FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 08056196 | Sample et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela Sample (Lexington Park, Maryland); Jason Smith (Penrose, North Carolina); Gary Bradley (Hendersonville, North Carolina); Leon Rhodes (Flat Rock, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A quick release fitting including a housing assembly having a main portion and a housing arm extending from the main portion, a locking arm and a locking mechanism. The locking arm has a first locking arm end and a second locking arm end, the first locking arm is rotatably attached to the housing arm. The locking mechanism is disposed within the housing assembly, and communicates with the second locking arm end such the locking arm can be locked or unlocked to the housing assembly. When locked the locking arm is secured to the housing assembly and the housing arm, the locking arm and the housing assembly form a slot, when unlocked the locking arm is not secured to the housing assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404602 |
| ART UNIT | 3677 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc. 024/601.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08056222 — Laser-based technique for the transfer and embedding of electronic components and devices
| US 08056222 | Pique 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) | Alberto Pique (Crofton, Maryland); Scott A Mathews (Germantown, Maryland); Raymond C Y Auyeung (Alexandria, Virginia); Bhanu Pratrap Sood (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser direct write method used to transfer entire single components such as semiconductor bare dies or surface mount passive and active components on a substrate or inside recess in a substrate for making embedded microelectronics is disclosed. This method laser-machine the pockets, laser-transfer the individual components inside those pockets, and then laser-print the interconnects required to “wire” the components, thus resulting in a fully assembled embedded circuit required to make a fully functional microelectronic system. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390284 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/832 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056279 | Carter 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) | Robert Hansbrough Carter (Jarrettsville, Maryland); William Steinle DeRosset (Aberdeen, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An inventive process is provided for creating residual compressive stress at a surface of a structure without resort to custom mandrels and dangerous high-pressure fluids. The inventive process yields autofrettage of a structure such as a tube, gun barrel and the like, the structure having an outer surface and an inner surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894010 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Firearms 042/76.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056400 | Reintjes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Reintjes (Alexandria, Virginia); John E. Tucker (Centreville, Virginia); Lawrence L. Tankersley (Annapolis, Maryland); Paul L. Howard (New Market, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for particle entrained fluid sampling, capable of sampling a high pressure and/or high flow rate fluid flow system using a pressure intensifier for applying pressure or suction to the fluid sample in the fluid sampling system operatively connected to a sample extractor and a sample analysis device. The pressure intensifier for applying pressure or suction is adjustable to provide control over the sample flow in the fluid sampling system. The fluid sampling system of the present invention may be particularly applicable to monitoring the condition of hydraulic and lubrication systems. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206139 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/64.560 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056419 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang Liu (Winnetka, Illinois); Jonathan Engel (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Jack Chen (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An artificial sensor comprises at least one substrate, and a plurality of flow sensors disposed on the at least one substrate for providing a plurality of spatial-temporally varying signals representing a hydrodynamic stimulus. The plurality of flow sensors are spatially distributed on the at least one substrate. A processor is coupled to the plurality of flow sensors for receiving the signals and determining spatial-temporal information from the received signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508229 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/756 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056858 | Koehler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Koehler (Tucson, Arizona); Wing Cheng (Sunnyvale, California); Helen H. Cheng, legal representative (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An extendable device for providing radiation occlusion and/or aero-thermal protection is disclosed. In various representative aspects, the present invention generally includes an extendable collar and a flexure configured to provide elastic properties (e.g., to facilitate stowage and/or deployment with respect to conformational disposition of the flexure). The flexure is coupled to a collar and is also coupled to the housing of an optical device. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/679324 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/121 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056864 | Hays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Aerospace Corporation (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony Beckman Hays (Jackson, Michigan); Greg Alan Ritter (Hamburg, Michigan); Peter Tchoryk, Jr. (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Jane Camile Pavlich (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Gregory Joseph Wassick (Petersburg, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A convex forward surface of a forward-biased probe head of a first portion of a docking system engages a central concave conical surface of a second portion of the docking system. A first linear actuator moves a flexible docking cable assembly relative to a support structure through bores therein and through the probe head. An aftward retraction of the docking cable assembly causes a linearly-actuated cam element thereof to rotate a rotary cam follower pivoted from the support structure, which engages an aft edge portion of the probe head, forcing the probe head forward. A plurality of distal coupling elements operatively coupled to the support structure around a central axis thereof engage with and become releasably captured by a corresponding socket and associated capture mechanism of a mating second portion of the docking system, and rigidized when the probe head is forced against the central concave conical surface. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/860461 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056949 | Shaker 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) | Adam M. Shaker (Waldorf, Maryland); Todd J. Zimmerman (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A robot gripper block is provided that facilitates the simultaneous attached of robot deployed tools to a plurality of distinct robot platforms having robot grippers with opposing moveable fingers. The block includes a plurality of parallel cylindrical sockets passing through the block to accept the complementary cylindrical bars of the robot deployed tools. A set pin is inserted through the block and tools to secure the tools in the block. Running along the faces of the block and arranged in pairs are channels sixed and shaped to complement the fingers of the robot grippers. Each set of channels is arranged for a given robot gripper. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/283781 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Handling: Hand and hoist-line implements 294/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057388 | Russell 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) | Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Paul R. de la Houssaye (San Diego, California); Jamie K. Pugh (San Diego, California); William Pugh (San Diego, California); Dennis E. Amundson (San Diego, California); Howard W. Walker (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microsensor array system, comprising a pad, a plurality of actuators attached to the pad, and a plurality of microprobes, wherein substantially each microprobe in the plurality of microprobes is attached to a respective actuator in the plurality of actuators. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100546 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057410 | Angold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russdon Angold (American Canyon, California); Nathan H. Harding (Oakland, California); Homayoon Kazerooni (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The lower extremity exoskeleton comprises two leg supports connectable to person's lower limbs and configured to rest on the ground during their stance phase. Each leg support comprises a thigh link and a shank link; a knee joint configured to allow flexion and extension between the shank link and the thigh link. The lower extremity exoskeleton further comprises an exoskeleton trunk connectable to the person'supper body. The exoskeleton trunk is connectable to the thigh links of the leg supports allowing for the flexion and extension between the leg supports and the exoskeleton trunk. Two torque generators are coupled to each of the knee joints. A power unit, capable of providing power, is coupled to the torque generators. In operation when a leg support is in a stance phase and climbing a slope or stairs, the power unit injects power into the respective torque generator thereby extending the respective knee angle. When a leg support is in stance phase and not climbing a slope or stairs, the power unit does not inject any power to the respective torque generator, but without dissipating any stored power in said power unit, it forces the torque generator to resist flexion of the respective knee joint. When a leg support is in a swing phase, the power unit does not inject any power to the respective torque generator, but without dissipating any stored power in said power unit, it forces the torque generator to minimize its resistance to knee flexion and extension. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/404719 |
| ART UNIT | 3771 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057651 | Lindsey 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) | Norris Lindsey (Suitland, Maryland); Appajosula Yashodhara Rao (Bethesda, Maryland); Appajosula Srinivasa Rao (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An electro-chemical sensor comprises a bismuth nano-wire array. The sensor is used to detect incipient corrosion under paint. It is particularly useful in admiralty and marine applications such as for detecting incipient metal oxidation such as rusting and for monitoring the progress of metal oxidation on ship hulls and tanks. It is also useful in the automobile industry for quantifying surface quality in preparation for painting. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154811 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057761 | Genovese 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) | James A. Genovese (Street, Maryland); Robin L. Matthews (Port Deposit, Maryland); Kwok Y. Ong (Joppa, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a chemical detector has at least one detection window and at least first and second ampoules selectively communicatively coupled to the at least one detection window. The first ampoule contains a first substance that can hydrolyze a nerve agent. The second ampoule contains a second substance that can react with a hydrolyzed nerve agent to produce a color change. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/610241 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057777 | Lashmore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanocomp Technologies, Inc. (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David S. Lashmore (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Craig Lombard (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided that can be utilized to generate nanotubes with substantially similar chirality. The system provides a resonant frequency, keyed to a desired radial breathing mode linked to the desired chirality, that causes a template of catalysts particles or nanotubes to oscillate at the provided resonant frequency, so as to stimulate growing nanotubes to oscillate at a corresponding resonant frequency. This resonant frequency can be a result of a high frequency field or the natural heat radiation generated by the system. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180300 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/447.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057857 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel phase-separation behavior by a mixture, including binary mixture, of patterning compounds, including alkanethiols, when deposited onto a surface, including a gold surface, using micro and nano-deposition tools such as tip and stamp methods like micro-contact printing (μCP), and Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN). This behavior is significantly different than that observed in the bulk. This behavior was demonstrated using three examples of compounds: 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA), 1-octadecanethiol (ODT), and CF3(CF2)11(CH2)2SH (PFT). The identity of the resulting segregated structure was confirmed by lateral force microscopy (LFM), and by selective metal-organic coordination chemistry. This phenomenon is exploited to print sub-100 nm wide alkanethiol features via conventional μCP and to form sub-15 nm features using DPN printing, which is below the ultimate resolution of both these techniques. These nano-patterned materials also can serve as templates for constructing more complex architectures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/480557 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057861 | McQuade et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | D. Tyler McQuade (Tallahassee, Florida); Muris Kobaslija (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A removable, colored X-alginate coating composition includes an aqueous solution of sodium alginate including a colorant and an aqueous solution containing divalent cations. The applied coating composition may be in the form of a thin film coating having a thickness of 10 nanometers or more and may include more than a single layer. The X-alginate coating composition is substantially removable from the application surface on-demand using a suitable chelator. A reversible, colored X-alginate coating system includes a colored X-alginate coating composition and a colored X-alginate coating composition remover. The remover may be a chelator. A method for reversibly coloring a surface includes applying an aqueous solution of sodium alginate including a colorant onto the surface and applying an aqueous solution containing divalent ions onto the surface. Water may subsequently be applied to the coated surface as a final washing step. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/211318 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057918 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Quinglan Huang (Libertyville, Illinois); Ji Cui (Acton, Massachusetts); Jonathan Veinot (St. Albert, Canada); He Yan (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235552 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057938 | South 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) | Joseph T. South (Bel Air, Maryland); Eric D. Wetzel (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural fuel cell includes a first and a second electrically conductive electrode plate each comprised of a porous, open-cell material. A proton conductive membrane is disposed between the first and second plates, and a skin encloses the electrode plates and membrane. The structural fuel cell is fabricated from high strength materials, and the porous, open-cell material of the electrode plates may comprise a metal foam, a honeycomb structure, or other such expanded structure. The skin may comprise a composite material such as a reinforced polymer. In some instances, the combination of the electrode plates, membrane and skin has a flexural strength between 1-100 MPa, or a flexural stiffness between 0.1-10 GPa. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/594861 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057939 | Eickhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Eickhoff (Plymouth, Minnesota); Roland A. Wood (Bloomington, Minnesota); Thomas M. Rezachek (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical power generators incorporating stabilized fuels and methods for the encapsulation of fuels are provided. More particularly, methods for the passivation or encapsulation of water reactive, hydrogen gas generating fuels. The electrical power generators employ water reactive fuels encapsulated in a water vapor permeable, liquid water impermeable membrane, or coated with a water vapor permeable, liquid water impermeable substance to control the quantity of water that is permitted reach the chemical fuel. In the event of damage, electrical power generators incorporating the fuels of the invention are protected from explosions that might otherwise result from rapid, uncontrolled hydrogen generation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/295036 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08057984 — Photosensitive self-assembled monolayer for selective placement of hydrophilic structures
