, when the polishing lap is placed on the material's surface, the electrode is placed in spaced-apart juxtaposition with respect to the material's surface. A liquid electrolyte is disposed between the material's surface and the electrode. The electrolyte has an electrochemical stability constant such that cathodic material deposition on the electrode is not supported when a current flows through the electrode, the electrolyte and the material. As the polishing lap and the material surface experience relative movement, current flows through the electrode based on (i) adherence to Faraday's Law, and (ii) a pre-processing profile of the surface and a desired post-processing profile of the surface. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957051 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/641 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053508 | Korkut et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sibel Korkut (Princeton, New Jersey); Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A painted polymer part containing a conductive polymer composition containing at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g, wherein the painted polymer part has been electrospray painted. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208692 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08051725 | Shrestha |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Idaho (Moscow, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dev S. Shrestha (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A soil collection device can be used to collect soil samples from a harvester that excavates soil while harvesting a ground crop. The soil collection device can include a collection area for collecting soil that is excavated from the ground by the harvester and discarded from the harvester. A storage device can receive and store at least a portion of the discarded soil in individual containers. A location marking device can being configured to mark the individual containers of discarded soil with information concerning the location of the soil collection device at or about the time the discarded soil was received in the individual containers. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/233353 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/863.520 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053223 | Meikle 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) | William G. Meikle (Clapiers, France); Christian Nansen (Lubbock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A biopesticide formulation using isolates of the fungus Beauveria bassiana has been developed, which can be used to control arachnid infestations of honeybee hives. The formulation is particularly useful for controlling infestations of Varroa destructor in honey bee hives. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/948340 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053464 | Quinn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Florida Research Foundation Incorporated (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian P. Quinn (Alachua, Florida); David A. Carlson (Gainesville, Florida); Christopher J. Geden (Gainesville, Florida); Ulrich R. Bernier (Gainesville, Florida); Matthew M. Booth (Gainesville, Florida); Jerome A. Hogsette, Jr. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition containing at least two members of the group consisting of propionic acid, benzoic acid, 2,6-dimethoxyphenol, 2-acetylpyrrole, 2-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-cyclopentanone, 2-methyltetrahydrofuran-3-one, and 3-methylbutanal; and water, and optionally a carrier or carrier material. The composition is useful for attracting insects (e.g., flies). A method for attracting insects (e.g., flies) involving treating an object or area with an insect attracting effective amount of the composition described herein. |
| FILED | Friday, March 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/044213 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08053260 | Foust et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald Franklin Foust (Glenville, New York); Larry Gene Turner (Rexford, New York); Ernest Wayne Balch (Ballston Spa, New York); Hak Fei Poon (Niskayuna, New York); William Francis Nealon (Gloversville, New York); Jie Liu (Niskayuna, New York); Tami Janene Faircloth (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Large-Area lighting systems and methods of making the same. More specifically, groups of organic light emitting modules, such as organic light emitting diode modules, coupled in series with respect to on another are provided. The modules cathode of each organic light emitting module is electrically coupled to the anode of an adjacent light emitting module in an interconnect region. A portion of the cathode of each module extends adjacent to an active area of an adjacent module at an interconnect region. Methods of fabricating series groups of organic light emitting modules employing continuous material layers is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601538 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053840 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Kevin Bailey (Newark, Delaware); Graciela Beatriz Blanchet (Wilmington, Delaware); John W. Catron, Jr. (Smyrna, Delaware); Reid John Chesterfield (Santa Barbara, California); Marc B. Goldfinger (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Gary Delmar Jaycox (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Lynda Kaye Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); Irina Malajovich (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania); Hong Meng (Wilmington, Delaware); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Kenneth George Sharp (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Rinaldo Soria Schiffino (Wilmington, Delaware); Feng Gao (Hockessin, Delaware); Gerald Donald Andrews (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to thin film transistors comprising novel dielectric layers and novel electrodes comprising metal compositions that can be provided by a dry thermal transfer process. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/403685 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08053181 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah A. Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for detecting an infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in a subject are disclosed. The methods include detecting the presence of CD8+T cells that specifically recognize an Mtb polypeptide. The methods include in vitro assays for detecting the presence of CD8+T cells in a biological sample, and in vivo assays that detect a delayed type hypersensitivity reaction. The methods can also include detecting Mtb polypeptides and polynucleotides. Reagents for the detection of an Mtb infection are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/282862 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053197 | Vandenbark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur A. Vandenbark (Portland, Oregon); Halina Offner (Portland, Oregon); Richard Bartholomew (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to methods for inhibiting an autoimmune disease by administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a composition that increases FOXP3 expression, thereby inhibiting the autoimmune disease. Further disclosed herein are methods for detecting in a subject an autoimmune disease or a predisposition to an autoimmune disease, and methods for assessing the efficacy of a therapy for an autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/658834 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08052116 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluid power system includes a hydraulic machine. A pilot-controlled supply valve controls high-pressure fluid to the machine. The valve is coupled between the hydraulic machine and a high-pressure fluid source, and includes a control port for an actuation signal. The supply valve allows passage of fluid from the machine to the fluid source, but blocks passage of fluid from the fluid source to the machine while closed, or permits passage of fluid from the fluid source to the machine while open. The supply valve biases toward closed or open according to an actuation signal at the control port. A pressurization valve is also coupled between the hydraulic machine and the high-pressure fluid source. The pressurization valve blocks passage of fluid from the fluid source to the machine while in a first position, and allows a restricted passage of fluid between its input and output ports while in a second position, to allow pressure to equalize on either side of the supply valve before the supply valve opens. |
