FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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| US 08061013 | Ayazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Ashwin Samarao (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro-electromechanical resonator includes an electrically-trimmed resonator body having at least one stiffness-enhanced semiconductor region therein containing metal-semiconductor lattice bonds. These metal-semiconductor lattice bonds may be gold-silicon lattice bonds and/or aluminum-silicon lattice bonds. A surface of the resonator body is mass-loaded with the metal, which may be provided by a plurality of spaced-apart metal islands. These metal islands may be aligned along a longitudinal axis of the resonator body. A size of the at least one stiffness-enhanced polycrystalline semiconductor region may be sufficient to yield an increase in resonant frequency of the resonator body relative to an otherwise equivalent resonator having a single crystal resonator body that is free of mass-loading by the metal. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534401 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/592.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061146 | Joe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher R. Joe (Wethersfield, Connecticut); Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact heat exchanger pedestal array for augmenting heat transfer in a machine is disclosed. The compact heat exchanger pedestal array includes a wall having first and second surfaces. The first surface faces a heated flow path and the second surface partially forms a flow path for cooling fluid. A plurality of pedestals extend from the second surface of the wall. At least one turbulator strip extends between adjacent pedestals. The turbulator strips and pedestals are operable for mixing the cooling fluid to increase heat transfer from the wall to the cooling fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/756237 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/806 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061201 | Ayazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Ajit Sharma (Richardson, Texas); Mohammad Faisal Zaman (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods and a sensor architecture that utilizes the residual quadrature error in a gyroscope to achieve and maintain perfect mode-matching, i.e., ˜0 Hz split between the drive and sense mode frequencies, and to electronically control sensor bandwidth. In a reduced-to-practice embodiment, a 6 mW, 3V CMOS ASIC and control algorithm are interfaced to a mode-matched MEMS tuning fork gyroscope to implement an angular rate sensor with bias drift as low as 0.15°/hr and angle random walk of 0.003°/√hr, which is the lowest recorded to date for a silicon MEMS gyroscope. The system bandwidth can be configured between 0.1 Hz and 1 kHz. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/218087 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08061214 — Biaxial stress, sheer, permeability, and peel test method and machine to conduct the same
| US 08061214 | Liggett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Liggett (Wooster, Ohio); Dennis L. Carter (Hudson, Ohio); Nicholas L. Barnes (Wellington, Ohio); James I. Mascolino (North Canton, Ohio); Anthony L. Dunne (Hudson, Ohio); Aaron C. Graham (Mogadore, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention relates to an apparatus and process for testing various parameters and properties of high strength flexible, fabric laminates. In particular, the apparatus comprises a machine using individually controlled loads to test various material parameters. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117016 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/788 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061241 | Rozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creare Incorporated (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Christopher Rozzi (Hanover, New Hampshire); Weibo Chen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Everett Edgar Archibald, Jr. (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A cutting tool having a cutting element such as an insert is cooled indirectly by a micro-channel heat exchanger that is mounted against the rear face of the insert. The heat exchanger is formed with an internal cavity that receives a coolant such as a cryogen. The cavity may include fins to enhance the removal of heat by the cryogen from the insert. Coolant inlet and outlet tubes are coupled to the interior of the heat exchanger to supply cryogen to the cavity. The flow rate of cryogen required to cool the insert during a given machining operation is less than one percent of the amount of standard coolant required to cool the same insert during the same machining operation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418688 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning 082/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061257 | Tonyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Gypsum Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy D. Tonyan (Wheaton, Illinois); William A. Frank (Lake Villa, Illinois); Ashish Dubey (Grayslake, Illinois); Kumar Natesaiyer (Grayslake, Illinois); Bartley P. Durst (Clinton, Mississippi); Pamela G. Kinnebrew (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Toney K. Cummins (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Nicholas Boone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); William F. Heard (Clinton, Mississippi); Michael J. Roth (Raymond, Mississippi); Thomas Slawson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); James L. Davis (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Ryan Stinson (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Carol F. Johnson (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A cementitious armor panel assembly including cementitious armor panel with ballistic and blast resistant properties attached to a frame structure to produce a protective structure. The cementitious armor panels have a continuous phase resulting from the curing of an aqueous mixture of an inorganic cement binder, an inorganic mineral filler having a particle size of about 150-450 microns, a pozzolanic mineral filler, a polycarboxylate based superplasticizer self-leveling agent, and water. The mixture may also contain alkanolamine, and acid or acid salt. Prior to curing, the continuous phase is reinforced with fiber uniformly distributed in the continuous phase before it is cured to form the panel. The panel may be reinforced with a skin attached to at least one surface of the panel. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/394564 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061258 | Hoadley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Foster-Miller, Inc. (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Hoadley (Lexington, Massachusetts); Robert Knochenhauer (Billerica, Massachusetts); Thieu Truong (North Easton, Massachusetts); Gary Anderson (Leominster, Massachusetts); Micheal Farinella (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A net deployment system which, in one example, includes a manifold assembly including multiple weight ducts and a bladder port. A weight is disposed in each weight duct and each weight is tied to the net. A bladder is behind the net and is over the bladder port. At least one inflator charge is associated with the manifold for inflating the bladder and firing the weights out of the weight ducts to deploy the net in the path of an incoming threat. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806093 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/36.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061275 | Gold |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washingon, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A fragmentation warhead includes a cylindrical body, and an explosive charge disposed within the innermost part of the warhead body. Upon detonation of the explosive charge, the warhead body is ultimately caused to shear and break into fragments with controlled sizes, shapes. This invention enables target-adaptable fragmentation output based selectively controlling the size of preformed fragments ejected. Preformed tungsten alloy fragments of a first “small” size “A” are sintered to be joined into a plurality of larger size fragments “B”, using a tungsten alloy matrix. The B fragments are then joined into a desired shell shape and thickness and sintered into a fragmenting shell body using a different tungsten alloy matrix with bonds of melting point considerably lower than amongst the A fragment bonds. |
| FILED | Friday, January 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/684224 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061343 | Kamen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DEKA Products Limited Partnership (Manchester, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean Kamen (Bedford, New Hampshire); Larry B. Gray (Merrimack, New Hampshire); Richard J. Lanigan (Concord, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A controllable launcher for propelling a payload through a predictable and repeatable trajectory to a desired height. The launcher has an energy source for propelling a carriage and a piston in substantially opposing directions and a controller for controlling the trajectory of the propelled payload to enable the payload to land gently at a safe impact distance from the edge of a destination structure. |
| FILED | Friday, October 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/255778 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Mechanical guns and projectors 124/71 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061461 | Couture et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam P. Couture (Allston, Massachusetts); Richard Page (Middleton, Massachusetts); John P. O'Brien (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is disclosed for a robotic vehicle to climb a step. The robotic vehicle uses tracked flippers to engage the top of the step and drives with additional tracks other than the tracked flippers. The robotic vehicle also shifts and tilts a payload in order to move the CG of the payload ahead of the vehicle chassis and past the edge of the step. |
| FILED | Friday, February 18, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/030671 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061533 | Mays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee); University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jimmy W. Mays (Knoxville, Tennessee); Suxiang Deng (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kenneth A. Mauritz (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Mohammad K. Hassan (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Samuel P. Gido (Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials prepared from polydienes, such as poly(cyclohexadiene), and hydrophilic polymers, such as poly(alkylene oxide), are described. Methods of making the materials and their use in fuel cell membranes, batteries, breathable chemical-biological protective materials, and templates for sol-gel polymerization are also provided. The materials can be crosslinked and sulfonated, and can include copolymers and polymer blends. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322205 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061570 | Holmes 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) | Charles G. Holmes (Panama City, Florida); Dennis G. Gallagher (Panama City, Florida); William D. Olstad (Panama City, Florida); William W. Hughes, III (Panama City, Florida); Charles M. Edmondson, II (Panama City, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An assembly for securing an apparatus to a facemask includes a U-shaped frame extending along similarly shaped portions of the facemask. Removable attachment clips secure the frame to the facemask. Two cylindrical pins with circumferential radiused grooves are attached to and extend from the top portion of the frame. The pins mate with bores in a clevis assembly, to which the apparatus can be attached. A spring-loaded bar spans between the bores. The bores in the clevis assembly receive the pins and the spring-bias causes the bar to engage with the grooves to secure the clevis assembly to the frame. A lever is rotatably attached to the clevis assembly. Pivoting the lever works against the spring-bias to lift the bar out of the grooves, disengaging the pins, and allowing the clevis assembly to be disengaged from the frame and facemask. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806257 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Package and article carriers 224/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061656 | Renn 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) | Philip Alan Renn (La Plata, Maryland); J. David De Leon (Bel Alton, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hinge apparatus for automated decoupling that includes an actuatable assembly normally coupled, very robust, and suitable for the hanging of a door/canopy and the like. When mounted, the apparatus is normally decoupled where rapid egress is necessary, and complete removal of the door/canopy is desired. The apparatus includes a hinge finger with a finger pin and a reciprocal hinge finger with a hinge gudgeon. The finger pin normally intersects and freely pivots with respect to the gudgeon, such as when the door/canopy is opened or closed. The actuatable assembly employs a SMDC tip device to actuate a piston that decouples the hinge. Decoupling is effected as the piston linearly shifts moving the hinge finger such that the finger pin no longer intersects the gudgeon and the door/canopy falls away. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/587316 |
| 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 244/122.AF0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061660 | Beidleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Composite Technology Development, Inc. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neal Beidleman (Aspen, Colorado); Gregg Freebury (Lafayette, Colorado); Will Francis (Boulder, Colorado); Mark Lake (Erie, Colorado); Rory Barrett (Erie, Colorado); Philip N. Keller (Longmont, Colorado); Robert Taylor (Superior, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A deployable structure is disclosed. The deployable structure may include one or more slit-tube longerons; and one or more flat sheets coupled with the one or more slit-tube longerons. The one or more slit-tube longerons and the one or more flat sheets may be stowed by rolling the one or more slit-tube longerons and the one or more flat sheets together into a roll. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the one or more slit-tube longerons may be exposed when stowed. In another embodiment, the one or more slit-tube longerons may be manufactured from a shape memory material. These slit-tube longerons unroll into to a straight configuration when exposed to heat. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/873615 |
| 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 244/172.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061892 | Lawless et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lawless (Pacifica, California); Robert J. Moffat (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Device and methods are provided for assessing a temperature exposure history of a sample that is comprised of a nonmetallic material. To assess the temperature exposure history, the pre-exposure and post-exposure electronic states of the sample are compared. Changes in the electronic state of the sample are indicative of the temperature exposure history. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/235788 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061975 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Michael Davis (West Chester, Ohio); Billy T. Wood (Cincinnati, Ohio); Kent Gerhard Huber (Lebanon, Ohio); Louis Bruno Lorenzi (Wyoming, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A bushing assembly for a turbine vane includes a bushing and a housing. The bushing includes a bore for receiving a trunnion of the vane, a first electrical contact carried on an outer surface thereof, and a first conductor extending from the first electrical contact. The first electrical contact is adapted to be connected to a heater element disposed on the vane. The housing is positioned over the bushing and rotatable relative to the bushing. The housing includes a second electrical contact disposed in contact with the first electrical contact and a second conductor extending from the second electrical contact for connection to an electrical power source. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/848801 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062443 | Fronabarger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (Chandler, Arizona); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Fronabarger (Sun Lakes, Arizona); Michael D. Williams (Gilbert, Arizona); Magdy M. Bichay (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present subject matter provide an improved percussion primer composition and improved hot-wire igniter acceptor, wherein lead styphnate is replaced with a lead-free material, 4,6-dinitro-7-hydroxybenzofuroxan, potassium salt (KDNP). Embodiments of the percussion primer composition include KDNP, a sensitizer, an oxidizer, calcium silicide, a fuel, and a binder. Sensitizers may include tetracene. Oxidizers may include alkali or alkaline earth nitrates, oxides, or peroxides (such as barium nitrate). Fuel materials may include metals, metal sulfides, or other non-metallic materials. Common binders may include nitrocellulose based shellacs, gum arabic/poly vinyl alcohol mixtures, and guar gum/poly vinyl alcohol mixtures. Embodiments of the hot-wire igniter device include a bridgewire, an acceptor, and an output, where KDNP is the acceptor. Power supply may be in the form of constant current/voltage or current flow from a capacitor discharge. Certain embodiments utilize a variety of output formulations, such as BKNO3, black powder, and Red Dot double base propellant. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/397420 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/109.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062491 | Gau |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jen-Jr Gau (Long Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and integrated circuit (IC) based biosensor capable of sensing or detecting various ionic molecules and macromelecules (DNA, RNA or protein). The MEMS based biosensor utilizes a hybridization and enzyme amplification scheme and an electrochemical detection scheme for sensitivity improvement and system miniaturization. The biosensor or biosensors are incorporated on a single substrate. Preferably, the biosensor system includes at least two electrodes. The electrodes includes a working electrode, a reference electrode and a counter (auxiliary) electrode. The biosensor or biosensors also provide an apparatus and method for confinement of reagent and/or solution in the biosensor or biosensors using surface tension at small scale. The confinement system provides controlled contacts between the reagent(s) and/or solution(s) with the components (i.e., electrodes) of the biosensor or biosensors using controllable surface properties and surface tension forces. The confinement system allows for incorporation of the biosensor or biosensors into a portable or handheld device and is immune to shaking and/or flipping. The invention also provides for a biosensor and/or sensors that are integrated with integrated circuit (IC) technologies. Preferably, the entire sensor system or systems are fabricated on a single IC substrate or chip and no external component and/or instrument is required for a complete detection system or systems. Preferably, the sensor system or systems are fabricated using the IC process and on a silicon substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154017 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/403.