| US 08057984 | Afzali-Ardakani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Afzali-Ardakani (Ossining, New York); Teresita O. Graham (Irvington, New York); James B. Hannon (Mahopac, New York); George S. Tulevski (White Plains, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A photosensitive monolayer is self-assembled on an oxide surface. The chemical compound of the photosensitive monolayer has three components. A first end group provides covalent bonds with the oxide surface for self assembly on the oxide surface. A photosensitive group that dissociates upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation is linked to the first end group. A second end group linked to the photosensitive group provides hydrophobicity. Upon exposure to the ultraviolet radiation, the dissociated photosensitive group is cleaved and forms a hydrophilic derivative in the exposed region, rendering the exposed region hydrophilic. Carbon nanotubes or nanocrystals applied in an aqueous dispersion are selectively attracted to the hydrophilic exposed region to from electrostatic bonding with the hydrophilic surface of the cleaved photosensitive group. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541231 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058003 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Jindan Yu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention relates to ADRB2 markers for cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016498 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058189 | Nematollahi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Khosrow Nematollahi (Carmel, Indiana); Robert L. Hager (Loogootee, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for resisting ballistic impact including an outer energy absorbing assembly having a plurality of interconnected fibers, and a barrier positioned behind the outer energy absorbing assembly. A movement restraint is positioned behind the barrier and a dampener is positioned intermediate the barrier and the restraint. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/028796 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058206 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074979 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058207 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075010 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058380 | Vij et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vandana Vij (Palmdale, California); Gregory R. Yandek (California City, California); Joseph M. Mabry (California City, California); Timothy S. Haddad (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A. new compound, a high temperature POSS-dianiline is provided. It is a composition of nanoparticles, which can be incorporated into polymers such as polyimides, polyamides, cyanate esters, and epoxies, for improved properties and performance of such polymers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/490895 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/34 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058415 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides aptamer- and nucleic acid enzyme-based systems for simultaneously determining the presence and optionally the concentration of multiple analytes in a sample. Methods of utilizing the system and kits that include the sensor components are also provided. The system includes a first reactive polynucleotide that reacts to a first analyte; a second reactive polynucleotide that reacts to a second analyte; a third polynucleotide; a fourth polynucleotide; a first particle, coupled to the third polynucleotide; a second particle, coupled to the fourth polynucleotide; and at least one quencher, for quenching emissions of the first and second quantum dots, coupled to the first and second reactive polynucleotides. The first particle includes a quantum dot having a first emission wavelength. The second particle includes a second quantum dot having a second emission wavelength different from the first emission wavelength. The third polynucleotide and the fourth polynucleotide are different. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/109171 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058492 | Anumakonda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amarendra Anumakonda (Naperville, Illinois); Michael J. McCall (Geneva, Illinois); Timothy A. Brandvold (Arlington Heights, Illinois); Joseph A. Kocal (Glenview, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for controlling the concurrent production of both diesel range hydrocarbons and aviation range hydrocarbons from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils and animal oils. The process involves determining the required specification of the desired products and the desired relative yields of the product that still meet the required specifications. The necessary isomerization and selective hydrocracking zone conditions are determined in order to create a mixture of paraffins which meet the required product specifications and yields. The necessary fractionation zone conditions are determined to separate the desired products. A renewable feedstock is treated by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide an effluent comprising paraffins, isomerizing and selectively hydrogenating at least a portion of the paraffins at the predetermined conditions, and separating by fractionation at the predetermined fractionation conditions to generate a diesel range hydrocarbon product and an aviation range hydrocarbon product. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402873 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds 585/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058550 | Gaudiana et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Konarka Technologies, Inc. (Lowell, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell Gaudiana (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Richard Kingsborough (North Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Xiaobo Shi (Manchester, New Hampshire); David Waller (Lexington, Massachusetts); Zhengguo Zhu (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to a polymer that includes a first comonomer repeat unit containing a benzothiadiazole moiety, a thiophene oxide moiety, a cyclopentadithiophene oxide moiety, a thiadiazoloquinoxaline moiety, a benzoisothiazole moiety, a benzothiazole moiety, a thienothiophene moiety, a thienothiophene oxide moiety, a dithienothiophene moiety, a dithienothiophene oxide moiety, or a tetrahydroisoindole moiety. The polymer can be used as a photoactive material in a photovoltaic cell. This disclosure also relates to such photovoltaic cells, as well as modules containing such photovoltaic cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/485708 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058598 | Sandler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trex Enterprises Corp. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dave Sandler (San Diego, California); Brett Spivey (Encinitas, California); Louis Cuellar (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Paul Fairchild (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for imaging far away fast moving objects such as satellites in low earth orbit. The object to be imaged is illuminated simultaneously with a composite beam comprised of a large number of separate laser beams from a large number of laser sources each from a separate position with each of the separate laser beams shifted in frequency with respect to each other beam so as to produce a large number of beat frequencies in the composite beam. The positions of the laser sources are changed rapidly during an illumination period of a few seconds. Light reflected from the object is collected in a large number of light buckets and information defining the intensity of the collected reflected light as a function of time is stored. The positions and frequencies of each of the laser sources are also recorded and stored as a function of time. The stored information defining the intensity of the collected reflected light is analyzed by one or more computer processors utilizing special algorithms to produce a image of the object. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381023 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/201.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058613 | Lou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Lou (Houston, Texas); Yogeeswaran Ganesan (Houston, Texas); Yang Lu (Houston, Texas); Cheng Peng (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes micromechanical devices and methods for using such devices for characterizing a material's strength. The micromechanical devices include an anchor pad, a top shuttle platform, a nanoindenter in movable contact with the top shuttle platform and at least two sample stage shuttles. The nanoindenter applies a compression force to the top shuttle platform, and the at least two sample stage shuttles move apart in response to the compression force. Each of the at least two sample stage shuttles is connected to the top shuttle platform and to the anchor pad by at least one inclined beam. Methods for using the devices include connecting a sample between the at least two sample stage shuttles and applying a compression force to the top shuttle platform. Application of the compression force to the top shuttle platform results in a tensile force being applied to the sample. Measuring a tip displacement of the nanoindenter is correlated with the sample's strength. Illustrative materials that can be studied using the micromechanical devices include, for example, nanotubes, nanowires, nanorings, nanocomposites and protein fibrils. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/607550 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058628 | Zywno et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marek Zywno (San Jose, California); Noah Bareket (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Substrate processing methods and apparatus are disclosed. In some embodiments a substrate processing apparatus may comprise a support structure and a moveable stage including first and second stages. The moveable stage has one or more maglev units attached to the first stage and/or second stage proximate an edge of the first stage. The first stage retains one or more substrates and moves with respect to a first axis that is substantially fixed with respect to the second stage. The second stage translates along a second axis with respect to the support structure. In other embodiments, a primary motor may maintain a rotary stage at an angular speed and/or accelerate or decelerate the stage from a first angular speed to a second angular speed. A secondary motor may accelerate the stage from rest to the first angular speed and/or decelerate the stage from a non-zero angular speed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170361 |
| ART UNIT | 3652 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/442.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058640 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bozhi Tian (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiaocheng Jiang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to nanotechnology and, in particular, to branched nanoscale wires. In some cases, the branched nanoscale wires may be produced using vapor-phase and/or solution-phase synthesis. Branched nanoscale wires may be grown by depositing nanoparticles onto a nanoscale wire, and segments or “branches” can then be grown from the nanoparticles. The nanoscale wire may be any nanoscale wire, for example, a semiconductor nanoscale wire, a nanoscale wire having a core and a shell. The segments may be of the same, or of different materials, than the nanoscale wire, for example, semiconductor/metal, semiconductor/semiconductor. The junction between the segment and the nanoscale wire, in some cases, is epitaxial. In one embodiment, the nanoparticles are adsorbed onto the nanoscale wire by immobilizing a positively-charged entity, such as polylysine, to the nanoscale wire, and exposing it to the nanoparticles. In another embodiment, nanoparticles are deposited onto a nanoscale wire by etching the nanoscale wire to produce an H-terminated surface, then exposing the surface to a solution comprising a metal ion, which can be reduced by the surface to form nanoparticles. Segments or branches can then be grown from the deposited nanoparticles to form the branched nanoscale wire. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/310764 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058655 | Sheridan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SS SC IP, LLC (Jackson, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David C. Sheridan (Starkville, Mississippi); Andrew P. Ritenour (Caledonia, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor devices and methods of making the devices are described. The devices can be junction field-effect transistors (JFETs). The devices have raised regions with sloped sidewalls which taper inward. The sidewalls can form an angle of 5° or more from vertical to the substrate surface. The devices can have dual-sloped sidewalls in which a lower portion of the sidewalls forms an angle of 5° or more from vertical and an upper portion of the sidewalls forms an angle of <5° from vertical. The devices can be made using normal (i.e., 0°) or near normal incident ion implantation. The devices have relatively uniform sidewall doping and can be made without angled implantation. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/613065 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/77 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058777 | Goat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holdings S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher A. Goat (Offham, United Kingdom); Michael P. Cooke (Gillingham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A casing for encapsulation of an electrical component, for example a piezoelectric actuator, comprising an outer layer of a semipermeable material and an inner layer comprising a chemically active, hydrophilic substance that chemically combines with water to form a compound. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/524171 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058869 | Cranch 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) | Geoff A Cranch (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Gordon M. A. Flockhart (Kirkintilloch, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The device includes two supports and a primary conductive strip. The primary conductive strip includes a neutral surface, a first side, and a second side. The primary conductive strip is connected one of directly and indirectly on the first side to the two supports such that the primary conductive strip is constrained in two dimensions and movable in one dimension. The device also includes a primary distributed feedback fiber laser. The primary distributed feedback fiber laser includes a fiber axis. The primary distributed feedback fiber laser is connected to the primary conductive strip along one of the first side and the second side such that there is a positive distance between the neutral surface of the primary conductive strip and the fiber axis of the primary distributed feedback fiber laser. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255080 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/244.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058875 | Witzel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon UTD, Inc. (Springfield, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John George Witzel (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for tracing wire includes an electrical exciter adapted to apply a voltage to a ground-laid wire to generate a corona at an outer surface of the ground laid wire, at least a portion of the corona including ultraviolet c-band radiation, and an ultraviolet c-band detector to detect the ultraviolet c-band radiation to trace at least a portion of the path of the ground-laid wire. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/538997 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058925 | Rasmussen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brad J. Rasmussen (Rancho Palos Verdes, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Technologies are described herein for mitigating the effects of single event effects or upsets on digital semiconductor device data paths and clocks utilizing an adaptive temporal filter. The adaptive temporal filter includes a master delay line and a slave delay line to generate two output clock signals that remain unaffected by variations in process, voltage and temperature (PVT) conditions. The adaptive temporal filter supplies the three independent clock signals having a programmable phase relationship, to a triple voting register structure for storing and outputting an uncorrupted data value using a majority voter. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429638 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059026 | Nunez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Abel S. Nunez (Fairborn, Ohio); James T. Caldwell (Kettering, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An ultra-wideband pulse Doppler radar employing a transform domain communication system class of output waveform, a waveform additionally modified for enhanced radar usage. The achieved waveform includes sequential radar output pulse discrimination, improved pulse repetition frequency range ambiguity, phase modulation generating a noise-like output signal appearance and improved resolution characteristics. The invention employs radar waveform shaping in the frequency domain according to a sample of present operating band interference conditions followed by transformation into the time domain for fabricating an output pulse waveform. Mathematical basis for the improved output waveform and correlation comparisons in graphical form are included in the disclosure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365247 |
| 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 342/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059034 | Ly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as resprented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Canh Ly (Laurel, Maryland); Arthur C. Harrison (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A patch antenna system and method comprising a base extending in a first plane; at least one patch mounted in a plane substantially parallel to the first plane; spaced from the base by at least one metallic post such that between the base and patch is substantially only gaseous fluid (which may be air). At least one power source may be operatively connected to the at least one patch for generation of electromagnetic waves at a center frequency of approximately 5.8 Gigahertz. The method of neutralizing unattended microwave devices comprises connecting a power source to a patch antenna and operating the patch antenna at a frequency in the range of approximately 3.89 to of 5.85 Gigahertz in the vicinity of a suspected unattended microwave device used to activate an explosive device to thereby jam any communication signal to the unattended microwave device and prevent the activation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/397126 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059045 | Schaffner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Schaffner (Chatsworth, California); Tsung-Yuan Hsu (Westlake Village, California); Daniel F. Sievenpiper (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An antenna having an impedance matching section for attaching to a sheet or a garment. The antenna has a first, a second, and a third leaky substantially coaxial conductor. The first and the third coaxial conductors have an electrically conductive layer placed on the dielectric in a double helix. The second coaxial conductor has an electrically conductive layer placed on the dielectric in a single helix. The first coaxial conductor is coupled to the second coaxial conductor, the second coaxial conductor is coupled to the third coaxial conductor; and the third coaxial conductor is coupled in use to a first termination impedance. Methods to make the foregoing structures are also described. |
