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Patent Details for Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Department of Defense (DOD)
| US 08100003 | Thomas, II 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) | Myron Lyn Thomas, II (Fredericksburg, Virginia); Carl Lee Sisemore (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A device is provided for recording transverse acceleration of a projectile longitudinally traveling along a barrel. Within the projectile, the device includes a base, a cantilever beam, a stylus and a medium. The beam longitudinally extends at a first end from the base. The stylus connects to a second end of the beam, being longitudinally opposite from the first end. The medium is rigidly fixed relative to the base and indicates transverse deflection extent of the second end onto the medium. The transverse deflection extent can be vertically perpendicular to the beam, and the stylus can permit deflection that is horizontally perpendicular to the beam. A method is provided for recording transverse acceleration of a projectile longitudinally traveling along a barrel that includes providing a base within the projectile, suspending a cantilever beam longitudinally within the projectile from the base from a first end of the beam, fixing a medium relative to the base, and connecting a stylus to a second end of said beam, the second end being opposite from the first end, the stylus indicating transverse deflection extent of the second end onto the medium. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/456271 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100020 | Kinlen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumimove, Inc., a Missouri Corporation (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick J. Kinlen (Fenton, Missouri); Huaxiang Yang (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Dongsik Kim (Purvis, Mississippi); Abhishek K. Singh (Hattiesburg, Mississippi); Brady Pitts (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A sensor is provided. The sensor includes a substrate having at least one intrinsically conductive polymer coated on at least a first surface thereof and at least a first and second conductive contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/486549 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100318 | Bose 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) | Animesh Bose (Fort Worth, Texas); Morris F. Dilmore (Baker, Florida); Alan J. Armstrong (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of making useful shapes by joining of tungsten alloys. Joining of tungsten heavy alloys which are alloys typically made from W—Ni—Fe is used. These alloys are typically manufactured by liquid phase sintering. This leads to difficulty in producing large length to diameter ratio parts that have some significant weight (such as penetrators). A “brick and mortar” approach is employed wherein smaller segments of this alloy (low length to diameter ratio) are joined to together to produce a larger part with higher length to diameter ratio. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/703815 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100367 | Rousseau |
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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 G. Rousseau (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a fabric wing, such as a Rogallo wing or parafoil, a roller connected to the fabric wing, cables connected to the fabric wing, a motor connected to the roller. Upon activation, the motor causes the roller to roll-up or unroll at least a portion of the fabric wing. The system may include a rigid or collapsible roller support structure connected to the roller. The roller may be located along a central axis of the fabric wing. A control unit may be connected to the cables, the control unit including a logic controller, power source, communications system, GPS and inertial navigation sensor system, motor controller, and one or more sensors including an air speed sensor, altitude sensor, obstacle detection sensor, and/or a ground proximity sensor. The system may include a second roller with an attached motor, with each roller located at an end of the fabric wing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/552193 |
| 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 244/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100633 | Propheter-Hinckley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley (Manchester, Connecticut); Charles C. Wu (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Cooling air manifold splash plates and gas turbine engine systems involving such splash plates are provided. In this regard, a representative cooling air manifold splash plates includes: a base having an aperture; and an air deflector supported by the base, the air deflector being positioned relative to the base to receive, from the aperture, a radial flow of gas turbine engine cooling air, the air deflector being operative to redirect at least some of the air received circumferentially. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/045781 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100672 | Walavalkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sameer Walavalkar (Los Angeles, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic structure with an electrically controlled pressure source is shown. The pressure source is an electrolyte connected with electrodes. Dissociation of the electrolyte generates the pressure, which is used to obtain a valve-like or pump-like behavior inside the microfluidic structure. A process for manufacturing the microfluidic structure and a method to circulate fluids in a microfluidic channel are also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/349365 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Pumps 417/379 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100694 | Portoghese 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) | Rocco Portoghese (Orlando, Florida); Paul Geoffrey Barber (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to an infrared weapon aimpoint and triggering detection system that includes an IRED that is modulated in two modes for training and evaluating first responders who are required to enter buildings and raid houses. The IRED mode is either an aiming mode or a triggered mode. The triggered mode is initiated for a short period when the weapon is fired as sensed by a recoil sensing mechanism. An IRED detector and controller sense and process the signal, and may provide output to an instructor, evaluator or a target controller to control the behavior of a target. |
| FILED | Monday, June 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820037 |
| ART UNIT | 3715 — Amusement and Education Devices |
| CURRENT CPC | Education and demonstration 434/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100835 | Baruch |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Baruch (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Determining physiological life signs, with a sensor that is in contact with the surface of a patient's skin at point proximate an artery, and measuring arterial blood vessel displacement and/or blood pressure changes. A data stream of measurements of is collected and a set of parameters from the collected data, a number of physiological life signs parameters, is extracted from the data. The physiological life signs that can be extracted include heart rate, breathing rate, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/500558 |
| ART UNIT | 3735 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/485 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101061 | Suh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dong-Seok Suh (Seoul, South Korea); Ray Henry Baughman (Dallas, Texas); Anvar Abdulahadovic Zakhidov (Richardson, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to processes for the combination of injecting charge in a material electrochemically via non-faradaic (double-layer) charging, and retaining this charge and associated desirable properties changes when the electrolyte is removed. The present invention is also directed to compositions and applications using material property changes that are induced electrochemically by double-layer charging and retained during subsequent electrolyte removal. In some embodiments, the present invention provides reversible processes for electrochemically injecting charge into material that is not in direct contact with an electrolyte. Additionally, in some embodiments, the present invention is directed to devices and other material applications that use properties changes resulting from reversible electrochemical charge injection in the absence of an electrolyte. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/591730 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/688 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101139 | Therriault et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Therriault (Rimouski, Canada); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois); Scott R. White (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices that include hosts having internal microcapillary networks are disclosed. The microcapillary networks are formed from interconnected passageways. The interconnected passageways may be formed by removing a fugitive material from a cured host material that forms the host. The resultant host material has many applications, including use as a microfluidic device in applications ranging from fluid mixing to structural repair. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133606 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101243 | Way et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Douglas Way (Boulder, Colorado); Mark Lusk (Golden, Colorado); Paul Thoen (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides thin, hydrogen-permeable, sulfur-resistant membranes formed from palladium or palladium-alloy coatings on porous, ceramic or metal supports. Also disclosed are methods of making these membranes via sequential electroless plating techniques, wherein the method of making the membrane includes decomposing any organic ligands present on the substrate, reducing the palladium crystallites on the substrate to reduced palladium crystallites, depositing a film of palladium metal on the substrate and then depositing a second, gold film on the palladium film. These two metal films are then annealed at a temperature between about 200° C. and about 1200° C. to form a sulfur-resistant, composite PdAu alloy membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768188 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101247 | Ringeisen 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) | Bradley R Ringeisen (Lorton, Virginia); Christina M. Othon (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of directing a pulse of laser energy though a workpiece. The workpiece has: a substrate that transmits the laser energy; focusing elements on a surface of the substrate proximal to the laser that focus the laser energy; and a coating on the substrate distal to the laser that absorbs a portion of the laser energy. Each focusing element focuses the laser energy to a point that removes or ablates a portion of the coating from the substrate to produce a hole in the coating. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/141954 |
| ART UNIT | 3742 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/596 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101474 | Zhu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenjuan Zhu (Fishkill, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel buried-channel graphene device structure and method for manufacture. The new structure includes a two level channel layer comprised of a buried-channel graphene layer with an amorphous silicon top channel layer. The method for making such structure includes the steps of depositing a graphene layer on a substrate, depositing an amorphous silicon layer on the graphene layer, converting the upper layer of the amorphous silicon layer to a gate dielectric by nitridation, oxidation or oxynitridation, while keeping the lower layer of the amorphous silicon layer to serve as part of the channel to form the buried-channel graphene device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652804 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/175 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101606 | Gutmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Gutmann (St. Louis, Missouri); Jason Weber (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods for treating neurofibromatosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269681 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/233.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101915 | McGill 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) | R Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Chris Kendziora (Burke, Virginia); Robert Furstenberg (Largo, Maryland); Michael Papantonakis (Washington, District of Columbia); James S Horwitz (Fairfax, Virginia); Graham K Hubler (Highland, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for non-contact or stand off chemical detection by selectively exciting one or more analytes of interest using an IR source tuned to at least one specific absorption band without significantly decomposing the analyte and determining if the analyte is present by comparing emitted photons with an IR detector signal made before and during or shortly after exciting the analyte. Another embodiment provides a method for non-contact or stand off chemical detection by selectively exciting one or more analytes of interest using an IR source tuned to at least one specific absorption band without significantly decomposing the analyte, wherein the analyte is excited sufficiently to generate a vapor plume, and wherein the plume is examined to detect the presence of the analyte. Additionally, the present invention provides for a system for non-contact or stand off chemical detection. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/255103 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/338.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101949 | Ye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Ye (Saratoga, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention generally include TFTs and methods for their manufacture. The gate dielectric layer in the TFT may affect the threshold voltage of the TFT. By treating the gate dielectric layer prior to depositing the active channel material, the threshold voltage may be improved. One method of treating the gate dielectric involves exposing the gate dielectric layer to N2O gas. Another method of treating the gate dielectric involves exposing the gate dielectric layer to N2O plasma. Silicon oxide, while not practical as a gate dielectric for silicon based TFTs, may also improve the threshold voltage when used in metal oxide TFTs. By treating the gate dielectric and/or using silicon oxide, the threshold voltage of TFTs may be improved. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493699 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102020 | Ho et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); Robert D. Hopkins (Hayward, California); William S. Coates (Los Gatos, California); Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device includes a semiconductor die having a surface, a plurality of proximity connectors proximate to the surface, and a circuit coupled to at least one of the plurality of proximity connectors. The semiconductor die is configured to communicate voltage-mode signals through capacitive coupling using one or more of the plurality of proximity connectors. The circuit also includes a filter with a capacitive-summing junction to equalize the signals. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437457 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/532 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102174 | Worledge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Infineon Technologies North America Corp. (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Christopher Worledge (Poughquag, New York); Philip Louis Trouilloud (Norwood, New Jersey); David William Abraham (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Joerg Dietrich Schmid (Hopewell Junction, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Probes are electrically connected to a surface of a tunnel junction film stack comprising a free layer, a tunnel barrier, and a pinned layer. Resistances are determined for a variety of probe spacings and for a number of magnetizations of one of the layers of the stack. The probe spacings are a distance from a length scale, which is related to the Resistance-Area (RA) product of the tunnel junction film stack. Spacings from as small as possible to about 40 times the length scale are used. Beneficially, the smallest spacing between probes used during a resistance measurement is under 100 microns. A measured in-plane MagnetoResistance (MR) curve is determined from the “high” and “low” resistances that occur at the two magnetizations of this layer. The RA product, resistances per square of the free and pinned layers, and perpendicular MR are determined through curve fitting. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361731 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102203 | Drost et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California); Robert Proebsting (Sonora, California); Arlene Proebsting, legal representative (Sonora, California); Scott M. Fairbanks (Corvallis, Oregon); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for calibrating an offset voltage of an amplifier used to amplify capacitively coupled communication signals is described. During this process, a common voltage is applied to one or more inputs to the amplifier. Next, an output of the amplifier is iteratively, measured, and charge is applied to the one or more inputs until the offset voltage is less than a pre-determined value. Note that applying the charge may involve applying a sequence of one or more charge pulses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/860693 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102297 | Drake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National ICT Australia Limited (Eveleigh, New South Wales, Australia); The Commonwealth of Australia, of the Secretary, Department of Defense (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel Picton Drake (Adelaide, Australia); Brian David Anderson (Red Hill, Australia); Changbin Yu (MacGregor, Australia) |