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062528 | Back et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mainstream Engineering Corp. (Rockledge, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dwight D. Back (Pembroke Pines, Florida); Lawrence R. Grzyll (Merritt Island, Florida); Deborah Stewart, legal representative (Merritt Island, Florida); Robert P. Scaringe (Rockledge, Florida); R. Paul Roth (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and components for heating and hydrating foods and beverages using an exothermic and pressure generating chemical reaction are described. The exothermic reaction can be initiated by water, spark, electrical impulse, squib, friction, or shock to heat non-potable water and force the water through a membrane filter, thereby producing heated, potable water. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/854197 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/652 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062729 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Partha S. Majumdar (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymeric material may be prepared by reacting a composition that includes polyol, polyisocyanate, and polyorganosiloxane having functional groups capable of reacting with the polyisocyanate, wherein the polymeric material has a surface which includes raised microdomains. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/827446 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062741 | Tonyan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Gypsum Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy D. Tonyan (Wheaton, Illinois); William A. Frank (Lake Villa, Illinois); Ashish Dubey (Grayslake, Illinois); Cesar Chan (Vernon Hills, Illinois); Bartley P. Durst (Clinton, Mississippi); Pamela G. Kinnebrew (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Toney K. Cummins (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Nicholas Boone (Vicksburg, Mississippi); William F. Heard (Clinton, Mississippi); Michael J. Roth (Raymond, Mississippi); James L. Davis (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A cementitious panel with ballistic and blast resistant properties having a core layer of ultra-high compressive strength composite and at least one skin layer. The panels can also be used in walls, ceiling and flooring panels which require high compressive strength for resistance to earthquakes and surfaces resistant to surface abuse such as in prison and other institutions. The panel core layer has a continuous cementitious phase resulting from the curing of an aqueous mixture, in the absence of silica flour, of inorganic cement binder, inorganic mineral filler having a particle size of about 150-450 microns, a pozzolanic mineral filler, polycarboxylate based superplasticizer, alkanolamine and acid or alkali metal acid salt; and water. The mixture may be uniformly reinforced with fiber added before curing. The cementitious core layer is then reinforced with the skin, such as fiber reinforced polymer, attached to at least one panel surface. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/394396 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/294.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062756 | Bocian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents oft the University of California (Oakland, California); North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David F. Bocian (Riverside, California); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jieying Jiao (Riverside, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a procedure for growing oligomers via a stepwise process. The oligomers can include porphyrins, which have been previously shown to be attractive candidates for molecular-based information storage. The stepwise synthesis procedure requires no protecting groups, thus eliminating protection/deprotection reactions that add complexity to the process. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/509319 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062791 | Peoppelmeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Peoppelmeier (Evanston, Illinois); Frederic Sauvage (Gumefens, Switzerland); Vincent Bodenez (Ploudern, France); Jean-Marie Tarascon (Mennecy, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery cathode comprises an electrode of silver, molybdenum, oxygen, fluorine and chlorine and having a higher discharge capacity expressed as milliampere hour per gram of material (mAh/g) available from silver reduction at a potential above 3V as compared to that of SVO material versus lithium. The battery cathode compound can be represented by Ag6 Mo2O7F3Cl. The cathode is devoted for primary lithium batteries application and most notably can be used in a medical battery, such as a defibrillator battery [e.g. implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) battery] having a lithium metal anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157443 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/219 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062846 | Bortolin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Smiths Detection-Edgewood, Inc. (Edgewood, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura T. Bortolin (Devens, Massachusetts); Lalitha Parameswaran (Burlington, Massachusetts); James Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Johanna Bobrow (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); Drew Chapman Brown (Towson, Maryland); Eric Scott Clasen (Hillsborough, New Jersey); John Calvin Schmidt (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for preparing a nucleic acid component of a sample for amplification includes a porous support having an agent that deactivates a nucleic acid amplification inhibitor component of the sample. The apparatus further includes a housing with an opening and defining an interior. The interior of the housing is in fluid communication with the porous support, and at least a portion of a fluid directed through the opening is directed through at least a portion of the porous support. The apparatus also includes a magnetic substrate for separating nucleic acid from a sample. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804598 |
| 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 08062849 | Sukumar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saraswati Sukumar (Columbia, Maryland); Mary Jo Fackler (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Theresa Swift-Scanlan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for diagnosing in a subject a condition, such as a carcinoma, sarcoma or leukemia, associated with hypermethylation of genes by isolating the genes from tissue containing as few as 50 to 1000 tumor cells. Using quantitative multiplex methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP), multiple genes can be quantitatively evaluated from samples usually yielding sufficient DNA for analyses of only 1 or 2 genes. DNA sequences isolated from the sample are simultaneously co-amplified in an initial multiplex round of PCR, and the methylation status of individual hypermethylation-prone gene promoter sequences is then determined separately or in multiplex using a real time PCR round that is methylation status-specific. Within genes of the panel, the level of promoter hypermethylation as well as the incidence of promoter hypermethylation can be determined and the level of genes in the panel can be scored cumulatively. The QM-MSP method is adaptable for high throughput automated technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976932 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062888 | Manuelidis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Laura Manuelidis (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Manuelidis (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Stable cell lines which produce the pathological form of PrP after infection with the infectious agent for CJD provide a high throughput assay to identify suitable treatment protocols and compositions. The stable cell lines also provide rich source of infectious CJD agent. They also may be used to identify vaccine candidates. Co-culture of neuronal cells with cells to be tested for infection with a TSE agent also provides a high throughput method for identifying infected cells. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/114411 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062889 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corp. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russel G. Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Eric M. Mishkin (Winter Springs, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Michael D. Rivard (Natick, Massachusetts); Santosh Pawar (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the tissues of the immune system in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates and other materials in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system, coupled with disease models to provide a more complete representation of an immune response. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/833640 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062890 | Kiessling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura L. Kiessling (Madison, Wisconsin); Ratmir Derda (Madison, Wisconsin); Brendan P. Orner (Singapore, Singapore); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the construction of arrays from self-assembling monolayers is described. The arrays have particular utility for the screening of peptides ligands that can foster the growth of cells in culture. This technique has been used to identify peptide ligands that foster the growth of human stem cells, which otherwise require an extracellular matrix in order to grow in an undifferentiated state. This also makes possible an assay to identify other such peptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504573 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/395 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063014 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas); Elia Beniash (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of promoting neuron growth and development by contacting cells with a peptide amphiphile molecule in an aqueous solution in the presence of a metal ion. According to the method, the peptide amphiphile forms a cylindrical micellar nanofiber composed of beta-sheets, which promote neuron growth and development. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797586 |
| 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 08063192 | Spormann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred M. Spormann (Stanford, California); Jochen A. Müller (Baltimore, Maryland); Bettina M. Rosner (Berlin, Delaware); Gregory Von Abendroth (Nannhein, Delaware); Galit Meshulam-Simon (Los Altos, California); Perry L McCarty (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided that relate to the bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes, particularly the bioremediation of vinyl chloride by Dehalococcoides-like organisms. An isolated strain of bacteria, Dehalococcoides sp. strain VS, that metabolizes vinyl chloride is provided; the genetic sequence of the enzyme responsible for vinyl chloride dehalogenation; methods of assessing the capability of endogenous organisms at an environmental site to metabolize vinyl chloride; and a method of using the strains of the invention for bioremediation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/659064 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063228 | Schneider 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) | Stefan Schneider (Palmdale, California); Tommy W. Hawkins (Lancaster, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of preparing heterocyclic triazolium-based nitrate salts by a streamlined process are provided. Such salts offer energetic performance as well as pharmaceutical potential. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/902428 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063347 | Urbano et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonardo F. Urbano (Ridgewood, New York); Gregory F. Bock (Ivyland, Pennsylvania); Ivy T. Moffett (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for engaging a target uses sensors to generate target track(s). The tracks are projected forward in time and associated with a track quality measure. The maximum seeker look angle and beamwidth, acceleration, and net radar sensitivity characteristics are listed for each type of interceptor. A plurality of target intercept times are generated for each interceptor type. The probability that the interceptor can acquire the target is determined from the projected target tracks, the quality measure, and the characteristics. The probability of hitting the target is determined from the probability of acquisition and acceleration of the interceptor type. The probabilities of acquisition and of hitting the target are aggregated, and the type of interceptor to use is the type having (a) an extreme value of the aggregation or (b) the earliest intercept time from among the interceptors having an aggregation value above a threshold value. |
| FILED | Monday, January 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355851 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063348 | Swaminathan 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) | Venkataraman Swaminathan (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Paul D. Willson (Rockaway, New Jersey); Deepak Bupathi (East Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for detection of optical type devices being used by an enemy sniper subject without alerting the enemy is shown. A coherent laser beam of a wave length in the visible color range, is sent along an axis and passing through a beam splitter device. A detection means is arranged to generate a signal when it detects retro-reflections from the target optical devices or subject including clutter reflections in a 180 degree direction relative to axis. The detection means is coaxially mounted with the source of illumination with a second detection means off axis therefrom to generate a second detection signal when it detects clutter reflections from the target optical devices or subject. A comparator means forms a difference signal between the retro-reflected detection signal and the second detection signal and indicates when the difference signal exceeds a predetermined threshold. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476581 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/203.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063362 | Dressler 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) | Rainer A. Dressler (Arlington, Massachusetts); Yu-Hui Chiu (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An ionic liquid membrane provides both vacuum sealing and ion transport for a mass spectrometer. Ion transport is necessary to take advantage of modern Electrospray Ionization (ESI) and Desorption Electrospray Ionization (DESI) methods. Combining vacuum sealing for the mass spectrometer with ion transport into the mass spectrometer reduces, and can eliminate, the need for multiple differential pumping stages significantly reducing size, weight and power requirements. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/500180 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/289 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063365 | Standiford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KLA-Tencor Corporation (Milpitas, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Keith Standiford (Carmel, California); Alan Brodie (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment relates to an electron source apparatus for an electron beam lithography tool or an electron beam inspection tool. A cathode is configured to emit electrons, and an anode is configured to accelerate the electrons so as to create an electron beam. There are no beam apertures in the electron source apparatus that are positioned at non-focal planes. An electron lens may be configured to focus the electron beam to form a cathode image at a focal plane, and a beam aperture may positioned at the focal plane. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326518 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063473 | Thai 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) | Serey Thai (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Paul R. de la Houssaye (San Diego, California); Randy L. Shimabukuro (Kapolel, Hawaii); Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanophotonic device. The device includes a substrate, at least one light emitting structure and at least one electronic component. The at least one light emitting structure is capable of transmitting light and is monolithically integrated on the substrate. The at least one electronic component is monolithically integrated on the substrate. A method for fabricating nanophotonic devices is also described. |
| FILED | Monday, November 29, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/001597 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/678 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063535 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritiraj Mohanty (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexei Gaidarzhy (Allston, Massachusetts); Guiti Zolfagharkhani (Allston, Massachusetts); Robert L. Badzey (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical oscillator has components with dimensions in a sub-micron range to produce resonance mode oscillations in a gigahertz range. A major element is coupled to a minor, sub-micron element to produce large amplitude gigahertz frequency oscillation that is detected with readily available techniques. The mechanical structure can be formed according to a number of geometries including beams and rings and is excited with electrostatic, magnetic and thermal related forces, as well as other excitation techniques. The mechanical structure can be arranged in arrays for applications such as amplification and mixing and is less sensitive to shock and radiative environments than electrical or optical counterparts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/813342 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063838 | Tonn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Tonn (Charlestown, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a submarine mast antenna controller for controlling a plurality of functions performed by an antenna mast of a submarine. The submarine mast antenna controller is a solid state electronic control unit on a single card that monitors various submarine mast antenna system sensors and motors, and controls electromechanical devices associated with the sensors and improves functionality over the former ACU system by consolidating control interfaces and indicators in one computer terminal via a VXI interface. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383082 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/709 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063844 | Pease |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kutta Technologies, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian L. Pease (Milton, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | An omnidirectional antenna system. Implementations may include an antenna having a wire loop and a single ferrite rod loop. The single ferrite rod loop may be oriented substantially parallel to a plane formed by the wire loop. The single ferrite rod loop may include a plurality of windings and a ferrite rod having a length and two ends. The two ends of the ferrite rod may be substantially centered relative to the wire loop. The plurality of windings may be distributed across a majority of the length of the ferrite rod. |