| FILED | Monday, August 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/193500 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/718 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059049 | Quan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Walham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifton Quan (Arcadia, California); Fangchou Yang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of a dual band antenna array includes a folded thin circuit board structure with a thin dielectric layer and a conductor layer pattern formed on a first surface of the dielectric layer, the circuit board structure folded in a plurality of folds to form a pleated structure. A first array of radiator structures on the first surface is configured for operation in a first frequency band in a first polarization sense. A second array of radiator structures is configured for operation in a second frequency band in a second polarization sense. A conductor trace pattern is formed on the folded circuit board to carry control signals, DC power and RF signals. Active RF circuit devices are attached to the folded circuit board in signal communication with the conductor trace pattern. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381683 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059122 | MacGillivray |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff MacGillivray (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly accurate and robust cubic cell mesh generator “Cubegen” capable of a trillion plus cell meshes on a single processor 4-Gigabyte main memory workstation has been developed. The cells are generated in Yee format for the Finite Difference Time Domain method. Three key techniques were employed to achieve this capability: a highly efficient data storage ray tracing method, a highly accurate ray-facet intersection test, and a novel exact arithmetic tie-breaking algorithm for rays intersecting facet edges and vertices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054602 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059136 | Mathan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santosh Mathan (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of efficiently and effectively triaging an image that may include one or more target entities are provided. An image that may include one or more target entities is retrieved. The retrieved image is then divided into a plurality of sub-images, and each sub-image is displayed in a display region to a user. Each sub-image that was previously displayed is then divided into a plurality of sub-images, and each sub-image that was just divided is displayed to the user in the display region. The steps in the previous sentence are then repeated a determined number of times. During the initial display of the sub-images, and during each subsequent recursion, data are collected from the user and estimates of target entity locations are derived from the collected data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/954151 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/619 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059142 | Handschy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Handschy (Boulder, Colorado); James M. Dallas (Superior, Colorado); Per Harold Larson (Boulder, Colorado); David B. Hollenbeck (Frederick, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A display system that achieves a gamma characteristic different than 1, such as a gamma characteristic of 2 for example. The gamma characteristic may be selectable and it may be selectable via timing characteristics rather than by varying the intensity of the light source. Defective memory registers are also compensated for by selecting them to store bits of relatively lower significance. |
| FILED | Friday, January 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/969734 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059271 | Marsh 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) | Charles P. Marsh (Urbana, Illinois); Eric Olson (Champaign, Illinois); Todor I. Donchev (Urbana, Illinois); Ivan Petrov (Champaign, Illinois); Jianguo Wen (Champaign, Illinois); Ryan Franks (Arlington, Virginia); Dongxiang Liao (Sunnvyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A reusable sample-holding device for readily loading very small wet samples for observation of the samples by microscopic equipment, in particular in a vacuum environment. Embodiments may be used with a scanning electron microscope (SEM), a transmission electron microscope (TEM), an X-ray microscope, optical microscope, and the like. For observation of the sample, embodiments provide a thin-membrane window etched in the center of each of two silicon wafers abutting to contain the sample in a small uniform gap formed between the windows. This gap may be adjusted by employing spacers. Alternatively, the thickness of a film established by the fluid in which the sample is incorporated determines the gap without need of a spacer. To optimize resolution each window may have a thickness on the order of 50 nm and the gap may be on the order of 50 nm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365698 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059409 | Steenwyk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Meredith Marie Steenwyk (Kentwood, Michigan); Danny Weldon Coxon (Conklin, Michigan); John Jay Streyle (Walker, Michigan); Benjamin Jon Vander Ploeg (Kentwood, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An avionics chassis comprises a carbon fiber reinforced housing, a card rail for holding an electronic circuit board mounted to an interior surface of the housing, at least one heat-dissipating fin composed of carbon fiber and extending from the outer surface of the housing, a plurality of isotropic carbon fibers extending from an interior of the fin through the housing and in abutting contact with the card rail. The plurality of isotropic fibers form a direct conductive path from the card rail to the heat-dissipating fin. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487797 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059454 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire); Ovonyx, Inc. (Rochester Hills, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Li (Chantilly, Virginia); Adam Matthew Bumgarner (Duluth, Georgia); Daniel Pirkl (Centreville, Virginia); George Michael (High Point, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An adjustable write pulse generator is disclosed. The adjustable write pulse generator includes a band-gap reference current, a programmable ring oscillator, a frequency divider and a single pulse generator. The band-gap reference current circuit generates a well-compensated current over a predetermined range of temperatures needed to program a chalcogenide memory cell. The programmable ring oscillator generates a first set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals based on the well-compensated current. The frequency divider then divides the first set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals into a second set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals. The single pulse generator subsequently converts the second set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals into a single write “0” pulse signal or a single write “1” pulse signal when programming the chalcogenide memory cell. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/531851 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059690 | Chang-Hasnain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Connie J. Chang-Hasnain (Palo Alto, California); Michael Chung-Yi Huang (Taipei, Taiwan); Ye Zhou (Shanghai, China PRC); Carlos Fernando Rondina Mateus (San Jose de Campos, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is described using a sub-wavelength grating (SWG) structure that has a very broad reflection spectrum and very high reflectivity. The grating comprises segments of high and low refractive index materials with an index differential between the high and low index materials. By way of example, a SWG reflective structure is disposed over a low index cavity region and above another reflective layer (either SWG or DBR). In one embodiment, the SWG structure is movable, such as according to MEMS techniques, in relation to the opposing reflector to provide wavelength selective tuning. The SWG-VCSEL design is scalable to form the optical cavities for a range of SWG-VCSELs at different wavelengths, and wavelength ranges. |
| FILED | Monday, June 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/795643 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/50.124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059887 | Fields et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Richard Fields (Princeton Junction, New Jersey); James Russell Bergen (Hopewell, New Jersey); Garbis Salgian (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved system and method for estimating range of the objects in the images from various distances. The method comprises receiving a set of images of the scene having multiple objects from at least one camera in motion. Due to the motion of the camera, each of the images are obtained at different camera locations Then an object visible in multiple images is selected. Data related to approximate camera positions and orientations and the images of the visible object are used to estimate the location of the object relative to a reference coordinate system. Based on the computed data, a projected location of the visible object is computed and the orientation angle of the camera for each image is refined. Additionally, pairs of cameras with various locations can then be chosen to obtain dense stereo for regions of the image at various ranges. The process is further structured so that as new images arrive, they are incorporated into the pose adjustment so that the dense stereo results can be updated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/860650 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059893 | Prusia |
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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) | Ronald Norman Prusia (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and electronics circuit for processing very high resolution images or very high frame rate images in real time. Each pixel within a frame of pixels is compared to the neighboring pixels within the frame to determine if the pixel is part of a blob group. If the pixel is part of the blob group, the characteristics of the pixel are added to the statistics for the blob group. When a pixel overlaps two target blob groups, the two blob groups are combined to form one blob group. When the end of the frame is reached information about the blob groups in the frame is made available. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828150 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/173 |
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| US 08059945 | Wendt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Global Solar Energy, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert G. Wendt (Tucson, Arizona); Scott Wiedeman (Tucson, Arizona); Jeffrey S. Britt (Tucson, Arizona); Douglas G. Mason (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A vapor deposition source including a crucible configured to hold a quantity of molten constituent material and at least one nozzle to pass vapor evaporated from the molten constituent material out of the crucible. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154549 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric resistance heating devices 392/389 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060007 | Mohr |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Mohr (Camarillo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF signal processing device which includes a countermeasure set connected to the processing device. The RF signal processing device shifts an incoming RF signal by ninety degrees and combines the phase shifted RF signal with RF jamming signals from a jammer. The processing device next transmits the RF signal including the RF jamming signals from the jammer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198977 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060028 | Ho 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) | Thinh Q. Ho (San Diego, California); Will Henry (San Diego, California); Stephen M. Hart (Fogelsville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system may include one or more transmitter processing modules each having at least one of a plurality of modulation elements arranged in parallel. Each modulation element may be configured to modulate a respective baseband data signal at a different rate than other modulation elements. The system may include one or more receiver processing modules each having a plurality of demodulation elements arranged in parallel. Each demodulation element may be configured to demodulate a respective baseband data signal at a different rate than other demodulation elements. The system may include a first antenna for transmitting signals and a second antenna for receiving signals. One or more isolation systems may be used to actively cancel electromagnetic interference received by the receiving antenna from the transmitting antenna. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/437200 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/78 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060338 | Damarla |
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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) | Thyagaraju Damarla (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses for locating a sensor node are disclosed. A representative apparatus, among others, includes a processing unit that receives sensor node data and object trajectory information data for an object. The sensor node data is related to the object's trajectory, and a data point in the object trajectory information data comprises a time stamp and the coordinates of a position. The position corresponds the location of the object at the given time. The processing unit is adapted to correlate at least a portion of the sensor node data with at least a portion of the object trajectory information data to determine an absolute position of the sensor node. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025160 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060718 | Freitas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Francis Freitas (San Martin, California); Michael Anthony Ko (San Jose, California); Norman Ken Ouchi (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memory leveling system updates physical memory blocks, or blocks, to maintain generally even wear. The system maintains an update count for each block, incrementing a wear level count when the update count reaches a wear level threshold. The system compares a wear level of blocks to determine whether to update a block in place or move data on the block to a less-worn physical block. The system groups the blocks into wear level groups identified by a common wear level to identify blocks that are being worn at a faster or slower than average rate. If an empty block count of a least worn group drops below a threshold, the system moves data from one of the blocks in the least worn group to an empty block in a most worn group. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/425365 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060870 | 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 | A system and method for advanced polyhedral loop transformations of source code in a compiler 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. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861449 |
| ART UNIT | 2192 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Russell S. Witte (Tucson, Arizona); Ragnar Olafsson (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Matthew O'Donnell (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A current source density mapping system includes an ultrasound transducer emitting an ultrasound wave traveling along an ultrasound beam directed at a mapping field in a region of living tissue and an ultrasound pulser delivering a transmit pulse to said ultrasound transducer. The system includes a timing device producing controlled excitation of the transmit pulse; a plurality of recording electrodes positioned in contact with the living tissue detecting an acoustoelectric voltage signal generated at a bioelectric current source and within a focal zone of said ultrasound beam. An amplifier operatively connected to the recording electrodes amplifying the acoustoelectric voltage signal at a predetermined gain; and an analyzing component comprising a digitizer, a sampling device, a signal processor and a display unit operatively connected to the amplifier determining the location of the bioelectric current source by analyzing the acoustoelectric voltage signal detected by the recording electrodes in response to an interaction between the ultrasound wave and the presence of a current source in the mapping field. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/019225 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/438 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057392 | Hossack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virgina Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Hossack (Charlottesville, Virginia); Travis N. Blalock (Charlottesville, Virginia); William F. Walker (Earlysville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved device and method for collecting data used for ultrasonic imaging. The data is gathered over numerous transmit and echo receive cycles, or iterations and combined into a synthetic acquisition representing a complete echo characteristic acquisition. At each iteration, only a portion, or subset, of the echo characteristic is sampled and stored. During the iterations, the portion of the echo characteristic that is measured and sampled is varied by changing the relative sampling instants. That is, the time offset from the transmission to the respective sampling instant is varied. The sample sets representative of the entire echo characteristic are then compiled from the multiple subsets of the ultrasonic transmissions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/245266 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057408 | Cain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles A. Cain (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zhen Xu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); J. Brian Fowlkes (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Timothy L. Hall (Ann Arbor, Michigan); William W. Roberts (Saline, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Therapy methods using pulsed cavitational ultrasound therapy can include the subprocesses of initiation, maintenance, therapy, and feedback of the histotripsy process, which involves the creation and maintenance of ensembles of microbubbles and the use of feedback in order to optimize the process based on observed spatial-temporal bubble cloud dynamics. The methods provide for the subdivision or erosion of tissue, liquification of tissue, and/or the enhanced delivery of therapeutic agents. Various feedback mechanisms allow variation of ultrasound parameters and provide control over the pulsed cavitational process, permitting the process to be tuned for a number of applications. Such applications can include specific tissue erosion, bulk tissue homogenization, and delivery of therapeutic agents across barriers. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/121001 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Kinesitherapy 61/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057483 | Aramant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ocular Transplantation LLC (Crestwood, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert B. Aramant (Crestwood, Kentucky); Magdalene J. Seiler (Orange, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An instrument for implanting tissue in an eye or other body member is disclosed. The instrument includes an elongated mandrel and a tubular nozzle arranged over the mandrel. The instrument also includes a piston engaging an end of the nozzle and a vacuum passage arranged in the piston. The instrument also includes a body having a portion of the piston arranged therein with one end of the mandrel being secured to the body. The instrument also includes an actuator integrated with the body wherein the actuator interacts with the piston to control movement of the nozzle relative to the mandrel. |
