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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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| US 08113045 | Lee 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) | Jyeching R. Lee (Raritan, New Jersey); Jennifer A. Cordes (Rockaway, New Jersey); Michael S. L. Hollis (Flanders, New Jersey); Shana L. Groeschler (Passaic, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides a shock mitigation means that attenuates the high frequency energy transmitted to the floating element of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) device in a cannon launched guided projectile or cannon launched munition improving the ability of the IMU to survive the extreme forces of such cannon launched environment. The invention utilizes a crushable foam mitigator located in the IMU device's housing to interfere and apply a compressive force to the floating element of the IMU device, plus a rubber pad attenuator element placed above the foam mitigator to further tailor the transmission of shock energy to the floating element in the IMU device. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/487145 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/167 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113072 | Smith, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerry Rosson Smith, Jr. (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention's physical scale model (PSM) of a full-scale ship and associated degaussing system is typically embodied to include: an electrically wired, open, box-shaped framework; electronic structural modules; non-modular structural components; and, non-modular electronic components. Each edge-segment has alternating elevations and depressions for “tongue-in-groove” attachment thereto of modules and non-modular structural components, which are complimentarily raised and recessed and include selected quantities of ferromagnetic and electrically conductive material. Each module includes a ferromagnetic, electrically conductive, dimensionally scaled skin on the circuitous surface of a printed wiring board (PWB). The ferromagnetic and electrically conductive attributes of modules and non-modular structural components serve to simulate electromagnetic effects of corresponding areas (e.g., hull sections, decks, bulkheads, etc.) of the full-scale ship. The inventive PSM's circuitry (including framework wiring, PWB wiring, and electronic components electrically connected to modules on sides opposite their skins) serves to simulate electromagnetic effects of the degaussing system. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380882 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/866.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113175 | Williams |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony John Williams (Middlesex, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine comprises: a first fuel injector which is arranged within a housing unit; an accumulator volume for supplying fuel to the first fuel injector; a first fuel pump arrangement comprising a pumping plunger which is driven, in use, to cause pressurisation of fuel within a first pump chamber; a first metering valve which is operable to control fuel flow into the first pump chamber; a first fuel passage providing communication between the first pump chamber and the accumulator volume; and a first non-return valve located in the first fuel passage between the first pump chamber and the accumulator volume; wherein the first fuel injector communicates with the first fuel passage at a position between the first non-return valve and the accumulator volume; and wherein communication between the first fuel injector and the accumulator volume is uninterrupted. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/374534 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/447 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113304 | Won |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | iRobot Corporation (Bedford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chikyung Won (Tewksbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An articulated tracked vehicle that has a main section, which includes a main frame, and a forward section. The main frame has two sides and a front end, and includes a pair of parallel main tracks. Each main track includes a flexible continuous belt coupled to a corresponding side of the main frame. The forward section includes an elongated arm. One end of the arm is pivotally coupled to the main frame near the forward end of the main frame about a transverse axis that is generally perpendicular to the sides of the main frame. The arm has a length sufficiently long to allow the forward section to extend below the main section in at least some degrees of rotation of the arm, and a length shorter than the length of the main section. The center of mass of the main section is located forward of the rearmost point reached by the end of the arm in its pivoting about the transverse axis. The main section is contained within the volume defined by the main tracks and is symmetrical about a horizontal plane, thereby allowing inverted operation of the robot. |
| FILED | Friday, June 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/138737 |
| ART UNIT | 3611 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/9.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113317 | Delaloye |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jim E. Delaloye (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method are provided to selectively control lubricant supply flow to one or more rotating machines in an aircraft when the rotating machines are windmilling. A controller determines if the rotating machines are windmilling. When the rotating machines are windmilling, the controller at least selectively energizes an electric motor driven lubrication pump, to thereby supply lubricant to the windmilling turbomachine. |
| FILED | Friday, July 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/774083 |
| ART UNIT | 3654 — Material and Article Handling |
| CURRENT CPC | Lubrication 184/6.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114187 | Xia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Younan Xia (Seattle, Washington); Jingyi Chen (Seattle, Washington); Thurston Edwin Herricks (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synthesizing noble metal nanostructures is disclosed. The method involves reacting under heat a noble metal precursor, a polyol reducing agent, and a stabilizing polymer. Morphological control is achieved by controlling the reduction rate of the noble metal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197745 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114206 | Hayes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lumimove, Inc., A Missouri Corporation, (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Hayes (Zion, Illinois); Patrick J. Kinlen (Fenton, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A corrosion-responsive agent comprising a neutralized metal salt of a corrosion inhibiting organic anion and methods of making and using it are described. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/098649 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/14.440 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114229 | Petersen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric L. Petersen (College Station, Texas); Sudipta Seal (Orlando, Florida); Matthew Stephens (Elkton, Maryland); David L. Reid (Orlando, Florida); Rodolphe Carro (Melbourne, Florida); Thomas Sammet (Orlando, Florida); Alex Lepage (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Solid composite propellant compositions include at least one oxidizing agent, at least one binder, and at least one surfactant. The surfactant provides the solid propellant the property of being “self-extinguishing”, where the burning rate of the solid composite propellant as a function of pressure includes a negative pressure dependence portion, wherein the burning rate in the negative pressure dependence portion decreases with increasing pressure until a cutoff pressure is reached which results in extinguishment of the solid composite propellant. The solid composite propellant can also include at least one catalyst that modifies the burning rate of the solid composite propellant. Solid composite propellants can be extinguished without the need for depressurization by reaching a cutoff pressure, and with a tailored burning rate. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/413269 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114230 | Basom |
