FedInvent™ Patents
Patent Details for Tuesday, February 07, 2012
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| US 08109213 | Poulos 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) | William Poulos (Park Ridge, New Jersey); David Pfau (Somerset, New Jersey); Eric Scheper (Mt. Arlington, New Jersey); Stewart Gilman (Budd Lake, New Jersey); Vladimir M. Gold (Hillside, New Jersey); Ernest Baker (Wantage, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A single multipurpose ammunition projectile/warhead is provided, which has the capability of clearing a variety of different types of hardened targets. The single projectile of this invention may be used for breaching steel reinforced concrete walls; may be used against light armor targets; may be used for defeating bunkers; and may also be used for antipersonnel applications. Huge savings in time, money, inventory and logistics are realized through utilizing only this one multipurpose ammunition against all these types of targets. This multipurpose projectile, among other superb capabilities, is able to puncture an eight inch double steel reinforced concrete wall timed to then have its warhead explode into fragments. This allows fragmentation in a more effective, nearly ideal direction. The projectile warhead of made of extremely thick walled 300M steel; with the projectile center of gravity to be located equidistant between a pair of bourrelets, for increased stability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/649716 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/524 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08109308 | Manesh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Resilient Technologies LLC. (Wausau, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ali Manesh (Chicago, Illinois); Mike Tercha (Weston, Wisconsin); Brian Anderson (Wausau, Wisconsin); Brian J. Meliska (Weston, Illinois); Fidelis Ceranski (Marathon, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-pneumatic tire for supporting a load by working in tension comprising a generally annular inner ring, a generally annular outer ring, and an interconnected web having a plurality of web elements and comprising a plurality of generally polygonal openings. Web elements are sized, oriented and comprised of a material that facilitates buckling when subjected to a compressive load. By buckling, those elements in a deformed portion of the tire between a wheel and a footprint region where the tire contacts a surface can assume a significantly reduced portion of the load, if any. This causes web elements in other portions of the interconnected web to operate in tension to support the load. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/055675 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Resilient tires and wheels 152/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08109472 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Composite Technology Development, Inc. (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip N. Keller (Longmont, Colorado); Robert Taylor (Superior, Colorado); Larry G. Adams (Thornton, Colorado); Adam G. Gray (Broomfield, Colorado); Naseem Munshi (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Structures and methods are disclosed regarding deployable structures with expandable longerons adjustably coupled with supporting structures such that an angle between the supporting structures can be adjusted. Such structures can include and/or be used for solar arrays, bridges, support structures, and more. These structures can be easily transported to a new location and deployed from the stowed configuration into a larger functional structure. In some embodiments these structures can use one or more longerons that can have two resting states: deployed and rolled. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/014299 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/172.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08109906 | Smisson, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Smisson-Cartledge Biomedical LLC (Macon, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hugh F. Smisson, III (Macon, Georgia); Richard G. Cartledge (Fort Lauderdale, Florida); David C. Field (Snellville, Georgia); Frederick J. York (Longwood, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A pump system simply and selectably controls the temperature, flow rate, flow volume, and flow pressure of a fluid being infused into a patient's body. The pump system a includes a central controller and user inputs that allow for simple selection and efficient operation of the pump system, which includes manually or automatically priming the pump system to remove air, selectably controlling and rapidly adjusting the flow rate over a wide range, selectably and safely controlling the pump system temperature controls, and selectably controlling the flow pressure during delivery. The pump system includes a pump housing with a central controller and a cartridge with infusion tubing removably coupled to the pump housing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/835132 |
| ART UNIT | 3763 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110043 | Hass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek D. Hass (Charlottesville, Virginia); Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A methodology and system for applying coatings onto the interior surfaces of components, includes a vapor creation device, a vacuum chamber having a moderate gas pressure and an inert gas jet having controlled velocity and flow fields. The gas jet is created by a rarefied, inert gas supersonic expansion through a nozzle. By controlling the carrier gas flow into a region upstream of the nozzle an upstream pressure is achieved. The carrier gas flow and chamber pumping rate control the downstream pressure. The ratio of the upstream to downstream pressure along with the size and shape of the nozzle opening controls the speed of the gas entering the chamber. Vapor created from a source is transported into the interior regions of a component using binary collisions between the vapor and gas jet atoms. These collisions enable the vapor atoms to scatter onto the interior surfaces of the component and deposit. |
| FILED | Monday, January 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/584682 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating apparatus 118/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110247 | Renn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Optomec Design Company (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael J. Renn (Hudson, Wisconsin); Bruce H. King (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Marcelino Essien (Cedar Crest, New Mexico); Manampathy G. Giridharan (Mason, Ohio); Jyh-Cherng Sheu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing various materials onto heat-sensitive targets, particularly oxygen-sensitive materials. Heat-sensitive targets are generally defined as targets that have thermal damage thresholds that are lower than the temperature required to process a deposited material. The invention uses precursor solutions and/or particle or colloidal suspensions, along with optional pre-deposition treatment and/or post-deposition treatment to lower the laser power required to drive the deposit to its final state. The present invention uses Maskless Mesoscale Material Deposition (M3D™) to perform direct deposition of material onto the target in a precise, highly localized fashion. Features with linewidths as small as 4 microns may be deposited, with little or no material waste. A laser is preferably used to heat the material to process it to obtain the desired state, for example by chemical decomposition, sintering, polymerization, and the like. This laser processing may be performed in an ambient environment with laser powers of less than 100 milliwatts. Cover gases and/or forming gases may be used during thermal processing to change the material properties, for example by preventing oxidation. |
| FILED | Monday, May 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/430636 |
| ART UNIT | 1712 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/96.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110339 | Fedynyshyn |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore H. Fedynyshyn (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Multi-tone resists can enhance the resolution limit of a lithographic process by advantageously using the changeable solubility of a resist composition as a function of lithographic radiation dosage. By imaging a multi-tone resist with different doses of lithographic radiation in a selected pattern, the pattern can be imparted to the resist upon subsequent development of the resist. In some aspects, a resist composition is utilized having an aliphatic polymer (e.g., a copolymer with fluoropolymer units and/or methacrylate units) with acid labile groups and a plurality of crosslinkable groups that can be crosslinked to other portions of the aliphatic polymer. Other components such as base generators and/or crosslinking agents can also be included. Such compositions can be useful in extending the resolution of UV lithographic radiation processes (e.g., wavelengths less than 200 nm). Other aspects of such compositions and methods are also discussed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/104486 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/312 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110354 | Oaks 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) | Edwin V. Oaks (Gambrills, Maryland); Robert W. Kaminski (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The in vivo and in vitro use of Invaplex to transport materials, including functional proteins and biologically active nucleic acids, across eukaryotic cell membranes. The eukaryotic cells include a variety of cell types, e.g. insect, reptile, fish, mammal and tumor cells. The suitable materials for transport include biochemicals such as reporter molecules, antibiotics, biopharmaceuticals and carbohydrates including polysaccharides, lipopolysaccharides, polynucleotides, such as DNA and RNA, and glycoproteins and proteins including antigens, enzymes, antibodies, receptors and hormones. In addition, Invaplex enhances the immune response to DNA vaccines and also can function by itself as a vaccine against shigellosis. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/563794 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110432 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin film transistor substrates with conductor components in conjunction therewith, and related methods of fabrication. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891720 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110542 | Minea et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Pivotal Biosciences, Inc. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radu O. Minea (Arcadia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods of expressing eukaryotic proteins in prokaryotic hosts, particularly eukaryotic proteins that require formation of disulfide bridges for biological activity. Various approaches are used including fusion to thioredoxin, cytoplasmic expression of disulfide isomerases, deficiencies in thioredoxin and/or glutathione reductases, deficiencies in proteases, and the like. The method is applicable to express monomeric and dimeric forms of the eukaryotic protein with biological activity such as monomeric and dimeric forms of a disintegrin or a disintegrin domain. Included are the vectors, host cells expressing the proteins, the expressed proteins and methods of using the proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831226 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110594 | Jung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Dongwon Yoo (Los Angeles, California); Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to diarylthiohydantoin compounds and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/730168 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110673 | 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); Bin Liu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an aggregation sensor useful for the detection and analysis of aggregants in a sample, and methods, articles and compositions relating to such a sensor. The sensor comprises first and second optically active units, where energy may be transferred from an excited state of the first optically active unit to the second optically active unit. The second optically active unit is present in a lesser amount, but its relative concentration is increased upon aggregation, increasing its absorption of energy from the first optically active units. This increase in energy transfer can be detected in variety of formats to produce an aggregation sensing system for various aggregants, including for quantitation. Other variations of the inventions are described further herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711233 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110719 | Kotula |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York Blood Center, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leszek Kotula (Marlboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically engineered conditional knock-out mice having conditional disruption of the Abi1/Hssh3bp1 gene are disclosed along with methods of making and using same. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430814 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110807 | Gullickson |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Gullickson (Dumfries, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention uses a series of combined passive neutron and gamma ray sensors systematically placed along a path of commercial traffic, for example an airport runway, combined with a pulsed source of low energy protons and deuterons. The pulsed source produces monoenergetic gamma rays and low energy (60 keV) neutrons. This pulsed source uses a pinch-reflex ion diode operated on a pulsed power generator to produce proton beams. These beams bombard a PTFE (Teflon) target to produce characteristic gamma-rays. These gamma rays would induce a fission reaction in any fissile material creating gamma rays and neutrons. The passive sensors located in the path of commercial traffic would sense both the resultant gamma and neutron products of the reaction. The short interrogation pulse, approximately 50 nanoseconds, provides a timing marker which can be used to turn on the passive detectors after the interrogation pulse so as to avoid saturation and to enable measuring the spectrum of the fast neutrons using time of flight. The decay rate of the intensity of fast and slow (thermalized by interaction with the runway materials) neutrons provides an unambiguous signature of the presence of fissile material. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/382015 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110880 | Veliadis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Veliadis (Hanover, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for single lithography step interconnection metallization using a stop-etch layer are described. A method that includes depositing a stop-etch layer over a semiconductor device, depositing an interconnect metallization material over the stop-etch layer, performing a single lithography step to pattern a mask over the interconnect metallization material, etching the interconnect metallization material in non-masked areas, and removing the stop-etch layer. A system comprises a stop-etch layer material for deposit into a stop-etch layer over a wafer, an interconnect metallization material for deposit over the chrome layer, a lithography operation for patterning a mask over the interconnect metallization material, a first etching compound for etching the interconnect metallization material, where the etching stops at the stop-etch layer, and a second etching compound for removing the stop-etch layer. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395195 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111025 | Whittum et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Whittum (Sunnyvale, California); James E. Clayton (San Jose, California); George Merdinian (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Man-portable radiation generation sources and systems that may be carried by hand to a site of interest by one or two people, are disclosed. Methods of use of such sources and systems are also disclosed. Battery operated radiation generation sources, air cooled radiation generation sources, and charged particle accelerators, are also disclosed. A radiation generation source with a target less than 0.20 mm is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287792 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices: Systems 315/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111062 | Hollman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy M. Hollman (San Diego, California); Olivier J. Lamicq (Poway, California); Kevin K. Taft (La Mesa, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A speed sensor assembly comprises: a driveshaft with a driveshaft axis, a sensing portion of the driveshaft having an axial bore along the driveshaft axis and multiple axial slots radially spaced around the sensing portion that penetrate through the driveshaft into the axial bore; and at least one electromagnetic sensor with a magnetic circuit proximate the sensing portion of the driveshaft; wherein rotation of the driveshaft causes the slots in the sensing portion to sequentially pass through the magnetic circuit of the electromagnetic sensor, thereby causing a change in the reluctance of its magnetic circuit that induces the electromagnetic sensor to generate an output signal that is representative of the rotational speed of the driveshaft. |
| FILED | Monday, February 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391142 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/173 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111090 | Gebara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fadi H. Gebara (Austin, Texas); Jeremy D. Schaub (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A comparator apparatus for comparing a first and a second voltage input includes a pair of cross-coupled inverter devices, including a pull up device and a pull down device, with output nodes defined between the pull up and pull down devices. A first switching device is coupled to the first input and a second switching device is coupled to the second input, with control circuitry configured for selective switching between a reset mode and a compare mode. In the reset mode, the first and second voltage inputs are coupled to respective output nodes so as to develop a differential signal thereacross, and the pull down devices in each inverter are isolated from the pull up devices. In the compare mode, the voltage inputs are isolated from the output nodes, and the pull down devices in each inverter are coupled to the pull up devices to latch the output nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, January 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/358547 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111152 | McCaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Noninvasive Medical Technologies, Inc. (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann K. McCaughan (Las Vegas, Nevada); Andrew Pal (Las Vegas, Nevada); Brad McGrath (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A relative positioning system and method has an adjoining pair of spaced apart receivers positioned proximal to an object causing a signal interference with a radio frequency signal detectable by each receiver of the adjoining pair. The radio frequency signal is associated with an emitter. Control electronics operatively couple the spaced apart receivers. The control electronics are configured to determine a direction of the emitter based on the signal interference. In an embodiment of the system and method the emitter is associated with an object of interest, the signal encodes information relating to the identity and status of the object, and information and heading of the object are cutaneously communicated to an operator by an article worn by the operator. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383358 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111164 | Bryce |
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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) | Michelle L. Bryce (Boerne, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | One example of a solution provided here comprises: identifying a location of one or more animals that are on a path to collide with a vehicle or device; directing millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy toward the location; and administering an effective amount of the electromagnetic energy to repel the animals. Another example comprises: identifying a location of one or more animals that are in a vehicle's path; directing millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy toward the location; and administering an effective amount of the electromagnetic energy to repel the animal, thereby avoiding a collision between the animal and the vehicle. The vehicle could be an aircraft, for example, or another kind of vehicle. Examples in the aviation context involve moving birds or mammals away from runways and taxiways, or otherwise repelling birds that are in the path of an aircraft. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973988 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/573.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111174 | Berger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Theodore W. Berger (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Alireza Dibazar (Los Angeles, California); Bing Lu (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for identifying running vehicles in an area to be monitored using acoustic signature recognition. The apparatus includes an input sensor for capturing an acoustic waveform produced by a vehicle source, and a processing system. The waveform is digitized and divided into frames. Each frame is filtered into a plurality of gammatone filtered signals. At least one spectral feature vector is computed for each frame. The vectors are integrated across a plurality of frames to create a spectro-temporal representation of the vehicle waveform. In a training mode, values from the spectro-temporal representation are used as inputs to a Nonlinear Hebbian learning function to extract acoustic signatures and synaptic weights. In an active mode, the synaptic weights and acoustic signatures are used as patterns in a supervised associative network to identify whether a vehicle is present in the area to be monitored. In response to a vehicle being present, the class of vehicle is identified. Results may be provided to a central computer. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/245575 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/943 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111205 | Tam 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) | Daniel W. S. Tam (San Diego, California); James C. Logan (San Diego, California); Shing Ted Li (San Diego, California); Paul Michael McGinnis (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for determining insertion loss for a mast clamp current probe (MCCP) coupled to a monopole antenna are disclosed. An exemplary method includes determining a first power radiated by the monopole antenna across a first range of frequencies while driving the monopole antenna using a base-feed arrangement to produce a first power-frequency measurement, determining a second power radiated by the monopole antenna across the first range of frequencies while driving the monopole antenna using an MCCP-feed arrangement to produce a second power-frequency measurement and to determine impedance mismatch (MM), and determining insertion loss using the first power-frequency measurement, the second power-frequency measurement and the impedance mismatch. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/407034 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/788 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111440 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); Alexandre M. Bratkovski (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure includes a film having a plurality of nanoapertures and a semiconductor layer in connection with the film. The nanoapertures are configured to allow the transmission of a predetermined subwavelength of light through the film via the plurality of nanoapertures. The semiconductor layer facilitates the modulation of the predetermined subwavelength of light transmitted through the film. The structure also includes a carrier generator for modulating the predetermined subwavelength of light by generating charge carriers. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/789816 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/237 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111443 | Russell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen D. Russell (San Diego, California); Joanna N. Ptasinski (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A plasmonic transistor device includes an electro-optic substrate and a conductive layer placed on said electro-optic substrate to establish an interface therebetween. The first conductive layer and electro-optics substrate are made of materials that are suitable for transmission of a surface plasmon along the interface. The conductive layer is further formed with a source input grating and a drain output grating, for establishing the surface plasmon. A means for varying the electro-optic substrate permittivity, such as a light source or voltage source, is connected to the electro-optic substrate. Selective manipulation of the varying means allows the user to selectively increase or decrease the substrate permittivity. Control of the substrate permittivity further allows the user to control surface plasmon propagation from the source input grating along the interface to a drain output grating, to achieve a transistor-like effect for the surface plasmon. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/295928 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/245 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111494 | Pickett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew D. Pickett (San Francisco, California); John Paul Strachan (Millbrae, California); Muhammad Shakeel Qureshi (Santa Clara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A memristor-protection integrated circuit. The memristor-protection integrated circuit includes a first current-bias circuit, a second current-bias circuit, an inverter, and a current limiter. The first and second current-bias circuits are configured to be coupled to first and second power-supply rails, respectively. The inverter is coupled to the first current-bias circuit and to the second current-bias circuit, and is configured to couple at least one memristor to at least one of the first current-bias circuit and the second current-bias circuit in response to an input signal applied to the inverter. The current limiter is coupled to the first current-bias circuit and coupled to the second current-bias circuit, and is configured to limit current flowing through the memristor. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/695995 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/93.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111500 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Patrick D. Lincoln (Woodside, California); Scott Stanford (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is electroadhesion technology that permits controllable adherence between two objects. Electroadhesion uses electrostatic forces of attraction produced by an electrostatic adhesion voltage, which is applied using electrodes in an electroadhesive device. The electrostatic adhesion voltage produces an electric field and electrostatic adherence forces. When the electroadhesive device and electrodes are positioned near a surface of an object such as a vertical wall, the electrostatic adherence forces hold the electroadhesive device in position relative to the surface and object. This can be used to increase traction or maintain the position of the electroadhesive device relative to a surface. Electric control of the electrostatic adhesion voltage permits the adhesion to be controllably and readily turned on and off. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/964614 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111619 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haiyang Liu (Blaine, Minnesota); Soumitri N. Kolavennu (Blaine, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes identifying, at a first wireless node, routing costs associated with routing data to a destination through multiple paths in a wireless network. The method also includes identifying, at the first wireless node, information propagation values associated with the first wireless node and at least one second wireless node. The information propagation values are based on the routing costs and wireless link qualities associated with the wireless nodes. The method further includes scheduling transmission of the data by the first wireless node based on the information propagation values and transmitting the data based on the scheduling. The routing costs may include potential values associated with distances of the wireless nodes from the destination. Also, the information propagation values indicate which of the wireless nodes have a greater chance of propagating the data towards the destination in a single broadcast. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/120005 |