| ABSTRACT | There are provided method and system for deinterleaving signals. The method comprises: (a) recording plural signal reception events, wherein each signal reception event is associated with a received signal at a receiver, and represented by a space-time coordinate having a space component based on a location of the receiver and a time component based on an arrival time of the received signal; (b) selecting a subset of signal reception events from the recorded signal reception events, wherein the number of signal reception events in the subset is based on the dimension of the space component; and (c) determining whether the signal reception events in the selected subset satisfy a predetermined condition, and if the determination is in the affirmative, associating the signal reception events in the selected subset with an emission of an emitter. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776107 |
| 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 342/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102305 | Otts |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel W. Otts (Allen, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a method comprises receiving sensor data generated by one or more sensors in response to sensing a structure. The sensor data is filtered to identify edge data and reverberation data each describing the same structural feature of the structure. Image data for a filtered image of the structure is generated from the edge data, but not from the reverberation data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/686862 |
| 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 342/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102306 | Smith, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Rosson Smith, Jr. (Springfield, Virginia); Joseph R. Krycia (Pasadena, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Typical inventive practice provides for electronic communication of a computer with a display, an active radar device (for transmitting target-location data and environmental data), a light measurement device (for transmitting visual light data), and passive imaging devices covering bands in the visual, infrared (MWIR and/or LWIR), and millimeter wave regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Inventive software in the computer's memory establishes “operational modes.” Each operational mode is defined at least by a predominant environmental (obscuration and lighting) character, ascribes “modal indices” to individual imaging devices, and carries its own multispectral image fusion algorithm (which, pursuant to the ascribed modal indices, attributes weights to the imaging data from the respective imaging devices). The inventive software aims the imaging devices toward the target, selects an operational mode (based on the environmental data), and executes the image fusion algorithm associated with the selected operational mode so that a fused multispectral image is displayed. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/779766 |
| 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 342/52 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102523 | Marsh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles P. Marsh (Urbana, Illinois); Eric Olson (Champaign, Illinois); Todor I. Donchev (Urbana, Illinois); Ivan Petrov (Champaign, Illinois); Jianguo Wen (Champaign, Illinois); Ryan Franks (Arlington, Virginia); Dongxiang Liao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for using a reusable sample-holding device for readily loading very small wet samples for observation of the samples by microscopic equipment, in particular in a vacuum environment. The method may be used with a scanning electron microscope (SEM), a transmission electron microscope (TEM), an X-ray microscope, optical microscope, and the like. For observation of the sample, the method provides a thin-membrane window etched in the center of each of two silicon wafers abutting to contain the sample in a small uniform gap formed between the windows. This gap may be adjusted by employing spacers. Alternatively, the thickness of a film established by the fluid in which the sample is incorporated determines the gap without need of a spacer. To optimize resolution each window may have a thickness on the order of 50 nm and the gap may be on the order of 50 nm. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/239632 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102536 | Ward et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Ward (Dedham, Massachusetts); Michael Kishinevsky (North Andover, Massachusetts); Matthew Soucy (Hopkinton, Massachusetts); Stephen P. Smith (Acton, Massachusetts); Farhad Zarinetchi (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Determining linear modulator dynamics in an interferometric fiber-optic gyroscope may be accomplished by applying a stimulus at a point within the gyroscope, observing a response in an output of the gyroscope, and determining, from the observed response, the linear modulator dynamics. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/963977 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/460 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102663 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Anders Landin (San Carlos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A “sombrero” bridge transports signal communication between a processor and one or more cache memories. The bridge surrounds the processor's perimeter, and includes an aperture opposite the processor through which power and data can be provided to the processor from another device. The bridge exchanges signals with the cache memories via capacitively coupled proximity connections. The bridge communicates with the processor via conductive (e.g. wire) connections and optionally proximity connections. Spacing between opposing pads of the proximity connection(s) between the bridge and the cache memories can be provided by recesses in a surface of the cache memory, corresponding recesses in an opposing surface of the bridge, and a ball for each matching pair of corresponding cache memory and bridge recesses. The ball fits in and between the recesses of the matching pair. The recess depths and ball diameter(s) constrain a minimum distance between opposing pads of the proximity connection(s). |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/864762 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/760 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102885 | Peyghambarian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nasser Peyghambarian (Tucson, Arizona); Axel Schulzgen (Tucson, Arizona); Li Ll (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device that includes 1) a gain section having a plurality of core regions including dopant species configured to absorb incident radiation at a first wavelength and emit radiation at a second wavelength, and 2) at least one passive section attached to the gain section. The gain section and the at least one passive section comprise an optical cavity which selectively promotes in-phase light emission from the optical cavity. An alternative optical device which includes a gain section having a plurality of core regions including dopant species configured to absorb incident radiation at a first wavelength and emit radiation at a second wavelength, and 2) two passive sections attached to the gain section at opposite ends. In this alternative optical device, the gain section and the two passive sections comprise an optical cavity which selectively promotes in-phase light emission from the optical cavity such that the light emission from the optical cavity, in a far field, has a singular Gaussian-like intensity distribution about a longitudinal axis extending from the optical cavity. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117532 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102940 | Katz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lockheed Martin Corporation (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allen Katz (West Windsor, New Jersey); Donald P. Farrell (Raleigh, North Carolina); James L. Martinetti (Colonia, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A receive frequency band interference protection system includes an input terminal for receiving an input signal and a dividing coupler coupled to the input terminal. The dividing coupler is configured to divide the input signal into a first signal and a second signal. The system further includes a first signal path and a second signal path. The first signal path includes a delay, and it is coupled to the dividing coupler and configured to receive the first signal. The second signal path is coupled to the dividing coupler and configured to receive the second signal. The second signal path includes an attenuator coupled to the dividing coupler and a predistortion linearizer coupled to the attenuator. The system further includes a combining coupler and an output terminal. The combining coupler is coupled to the first signal path and the second signal path. The combining coupler is configured to obtain a sum of the respective outputs of the first signal path and the second signal path. The output terminal is coupled to the combining coupler and configured to send out the sum. |
| FILED | Monday, July 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/826494 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103144 | Zhao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Agiltron, Inc. (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jing Zhao (Winchester, Massachusetts); Yongjun Wu (Andover, Massachusetts); Yuanxin Shou (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Qingdong Guo (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for mechanically splicing a pair of optic fibers or optic cables, the mechanical splice comprising: a ferrule having an axial capillary bore, the capillary bore configured to enclose the optic fibers at both ends of the ferrule; and cured epoxy disposed to secure together the ends of the optic fibers and to secure the optic fibers to an inside surface of the capillary bore, the ferrule optionally enclosed in a metal tube. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894277 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103178 | McKinney |
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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) | Jason D. McKinney (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A phase-modulated analog optical link that uses parallel interferometric demodulation to mitigate the dominant intermodulation distortion present in the link. A receiver for demodulating phase modulated optical signals includes a splitter dividing the phase modulated signal into parallel optical paths, each optical path having an asymmetrical interferometer, the time delays of the interferometers being unequal, and each optical path includes a photodiode optically connected to an output of the interferometer. Outputs of the photodiodes enter a hybrid coupler. Alternatively, outputs of the interferometer enter a balanced photodetector. A phase shifter or time delay element can be included in one optical path to ensure inputs to the coupler or balanced photodetector have the correct phase. The input power to the parallel optical paths is split in a ratio that balances the third-order distortion in the output photocurrent. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425595 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/211 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103212 | Pezeshkian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Narek Pezeshkian (San Diego, California); Aaron Bruce Burmeister (San Diego, California); Hoa G. Nguyen (San Diego, California); Kevin F. Holz (San Diego, California); James Cruickshanks (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A relay device deployment system comprising: a deployer, a wireless relay device, a node radio, a deployment mechanism, and a processor. The deployer is configured to be mounted on a mobile platform and to deploy the relay device to a support surface. The relay device comprises dual rotatable antennas and operates as a node in an ad hoc telecommunications network. The node radio has dual antennas and is also configured to operate as a node in the network. The deployment mechanism is configured to deploy the relay device when the network strength drops below a threshold value as monitored by the processor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/535416 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/13.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103328 | Turner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quantum Applied Science and Research, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter James Turner (San Diego, California); Robert Matthews (San Diego, California); Jamison Scott Woodward (Solana Beach, California); Konstantine V. Ermolaev (San Diego, California); Andrew D. Hibbs (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-locating mounting apparatus for holding objects such as sensors at specific positions on a subject's head includes a central mount constituted by a plurality of inextensible elements adapted to fit over the top of a subject's head. In addition, the mounting apparatus includes an adjustable circumferential band adapted to circle the subject's head and connect the central mount to inextensible side elements via sliding joints. A plurality of biasing elements provide a force for biasing sensor mounting units on the mounting apparatus against a subject's head, allowing for long-term sensing while minimizing interference forces on the mounting units. Advantageously, the mounting apparatus holds sensors within approximately 5 mm of their desired measurement positions over a range of subject head sizes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243461 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103462 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jun Liu (Hartford, Connecticut); Paul J. Vasques (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for accurately calculating the oil quantity and oil consumption rate of an aircraft engine detects the level of oil in an oil tank, calculates the oil quantity in the oil tank by compensating for the acceleration of the aircraft, as well as changes in the pitch, yaw and roll of the aircraft. The oil consumption rate of the aircraft is also calculated by calculating the oil quantity at different times, and dividing the difference in oil quantity by the difference in times. The percentage change in oil consumption of the aircraft engine is also calculated. The oil quantity and oil consumption rate can be reported during and after the aircraft's flight. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977461 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/55 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103463 | Kalgren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Impact Technologies, LLC (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick W. Kalgren (Conesus, New York); Antonio E. Ginart (Marietta, Georgia); Sashank Nanduri (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Anthony J. Boodhansingh (Webster, New York); Carl S. Byington (Pittsford, New York); Rolf F. Orsagh (Rochester, New York); Brian J. Sipos (Rochester, New York); Douglas W. Brown (Atlanta, Georgia); Christopher M. Minnella (Rochester, New York); Mark Baybutt (Webster, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are systems and methods for prognostic health management (PHM) of electronic systems. Such systems and methods present challenges traditionally viewed as either insurmountable or otherwise not worth the cost of pursuit. The systems and methods are directed to the health monitoring and failure prediction of electronic systems, including the diagnostic methods employed to assess current health state and prognostic methods for the prediction of electronic system failures and remaining useful life. The disclosed methodologies include three techniques: (1) use of existing electronic systems data (circuit as a sensor); (2) use of available external measurements as condition indicators and degradation assessor; and (3) performance assessment metrics derived from available external measurements. |