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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) | Kenneth E. Basom (Waldorf, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | High fidelity, non-explosive training aids (simulants) which simulate the properties of the explosive composition 4 (C-4) are described. The materials of the training aid are formulated to simulate the appearance, manifest rheological properties (pliability, plasticity), density, and “feel” of the actual C-4 as well as simulate the combustion behavior of C-4 when subjected to the informal “flame test” used to identify the material in the field. Additionally, the materials give the same signature as actual C-4 when tested by portable detection equipment such as electronic trace detectors or color forming reagents. The materials also generate the same imagery as C-4 when subjected to X-ray analysis. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/925394 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114358 | Benedek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Primaira, LLC (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karen Benedek (Winchester, Massachusetts); Philip C. Carbone (North Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for sanitizing, decontaminating, deodorizing, conditioning, drying, treating, cleaning, modifying and/or otherwise improving an atmosphere within a container. The container can be a bag or other housing for equipment, food and/or suitable material. Ozone is generated within an atmosphere that is exposed to the materials. The generated ozone is mixed with the atmosphere. At least a portion of the generated ozone is then removed from the mixed atmosphere. The apparatus and method of this invention can be used to treat contaminated sports equipment and the like, as well as to treat food storage atmospheres, such as those exposed to fresh fruits and vegetables. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/312690 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114410 | Broder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christopher C. Broder (Rockville, Maryland); Katharine N. Bossart (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Fusion of the membrane of enveloped viruses with the plasma membrane of a receptive host cell is a prerequisite for viral entry and infection and an essential step in the life cycle of all enveloped viruses, such as paramyxoviruses. The instant invention is directed to providing polypeptides which are a heptad portion of a Henipavirus F protein effective against fusion between a membrane of a paramyxovirus and a plasma membrane of a cell. The instant invention also provides nucleic acids, compositions, and methods effective against paramyxovirus infection. Accordingly, the instant invention provides therapeutic agents and vaccines effective against paramyxoviruses viruses, especially HeV or NiV. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/683206 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/186.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114464 | Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Lopez (Durham, North Carolina); Plamen Atanasov (Sante Fe, New Mexico); Gautam Gupta (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides various novel methods for forming hybrid thin films that contain multi-lamellar assemblies of phospholipid bilayers and can incorporate proteins, polypeptides, biological complexes, transmembrane proteins and other membrane-associated compounds. The present disclosure further provides uses for such bilayer lipid membranes including, biosensing for medical diagnosis and environmental monitoring, chemical and biological warfare agent sequestration, actuator development, and bio-fuel cell development. |
| FILED | Monday, March 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/690922 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114474 | Dudt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip J. Dudt (Rockville, Maryland); David R. Forrest (Washington, District of Columbia); Jennifer N. Wolk (Alexandria, Virginia); Stephen Szpara (Hagerstown, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A metallic glass particle layer is applied to aluminum alloy armor and friction stir mixed into the surface in order to embed the material into the armor and to take advantage of its exceptional hardness. An advantage of the invention is that the hard material is an integral part of the armor, included within the body of the armor plate and not merely a surface coating. The advantage of the friction stir process is that it generates relatively low levels of heat and magnetic measurements show that the amorphous phase condition of the metallic glass is not deteriorated. The armor may be tempered to improve properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/164804 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/201 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114489 | Nemat-Nasser et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Syrus C. Nemat-Nasser (La Jolla, California); Willie J. Padilla (La Jolla, California); David R. Smith (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composite material has a host dielectric with an artificial plasmon medium embedded in the host. The artificial plasmon medium has a dielectric function of less than 1, and a plasma frequency selected to result in the permittivity of the composite being substantially equal to 1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/153502 |
| ART UNIT | 1782 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/34.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114545 | Eickhoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven J. Eickhoff (Plymouth, Minnesota); Roland A. Wood (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A waterless power generator, particularly a waterless electrical power generator and a passively controlled process for producing electricity with a fuel cell using stoichiometric amounts of a solid hydrogen fuel and byproduct water vapor produced by the fuel cell to generate hydrogen gas. A fuel cell reaction of hydrogen and oxygen produces electrical energy as well as by-product water which diffuses back into the power generator as water vapor to react with the hydrogen fuel, producing more hydrogen gas. This generated hydrogen gas is then used as a fuel which allows the fuel cell to generate additional electrical power and additional water. The process runs without any attached water source or water supply other than the water which is produced by the fuel cells themselves. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/904258 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/414 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114567 | Webster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NDSU Research Foundation (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dean C. Webster (Fargo, North Dakota); Zhigang Chen (Fargo, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are photosensitizers that include a polyol moiety covalently bonded to a fused aromatic moiety. Also disclosed is a method for improving UV laser ablation performance of a coating, such as a cationic UV curable coating, by incorporating an oxalyl-containing additive into the cationic UV curable or other coating. Oxalyl-containing sensitizers having the formula Q-O—C(O)—C(O)—O—R1, wherein Q represents a fused aromatic moiety and R1 is an alkyl or aryl group, are also disclosed, as are oxalyl-containing oxetane resins, oxalyl-containing polyester polyols, and cationic UV curable coating formulations that include oxalyl-containing additives. |