| FILED | Monday, January 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970142 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/788 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063848 | Perkins, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas O Perkins, III (Bedford, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An X, Ku, and K-band omni-directional antenna with dielectric loading is disclosed. It comprises a conductor with a loading dielectric resonator and a ground plane. Broad frequency coverage from 7.5 to 26 GHz includes uniform azimuthal coverage from +10 to +70 degrees. The antenna can be used generally in microwave communications including Digital Radio Frequency Tags (DRaFTs) communicating with airborne and satellite platforms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/326118 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/911.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063915 | Champion et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Simquest LLC (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard Champion (Annapolis, Maryland); Paul Sherman (Seattle, Washington); Mary M. Lawnick (Olney, Maryland); Paul M. Cashman (North Reading, Massachusetts); Harald Scheirich (Washington, District of Columbia); Timothy Patrick Kelliher (Scotia, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D surface wound, injury, and personal protective equipment (PPE) data entry system provides an easily usable graphical user interface through which an examiner can objectively record data relating to surface wounds and injuries sustained by a subject human, as well as PPE used when the wounds/injuries were sustained. The system includes a 3D human model onto which the examiner draws the surface wound(s) and/or damage to the PPE. The subject human's record is stored in a database of similar records. The database records comprise quantifiable, objective data that is easily compared and analyzed. An analysis tool can aggregate a selected population of human subjects within the database to create wound density information that can be statistically analyzed and/or displayed on a standard 3D human model. Such objective wound density information may facilitate improved medical and/or tactical training, and improved PPE design. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/756908 |
| 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 08063936 | Samarasekera et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Corporation (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Supun Samarasekera (Princeton, New Jersey); Vincent Paragano (Yardley, Pennsylvania); Harpreet Sawhney (West Windsor, New Jersey); Manoj Aggarwal (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Keith Hanna (Princeton, New Jersey); Rakesh Kumar (Monmouth Junction, New Jersey); Aydin Arpa (Plainsboro, New Jersey); Philip Miller (Yardley, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an aspect of the invention, a system for providing immersive surveillance a site has a plurality of cameras each producing a respective raw video of a respective portion of the site. A processing component receives the raw video from the cameras and generates processed video from it. A visualization engine is coupled to the processing system, and receives the processed video therefrom. The visualization engine renders real-time images corresponding to a view of the site in which at least a portion of the processed video is overlaid onto a rendering of an image based on a computer model of the site. The visualization engine displays the images in real time to a viewer. The processing component comprises first and second filter modules. The second filter module processes video received as output from the first filter module. A controller component controls all transmission of data and video between the first and second filter modules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/628376 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064060 | Antonelli 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) | Lynn T. Antonelli (Cranston, Rhode Island); Armando M. Simao (Pawcatuck, Connecticut); Donald I. Woodward (Wakefield, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A plurality of optical sensors are mounted to a housing made of optically conductive material. The housing seals the optical sensors from a water-filled tube which extends through said housing. The optically conductive material provides optical coupling with the water-filled cable tube whereby a plurality of light beams are directed through the housing and the water-filled tube in a predetermined pattern, which provides certainty of the absence or presence of a cable within the water-filled cable tube for a minimum cable diameter regardless of the orientation of the cable within the water-filled tube. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/730398 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/435 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064421 | Bronez |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Bronez (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for reliable neighbor discovery in wireless ad hoc networks are provided herein. In one aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for analyzing the quality of a communication link. In embodiments, several factors affecting link quality may be incorporated in the analysis, and basic and/or complex statistical and/or probabilistic analysis may be used. In another aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for neighbor node discovery that adapt to network and/or node operating conditions and that dynamically maintain a neighbor node set at a given node according to these conditions. In a further aspect, embodiments of the present invention extend the utility of neighbor node discovery beyond the customary role of data routing support into the problem of deploying an ad hoc network by providing a display module for displaying node connectivity information. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719512 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064528 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-selective fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols by inserting training symbols within two or more blocks of information-bearing symbols. The transmitter applies a hopping code to each of the blocks of symbols to insert a null subcarrier at a different position within each of the blocks of symbols, and a modulator outputs a wireless signal in accordance with the blocks of symbols. A receiver receives the wireless signal and estimates the CFO, and outputs a stream of estimated symbols based on the estimated CFO. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850961 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064541 | Caldwell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Caldwell (Monterey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A communications system and method for transmitting digital information includes arranging a modulator to have an input bit stream of binary data and arranging a signal generator to generate four orthonormal hyper phase shift keying (HPSK) basis functions that are periodic functions with a duration T. A bit to symbol mapper is arranged to combine the bit stream and the HPSK basis functions to form a succession of 4-bit HPSK symbols for 16-HPSK, 5-bit HPSK symbols for 32-HPSK or 6-bit HPSK symbols for 64-HPSK, and a transmitter is arranged to transmit signals indicative of the HPSK symbols. A receiver is arranged to receive the signals from the transmitter and the HPSK symbols are demodulated with the HPSK basis functions to reproduce the bit stream of binary data. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350703 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064555 | Rockway 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) | John W. Rockway (San Diego, California); Diana Arceo (San Diego, California); Jeffery C. Allen (San Diego, California); Karl Moeller (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes an input multi-level channelizer, an output multi-level channelizer, and more than one amplifiers connected between the input and output channelizers. The input and output channelizers cover an operating frequency band. Each level of the input multi-level channelizer comprises a plurality of input channels, which may be bandpass filters, and may be grouped into input sub-channelizers. Each successive level of the input multi-level channelizer is configured to divide the incoming signals into smaller frequency bands. Each level of the output multi-level channelizer comprises a plurality of output channels, which may be bandpass filters, and may be grouped into output sub-channelizers. Each successive level of the output multi-level channelizer is configured to combine the incoming signals into larger frequency bands. The signal output from the output multi-level channelizer represents a filtered version of the signal input into the input multi-level channelizer. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/358029 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/349 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064640 | Wirtz 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) | Michael M. Wirtz (Ridgecrest, California); Patrick Simpson (Ridgecrest, California); Frank Modlinski (Ridgecrest, California); David Schaeffer (Ridgecrest, California); An Vinh (Ridgecrest, California); Felipe Jauregui (Ridgecrest, California); Brett Edwards (Ridgecrest, California); Diane Tilley (Inyokern, California); Wendy Chang (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A software application to generate a Precision Fires Image (PFI) which provides a precision targeting coordinate to guide an air launched weapon using a forward deployed hand held hardware device executing the PFI software application. Suitable hardware devices to execute the PFI software application include the Windows CE handheld and the Army Pocket Forward Entry Device (PFED). Precision targeting coordinates derived from the PFI software application are compatible with most military target planning and weapon delivery systems. |
| FILED | Monday, November 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/942362 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064688 | Schneiderman |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry Schneiderman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for determining a classifier to discriminate between two classes—object or non-object. The classifier may be used by an object detection program to detect presence of a 3D object in a 2D image (e.g., a photograph or an X-ray image). The overall classifier is constructed of a sequence of classifiers (or “sub-classifiers”), where each such classifier is based on a ratio of two graphical probability models (e.g., Bayesian networks). A discrete-valued variable representation at each node in a Bayesian network by a two-stage process of tree-structured vector quantization is discussed. The overall classifier may be part of an object detector program that is trained to automatically detect many different types of 3D objects (e.g., human faces, airplanes, cars, etc.). Computationally efficient statistical methods to evaluate overall classifiers are disclosed. The Bayesian network-based classifier may also be used to determine if two observations (e.g., two images) belong to the same category. For example, in case of face recognition, the classifier may determine whether two photographs are of the same person. A method to provide lighting correction or adjustment to compensate for differences in various lighting conditions of input images is disclosed as well. As per the rules governing abstracts, the content of this abstract should not be used to construe the claims in this application. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259371 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064722 | Rose-Pehrsson 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) | Susan L. Rose-Pehrsson (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Mark H. Hammond (Alexandria, Virginia); Kevin J. Johnson (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system of analyzing signal-vector data from first order sensors including providing a training data set, adjusting the training data set using a background adjustment technique, normalizing and transforming the training data set into wavelet coefficients, using an automated analysis of variance feature selection technique and a pattern recognition technique to classify the training data set. The method and system may also include performing these operations on an unknown sample data set collected under unknown conditions and comparing the unknown sample data set to the classification model to provide an identity of the unknown conditions associated with the unknown sample data set. The present invention is also directed to a computer system for analyzing signal-vector data according to this method and a sensing system that includes a sensor and a microprocessor on which is stored a classification model for real-time sensing of unknown sample data sets. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/682423 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064840 | McHenry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Alexe E. Leu (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and transceiver for determining spectrum availability within a give area is disclosed. The given area includes cells in a grid. A belief evaluator receives a measurement from a signal and assigns an instantaneous belief indicator, an instantaneous disbelief indicator and an instantaneous ignorance indicator based on a detection threshold and the power level of the measurement. The indicators quantify the probability of a presence of a transmitter within the grid cell. A belief accumulator uses the instantaneous indicators along with accumulated belief, disbelief and ignorance indicators from previous measurements to determine cumulative belief, disbelief and ignorance indicators. The accumulated belief, disbelief and ignorance indicators are the results of previous measurements and belief/disbelief/ignorance determinations for the grid cell. An allocator indicates the status of the grid cell and whether a spectrum is available. If a spectrum is available, then the grid cell is added to other available cells within the area to generate the spectrum hole. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487257 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/67.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065046 | Bandyopadhyay 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) | Promode R. Bandyopadhyay (Middletown, Rhode Island); Sahjendra Singh (Henderson, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Non-linear control laws are disclosed and implemented with a controller and control system for maneuvering an underwater vehicle. The control laws change the phase of one Inferior-Olive (IO) neuron with respect to another IO. One control law is global, that is, the control law works (stable and convergent) for any initial condition. The remaining three control laws are local. The control laws are obtained by applying feedback linearization, while retaining non-linear characteristics. Each control law generates a profile (time history) of the control signal to produce a desired phase difference recognizable by a controller to respond to disturbances and to maneuver an underwater vehicle. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/021555 |
| ART UNIT | 3664 — 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 71/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08065111 — Systems and methods for optimization of missile and projectile aerodynamic configurations
| US 08065111 | Gonzalez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Gonzalez (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides systems and methods to aid engineers and designers in pinpointing optimal aerodynamic designs given a target objective. Advantageously, the present invention allows a user to tackle shifts in requirements or to simply conduct preliminary design feasibilities, quickly and efficiently. The present invention includes: (1) a genetic algorithm-based optimizing routine; (2) an existing semi-empirical, aeropredictive code (APC); and (3) an interface between the two. The present invention defines bounds for an array of variables that define the overall aerodynamic geometry and performance measures of a device. The genetic algorithm-based optimizing routine interfaces with the APC to determine a design that best fits the requirements. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/319914 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065257 | Kuecuekyan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saab Sensis Corporation (East Syracuse, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Horen Kuecuekyan (Chantilly, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of data correlation and analysis of past activities and prediction of future activity that includes establishing a database comprising structured metadata on at least one computer and a distributed system of networked computers having a plurality of access levels, configuring a database front-end to parse incoming data, the database front-end defining a plurality of entities and events, each having one or more attributes, and correlation IDs, which are user defined attribute relationships that correlate events and entities, collecting data, parsing the incoming data in the database front-end into structured metadata, the distributed analysis engine correlating the incoming structured metadata with structured metadata in the database and determining micro-patterns in the structured metadata, generating a graphical representation of a composite network of the determined micro-patterns as super-objects, and predicting future activity from the one or more super-objects representing the determined micro-patterns. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/997950 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065634 | Patil et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nishant Patil (Mountain View, California); Subhasish Mitra (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for validating a nanotube logic network. The nanotube logic network is separated into regions based on a conductivity of the respective region. Potential paths through adjoining regions of the nanotube logic network are determined. Boolean path functions for each potential path are determined. If the Boolean path functions of the potential paths are equivalent to the intended logic function, then the nanotube logic network is immune to misaligned carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/240409 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065681 | Jia |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bin Jia (West New York, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, information processing node, and a computer program storage product are provided for performing synchronization operations between participants of a program. Each participant includes at least one of a set of processes and a set of threads. Each participant in a first subset of participants of a program updates a portion of a first local vector that is local to the respective participant. Each participant in a second subset of participants of the program updates a portion of a second local vector that is local to the respective participant. The participants in the second subset exit the synchronization barrier in response to determining that all of the participants in the first subset have reached the synchronization barrier. |