| FILED | Friday, September 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/859256 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Harvey Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A graphical user interface (GUI) is used for rendering semantic concepts and provides menu selections that are rendered in accordance with the semantic concepts. The display includes fields for rendering logical associations in multiple display fields. A first field is provided for a semantic concept, and a second field is provided for receiving a consequent of the semantic concept. First and second menus are used to display the semantic concept in a hierarchical display of a set of semantic concepts and to display consequents corresponding to the semantic concepts. A third field for display a semantic concept and a fourth field displays a consequent of the semantic concept. If a user makes a selection from one of the first and second menus, the GUI renders displays in the third and fourth fields in accordance with the selection. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390642 |
| ART UNIT | 2174 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103660 | Hupfer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); John F. Patterson (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented is a computer system and user interface for seamlessly integrating the creation and submission of persistent queries, and for collecting and presenting the real-time results of those queries, into the context of one's work and directly structured work artifacts. Users are provided a real-time awareness of what is happening to their persistent queries and their results, from within the work context of the artifact and program application used during creation and submission of the queries. Rather than having to visit a separate alerting application, the user is able to manage queries and query results directly from a subject application, such as a problem-solving application. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017990 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/722 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103767 | Karger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Intitute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Karger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eric Lehman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); F. Thomson Leighton (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Matthew Levine (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel Lewin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rina Panagrahy (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in circular mapping space using a hash function. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or locations in the circular mapping space. The request is allocated to one of the resources based on the given request location and the resource location in the circular mapping space. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355433 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103792 | Tasman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell P. Tasman (Boston, Massachusetts); Jason Keith Redi (Belmont, Massachusetts); Richard Dennis Rockwell (Concord, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A network device (110) includes a forwarding module (230) and one or more network interfaces (240) that may be configured to transmit data units. The forwarding module (230) may be configured to identify one of the network interfaces (240) to transmit a data unit when the data unit is received by the network device (110) or generated by the network device (110), determine one of the network interfaces (240) to transmit the data unit when the data unit is ready to be transmitted by the network device (110), and forward the data unit to the determined network interface (240) for network when the determined network interface (240) is the identified network interface (240). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/576170 |
| ART UNIT | 2443 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103852 | Bishop et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Wilson Bishop (Newark Valley, New York); Mary Douglass Brown (Austin, Texas); William Elton Burky (Austin, Texas); Todd Alan Venton (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An information handling system includes a processor with a bifurcated unified issue queue that may perform unified issue queue VSU store instruction dependency operations. The bifurcated unified issue queue BUIQ maintains VSU store instructions in the form of internal operations data. The BUIQ includes a unified issue queue UIQ 0 and a unified issue queue UIQ 1. The BUIQ may manage a particular VSU store instruction from one UIQ to determine data dependencies and employ the other UIQ to determine address dependencies of that particular VSU store instruction. The UIQs employ a dependency matrix including a dependency array. The dependency array data maintains both data and address dependency information. The particular VSU store instruction issues to execution units such as VSUs for data dependency information and load store units (LSUs) for address dependency information. A particular VSU store instruction may execute to provide data dependency information independent of address dependency information. |
| FILED | Monday, December 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/342045 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103856 | Balasubramonian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajeev Balasubramonian (Sandy, Utah); Sandhya Dwarkadas (Rochester, New York); David Albonesi (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a processor having multiple clusters which operate in parallel, the number of clusters in use can be varied dynamically. At the start of each program phase, the configuration option for an interval is run to determine the optimal configuration, which is used until the next phase change is detected. The optimum instruction interval is determined by starting with a minimum interval and doubling it until a low stability factor is reached. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352493 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103892 | Krajcovic |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adaptive Materials, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Krajcovic (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A power management apparatus includes a first electrical lead and a second electrical lead. The first electrical lead routes electrical current at a first electrical lead electrical potential level and the second electrical lead route electrical current at a second current port electrical potential level. The power management apparatus further includes a first electrical parameter sensor configured to measure a first electrical lead electrical parameter and a second electrical parameter sensor configured to measure a second electrical lead electrical parameter. The power management apparatus further comprises a buck boost converter electrically coupled to both the first electrical lead and the second electrical lead. The buck boost converter is configured to convert electrical current between the first electrical lead electric potential level and the second electrical lead electric potential level at a controlled potential conversion level. The power management apparatus further comprises a controller is configured to receive operating current from either one of the first electrical lead and the second electrical lead. The controller is configured to monitor the first electrical parameter sensor and the second electrical parameter sensor and being configured to output control signals to the buck boost converter. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496217 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/323 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08104014 | Puri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ruchir Puri (Baldwin Place, New York); Haifeng Qian (White Plains, New York); Chin Ngai Sze (Austin, Texas); James Warnock (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Power, routability and electromigration have become crucial issues in modem microprocessor designs. In high performance designs, clocks are the highest consumer of power. Arranging clocking components with regularity so as to minimize the capacitance of the clock nets can help reduce clock power, however, it may hurt performance due to some loss of flexibility in physically placing those components. The present invention provides techniques to optimally design a clock network by logically assigning clusters of the latches to respective clock distribution structures, placing clock pins at favored pin locations, and placing clock distribution structures directly underneath the clock pins. The clock distribution structures may be moved to favored distribution locations along the clock stripes, and new optimal clustering generated between the latches and the clock distribution structures. These three optimizations are preferably repeated iteratively to derive a local optimal solution for the clock network. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/022951 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/134 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43134 | Wadia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Providence Health System - Oregon (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yasmin Wadia (Humble, Texas); Scott Alan Prahl (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a denatured albumin lamina, useful for repairing lesions on solid visceral organs. The lamina comprises human serum albumin, formed into a thin, pliant sheet and denatured. The denatured lamina can be sterilized and stored until used. As well, it can be impregnated with a variety of bioagents. A method for repairing a lesion on a solid visceral organ includes applying an energy-absorbing proteinaceous material to a lesion site on the solid visceral organ lesion; irradiating the proteinaceous material with energy sufficient to fuse the energy-absorbing material at least partially to the lesion site; applying a biocompatible denatured albumin lamina onto the proteinaceous material on the lesion site; and irradiating the biocompatible albumin lamina and the proteinaceous material with energy sufficient to fuse the biocompatible albumin lamina to the proteinaceous material and/or the lesion site. A laser solder can be deployed beneath the lamina to aid in welding it to the organ surface using laser light energy. |
| FILED | Friday, April 08, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/102886 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) (Clemson, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Narendra R. Vyavahare (Easley, South Carolina); Jason C. Isenburg (Pendleton, South Carolina); Dan T. Simionescu (Central, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and product are provided for the treatment of connective tissue weakened due to destruction of tissue architecture, and in particular due to elastin degradation. The treatment agents employ certain unique properties of phenolic compounds to develop a protocol for reducing elastin degradation, such as that occurring during aneurysm formation in vasculature. According to the invention, elastin can be stabilized in vivo and destruction of connective tissue, such as that leading to life-threatening aneurysms in vasculature, can be tempered or halted all together. The treatment agents can be delivered or administered acutely or chronically according to various delivery methods, including sustained release methods incorporating perivascular or endovascular patches, use of microsphere carriers, hydrogels, or osmotic pumps. |
| FILED | Monday, March 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/748849 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/1.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101037 | Woolley et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Adam T. Woolley (Orem, Utah); Ryan T. Kelly (West Richland, Washington); Melissa Draper Fisk (Provo, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A microchip with capillaries and method for making same is described. A sacrificial material fills microchannels formed in a polymeric substrate, the filled microchannels are covered by a top cover to form filed capillaries, and the sacrificial material is removed to form the microcapillaries. The sacrificial material fills the microchannels as a liquid whereupon it becomes solid in the microchannels, and is liquefied after the top cover is applied and affixed to remove the sacrificial material. The top cover may be solvent sealed on the substrate and of the same or different material as the substrate. The top cover may also be an in situ applied semipermeable membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724404 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/155 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101114 | Park et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung-hwan Park (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark G. Allen (Atlanta, Georgia); Mark R. Prausnitz (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Various apparatuses, arrangements, and methods are provided for creating various structures including microstructures. In one embodiment, a method for creating a microstructure is provided comprising packing a plurality of particles into a micromold, and then applying energy to the particles in the micromold. As a result of the application of energy, a microstructure is formed in the micromold out of the particles. Thereafter, the microstructure is removed from the micromold. |
| FILED | Monday, April 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299092 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/443 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for identifying a molecule that binds an irradiated tumor in a subject and molecules identified thereby. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of (a) exposing a tumor to ionizing radiation; (b) administering to a subject a library of diverse molecules; and (c) isolating from the tumor one or more molecules of the library of diverse molecules, whereby a molecule that binds an irradiated tumor is identified. Also provided are targeting ligands that bind an irradiated tumor and therapeutic and diagnostic methods that employ the disclosed targeting ligands. |