| FILED | Saturday, April 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/226555 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/270.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114576 | Morris |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis J. Morris (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the teachings of one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of forming high-density metal interconnects on flexible, thin-film plastic includes laminating a dry photoresist layer to a substrate. The photoresist-laminated substrate is baked. An assembly is formed by laminating a plastic film to the baked, photoresist-laminated substrate. One or more electrically conductive interconnect layers are processed on a first surface of the laminated plastic film. The processing of the one or more electrically conductive interconnects includes photolithography. The assembly is baked and soaked in a liquid. The processed plastic film is then separated from the substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040406 |
| ART UNIT | 1722 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiation imagery chemistry: Process, composition, or product thereof 430/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114582 | Cullum 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) | Malford E. Cullum (Grayslake, Illinois); Lloyd G. Simonson (Spring Grove, Illinois); Sylvia Z. Schade (Riverside, Illinois); Linda A. Lininger (Grayslake, Illinois); Alan L. McArthur (Mokena, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The inventive subject matter relates to a method for detecting the presence of a biological substance of interest in a test sample of saliva or oral fluid, comprising combining said test sample with a fluorescence-labeled ligand to said biological substance and detecting a change in the fluorescence polarization of said test sample produced by binding of said fluorescence-labeled ligand to said biological substance. In one aspect of the inventive subject matter, said method comprises additional steps for comparing the fluorescence polarization of said test sample with the fluorescence polarization of a control solution. Also provided is a miniaturized, portable apparatus for measuring the fluorescence polarization of a liquid sample. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/163412 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114629 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate keto amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with keto amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978140 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114648 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978188 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114663 | Henley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael V. Henley (Panama City, Florida); Lixiong Li (Panama City, Florida); Theodore V. Marolla (Panama City, Florida); William Wallace (Panama City, Florida); Seth M. Foulkes (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A waste management and resource recovery system that uses the different waste streams from typical waste sources as fuel or feedstock for its subsystems that, in turn, produce fuel, feedstock or energy for other subsystems such that all the different waste streams are effectively managed. The subsystems include a gas burner for solid and fuel wastes that supplies heat to a hydrothermal processor for saccharification of paper and cardboard. The resulting saccharification broth, along with kitchen wastes and blackwater, are supplied to a bioreactor using dark fermentation to produce hydrogen and volatile fatty acids. The hydrogen and volatile fatty acids are supplied to hydrogen and microbial fuel cells to produce electrical energy for operating the system and potable water. A steam accumulator is added to provide sufficient temperatures and pressures to reach the necessary thermodynamic states for the saccharification process. An enzymatic saccharification processor may also improve the saccharification process. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623674 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/289.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114679 | Steeves 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) | Diane M. Steeves (Franklin, Massachusetts); Jason W. Soares (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical biosensing platform for the real-time detection of the occurrence of a binding event, the optical biosensing platform comprising a nanocrystalline zinc oxide (nano-ZnO) substrate having a surface and being capable of emitting photoluminescence and a surface modifier formed integral with at least a portion of the surface of the nano-ZnO substrate, wherein the surface modifier is capable of binding to a biomolecule and wherein when the surface modifier binds with a biomolecule, a change is induced in the emitted photoluminescent properties of the nano-ZnO substrate, thereby enabling the detection of a binding event. |
| FILED | Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079088 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114717 | Palacios et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tomas Palacios (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Likun Shen (Goleta, California); Umesh K. Mishra (Montecito, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A fluorine treatment that can shape the electric field profile in electronic devices in 1, 2, or 3 dimensions is disclosed. A method to increase the breakdown voltage of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors, by the introduction of a controlled amount of dispersion into the device, is also disclosed. This dispersion is large enough to reduce the peak electric field in the channel, but low enough in order not to cause a significant decrease in the output power of the device. In this design, the whole transistor is passivated against dispersion with the exception of a small region 50 to 100 nm wide right next to the drain side of the gate. In that region, surface traps cause limited amounts of dispersion, that will spread the high electric field under the gate edge, therefore increasing the breakdown voltage. Three different methods to introduce dispersion in the 50 nm closest to the gate are described: (1) introduction of a small gap between the passivation and the gate metal, (2) gradually reducing the thickness of the passivation, and (3) gradually reducing the thickness of the AlGaN cap layer in the region close the gate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/599874 |
| ART UNIT | 2823 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/142 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114799 | Subramanian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh Subramanian (Mason, Ohio); James Steibel (Mason, Ohio); Douglas Carper (Trenton, Ohio); Toby Darkins, Jr. (Loveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic matrix composite with a ceramic matrix and a gradient layering of coating on ceramic fibers. The coating typically improves the performance of the composite in one direction while degrading it in another direction. For a SiC-SiC ceramic matrix composite, a BN coating is layered in a gradient fashion or in a step-wise fashion in different regions of the article comprising the ceramic. The BN coating thickness is applied over the ceramic fibers to produce varying desired physical properties by varying the coating thickness within differing regions of the composite, thereby tailoring the strength of the composite in the different regions. The coating may be applied as a single layer as a multi-layer coating to enhance the performance of the coating as the ceramic matrix is formed or infiltrated from precursor materials into a preform of the ceramic fibers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546815 |
| ART UNIT | 1786 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/95.200 |
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| US 08114810 | Lombardi |
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| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075022 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/437 |
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| US 08114850 | Trent et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Cancer Therapeutics, LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John O. Trent (Louisville, Kentucky); Paula J. Bates (Louisville, Kentucky); Donald J. Miller (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for modulating tumor proliferation in an individual are provided. The methods employ nucleolin-binding agents, such as aptamers. The aptamers of the present invention can be used to modulate the proliferation of malignant, dysplastic, hyperproliferative, and/or metastatic cells through interference with molecular interactions and functions of nucleolin in the tumor cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982413 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