| FILED | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/871604 |
| ART UNIT | 2448 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/102 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065722 | Barford et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Robert Barford (Madison, Wisconsin); Jonathon Thomas Giffin (Madison, Wisconsin); Somesh Jha (Madison, Wisconsin); Vinod Trivandrum Yegneswaran (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An automatic technique for generating signatures for malicious network traffic performs a cluster analysis of known malicious traffic to create a signature in the form of a state machine. The cluster analysis may operate on semantically tagged data collected by connection or session and normalized to eliminate protocol specific features. The signature extractor may generalize the finite-state machine signatures to match network traffic not previously observed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/085633 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D648973 | De′ Longhi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | De' Longhi Appliances ARL Con Unico Socio (Treviso, Italy) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giuseppe De′ Longhi (Treviso, Italy) |
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| FILED | Wednesday, January 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 29/383107 |
| ART UNIT | 2915 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Equipment for preparing or serving food or drink not elsewhere specified D7/309 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08061091 | Botkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sunpower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan Botkin (El Cerrito, California); Simon Graves (Berkeley, California); Matt Danning (Oakland, California); Matthew Culligan (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A PV module kit for non-penetrating rooftop installation, including a plurality of PV modules and a plurality of connectors. Each of the PV modules includes a PV laminate and a frame forming a mounting region assembled thereto. The connectors include a male connector having a male fastener extending from a head, and a female connector having a female fastener assembled within a head. The heads are entirely formed of plastic. The kit provides a mounted array state including a junction at which the mounting region of at least two of the PV modules are aligned and interconnected by engagement of the male connector with the female connector. The so-formed junction is substantially electrically insulated. The plurality of connectors can further include a spacer connector including a head forming a bore sized to slidably receive the male fastener, with all of the connector heads being identical. |
| FILED | Friday, June 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/492680 |
| ART UNIT | 3633 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061187 | Kelly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan T Kelly (West Richland, Washington); Keqi Tang (Richland, Washington); Jason S Page (Kennewick, Washington); Richard D Smith (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A transfer structure for droplet-based microfluidic analysis is characterized by a first conduit containing a first stream having at least one immiscible droplet of aqueous material and a second conduit containing a second stream comprising an aqueous fluid. The interface between the first conduit and the second conduit can define a plurality of apertures, wherein the apertures are sized to prevent exchange of the first and second streams between conduits while allowing lossless transfer of droplets from the first conduit to the second conduit through contact between the first and second streams. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430490 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/61.550 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061207 | Panetta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Panetta (Williamsburg, Virginia); Marino Morra (Richland, Washington); Kenneth I. Johnson (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Generally speaking, the method of the present invention is performed by making various ultrasonic scans at preselected orientations along the length of a material being tested. Data from the scans are then plotted together with various calculated parameters that are calculated from this data. Lines or curves are then fitted to the respective plotted points. Review of these plotted curves allows the location and severity of defects within these sections to be determined and quantified. With this information various other decisions related to how, when or whether repair or replacement of a particular portion of a structure can be made. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/392845 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/622 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061413 | Turner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry D. Turner (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Bruce M Wilding (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat exchanger and associated methods for sublimating solid particles therein, for conveying fluids therethrough, or both. The heat exchanger includes a chamber, and a porous member having a porous wall having pores in communication with the chamber and an interior of the porous member. A first fluid is conveyed into the porous member while a second fluid is conveyed into the porous member through the porous wall. The second fluid may form a positive flow boundary layer along the porous wall to reduce or eliminate substantial contact between the first fluid and the interior of the porous wall. The combined first and second fluids are conveyed out of the porous member. Additionally, the first fluid and the second fluid may each be conveyed into the porous member at different temperatures and may exit the porous member at substantially the same temperature. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/855071 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/104.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061533 | Mays et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee); University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jimmy W. Mays (Knoxville, Tennessee); Suxiang Deng (Knoxville, Tennessee); Kenneth A. Mauritz (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Mohammad K. Hassan (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Samuel P. Gido (Hadley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Materials prepared from polydienes, such as poly(cyclohexadiene), and hydrophilic polymers, such as poly(alkylene oxide), are described. Methods of making the materials and their use in fuel cell membranes, batteries, breathable chemical-biological protective materials, and templates for sol-gel polymerization are also provided. The materials can be crosslinked and sulfonated, and can include copolymers and polymer blends. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/322205 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/500.270 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061579 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhili Feng (Knoxville, Tennessee); Stan A. David (Knoxville, Tennessee); David Alan Frederick (Harriman, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for forming an enhanced material or structure are disclosed. The structure typically includes a preform that has a first common surface and a recess below the first common surface. A filler is added to the recess and seams are friction stir welded, and materials may be stir mixed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/816401 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/112.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061580 | Ripley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming and assembling at least two parts together that may be metal, ceramic, or a combination of metal and ceramic parts. Such parts may have different CTE. Individual parts that are formed and sintered from particles leave a network of interconnecting porosity in each sintered part. The separate parts are assembled together and then a fill material is infiltrated into the assembled parts using a method such as capillary action, gravity, and/or pressure. The assembly is then cured to yield a bonded and fully or near-fully dense part that has the desired physical and mechanical properties for the part's intended purpose. Structural strength may be added to the parts by the inclusion of fibrous materials. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952283 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/122.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062408 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shiaguo Chen (Champaign, Illinois); Yonggi Lu (Urbana, Illinois); Massoud Rostam-Abadi (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for separating a targeted gas from a gas stream emitted from a power plant. The gas stream is brought into contact with an absorption solution to preferentially absorb the targeted gas to be separated from the gas stream so that an absorbed gas is present within the absorption solution. This provides a gas-rich solution, which is introduced into a stripper. Low pressure exhaust steam from a low pressure steam turbine of the power plant is injected into the stripper with the gas-rich solution. The absorbed gas from the gas-rich solution is stripped in the stripper using the injected low pressure steam to provide a gas stream containing the targeted gas. The stripper is at or near vacuum. Water vapor in a gas stream from the stripper is condensed in a condenser operating at a pressure lower than the stripper to concentrate the targeted gas. Condensed water is separated from the concentrated targeted gas. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/801197 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/163 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062418 | Constantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Calera Corporation (Los Gatos, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent R. Constantz (Portola Valley, California); Kasra Farsad (San Jose, California); Chris Camire (San Jose, California); Joshua Patterson (Freedom, California); Matthew Ginder-Vogel (Los Gatos, California); Karin Yaccato (San Jose, California); John Stagnaro (Santa Clara, California); Martin Devenney (Mountain View, California); Justin Ries (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods including hydraulic cement, supplementary cementitious material, and/or self-cementing material. Methods for making the compositions and using the compositions are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857289 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/738 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062421 | Alivisatos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | A. Paul Alivisatos (Oakland, California); Erik C. Scher (Menlo Park, California); Liberato Manna (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Shaped nanocrystal particles and methods for making shaped nanocrystal particles are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method for forming a branched, nanocrystal particle. It includes (a) forming a core having a first crystal structure in a solution, (b) forming a first arm extending from the core having a second crystal structure in the solution, and (c) forming a second arm extending from the core having the second crystal structure in the solution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/869585 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062552 | Adzic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); Junliang Zhang (Stony Brook, New York); Miomir Vukmirovic (Port Jefferson Station, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to platinum-metal oxide composite particles and their use as electrocatalysts in oxygen-reducing cathodes and fuel cells. The invention particularly relates to methods for preventing the oxidation of the platinum electrocatalyst in the cathodes of fuel cells by use of these platinum-metal oxide composite particles. The invention additionally relates to methods for producing electrical energy by supplying such a fuel cell with an oxidant, such as oxygen, and a fuel source, such as hydrogen. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/132378 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062704 | Jonczyk |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Motech Americas, LLC (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralf Jonczyk (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a release coating includes the following steps: forming a mixture that includes (a) solid components comprising (i) 20-99% silicon by weight and (ii) 1-80% silicon nitride by weight and (b) a solvent; applying the mixture to an inner portion of a crucible or graphite board adapted to form an ingot or wafer comprising silicon; and annealing the mixture in a nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature ranging from 1000 to 2000° C. The invention may also relate to release coatings and methods of making a silicon ingot or wafer including the use of a release coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/832871 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062792 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sun-Ho Kang (Naperville, Illinois); Khalil Amine (Downers Grove, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes are provided for making dense, spherical mixed-metal carbonate or phosphate precursors that are particularly well suited for the production of active materials for electrochemical devices such as lithium ion secondary batteries. Exemplified methods include precipitating dense, spherical particles of metal carbonates or metal phosphates from a combined aqueous solution using a precipitating agent such as ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium hydrogen carbonate, or a mixture that includes sodium hydrogen carbonate. Other exemplified methods include precipitating dense, spherical particles of metal phosphates using a precipitating agent such as ammonium hydrogen phosphate, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, sodium phosphate, sodium hydrogen phosphate, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, or a mixture of any two or more thereof. Further provided are compositions of and methods of making dense, spherical metal oxides and metal phosphates using the dense, spherical metal precursors. Still further provided are electrodes and batteries using the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/410757 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.100 |
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| US 08062868 | Evans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barbara R. Evans (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hugh M. O'Neill (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jonathan Woodward (Ashtead, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically conductive cellulose composite includes a cellulose matrix and an electrically conductive carbonaceous material incorporated into the cellulose matrix. The electrical conductivity of the cellulose composite is at least 10 μS/cm at 25° C. The composite can be made by incorporating the electrically conductive carbonaceous material into a culture medium with a cellulose-producing organism, such as Gluconoacetobacter hansenii. The composites can be used to form electrodes, such as for use in membrane electrode assemblies for fuel cells. |
| FILED | Monday, March 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/728594 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062885 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981296 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062893 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zidong Wang (Urbana, Illinois); Jung Heon Lee (Evanston, Illinois); Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a sensor for detecting mercury, comprising: a first polynucleotide, comprising a first region, and a second region, a second polynucleotide, a third polynucleotide, a fluorophore, and a quencher, wherein the third polynucleotide is optionally linked to the second region; the fluorophore is linked to the first polynucleotide and the quencher is linked to the second polynucleotide, or the fluorophore is linked to the second polynucleotide and the quencher is linked to the first polynucleotide; the first region and the second region hybridize to the second polynucleotide; and the second region binds to the third polynucleotide in the presence of Hg2+ ions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564715 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/74 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063014 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas); Elia Beniash (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of promoting neuron growth and development by contacting cells with a peptide amphiphile molecule in an aqueous solution in the presence of a metal ion. According to the method, the peptide amphiphile forms a cylindrical micellar nanofiber composed of beta-sheets, which promote neuron growth and development. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797586 |