| FILED | Friday, November 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/592451 |
| 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 424/9.100 |
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| US 08101158 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Stanford University (Stanford, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qun-Yong Zhou (Irvine, California); Alex G. Lee (Palo Alto, California); Michelle Y. Cheng (Monterey Park, California); Robert M. Sapolsky (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of identifying agents that modulate prokineticin receptors, particularly, in the brain. Such agents are useful in the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, including cerebral ischemia, cerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke, and ischemic reperfusion injury. Additionally, such agents are useful to treat seizure disorders, such as epilepsy. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025673 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
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| US 08101159 | Hurst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Hurst (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Michael A. Ihnat (Tuttle, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | In vitro and in vivo methods for identifying compounds capable of targeting suppressed cancer cells such as micrometastatic cells. The in vitro method includes the steps of comparing the response to a test compound of cancer cells grown on a suppressing cell support matrix which causes suppression of a malignant phenotype in a growing cancer cell and on a non-suppressing cell support matrix. The in vivo method includes a step of co-injecting labeled cancer cells with a malignant-phenotype suppressing matrix into a test animal to produce suppressed micrometastatic cells therein. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540821 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101164 | Papisov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mikhail I. Papisov (Winchester, Massachusetts); Alexander Yurkovetskiy (Littleton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to conjugate comprising a carrier substituted with one or more occurrences of a moiety having the structure (I): wherein each occurrence of M is independently a modifier having a molecular weight ≦10 kDa; denotes direct of indirect attachment of M to linker LM; and each occurrence of LM is independently an optionally substituted succinamide-containing linker, whereby the modifier M is directly or indirectly attached to the succinamide linker through an amide bond, and the carrier is linked directly or indirectly to each occurrence of the succinamide linker through an ester bond. In another aspect, the invention provides compositions comprising the conjugates, methods for their preparation, and methods of use thereof in the treatment of various disorder, including, but not limited to cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/859556 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/78.300 |
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| US 08101169 | Chalberg, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. Chalberg, Jr. (Redwood City, California); Mark Blumenkranz (Portola Valley, California); Daniel V. Palanker (Sunnyvale, California); Alexander Vankov (Menlo Park, California); Philip Huie, Jr. (Cupertino, California); Michael F. Marmor (Stanford, California); Michele P. Calos (Burlingame, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of treating an ocular disease in a subject. In a first step, a nucleic acid is introduced into cells or a tissue. The nucleic acid is introduced by electron avalanche transfection. With this technique, a high electric field induces a vapor bubble and plasma discharge between an electrode and the surrounding medium. The formation of a vapor bubble generates mechanical stress. Plasma discharge through the ionized vapor in the bubble enables connectivity between the electrode and the surrounding medium, so that mechanical stress and electric field are applied simultaneously, which results in permeabilization of the cells or tissue. This permeabilization in turn allows the nucleic acid to enter the cell or tissue. Cells or tissue containing the nucleic acid are then transplanted into an ocular region of the subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/505249 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
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| US 08101175 | Croft et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Croft (San Diego, California); Shahram Salek-Ardakani (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | T cell memory can persist in the absence of antigen. However, some memory cells by default are subject to signals accompanying periodic antigen exposure. OX40 is essential to the extent and persistence of Th2 memory when antigen is re-encountered. In an animal model of allergic asthma, inhibiting OX40/OX40L signaling during the secondary response to inhaled antigen suppressed lung inflammation. Inhibiting OX40 at the time of memory cell reactivation reduced the longevity of memory with further inflammation prevented upon tertiary encounter with antigen. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143077 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
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| US 08101176 | Kuchroo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts); Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay K. Kuchroo (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Laurent Monney (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jason L. Gaglia (Boston, Massachusetts); Edward A. Greenfield (Stoughton, Massachusetts); Gordon J. Freeman (Brookline, Massachusetts); Hanspeter Waldner (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for promoting or reducing T-cell trafficking to a target tissue. Also provided are compositions and methods useful for promoting or inhibiting antigen-presenting cell (APC) activation. The invention is related to discovery of functional characteristics of TIM-3, a molecule that is preferentially expressed on the surface of Th1 cells. The methods are useful for treating disorders including cancer, infectious disease, allergy, asthma, and autoimmune disease. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/276977 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101191 | Jacobs, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William R. Jacobs, Jr. (Pelham, New York); Steven A. Porcelli (Bronx, New York); Miriam Braunstein (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are mycobacteria comprising (a) a mutation that is not in a SecA2 gene that attenuates the virulence of the mycobacteria in a mammalian host, and (b) a mutation in a SecA2 gene that eliminates SecA2 activity. Also provided are mycobacteria that comprise a mutation in a SecA2 gene that eliminates SecA2 activity, where the mycobacteria are not Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mycobacterium smegmatis. Additionally provided are methods of inducing an immune response in a mammal and methods of inducing an immune response to a pathogenic mycobacterium in a human using the above mycobacterial mutants. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/087628 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
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| US 08101192 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing an immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are disclosed herein. In several examples, the immune response is a protective immune response. In additional embodiments, methods are disclosed for preventing an infection with Mtb, or treating an infection with Mtb. Pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention and/or treatment of tuberculosis are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894051 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101238 | Fokin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); M. G. Finn (San Diego, California); K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Adhesive polymers are formed when polyvalent azides and alkynes are assembled into crosslinked polymer networks by copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The condensation polymerization is efficiently promoted by Cu ions either leached from the metal surface or added to the monomer mixture, and strong interactions with metal surfaces are provided by the multiple triazole binding elements produced. The adhesive polymers may be formed either as adhesive polymer coatings or as adhesive polymer cement. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/632783 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/337 |
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| US 08101347 | Frank et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MCW Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dara W. Frank (West Allis, Wisconsin); Jeannine Wiener-Kronish (San Francisco, California); Timothy L. Yahr (Coralville, Iowa); Teiji Sawa (San Francisco, California); Robert B. Fritz (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of inhibiting, moderating or diagnosing Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection is disclosed. In one embodiment, this method comprises inoculating a patient with an effective amount of PcrV antigen. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355614 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
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| US 08101361 | Saavedra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Jewish Health (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milene Saavedra (Denver, Colorado); Jerry Nick (Denver, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to the novel discovery of a number of genes that were identified as systemic markers of pulmonary inflammation. This discovery allows for development of a novel tool for reliable, rapid and efficient assessment of therapeutic responses and enables design of novel therapies targeted against diseases associated with pulmonary inflammation. In one embodiment, the present invention allows quantification of therapeutic response in patients who have a disease associated with pulmonary inflammation. In preferred embodiments, the genes are CD64, ADAM9, CD36, IL32, HPSE, PLXND1, HCA112, CSPG2, TLR2, and CD163. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401381 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
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| US 08101363 | Ridker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Ridker (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); JoAnn E. Manson (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves methods for characterizing an individual's risk profile of developing future diabetes or complications of diabetes by obtaining a level of an inflammatory marker in the individual. Preferred inflammatory markers according to the present invention include C reactive protein and interleukin-6. The invention also involves methods for evaluating the likelihood that an individual will benefit from treatment with an agent for reducing the risk of future diabetes. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2001 |
| APPL NO | 10/017905 |
| 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 08101375 | Kozlov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Illumina, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor Kozlov (San Diego, California); Peter Melnyk (San Diego, California); Chanfeng Zhao (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of modifying a phosphomonoester moiety of a target compound. The method can include the steps of (a) providing a target compound having an electrophilic moiety and a phosphomonoester moiety; (b) contacting the target compound with a first carbodiimide compound under conditions for preferential addition of the first carbodiimide compound to the electrophilic moiety over the phosphomonoester moiety, thereby forming an electrophile-protected target compound; and (c) contacting the electrophile-protected target compound with a second carbodiimide compound and a nucleophilic compound under conditions for addition of the nucleophilic compound to the phosphomonoester. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/868524 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/15 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101382 | Nelsestuen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (Saint Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L Nelsestuen (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides vitamin K-dependent polypeptides with enhanced membrane binding affinity. These polypeptides can be used to modulate clot formation in mammals. Methods of modulating clot formation in mammals are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/877516 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 08101421 | Rubinsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Rubinsky (El Cerrito, California); Cesar A. Gonzalez (Anahuac, Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining the condition of a bulk tissue sample, by: positioning a bulk tissue sample between a pair of induction coils (or antennae); passing a spectrum of alternating current (or voltage) through a first of the induction coils (or antennae); measuring spectrum of alternating current (or voltage) produced in the second of the induction coils (or antennae); and comparing the phase shift between the spectrum of alternating currents (or voltages) in the first and second induction coils (or antennae), thereby determining the condition of the bulk tissue sample. An apparatus for determining the condition of a bulk tissue sample, having: a first induction coil (or antenna); a second induction coil (or antenna); an alternating current power supply connected to the first induction coil (or antenna), the alternating current power supply configured to generate a spectrum of currents (or voltage) in the first induction coil (or antenna); and a measurement system connected to the second induction coil (or antenna), wherein the measurement system is configured to measure a phase shift difference in the spectrum of currents (or voltages) between the first and second induction coils (or antennae) when the first and second induction coils (or antennae) are positioned on opposite sides of a tissue sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 15, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/028082 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/149 |
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| US 08101424 | Geddes |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris D. Geddes (Bel-Air, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to detecting and/or measuring scattering effects due to the aggregating metallic nanostructures or the interaction of plasmonic emissions from approaching metallic nanoparticles. The scattering effects may be measured at different angles, different wavelengths, changes in absorption and/or changes in polarization relative to changes in the distances between nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/917075 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/164 |