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| US 08115149 | Manole 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) | Leon R. Manole (Great Meadows, New Jersey); Ernest L. Logsdon, Jr. (Newton, New Jersey); Mohan J. Palathingal (Oradell, New Jersey); Anthony J. Sebasto (Budd Lake, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A Hybrid Projectile is provided for delivering an explosive payload to a target wherein the Hybrid Projectile may be steered in flight using relatively inexpensive means. The Hybrid Projectile is exteriorly configured in the same physical exterior configuration of conventional ammunition of various standard types so it can be launched in conventional manner from the same weapon systems. However, internal features allow the Hybrid Projectile to be transformed in flight from a command signal to deploy wings and fins, and in some projectiles to telescope open to deploy such wings and fins. An inexpensive televisual means is activated in the fore region of the round which through RF uplink command can be used to select a path, while motors on the wings can then be used to more precisely glide the projectile to a target, or otherwise to abort the target run. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/506579 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/3.140 |
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| US 08115182 | Patel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930529 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/482.100 |
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| US 08115343 | Sanders et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason Sanders (Los Angeles, California); Andras Kuthi (Thousand Oaks, California); Martin A. Gundersen (San Gabriel, California); William Henry Moore (Canoga Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to a pulse generator circuit for delivering a short high current pulse to a load. This pulse generator comprises a junction recovery diode, a switch, a first resonant circuit and a second resonant circuit. The diode may be configured to store charges in its depletion layer when there is a forward flow of a current and to rapidly switch open after the depletion layer is discharged by a reverse flow of a current. After the diode rapidly switch opens, the pulse generator may provide a reverse current to the load. This pulse generator may be configured to generate at least one pulse that is having a length of no more than 100 nanoseconds at the full-width-at-half-maximum and an amplitude of at least 1 kilovolt. Electrodes may be connected to the pulse generator to deliver one pulse or plurality of pulses to biological cells such as tumor cells. |
| FILED | Friday, May 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471229 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/108 |
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| US 08115344 | Feng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Xiaoli Feng (Pasadena, California); Matthew Matheny (Pasadena, California); Rassul Karbalin (Pomona, California); Michael L. Roukes (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides lateral nanoelectromechanical switches useful for integration into circuitry fabricated using standard semiconductor processing methods, or using techniques compatible with the mainstream semiconductor processing technologies. Methods of fabricating the switches are described. Some exemplary designs for two and three terminal switches are provided. Descriptions of structural features and the operating parameters for some exemplary switches are given. The switches are expected to be compatible with circuitry that is operable in computer-based systems. |
| FILED | Monday, August 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/546485 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/112 |
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| US 08115441 | Romenesko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles J. Romenesko (Janesville, Wisconsin); Vijay K. Maddali (Roscoe, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A controller continually updates rotor time constant estimation of an induction machine by interrogating the induction machine with a small signal oscillation and monitoring the response. The small signal oscillation is injected onto the d-axis current command signal, and is generated at a frequency that represents the most recent estimate of the rotor time constant (i.e., rotor time constant equal the inverse of the frequency). The controller monitors rotor flux generated in response to the small signal oscillation, and updates the most recent estimate of the rotor time constant based on the monitored rotor flux. This process is repeated continuously to allow for the continuous updating of the rotor time constant. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/880070 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/727 |
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| US 08115513 | Vigoda et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Vigoda (Winchester, Massachusetts); David Reynolds (Scarborough, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A circuit implementing a soft logical processing network includes an interconnection of analog processing elements, which can include soft logic gates, the soft logic gates including one or more soft logic gates. In some examples, each of the soft logic gates include multiple circuit parts, with each part including an input configured to accept a voltage signal representation of a soft logical quantity, and a conversion section configured to use the accepted voltage representation to form a corresponding current signal. The current signals are combined to form a signal representation of the output of the gate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/716159 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electronic digital logic circuitry 326/52 |
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| US 08115646 | Tanielian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Minas H Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington); Robert B. Greegor (Auburn, Washington); Stephen L. Fahley (Renton, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a system to detect one or more environmental conditions in proximity to a surface comprises a first metamaterial environmental sensor module proximate the surface. The environmental sensor comprises a metamaterial-based electrically resonant structure having a resonance frequency which varies in response to changes in at least one of a humidity proximate the sensor module, a temperature proximate the sensor module, or the presence of a chemical or biological agent proximate the sensor module. The system further comprises a remote receiver to receive an electromagnetic signal comprising the signal generated by the electrically resonant structure and a signal analysis module to determine an environmental condition such as humidity, temperature, pre-ice conditions, ice, chemicals or biological species from the at least one environmental condition signal. Other embodiments may be described. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/474010 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/632 |
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| US 08115919 | Yun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seok-Hyun Yun (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Giuliano Scarcelli (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Exemplary embodiments of methods, arrangements and systems for obtaining information about a sample can be provided. For example, in one exemplary embodiment, it is possible to receive a first electro-magnetic radiation from a sample which is based on a second electro-magnetic radiation forwarded to the sample. The first electro-magnetic radiation may have a first frequency and the second electro-magnetic radiation may have a second frequency which is different from the first frequency. The difference between the first and second frequencies can be based on an acoustic wave inside the sample related to at least one characteristic of the sample. Further, it is possible to receive at least a portion of the first electromagnetic radiation and separate it into a particular finite number (N) of frequency component radiations. In addition, it is possible to receive a particular energy of more than 1/N of energy of the third electro-magnetic radiation, and generate information associated with the sample. Certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention are capable of obtaining information associated with a sample, particularly its mechanical properties, non-contact using electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/114081 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