| FILED | Saturday, February 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/378326 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/107 |
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| US 08057795 | Freishtat |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Research Institute (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Freishtat (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | We previously reported that NKG2A, a key inhibitory ligand for HLA-E, is expressed on activated TH2, but not TH1, cells. Here we measured cytokine expression in ex vivo TH2 cells and in a mouse model of asthma upon activation with antiCD3/28 and challenge with an NKG2A-specific agonist. We show that signaling through NKG2A modulates Th2 cell effector function. This new molecular pathway data provides a novel explanation and treatment for respiratory virus-associated asthma. RSV and hMPV suppress IFN-γ and HLA-E expression and therefore decrease NKG2A signaling in activated TH2 cells. This results in a relatively robust Th2 response and an unfavorable shift in Th1/Th2 balance. The data presented here suggest that increasing signaling via the NKG2A receptor suppresses Th2 effector function and could positively impact Th1/Th2 balance in asthma. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/602037 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/144.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057798 | Zurawski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor Research Institute (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Jacques F. Banchereau (Dallas, Texas); Eynav Klechevsky (Dallas, Texas); Sandra Zurawski (Midlothian, Texas); Anne-Laure Flamar (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes compositions and methods for increasing the effectiveness of antigen presentation using a DCIR-specific antibody or fragment thereof to which an antigen is attached that forms an antibody-antigen complex, wherein the antigen is processed and presented by a dendritic cell that has been contacted with the antibody-antigen complex. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024897 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/179.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057803 | Palese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Thomas Muster (Vienna, Austria) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated negative-strand RNA viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. The invention also relates to the development and use of IFN-deficient systems for selection of such attenuated viruses. In particular, the invention relates to attenuated influenza viruses having modifications to the NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. The mutant viruses replicate in vivo but demonstrate reduced pathogenicity, and therefore are well suited for live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/148798 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057804 | Friedman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harvey Friedman (Merion, Pennsylvania); Sita Awasthi (Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania); John Lubinski (Malvern, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides vaccines comprising two or more recombinant Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) proteins selected from a gD protein, a gC protein and a gE protein; and methods of impeding immune evasion by HSV thereby vaccinating a subject against HSV and treating, suppressing, inhibiting, and/or reducing an incidence of an HSV infection or a symptom or manifestation thereof, comprising administration of a vaccine of the present invention. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/179439 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/231.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057806 | Kawaoka |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoshihiro Kawaoka (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method to prepare viruses lacking ion channel activity is provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/043768 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/239.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057826 | Seshi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Beerelli Seshi (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated pluri-differentiated human mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs), which simultaneously express a plurality of genes that are markers for multiple cell lineages, wherein the multiple cell lineages comprise at least four different mesenchymal cell lineages (e.g., adipocyte, osteoblast, fibroblast, and muscle cell) and wherein each of the markers is specific for a single cell lineage. The present invention also method for isolating and purifying human mesenchymal progenitor cells from Dexter-type cultures for characterization of and uses, particularly therapeutic uses for such cells. Specifically, isolated MPCs can be used for diagnostic purposes, to enhance the engraftment of hematopoietic progenitor cells, enhance bone marrow transplantation, or aid in the treatment or prevention of graft versus host disease. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/123377 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/577 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058003 | Chinnaiyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arul M. Chinnaiyan (Plymouth, Michigan); Jindan Yu (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Rohit Mehra (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention relates to ADRB2 markers for cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016498 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058012 | Root et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Root (Boston, Massachusetts); Michael S. Kay (Somerville, Massachusetts); David C. Chan (Arcadia, California); Peter S. Kim (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Five-Helix protein, which comprises the three N-helices and at least two, but not three, of the three C-helices of the trimer-of-hairpin structure of HIV gp41, separated by linkers, such as amino acid residue linkers, is disclosed. Six-Helix protein, which includes the three N-helices and the three C-helices of the trimer-of-hairpin structure of HIV gp41, separated by linkers, is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321300 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — 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 08058014 | Gong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Da-Wei Gong (Olney, Maryland); John C. McLenithan (Baltimore, Maryland); Alan R. Shuldiner (Columbia, Maryland); Rong-Ze Yang (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of diagnosing a disease or predicting an increased risk of a disease, such as obesity, obesity-dependent subacute inflammation, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease and a metabolic disease, by determining the levels of omentin 1 and 2 protein in a subject, or by determining the levels of omentin 1 and 2 gene expression in a subject. The present invention is also directed to methods of disease treatment using omentin 1 protein and omentin 2 protein. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/443146 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08058030 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosystems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas R. Smith (Gloucester, Massachusetts); Kevin McKernan (Marblehead, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods for producing a modified polynucleotide sequence that comprises a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage, methods for determining a polynucleotide sequence comprising a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage, and methods for separating forward and reverse extension products that comprise a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage. The invention also encompasses kits for producing and/or determining the sequence of a modified polynucleotide that comprises a (e.g., one or more) phosphorothiolate linkage. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/632713 |
| 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 435/91.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058061 | Sadelain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York City, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michel Sadelain (New York, New York); Stefano Rivella (New York, New York); Chad May (New York, New York); Joseph Bertino (Branford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant lentiviral vectors having a region encoding a functional β-globin gene; and large portions of the β-globin locus control regions which include DNase I hypersensitive sites HS2, HS3 and HS4 provides expression of β-globin when introduced into a mammal, for example a human, in vivo. Optionally, the vector further includes a region encoding a dihydrofolate reductase. The vector may be used in treatment of hemoglobinopathies, including β-thalessemia and sickle-cell disease. For example, hematopoietic progenitor or stem cells may be transformed ex vivo and then restored to the patient. Selection processes may be used to increase the percentage of transformed cells in the returned population. For example, a selection marker which makes transformed cells more drug resistant than untransformed cells allows selection by treatment of the cells with the corresponding drug. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/433412 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058227 | Hoffman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stanley Hoffman (Charleston, South Carolina); Elena Tourkina (Charleston, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions and methods for the treatment of fibrosis. Also disclosed are methods of screening for agents that treat fibrosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/866994 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 08058233 | Cowley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); Imperial Innovations Limited (, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Cowley (Portland, Oregon); Roger Cone (Oregon City, Oregon); Malcolm James Duncan Low (Lake Oswego, Oregon); Andrew Butler (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); Stephen Robert Bloom (Hampstead, United Kingdom); Caroline Jane Small (London, United Kingdom); Rachel Louise Batterham (London, United Kingdom); Mohammad Ali Ghatei (Ruislip, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for decreasing calorie intake, food intake, and appetite in a subject. The methods include peripherally administering PYY or an agonist thereof and GLP-1 or an agonist thereof to the subject, simultaneously or sequentially, thereby decreasing the calorie intake of the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, January 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/501411 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058240 | Haskell-Luevano |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carrie Haskell-Luevano (Archer, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are novel ligands based on an AGRP template that can rescue endogenous melanocortin agonist and/or antagonist dysfunction at MCR polymorphisms. In particular, the present invention provides novel synthetic ligands based on AGRP templates that can rescue endogenous melanocortin agonist dysfunction at MC4R polymorphisms to treat children and adults with these mutations and increase their quality of life. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/296446 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/10.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058249 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Joel Kline (Iowa City, Iowa); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides and therapeutic utilities based on their ability to stimulate an immune response and to redirect a Th2 response to a Th1 response in a subject are disclosed. Methods for treating atopic diseases, including atopic dermatitis, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/894862 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08058256 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Won Jong Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sung Wan Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A carrier for delivering small interfering RNA (siRNA) into cells includes a cholesterol residue covalently bonded to oligoarginine. Mixing the siRNA with the carrier produces a complex-containing composition. Contacting a cell with the complex-containing composition results in delivery of the siRNA into the cell. Delivery of an siRNA targeted to vascular endothelial growth factor is a treatment for cancer. Methods of making the carrier and complex are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/691566 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058259 | Thompson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Douglas Thompson (Charlottesville, Virginia); Anthony Beauglehole (Charlottesville, Virginia); Frank W. Schmidtmann (Ruckersville, Virginia); Jayson M. Rieger (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides substituted 4-{3-[6-amino-9-(3,4-dihydroxy-tetrahydro-furan-2-yl)-9H-purin-2-yl]-prop-2-ynyl}-piperidine-1-carboxylic acid esters and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same that are selective agonists of A2A adenosine receptors (ARs). These compounds and compositions are useful as pharmaceutical agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338599 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/46 |
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| US 08058295 | Verkman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Verkman (San Francisco, California); Tonghui Ma (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides compositions, pharmaceutical preparations and methods for inhibition of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator protein (CFTR) that are useful for the study and treatment of CFTR-mediated diseases and conditions. The compositions and pharmaceutical preparations of the invention may comprise one or more thiazolidinone compounds, and may additionally comprise one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, excipients and/or adjuvants. The methods of the invention comprise, in certain embodiments, administering to a patient suffering from a CFTR-mediated disease or condition, an efficacious amount of a thiazolidinone compound. In other embodiments the invention provides methods of inhibiting CFTR that comprise contacting cells in a subject with an effective amount of a thiazolidinone compound. In addition, the invention features a non-human animal model of CFTR-mediated disease which model is produced by administration of a thiazolidinone compound to a non-human animal in an amount sufficient to inhibit CFTR. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622233 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/369 |
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| US 08058314 | Caplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Caplan (Woodbridge, Connecticut); Marie E. Egan (Madison, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides the methodology and agents for treating any disease or clinical condition which is at least partly the result of endoplasmic reticulum-associated retention of proteins. Thus, the methods and agents of the present invention provide for the release of normally retained proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum. The present invention is particularly useful for treating any disease or clinical condition which is at least partly the result of endoplasmic reticulum-associated retention or degradation of mis-assembled or mis-folded proteins. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/749525 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/683 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058344 | Shaunak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Imperial Innovations Ltd (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sunil Shaunak (London, United Kingdom); Elisabetta Gianasi (Bologna, Italy); Ruth Duncan (Cardiff, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to new anionic glycodendrimers having new biological activity, processes for preparing them and their use in medicine including veterinary medicine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/511317 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/54.200 |