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| US 08101564 | Choi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yongwon Choi (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Nacksung Kim (Secane, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a purified, negative regulator of osteoclast differentiation and bone resorption, specifically LRRc17. Further provided are methods and compositions for treating degenerative bone disorders, and treatments and prophylactic approaches for regulating bone resorption, and for decreasing or inhibiting the excessive bone loss associated with abnormal or excessive generation of or activity of osteoclasts. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299364 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 08101566 | Schimmel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Schimmel (La Jolla, California); Keisuke Wakasugi (Shizuoka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of suppressing angiogenesis in a mammal (e.g., for treating tumors, tumor metastasis or a condition that would benefit from decreased angiogenesis) comprises the step of administering to the mammal an angiostatically effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising an isolated antiangiogenic truncated tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (TrpRS) polypeptide or an isolated nucleic acid that comprises a polynucleotide sequence that encodes the truncated TrpRS polypeptide. The truncated TrpRS polypeptide comprises residues 71-471 of SEQ ID NO: 10, residues 48-471 of SEQ ID NO: 10, or a polypeptide of approximately 47 kD molecular weight produced by cleavage of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 10 with polymorphonuclear leucocyte elastase. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/655717 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
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| US 08101568 | Adang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Adang (Athens, Georgia); Gang Hua (Athens, Georgia); Jian (John) Chen (Athens, Georgia); Mohd Amir Fursan Abdullah (Zionsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention pertains to the use of peptide fragments of cadherins (including cadherin-like proteins). The subject invention includes a cell (and use thereof) comprising a polynucleotide that expresses the peptide fragment. The subject invention includes methods of feeding the peptides to insects. In preferred embodiments, the peptides are fed to target insects together with one or more insecticidal proteins, preferably (but not limited to) B.t. Cry proteins. When used in this manner, the peptide fragment can not only enhance the apparent toxin activity of the Cry protein against the insect species that was the source of the receptor but also against other insect species. Preferably, the cadherin is a Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) insecticidal crystal protein (Cry) toxin receptor. Preferably, the peptide fragment is a binding domain of the receptor. In some preferred embodiments, the peptide is the binding domain nearest to the membrane proximal ectodomain. Corresponding domains are identifiable in a variety of B.t. toxin receptors. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/163484 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/4.500 |
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| US 08101572 | Brophy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, A Corporate Body Organized Under Arizona Law (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Coleen Brophy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Alyssa Panitch (Higley, Arizona); Catherine Parmiter (Phoenix, Arizona); Elizabeth Furnish (Tempe, Arizona); Padmini Komalavilas (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for promoting wound healing and/or reducing scar formation, by administering to an individual in need thereof one or more of the heat shock protein 20-derived polypeptides disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Friday, February 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/545518 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/9.400 |
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| US 08101573 | McIntosh |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to novel conopeptides and/or novel uses of conopeptides. The conopeptides of the invention are analogs of α-Conotoxin MII that are selective for α6-containing nAChRs as described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133103 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/12.100 |
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| US 08101577 | Volkert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Volkert (West Boylston, Massachusetts); Jen-Yeu Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods of screening compounds, gene sequences, and gene products in bacteria for agents that are protective against oxidative DNA damage in a human or animal. Gene sequences identified by these screens can also be used in diagnostic assays that identify subjects at increased risk for oxidative DNA damage. Pharmaceutical compositions that include DNA protective agents identified by these screens are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/502750 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.300 |
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| US 08101586 | Rock et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth L. Rock (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts); Chun-Jen Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods and compositions that inhibit IL-1 signalling for the treatment of acute inflammatory response to cell necrosis, and the attendant collateral tissue damage. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/769983 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08101589 | Arnold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Noxilizer, Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ernst V. Arnold (Hagerstown, Maryland); Blaine G. Doletski (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert E. Raulli (Manassas, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to compositions comprising carbon-based diazeniumdiolates that release nitric oxide (NO). The carbon-based diazeniumdiolated molecules release NO spontaneously under physiological conditions without subsequent nitrosamine formation. The present invention also relates to methods of preparing the carbon-based diazeniumdiolated molecules, compositions comprising such molecules, methods of using such compositions, and devices employing such molecule compositions. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497113 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/149 |
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| US 08101606 | Gutmann et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Gutmann (St. Louis, Missouri); Jason Weber (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention encompasses methods for treating neurofibromatosis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269681 |
| ART UNIT | 1614 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/233.500 |
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| US 08101663 | Miller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Merck HDAC Research, LLC (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas A. Miller (Brookline, Massachusetts); Victoria M. Richon (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of selectively inducing terminal differentiation, cell growth arrest and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, and/or inhibiting histone deacetylase (HDAC) by administration of pharmaceutical compositions comprising potent HDAC inhibitors. The oral bioavailability of the active compounds in the pharmaceutical compositions of the present invention is surprisingly high. Moreover, the pharmaceutical compositions unexpectedly give rise to high, therapeutically effective blood levels of the active compounds over an extended period of time. The present invention further provides a safe, daily dosing regimen of these pharmaceutical compositions, which is easy to follow, and which results in a therapeutically effective amount of the HDAC inhibitors in vivo. The present invention also provides a novel Form I polymorph of SAHA, characterized by a unique X-ray diffraction pattern and Differential Scanning Calorimetry profile, as well a unique crystalline structure. |
| FILED | Monday, December 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/653073 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
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| US 08101723 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Galaxy Biotech, LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyung Jin Kim (Cupertino, California); Wei-meng Zhao (Palo Alto, California); Hangil Park (San Francisco, California); Maximiliano Vasquez (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a monoclonal antibody to fibroblast growth factor receptor 2, a pharmaceutical composition comprising same, and methods of treatment comprising administering such a pharmaceutical composition to a patient. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/614282 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/387.300 |
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| US 08101725 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Galaxy Biotech, LLC (Cupertino, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyung Jin Kim (Cupertino, California); Lihong Wang (Palo Alto, California); Hangil Park (San Francisco, California); Maximiliano Vasquez (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed toward a neutralizing monoclonal antibody to basic fibroblast growth factor, a pharmaceutical composition comprising same, and methods of treatment comprising administering such a pharmaceutical composition to a patient. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474198 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101732 | Mahmud 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) | Taifo Mahmud (Corvallis, Oregon); Zixin Deng (Shanghai, China PRC); Linquan Bai (Shanghai, China PRC); Hui Xu (Shanghai, China PRC); Jongtae Yang (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to validamycin A biosynthesis and in particular, to methods of producing validamycin A analogs and uses thereof. In a particular example, a method for making a validamycin A analog includes transforming a host cell with one or more recombinant DNA vectors to produce a valN-inactivated mutant; and culturing the valN-inactivated mutant in a culture medium to produce a validamycin A analog, such as 1,1′-bis-valienamine and validienamycin, and their conversion to valienamine. The present disclosure further relates to compositions including such compounds as well as methods of using the compositions, such as for antifungal agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560283 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101739 | Sullivan 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) | Nancy Sullivan (Kensington, Maryland); Bimal Chakrabarti (Gaithersberg, Maryland); Zhi-Yong Yang (Potomac, Maryland); Maria Grazia Pau (Leiden, Netherlands); Jaap Goudsmit (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Gary Nabel (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to a nucleic acid molecule comprising a polynucleotide encoding a modified filovirus glycoprotein (GP) having at least one amino acid change located in a relatively conserved region of said GP that decreases in vitro cytotoxicity and retains immunogenicity when compared to in vitro cytotoxicity and immunogenicity of a wild type filovirus GP, and related modified filovirus GPs, plasmid DNAs, recombinant viruses, adenoviruses, pharmaceutical compositions, vaccine compositions, antibodies that are specifically reactive with the modified filovirus GPs, and related methods of making and using the same. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/662869 |
| 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 |
| US 08101783 | Melendez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Enrique Melendez (Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel compound showing anti-tumor properties was synthesized by reacting Cp2TiCl2 with maltol (3-hydroxy-2-methyl-4-pyrone) and a pH of 5.4, leading to a complete replacement of Cp and chloride ligands affording, Ti(maltolato)2(OH)2. The further crystallization of Ti(maltolato)2(OH)2 at pH of 8.4 leads to the formation of the novel anti-tumor compound [Ti4(maltolato)8(μ-O4)]. |
| FILED | Friday, November 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/271273 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102182 | Rabbitt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Rabbitt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sameera Dharia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring the electrical properties of a microparticle is provided, which can include multiple steps. Steps can include situating the microparticle within an array of electrodes submerged in a conductive medium so that the microparticle and electrodes are in electrical communication when the electrodes are energized, and delivering an electrical signal into the medium from one electrode to an immediately adjacent electrode. High frequency signals can be used to penetrate the microparticle boundary and characterize the same, and low frequency signals can be used to characterize the shape and orientation of the microparticle. Characterization can be carried out by measuring the impedance affecting the current using at least one of a remaining electrode in the array. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249643 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/693 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103072 | Zahniser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytyc Corporation (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Zahniser (Cambridge, Massachusetts); David Zahniser (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and system for processing specimen slides. A first image of a unique feature, such as a fiducial mark, of a specimen slide is acquired, and a second image of the same region of a fiducial mark is acquired at a later time. The first and second fiducial mark images are compared in order to determine whether they are images of the same fiducial mark of the same specimen slide, thereby allowing the system to detect when one specimen slide has been swapped with another specimen slide. The comparison may also involve images of multiple features on the specimen carrier, e.g., sets of multiple fiducial marks. |
| FILED | Friday, December 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340232 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08103352 — Mimicking neural coding in retinal ganglion cells with short pulse electrical stimulation