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| US 08115992 | Brueck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STC.UNM (Alburquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Yulia Kuznetsova (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the invention, there are imaging interferometric microscopes and methods for imaging interferometric microscopy using structural illumination and evanescent coupling for the extension of imaging interferometric microscopy. Furthermore, there are coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) microscopes and methods for coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) microscopy, wherein imaging interferometric microscopy techniques are applied to get material dependent spectroscopic information. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/347619 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/385 |
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| US 08116009 | Engheta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nader Engheta (Wayne, Pennsylvania); Alessandro Salandrino (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Brian Edwards (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Far-field sub-diffraction optical lenses “FaSDOLs” comprise an anisotropic crystal having special dispersion characteristics such that it supports diffraction free propagation. An image with subwavelength features on the input surface is transferred through a propagation function to the output surface with effectively no, or minimal, loss in information. These special properties may be exploited in several ways, including but not limited to, magnification of an image at the input surface through the use an oblique cut at the output surface, magnification of an image at the input surface through use of a curved crystalline structure, and more generally near-field optical processing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/300948 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/642 |
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| US 08116090 | Coburn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blair Coburn (Milford, New Hampshire); Candice Brittain (Nashua, New Hampshire); Peter Wallace (Newfields, New Hampshire); Thomas O Perkins, III (Bedford, New Hampshire); Michael R Ehlert (Irvine, California); Ronald H Schmidt (Middleboro, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for the integration of microwave components in a low temperature co-fired ceramic, the system includes a low temperature co-fired ceramic body having a top surface, into which is disposed a plurality of cavities; a plurality of microwave devices, each device being disposed within a cavity such that the cavities provide radio isolation to the devices; and a coaxial connection disposed within the body configured to connect the devices to external components the coaxial components comprising vias disposed within the co-fired ceramic body. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/420885 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/761 |
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| US 08116450 | Agrawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dakshi Agrawal (Monsey, New York); Charanjit Singh Jutla (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for measuring trust in a transaction over a public key certificate network includes associating each edge KA→KB of an public key certificate network connecting two public keys KA and KB with a probability p that information about KB is reliable, and a confidence c that is a total dollar amount of transactions which have involved using edge KA→KB. One or more authentication paths are formed in the public key certificate network starting from public key KS and ending with a target public key KT. A limit l of an amount of insurance that an owner of KS is willing to provide to a user interested in a transaction with an owner of KT is calculated, and for each amount m<l, a premium for which the owner of KS is willing to sell insurance to the user for an amount of m is calculated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243432 |
| ART UNIT | 2433 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/30 |
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| US 08116522 | Buck 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) | Heidi Buck (San Diego, California); Elan Sharghi (San Diego, California); Chessa Guilas (San Diego, California); Brian Schalcosky (San Diego, California); John Stastny (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for automatic detection of ships in overhead images of bodies of water are disclosed. The image is initially analyzed to determine if land is present, and the portions of the overhead image where land is present are masked and not processed further. The methods include the steps of chipping the unmasked portions of the overhead image into a series of tiles, discriminating and removing clouds from the tiles using two-dimensional Fourier transforms, and characterizing tile background noise from the water's surface. Different ship detection algorithms are used, according to the level of background noise detected. Detected ships are output into a format that is easily interpreted by the user. The formatted output can also include a confidence rating, or a calculation of the certainty that the detected object in an output file is actually a ship. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/197421 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
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| US 08116527 | Sabol 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) | Bruce M. Sabol (Vicksburg, Mississippi); R. Eddie Melton (Vicksburg, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method to automatically detect, track and count individual moving objects in a high density group without regard to background content, embodiments performing better than a trained human observer. Select embodiments employ thermal videography to detect and track even those moving objects having thermal signatures that are similar to a complex stationary background pattern. The method allows tracking an object that need not be identified every frame of the video, that may change polarity in the imagery with respect to background, e.g., switching from relatively light to dark or relatively hot to cold and vice versa, or both. The methodology further provides a permanent record of an “episode” of objects in motion, permitting reprocessing with different parameters any number of times. Post-processing of the recorded tracks allows easy enumeration of the number of objects tracked with the FOV of the imager. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/575073 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
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| US 08116566 | Kirby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Joseph Kirby (Fort Collins, Colorado); James Ross Beveridge (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jen-Mei Chang (Fort Collins, Colorado); Bruce Anthony Draper (Fort Collins, Colorado); Holger Philipp Kley (Fort Collins, Colorado); Christopher Scott Peterson (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A pattern recognition system compares a set of unlabeled images (or other patterns) having a variation of state in a set-by-set comparison with individual data sets of multiple labeled images (or other patterns) also having a variation of state. The individual data sets are each mapped to a point on a parameter space (e.g., a Grassmannian manifold, a Stiefel manifold, a flag manifold, etc.), and the set of unlabeled images is mapped to a point in the same parameter space. If the point associated with the set of unlabeled images satisfies a distance criterion on the parameter space with regard to one of the points on the parameter space, the data set of unlabeled images is assigned to the class attributed to that point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/846486 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/181 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Milos Popovic (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Low-loss waveguide structures may comprise a multimode waveguide supporting a periodic light intensity pattern, and attachments disposed at the waveguide adjacent low-intensity regions of the light intensity pattern. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/985824 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/28 |