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| US 08058395 | Htun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Han Htun (Los Angeles, California); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Han Htun (Los Angeles, California); Gordon L. Hager (Garrett Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of screening for a compound that binds to a selected nucleic acid comprising contacting compound fluorescently labeled by a fluorescent protein with a cell having a plurality of copies of the nucleic acid in an array such that the nucleic acid can be directly detected when bound by fluorescently labeled compound; and directly detecting the location of fluorescence within the cell, fluorescence aggregated at the site of the nucleic acid array indicating a compound that binds to the selected nucleic acid. In particular compounds such a transcription factors can be screened. Reagents for such method are provided including a mammalian cell having a plurality of steroid receptor response elements in an array such that the response element can be directly detected when bound by fluorescently labeled steroid receptor and a chimeric protein comprising a fluorescent protein fused to a steroid receptor. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/004694 |
| 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: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
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| US 08058396 | Schiemann |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William P. Schiemann (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are Cystatin C (CysC) homologues, including CystC homologues that act as antagonists or inhibitors of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β). Also disclosed are methods to identify CystC homologues that are antagonists or inhibitors of TGF-β and compositions and therapeutic methods using CystC and homologues thereof to regulate the activity of TGF-β, and TGF-β-mediated tumor malignancy and invasion and other TGF-β-mediated fibrotic or proliferative conditions and diseases. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/782014 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 08058416 | Prendergast et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George C. Prendergast (Penn Valley, Pennsylvania); Richard Metz (Pennington, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-2 (IDO2) and methods of use thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/273296 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 08058430 | Wright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Atlantic University Broad of Trustees (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy E. Wright (Fort Pierce, Florida); Susan H. Sennett (Sebastian, Florida); Shirley A. Pomponi (Ft. Pierce, Florida); Peter J. McCarthy (Vero Beach, Florida); Esther A. Guzman (Fort Pierce, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides novel compositions of biologically active compounds which can advantageously be used in blocking cellular proliferation and/or treatment of cancer. Exemplified are: |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165304 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/277 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058502 | Carrano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrea C. Carrano (San Diego, California); Andrew Dillin (La Jolla, California); Tony Hunter (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Ubiquitin ligase wwp-1 and ubiquitin conjugating enzyme ubc-18 are identified in nematodes as mediators of dietary restriction induced longevity and therefore as targets for modulation of lifespan in animals. Methods of screening for compounds that modulate longevity by assaying wwp-1 ubiquitination pathway parameters are provided, as are related systems. In addition, methods of using wwp-1 and/or ubc-18 to modulate longevity or delay onset of age-related diseases are described. |
| FILED | Friday, August 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/228707 |
| 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 |
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| US 08058507 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board Of Trustees Of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheng Yang He (Okemos, Michigan); Kinya Nomura (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for enhancing plant defenses against pathogens. More particularly, the invention relates to enhancing plant immunity against bacterial pathogens, wherein HopM11-300 mediated protection is enhanced, such as increased protection to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 HopM1 and/or there is an increase in activity of an ATMIN associated plant protection protein, such as ATMIN7. Reagents of the present invention further provide a means of studying cellular trafficking while formulations of the present inventions provide increased pathogen resistance in plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/070938 |
| 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 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058515 | Gaxiola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto A. Gaxiola (Mansfield Center, Connecticut); Seth L. Alper (Boston, Massachusetts); Gerald R. Fink (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a transgenic plant, comprising one or more plant cells transformed with exogenous nucleic acid which increases expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant. Also encompassed by the present invention are transgenic progeny and seeds of the transgenic plants described herein. Progeny transgenic plants grown from seed are also described. Plant cells (e.g., root cells, stem cells, leaf cells) comprising exogenous nucleic acid which increases expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant cells are also the subject of the present invention. Also encompassed by the present invention are methods of making a transgenic plant described herein. The present invention also relates to a method of increasing the yield of a plant, a method of making a plant which is larger than its corresponding wild type plant, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with increased salt tolerance. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119683 |
| 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 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060208 | Kilgore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Kilgore (Avon Lake, Ohio); Niloy Bhadra (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An example method for selectively and reversibly preventing the conduction of action potentials in a targeted nerve region is presented. The method includes generating an electrical waveform having two phases and selectively depolarizing a nerve membrane using the electrical waveform. The nerve membrane is depolarized to a state where the nerve membrane cannot conduct an action potential. The depolarization is achieved by selectively repetitively providing the electrical waveform to a targeted nerve region associated with the nerve region to control m gates and h gates in the region and thus to control the availability of ions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214256 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060211 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Alfred E. Mann (Beverly Hills, California); James S. Little (Saugus, California); Karl-Heinz Ihrig (Valencia, California); Brian V. Mech (Valencia, California); Neil H. Talbot (Montrose, California); DaoMin Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is methods of reducing stress in the retina that are caused by the implanted electrode array body having an oval shape that is curved to conform to the curvature of the retina and having a mounting aperture in the body for attaching the electrode array to the retina with a tack where a strain relief internal tab is place around a strain relief slot. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/728144 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060216 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jay Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Kelly Hobart McClure (Simi Valley, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Rongqing Dai (Valencia, California); Arup Roy (Santa Clarita, California); Richard Agustin Castro (Pasadena, California); John Reinhold (Tarzana, California); Kea-Tiong Tang (Temple City, California); Sumit Yadav (Los Angeles, California); Chunhong Zhou (Pasadena, California); Dao Min Zhou (Saugus, California); Pishoy Maksy (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Electronic neural tissue stimulators for controlling the level of electrical stimulation in order to prevent damage to the neural tissue. Methods presented in the disclosure include detecting current leakage via electrode impedance measurement, electrode capacitance measurement, and testing the electrode response to a test current pulse. Apparatus presented in the disclosure include circuitry and systems capable of performing the methods disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/796433 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/63 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philippe Arnold (Hennecourt, France); Dominique Petitjean (Julienrupt, France); Anthony Ruquart (Thaon les Vosges, France); Guillaume Dupont (Thaon les Vosges, France); Denis Jeckel (Thaon les Vosges, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A variable nozzle for a turbocharger includes a plurality of vanes rotatably mounted on a nozzle ring and disposed in a nozzle flow path defined between the nozzle ring and an opposite nozzle wall. Either or both of the faces of the nozzle ring and nozzle wall include(s) at least one step that defines sealing surfaces positioned to be substantially abutted by airfoil surfaces of the vanes in the closed position of the vanes and to be spaced from the airfoil surfaces in positions other than the closed position. This substantial abutment between the airfoil surfaces and the sealing surfaces serves to substantially prevent exhaust gas from leaking past the ends of the airfoil portions. At the same time, clearances between the nozzle ring face and the end faces of the airfoil portions can be sufficiently large to prevent binding of the vanes under all operating conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, May 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/115245 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/602 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056462 | Lacy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey M. Lacy (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Henry S. Chu (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Stephen R. Novascone (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas guns and methods for accelerating projectiles through such gas guns are described. More particularly, gas guns having a first injection port located proximate a breech end of a barrel and a second injection port located longitudinally between the first injection port and a muzzle end of the barrel are described. Additionally, modular gas guns that include a plurality of modules are described, wherein each module may include a barrel segment having one or more longitudinally spaced injection ports. Also, methods of accelerating a projectile through a gas gun, such as injecting a first pressurized gas into a barrel through a first injection port to accelerate the projectile and propel the projectile down the barrel past a second injection port and injecting a second pressurized gas into the barrel through the second injection port after passage of the projectile and to further accelerate the projectile are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269972 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056904 | Dietle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kalsi Engineering, Inc. (Sugar Land, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lannie L. Dietle (Houston, Texas); John E. Schroeder (Richmond, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrodynamically lubricating geometry for the generally circular dynamic sealing lip of rotary seals that are employed to partition a lubricant from an environment. The dynamic sealing lip is provided for establishing compressed sealing engagement with a relatively rotatable surface, and for wedging a film of lubricating fluid into the interface between the dynamic sealing lip and the relatively rotatable surface in response to relative rotation that may occur in the clockwise or the counter-clockwise direction. A wave form incorporating an elongated dimple provides the gradual convergence, efficient impingement angle, and gradual interfacial contact pressure rise that are conducive to efficient hydrodynamic wedging. Skewed elevated contact pressure zones produced by compression edge effects provide for controlled lubricant movement within the dynamic sealing interface between the seal and the relatively rotatable surface, producing enhanced lubrication and low running torque. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480530 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/559 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057239 | Campbell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy B. Campbell (Torrance, California); Steve Newson (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A power module assembly of the type suitable for deployment in a vehicular power inverter, wherein the power inverter has a grounded chassis, is provided. The power module assembly comprises a conductive base layer electrically coupled to the chassis, an insulating layer disposed on the conductive base layer, a first conductive node disposed on the insulating layer, a second conductive node disposed on the insulating layer, wherein the first and second conductive nodes are electrically isolated from each other. The power module assembly also comprises a first capacitor having a first electrode electrically connected to the conductive base layer, and a second electrode electrically connected to the first conductive node, and further comprises a second capacitor having a first electrode electrically connected to the conductive base layer, and a second electrode electrically connected to the second conductive node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/432438 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057581 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A system comprises a particulate matter (PM) filter that comprises an upstream end for receiving exhaust gas and a downstream end. A zoned heater is arranged spaced from the upstream end and comprises N zones, where N is an integer greater than one, wherein each of the N zones comprises M sub-zones, where M is an integer greater than one. A control module selectively activates at least a selected one of the N zones to initiate regeneration in downstream portions of the PM filter from the one of the N zones and deactivates non-selected ones of the N zones. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/959753 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/278 |
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| US 08057652 | Routbort et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jules L. Routbort (Hinsdale, Illinois); Dileep Singh (Naperville, Illinois); Prabir K. Dutta (Worthington, Ohio); Ramamoorthy Ramasamy (North Royalton, Ohio); John V. Spirig (Columbus, Ohio); Sheikh Akbar (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact oxygen sensor is provided, comprising a mixture of metal and metal oxide an enclosure containing said mixture, said enclosure capable of isolating said mixture from an environment external of said enclosure, and a first wire having a first end residing within the enclosure and having a second end exposed to the environment. Also provided is a method for the fabrication of an oxygen sensor, the method comprising confining a metal-metal oxide solid mixture to a container which consists of a single material permeable to oxygen ions, supplying an electrical conductor having a first end and a second end, whereby the first end resides inside the container as a reference (PO2)ref, and the second end resides outside the container in the atmosphere where oxygen partial pressure (PO2)ext is to be measured, and sealing the container with additional single material such that grain boundary sliding occurs between grains of the single material and grains of the additional single material. |
| FILED | Friday, September 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/228064 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/421 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057653 | Dutta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio State Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prabir K. Dutta (Worthington, Ohio); Inhee Lee (Columbus, Ohio); Sheikh A. Akbar (Hilliard, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor that incorporates lithium phosphate (Li3PO4) as an electrolyte and sensing electrode comprising a combination of lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) and barium carbonate (BaCO3). In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a carbon dioxide (CO2) sensor has a reduced sensitivity to humidity due to a sensing electrode with a layered structure of lithium carbonate and barium carbonate. In still another embodiment, the present invention relates to a method of producing carbon dioxide (CO2) sensors having lithium phosphate (Li3PO4) as an electrolyte and sensing electrode comprising a combination of lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) and barium carbonate (BaCO3). |
| FILED | Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/974580 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/424 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057850 | Curtis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Calvin J. Curtis (Lakewood, Colorado); Alexander Miedaner (Boulder, Colorado); Maikel Van Hest (Lakewood, Colorado); David S. Ginley (Evergreen, Colorado); Jennifer A. Nekuda (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Liquid-based indium selenide and copper selenide precursors, including copper-organoselenides, particulate copper selenide suspensions, copper selenide ethylene diamine in liquid solvent, nanoparticulate indium selenide suspensions, and indium selenide ethylene diamine coordination compounds in solvent, are used to form crystalline copper-indium-selenide, and/or copper indium gallium selenide films (66) on substrates (52). |
| FILED | Thursday, November 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/813474 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057863 | Liang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaogan Liang (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment of a method of depositing graphene includes bringing a stamp into contact with a substrate over a contact area. The stamp has at least a few layers of the graphene covering the contact area. An electric field is developed over the contact area. The stamp is removed from the vicinity of the substrate which leaves at least a layer of the graphene substantially covering the contact area. |