| ART UNIT | 2471 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/229 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Patrick George DeShazo (Mont Vernon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A wearable, one-way transfer device component for use in a communications system that includes a first device coupled to a first communication network that receives and compiles global positioning data corresponding to the physical location of one or more objects, a first serial communication path for transmitting the global positioning data from the first device, the first serial communications path being unidirectional to prevent data from being transmitted to the first device, means for formatting the global positioning data received from the first serial path into a serial communication format, a second serial communication path for transmitting the formatted global positioning data to a second device associated with a second communication network, and a user replaceable means for providing power to the means for formatting the global positioning data. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365598 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/91 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112184 | Ainslie |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter Ernest Ainslie (Ramona, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An auxiliary power unit has a speed sensor for sensing a speed of operation of the auxiliary power unit. The speed sensor sends a signal to an electronic control box. The electronic control box is operable to control the auxiliary power unit. A branch line is for communicating the speed signal to a health monitoring system. The branch passes through an electronic component that will isolate the speed signal as it passes beyond the component and to the downstream use, such that corruption at a downstream use will not pass back upstream to corrupt the signals used in the electronic control box. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399135 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112247 | Turaga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Srinivao Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Michail Vlachos (Tarrytown, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Introduced herein is a “resource adaptive” algorithm for spectrum and periodicity estimation on a continuous stream of data. The formulation is based on the derivation of a closed-form incremental computation of the spectrum, augmented by a load-shedding scheme that can adapt to available CPU resources to provide a resource efficient solution for real time spectrum estimation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389344 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112250 | Floyd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael S. Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); Karthick Rajamani (Austin, Texas); Freeman L. Rawson, III (Austin, Texas); Malcolm S. Ware (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor device circuits and methods are provided for adjusting core processor performance and energy-efficiency based on usage metrics. Metric detection, performance state selection, and adjustment are done in digital logic hardware without intervening input from system software or firmware, thus greatly speeding the processor performance adjustment. Mapping usage and state information to desired processor power-performance states is also provided in circuitry rather than firmware or power control software. The mapping values may be programmable software or firmware, but detection, selection, and adjustment occur automatically in hardware without intervening input from firmware or software. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263597 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112369 | Abramson |
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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) | Myriam Zana Abramson (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Coalitions from interactions and adaptations of cognitive map agents are evolved using an algorithm. A population of agents are seeded with cognitive map variants characterizing different cultures or different affiliations. The algorithm evolves this population by modifying the cognitive maps using a modified Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The modifications include modification to weights of the cognitive map, and the structure of the cognitive map of the global best (gbest) in the neighborhood is imitated according to a weighted random selection, based on the commonality of the node characteristic in the neighborhood. The end results indicate whether a coalition is possible and what cognitive maps emerge. These results are visualized on a 2D grid and measured with a clustering metric. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/369162 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112455 | Blain 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) | Cheryl A. Blain (Slidell, Louisiana); Robert S. Linzell (Carriere, Mississippi); Brett D Estrade (Saint Gabriel, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for creating a fort.22 input file is provided that comprises the steps of receiving a plurality of user parameters, the plurality of user parameters comprising one or more meteorological data sources, a defined date range, and a data processing request. Then, the one or more meteorological data sources are read for the defined date range. A properly formatted fort.22 file is prepared based on the reader data. Next, it is determined whether a data processing request is present, and if a data processing request is present, an extension/ramping processing program is performed. Finally, the fort.22 file is outputted to a user. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/579112 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/803 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112541 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Henrique C. M. Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for dynamically building applications for stream processing includes providing processing elements with a flow specification describing each input and a stream description describing each output such that the flow specification indicates a stream or streams which are to be received based on processing information and the stream descriptions indicate the processing information. Processing elements that can be reused are identified by determining equivalence between the processing elements. Processing elements that are new and are not reusable are instantiated in a flow graph. An application is dynamically composed, using the instantiated processing elements by routing available streams to the instantiated processing elements in accordance with the flow specifications. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131310 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112594 | Giacomoni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Giacomoni (Longmont, Colorado); Manish Vachharajani (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for writing and/or reading data to a point-to-point shared memory communication mechanism are provided according to embodiments disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, a determination may be made whether a first memory location in the cache of a general purpose multi-core processor includes an empty symbol. If the first memory location includes the empty symbol, then data may be placed in the first memory location in the cache. If the first memory location does not include the empty symbol, then waiting until it does. In another embodiment, a determination may be made whether a first memory location of a general purpose multi-core processor includes the empty symbol. If it does not, then data may be read from the first memory location and/or the empty symbol may be written into the first memory location. If the first memory location does include the empty symbol, then pausing. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106712 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112642 | Bose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Chen-Yong Cher (Port Chester, New York); Prabhakar N. Kudva (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for controlling power and performance in a microprocessor system includes a monitoring and control system integrated into a microprocessor system. The monitoring and control system includes a hierarchical architecture having a plurality of layers. Each layer in the hierarchal architecture is responsive to commands from a higher level, and the commands provide instructions on operations and power distribution, such that the higher levels provide modes of operation and budgets to lower levels and the lower levels provide feedback to the higher levels to control and manage power usage in the microprocessor system both globally and locally. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/132044 |
| ART UNIT | 2116 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112700 | Kuekes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Kuekes (Menlo Park, California); J. Warren Robinett (Pittsboro, North Carolina); Gadiel Seroussl (Cupertino, California); R. Stanley Williams (Portola Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present invention provides a demultiplexer implemented as a nanowire crossbar or a hybrid nanowire/microscale-signal-line crossbar with resistor-like nanowire junctions. The demultiplexer of one embodiment provides demultiplexing of signals input on k microscale address lines to 2k or fewer nanowires, employing supplemental, internal address lines to map 2k nanowire addresses to a larger, internal, n-bit address space, where n>k. A second demultiplexer embodiment of the present invention provides demultiplexing of signals input on n microscale address lines to 2k nanowires, with n>k, using 2k, well-distributed, n-bit external addresses to access the 2k nanowires. Additional embodiments of the present invention include a method for evaluating different mappings of nanowire addresses to internal address-spaces of different sizes, or to evaluate mappings of nanowires to external address-spaces of different sizes, metrics for evaluating address mapping and demultiplexer designs, and demultiplexer design methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/011175 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/805 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112758 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Navendu Jain (Austin, Texas); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Deepak S. Turaga (Nanuet, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for allocation of resources in a distributed computing system. For example, a method for allocating a set of one or more components of an application to a set of one or more resource groups includes the following steps performed by a computer system. The set of one or more resource groups is ordered based on respective failure measures and resource capacities associated with the one or more resource groups. An importance value is assigned to each of the one or more components, wherein the importance value is associated with an affect of the component on an output of the application. The one or more components are assigned to the one or more resource groups based on the importance value of each component and the respective failure measures and resource capacities associated with the one or more resource groups, wherein components with higher importance values are assigned to resource groups with lower failure measures and higher resource capacities. The application may be a partial fault tolerant (PFT) application that comprises a set of one or more PFT application components. The set of one or more resource groups may comprise a heterogeneous set of resource groups (or clusters). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970841 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
| 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) | William E. Blakley, II (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A jig is provided for setting and gluing pairs of specimens along their joining faces to cure into a lap joint. The jig includes a platform with a setting surface flanked by first and second upright walls, first and second plates and fasteners. The platform positions the pairs of specimens for lap joint arrangement. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315491 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/580 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry C. Lin (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Mark Pimentel (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of treating small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) or a SIBO-caused condition in a human subject. SIBO-caused conditions include irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pelvic pain syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, impaired mentation, impaired memory, halitosis, tinnitus, sugar craving, autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, drug sensitivity, an autoimmune disease, and Crohn's disease. Also disclosed are a method of screening for the abnormally likely presence of SIBO in a human subject and a method of detecting SIBO in a human subject. A method of determining the relative severity of SIBO or a SIBO-caused condition in a human subject, in whom small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) has been detected, is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/768531 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — 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 08110181 | Condos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York); The Research Foundation of the State University of New York (Stony Brook, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rany Condos (Bechurst, New York); Gerald Smaldone (Setauket, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of treating tuberculosis comprising administering an aerosolized interferon such as interferon α, interferon β or interferon γ in a therapeutically effective amount is provided herein. Also, pharmaceutical compositions of one or more aerosolized interferon(s) are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/154158 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.400 |
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| US 08110184 | Van Zant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary Van Zant (Lexington, Kentucky); Ying Liang (Lexington, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments provide methods and related compositions for increasing the population size of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in patients that may benefit from reconstitution of stem cells and/or differentiated cells of the blood lineage. The present methods enable the production of HSCs ex vivo and in vivo by reducing latexin expression and/or latexin activity within HSC exposed to various antagonists. Inhibition of latexin expression and/or latexin activity by various antagonists can promote HSC proliferation and/or inhibit HSC apoptosis. Antagonists that can reduce latexin expression and/or latexin activity can be utilized to regenerate endogenous HSCs within patients affected with disorders, diseases, cancers, or therapies for such conditions, that result in the depletion or reduction in HSCs. |
| FILED | Monday, October 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/540641 |
| 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 424/93.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110189 | Blumberg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Blumberg (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to compositions which bind T cell inhibitory receptor molecules and modulate T cell activity, and methods of using such compositions. Such compositions include biliary glycoprotein binding agents. Methods for modulating killer T cell activities, including cytotoxicity and proliferation also are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/339066 |