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| US 08116632 | Miniscalco et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William J. Miniscalco (Sudbury, Massachusetts); Robert D. O'Shea (Harvard, Massachusetts); Irl W. Smith (Concord, Massachusetts); Howard L. Waldman (Acton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A space-time division multiple-access (STDMA) laser communications (lasercom) system and related techniques. The STDMA system includes a plurality of remote nodes and an STDMA access node which uses precise electronic beam steering and beacons to provide access to each of a plurality of remote access nodes by means of both space and time-division multiple access. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323715 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/118 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northern Microdesign, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William C. Black (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication is provided which includes receiving a transmitted radio signal at a powerline wherein the powerline functions as a receiving antenna for the wirelessly transmitted radio signal. The powerline is coupled to an input of a radio receiver using a coupler to communicate the radio signal to the radio receiver. For calibration purposes a second antenna not coupled to powerline may be used. A method for powerline communication across transformers, open circuit breakers, and other devices is also provided. In addition, a method of monitoring a device connected to a powerline is provided. |
| FILED | Friday, March 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/048820 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116763 | Olsen |
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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) | Randall Olsen (Carlsbad, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communications basestation that utilizes a light weight high directivity electronically-steerable antenna mounted on a lighter-than-air vehicle to providing relay broadband communication service among mobile units in a geographic area is provided. The lighter-than-air vehicle carries aloft the antenna; a radio and a switching device for routing. A gateway may also be provided to enable communications with a wide area network. A communication system for a geographic area utilizing the airborne wireless communications basestation is also presented. The system includes a number of user equipment units located in the geographic area in communication with the airborne wireless communications basestation. The user equipment units may utilize omni-directional antennas for low data rate communications, and/or a high directivity antenna. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/552451 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117147 | Rubin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart Harvey Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for reaching conclusions from stratified knowledge statements (SKSs) comprising: storing a list of SKSs in at least one memory store on a computer, wherein the list of SKSs is composed of cases, generalizations, and analogs, wherein cases are the most valid, and analogs are the least valid of the SKSs; creating a new generalization based on one of the SKSs; redefining a user-validated generalization as a new case; moving the validated new generalization to the logical head of the case list; expunging the new generalization from the list if the new generalization contradicts an existing case creating with the computer a new analog based on three of the SKSs; redefining a user-validated analog as a new case; moving the new case to the logical head of the case list; and expunging the new analog from the list if the new analog contradicts an existing case, or generalization. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430224 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117150 | Avera |
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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 Avera (Slidell, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of ocean property forecasting. The method includes generating one of a magnetic field prediction and an electric field prediction between a first observation point and a plurality of uniform ocean cells by generating a vector sum of magnetic field contributions from a plurality of magnetic field vectors and a vector sum of electric field contributions from a plurality of electric field vectors, respectively. The method further includes generating one of a magnetic field forecast and an electric field forecast of the ocean volume at a second observation point in the ocean volume by re-using the magnetic field vectors and electric field vectors and scaling one of the plurality of magnetic field vectors and the plurality of electric field vectors by a plurality of tri-axial equivalent electrical currents with identical geometry to the first observation point. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/400230 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117331 | Gedik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive load shedding includes receiving at least one data stream (comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into a first sliding window of memory. A subset of tuples from the received data stream is then selected for processing in accordance with at least one data stream operation, such as a data stream join operation. Tuples that are not selected for processing are ignored. The number of tuples selected and the specific tuples selected depend at least in part on a variety of dynamic parameters, including the rate at which the data stream (and any other processed data streams) is received, time delays associated with the received data stream, a direction of a join operation performed on the data stream and the values of the individual tuples with respect to an expected output. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165524 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117390 | Cummings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Cummings (Round Rock, Texas); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Hugh Shen (Round Rock, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas); Phillip G. Williams (Leander, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A processing unit for a data processing system includes a processor core having one or more execution units for processing instructions and a register file for storing data accessed in processing of the instructions. The processing unit also includes a multi-level cache hierarchy coupled to and supporting the processor core. The multi-level cache hierarchy includes at least one upper level of cache memory having a lower access latency and at least one lower level of cache memory having a higher access latency. The lower level of cache memory, responsive to receipt of a memory access request that hits only a partial cache line in the lower level cache memory, sources the partial cache line to the at least one upper level cache memory to service the memory access request. The at least one upper level cache memory services the memory access request without caching the partial cache line. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/424434 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/118 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Thomas L. Jeremiah (Hillsborough, North Carolina); William L. McNeil (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Piyush C. Patel (Cary, North Carolina); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A cache memory includes a cache array including a plurality of congruence classes each containing a plurality of cache lines, where each cache line belongs to one of multiple classes which include at least a first class and a second class. The cache memory also includes a cache directory of the cache array that indicates class membership. The cache memory further includes a cache controller that selects a victim cache line for eviction from a congruence class. If the congruence class contains a cache line belonging to the second class, the cache controller preferentially selects as the victim cache line a cache line of the congruence class belonging to the second class based upon access order. If the congruence class contains no cache line belonging to the second class, the cache controller selects as the victim cache line a cache line belonging to the first class based upon access order. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/335809 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117401 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Jerry D. Lewis (Round Rock, Texas); Warren E. Maule (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to at least one embodiment, a method of data processing in a multiprocessor data processing system includes a requesting processing unit initiating an interconnect operation including a memory access request that indicates an acceptability of a variable amount of data to service the interconnect request for data. In response to snooping the memory access request on an interconnect, a snooper selects an amount of data to supply to the requesting processing unit and transmits the selected amount of data to the requesting processing unit. The requesting processing unit receives the selected amount of data and utilizes at least some of the selected amount of data to service a processor request. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024467 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/146 |
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| US 08117605 | Lev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood City, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yosef Lev (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Jan-Willem Maessen (Somerville, Massachusetts); Mark S. Moir (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In a multi-threaded computer system that uses transactional memory, object fields accessed by only one thread are accessed by regular non-transactional read and write operations. When an object may be visible to more than one thread, access by non-transactional code is prevented and all accesses to the fields of that object are performed using transactional code. In one embodiment, the current visibility of an object is stored in the object itself. This stored visibility can be checked at runtime by code that accesses the object fields or code can be generated to check the visibility prior to access during compilation. |
| FILED | Monday, December 19, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/311506 |
| ART UNIT | 2196 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117643 | Vidya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ranganathan Vidya (Bangalore, India); Madhusudanan Kandasamy (Erode District, India); Ravi A. Shankar (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A process, apparatus and program product create a new role in a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) system by using mathematical operators with either one or more authorizations, or one or more existing roles, or a combination thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137767 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California); University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Siyang Zheng (Pasadena, California); Richard Cote (Miami, Florida); Henry Lin (San Marino, California); Bo Lu (Pasadena, California); Yu-Chong Tai (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfiltration apparatus and method for separating cells, such as circulating tumor cells, from a sample using a microfiltration device having a top porous membrane and a bottom porous membrane. The porous membranes are formed from parylene and assembled using microfabrication techniques. The porous membranes are arranged so that the pores in the top membrane are offset from the pores in the bottom membrane. |
| FILED | Monday, January 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/360067 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.840 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114406 | Roberts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David D. Roberts (Bethesda, Maryland); Henry C. Krutzsch (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a peptide comprising the sequence R1—X1—X2—X3—X4—R2, wherein X1 is selected from the group consisting of N, Q, D and S; X2 is selected from the group consisting of V, I and L; X3 is selected from the group consisting of R and K; and X4 is selected from the group consisting of V, I, L and F; R1 is a hydrogen or a peptide of 1 to 6 amino acids, an acyl or an aryl group; and R2 is a peptide of 1 to 3 amino acids, a hydroxide or an amide. The invention also relates to partial or full retro-inverso peptides comprising the above sequences The invention also relates to peptide-substrate combination comprising a substrate suitable for cell growth and the peptide of the invention, and to a vascular graft and an artificial blood vessel comprising the peptide-substrate combination. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition and a peptide conjugate comprising the peptide of the invention. The invention also relates to a method of inhibiting adhesion of a cell expressing α3β1 integrin to an extracellular matrix, inhibiting α3β1-integrin-mediated cell motility, inhibiting α3β1-integrin mediated cell proliferation, promoting β3β1-integrin mediated cell proliferation and inhibiting angiogenesis utilizing the peptides of the invention. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/824916 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114407 | Storkus et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Walter J. Storkus (Glenshaw, Pennsylvania); Michael S. Kinch (Laytonsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | EphA2 T-cell epitope are provided herein. The epitopes include peptides corresponding to specific fragments of human EphA2 protein containing one or more T-cell epitopes, and conservative derivatives thereof. The EphA2 T-cell epitopes are useful in an assay, such as an ELISPOT assay, that may be used to determine and/or quantify a patient's immune responsiveness to EphA2. The epitopes also are useful in methods of modulating a patient's immune reactivity to EphA2, which has substantial utility as a treatment for cancers that overexpress EphA2, such as renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The EphA2 epitopes also can be used to vaccinate a patient against EphA2, by in vivo or ex vivo methods. |
| FILED | Monday, October 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/977179 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/185.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114412 | Chuenkova et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marina Chuenkova (Boston, Massachusetts); Miercio A. Pereira (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to T. cruzi trans-sialidase (TS) and to the neurotrophic and IL-6 secretion-inducing activities of the protein. TS, neurotrophic variants and/or neurotrophic peptides based upon the sequence of TS can be administered to a mammal to directly or indirectly provide neurotrophic support for neurons. A mammalian neurotrophic factor (e.g., CNTF, LIF) can be co-administered with the TS, neurotrophic variant and/or neurotrophic peptide. TS, IL-6 secretion-inducing variants and/or IL-6 secretion-inducing peptides based upon the sequence of TS can be administered to a mammal to induce the secretion of IL-6. TS, active variants and/or active peptides can be administered to a mammal having an acquired or congenital condition characterized by neuronal degeneration or to a mammal that has experienced trauma to the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves. The invention also relates to neurotrophic and IL-6 secretion-inducing variants of TS and to neurotrophic and IL-6 secretion-inducing peptides. The invention also relates to compositions comprising TS, active variants thereof and/or active peptides and a physiologically acceptable carrier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/365743 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/191.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114422 | Fujii et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seishiro Fujii (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan); Gian Paolo Dotto (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The Notch signal transduction pathway has been identified as a target for screening and treatment methods for the prevention and/or reduction of short- and long-term UVB-induced skin damage, e.g., the prevention and/or reduction of UVB-induced wrinkles. The invention thus features screening and treatment methods for prevention or reduction of UVB-induced sin damage, and related compositions, e.g., cosmetic compositions. |