| FILED | Friday, December 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/630989 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/474 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057900 | Luhrs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Erlanger, Kentucky); Regents of the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Claudia Luhrs (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Monique N. Richard (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Aaron Dehne (Maumee, Ohio); Jonathan Phillips (Rio Rancho, New Mexico); Kimber L. Stamm (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Paul T. Fanson (Brighton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a material having a composite particle, the composite particle including an outer shell and a core. The core is made from a lithium alloying material and the outer shell has an inner volume that is greater in size than the core of the lithium alloying material. In some instances, the outer mean diameter of the outer shell is less than 500 nanometers and the core occupies between 5 and 99% of the inner volume. In addition, the outer shell can have an average wall thickness of less than 100 nanometers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/142974 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/403 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057949 | Brighton, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred G. Brighton, II (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hans Buus Gangwar (Livonia, Michigan); Victor D. Dobrin (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell system has a compressor delivering compressed gas to a fuel cell stack and a control valve affecting the flow of compressed gas. A load dump condition is determined for the fuel cell stack. The flow through the compressor is increased and the additional flow diverted away from the fuel cell stack by the control valve to provide additional load for the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell stack may then be operated at a higher output power for the purpose of generating more waste heat to more rapidly warm itself. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/839838 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/446 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057951 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Ellis Cooper (Morgantown, West Virginia); David J. Bayless (Athens, Ohio); Jason P. Trembly (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Conveying gas containing sulfur through a sulfur tolerant planar solid oxide fuel cell (PSOFC) stack for sulfur scrubbing, followed by conveying the gas through a non-sulfur tolerant PSOFC stack. The sulfur tolerant PSOFC stack utilizes anode materials, such as LSV, that selectively convert H2S present in the fuel stream to other non-poisoning sulfur compounds. The remaining balance of gases remaining in the completely or near H2S-free exhaust fuel stream is then used as the fuel for the conventional PSOFC stack that is downstream of the sulfur-tolerant PSOFC. A broad range of fuels such as gasified coal, natural gas and reformed hydrocarbons are used to produce electricity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/294337 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057988 | Morse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey D. Morse (Martinez, California); David A. Sopchak (Livermore, California); Ravindra S. Upadhye (Pleasanton, California); John G. Reynolds (San Ramon, California); Joseph H. Satcher (Patterson, California); Alex E. Gash (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microreactor comprising a silicon wafer, a multiplicity of microchannels in the silicon wafer, and a catalyst coating the microchannels. In one embodiment the catalyst coating the microchannels comprises a nanostructured material. In another embodiment the catalyst coating the microchannels comprises an aerogel. In another embodiment the catalyst coating the microchannels comprises a solgel. In another embodiment the catalyst coating the microchannels comprises carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/779819 |
| ART UNIT | 1721 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058159 | Robinson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vance Robinson (Niskayuna, New York); Stanton Earl Weaver (Northville, New York); Joseph Darryl Michael (Delmar, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for fabricating a component is disclosed. The method includes: providing a member having an effective work function of an initial value, disposing a sacrificial layer on a surface of the member, disposing a first agent within the member to obtain a predetermined concentration of the agent at said surface of the member, annealing the member, and removing the sacrificial layer to expose said surface of the member, wherein said surface has a post-process effective work function that is different from the initial value. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/198955 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/558 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058383 | Teasley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Teasley (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The preparation of aromatic sulfonimide polymers useful as membranes in electrochemical cells is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/951353 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058415 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides aptamer- and nucleic acid enzyme-based systems for simultaneously determining the presence and optionally the concentration of multiple analytes in a sample. Methods of utilizing the system and kits that include the sensor components are also provided. The system includes a first reactive polynucleotide that reacts to a first analyte; a second reactive polynucleotide that reacts to a second analyte; a third polynucleotide; a fourth polynucleotide; a first particle, coupled to the third polynucleotide; a second particle, coupled to the fourth polynucleotide; and at least one quencher, for quenching emissions of the first and second quantum dots, coupled to the first and second reactive polynucleotides. The first particle includes a quantum dot having a first emission wavelength. The second particle includes a second quantum dot having a second emission wavelength different from the first emission wavelength. The third polynucleotide and the fourth polynucleotide are different. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/109171 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058429 | Landis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clark R. Landis (Madison, Wisconsin); Wiechang Jin (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonathan S. Owen (Pasadena, California); Thomas P. Clark (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Transition metal complexes include a diazaphosphacycle of formula III and a transition metal. The phosphorus atom of the diazaphosphacycle is bonded to the transition metal and the diazaphosphacycle of formula III has the following structure where the variables have the values set forth herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/774501 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058507 | He et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board Of Trustees Of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sheng Yang He (Okemos, Michigan); Kinya Nomura (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions and methods for enhancing plant defenses against pathogens. More particularly, the invention relates to enhancing plant immunity against bacterial pathogens, wherein HopM11-300 mediated protection is enhanced, such as increased protection to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 HopM1 and/or there is an increase in activity of an ATMIN associated plant protection protein, such as ATMIN7. Reagents of the present invention further provide a means of studying cellular trafficking while formulations of the present inventions provide increased pathogen resistance in plants. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/070938 |
| 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 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058608 | Deason |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vance Albert Deason (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for imaging scenes with a very large range of intensity having a pair of polarizers, a primary lens, an attenuating mask, and an imaging device optically connected along an optical axis. Preferably, a secondary lens, positioned between the attenuating mask and the imaging device is used to focus light on the imaging device. The angle between the first polarization direction and the second polarization direction is adjustable. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/557620 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059404 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Miller (Redondo Beach, California); Mark D. Korich (Chino Hills, California); Gregory S. Smith (Woodland Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Power inverters include a frame and a power module. The frame has a sidewall including an opening and defining a fluid passageway. The power module is coupled to the frame over the opening and includes a substrate, die, and an encasement. The substrate includes a first side, a second side, a center, an outer periphery, and an outer edge, and the first side of the substrate comprises a first outer layer including a metal material. The die are positioned in the substrate center and are coupled to the substrate first side. The encasement is molded over the outer periphery on the substrate first side, the substrate second side, and the substrate outer edge and around the die. The encasement, coupled to the substrate, forms a seal with the metal material. The second side of the substrate is positioned to directly contact a fluid flowing through the fluid passageway. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248197 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059924 | Letant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sonia E. Letant (Livermore, California); Tiziana C. Bond (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Photonic detection systems and methods are shown. A flow through photonic membrane is provided with pores which are distributed along multiple regions. The pores of one region have walls to which a first type of target specific anchor can be attached, while pores of another region have walls to which a second type of target specific anchor can be attached. An additional region of pores without anchors can be provided, so that optical detection occurs differentially. A stack of photonic membranes is also provided. The diameter of the pores of one photonic membrane is larger than the diameter of the pores of another photonic membrane, thus allowing also determination of the size of a target organism flown through the stack of membranes. |
| FILED | Monday, September 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/206337 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060259 | Budhraja et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Electric Power Group, LLC (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vikram S. Budhraja (Los Angeles, California); James D. Dyer (La Mirada, California); Carlos A. Martinez Morales (Upland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A real-time performance monitoring system for monitoring an electric power grid. The electric power grid has a plurality of grid portions, each grid portion corresponding to one of a plurality of control areas. The real-time performance monitoring system includes a monitor computer for monitoring at least one of reliability metrics, generation metrics, transmission metrics, suppliers metrics, grid infrastructure security metrics, and markets metrics for the electric power grid. The data for metrics being monitored by the monitor computer are stored in a data base, and a visualization of the metrics is displayed on at least one display computer having a monitor. The at least one display computer in one said control area enables an operator to monitor the grid portion corresponding to a different said control area. |
| FILED | Friday, June 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/764145 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060943 | Popescu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); North Carolina Central University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adrian Popescu (Tampa, Florida); Lilia M. Woods (Tampa, Florida); Igor V. Bondarev (Fuquay Varina, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The proposed device is based on a carbon nanotube oscillator consisting of a finite length outer stationary nanotube and a finite length inner oscillating nanotube. Its main function is to measure changes in the characteristics of the motion of the carbon nanotube oscillating near a sample surface, and profile the roughness of this surface. The device operates in a non-contact mode, thus it can be virtually non-wear and non-fatigued system. It is an alternative to the existing atomic force microscope (AFM) tips used to scan surfaces to determine their roughness. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/548070 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., Scanning probe microscopy [SPM] 850/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08056398 | Jákli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Antal Istvan Jákli (Kent, Ohio); Christopher Allen Bailey (Beavercreek, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoliter rheometer is capable of operating over a wide range of temperatures and permits visual observation of extremely small amounts of various often complex and/or expensive small nanoliter size fluids over a wide viscoelastic regime. The nanoliter rheometer comprises two very thin fibers, the ends of which are in close proximity to one another and desirably parallel to one another with one fiber being moved by a drive system and the remaining fiber desirably being stationary and capable of measuring a force transferred through a nanoliter size fluid located between the two fibers ends. The transferred force can be measured either by an LCR meter or a piezoelectric crystal and recorded as by a lock-in amplifier. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/378103 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/54.410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057857 | Mirkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chad A. Mirkin (Wilmette, Illinois); Khalid Salaita (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel phase-separation behavior by a mixture, including binary mixture, of patterning compounds, including alkanethiols, when deposited onto a surface, including a gold surface, using micro and nano-deposition tools such as tip and stamp methods like micro-contact printing (μCP), and Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN). This behavior is significantly different than that observed in the bulk. This behavior was demonstrated using three examples of compounds: 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA), 1-octadecanethiol (ODT), and CF3(CF2)11(CH2)2SH (PFT). The identity of the resulting segregated structure was confirmed by lateral force microscopy (LFM), and by selective metal-organic coordination chemistry. This phenomenon is exploited to print sub-100 nm wide alkanethiol features via conventional μCP and to form sub-15 nm features using DPN printing, which is below the ultimate resolution of both these techniques. These nano-patterned materials also can serve as templates for constructing more complex architectures. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/480557 |
| ART UNIT | 1713 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057908 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); He Yan (Skokie, Illinois); Qinglan Huang (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Hole transport layer compositions comprising a silylated aryl amine and a polymeric component, to enhance performance of an associated electroluminescent device. |
| FILED | Friday, November 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/267347 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057918 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Quinglan Huang (Libertyville, Illinois); Ji Cui (Acton, Massachusetts); Jonathan Veinot (St. Albert, Canada); He Yan (Skokie, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, September 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235552 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058075 | Zang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ling Zang (Salt Lake City, Utah); Yanke Che (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorescent sensor compound based on a perylene core is described and disclosed. The fluorescent sensor compound for detecting mercury can have a structure I: where A and A′ are linking groups, B and B′ are binding ligands which are selective for binding with Hg2+, and R1 through R8 are side groups. These fluorescence sensor materials are robust against photobleaching, while still providing exceptional detection sensitivity and selectivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/634037 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/81 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058415 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois); Juewen Liu (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides aptamer- and nucleic acid enzyme-based systems for simultaneously determining the presence and optionally the concentration of multiple analytes in a sample. Methods of utilizing the system and kits that include the sensor components are also provided. The system includes a first reactive polynucleotide that reacts to a first analyte; a second reactive polynucleotide that reacts to a second analyte; a third polynucleotide; a fourth polynucleotide; a first particle, coupled to the third polynucleotide; a second particle, coupled to the fourth polynucleotide; and at least one quencher, for quenching emissions of the first and second quantum dots, coupled to the first and second reactive polynucleotides. The first particle includes a quantum dot having a first emission wavelength. The second particle includes a second quantum dot having a second emission wavelength different from the first emission wavelength. The third polynucleotide and the fourth polynucleotide are different. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/109171 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058417 | Belas et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Belas (Catonsville, Maryland); Haifeng Geng (Baltimore, Maryland); Ryan Powell (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Production and use of a sulfur-containing compound, tropodithietic acid (TDA), from the roseobacter Silicibacter sp. TM1040 is described. Specifically, a biosynthetic and regulatory pathway for TDA biosynthesis in roseobacters is described. The TDA produced from roseobacters, specifically Silicibacter sp. TM1040, is shown to have antibacterial activity, in particular against Vibrio anguillarium, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio coralliilyticus, Vibrio shiloi, Halomonas spp., Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pseudomonas elongate, Spongiobacter nikelotolerans, and Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/472296 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058515 | Gaxiola et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts); Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto A. Gaxiola (Mansfield Center, Connecticut); Seth L. Alper (Boston, Massachusetts); Gerald R. Fink (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a transgenic plant, comprising one or more plant cells transformed with exogenous nucleic acid which increases expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant. Also encompassed by the present invention are transgenic progeny and seeds of the transgenic plants described herein. Progeny transgenic plants grown from seed are also described. Plant cells (e.g., root cells, stem cells, leaf cells) comprising exogenous nucleic acid which increases expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant cells are also the subject of the present invention. Also encompassed by the present invention are methods of making a transgenic plant described herein. The present invention also relates to a method of increasing the yield of a plant, a method of making a plant which is larger than its corresponding wild type plant, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with increased salt tolerance. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/119683 |