| 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 08063111 | Pivovar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bryan S. Pivovar (Los Alamos, New Mexico); David L. Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Anion-conducing polymers and membranes with enhanced stability to aqueous alkali include a polymer backbone with attached sulfonium, phosphazenium, phosphazene, and guanidinium residues. Compositions also with enhanced stability to aqueous alkali include a support embedded with sulfonium, phosphazenium, and guanidinium salts. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/917041 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/25 |
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| US 08063174 | Klaehn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric S. Peterson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Christopher J. Orme (Shelley, Idaho); Michael G. Jones (Chubbuck, Idaho); Alan K. Wertsching (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Thomas A. Luther (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Tammy L. Trowbridge (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A PBI compound includes imidazole nitrogens at least a portion of which are substituted with a moiety containing a carbonyl group, the substituted imidazole nitrogens being bonded to carbon of the carbonyl group. At least 85% of the nitrogens may be substituted. The carbonyl-containing moiety may include RCO—, where R is alkoxy or haloalkyl. The PBI compound may exhibit a first temperature marking an onset of weight loss corresponding to reversion of the substituted PBI that is less than a second temperature marking an onset of decomposition of an otherwise identical PBI compound without the substituted moiety. The PBI compound may be included in separatory media. A substituted PBI synthesis method may include providing a parent PBI in a less than 5 wt % solvent solution. Substituting may use more than 5 equivalents in relation to the imidazole nitrogens to be substituted. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933604 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063192 | Spormann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred M. Spormann (Stanford, California); Jochen A. Müller (Baltimore, Maryland); Bettina M. Rosner (Berlin, Delaware); Gregory Von Abendroth (Nannhein, Delaware); Galit Meshulam-Simon (Los Altos, California); Perry L McCarty (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided that relate to the bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes, particularly the bioremediation of vinyl chloride by Dehalococcoides-like organisms. An isolated strain of bacteria, Dehalococcoides sp. strain VS, that metabolizes vinyl chloride is provided; the genetic sequence of the enzyme responsible for vinyl chloride dehalogenation; methods of assessing the capability of endogenous organisms at an environmental site to metabolize vinyl chloride; and a method of using the strains of the invention for bioremediation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/659064 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063378 | Bolotnikov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aleksey E. Bolotnikov (South Setauket, New York); Giuseppe Camarda (Farmingville, New York); Yonggang Cui (Upton, New York); Ralph B. James (Ridge, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The preferred embodiments are directed to a high-energy detector that is electrically shielded using an anode, a cathode, and a conducting shield to substantially reduce or eliminate electrically unshielded area. The anode and the cathode are disposed at opposite ends of the detector and the conducting shield substantially surrounds at least a portion of the longitudinal surface of the detector. The conducting shield extends longitudinally to the anode end of the detector and substantially surrounds at least a portion of the detector. Signals read from one or more of the anode, cathode, and conducting shield can be used to determine the number of electrons that are liberated as a result of high-energy particles impinge on the detector. A correction technique can be implemented to correct for liberated electron that become trapped to improve the energy resolution of the high-energy detectors disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056655 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.10 |
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| US 08063381 | Tsoupas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholaos Tsoupas (Center Moriches, New York); Dmitry Kayran (Rocky Point, New York); Vladimir Litvinenko (Mt. Sinai, New York); William W. MacKay (Wading River, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical gantry that focus the beam from the beginning of the gantry to the exit of the gantry independent of the rotation angle of the gantry by keeping the beam achromatic and uncoupled, thus, avoiding the use of collimators or rotators, or additional equipment to control the beam divergence, which may cause beam intensity loss or additional time in irradiation of the patient, or disadvantageously increase the overall gantry size inapplicable for the use in the medical treatment facility. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/403486 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/396.ML0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064065 | Bennett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Corey Vincent Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A new technique for capturing both the amplitude and phase of an optical waveform is presented. This technique can capture signals with many THz of bandwidths in a single shot (e.g., temporal resolution of about 44 fs), or be operated repetitively at a high rate. That is, each temporal window (or frame) is captured single shot, in real time, but the process may be run repeatedly or single-shot. This invention expands upon previous work in temporal imaging by adding heterodyning, which can be self-referenced for improved precision and stability, to convert frequency chirp (the second derivative of phase with respect to time) into a time varying intensity modulation. By also including a variety of possible demultiplexing techniques, this process is scalable to recoding continuous signals. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794727 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064127 | Steinhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to the field of quasicrystalline structures. In preferred embodiments, the stopgap structure is more spherically symmetric than periodic structures facilitating the formation of stopgaps in nearly all directions because of higher rotational symmetries. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of quasicrystalline structures for optical, mechanical, electrical and magnetic purposes. In some embodiments, the invention relates to manipulating, controlling, modulating and directing waves including electromagnetic, sound, spin, and surface waves, for a pre-selected range of wavelengths propagating in multiple directions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/988480 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/325 |
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| US 08064564 | Singleton |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Westinghouse Electric Company LLC (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman R. Singleton (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | In a nuclear reactor neutron panels varying in thickness in the circumferential direction are disposed at spaced circumferential locations around the reactor core so that the greatest radial thickness is at the point of highest fluence with lesser thicknesses at adjacent locations where the fluence level is lower. The neutron panels are disposed between the core barrel and the interior of the reactor vessel to maintain radiation exposure to the vessel within acceptable limits. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/275525 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/287 |
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| US 08064982 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Zhi Hu (Richland, Washington); Robert A. Wind (Kennewick, Washington); Kevin R. Minard (Kennewick, Washington); Paul D. Majors (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of performing a magnetic resonance analysis of a biological object are disclosed that include placing the object in a main magnetic field (that has a static field direction) and in a radio frequency field; rotating the object at a frequency of less than about 100 Hz around an axis positioned at an angle of about 54°44′ relative to the main magnetic static field direction; pulsing the radio frequency to provide a sequence that includes a phase-corrected magic angle turning pulse segment; and collecting data generated by the pulsed radio frequency. In particular embodiments the method includes pulsing the radio frequency to provide at least two of a spatially selective read pulse, a spatially selective phase pulse, and a spatially selective storage pulse. Further disclosed methods provide pulse sequences that provide extended imaging capabilities, such as chemical shift imaging or multiple-voxel data acquisition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/562390 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
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| US 08065037 | Danko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on Behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Danko (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A control method and system for controlling a hydraulically actuated mechanical arm to perform a task, the mechanical arm optionally being a hydraulically actuated excavator arm. The method can include determining a dynamic model of the motion of the hydraulic arm for each hydraulic arm link by relating the input signal vector for each respective link to the output signal vector for the same link. Also the method can include determining an error signal for each link as the weighted sum of the differences between a measured position and a reference position and between the time derivatives of the measured position and the time derivatives of the reference position for each respective link. The weights used in the determination of the error signal can be determined from the constant coefficients of the dynamic model. The error signal can be applied in a closed negative feedback control loop to diminish or eliminate the error signal for each respective link. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 07, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188035 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — 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 7/250 |
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| US 08065060 | Danko |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University and Community College System on Behalf of the University of Nevada (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Danko (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are an articulated hydraulic machine supporting, control system and control method for same. The articulated hydraulic machine has an end effector for performing useful work. The control system is capable of controlling the end effector for automated movement along a preselected trajectory. The control system has a position error correction system to correct discrepancies between an actual end effector trajectory and a desired end effector trajectory. The correction system can employ one or more absolute position signals provided by one or more acceleration sensors supported by one or more movable machine elements. Good trajectory positioning and repeatability can be obtained. A two-joystick controller system is enabled, which can in some cases facilitate the operator's task and enhance their work quality and productivity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/333994 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — 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 71/50 |
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| US 08065119 | Gard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric Gard (San Francisco, California); Vincent Riot (Oakland, California); Keith Coffee (Diablo Grande, California); Bruce Woods (Livermore, California); Herbert Tobias (Kensington, California); Jim Birch (Albany, California); Todd Weisgraber (Brentwood, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A computerized method and system for designing an aerodynamic focusing lens stack, using input from a designer related to, for example, particle size range to be considered, characteristics of the gas to be flowed through the system, the upstream temperature and pressure at the top of a first focusing lens, the flow rate through the aerodynamic focusing lens stack equivalent at atmosphere pressure; and a Stokes number range. Based on the design parameters, the method and system determines the total number of focusing lenses and their respective orifice diameters required to focus the particle size range to be considered, by first calculating for the orifice diameter of the first focusing lens in the Stokes formula, and then using that value to determine, in iterative fashion, intermediate flow values which are themselves used to determine the orifice diameters of each succeeding focusing lens in the stack design, with the results being output to a designer. In addition, the Reynolds numbers associated with each focusing lens as well as exit nozzle size may also be determined to enhance the stack design. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052597 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
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| US 08065529 | Hively |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lee M. Hively (Philadelphia, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Brain waves are used as a biometric parameter to provide for authentication and identification of personnel. The brain waves are sampled using EEG equipment and are processed using phase-space distribution functions to compare digital signature data from enrollment of authorized individuals to data taken from a test subject to determine if the data from the test subject matches the signature data to a degree to support positive identification. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804966 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/186 |
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| US 08065728 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Somesh Jha (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A malware prevention system monitors kernel level events of the operating system and applies user programmable or preprepared policies to those events to detect and block malware. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852567 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Stoianovici (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandru Patriciu (Baltimore, Maryland); Dumitru Mazilu (Lutherville, Maryland); Doru Petrisor (Towson, Maryland); Louis R. Kavoussi (Lutherville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A stepper motor suitable for use in a medical imaging environment has (a) a cylindrical central gear having an external surface with circumferentially distributed and radially directed teeth, (b) a shaft for mounting the central gear such that it is constrained to move in rotational motion about its centerline, (c) a cylindrical hoop gear having a bore with an internal surface having circumferentially distributed and radially directed teeth, (d) level arm crank mechanisms for mounting the hoop gear such that it is constrained to move in translational-circular motion about the central gear's centerline, wherein this central gear is further configured to fit within the hoop gear's bore in such a manner that a plurality of the central gear and hoop gear teeth intermesh and cooperate so that the planetary movement of the hoop gear causes the central gear to rotate, and (e) piston mechanisms for applying a fluid pressure driven force to specified points on the hoop gear so as to cause its movement. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/359815 |
| ART UNIT | 3746 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Motors: Expansible chamber type 091/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062205 | Timm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GT Urological, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota); David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Laura B. Skadsberg (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable incontinence device and method provides for occluding the urethra in preventing urine leakage. The device includes an occluding member connected to a control mechanism. The occluding member is movable from a contracted (occlusive) condition to an expansive (non-occlusive) condition by activating and deactivating the control mechanism. A drug coating is disposed on a portion of the implantable incontinence device. The drug coating elutes a bioaffecting or pharmaceutical composition to minimize capsular tissue formation, so that prevention of urine leakage can be facilitated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434966 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/30 |
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| US 08062849 | Sukumar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saraswati Sukumar (Columbia, Maryland); Mary Jo Fackler (Hunt Valley, Maryland); Theresa Swift-Scanlan (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for diagnosing in a subject a condition, such as a carcinoma, sarcoma or leukemia, associated with hypermethylation of genes by isolating the genes from tissue containing as few as 50 to 1000 tumor cells. Using quantitative multiplex methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP), multiple genes can be quantitatively evaluated from samples usually yielding sufficient DNA for analyses of only 1 or 2 genes. DNA sequences isolated from the sample are simultaneously co-amplified in an initial multiplex round of PCR, and the methylation status of individual hypermethylation-prone gene promoter sequences is then determined separately or in multiplex using a real time PCR round that is methylation status-specific. Within genes of the panel, the level of promoter hypermethylation as well as the incidence of promoter hypermethylation can be determined and the level of genes in the panel can be scored cumulatively. The QM-MSP method is adaptable for high throughput automated technology. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/976932 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062852 | Mozaffarian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neelufar Mozaffarian (Seattle, Washington); Anne M. Stevens (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods of treatment of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) as well as clinical assays for detection of autoimmune disease activity in patients utilizing the involving a PD1 ligand. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243913 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062860 | Dertinger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Litron Laboratories, Ltd. (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Dertinger (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates a method for the enumeration of in vivo gene mutation. The method utilizes differential staining of GPI-anchor deficient erythrocyte populations to distinguish between wild-type and pig-a gene mutants. Quantitative analyses can be conducted on erythrocytes and/or reticulocytes, and is based upon fluorescent emission and light scatter following exposure to an excitatory light source. Counting of mutant erythrocytes or reticulocytes relative to the number of total erythrocytes or reticulocytes can be used to assess the DNA-damaging potential of an exogenous chemical agent, the DNA-damaging potential of an exogenous physical agent, the effects of an exogenous agent which can modify endogenously-induced DNA damage, and the effects of an exogenous agent which can modify exogenously-induced DNA damage. Kits for practicing the invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/899217 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062874 | Rasenick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Rasenick (Glenview, Illinois); Jiang-zhou Yu (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides fusion proteins including a green fluorescent protein inserted into the internal amino acid sequence of a Gαs protein and further provides method of using the fusion protein construct to follow activation of a G-protein receptor by a candidate drug. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/482980 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