| FILED | Friday, September 29, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540765 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08055432 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruonan Sun (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Xiaoguo Tang (Canton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A HCCI engine with a model reference adaptive feedback control system maintains stable HCCI combustion during speed/load transitions by: (1) estimating the maximum rate of pressure rise (MRPR), for each cycle, from an extra-cylinder sensor metric, such as a crankshaft dynamics or knock sensor metric, via statistical vector-to-vector correlation; (2) periodically self-tuning the vector-to-vector correlation; (3) applying knowledge base models to guide cycle-to-cycle adjustments of fuel quantity and other engine parameters, to maintain a target MRPR value. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221825 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08054215 | Abbett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Abbett (Montgomery Village, Maryland); Sergio Torres (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A precision radar registration (PR2) system and method that employs highly accurate geo-referenced positional data as a basis for correcting registration bias present in radar data. In one embodiment, the PR2 method includes sample collection and bias computation function processes. The sample collection process includes ADS-B sample collection, radar sample collection, and time alignment sub-processes. The bias computation function process includes bias computation, quality monitoring and non-linear effects monitoring sub-processes. The bias computation sub-process results in a bias correction solution including range bias bρ, azimuth bias bθ, and time bias bT parameters. The quality monitoring sub-process results in an estimate of solution quality. The non-linear effects monitoring sub-process results in detection of the presence of non-linear bias, if any, in the bias correction solution. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/277234 |
| 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 342/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
| US 08054099 | Cabanas-Holmen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel F. Cabanas-Holmen (Roy, Washington); Ethan H. Cannon (Sammamish, Washington); Salim A. Rabaa (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The different advantageous embodiments provide an integrated circuit comprising a number of latches and a number of filters. Each latch in the number of latches has a plurality of inputs and a plurality of storage nodes. The plurality of storage nodes includes a number of pairs of circuit nodes that form a number of upsettable circuit node pairs. Each input of the plurality of inputs is connected to a corresponding storage node in the plurality of storage nodes. Each filter in the number of filters has an input and a plurality of outputs. Each of the plurality of outputs is connected to a corresponding input of the plurality of inputs of a latch in the number of latches. Each filter in the number of filters is located between two circuit nodes forming an upsettable circuit node pair of the latch in the number of latches to increase critical node spacing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511207 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08052180 | Lassen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director of the National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lassen (Arnold, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A tamper-evident cargo seal is disclosed, comprising a pin that is passed through a hasp on a shipping container, a body member, a pair of parallel guide members, at least one security label blank, and a cover. One end of the pin is keyed. The body member has a slot through a side surface extending into the interior, and is keyed to receive the pin. Abutting the top surface of the body member are two parallel guide members, bounding an area comprising the top surface of the body member. One of the guide members also has a slot to allow the pin to engage the slot in the body member. One or two removable security label blanks are inserted between the guides after the pin is inserted into the slot, and a security label is affixed over the blanks. A cover engages the body and guide members to protect the label. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/069006 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Closure fasteners 292/307.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08052622 | Egorov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Artann Laboratories Inc (Trenton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir Egorov (Princeton, New Jersey); Armen P. Sarvazyan (Lambertville, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for characterizing elasticity of vaginal tissue are provided. A transvaginal probe is used to deform vaginal tissue during examination. The probe is equipped with pressure sensors and a motion tracking sensor. Stress and strain data is recorded during examination. Elasticity of vaginal tissue is then characterized by calculating a stress gradient defined as a ratio of stress over strain for each point of measurement. Vaginal tactile image may also be compiled to include a family of surfaces representing locations of measurement points at predefined constant levels of stress. Pelvic organ abnormality condition may be detected if the stress gradient is below either a predetermined threshold or a normal stress gradient obtained from clinical data. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/874583 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/591 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08053416 | Pettit et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, Acting for and on Behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George R. Pettit (Paradise Valley, Arizona); Yuping Tang (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein are novel cerebroside compounds, designated as Turbostatin 1, Turbostatin 2, Turbostatin 3, and Turbostatin 4. These compounds were extracted and isolated from the marine mollusk Turbo stenogyrus, and their structures elucidated. The new compounds exhibit significant cancer cell growth inhibition activity against a variety of murine and human cancer cell lines, and as such appear will be useful in the treatment of various forms of neoplastic disease. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913169 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08051727 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred Murphy (San Jose, California); James S. Kuwabara (Menlo Park, California); Brent R. Topping (San Jose, California); Francis Parchaso (San Francisco, California); Robert C. Myhre (Hillborough, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pore-water profiler and method for sampling pore water. The pore-water profiler includes a sample intake probe that receives the fluid to be sampled. A clog-resistant first filter filters the fluid as it enters the sample intake probe. A second filter, which has a pore size less than the pore size of the first filter, filters the fluid a second time before the fluid enters a sample container. A sample triggering system connected to the sample container initiates sampling by causing the fluid to be drawn into the sample intake probe. The profiler provides high-resolution (centimeter-scale) vertical pore-water profiles. The sequential filtration of the pore water avoids the problem of sample-circuit clogging, even in sediments dominated by fine or organic-rich particles. The profiler has all non-metallic, acid-washable components that contact the fluid sample, making the profiler suitable for trace-inorganic studies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107331 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.740 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08053068 | Fanucci et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kazak Composites, Incorporated (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome P. Fanucci (Lexington, Massachusetts); Pavel Bystricky (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A shock and vibration isolator device has one or more connecting elements of a superelastic shape memory alloy composite material extending between a base member, configured to mount to a structure or ground, and a mounting member, configured to support equipment or machinery. The superelastic shape memory alloy composite material is formed of a plurality of superelastic wires embedded in an elastomeric matrix material. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080090 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/292.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
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