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shelley Fried (Berkeley, California); Frank Werblin (Berkeley, California); Matthew J. McMahon (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, device and system for stimulating visual tissue, typically in the retina or visual cortex, to achieve an artificial percept of light or image. The method includes providing stimulating electrodes suitable for placement in proximity to the visual tissue and generating a series of short-duration stimulation signals having a duration of less than about 0.5 milliseconds each. The short-duration stimulation signals are applied through the stimulating electrodes with varying frequencies that are substantially matched to a spiking range of frequencies of at least one ganglion cell for perceiving brightness or image. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/293331 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xin He (Denver, Colorado); Russell P. Durrett (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling combustion in a direct-injection diesel engine includes monitoring a crankshaft rotational position of a cylinder of the engine, monitoring an engine load, determining an intake stroke within the cylinder based upon the crankshaft rotational position, and when the engine load is less than a threshold engine load, opening an exhaust valve for the cylinder during a portion of the intake stroke. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/499475 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/568.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100179 | Hermes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California); Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Baker Hughes Incorporated (Houston, Texas); Lucite International, Inc. (Cordova, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Hermes (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Ronald Gene Bland (Houston, Texas); Ron Lee Foley (Magnolia, Texas); James B. Bloys (Katy, Texas); Manuel E. Gonzalez (Kingwood, New Mexico); John M. Daniel (Germantown, Tennessee); Ian M. Robinson (Guisborough, United Kingdom); Robert B. Carpenter (Tomball, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The methods described herein generally relate to preparing and delivering a fluid mixture to a confined volume, specifically an annular volume located between two concentrically oriented casing strings within a hydrocarbon fluid producing well. The fluid mixtures disclosed herein are useful in controlling pressure in localized volumes. The fluid mixtures comprise at least one polymerizable monomer and at least one inhibitor. The processes and methods disclosed herein allow the fluid mixture to be stored, shipped and/or injected into localized volumes, for example, an annular volume defined by concentric well casing strings. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/388994 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08100734 | Hack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Universal Display Corporation (Ewing, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Hack (Lambertville, New Jersey); Min-Hao Michael Lu (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Michael S. Weaver (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An organic light emitting device an a method of obtaining illumination from such a device is provided. The device has a plurality of regions, each region having an organic emissive layer adapted to emit a different spectrum of light. The regions in combination emit light suitable for illumination purposes. The area of each region may be selected such that the device is more efficient than an otherwise equivalent device having regions of equal size. The regions may have an aspect ratio of at least about four. All parts of any given region may be driven at the same current. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 12, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/580590 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing 445/24 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101023 | O'Brien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin C. O'Brien (San Ramon, California); Stephan A. Letts (San Ramon, California); Christopher M. Spadaccini (Oakland, California); Jeffrey C. Morse (Pleasant Hill, California); Steven R. Buckley (Modesto, California); Larry E. Fischer (Los Gatos, California); Keith B. Wilson (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of fabricating a composite membrane from a membrane substrate using solvent-less vapor deposition followed by in-situ polymerization. A first monomer and a second monomer are directed into a mixing chamber in a deposition chamber. The first monomer and the second monomer are mixed in the mixing chamber providing a mixed first monomer and second monomer. The mixed first monomer and second monomer are solvent-less vapor deposited onto the membrane substrate in the deposition chamber. The membrane substrate and the mixed first monomer and second monomer are heated to produce in-situ polymerization and provide the composite membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/792013 |
| ART UNIT | 1716 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101140 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Wang (Richland, Washington); Wei Liu (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a structured monolith reactor and method that provides for controlled Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. The invention controls mass transport limitations leading to higher CO conversion and lower methane selectivity. Over 95 wt % of the total product liquid hydrocarbons obtained from the monolithic catalyst are in the carbon range of C5-C18. The reactor controls readsorption of olefins leading to desired products with a preselected chain length distribution and enhanced overall reaction rate. And, liquid product analysis shows readsorption of olefins is reduced, achieving a narrower FT product distribution. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/393837 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/601 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101243 | Way et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Douglas Way (Boulder, Colorado); Mark Lusk (Golden, Colorado); Paul Thoen (Littleton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides thin, hydrogen-permeable, sulfur-resistant membranes formed from palladium or palladium-alloy coatings on porous, ceramic or metal supports. Also disclosed are methods of making these membranes via sequential electroless plating techniques, wherein the method of making the membrane includes decomposing any organic ligands present on the substrate, reducing the palladium crystallites on the substrate to reduced palladium crystallites, depositing a film of palladium metal on the substrate and then depositing a second, gold film on the palladium film. These two metal films are then annealed at a temperature between about 200° C. and about 1200° C. to form a sulfur-resistant, composite PdAu alloy membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, June 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768188 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101305 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Cooper (Oakland, California); Nerine Cherepy (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for preparing particulate carbon fuel and using the particulate carbon fuel in a fuel cell. Carbon particles are finely divided. The finely dividing carbon particles are introduced into the fuel cell. A gas containing oxygen is introduced into the fuel cell. The finely divided carbon particles are exposed to carbonate salts, or to molten NaOH or KOH or LiOH or mixtures of NaOH or KOH or LiOH, or to mixed hydroxides, or to alkali and alkaline earth nitrates. |
| FILED | Friday, March 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/041129 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101317 | Frey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | 3M Innovative Properties Company (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew H. Frey (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Steven J. Hamrock (Stillwater, Minnesota); Gregory M. Haugen (Edina, Minnesota); Phat T. Pham (Little Canada, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Fuel cell membrane electrode assemblies and fuel cell polymer electrolyte membranes are provided comprising manganese oxides which demonstrate increased durability. Methods of making same are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 20, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/944998 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101393 | Gray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BP Corporation North America Inc. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin A. Gray (San Diego, California); Lishan Zhao (Emeryville, California); Michelle H. Cayouette (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polypeptides having any cellulolytic activity, e.g., a cellulase activity, a endoglucanase, a cellobiohydrolase, a beta-glucosidase, a xylanase, a mannanse, a β-xylosidase, an arabinofuranosidase, and/or an oligomerase activity, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention is directed to polypeptides having any cellulolytic activity, e.g., a cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta-glucosidase, xylanase, mannanse, β-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and/or oligomerase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention provides polypeptides having an oligomerase activity, e.g., enzymes that convert recalcitrant soluble oligomers to fermentable sugars in the saccharification of biomass. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and feed processing and industrial contexts. The invention also provides compositions or products of manufacture comprising mixtures of enzymes comprising at least one enzyme of this invention. |
| FILED | Friday, December 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/278958 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101600 | Henn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fritz Henn (East Patchogue, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for treatment of depression-related mood disorders in mammals, particularly humans are disclosed. The methods of the invention include administration of compounds capable of enhancing glutamate transporter activity in the brain of mammals suffering from depression. ATP-sensitive K+ channel openers and β-lactam antibiotics are used to enhance glutamate transport and to treat depression-related mood disorders and depressive symptoms. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/641968 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/223.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101702 | Mohamed |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dow Corning Corporation (Midland, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mustafa Mohamed (Midland, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicone-containing composition comprises the reaction product of a first component and an excess of an isocyanate component relative to the first component to form an isocyanated intermediary. The first component is selected from one of a polysiloxane and a silicone resin. The first component includes a carbon-bonded functional group selected from one of a hydroxyl group and an amine group. The isocyanate component is reactive with the carbon-bonded functional group of the first component. The isocyanated intermediary includes a plurality of isocyanate functional groups. The silicone-containing composition comprises the further reaction product of a second component, which is selected from the other of the polysiloxane and the silicone resin. The second component includes a plurality of carbon-bonded functional groups reactive with the isocyanate functional groups of the isocyanated intermediary for preparing the silicone-containing composition. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522593 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101740 | Radu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Caius G. Radu (Los Angeles, California); Owen N. Witte (Los Angeles, California); Evan David Nair-Gill (Los Angeles, California); Nagichettiar Satyamurthy (Los Angeles, California); Chengyi J. Shu (Los Angeles, California); Johannes Czernin (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds for use as PET probes and methods for synthesizing and using these, comprising [18F]D-FAC and other cytosine and adenosine analogs. |
| FILED | Friday, September 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/234478 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101786 | Thorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L Thorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William Tumas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Daniel E Schwarz (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The reaction of halo-boron compounds (B—X compounds, compounds having one or more boron-halogen bonds) with silanes provides boranes (B—H compounds, compounds having one or more B—H bonds) and halosilanes. Inorganic hydrides, such as surface-bound silane hydrides (Si—H) react with B—X compounds to form B—H compounds and surface-bound halosilanes. The surface bound halosilanes are converted back to surface-bound silanes electrochemically. Halo-boron compounds react with stannanes (tin compounds having a Sn—H bond) to form boranes and halostannanes (tin compounds having a Sn—X bond). The halostannanes are converted back to stannanes electrochemically or by the thermolysis of Sn-formate compounds. When the halo-boron compound is BCl3, the B—H compound is B2H6, and where the reducing potential is provided electrochemically or by the thermolysis of formate. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914595 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/95 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101849 | Almy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Almy (Berkeley, California); John Peurach (San Francisco, California); Reuben Sandler (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A tilt assembly is used with a solar collector assembly of the type comprising a frame, supporting a solar collector, for movement about a tilt axis by pivoting a drive element between first and second orientations. The tilt assembly comprises a drive element coupler connected to the drive element and a driver, the driver comprising a drive frame, a drive arm and a drive arm driver. The drive arm is mounted to the drive frame for pivotal movement about a drive arm axis. Movement on the drive arm mimics movement of the drive element. Drive element couplers can extend in opposite directions from the outer portion of the drive arm, whereby the assembly can be used between adjacent solar collector assemblies in a row of solar collector assemblies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/021727 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101913 | Ivanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ilia N. Ivanov (Knoxville, Tennessee); John T. Simpson (Clinton, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of making a large area conformable shape structure comprises drawing a plurality of tubes to form a plurality of drawn tubes, and cutting the plurality of drawn tubes into cut drawn tubes of a predetermined shape. The cut drawn tubes have a first end and a second end along the longitudinal direction of the cut drawn tubes. The method further comprises conforming the first end of the cut drawn tubes into a predetermined curve to form the large area conformable shape structure, wherein the cut drawn tubes contain a material. |
| FILED | Friday, September 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558101 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/336.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101919 | Madden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Norman W. Madden (Sparks, Nevada); Frederick S. Goulding (Lafayette, California); Stephen J. Asztalos (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The intrinsic background of a gamma ray spectrometer is significantly reduced by surrounding the scintillator with a second scintillator. This second (external) scintillator surrounds the first scintillator and has an opening of approximately the same diameter as the smaller central scintillator in the forward direction. The second scintillator is selected to have a higher atomic number, and thus has a larger probability for a Compton scattering interaction than within the inner region. Scattering events that are essentially simultaneous in coincidence to the first and second scintillators, from an electronics perspective, are precluded electronically from the data stream. Thus, only gamma-rays that are wholly contained in the smaller central scintillator are used for analytic purposes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/100254 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/367 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102260 | Kotter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale K. Kotter (Shelley, Idaho); Lyle G. Roybal (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David T. Rohrbaugh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); David F. Spencer (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for detecting threatening objects in a security screening system. The method includes a step of classifying unique features of magnetic data as representing a threatening object. Another step includes acquiring magnetic data. Another step includes determining if the acquired magnetic data comprises a unique feature. |