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| US 08062888 | Manuelidis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Laura Manuelidis (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura Manuelidis (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Stable cell lines which produce the pathological form of PrP after infection with the infectious agent for CJD provide a high throughput assay to identify suitable treatment protocols and compositions. The stable cell lines also provide rich source of infectious CJD agent. They also may be used to identify vaccine candidates. Co-culture of neuronal cells with cells to be tested for infection with a TSE agent also provides a high throughput method for identifying infected cells. |
| FILED | Monday, April 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/114411 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/373 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062891 | Khan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930892 |
| 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 435/468 |
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| US 08062903 | Chiu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle, Washington); John Scott Edgar (Kirkland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and devices are provided for overcoming detrimental diffusive effects in a sample liquid stream by forming segmented liquid bodies (e.g., droplets) from a sample liquid stream in an immiscible liquid stream. The liquid bodies are formed at the intersection of a channel providing the sample liquid stream and a channel providing the immiscible liquid stream. The formed liquid bodies compartmentalize the portion of the sample liquid stream from which the liquid bodies are formed, thus minimizing the detrimental effects of diffusion that occur in a continuous liquid stream. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/397209 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/174 |
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| US 08062996 | Coruzzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gloria Coruzzi (New York, New York); Igor Oliveira (New York, New York); Hon-Ming Lam (New York, New York); Ming-Hsiun Hsieh (Woodside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a family of GluR in plants, including ionotropic (iGluR), metabotropic (mGluR) and other glutamate-like plant receptors. The plant GluRs of the invention may function as signal transducers involved in the regulation of plant growth. The invention also relates to the identification of compounds that modulate the activity of the plant GluR, and the use of such compounds as plant growth regulators, including herbicides. |
| FILED | Friday, August 16, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/223047 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Plant protecting and regulating compositions 54/287 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063022 | High et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine A. High (Merion, Pennsylvania); Paul A. Fields (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Valder R. Arruda (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Roland W. Herzog (Glenolden, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of preventing the formation of inhibitory antibodies in a mammal undergoing gene therapy. The method comprises administering to the mammal an immunosuppressive agent in conjunction with the gene therapy. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/589589 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063047 | Watterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (Paris, France); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Universite de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Watterson (Chicago, Illinois); Linda Van El Dik (Chicago, Illinois); Jacques Haiech (Strasbourg, France); Marcel Hibert (Eschau, France); Jean-Jacques Bourguignon (Illkirch, France); Anastasia Veleniza (San Diego, California); Wenhui Hu (Guangzhou, China PRC); Magdaena Zasadzki (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel chemical compounds of Formula I compositions and methods of using the same. In particular, the invention provides pyridazine compounds and/or related heterocyclic derivatives, compositions comprising the same, and methods of using pyridazine compounds and/or related heterocyclic derivatives and compositions comprising the same, for modulation of cellular pathways (e.g., signal transduction pathways), for treatment or prevention of inflammatory diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), for research, drug screening, and therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Monday, May 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119208 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/248 |
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| US 08063108 | Handelsman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jo E. Handelsman (Madison, Wisconsin); Bradley R. Borlee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for modulating bacterial quorum sensing using antagonist or agonist compounds. Further, the present invention provides methods of treating or preventing microbial damages and diseases, in particular for diseases where there is an advantage in inhibiting quorum sensing regulated phenotypes of pathogens. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712948 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/688 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063131 | Gao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticle-amphiphilic polymer complexes for nucleic acid delivery and real-time imaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487519 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063209 | Hilfinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | TSRL, Inc. (Los Angeles, California); National Institute of Health (NIH) (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (Washington, District of Columbia); The United States of America as represented by the NIH Division of Extramural Inventions and Technology Resources (DEITR) (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Hilfinger (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Charles E. McKenna (Los Angeles, California); Boris A. Kashemirov (Los Angeles, California); Chi Pham (Los Angeles, California); Kanokkarn Saejueng (Los Angeles, California); Larryn Peterson (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Cidofovir or foscarnet based compounds having an amino acid or dipeptide esters are provided as prodrugs. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404764 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/243 |
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| US 08063216 | Etchenique et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York); Universidad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roberto Etchenique (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Rafael Yuste (New York, New York); Luis Baraldo (Buenos Aires, Argentina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention describes Photolabile Compounds methods for use of the compounds. The Photolabile Compounds have a photoreleasable ligand, which can be biologically active, and which is photoreleased from the compound upon exposure to light. In one embodiment, the light is visible light, which is not detrimental to the viability of biological samples, such as cells and tissues, in which the released organic molecule is bioactive and can have a therapeutic effect. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/585013 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/10 |
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| US 08063248 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Apogee Biotechnology Corporation (Hershey, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles D. Smith (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina); Kevin J. French (Mohnton, Pennsylvania); Yan Zhuang (Hershey, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to substituted adamantane compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, processes for their preparation, and methods for inhibiting sphingosine kinase and for treating or preventing hyperproliferative disease, inflammatory disease, or angiogenic disease. |
| FILED | Sunday, December 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/963838 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 564/180 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064669 | Higgins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Higgins (State College, Pennsylvania); Scott A. Merritt (Ridgecrest, California); Lav Rai (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel framework for fast and continuous registration between two imaging modalities is disclosed. The approach makes it possible to completely determine the rigid transformation between multiple sources at real-time or near real-time frame-rates in order to localize the cameras and register the two sources. A disclosed example includes computing or capturing a set of reference images within a known environment, complete with corresponding depth maps and image gradients. The collection of these images and depth maps constitutes the reference source. The second source is a real-time or near-real time source which may include a live video feed. Given one frame from this video feed, and starting from an initial guess of viewpoint, the real-time video frame is warped to the nearest viewing site of the reference source. An image difference is computed between the warped video frame and the reference image. The viewpoint is updated via a Gauss-Newton parameter update and certain of the steps are repeated for each frame until the viewpoint converges or the next video frame becomes available. The final viewpoint gives an estimate of the relative rotation and translation between the camera at that particular video frame and the reference source. The invention has far-reaching applications, particularly in the field of assisted endoscopy, including bronchoscopy and colonoscopy. Other applications include aerial and ground-based navigation. |
| FILED | Monday, February 07, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/022241 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/130 |
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| US 08064982 | Hu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Zhi Hu (Richland, Washington); Robert A. Wind (Kennewick, Washington); Kevin R. Minard (Kennewick, Washington); Paul D. Majors (Kennewick, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of performing a magnetic resonance analysis of a biological object are disclosed that include placing the object in a main magnetic field (that has a static field direction) and in a radio frequency field; rotating the object at a frequency of less than about 100 Hz around an axis positioned at an angle of about 54°44′ relative to the main magnetic static field direction; pulsing the radio frequency to provide a sequence that includes a phase-corrected magic angle turning pulse segment; and collecting data generated by the pulsed radio frequency. In particular embodiments the method includes pulsing the radio frequency to provide at least two of a spatially selective read pulse, a spatially selective phase pulse, and a spatially selective storage pulse. Further disclosed methods provide pulse sequences that provide extended imaging capabilities, such as chemical shift imaging or multiple-voxel data acquisition. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/562390 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/410 |
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| US 08065014 | Zealear |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Zealear (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for promoting reinnervation via stimulation of a denervated target tissue, whereby reinnervation of the target tissue by native neurons is enhanced, and whereby reinnervation of the target tissue by foreign neurons is inhibited. |
| FILED | Friday, June 21, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/480227 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/48 |
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| US 08065092 | Khan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Javed Khan (Derwood, Maryland); Markus Ringnér (Lund, Sweden); Carsten Peterson (Lund, Sweden); Paul Meltzer (Rockville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of diagnosing, predicting, or prognosticating about a disease that includes obtaining experimental data, wherein the experimental data is high dimensional data, filtering the data, reducing the dimensionality of the data through use of one or more methods, training a supervised pattern recognition method, ranking individual data points from the data, wherein the ranking is dependent on the outcome of the supervised pattern recognition method, choosing multiple data points from the data, wherein the choice is based on the relative ranking of the individual data points, and using the multiple data points to determine if an unknown set of experimental data indicates a diseased condition, a predilection for a diseased condition, or a prognosis about a diseased condition. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/858674 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Keszler (Corvallis, Oregon); Ning Ye (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals, including aluminum-borate NLO crystals, that have low concentrations of contaminants that adversely affect the NLO crystal's optical properties, such as compounds that contain transition-metal elements and/or lanthanides, other than yttrium, lanthanum, and lutetium. Some NLO crystals with low concentrations of these contaminants are capable of second harmonic generation at very short wavelengths. Also described are embodiments of a method for making these NLO crystals. Some embodiments involve growing a single NLO crystal, such as an aluminum-borate NLO crystal, from a mixture containing a solvent that is substantially free of harmful contaminants. The described NLO crystals can be used, for example, in laser devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765406 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062668 | Ying et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie Y. Ying (Winchester, Massachusetts); Todd C. Zion (Marblehead, Massachusetts); Andrey Zarur (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of delivering a therapeutic agent by providing a cross-linked polymer encapsulating the therapeutic agent to a site in a patient. The degradation rate of the cross-linked polymer is correlated with a local concentration of an indicator, and the therapeutic agent is released as the cross-linked polymer degrades. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415432 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/488 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062791 | Peoppelmeier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth R. Peoppelmeier (Evanston, Illinois); Frederic Sauvage (Gumefens, Switzerland); Vincent Bodenez (Ploudern, France); Jean-Marie Tarascon (Mennecy, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery cathode comprises an electrode of silver, molybdenum, oxygen, fluorine and chlorine and having a higher discharge capacity expressed as milliampere hour per gram of material (mAh/g) available from silver reduction at a potential above 3V as compared to that of SVO material versus lithium. The battery cathode compound can be represented by Ag6 Mo2O7F3Cl. The cathode is devoted for primary lithium batteries application and most notably can be used in a medical battery, such as a defibrillator battery [e.g. implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) battery] having a lithium metal anode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157443 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/219 |
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| US 08062853 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Nathan A. Lockwood (Minneapolis, Minnesota); Katie D. Cadwell (Madison, Wisconsin); Frank Caruso (Melbourne, Australia); Elvira Tjipto (Melbourne, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods for providing a polyelectrolyte multilayer film at a liquid-liquid interface. Such methods include steps of sequentially-depositing layers of cationic and anionic polyelectrolytes at a liquid-liquid interface that is formed between immiscible first and second liquids whereby a polyelectrolyte multilayer film is provided at the liquid-liquid interface. In certain preferred embodiments, the first liquid is an aqueous solution and the second liquid is a liquid crystal. In alternative embodiments, the first liquid is an aqueous solution and the second liquid is an oil. The invention further encompasses polyelectrolyte multilayer films provided by the disclosed methods as well as applications utilizing such materials. |
| FILED | Monday, January 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/685209 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08062885 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981296 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
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| US 08062890 | Kiessling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura L. Kiessling (Madison, Wisconsin); Ratmir Derda (Madison, Wisconsin); Brendan P. Orner (Singapore, Singapore); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the construction of arrays from self-assembling monolayers is described. The arrays have particular utility for the screening of peptides ligands that can foster the growth of cells in culture. This technique has been used to identify peptide ligands that foster the growth of human stem cells, which otherwise require an extracellular matrix in order to grow in an undifferentiated state. This also makes possible an assay to identify other such peptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/504573 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/395 |