| 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 08110192 | Dimitrov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimiter S. Dimitrov (Frederick, Maryland); Mei-Yun Zhang (Hong Kong, China Hong Kong) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) envelope glycoprotein that can recognize one or more strains of HIV, wherein the epitope of HIV recognized by the antibody is inducible, and wherein the antibody binding to the epitope is enhanced by the presence of CD4 and the HIV co-receptor, and related fusion proteins, conjugates, nucleic acids, vectors, host cells, compositions and methods of use to inhibit an infection of a human at risk of becoming infected with HIV, to reduce the severity of an infection of a human infected with HIV, and to treat an infection of a human with HIV. |
| FILED | Friday, July 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/508913 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/148.100 |
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| US 08110218 | Balu-Iyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Amherst, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sathy V. Balu-Iyer (Amherst, New York); Robert Straubinger (Amherst, New York); Karthik Ramani (Thiruvamiyur Chennai, India); Razvan D. Miclea (Simi Valley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for reducing the immunogenicity and increasing the circulating half-life of therapeutic proteins such as Factor VIII. The compositions comprise lipidic structures such as liposomes, micelles and cochleates comprising a negatively charged lipid and polyethylene glycol derivatized phosphatidyl ethanolamine. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/181178 |
| 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 424/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110348 | Brzustowicz et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Linda M. Brzustowicz (Madison, New Jersey); Bonnie L. Firestein-Miller (Hillsborough, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods relating to the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders, and bipolar disorders are disclosed. Also provided are methods for screening therapeutic agents having efficacy for the treatment of such disorders. |
| FILED | Monday, November 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263939 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110352 | Roth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Roth (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Konrad Huppi (Herndon, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to method of diagnosing and treating cancer, in particular β-catenin related cancers. The invention further relates to methods of identifying CTNNB1 related cancer CTNNB1 therapeutics. |
| FILED | Friday, February 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/883694 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110361 | Laird et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California USC Stevens Center for Innovation (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter W. Laird (South Pasadena, California); Kimberly D. Siegmund (San Marino, California); Mihaela Campan (Los Angeles, California); Daniel J. Weisenberger (Playa del Rey, California); Tiffany I. Long (Chino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Particular aspects confirm the existence of a CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) in colorectal cancer, and provide novel validated DNA methylation markers associated with CIMP. Additional aspects provide novel methods and compositions for: determining CIMP status in colorectal cancers, determining the relationship between CIMP status and other molecular features of the cancers (e.g., BRAF mutation, KRAS mutation and MSI status); determining the relationship between CIMP status and other variables (e.g., age, sex, tumor location, family history, race, country of origin, tumor characteristics (including, tumor type, tumor grade, invasive margin characteristics, lymphocyte infiltration characteristics, direct spread, lymph node spread, venous spread and type of residual adjacent polyp, if present)); and determining, between subgroups defined by CIMP status and BRAF mutations, effects of selected risk factors (e.g., body mass index, smoking history, alcohol intake, dietary folate intake, folate metabolic enzyme polymorphisms and history of hormonal use). |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 02, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913535 |
| 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 435/6.140 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joel F. Habener (Newton Centre, Massachusetts); Henryk Zulewski (Binningen, Switzerland); Melissa K. Thomas (Boston, Massachusetts); Elizabeth J. Abraham (Andover, Massachusetts); Mario Vallejo (Madrid, Spain); Colin A. Leech (South Boston, Massachusetts); Anna Louise Nolan (Brookline, Massachusetts); Andreas Lechner (Munich, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are described for the treatment of type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and other conditions using newly identified stem cells that are capable of differentiation into a variety of pancreatic islet cells, including insulin-producing beta cells, as well as hepatocytes. Nestin and ABCG2 have been identified as molecular markers for pancreatic stem cells, while cytokeratin-19 serves as a marker for a distinct class of islet ductal cells. Methods are described whereby nestin and/or ABCG2-positive stem cells can be isolated from pancreatic islets and cultured to obtain further stem cells or pseudo-islet like structures. Methods for ex vivo differentiation of the pancreatic stem cells are disclosed. Methods are described whereby pancreatic stem cells can be isolated, expanded, and transplanted into a patient in need thereof, either allogeneically, isogeneically or xenogenically, to provide replacement for lost or damaged insulin-secreting cells or other cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/438790 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/366 |
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| US 08110402 | Laurence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer Ann Stowell Laurence (Douglas, Kansas); Anthony Andrew Vartia (Douglas, Kansas); Mary Elizabeth Krause (Douglas, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions comprising a tripeptide having the sequence XC1C2; wherein X is any amino acid such that XC1C2 is capable of binding a metal in a square planar orientation or square pyramidal orientation or both; and wherein C1 and C2 are the same or different; and wherein C1 and C2 individually are chosen from a cysteine and a cysteine-like nonnatural amino acid, as well as metal-XC1C2 complexes and methods for forming such complexes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/465448 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/73 |
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| US 08110404 | Selvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Selvin (Urbana, Illinois); Pinghua Ge (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Lanthanide chelates derived from diazacrown ethers having two ethyliminodiacetic acid side chains have increased ability to bind lanthanide ions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 12/092604 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
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| US 08110542 | Minea et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California); Pivotal Biosciences, Inc. (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radu O. Minea (Arcadia, California); Francis S. Markland, Jr. (Manhattan Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods of expressing eukaryotic proteins in prokaryotic hosts, particularly eukaryotic proteins that require formation of disulfide bridges for biological activity. Various approaches are used including fusion to thioredoxin, cytoplasmic expression of disulfide isomerases, deficiencies in thioredoxin and/or glutathione reductases, deficiencies in proteases, and the like. The method is applicable to express monomeric and dimeric forms of the eukaryotic protein with biological activity such as monomeric and dimeric forms of a disintegrin or a disintegrin domain. Included are the vectors, host cells expressing the proteins, the expressed proteins and methods of using the proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/831226 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 08110549 | Watkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maren Watkins (Salt Lake City, Utah); Baldomero M. Olivera (Salt Lake City, Utah); David R. Hillyard (Salt Lake City, Utah); J. Michael McIntosh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Robert M. Jones (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to relatively short peptides (termed α-conotoxins herein), about 10-30 residues in length, which are naturally available in minute amounts in the venom of the cone snails or analogous to the naturally available peptides, and which preferably include two disulfide bonds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 08, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/042832 |
| 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 08110550 | Brodie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Angela Brodie (Fulton, Maryland); Vincent Njar (Glen Burnie, Maryland); Gauri Sabnis (Catonsville, Maryland); Lalji Gediya (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the methods of treating endocrine-regulated cancers, including hormone resistant cancers, for example. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of increasing the sensitivity of hormone resistant cancers to hormonal therapeutic agents. In particular embodiments, the present invention concerns delivery of a histone deacetylase inhibitor and a hormone targeted drug to an individual with cancer. In specific embodiments, the histone deacetylase inhibitor and the hormone targeted drug act synergistically to treat the cancer, including by overcoming resistance to a cancer therapy. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134717 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110551 | Shenker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Shenker (Haverford, Pennsylvania); Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia (Haddon Heights, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to immunotoxins and their use. Specifically, the invention relates to compositions comprising Cdt toxins or their inhibitors and their use in methods for treating infectious and proliferative diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/357471 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110554 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Jiang (San Diego, California); Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A generic structure for the peptides of the present invention includes A-X-B-C, where C is a cargo moiety, the B portion includes basic amino acids, X is a cleavable linker sequence, and the A portion includes acidic amino acids. The intact structure is not significantly taken up by cells; however, upon extracellular cleavage of X, the B-C portion is taken up, delivering the cargo to targeted cells. Cargo may be, for example, a contrast agent for diagnostic imaging, a chemotherapeutic drug, or a radiation-sensitizer for therapy. Cleavage of X allows separation of A from B, unmasking the normal ability of the basic amino acids in B to drag cargo C into cells near the cleavage event. X is cleaved extracellularly, preferably under physiological conditions. D-amino acids are preferred for the A and B portions, to minimize immunogenicity and nonspecific cleavage by background peptidases or proteases. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244602 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.600 |
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| US 08110556 | Lobel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Newark, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Lobel (Highland Park, New Jersey); David Sleat (Scotch Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The gene associated and causative of classical late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (LINCL), CLN2, has been identified and characterized. The translation product of this gene is a novel protease and a deficiency in this activity results in LINCL. Identification of CLN2 will not only aid in the prevention of LINCL through genetic counseling but provides strategies and test systems for therapeutic intervention. In addition, further characterization of this previously unknown lysosomal enzyme may provide useful insights into other more common human neurodegenerative disorders. Finally, the utility of a general approach for determining the molecular bases for lysosomal disorders of unknown etiology has been demonstrated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/788045 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110557 | Robertson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erle S. Robertson (Wynnewood, Pennsylvania); Ke Lan (Upper Darby, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of malignancies associated with gamma-herpesvirus infection. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of gamma-secretase inhibitors to prevent the production of intracellular Notch1 thereby arresting the growth of the infected cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/822419 |
| 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.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110562 | Dalton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee); The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James T. Dalton (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Duane D. Miller (Germantown, Tennessee); Igor Rakov (Marion, Arkansas); Casey Bohl (Columbus, Ohio); Michael L. Mohler (Memphis, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides nuclear hormone receptor binding compounds, compositions comprising the same and methods of uses thereof in treating a variety of diseases or conditions in a subject, including, inter-alia, prostate cancer and/or diseases or disorders of bone and muscle. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/826987 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/80 |
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| US 08110570 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cropsolution, Inc. (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Anderson (Palo Alto, California); Steven Breazeale (Durham, North Carolina); Tedd Elich (Durham, North Carolina); Shy-Fuh Lee (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds of formula I: along with methods of use of these compounds as pharmaceuticals, particularly in the treatment of obesity, metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, diseases associated with reduced neuronal metabolism, and cancer as well as the use of these compounds for treatment of pathogens of humans and animals, and for the control of agricultural pests, particularly fungi, weeds and insects. |