| 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 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058613 | Lou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Lou (Houston, Texas); Yogeeswaran Ganesan (Houston, Texas); Yang Lu (Houston, Texas); Cheng Peng (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure describes micromechanical devices and methods for using such devices for characterizing a material's strength. The micromechanical devices include an anchor pad, a top shuttle platform, a nanoindenter in movable contact with the top shuttle platform and at least two sample stage shuttles. The nanoindenter applies a compression force to the top shuttle platform, and the at least two sample stage shuttles move apart in response to the compression force. Each of the at least two sample stage shuttles is connected to the top shuttle platform and to the anchor pad by at least one inclined beam. Methods for using the devices include connecting a sample between the at least two sample stage shuttles and applying a compression force to the top shuttle platform. Application of the compression force to the top shuttle platform results in a tensile force being applied to the sample. Measuring a tip displacement of the nanoindenter is correlated with the sample's strength. Illustrative materials that can be studied using the micromechanical devices include, for example, nanotubes, nanowires, nanorings, nanocomposites and protein fibrils. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/607550 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058798 | Peters et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonas C. Peters (Brookline, Massachusetts); Kenneth J. Lotito (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Monomeric metal complexes having desirable luminescence properties are provided. In one embodiment, a monomeric metal compound is represented by the formula (ArN)M(L)x, where ArN is an arylamido ligand, and M may be any metal capable of exhibiting luminescent properties, for example, a d10 metal. L may be a tertiary phosphine. |
| FILED | Friday, October 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/580844 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/504 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058906 | Niemier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Notre Dame Du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Niemier (Granger, Indiana); Mohammad T. Alam (Berkeley, California); Gary H. Bernstein (Granger, Indiana); Xiaobo Sharon Hu (Granger, Indiana); Wolfgang Porod (Granger, Indiana); Edit Varga (Gyula, Hungary) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-majority magnetic logic gate device for use in constructing compact and power efficient logical magnetic arrays is presented. The non-majority magnetic logic gate device includes a substrate, symmetrically aligned magnetic islands (SAMIs), at least one misaligned magnetic island (MAMI), magnetic field inputs (MFIs), and at least one magnetic field output (MFO). The SAMIs and MAMI are electrically isolated from each other but are magnetically coupled to one another through their respective magnetic fringe fields. The MAMI is geometrically and/or angularly configured to exhibit a magnetization ground state bias which is dependent upon which direction the applied magnetic clock field is swept. Non-majority logic gates can be made from layouts containing the SAMIs and the MAMI which contain a smaller number of components as comparable majority logic gate layouts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816777 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059321 | Roichman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yohai Roichman (New York, New York); Ilias Cholis (Brooklyn, New York); David G. Grier (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for manipulating object using a three dimensional optical trap configuration. By use of selected hologram on optical strap can be configured as a preselected three dimensional configuration for a variety of complex uses. The system can include various optical train components, such as partially transmissive mirrors and Keplerian telescope components to provide advantageously three dimensional optical traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/840062 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059571 | Sen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shreyas Sen (Atlanta, Georgia); Abhijit Chaterjee (Marietta, Georgia); Rajarajan Senguttuvan (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-power wireless receivers and low-power communication methods and systems are provided. According to some embodiments, a low-power wireless receiver can comprise an input module, a controller, and a feedback loop. The input module can receive a wireless signal from a wireless communication channel. The controller can receive the wireless signal and provide a control signal corresponding to the wireless communication channel. The controller can be operatively configured to dynamically modify the control signal responsive to conditions of the wireless signal and/or the communication channel. The feedback loop can be disposed between the controller and the input module and can dynamically provide the control signal to the input module such that the input module can modify quality conditions of the wireless signal. Dynamic adaptations can occur in real-time so that a low-power wireless device can manage power consumption in response to a quality of signal metric that reflects conditions of a wireless communication channel. Other embodiments are also claimed and described. |
| FILED | Saturday, March 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040884 |
| ART UNIT | 2476 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060391 | Freire et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juliana Freire (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cláudio T. Silva (Salt Lake City, Utah); David Koop (Salt Lake City, Utah); Carlos E. Scheidegger (Salt Lake City, Utah); Huy T. Vo (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of creating an analogous workflow is provided. A first workflow is received at a first device, the first workflow including a plurality of first modules that are connected. A second workflow is received at the first device, the second workflow including a plurality of second modules that are connected. A third workflow is received at the first device, the third workflow including a plurality of third modules that are connected. An analogy workflow is determined based on a difference between the received first workflow and the received second workflow. The determined analogy workflow is applied to the received third workflow to define a fourth workflow. The defined fourth workflow is presented to a user at the first device. A method of identifying a workflow of a plurality of workflows is provided. A query workflow is received at a first device, which includes a plurality of modules that are connected. A workflow is identified of a plurality of workflows, the identified workflow at least partially matching the received query workflow. The identified workflow is presented to a user at the first device. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/697929 |
| ART UNIT | 3624 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/7.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060808 | Ostrovsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The TRDF Research and Development Foundation Ltd (, Israel) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rafail Ostrovsky (Los Angeles, California); Yuval Rabani (Haifa, Israel) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of embedding the edit distance metric into the Hamming distance metric with low distortion. In other words, two input character strings are mapped to two corresponding output bit strings such that the Hamming distance between the output strings is approximately proportional to the edit distance between the two corresponding input strings. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/816890 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08056423 | Abdallah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Lyndon Bridgwater (Houston, Texas); Myron A. Diftler (Houston, Texas); Douglas Martin Linn (White Lake, Michigan); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique that determines the tension in a tendon using a conduit reaction force applied to an end of a conduit through which the tendon is threaded. Any suitable tendon tension sensor can be employed that uses the conduit reaction force for this purpose. In one non-limiting embodiment, the tendon tension sensor includes a cylindrical strain gauge element and a force member mounted to an end of the conduit. The force member includes a cylindrical portion having a bore and a plate portion, where the cylindrical portion is inserted into a bore in the strain gauge element. The tendon is threaded through the strain gauge element and the force member. A strain gauge is mounted to the strain gauge element and measures the reaction force when tension on the tendon causes the strain gauge element to be pushed against the force member. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269552 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/826 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057283 | Savchenkov 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) | Anatoliy A. Savchenkov (Glendale, California); Andrey B. Matkso (Pasadena, California); Vladimir S. Iltchenko (Arcadia, California); Lute Maleki (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating a whispering gallery mode resonator (WGMR) is provided. The WGMR can be fabricated from a particular material, annealed, and then polished. The WGMR can be repeatedly annealed and then polished. The repeated polishing of the WGMR can be carried out using an abrasive slurry. The abrasive slurry can have a predetermined, constant grain size. Each subsequent polishing of the WGMR can use an abrasive slurry having a grain size that is smaller than the grain size of the abrasive slurry of the previous polishing iteration. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119989 |
| ART UNIT | 3727 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Abrading 451/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08057721 | Thrash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Thrash (Huntington Beach, California); Roger Alan Burgess (Long Beach, California); Alan M. Markus (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A resin infusion mold tool system for use in a vacuum assisted resin transfer molding process with a subsequent pressure bleed step. The mold tool system includes a mold assembly having an outer mold line tool connected to resin supply lines and supplying resin to the preform. A plurality of inner mold line tools form a hard interface with the inner mold line of the fiber preform and are held to within tight tolerances by an external locating fixture. Excess resin is drawn out of the fiber preform using a vacuum bag connected to vacuum lines and disposed over the inner mold line tools but not between the tools and the fiber preform. The mold assembly is placed in an autoclave, the resin supply lines are detached and the autoclave pressurized to bleed additional resin out of the preform to raise the fiber volume of the composite structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/030580 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058936 | Prestage et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Prestage (Pasadena, California); Sang K. Chung (La Verne, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An atomic ion clock with a first ion trap and a second ion trap, where the second ion trap is of higher order than the first ion trap. In one embodiment, ions may be shuttled back and forth from one ion trap to the other by application of voltage ramps to the electrodes in the ion traps, where microwave interrogation takes place when the ions are in the second ion trap, and fluorescence is induced and measured when the ions are in the first ion trap. In one embodiment, the RF voltages applied to the second ion trap to contain the ions are at a higher frequency than that applied to the first ion trap. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201848 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/94.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059273 | Park 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) | Yeonjoon Park (Yorktown, Virginia); Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Virginia); Glen C. King (Williamsburg, Virginia); James R. Elliott (Vesuvius, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectrometer system includes an optical assembly for collimating light, a micro-ring grating assembly having a plurality of coaxially-aligned ring gratings, an aperture device defining an aperture circumscribing a target focal point, and a photon detector. An electro-optical layer of the grating assembly may be electrically connected to an energy supply to change the refractive index of the electro-optical layer. Alternately, the gratings may be electrically connected to the energy supply and energized, e.g., with alternating voltages, to change the refractive index. A data recorder may record the predetermined spectral characteristic. A method of detecting a spectral characteristic of a predetermined wavelength of source light includes generating collimated light using an optical assembly, directing the collimated light onto the micro-ring grating assembly, and selectively energizing the micro-ring grating assembly to diffract the predetermined wavelength onto the target focal point, and detecting the spectral characteristic using a photon detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496788 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/328 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060250 | Reiland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan); The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew J. Reiland (Oxford, Michigan); Robert Platt (Houston, Texas); Charles W. Wampler, II (Birmingham, Michigan); Muhammad E. Abdallah (Houston, Texas); Brian Hargrave (Dickerson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling tendon-driven manipulators that provide a closed-loop control of joint torques or joint impedances without inducing dynamic coupling between joints. The method includes calculating tendon reference positions or motor commands by projecting a torque error into tendon position space using a single linear operation. The method calculates this torque error using sensed tendon tensions and a reference torque and internal tension. The method can be used to control joint impedance by calculating the reference torque based on a joint position error. The method limits minimum and maximum tendon tensions by projecting the torque error into the tendon tension space and then projecting ii back into joint space. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/335153 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060272 | Peters, II |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Peters, II (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described for mapping dense sensory data to a Sensory Ego Sphere (SES). Methods are also described for finding and ranking areas of interest in the images that form a complete visual scene on an SES. Further, attentional processing of image data is best done by performing attentional processing on individual full-size images from the image sequence, mapping each attentional location to the nearest node, and then summing all attentional locations at each node. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/947629 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060340 | Gao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cleveland State University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhiqiang Gao (Westlake, Ohio); Robert Miklosovic (Strongsville, Ohio); Aaron Radke (Westlake, Ohio); Wankun Zhou (Cleveland, Ohio); Qing Zheng (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Controller scaling and parameterization are described. Techniques that can be improved by employing the scaling and parameterization include, but are not limited to, controller design, tuning and optimization. The scaling and parameterization methods described here apply to transfer function based controllers, including PID controllers. The parameterization methods also apply to state feedback and state observer based controllers, as well as linear active disturbance rejection (ADRC) controllers. Parameterization simplifies the use of ADRC. A discrete extended state observer (DESO) and a generalized extended state observer (GESO) are described. They improve the performance of the ESO and therefore ADRC. A tracking control algorithm is also described that improves the performance of the ADRC controller. A general algorithm is described for applying ADRC to multi-input multi-output systems. Several specific applications of the control systems and processes are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/067141 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08060350 | Silva |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter A. Silva (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Computational aeroelastic analyses typically use a mathematical model for the structural modes of a flexible structure and a nonlinear aerodynamic model that can generate a plurality of unsteady aerodynamic responses based on the structural modes for conditions defining an aerodynamic condition of the flexible structure. In the present invention, a linear state-space model is generated using a single execution of the nonlinear aerodynamic model for all of the structural modes where a family of orthogonal functions is used as the inputs. Then, static and dynamic aeroelastic solutions are generated using computational interaction between the mathematical model and the linear state-space model for a plurality of periodic points in time. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056686 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08058206 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074979 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058207 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075010 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08059862 | O'Hara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mississippi State University Research and Technology Corporation (Mississippi State, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles G. O'Hara (Columbus, Mississippi); Anil Cheriyadat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Suyoung Seo (Starkville, Mississippi); Veeraraghavan Vijayaraj (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining change in a state of an object using images of the object, the method including providing a first image and a second image of the object, the first image and the second image being spaced apart in time, performing a plurality of pixel-based change detection algorithms to obtain a plurality of output difference products/images containing change information and pseudo change information, combining the plurality of output difference products to form a hybrid output difference product and thresholding the output difference product to detect changes in the object. |