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| US 08062893 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zidong Wang (Urbana, Illinois); Jung Heon Lee (Evanston, Illinois); Yi Lu (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a sensor for detecting mercury, comprising: a first polynucleotide, comprising a first region, and a second region, a second polynucleotide, a third polynucleotide, a fluorophore, and a quencher, wherein the third polynucleotide is optionally linked to the second region; the fluorophore is linked to the first polynucleotide and the quencher is linked to the second polynucleotide, or the fluorophore is linked to the second polynucleotide and the quencher is linked to the first polynucleotide; the first region and the second region hybridize to the second polynucleotide; and the second region binds to the third polynucleotide in the presence of Hg2+ ions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564715 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/74 |
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| US 08063014 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas); Elia Beniash (Auburndale, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of promoting neuron growth and development by contacting cells with a peptide amphiphile molecule in an aqueous solution in the presence of a metal ion. According to the method, the peptide amphiphile forms a cylindrical micellar nanofiber composed of beta-sheets, which promote neuron growth and development. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/797586 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 08063131 | Gao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaohu Gao (Shoreline, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanoparticle-amphiphilic polymer complexes for nucleic acid delivery and real-time imaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487519 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/434 |
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| US 08063134 | Prud'homme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Prud'homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A packaging material or flexible medical tubing containing a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194062 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
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| US 08063268 | Wessler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri); University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susan R. Wessler (Athens, Georgia); Ning Jiang (Athens, Georgia); Zhirong Bao (Seattle, Washington); Xiaoyu Zhang (Athens, Georgia); Sean R. Eddy (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are isolated transposable elements, or isolated DNA sequences which encode a transposase protein or a portion of a transposase protein. The isolated transposable elements or the isolated DNA sequences are members of the mPing/Pong family of transposable elements. The invention also relates to a purified transposase protein, or peptide fragments thereof, encoded by such DNA sequences. Such transposable elements are useful in applications such as the stable introduction of a DNA sequence of interest into a eukaryotic cell. The sequence information disclosed herein is useful in the design of oligonucleotide primers which are useful for the isolation of related members of the mPing/Pong family of transposable elements, or for the detection of transpositions of the transposable elements. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775665 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063535 | Mohanty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pritiraj Mohanty (Boston, Massachusetts); Alexei Gaidarzhy (Allston, Massachusetts); Guiti Zolfagharkhani (Allston, Massachusetts); Robert L. Badzey (Quincy, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A mechanical oscillator has components with dimensions in a sub-micron range to produce resonance mode oscillations in a gigahertz range. A major element is coupled to a minor, sub-micron element to produce large amplitude gigahertz frequency oscillation that is detected with readily available techniques. The mechanical structure can be formed according to a number of geometries including beams and rings and is excited with electrostatic, magnetic and thermal related forces, as well as other excitation techniques. The mechanical structure can be arranged in arrays for applications such as amplification and mixing and is less sensitive to shock and radiative environments than electrical or optical counterparts. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/813342 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/321 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063556 | Malliaras et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Panasonic Corporation (Osaka, Japan); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George G. Malliaras (Aix en Provence, France); Kiyotaka Mori (Tokyo, Japan); Jason D. Slinker (Ithaca, New York); Daniel A. Bernards (Ithaca, New York); Hector D. Abruna (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A cascaded light emitting device. The cascaded light emitting device includes: a base electrode formed of a base electrode material and electrically coupled to a base voltage lead; a top electrode layer formed of a top electrode material and electrically coupled to a top voltage lead; a number of electroluminescent layers arranged between and electrically coupled to the base electrode and top electrode layer; and at least one middle electrode layer formed of a middle electrode material. Each of the middle electrodes is coupled between two juxtaposed electroluminescent layers. The electroluminescent layers include a mixed conductor that luminesces with a peak wavelength. |
| FILED | Friday, January 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/691905 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063720 | Ayazi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Farrokh Ayazi (Atlanta, Georgia); Ashwin Samarao (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A microelectromechanical (MEMs) resonator includes a concave bulk acoustic resonator (CBAR). One embodiment of a CBAR includes a substrate and a resonator body suspended over the substrate by a pair of fixed supports that attach to first and second opposing ends of the resonator body. The resonator body has a first concave-shaped side extending between the first and second ends of the resonator body and a second concave-shaped side extending opposite the first concave-shaped side. The resonator body may be configured to have a minimum spacing of λ/2 between the first and second concave-shaped sides, where λ is a wavelength associated with a resonant frequency of said resonator body. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570610 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064127 | Steinhardt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Joseph Steinhardt (Princeton, New Jersey); Paul Michael Chaikin (New York, New York); Weining Man (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates generally to the field of quasicrystalline structures. In preferred embodiments, the stopgap structure is more spherically symmetric than periodic structures facilitating the formation of stopgaps in nearly all directions because of higher rotational symmetries. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of quasicrystalline structures for optical, mechanical, electrical and magnetic purposes. In some embodiments, the invention relates to manipulating, controlling, modulating and directing waves including electromagnetic, sound, spin, and surface waves, for a pre-selected range of wavelengths propagating in multiple directions. |
| FILED | Friday, July 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/988480 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064528 | Giannakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnetonka, Minnesota); Xiaoli Ma (Auburn, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are described for carrier frequency offset (CFO) and channel estimation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) frequency-selective fading channels. A wireless transmitter forms blocks of symbols by inserting training symbols within two or more blocks of information-bearing symbols. The transmitter applies a hopping code to each of the blocks of symbols to insert a null subcarrier at a different position within each of the blocks of symbols, and a modulator outputs a wireless signal in accordance with the blocks of symbols. A receiver receives the wireless signal and estimates the CFO, and outputs a stream of estimated symbols based on the estimated CFO. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/850961 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08064921 — Method and system for client-driven channel management in wireless communication networks
| US 08064921 | Mishra et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Arunesh Mishra (Madison, Wisconsin); Suman Banerjee (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for assigning channels to a plurality of access points (APs) of a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes obtaining first information regarding first interference experienced by a first client due to multiple APs being positioned in proximity of that client, and obtaining second information regarding second interference experienced by either the first client or a first of the APs with respect to which the first client is associated, where the second interference is due either to others of the APs that are in proximity to the first AP, or to others of the clients that are in proximity to either the first client or the first AP. Additionally, the method further includes determining channel assignments for the plurality of APs based upon each of the first and second information. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/737244 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/452.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065592 | Stankovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vladimir M. Stankovic (Bryan, Texas); Angelos D. Liveris (Stafford, Texas); Zixiang Xiong (Spring, Texas); Costas N. Georghiades (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for designing Slepian-Wolf codes by channel code partitioning. A generator matrix is partitioned to generate a plurality of sub-matrices corresponding respectively to a plurality of correlated data sources. The partitioning is performed in accordance with a rate allocation among the plurality of correlated data sources. A corresponding plurality of parity matrices are generated based respectively on the sub-matrices, where each parity matrix is useable to encode data from a respective one of the correlated data sources. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/847968 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/781 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065728 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hao Wang (Madison, Wisconsin); Somesh Jha (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A malware prevention system monitors kernel level events of the operating system and applies user programmable or preprepared policies to those events to detect and block malware. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852567 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08062442 | Clausen, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Clausen, III (Chuluota, Florida); Cherie L. Geiger (Geneva, Florida); Michael Sigman (Oviedo, Florida); Rebecca Fidler (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and other explosives of the peroxide family are safely degraded in situ. Nano and micron size metal particles in an elemental state include pure iron and magnesium or iron and magnesium particles that are mechanically alloyed with palladium and nickel. The metal particles are used in both the elemental state and in emulsions that are made from water, a hydrophobic solvent, such as corn oil, and a food-grade nonionic surfactant. The neat metals and emulsified zero valent metals (EZVM) safely degrade TATP with the major degradation product being acetone. The EZVM system absorbs and dissolves the TATP into the emulsion droplets where TATP degradation occurs. EZVM systems are ideal for degrading dry TATP crystals that may be present on a carpet or door entrance. Both the neat metal system and the emulsion system (EZVM) degrade TATP in an aqueous slurry. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/732402 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062748 | Khabashesku et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery N. Khabashesku (Houston, Texas); Enrique V. Barrera (Houston, Texas); Daneesh McIntosh (Morgantown, West Virginia); Laura Peña-Paras (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to methods of fully integrating CNTs and the surrounding polymer matrix in CNT/polymer composites. In some such embodiments, such integration comprises interfacial covalent bonding between the CNTs and the polymer matrix. In some such embodiments, such interfacial covalent bonding is provided by a free radical reaction initiated during processing. In some such embodiments, such free radical initiation can be provided by benzoyl peroxide. In some or other embodiments, the present invention is directed to CNT/polymer composite systems, wherein the CNTs within such systems are covalently integrated with the polymer. In some or other embodiments, the present invention is directed to articles of manufacture made from such CNT/polymer composite systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507470 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063134 | Prud'homme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Prud'homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A packaging material or flexible medical tubing containing a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194062 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063171 | Klein |
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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) | Daniel J. Klein (Powell, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A three dimensional structure fabricated from a self-healing polymeric material, comprising poly(ester amides) obtained from ethylene glycol, azelaic acid and 1,1-aminoundecanoic acid, wherein polymeric material has a melt index above 2.5 g/10 min. as determined by ASTM D1238 at 190° C. and 2.16kg, impact resistance and ductility sufficient to resist cracking and brittle fracture upon impact by a 9 mm bullet fired at a temperature of about 29° C. at subsonic speed in a range from about 800 feet/sec to about 1000 feet/sec. It has been determined that the important factors necessary for self-healing behavior of polymers include sufficient impact strength, control of the degree of crystallinity, low melting point and the ability to instantly melt at impacted area. |
| FILED | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319710 |
| ART UNIT | 1763 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063373 | Miller |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Houston Miller (Barnesville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a compact cavity ring down spectrometer for detection and measurement of trace species in a sample gas using a tunable solid-state continuous-wave mid-infrared PPLN OPO laser or a tunable low-power solid-state continuous wave near-infrared diode laser with an algorithm for reducing the periodic noise in the voltage decay signal which subjects the data to cluster analysis or by averaging of the interquartile range of the data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/477170 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.70 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063380 | Levin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Craig S. Levin (Palo Alto, California); James Matteson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation imaging device (10). The radiation image device (10) comprises a subject radiation station (12) producing photon emissions (14), and at least one semiconductor crystal detector (16) arranged in an edge-on orientation with respect to the emitted photons (14) to directly receive the emitted photons (14) and produce a signal. The semiconductor crystal detector (16) comprises at least one anode and at least one cathode that produces the signal in response to the emitted photons (14). |
| FILED | Friday, September 30, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/662870 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08061121 | Haugen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David James Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A flex fuel internal combustion engine system includes means for sensing ethanol concentration of the fuel. If the ethanol concentration is determined to be above a given threshold, engine operation is adjusted for lean combustion of the fuel. An aftertreatment system is provided to remove harmful emissions from the exhaust. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291076 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08061241 | Rozzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Creare Incorporated (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Christopher Rozzi (Hanover, New Hampshire); Weibo Chen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Everett Edgar Archibald, Jr. (Windsor, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | A cutting tool having a cutting element such as an insert is cooled indirectly by a micro-channel heat exchanger that is mounted against the rear face of the insert. The heat exchanger is formed with an internal cavity that receives a coolant such as a cryogen. The cavity may include fins to enhance the removal of heat by the cryogen from the insert. Coolant inlet and outlet tubes are coupled to the interior of the heat exchanger to supply cryogen to the cavity. The flow rate of cryogen required to cool the insert during a given machining operation is less than one percent of the amount of standard coolant required to cool the same insert during the same machining operation. |
| FILED | Monday, April 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418688 |