| FILED | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/501717 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/230.500 |
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| US 08110590 | Danishefsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel J. Danishefsky (Englewood, New Jersey); Alexey Rivkin (New York, New York); Yoshimura Fumikiko (New York, New York); Ting-Chao Chou (Paramus, New Jersey); Ana E. Gabarda (New York, New York); Huajin Dong (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein. The present invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and provides methods of treating cancer comprising administering a compound of formula (I). |
| FILED | Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/604127 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/365 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110594 | Jung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael E. Jung (Los Angeles, California); Dongwon Yoo (Los Angeles, California); Charles L. Sawyers (New York, New York); Chris Tran (New York, New York); John Wongvipat (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to diarylthiohydantoin compounds and methods for synthesizing them and using them in the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/730168 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/391 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110655 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Auxagen, Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri); Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jung San Huang (St. Louis, Missouri); Shuan Shian Huang (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for promoting hair growth and/or treating or preventing hair loss (alopecia) by contacting the cells with a TGF-β antagonist or inhibitor either alone or in combination with other alopecia-inhibiting compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/939126 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110657 | Kaumaya |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pravin Kaumaya (Westerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions for stimulating the immune system and for treating malignancies associated with overexpression of the HER-2 protein are provided. Such compositions include immunogenic epitopes of the HER-2 proteins and chimeric and multivalent peptides which comprise such epitopes. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides which encode the chimeric peptides. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such immunogenic compositions. Methods for stimulating an immune response to HER-2 protein are provided. Methods for treating breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer and lung cancer are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683114 |
| 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 530/326 |
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| US 08110678 | Turos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edward Turos (Wesley Chapel, Florida); Michelle Leslie (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention is the design and synthesis of a caprolactone monomer which bears a pendant protected carboxyl group. This monomer has been copolymerized with caprolactone in varying ratios. After polymerization, the protecting group can be removed and an antibiotic can be attached as a new pendant group. The bioactivity of the antibiotic-bound poly(caprolactone) polymer is described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746704 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/355 |
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| US 08110681 | Heemskerk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Albany Molecular Research, Inc. (Albany, New York); Science Applications International Inc. (SAIC) (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jill Heemskerk (Bethesda, Maryland); Keith D. Barnes (Rexford, New York); John M. McCall (Boca Grande, Florida); Graham Johnson (Madison, Connecticut); David Fairfax (Slingerlands, New York); Matthew Robert Johnson (Morrisville, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds of Formula (I) or (II) useful for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy or other uses, as well as methods of using such compounds to increase SMN expression, increase EAAT2 expression, or increase the expression of a nucleic acid that encodes a translational stop codon introduced by mutation or frameshift. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/293268 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/144 |
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| US 08110719 | Kotula |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York Blood Center, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leszek Kotula (Marlboro, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Genetically engineered conditional knock-out mice having conditional disruption of the Abi1/Hssh3bp1 gene are disclosed along with methods of making and using same. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430814 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
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| US 08110721 | Wiles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Wiles (Mount Desert, Maine); Robert Taft (Southwest Harbor, Maine); Eva M. Eicher (Seal Cove, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel methods of maintaining genetic stability of non-human animal inbred strains. In the methods, pedigree-tracked cryopreserved embryos derived from a foundation colony are produced and used to re-establish the foundation colony at appropriate intervals. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536909 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/22 |
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| US 08110964 | Shih et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Drexel University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei-Heng Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Wan Y. Shih (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania); Hakki Yegingil (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A piezoelectric energy harvesting device (PEHD) comprising a driving element, conducting element, piezoelectric layer and non-piezoelectric layer capable of converting ambient mechanical energy into electrical energy. The piezoelectric layer may be constructed from PMN-PT or PZT having a thickness of about 1-150 ?m. The PEHD may be used to generate about 1 W. The harvested energy may be stored and used to power microelectronic devices and rechargeable battery technologies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/523969 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
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| US 08111810 | Zagzebski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Zagzebski (Madison, Wisconsin); Charles A. Mistretta (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A highly constrained image processing method is used to improve the quality, including spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), of ultrasound image frames. Ultrasound image frames are accumulated to form a composite image that contains a priori information about the subject being imaged. This composite image is used in a HYPR processing method to improve the quality of the ultrasound image frame. For example, the SNR of the composite image is increased as a function of the number of ultrasound image frames used to produce it, and this increased SNR is passed on to each highly constrained image frame. Additionally, high spatial resolution ultrasound images are produced using an undersampled sampling density, and the quality of these images is restored to substantially the same level as a fully sampled image. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/270631 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/131 |
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| US 08111893 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guang-Hong Chen (Madison, Wisconsin); Jie Tang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reconstructing a high quality image from undersampled image data is provided. The image reconstruction method is applicable to a number of different imaging modalities. Specifically, the present invention provides an image reconstruction method that incorporates an appropriate prior image into the image reconstruction process. One aspect of the invention is to provide an image reconstruction method that produces a time series of desired images indicative of a higher temporal resolution than is ordinarily achievable with the imaging system, while mitigating undesired image artifacts. This is generally achieved by incorporating a limited amount of additional image data into the data consistency condition imposed during a prior image constrained image reconstruction. For example, cardiac phase images can be produced with high temporal resolution using a state-of-the-art multi-detector CT system with either fast gantry rotation speed or CT imaging system with a slow gantry rotation speed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/481271 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
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| US 08112139 | Sun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mingui Sun (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Robert J. Sclabassi (Gibsonia, Pennsylvania); Wei Liang (Zhengzhou, China PRC); Joseph Marcanio (Greensburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrodes providing excellent recording and physical stability. Electrodes that include a plurality of small teeth that possess a novel design shape and orientation are disclosed. The shallow and relatively long teeth preferably run parallel to the rim of the electrode that presses against the patient's skin. When the electrode is twisted onto skin, the teeth penetrate nearly horizontally under the stratum corneum. The electrodes cause minimal discomfort to the patient since the teeth do not extend to the pain fibers which are located in deeper layers of the skin. The electrodes may house a diversity of electronic components to enable numerous experimental and medical implementations. The electrodes may also be used wirelessly without electrode leads. The electrodes may be fabricated using precision photo-chemical etching techniques that are well known in the art. An electrode installation device that preferably employs the electrodes is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/012607 |
| ART UNIT | 3739 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/382 |
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| US 08112142 | Alexander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene J. Alexander (San Clemente, California); Thomas P. Andriacchi (Los Altos Hills, California); Philipp Lang (Lexington, Massachusetts); Daniel Steines (Lexington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for assessing the condition of a cartilage in a joint, particularly in a human knee. The methods include converting an image such as an MRI to a three dimensional map of the cartilage. The cartilage map can be correlated to a movement pattern of the joint to assess the affect of movement on cartilage wear. Changes in the thickness of cartilage over time can be determined so that therapies can be provided. Information on thickness of cartilage and curvature of cartilage or subchondral bone can be used to plan therapy. Information on movement pattern can be used to plan therapy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/769434 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112145 | Grist et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. Grist (Madison, Wisconsin); Orhan Unal (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An assessment of myocardial viability in a subject is performed by acquiring an MR image which distinguishes infarcted myocardium from normal myocardium. A contrast agent is used and after a waiting period, a cardiac-gated segmented inversion recovery gradient-recalled radial sampling technique is employed to acquire NMR data over a substantial portion of the cardiac cycle. By interleaving the radial sampling patterns, images can be reconstructed over a range of possible TI intervals enabling the optimal TI for maximum contrast to be retrospectively selected. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/860210 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Energy (DOE)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack Kotovsky (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A contact stress sensor includes one or more MEMS fabricated sensor elements, where each sensor element of includes a thin non-recessed portion, a recessed portion and a pressure sensitive element adjacent to the recessed portion. An electric circuit is connected to the pressure sensitive element. The circuit includes a thermal compensator and a pressure signal circuit element configured to provide a signal upon movement of the pressure sensitive element. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/274253 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/777 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08109265 | Kolb |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Kolb (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A suction-recirculation device for stabilizing the flow of a curtain of blackened heat absorption particles falling inside of a solar receiver with an open aperture. The curtain of particles absorbs the concentrated heat from a solar mirror array reflected up to the receiver on a solar power tower. External winds entering the receiver at an oblique angle can destabilize the particle curtain and eject particles. A fan and ductwork is located behind the back wall of the receiver and sucks air out through an array of small holes in the back wall. Any entrained particles are separated out by a conventional cyclone device. Then, the air is recirculated back to the top of the receiver by injecting the recycled air through an array of small holes in the receiver's ceiling and upper aperture front wall. Since internal air is recirculated, heat losses are minimized and high receiver efficiency is maintained. Suction-recirculation velocities in the range of 1-5 m/s are sufficient to stabilize the particle curtain against external wind speeds in excess of 10 m/s. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/368327 |