| FILED | Monday, March 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687725 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102955 | Nekoogar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, California); Farid U. Dowla (Castro Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The multi-pulse frequency shifted technique uses mutually orthogonal short duration pulses o transmit and receive information in a UWB multiuser communication system. The multiuser system uses the same pulse shape with different frequencies for the reference and data for each user. Different users have a different pulse shape (mutually orthogonal to each other) and different transmit and reference frequencies. At the receiver, the reference pulse is frequency shifted to match the data pulse and a correlation scheme followed by a hard decision block detects the data. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210827 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/346 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103045 | McGraw et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. McGraw (Placitas, New Mexico); Peter C. Zimmer (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark R. Ackermann (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for a structure function monitor provide for generation of parameters characterizing a refractive medium. In an embodiment, a structure function monitor acquires images of a pupil plane and an image plane and, from these images, retrieves the phase over an aperture, unwraps the retrieved phase, and analyzes the unwrapped retrieved phase. In an embodiment, analysis yields atmospheric parameters measured at spatial scales from zero to the diameter of a telescope used to collect light from a source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/325635 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103116 | Simonson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Katherine M. Simonson (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Tian J. Ma (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for detecting changes in a scene perceived by a staring sensor is disclosed. The technique includes acquiring a reference image frame and a current image frame of a scene with the staring sensor. A raw difference frame is generated based upon differences between the reference image frame and the current image frame. Pixel error estimates are generated for each pixel in the raw difference frame based at least in part upon spatial error estimates related to spatial intensity gradients in the scene. The pixel error estimates are used to mitigate effects of camera jitter in the scene between the current image frame and the reference image frame. |
| FILED | Monday, March 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/396109 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103832 | Gara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Valentina Salapura (Chappaqua, New York); Krishnan Sugavanam (Mahopac, New York); Dirk Hoenicke (Seebruck-Seeon, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Method and apparatus of prefetching streams of varying prefetch depth dynamically changes the depth of prefetching so that the number of multiple streams as well as the hit rate of a single stream are optimized. The method and apparatus in one aspect monitor a plurality of load requests from a processing unit for data in a prefetch buffer, determine an access pattern associated with the plurality of load requests and adjust a prefetch depth according to the access pattern. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/768697 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103856 | Balasubramonian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajeev Balasubramonian (Sandy, Utah); Sandhya Dwarkadas (Rochester, New York); David Albonesi (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a processor having multiple clusters which operate in parallel, the number of clusters in use can be varied dynamically. At the start of each program phase, the configuration option for an interval is run to determine the optimal configuration, which is used until the next phase change is detected. The optimum instruction interval is determined by starting with a minimum interval and doubling it until a low stability factor is reached. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352493 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103910 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Yorktown Heights, New York); Dong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan Gara (Yorktown Heights, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Yorktown Heights, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York); Burkhard Steinmacher-Burow (Boeblingen, Germany); Krishnan Sugavanam (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A control logic device performs a local rollback in a parallel super computing system. The super computing system includes at least one cache memory device. The control logic device determines a local rollback interval. The control logic device runs at least one instruction in the local rollback interval. The control logic device evaluates whether an unrecoverable condition occurs while running the at least one instruction during the local rollback interval. The control logic device checks whether an error occurs during the local rollback. The control logic device restarts the local rollback interval if the error occurs and the unrecoverable condition does not occur during the local rollback interval. |
| FILED | Friday, January 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/696780 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08101021 | Yen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian Yen (Boston, Massachusetts); Axel Guenther (Somerville, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Martin Schmidt (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A population of nanocrystals having a narrow and controllable size distribution and can be prepared by a segmented-flow method. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/955774 |
| ART UNIT | 1792 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101139 | Therriault et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Therriault (Rimouski, Canada); Jennifer A. Lewis (Urbana, Illinois); Scott R. White (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices that include hosts having internal microcapillary networks are disclosed. The microcapillary networks are formed from interconnected passageways. The interconnected passageways may be formed by removing a fugitive material from a cured host material that forms the host. The resultant host material has many applications, including use as a microfluidic device in applications ranging from fluid mixing to structural repair. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/133606 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/507 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101234 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Klavs F. Jensen (Lexington, Massachusetts); Bashir O. Dabbousi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia); Javier Rodriguez-Viejo (Sant Cugat del Valles, Spain); Frederic Victor Mikulec (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanocrystal capable of light emission includes a nanoparticle having photoluminescence having quantum yields of greater than 30%. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/725438 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/218 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101238 | Fokin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); M. G. Finn (San Diego, California); K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Adhesive polymers are formed when polyvalent azides and alkynes are assembled into crosslinked polymer networks by copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The condensation polymerization is efficiently promoted by Cu ions either leached from the metal surface or added to the monomer mixture, and strong interactions with metal surfaces are provided by the multiple triazole binding elements produced. The adhesive polymers may be formed either as adhesive polymer coatings or as adhesive polymer cement. |
| FILED | Friday, July 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/632783 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101416 | Bazan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guillermo C. Bazan (Santa Barbara, California); Brent S. Gaylord (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, compositions and articles of manufacture for assaying a sample for a target polynucleotide are provided. A sample suspected of containing the target polynucleotide is contacted with a polycationic multichromophore and a sensor PNA complementary to the target polynucleotide. A signaling chromophore absorbs energy from the excited multichromophore and emits light in the presence of the target polynucleotide. The methods can be used in multiplex form. Kits having reagents for performing such methods are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746055 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/94 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101430 | Snee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Preston T. Snee (Chicago, Illinois); Rebecca C. Somers (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Daniel G. Nocera (Winchester, Massachusetts); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Binding an analyte can cause a change in fluorescence emission of a sensor. The change in fluorescence can be related to the amount of analyte present. The sensor can include a semiconductor nanocrystal linked to a fluorescent moiety. Upon excitation, the fluorescent moiety can transfer energy to the semiconductor nanocrystal, or vice versa. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/990439 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/518 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102182 | Rabbitt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard D. Rabbitt (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sameera Dharia (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of measuring the electrical properties of a microparticle is provided, which can include multiple steps. Steps can include situating the microparticle within an array of electrodes submerged in a conductive medium so that the microparticle and electrodes are in electrical communication when the electrodes are energized, and delivering an electrical signal into the medium from one electrode to an immediately adjacent electrode. High frequency signals can be used to penetrate the microparticle boundary and characterize the same, and low frequency signals can be used to characterize the shape and orientation of the microparticle. Characterization can be carried out by measuring the impedance affecting the current using at least one of a remaining electrode in the array. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249643 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/693 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08102837 | Deb et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Supratim Deb (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing rapid information dissemination using network coding is presented. A coded message including a payload and a code vector, is transmitted from a first node of the network to a second node of the network. The information thus stored can also be retrieved by collecting code vectors from at least one node and viewing the collected code vectors as a matrix. A determination is made regarding whether a dimension of the matrix is equal to a predefined number. When the dimension of the matrix equals the predefined number, the information is retrieved using the collection of code vectors in the matrix. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 11/026483 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/352 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103767 | Karger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Intitute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Karger (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Eric Lehman (Cambridge, Massachusetts); F. Thomson Leighton (Newtonville, Massachusetts); Matthew Levine (Somerville, Massachusetts); Daniel Lewin (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Rina Panagrahy (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in circular mapping space using a hash function. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or locations in the circular mapping space. The request is allocated to one of the resources based on the given request location and the resource location in the circular mapping space. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355433 |
| ART UNIT | 2452 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/225 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103785 | Crowley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SeaFire Micros, Inc. (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia Crowley (Spokane, Washington); James Michael Awrach (Peabody, Massachusetts); Arthur Barney Maccabe (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Splintered offloading techniques with receive batch processing are described for network acceleration. Such techniques offload specific functionality to a NIC while maintaining the bulk of the protocol processing in the host operating system (“OS”). The resulting protocol implementation allows the application to bypass the protocol processing of the received data. Such can be accomplished this by moving data from the NIC directly to the application through direct memory access (“DMA”) and batch processing the receive headers in the host OS when the host OS is interrupted to perform other work. Batch processing receive headers allows the data path to be separated from the control path. Unlike operating system bypass, however, the operating system still fully manages the network resource and has relevant feedback about traffic and flows. Embodiments of the present disclosure can therefore address the challenges of networks with extreme bandwidth delay products (BWDP). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327438 |
| ART UNIT | 2492 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103856 | Balasubramonian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajeev Balasubramonian (Sandy, Utah); Sandhya Dwarkadas (Rochester, New York); David Albonesi (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | In a processor having multiple clusters which operate in parallel, the number of clusters in use can be varied dynamically. At the start of each program phase, the configuration option for an interval is run to determine the optimal configuration, which is used until the next phase change is detected. The optimum instruction interval is determined by starting with a minimum interval and doubling it until a low stability factor is reached. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352493 |
| ART UNIT | 2111 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103962 | Embley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Embley (Orem, Utah); Cui Tao (Rochester, Minnesota); Stephen W. Liddle (Orem, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | Extracting data from web pages. User input is received defining a tabular form. User input is received correlating portions of the form with user selected data items contained in one or more first web pages. The user input is correlated to create an ontology defining relationships between the user selected data items based on the definition of the tabular form. One or more other web pages are accessed, and based on a context of the one or more data items in the first web page being similar to a context of the selected data items in the one or more first web pages, one or more similar data items are extracted from the one or more other web pages. The extracted data items are correlated to each other in accordance with the ontology defining relationships between the user selected data items and are output as a user searchable data structure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612570 |