| ART UNIT | 3724 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Turning 082/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062610 | Gullett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian K. Gullett (Durham, North Carolina); Abderrahamne Touati (Raleigh, North Carolina); Shawn Ryan (Durham, North Carolina); William Squier (Angier, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | For analysis of small quatities of target analytes in an environment, the gas flow can be delivered to a suitably fast analyzer and their concentration determined in a time period whose duration is dependent on the analyte, its concentration and the phase separation properties. A device having a sorbent bed that is essentially concentric with a passage way containing thermal fluid is used to concentrate the target analyte. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/355189 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/534 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063192 | Spormann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alfred M. Spormann (Stanford, California); Jochen A. Müller (Baltimore, Maryland); Bettina M. Rosner (Berlin, Delaware); Gregory Von Abendroth (Nannhein, Delaware); Galit Meshulam-Simon (Los Altos, California); Perry L McCarty (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods are provided that relate to the bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes, particularly the bioremediation of vinyl chloride by Dehalococcoides-like organisms. An isolated strain of bacteria, Dehalococcoides sp. strain VS, that metabolizes vinyl chloride is provided; the genetic sequence of the enzyme responsible for vinyl chloride dehalogenation; methods of assessing the capability of endogenous organisms at an environmental site to metabolize vinyl chloride; and a method of using the strains of the invention for bioremediation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/659064 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08062651 | Zhang 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) | Aijun Zhang (Silver Spring, Maryland); James E. Oliver (Laurel, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition for attracting male pink hibiscus mealybugs which contains a carrier material or carrier and effective amount of (R)-lavandulyl (S)-2-methylbutanoate and (R)-maconelliyl (S)-2-methylbutanoate. Also a method for attracting male pink hibiscus mealybugs to an object or area, which method involves treating said object or area with effective amount of (R)-lavandulyl (S)-2-methylbutanoate and (R)-maconelliyl (S)-2-methylbutanoate. Cyclobutanes, 2,2-dimethyl-3-(1-methylethylidene)cyclobutanes, having the formula: wherein R1 is hydrogen, a C1-11 straight or branched alcohol, aldehyde, alkyl, ether (e.g. methanol, ethanal, 4-methylhexane, heptyloxymethane), or esters thereof with a C1-10 saturated or unsaturated, straight or branched acid (e.g., formic acid, acetic acid, 2-methylbutyric acid, 3-methyl-2-butenoic acid) and R2 is hydrogen, methyl, C1-10 saturated or unsaturated, straight or branched alkyl (e.g. hexane, isopropenyl, 4-methyl-4-pentene). A method of disrupting male pink hibiscus mealybug mating with female pink hibiscus mealybugs, involving exposing a pink hibiscus mealybug population to a composition containing a pink hibiscus mealybug mating disrupting effective amount of (R)-lavandulyl (S)-2-methylbutanoate and (R)-maconelliyl (S)-2-methylbutanoate, and optionally a carrier material or carrier. |
| FILED | Monday, March 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/080892 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062885 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981296 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063195 | Borca 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) | Manuel V. Borca (Westbrook, Connecticut); James J. Zhu (Niantic, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | NS4B is one of the non-structural proteins of classical swine fever virus. By using functional genetics, we have discovered, in the predicted amino acid sequence of NS4B of CSFV strain Brescia, a motif that resembles those found in the toll-like receptor (TLR) proteins, a group of host cell proteins involved in the development of anti-viral mechanisms. We have located the TLR motif in two groups of amino acid triplets at amino acid positions 2531-3 (residues IYK) and 2566-8 (residues VGI) of the CSFV NS4B glycoprotein. We have constructed a recombinant CSFV (derived from an infectious clone containing the genetic information of the highly virulent strain Brescia) containing amino acid substitutions in the three amino acid residues at positions 2566, 2567 and 2568, where the VGI triplet has been replaced by an AAA triplet inside the NS4B glycoprotein. The obtained virus, named NS4B-VGIv, was completely attenuated in swine, showing a limited ability in spreading during the infection in vivo. Although attenuated, NS4B-VGIv efficiently protected swine from challenge with virulent BICv at 3 and 28 days post-infection. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454766 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GT Urological, LLC (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerald W. Timm (Minneapolis, Minnesota); David W. Anderson (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Laura B. Skadsberg (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable incontinence device and method provides for occluding the urethra in preventing urine leakage. The device includes an occluding member connected to a control mechanism. The occluding member is movable from a contracted (occlusive) condition to an expansive (non-occlusive) condition by activating and deactivating the control mechanism. A drug coating is disposed on a portion of the implantable incontinence device. The drug coating elutes a bioaffecting or pharmaceutical composition to minimize capsular tissue formation, so that prevention of urine leakage can be facilitated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 16, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/434966 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062885 | Mach et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois); Chromatin, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer M. Mach (Chicago, Illinois); Helge Zieler (Del Mar, California); RongGuan Jin (Chesterfield, Missouri); Kevin Keith (Three Forks, Montana); Gregory P. Copenhaver (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Daphne Preuss (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for the nucleic acid sequences of plant centromeres. This will permit construction of stably inherited recombinant DNA constructs and minichromosomes which can serve as vectors for the construction of transgenic plant and animal cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981296 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062891 | Khan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. Methods for modifying the genome of non-nuclear organelles are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930892 |
| 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 435/468 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Molly Maureen Gentleman (Niskayuna, New York); James Anthony Ruud (Delmar, New York); Margaret Louise Blohm (Schenectady, New York); Mohan Manoharan (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | Ceramic materials with relatively high resistance to wetting by various liquids, such as water, are presented, along with articles made with these materials. The oxide materials described herein as a class typically contain one or more of ytterbia (Yb2O3) and europia (Eu2O3). The oxides may further contain other additives, such as oxides of gadolinium (Gd), samarium (Sm), dysprosium (Dy), or terbium (Tb). In certain embodiments the oxide, in addition to the ytterbia and/or europia, further comprises lanthanum (La), praseodymium (Pr), or neodymium (Nd). |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340783 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/697 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08062824 | Bailey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Kevin Bailey (Newark, Delaware); Graciela Beatriz Blanchet (Wilmington, Delaware); John Catron (Smyrna, Delaware); Reid John Chesterfield (Santa Barbara, California); Feng Gao (Hockessin, Delaware); Marc B. Goldfinger (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Gary Delmar Jaycox (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Lynda Kaye Johnson (Wilmington, Delaware); William J. Marshall (Wilmington, Delaware); Elizabeth Forrester McCord (Hockessin, Delaware); Charles Nehemiah McEwan (Newark, Delaware); Jeffrey Scott Meth (Landenberg, Pennsylvania); Paul J. Shannon (Exton, Pennsylvania); Kenneth George Sharp (Landenberg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to thermal imageable dielectric layers and thermal transfer donors and receivers comprising dielectric layers. The thermal transfer donors are useful in making electronic devices by thermal transfer of dielectric layers having excellent resistivity, good transfer properties and good adhesion to a variety of receivers. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/488263 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08063359 | Sigman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E Sigman (Oviedo, Florida); Mary R Williams (Eustis, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a system and a method relate to generating a summed ion spectrum for a test sample, the summed ion spectrum identifying ion intensities at multiple different mass-to-charge ratios, and comparing the summed ion spectrum of the test sample with multiple reference summed ion spectra to identify a potential match. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244281 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/282 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08064712 | Wheeler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC Fire and Security Americas Corporation, Inc. (Bradenton, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York); Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for performing a facial image restoration is described. The system includes an active appearance model component for fitting an active appearance model to a facial image found in each of a plurality of video frames, a registration component for registering each pixel of each facial image with comparable pixels of each of the other facial images, and a restoration component for producing a restored facial image from the facial images. The method includes fitting an active appearance model to a facial image found in each of a plurality of video frames, registering each pixel of each said facial image with comparable pixels of each of the other facial images, and producing a restored facial image from the facial images. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/836316 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/254 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08064421 | Bronez |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Bronez (Vienna, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for reliable neighbor discovery in wireless ad hoc networks are provided herein. In one aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for analyzing the quality of a communication link. In embodiments, several factors affecting link quality may be incorporated in the analysis, and basic and/or complex statistical and/or probabilistic analysis may be used. In another aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for neighbor node discovery that adapt to network and/or node operating conditions and that dynamically maintain a neighbor node set at a given node according to these conditions. In a further aspect, embodiments of the present invention extend the utility of neighbor node discovery beyond the customary role of data routing support into the problem of deploying an ad hoc network by providing a display module for displaying node connectivity information. |
| FILED | Monday, March 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/719512 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08065573 | Abts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cray Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis C. Abts (Eleva, Wisconsin); Gerald A Schwoerer (Chippwa Falls, Wisconsin); Van L. Snyder (Blaine, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments include an apparatus comprising a memory device including a plurality of addressable memory locations, and a memory manager coupled to the memory device, the memory manager including a scheduling unit and a histogram data structure including a plurality of counters, the scheduling unit operable to detect a single-bit error in data read from the memory device, and to increment a value in a particular one of the plurality of counters, the particular one of the plurality of counters corresponding to the particular bit in the accessed data which incurred the single-bit error in the read data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274044 |
| ART UNIT | 2117 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08064994 | Pardo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose V. Pardo (Eagan, Minnesota); Sohail A. Sheikh (Napier, New Zealand) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods for treating obesity using chronic cervical vagal nerve stimulation (cVNS) of the left vagus trunk are disclosed. Four men and ten women, average age 46 years (SD±10) were treated with output current typically 0.75 mA, pulse frequency 30 Hz and width 250 or 500 μs, and duty cycle of 30 s power per five minutes. Mean intake weight was 91 kg (SD±27, range 46 to 137 kg) with body mass index (BMI) 43 kg/m2 (SD±5, range 18 to 49 kg/mn2). After 6-12 months, obese patients had marked weight loss while normal weights were maintained. Decrease in BMI was consistently proportional to initial BMI. Average weight loss at one year was 7 kg (SD±3, range −6 to +24) with mean drop in BMI of 2 kg/m2 (SD±3, range −2 to +8)k. All patients denied any major dieting or exercise. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/541853 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08062889 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corp. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Russel G. Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Eric M. Mishkin (Winter Springs, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Michael D. Rivard (Natick, Massachusetts); Santosh Pawar (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of constructing an integrated artificial immune system that comprises appropriate in vitro cellular and tissue constructs or their equivalents to mimic the tissues of the immune system in mammals. The artificial immune system can be used to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates and other materials in vitro and thus, is useful to accelerate vaccine development and testing drug and chemical interactions with the immune system, coupled with disease models to provide a more complete representation of an immune response. |
| FILED | Friday, July 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/833640 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08062846 | Bortolin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Smiths Detection-Edgewood, Inc. (Edgewood, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Laura T. Bortolin (Devens, Massachusetts); Lalitha Parameswaran (Burlington, Massachusetts); James Harper (Boston, Massachusetts); Johanna Bobrow (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mark A. Hollis (Concord, Massachusetts); Drew Chapman Brown (Towson, Maryland); Eric Scott Clasen (Hillsborough, New Jersey); John Calvin Schmidt (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for preparing a nucleic acid component of a sample for amplification includes a porous support having an agent that deactivates a nucleic acid amplification inhibitor component of the sample. The apparatus further includes a housing with an opening and defining an interior. The interior of the housing is in fluid communication with the porous support, and at least a portion of a fluid directed through the opening is directed through at least a portion of the porous support. The apparatus also includes a magnetic substrate for separating nucleic acid from a sample. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804598 |
| 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 |
U.S. State Government
| US 08062420 | Keszler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas A. Keszler (Corvallis, Oregon); Ning Ye (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals, including aluminum-borate NLO crystals, that have low concentrations of contaminants that adversely affect the NLO crystal's optical properties, such as compounds that contain transition-metal elements and/or lanthanides, other than yttrium, lanthanum, and lutetium. Some NLO crystals with low concentrations of these contaminants are capable of second harmonic generation at very short wavelengths. Also described are embodiments of a method for making these NLO crystals. Some embodiments involve growing a single NLO crystal, such as an aluminum-borate NLO crystal, from a mixture containing a solvent that is substantially free of harmful contaminants. The described NLO crystals can be used, for example, in laser devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/765406 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08062587 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mei-Yin Wu (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Jun-Ru Wu (South Burlingon, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of treating a target area with an ultrasound wave pattern, including: providing an ultrasound apparatus having an ultrasound wave generator operatively attached to a plurality of transducers, coupled to an immersible support and configured to emit an ultrasound wave; immersing the apparatus into a water environment; positioning the apparatus proximate to a target area to treat at least one in situ organism; and emitting a pattern of ultrasound waves from the transducers, the pattern of ultrasound waves additive in effect and emitted onto the target area to threat an in situ underwater organism. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/880842 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063397 | Mori et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Mori (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eugene A. Fitzgerald (Windham, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor light-emitting structures are shown on engineered substrates having a graded composition. The composition of the substrate may be graded to achieve a lattice constant on which a yellow-green light-emitting semiconductor material may be disposed. In some embodiments, the structure may be substantially free of aluminum. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/823860 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08063818 | Stafford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Stafford (Derwood, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are provided for accessing GPS signals in faded environments. Means are provided for predicting the nonlinear phase induced by the receiver's own clock, when there is at least one GPS satellite link strong enough to calculate a phase profile. In an embodiment, GPS signals are accessed in faded environments by increasing the sensitivity of a GPS receiver by increasing the processing gain of received GPS signals through increased integration time. Matching a near-baseband signal requires removing a nonlinear part of the phase which may arise from several sources, including: the phase drift of the GPS satellite's atomic clock, the phase drift due to the motion of the GPS receiver, the phase drift due to the motion of the GPS satellite, and the phase drift due to the GPS receiver's clock. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936280 |
| 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 342/357.620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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