| ART UNIT | 3743 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Stoves and furnaces 126/684 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110022 | DeVries |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Genesis Fueltech, Inc. (Spokane, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter David DeVries (Spokane, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen purifier utilizing a hydrogen permeable membrane, and a gas-tight seal, where the seal is uses a low temperature melting point metal, which upon heating above the melting point subsequently forms a seal alloy with adjacent metals, where the alloy has a melting point above the operational temperature of the purifier. The purifier further is constructed such that a degree of isolation exists between the metal that melts to form the seal and the active area of the purifier membrane, so that the active area of the purifier membrane is not corrupted. A method of forming a hydrogen purifier utilizing a hydrogen permeable membrane with a seal of the same type is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425322 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110082 | Thundat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas G. Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Thomas L Ferrell (Knoxville, Tennessee); Gilbert M. Brown (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and apparatus are provided for separating molecules, such as biomolecules. The method, system, and apparatus utilize an electrochemical cell having at least two electrodes, one electrode comprising a photo-sensitive material capable of generating a photopotential. Molecules are moved through an electrolyte medium between the at least two electrodes based upon localized photopotentials. |
| FILED | Monday, April 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/731952 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/606 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110111 | Lin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yupo J. Lin (Naperville, Illinois); Seth W. Snyder (Lincolnwood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a functionalized membrane contactor extraction/reaction system and method for extracting target species from multi-phase solutions utilizing ionic liquids. One preferred embodiment of the invented method and system relates to an extraction/reaction system wherein the ionic liquid extraction solutions act as both extraction solutions and reaction mediums, and allow simultaneous separation/reactions not possible with prior art technology. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633138 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/644 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110125 | Hersam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Michael S. Arnold (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), by chirality and/or diameter, using centrifugation of compositions of SWNTs in and surface active components in density gradient media. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652292 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110222 | Hutchens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stacy A. Hutchens (Knoxville, Tennessee); Jonathan Woodward (Solihull, United Kingdom); Barbara R. Evans (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hugh M. O'Neill (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite biocompatible hydrogel material includes a porous polymer matrix, the polymer matrix including a plurality of pores and providing a Young's modulus of at least 10 GPa. A calcium comprising salt is disposed in at least some of the pores. The porous polymer matrix can comprise cellulose, including bacterial cellulose. The composite can be used as a bone graft material. A method of tissue repair within the body of animals includes the steps of providing a composite biocompatible hydrogel material including a porous polymer matrix, the polymer matrix including a plurality of pores and providing a Young's modulus of at least 10 GPa, and inserting the hydrogel material into cartilage or bone tissue of an animal, wherein the hydrogel material supports cell colonization in vitro for autologous cell seeding. |
| FILED | Friday, November 15, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/295461 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110554 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tao Jiang (San Diego, California); Roger Y. Tsien (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A generic structure for the peptides of the present invention includes A-X-B-C, where C is a cargo moiety, the B portion includes basic amino acids, X is a cleavable linker sequence, and the A portion includes acidic amino acids. The intact structure is not significantly taken up by cells; however, upon extracellular cleavage of X, the B-C portion is taken up, delivering the cargo to targeted cells. Cargo may be, for example, a contrast agent for diagnostic imaging, a chemotherapeutic drug, or a radiation-sensitizer for therapy. Cleavage of X allows separation of A from B, unmasking the normal ability of the basic amino acids in B to drag cargo C into cells near the cleavage event. X is cleaved extracellularly, preferably under physiological conditions. D-amino acids are preferred for the A and B portions, to minimize immunogenicity and nonspecific cleavage by background peptidases or proteases. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/244602 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110636 | Fujimoto et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cy H. Fujimoto (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Michael Hibbs (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Andrea Ambrosini (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved multi-block sulfonated poly(phenylene) copolymer compositions, methods of making the same, and their use as proton exchange membranes (PEM) in hydrogen fuel cells, direct methanol fuel cells, in electrode casting solutions and electrodes. The multi-block architecture has defined, controllable hydrophobic and hydrophilic segments. These improved membranes have better ion transport (proton conductivity) and water swelling properties. |
| FILED | Friday, April 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/425413 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/471 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110667 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zongchao C. Zhang (Norwood, New Jersey); Heather M. Brown (Kennewick, Washington); Yu Su (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are described for conversion of carbohydrate polymers in ionic liquids, including cellulose, that yield value-added chemicals including, e.g., glucose and 5-hydroxylmethylfurfural (HMF) at temperatures below 120° C. Catalyst compositions that include various mixed metal halides are described that are selective for specified products with yields, e.g., of up to about 56% in a single step process. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/110997 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/18.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110796 | Vertes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The George Washington University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akos Vertes (Reston, Virginia); Bennett N. Walker (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | The production and use of silicon microcolumn arrays that harvest light from a laser pulse to produce ions are described. The systems of the present invention seem to behave like a quasi-periodic antenna array with ion yields that show profound dependence on the plane of laser light polarization and the angle of incidence. By providing photonic ion sources, this enables enhanced control of ion production on a micro/nano scale and direct integration with miniaturized analytical devices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689829 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110810 | Mihailescu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermorec, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucian Mihailescu (Pleasanton, California); Kai M. Vetter (Alameda, California); Daniel H. Chivers (Fremont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are presented that increase the position resolution and granularity of double sided segmented semiconductor detectors. These methods increase the imaging resolution capability of such detectors, either used as Compton cameras, or as position sensitive radiation detectors in imagers such as SPECT, PET, coded apertures, multi-pinhole imagers, or other spatial or temporal modulated imagers. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/607554 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110898 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); Katherine E. Plass (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Joshua M. Spurgeon (Pasadena, California); Harry A. Atwater (S. Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure consisting of well-ordered semiconductor structures embedded in a binder material which maintains the ordering and orientation of the semiconductor structures. Methods for forming such a structure include forming the semiconductor structures on a substrate, casting a binder material onto the substrate to embed the semiconductor structures in the binder material, and separating the binder material from the substrate at the substrate. These methods provide for the retention of the orientation and order of highly ordered semiconductor structures in the separated binder material. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/176065 |
| ART UNIT | 2818 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/618 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110948 | Su |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gui-Jia Su (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A power conversion apparatus includes an interfacing circuit that enables a current source inverter to operate from a voltage energy storage device (voltage source), such as a battery, ultracapacitor or fuel cell. The interfacing circuit, also referred to as a voltage-to-current converter, transforms the voltage source into a current source that feeds a DC current to a current source inverter. The voltage-to-current converter also provides means for controlling and maintaining a constant DC bus current that supplies the current source inverter. The voltage-to-current converter also enables the current source inverter to charge the voltage energy storage device, such as during dynamic braking of a hybrid electric vehicle, without the need of reversing the direction of the DC bus current. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399486 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/84 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110961 | Hsu |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Hsu (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous system includes a stator that generates a magnetic rotating field when sourced by an alternating current. An uncluttered rotor disposed within the magnetic rotating field is spaced apart from the stator to form an air gap relative to an axis of rotation. A stationary excitation core spaced apart from the uncluttered rotor by an axial air gap and a radial air gap substantially encloses the stationary excitation core. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include stator core gaps to reduce axial flux flow. Some permanent magnet-less, brushless synchronous systems include an uncluttered rotor coupled to outer laminations. The quadrature-axis inductance may be increased in some synchronous systems. Some synchronous systems convert energy such as mechanical energy into electrical energy (e.g., a generator); other synchronous systems may convert any form of energy into mechanical energy (e.g., a motor). |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/466212 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/266 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111059 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. King (Corvallis, Oregon); Charles Rigel Woodside (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure herein provides an apparatus for location of a quantity of current vectors in an electrical device, where the current vector has a known direction and a known relative magnitude to an input current supplied to the electrical device. Mathematical constants used in Biot-Savart superposition equations are determined for the electrical device, the orientation of the apparatus, and relative magnitude of the current vector and the input current, and the apparatus utilizes magnetic field sensors oriented to a sensing plane to provide current vector location based on the solution of the Biot-Savart superposition equations. Description of required orientations between the apparatus and the electrical device are disclosed and various methods of determining the mathematical constants are presented. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/695197 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/117.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08112559 — Increasing available FIFO space to prevent messaging queue deadlocks in a DMA environment
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael A. Blocksome (Rochester, Minnesota); Dong Chen (Croton On Hudson, New York); Thomas Gooding (Rochester, Minnesota); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Jeff Parker (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the invention may be used to manage message queues in a parallel computing environment to prevent message queue deadlock. A direct memory access controller of a compute node may determine when a messaging queue is full. In response, the DMA may generate an interrupt. An interrupt handler may stop the DMA and swap all descriptors from the full messaging queue into a larger queue (or enlarge the original queue). The interrupt handler then restarts the DMA. Alternatively, the interrupt handler stops the DMA, allocates a memory block to hold queue data, and then moves descriptors from the full messaging queue into the allocated memory block. The interrupt handler then restarts the DMA. During a normal messaging advance cycle, a messaging manager attempts to inject the descriptors in the memory block into other messaging queues until the descriptors have all been processed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/241634 |