| ART UNIT | 2175 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/763 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08101904 | Torres-Jara |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eduardo Torres-Jara (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Tactile sensor. The sensor includes a compliant convex surface disposed above a sensor array, the sensor array adapted to respond to deformation of the convex surface to generate a signal related to an applied force vector. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709603 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/231.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103435 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaowei Yang (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Ying Cao (Fairfax, Virginia); Jibo Xie (Fairfax, Virginia); Bin Zhou (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A near real-time physical transportation network routing system comprising: a traffic simulation computing grid and a dynamic traffic routing service computing grid. The traffic simulator produces traffic network travel time predictions for a physical transportation network using a traffic simulation model and common input data. The physical transportation network is divided into a multiple sections. Each section has a primary zone and a buffer zone. The traffic simulation computing grid includes multiple of traffic simulation computing nodes. The common input data includes static network characteristics, an origin-destination data table, dynamic traffic information data and historical traffic data. The dynamic traffic routing service computing grid includes multiple dynamic traffic routing computing nodes and generates traffic route(s) using the traffic network travel time predictions. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/181249 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/117 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103785 | Crowley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SeaFire Micros, Inc. (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia Crowley (Spokane, Washington); James Michael Awrach (Peabody, Massachusetts); Arthur Barney Maccabe (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Splintered offloading techniques with receive batch processing are described for network acceleration. Such techniques offload specific functionality to a NIC while maintaining the bulk of the protocol processing in the host operating system (“OS”). The resulting protocol implementation allows the application to bypass the protocol processing of the received data. Such can be accomplished this by moving data from the NIC directly to the application through direct memory access (“DMA”) and batch processing the receive headers in the host OS when the host OS is interrupted to perform other work. Batch processing receive headers allows the data path to be separated from the control path. Unlike operating system bypass, however, the operating system still fully manages the network resource and has relevant feedback about traffic and flows. Embodiments of the present disclosure can therefore address the challenges of networks with extreme bandwidth delay products (BWDP). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327438 |
| ART UNIT | 2492 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric I. Seaberg (Germantown, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for validating an address associated with a delivery item. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method validates addresses associated with a delivery item. The method includes the steps of electronically receiving a data file from a sender, the data file comprising one or more addresses, and determining whether the addresses can be validated with a first weekly file comprising extended delivery codes and a second weekly file comprising delivery point verifications. The method may further include the steps of processing the data file using a database of addresses that are represented in neither the first weekly file nor the second weekly file, based on the determining step, updating the data file to indicate a status the addresses, and sending the updated data file back to the sender. |
| FILED | Friday, January 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/652568 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103521 | Kuebert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward J. Kuebert (Warrenton, Virginia); Scott R. Bombaugh (Burke, Virginia); William J. Dowling (Venice, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The principles of the present invention provide the ability to flexibly change the delivery point and time for a mail item, while the item is en route. The recipient, sender, or mailer may flexibly change the delivery point of the item alone or in combination with each other. While an item is en route between the sending point and the delivery point, a notification is sent to indicate that the item is in transit. In response, the delivery of the item may be changed. For example, the destination specified by the sender (e.g., the delivery address written on the item) may be changed or a delivery time may be specified. The item is then delivered to the new delivery point and/or at the specified delivery time. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/654554 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08103716 | Boyce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Boyce (Collierville, Tennessee); David J. Payne (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for forwarding an item in a delivery system may comprise scanning a first address label on an item to produce scan data and converting the scan data into first address data. Furthermore, systems and methods for forwarding the item may comprise determining if an alternative address exists in a change of address database, the alternative address corresponding to the captured first address data. Moreover, systems and methods for forwarding the item may comprise forwarding the item to a location corresponding to the alternative address if it was determined that the alternative address exists in the change of address database. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/953583 |
| ART UNIT | 2451 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08101024 | Wyman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles E. Wyman (Norwich, Vermont); Todd A. Lloyd (Hartland, Vermont) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for removing minerals from a cellulosic biomass. For example, the biomass may be prewashed with an acid solution and rinsed with water to remove minerals prior to acid saccharification. The removal of minerals may reduce overall acid requirements, and decrease pretreatment costs. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/366360 |
| ART UNIT | 1657 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Sugar, starch, and carbohydrates 127/37 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08101172 | Valles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Valles (Gainesville, Florida); Yoshifumi Hashimoto (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A Unique Solenopsis invicta virus (SINV 3) has been identified and its genome sequenced. Oligonucleotide primers have been developed using the isolated nucleic acid sequences of the SINV 3. The virus is used as a biocontrol agent for control of fire ants. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/378683 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08103660 | Hupfer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Susanne C. Hupfer (Lexington, Massachusetts); Steven I. Ross (South Hamilton, Massachusetts); Daniel M. Gruen (Newton, Massachusetts); John F. Patterson (Carlisle, Massachusetts); Nishanth R. Sastry (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Presented is a computer system and user interface for seamlessly integrating the creation and submission of persistent queries, and for collecting and presenting the real-time results of those queries, into the context of one's work and directly structured work artifacts. Users are provided a real-time awareness of what is happening to their persistent queries and their results, from within the work context of the artifact and program application used during creation and submission of the queries. Rather than having to visit a separate alerting application, the user is able to manage queries and query results directly from a subject application, such as a problem-solving application. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/017990 |
| ART UNIT | 2166 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/722 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08103824 — Method for self optimizing value based data allocation across a multi-tier storage system
| US 08103824 | Pollack et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kristal Pollack (San Francisco, California); Elizabeth Richards (Columbia, Maryland); Sandeep Uttamchandani (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are provided to support dynamic assignment of data from a continuous stream of data to one or more storage devices in a storage network. The storage network is configured with one or more tiers in a hierarchy, with at least one storage device in each tier. Similarly, the storage network is in communication with both a storage manager and a data manager. The storage manager sorts the storage devices, maintains a demand function of each device, and calculates a burn rate for each storage device. The data manager is in communication with the storage manager and assigns data from the received stream of data to at least one of the storage devices. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105245 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08101942 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeremy M. Beebe (Midland, Michigan); James G. Kushmer (Hagerstown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a two-state switching device based on two electrodes separated by a self-assembled monolayer. At least one of the electrodes may be composed of silver and the other electrode of any electrically conductive material, such as metals, especially gold or platinum. In the high-resistance OFF state, the two electrodes are separated by an organic monolayer having sufficiently low electrical conducting as to be considered non-conductive. Application of a negative threshold bias causes a silver ion filament to grown within the monolayer and bridge the gap between the two electrodes, changing the device into a low-resistance ON state. The device may be turned OFF by application of a positive threshold bias, which causes the ionic filament to retract back into the silver electrode. The device is easy to fabricate, smaller than currently available devices, and because the only required components are silver, another electrode and a self-assembled monolayer between them, it should be possible to incorporate this switch into a variety of device geometries. |
| FILED | Monday, September 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852811 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08101192 | Lewinsohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, Oregon); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon); Deborah Lewinsohn (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for producing an immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are disclosed herein. In several examples, the immune response is a protective immune response. In additional embodiments, methods are disclosed for preventing an infection with Mtb, or treating an infection with Mtb. Pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention and/or treatment of tuberculosis are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/894051 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08100221 | Stuhldreher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Spencer Stuhldreher (Pinckney, Michigan); Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan); David James Haugen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A center-closed power steering system provides power steering assistance in engine-off conditions for reduced fuel consumption. The power steering system includes a hydraulic pump mechanically driven by the engine, a high pressure accumulator, a steering gearbox fluidly connected to the accumulator, and a center closed valve mechanically connected to a driver-operated steering wheel. The valve is configured to selectively control flow of pressurized fluid from the accumulator to the steering gearbox to provide power steering assistance. The inner shaft of the rotary center-closed valve is provided with a cavity with V-shaped notches on the transition surfaces on lands configured to sealingly engage the inner surface of the valve outer sleeve, in order to provide a smooth transition in flow for power steering assistance, and a better driver feel. |
| FILED | Friday, December 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/999884 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/441 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08102423 | Cheng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hui Cheng (Bridgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | An adaptive image acquisition system and method that generates virtual view of a surveillance scene to a user (operator), in which, the user operates the system. Through viewing the virtual view, the user controls sensors that create the virtual view. The sensors comprise at least one first sensor having a higher resolution than at least one second sensor. Images from the second sensor are processed to create an image mosaic that is overlaid with images from the higher resolution first sensor. In one embodiment of the invention, the first sensor is moved using Saccade motion. In another embodiment of the invention, a user's intent is used to control the Saccade motion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/200869 |
| ART UNIT | 2486 — Recording and Compression |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/159 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08103785 | Crowley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SeaFire Micros, Inc. (Beverly, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patricia Crowley (Spokane, Washington); James Michael Awrach (Peabody, Massachusetts); Arthur Barney Maccabe (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Splintered offloading techniques with receive batch processing are described for network acceleration. Such techniques offload specific functionality to a NIC while maintaining the bulk of the protocol processing in the host operating system (“OS”). The resulting protocol implementation allows the application to bypass the protocol processing of the received data. Such can be accomplished this by moving data from the NIC directly to the application through direct memory access (“DMA”) and batch processing the receive headers in the host OS when the host OS is interrupted to perform other work. Batch processing receive headers allows the data path to be separated from the control path. Unlike operating system bypass, however, the operating system still fully manages the network resource and has relevant feedback about traffic and flows. Embodiments of the present disclosure can therefore address the challenges of networks with extreme bandwidth delay products (BWDP). |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/327438 |
| ART UNIT | 2492 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08101732 | Mahmud 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) | Taifo Mahmud (Corvallis, Oregon); Zixin Deng (Shanghai, China PRC); Linquan Bai (Shanghai, China PRC); Hui Xu (Shanghai, China PRC); Jongtae Yang (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to validamycin A biosynthesis and in particular, to methods of producing validamycin A analogs and uses thereof. In a particular example, a method for making a validamycin A analog includes transforming a host cell with one or more recombinant DNA vectors to produce a valN-inactivated mutant; and culturing the valN-inactivated mutant in a culture medium to produce a validamycin A analog, such as 1,1′-bis-valienamine and validienamycin, and their conversion to valienamine. The present disclosure further relates to compositions including such compounds as well as methods of using the compositions, such as for antifungal agents. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560283 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/17.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08101380 | Weinberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Weinberger (Washington, District of Columbia); Stephen J. Huffaker (Crawfordsville, Indiana); Joel E. Kleinman (Washington, District of Columbia); Bai Lu (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is related to a novel primate specific brain isoform of the potassium channel KCNH2 and genetic association with risk for schizophrenia. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/593159 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, January 24, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
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ABSTRACT
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FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
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The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
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