| FILED | Friday, April 14, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/279841 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08058048 | Meng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Jin Meng (Blacksburg, Virginia); Martijn Fenaux (Redwood City, California); Patrick G. Halbur (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to infectious DNA clones, infectious chimeric DNA clones of porcine circovirus (PCV), vaccines and means of protecting pigs against viral infection or postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) caused by PCV2. The new chimeric infectious DNA clone and its derived, avirulent chimeric virus are constructed from the nonpathogenic PCV1 in which the immunogenic ORF gene of the pathogenic PCV2 replaces a gene of the nonpathogenic PCV1, preferably in the same position. The chimeric virus advantageously retains the nonpathogenic phenotype of PCV1 but elicits specific immune responses against the pathogenic PCV2. The invention further embraces the immunogenic polypeptide expression products. In addition, the invention encompasses two mutations in the PCV2 immunogenic capsid gene and protein, and the introduction of the ORF2 mutations in the chimeric clones. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/539540 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/235.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058248 | Grubman 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) | Marvin J. Grubman (Southold, New York); Jarasvech Chinsangaram (Beverly, Massachusetts); Marla Koster (Cutchogue, New York); Mauro P. Moraes (Vicosa, Brazil) |
| ABSTRACT | Early protection of susceptible animals against foot and mouth disease (FMD) may be achieved by inoculating the animals with a vaccine comprising an interferon DNA sequence. One day after inoculation, animals have been found protected from challenge with virulent foot and mouth disease virus. Co-administration with an effective foot and mouth disease virus vaccine provides protection prior to the development of specific immunity, a feature especially desireable during a FMD outbreak. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/128463 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08057682 | Hoag et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | VeruTEK Technologies, Inc. (Bloomfield, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George E. Hoag (Bloomfield, Connecticut); John B. Collins (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Rajender S. Varma (Cincinnati, Ohio); Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of making and using and compositions of metal nanoparticles formed by green chemistry synthetic techniques. For example, the present invention relates to metal nanoparticles formed with solutions of plant extracts and use of these metal nanoparticles in removing contaminants from soil and groundwater and other contaminated sites. In some embodiments, the invention comprises methods of making and using compositions of metal nanoparticles formed using green chemistry techniques. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/667384 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/688 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058000 | Shanks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Orin C. Shanks (Cincinnati, Ohio); Jorge Santo Domingo (Cincinnati, Ohio); James E. Graham (Louisville, Kentucky); Jingrang Lu (Mason, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Targeted sequencing of genetic regions that differ between two DNA preparations uses genomic fragment enrichment. This method can be used to study genetic variation among closely related species and microbial communities, particularly for identifying sources of fecal pollution. |
| FILED | Friday, April 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/429545 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08058906 | Niemier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Notre Dame Du Lac (Notre Dame, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael T. Niemier (Granger, Indiana); Mohammad T. Alam (Berkeley, California); Gary H. Bernstein (Granger, Indiana); Xiaobo Sharon Hu (Granger, Indiana); Wolfgang Porod (Granger, Indiana); Edit Varga (Gyula, Hungary) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-majority magnetic logic gate device for use in constructing compact and power efficient logical magnetic arrays is presented. The non-majority magnetic logic gate device includes a substrate, symmetrically aligned magnetic islands (SAMIs), at least one misaligned magnetic island (MAMI), magnetic field inputs (MFIs), and at least one magnetic field output (MFO). The SAMIs and MAMI are electrically isolated from each other but are magnetically coupled to one another through their respective magnetic fringe fields. The MAMI is geometrically and/or angularly configured to exhibit a magnetization ground state bias which is dependent upon which direction the applied magnetic clock field is swept. Non-majority logic gates can be made from layouts containing the SAMIs and the MAMI which contain a smaller number of components as comparable majority logic gate layouts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816777 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08060522 | Birdwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Birdwell (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Tse-Wei Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Roger D. Horn (Knoxville, Tennessee); Puneet Yadav (Fremont, California); David J. Icove (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles. A search engine utilizes hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel computer architecture, allowing scale up past previously feasible limits. Key benefits of the new method are logarithmic scale up and parallelization. These benefits are achieved by identification and utilization of naturally occurring patterns and clusters within stored data. The patterns and clusters enable the stored data to be partitioned into subsets of roughly equal size. The method can be applied recursively, resulting in a database tree that is balanced, meaning that all paths or branches through the tree have roughly the same length. The method achieves high performance by exploiting the natural structure of the data in a manner that maintains balanced trees. Implementation of the method maps naturally to parallel computer architectures, allowing scale up to very large databases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199010 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/764 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08057721 | Thrash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Thrash (Huntington Beach, California); Roger Alan Burgess (Long Beach, California); Alan M. Markus (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A resin infusion mold tool system for use in a vacuum assisted resin transfer molding process with a subsequent pressure bleed step. The mold tool system includes a mold assembly having an outer mold line tool connected to resin supply lines and supplying resin to the preform. A plurality of inner mold line tools form a hard interface with the inner mold line of the fiber preform and are held to within tight tolerances by an external locating fixture. Excess resin is drawn out of the fiber preform using a vacuum bag connected to vacuum lines and disposed over the inner mold line tools but not between the tools and the fiber preform. The mold assembly is placed in an autoclave, the resin supply lines are detached and the autoclave pressurized to bleed additional resin out of the preform to raise the fiber volume of the composite structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/030580 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/257 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08058014 | Gong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Da-Wei Gong (Olney, Maryland); John C. McLenithan (Baltimore, Maryland); Alan R. Shuldiner (Columbia, Maryland); Rong-Ze Yang (Ellicott City, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of diagnosing a disease or predicting an increased risk of a disease, such as obesity, obesity-dependent subacute inflammation, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease and a metabolic disease, by determining the levels of omentin 1 and 2 protein in a subject, or by determining the levels of omentin 1 and 2 gene expression in a subject. The present invention is also directed to methods of disease treatment using omentin 1 protein and omentin 2 protein. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/443146 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — 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 |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08059136 | Mathan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Santosh Mathan (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of efficiently and effectively triaging an image that may include one or more target entities are provided. An image that may include one or more target entities is retrieved. The retrieved image is then divided into a plurality of sub-images, and each sub-image is displayed in a display region to a user. Each sub-image that was previously displayed is then divided into a plurality of sub-images, and each sub-image that was just divided is displayed to the user in the display region. The steps in the previous sentence are then repeated a determined number of times. During the initial display of the sub-images, and during each subsequent recursion, data are collected from the user and estimates of target entity locations are derived from the collected data. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/954151 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/619 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08060751 | Kitaj et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Thomas Kitaj (Gilbert, Arizona); Sherman W. Paskett (Scottsdale, Arizona); Douglas Allan Hardy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Frank Edward Seeker (Glendale, Arizona); Steve Robert Tuggenberg (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A programmable electronic device (10) stores a number of cipher-text software modules (14) to which access is granted after evaluating a user's token (55, 80, 82), a software-restriction class (58) for a requested software module (14), and/or a currently active access-control model (60). Access-control models (60) span a range from uncontrolled to highly restrictive. Models (60) become automatically activated and deactivated as users are added to and deleted from the device (10). A virtual internal user proxy that does not require users to provide tokens (80, 82) is used to enable access to modules (16) classified in a global software-restriction class (62) or when an uncontrolled-access-control model (68) is active. Both licensed modules (76) and unlicensed modules (18,78) may be loaded in the device (10). However, no keys are provided to enable decryption of unlicensed modules (18,78). |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857501 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
| US 08058228 | Gonzalez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Biomedical Research Institute (Watertown, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruben Rene Gonzalez (Watertown, Massachusetts); Paul C. Leavis (Epping, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are peptides comprising a leptin sequence and methods for their use in preventing ObR signaling in a leptin-responsive cell. A leptin peptide of the present invention binds to but does not activate ObR signaling in a leptin-responsive cell, thereby inhibiting the up-regulatory effects of leptin on ObR signaling in the leptin-responsive cell. Administration of the peptide effectively prevents embryo implantation in a mammal to which the peptide has been administered. Also disclosed herein is a method for identifying a peptide antagonist of ObR, wherein the peptide comprises a leptin sequence. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/535077 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — 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 |
U.S. State Government
| US 08057398 | McNames et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | APDM, Inc. (Portland, Oregon); State of Oregon by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James McNames (Portland, Oregon); Pedro Mateo Riobo Aboy (Scottsdale, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed embodiments of the invention include a method, system, and apparatus to monitor cardiovascular signals such as arterial blood pressure (ABP), pulse oximetry (POX), and intracranial pressure (ICP). The system can be used to calculate and monitor useful clinical information such as heart rate, respiratory rate, pulse pressure variation (PPV), harmonic phases, pulse morphology, and for artifact removal. The method uses a statistical state-space model of cardiovascular signals and a generalized Kalman filter (EKF) to simultaneously estimate and track the cardiovascular parameters of interest such as the cardiac fundamental frequency and higher harmonics, respiratory fundamental frequency and higher harmonics, cardiac component harmonic amplitudes and phases, respiratory component harmonic amplitudes and phases, and PPV. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/200995 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/481 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08056204 | Suarez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Suarez (Mission Viejo, California); Bradley G. Weiskittel (Lake Forest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An extraction apparatus (40) for the removal of a riveted fastener (12) from a structure (10) includes a shaft (42) and a cutting element (62). The cutting element (62) is mechanically coupled to the shaft (42) and is configured to cut a portion of the riveted fastener (12). The shaft (42) and the cutting element (62) are configured for insertion through an inner channel (24) of the riveted fastener (12). A method of replacing the riveted fastener (12) from the structure (10) includes inserting the extraction apparatus (40) through the inner channel (24). The extraction apparatus (40) is rotated. A portion of the riveted fastener (12) that extends through the structure (10) is removed. A head (20) of the riveted fastener (12) is also removed from the structure. |
| FILED | Friday, August 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/870524 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/426.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08056370 | Rosenflanz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoly Z. Rosenflanz (Maplewood, Minnesota); Ahmet Celikkaya (Woodbury, Minnesota); Thomas J. Anderson (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of melt spinning to make amorphous and ceramic materials. |
| FILED | Friday, August 02, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/211684 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Glass manufacturing 065/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08058171 | Kelekar |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intermolecular, Inc. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajesh Kelekar (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and system for stirring liquid inside a flow cell. In one implementation, the apparatus includes a rotatable disc configured to receive liquid at a top side of the disc and distribute the liquid substantially evenly around a periphery of the flow cell. The disc has a triangular cross sectional area. The apparatus may further include a set of fins attached to a bottom side of the disc, wherein the set of fins is configured to draw the liquid from the periphery of the flow cell into the center of the flow cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/140926 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/678 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, November 15, 2011.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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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
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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
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