| ART UNIT | 2184 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: Input/output 710/22 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112658 | Archer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Jens Archer (Rochester, Minnesota); Kurt Walter Pinnow (Rochester, Minnesota); Joseph D. Ratterman (Rochester, Minnesota); Brian Edward Smith (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, program product and method check for nodal faults in a row of nodes by causing each node in the row to concurrently communicate with its adjacent neighbor nodes in the row. The communications are analyzed to determine a presence of a faulty node or connection. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/197563 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/4.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08109007 | Solomon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Solomon (River Forest, Illinois); Mitra J. Hartmann (Evanston, Illinois); Christopher L. Schroeder (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for sensing an object profile shape involves relatively sweeping (whisking or translating) in angular or translational increments an elongated whisker element having a deflectable cantilever region and an object so that the cantilever region bends as a result of sliding along an object periphery. The moment (torque) at a base region of the whisker element as a result of the bending is determined. The method then iteratively determines successive contact point locations on the object periphery based on small successive increments in angle or position of the whisker element and the sensed moment (torque). |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455389 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08109085 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwick, Vermont); Robert Cook (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Lee Doyle (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Andrew Shang (Lebanon, New Hampshire); Timothy Wilson (Litchfield, New Hampshire); Micheal Neil Scott (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire); Dimitri Deserranno (Enfield, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, pneumatic cylinder assemblies are coupled in series pneumatically, thereby reducing a range of force produced by or acting on the pneumatic cylinder assemblies during expansion or compression of a gas. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966855 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/413 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110125 | Hersam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark C. Hersam (Evanston, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Michael S. Arnold (Northbrook, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), by chirality and/or diameter, using centrifugation of compositions of SWNTs in and surface active components in density gradient media. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/652292 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110143 | Rabiei |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Afsaneh Rabiei (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to composite metal foams comprising hollow metallic spheres and a solid metal matrix. The composite metal foams show high strength, particularly in comparison to previous metal foams, while maintaining a favorable strength to density ratio. The composite metal foams can be prepared by various techniques, such as powder metallurgy and casting. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/639581 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Powder metallurgy processes 419/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110196 | Deem et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polytopas LLC (West University Place, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael W. Deem (West University Place, Texas); Jeong-Man Park (Seoul, South Korea); Hao Zhou (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to therapeutic and prophylactic methods for treating or preventing an infectious disease in a subject by stimulating or enhancing an immune response against an infectious agent causing the disease. The methods comprise administering to the subject a plurality of compositions, each composition being administered to a different site of the subject, wherein each site is, or substantially drains to, an anatomically distinct lymph node, a group of lymph nodes, a nonencapsulated cluster of lymphoid tissue, or the spleen. Each composition comprises at least one antigenic molecule having one or more epitopes of the same infectious agent or a strain thereof. The antigenic molecules of each composition comprise in aggregate a set of epitopes distinct from that of any other composition that is administered to the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/118917 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/202.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110353 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Zhang (Overland Park, Kansas); Andrew J. Turberfield (Oxford, United Kingdom); Erik Winfree (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A catalytic system and method of catalyzing reactions that uses a novel toehold exchange mechanism that allows a specified input to catalyze the release of a specified output, which in turn can serve as a catalyst for other reactions is provided. This toehold exchange catalyst system, which can be driven forward by the configurational entropy of the released molecule, provides an amplifying circuit element that is simple, fast, modular, composable, and robust. Using this toehold exchange catalyst system it has been possible to construct and characterize several circuits that amplify nucleic acid signals, including a feed-forward cascade with quadratic kinetics and a positive feedback circuit with exponential growth kinetics. |
| FILED | Monday, February 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/025652 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110404 | Selvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul R. Selvin (Urbana, Illinois); Pinghua Ge (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Lanthanide chelates derived from diazacrown ethers having two ethyliminodiacetic acid side chains have increased ability to bind lanthanide ions. |
| FILED | Monday, November 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 12/092604 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110524 | Prud'Homme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas storage cylinder or gas storage cylinder liner, formed from a polymer composite, containing at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194043 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110656 | Benning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christoph Benning (East Lansing, Michigan); Binbin Lu (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | TGD2 proteins of Arabidopsis are proposed to be a substrate binding component of a lipid transfer complex in the inner chloroplast envelope membrane. Loss of function of this protein or other components of this complex may disrupt the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-pathway of thylakoid lipid biosynthesis. In one embodiment, the present invention contemplates a minimal binding domain capable of specifically binding phosphatidic acid. Alternatively, the minimal binding domain may further comprise accessory binding domains that, in combination, create a complete TGD2 phosphatidic acid binding domain. Consequently, phosphatidic acid may be quantitatively detected from samples as described in the methods herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/506633 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110673 | 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); Bin Liu (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an aggregation sensor useful for the detection and analysis of aggregants in a sample, and methods, articles and compositions relating to such a sensor. The sensor comprises first and second optically active units, where energy may be transferred from an excited state of the first optically active unit to the second optically active unit. The second optically active unit is present in a lesser amount, but its relative concentration is increased upon aggregation, increasing its absorption of energy from the first optically active units. This increase in energy transfer can be detected in variety of formats to produce an aggregation sensing system for various aggregants, including for quantitation. Other variations of the inventions are described further herein. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711233 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110695 | Welker et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Mark E. Welker (Clemmons, North Carolina); Ramakrishna R. Pidaparthi (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compounds, intermediates, compositions, and methods of making compounds and intermediates related to the compounds of Formula (I) and/or Formula (II) and/or Formula (III) and/or Formula (IV) and/or Formula (VI) and/or Formula (VII) as disclosed herein wherein the various substituents are as defined in the written description. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/447360 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 556/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110699 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | X. Peter Zhang (Tampa, Florida); Shifa Zhu (Guangzhou, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for the cyclopropanation of olefins with a metal porphyrin catalyst and an acceptor/acceptor substituted diazo reagent. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/559208 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 560/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110797 | Marshall et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (West Palm Beach, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan G. Marshall (Tallahassee, Florida); Priyanka Juyal (Tallahassee, Florida); Ryan P. Rodgers (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of enhanced speciation of both positive and negatives species in an analyte is disclosed. The method can include producing a first analyte solution comprising an analyte composition and an effective amount of silver triflate, and analyzing the first analyte solution with an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer. The method can also include producing a second analyte solution comprising a portion of the analyte composition and an effective amount of a compound of formula I, and analyzing the second analyte solution with an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer. The compound of formula I is [NX+][OH−], where X is a linear, branched, or cyclic C1-C10 alkane; an aryl; a heterocyclic aromatic; or a heterocyclic moiety. |
| FILED | Friday, February 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/700992 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/288 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112056 | Safarian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aminghasem Safarian (Tustin, California); Lei Zhou (Irvine, California); Payam Heydari (Irvine, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel DDCR RF front-end for use in UWB applications combining a distributed approach which provides wideband functionality of the RF front-end with I-Q requirement of DCRs. The distributed architecture uses composite cells of a merged LNA and mixer along the input RF T-line. |
| FILED | Friday, July 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180251 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08112157 — Magnetic material-containing microfabricated devices for wireless data and power transfer
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California); Damien C. Rodger (Los Angeles, California); Wen Li (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This disclosure relates to the design and fabrication of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) for applications in such varied fields as the biomedical, micro-fluidics and chemical analysis fields for wireless data and power transfer. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/272383 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/53 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112418 | Turnbull et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Douglas Turnbull (La Jolla, California); Luke Barrington (San Diego, California); Ruoran Liu (La Jolla, California); Gert Lanckriet (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of a computer system to determine one or more annotation items associated with an audio file are described. During operation, the computer system provides an interactive environment in which multiple users listen to the audio file within a time interval. Next, the computer system receives one or more annotation items associated with the audio file from the multiple users. Then, the computer system displays the received one or more annotation items from the multiple users in the interactive environment, thereby enabling the multiple users to provide feedback to a given user in the multiple users. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052299 |
| ART UNIT | 2161 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/736 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112440 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, Vermont) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xindong Wu (Essex Junction, Vermont); Xingquan Zhu (Boca Raton, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of identifying relational patterns across a plurality of databases using a data structure and the data structure itself. The data structure including one or more data node branches, each of the one or more data node branches including one or more data nodes, each of the one or more data nodes representing a data item of interest and corresponding data item support values for the data item across the plurality of databases in relation to other data items represented in the data node branch. The data structure can be used to mine one or more relational patterns considering pattern support data across the plurality of databases at the same time. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/593974 |
| ART UNIT | 2164 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/776 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08109007 | Solomon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph H. Solomon (River Forest, Illinois); Mitra J. Hartmann (Evanston, Illinois); Christopher L. Schroeder (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for sensing an object profile shape involves relatively sweeping (whisking or translating) in angular or translational increments an elongated whisker element having a deflectable cantilever region and an object so that the cantilever region bends as a result of sliding along an object periphery. The moment (torque) at a base region of the whisker element as a result of the bending is determined. The method then iteratively determines successive contact point locations on the object periphery based on small successive increments in angle or position of the whisker element and the sensed moment (torque). |
| FILED | Monday, June 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455389 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Geometrical instruments 033/701 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110432 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Thin film transistor substrates with conductor components in conjunction therewith, and related methods of fabrication. |
| FILED | Monday, August 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/891720 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110524 | Prud'Homme et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Prud'Homme (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Ilhan A. Aksay (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas storage cylinder or gas storage cylinder liner, formed from a polymer composite, containing at least one polymer and a modified graphite oxide material, which is a thermally exfoliated graphite oxide with a surface area of from about 300 m2/g to 2600 m2/g. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194043 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/402 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111402 | Le et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | OEwaves, Inc. (Pasadena, California); California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thanh M. Le (Duarte, California); Nan Yu (Arcadia, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Anatoliy Savchenkov (Glendale, California); William H. Steier (San Marino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques and devices based on transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) modes in an optical resonator or interferometer to provide sensitive optical detection with insensitivity to a change in temperature. A shift in a difference between a first resonance wavelength of a TE optical mode and a second resonance wavelength of a TM optical mode is measured to measure a change in a sample that is in optical interaction with the optical resonator or interferometer. For example, the detected shift can be used to measure a change in a refractive index of the sample. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/418525 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111832 | Jones et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kennie H Jones (Poquoson, Virginia); Douglas M. Nark (Norfolk, Virginia); Michael G. Jones (Newport News, Virginia); Tony L. Parrott (Williamsburg, Virginia); Kenneth N. Lodding (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for making localized decisions and taking localized actions to achieve a global solution. In an embodiment of the present invention, acoustic impedances for impedance-tunable acoustic segments are adjusted. A first acoustic segment through an N-th acoustic segment are defined. To start the process, the first acoustic segment is designated as a leader and a noise-reducing impedance is determined therefor. This is accomplished using (i) one or more metrics associated with the acoustic wave at the leader, and (ii) the metric(s) associated with the acoustic wave at the N-th acoustic segment. The leader, the N-th acoustic segment, and each of the acoustic segments exclusive of the leader and the N-th acoustic segment, are tuned to the noise-reducing impedance. The current leader is then excluded from subsequent processing steps. The designation of leader is then given one of the remaining acoustic segments, and the process is repeated for each of the acoustic segments through an (N−1)-th one of the acoustic segments. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424793 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/71.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08111943 | Jobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel J. Jobson (Newport News, Virginia); Zia-ur Rahman (Williamsburg, Virginia); Glenn A. Woodell (Newport News, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Contrast and lightness measures are used to first classify the image as being one of non-turbid and turbid. If turbid, the original image is enhanced to generate a first enhanced image. If non-turbid, the original image is classified in terms of a merged contrast/lightness score based on the contrast and lightness measures. The non-turbid image is enhanced to generate a second enhanced image when a poor contrast/lightness score is associated therewith. When the second enhanced image has a poor contrast/lightness score associated therewith, this image is enhanced to generate a third enhanced image. A sharpness measure is computed for one image that is selected from (i) the non-turbid image, (ii) the first enhanced image, (iii) the second enhanced image when a good contrast/lightness score is associated therewith, and (iv) the third enhanced image. If the selected image is not-sharp, it is sharpened to generate a sharpened image. The final image is selected from the selected image and the sharpened image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423907 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/274 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112243 | Meadows et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Byron L. Meadows (Hampton, Virginia); Frazin Amzajerdian (Yorktown, Virginia); Bruce W. Barnes (Yorktown, Virginia); Nathaniel R. Baker (Hampton, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of measuring the temperature of the P-N junction within the light-emitting region of a quasi-continuous-wave or pulsed semiconductor laser diode device. A series of relatively short and low current monitor pulses are applied to the laser diode in the period between the main drive current pulses necessary to cause the semiconductor to lase. At the sufficiently low current level of the monitor pulses, the laser diode device does not lase and behaves similar to an electronic diode. The voltage across the laser diode resulting from each of these low current monitor pulses is measured with a high degree of precision. The junction temperature is then determined from the measured junction voltage using their known linear relationship. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/118172 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08109130 | Dimeo, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (Danbury, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Dimeo, Jr. (Falls Church, Virginia); Philip S. H. Chen (Bethel, Connecticut); Jeffrey W. Neuner (Bethel, Connecticut); James Welch (Clayton, North Carolina); Michele Stawasz (New Milford, Connecticut); Thomas H. Baum (New Fairfield, Connecticut); Mackenzie E. King (Southbury, Connecticut); Ing-Shin Chen (Danbury, Connecticut); Jeffrey F. Roeder (Brookfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas detector and process for detecting a fluorine-containing species in a gas containing same, e.g., an effluent of a semiconductor processing tool undergoing etch cleaning with HF, NF3, etc. The detector in a preferred structural arrangement employs a microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based device structure and/or a free-standing metal element that functions as a sensing component and optionally as a heat source when elevated temperature sensing is required. The free-standing metal element can be fabricated directly onto a standard chip carrier/device package so that the package becomes a platform of the detector. |
| FILED | Friday, August 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/537910 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/31.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110450 | Street |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert A. Street (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is used to form a self-aligning thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes a gate contact formed with a state-switchable material, and a dielectric layer to isolate the gate contact. A source-drain layer, which includes a source contact, and a drain contact are formed with a source-drain material. An area of the gate contact is exposed to a form of energy, wherein the energy transforms a portion of the state switchable material from a non-conductive material to a conductive material, the conductive portion defining the gate contact. A semiconductor material is formed between the source contact and the drain contact. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/959956 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110690 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Beng S Ong (Singapore, Singapore); Yu Qi (Oakville, Canada); Yuning Li (Singapore, Singapore) |
| ABSTRACT | A substituted indolocarbazole comprising at least one optionally substituted thienyl. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/252766 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/418 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deepak Srinivao Turaga (Elmsford, New York); Michail Vlachos (Tarrytown, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Introduced herein is a “resource adaptive” algorithm for spectrum and periodicity estimation on a continuous stream of data. The formulation is based on the derivation of a closed-form incremental computation of the spectrum, augmented by a load-shedding scheme that can adapt to available CPU resources to provide a resource efficient solution for real time spectrum estimation. |
| FILED | Friday, March 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/389344 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112541 | Amini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lisa Amini (Yorktown Heights, New York); Henrique C. M. Andrade (Croton-on-Hudson, New York); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for dynamically building applications for stream processing includes providing processing elements with a flow specification describing each input and a stream description describing each output such that the flow specification indicates a stream or streams which are to be received based on processing information and the stream descriptions indicate the processing information. Processing elements that can be reused are identified by determining equivalence between the processing elements. Processing elements that are new and are not reusable are instantiated in a flow graph. An application is dynamically composed, using the instantiated processing elements by routing available streams to the instantiated processing elements in accordance with the flow specifications. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/131310 |
| ART UNIT | 2194 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112758 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Navendu Jain (Austin, Texas); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Deepak S. Turaga (Nanuet, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for allocation of resources in a distributed computing system. For example, a method for allocating a set of one or more components of an application to a set of one or more resource groups includes the following steps performed by a computer system. The set of one or more resource groups is ordered based on respective failure measures and resource capacities associated with the one or more resource groups. An importance value is assigned to each of the one or more components, wherein the importance value is associated with an affect of the component on an output of the application. The one or more components are assigned to the one or more resource groups based on the importance value of each component and the respective failure measures and resource capacities associated with the one or more resource groups, wherein components with higher importance values are assigned to resource groups with lower failure measures and higher resource capacities. The application may be a partial fault tolerant (PFT) application that comprises a set of one or more PFT application components. The set of one or more resource groups may comprise a heterogeneous set of resource groups (or clusters). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 11/970841 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/104 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08110368 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America Department of Agriculture, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean H. Adams (Davis, California); Pieter J. Oort (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of identifying γ-synuclein expression, as a biomarker for adiposity and adiposity related disorders. Identification of γ-synuclein expression includes agonists and antagonists thereof which may be used in pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of adiposity related disorders. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/350213 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 08112357 | Mueller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia); Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Richmond, Virginia); Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall Lee Mueller (Kansas City, Missouri); V. Srinivas Nori (Norcross, Georgia); Benjamin T. Breeden, Jr. (Eldersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Preventing duplicate ICL files and/or ICL file elements, including duplicate ICLs, items, and item bundles, from being processed for payment and/or presentment. A duplicate detection module can assign a predictable and repeatable unique identifier to each ICL file and/or ICL file element. The duplicate detection module can determine whether each ICL file and/or element is a duplicate by comparing the identifier associated with the ICL file and/or element with information stored in a record of already processed files/elements. In response to determining that an ICL file and/or element is a duplicate, the duplicate detection module can determine not to process the file/element for payment and/or presentment. In response to determining that the ICL file and/or element is not a duplicate, the duplicate detection module can store information regarding the file/element in the record. For example, the stored information can include the unique identifier associated with the file/element. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982985 |
| ART UNIT | 3694 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08110083 | Shapiro et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Shapiro (Washington, District of Columbia); Satej V. Chaudhary (Greenbelt, Maryland); Michael D. Armani (Dayton, Maryland); Roland Probst (College Park, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | In a microfluidic device, respective motion of a plurality of objects along corresponding trajectories is achieved by determining a force field, such as an underlying fluid flow which, when applied to the plurality of object, moves each object along its corresponding trajectory. The force field is a linear superposition of a subset of all force fields supported by the physical characteristics of the microfluidic device. Once the fields have been ascertained, a plurality of actuation signals corresponding to the fields is applied to actuators installed on the microfluidic device to cause the force on each object. By implementing a feedback structure, corrections for positional errors may be made by computing a corrective force for each object and adjusting the actuation signals appropriately thereto. |
| FILED | Monday, January 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/651742 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/616 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08110283 | Bansal et al. |
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| APPLICANT(S) | |
| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vishal Bansal (Overland Park, Kansas); Benjamin Hale Winkler (Albany, New York); Hieu Minh Duong (Rosemead, California); Tamaki Ryo (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An article includes a membrane having pores and that is air permeable. A nanoparticle precursor is dispersed throughout the pores, and the nanoparticle precursor is responsive to a stimulus to form a catalytically active nanoparticle. An associated method is also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/863400 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/305.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
How To Use This Page
THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, February 07, 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
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2012/fedinvent-patents-20120207.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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