| FILED | Monday, July 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/497870 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114431 | Garcia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres J. Garcia (Atlanta, Georgia); Catherine D. Reyes (Miami, Florida); Timothy Petrie (Atlanta, Georgia); Zvi Schwartz (Atlanta, Georgia); Barbara D. Boyan (Atlanta, Georgia); Jenny E. Raynor (E. Sandwich, Massachusetts); David M. Collard (Atlanta, Georgia); Abigail M. Wojtowicz (Atlanta, Georgia); Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for improving tissue growth and device integration in vivo. Substrates and devices coated with an α2β1 or α5β1 integrin-specific ligand are provided. The substrates and devices coated with an α2β1 or α5β1 integrin-specific ligand are shown to have greater tissue formation on the surface relative to controls, in particular greater bone formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857819 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114581 | Chien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shu Chien (La Jolla, California); Yingxiao Wang (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for identifying neoplastic cells in a biological sample are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/992031 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08114583 | Ebright |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard H. Ebright (Noth Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A target and methods for specific binding and inhibition of RNA polymerase from bacterial species are provided, including methods for identifying agents that bind to a bacterial RNA polymerase, and that inhibit an activity of a bacterial RNA polymerase, through interactions with a bacterial RNA polymerase homologous switch-region amino-acid sequence. The methods can include preparation of a reaction solution comprising the compound to be tested and an entity containing a bacterial RNAP homologous switch-region amino-acid sequence, and detection of binding or inhibition. Applications in control of bacterial gene expression, control of bacterial viability, control of bacterial growth, antibacterial chemistry, and antibacterial therapy are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612787 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114585 | Huang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Monogram Biosciences, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Huang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for determining whether a human immunodeficiency virus is likely to be have enhanced ability to enter a cell expressing CD4 and CXCR4 relative to a reference HIV. In certain aspects, the methods comprise detecting one or more amino acid in an envelope protein of the HIV associated with enhanced ability to enter CD4- and CXCR4-expressing cells and determining that the HIVs ability to enter such cells is enhanced relative to a reference HIV, e.g., an HIV that does not comprise such amino acid(s). |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/304418 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 08114586 | Foung et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Steven K. H. Foung (Stanford, California); Kenneth G. Hadlock (San Francisco, California); Zhen-yong Keck (Redwood City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Conformational epitopes of the envelope proteins E1 and E2 of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been identified and characterized using a panel of monoclonal antibodies derived from patients infected with HCV. These conserved conformational and linear epitopes of the HCV protein E1 or E2 have been determined to be important in the immune response of humans to HCV and may be particularly important in neutralizing the virus. Based on the identification of these conformational epitopes, vaccines containing peptides and mimotopes with these conformational epitopes intact may be prepared and administered to patients to prevent and/or treat HCV infection. The identification of four distinct groups of monoclonal antibodies with each directed to a particular epitope of E1 or E2 may be used to stratify patients based on their response to HCV and may be used to determine a proper treatment regimen. Pharmaceutical compositions for prevention and treatment of HCV, comprising one or more the monoclonal antibodies, are provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/332832 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114590 | Insel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Insel (Atlanta, Georgia); Lingzhi Zhang (San Diego, California); Fionna Murray (San Diego, California); Joan R. Kanter (Imperial Beach, California); Thomas Kipps (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Laura Rassenti (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides diagnostic methods and kits for diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) by determining expression levels of isoforms of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) associated with CLL, particularly, PDE7B and/or PDE3B, and a ratio of mRNA expression of PDE7B to PDE3B. The present invention provides that CLL lymphocytes uniformly expressed high levels of PDE7B and low levels of PDE3B relative to those of normal lymphocytes. A method of treatment and a pharmaceutical composition for CLL comprising one or more therapeutic agents capable of modulating expression or activity levels of isoforms of PDEs associated with CLL, and/or reversing the ratio of PDE7B/PDE3B mRNA expression levels are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/960955 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114593 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary S. Goldberg (Voorhees, New Jersey); Yongquan Shen (Voorhees, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Using gene expression analysis, specific biomarker genes and gene products have been identified which are activated in transformed cells, but suppressed in nontransformed cells; or suppressed in transformed cells, but activated in transformed cells affected by Contact Normalization. Thus, the present invention features compositions and methods for detecting, diagnosing, treating and prognosing cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401849 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — 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 08114594 | Pasloske et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biosysyems, LLC (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brittan L. Pasloske (Austin, Texas); Xingwang Fang (Austin, Texas); Quoc Hoang (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates generally to the fields of making biological unit lysates or admixtures of body fluids and of RNA analysis. More specifically, it relates to direct methods for the detection of a specific sequence of RNA in a biological unit, for example a virus, cell or tissue sample, or a body fluid, for example saliva, sputum, blood plasma, etc. More generally, the invention may be used to enzymatically manipulate and protect the RNA in lysate or bodily fluids for a number of applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489654 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114599 | Meagher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Meagher (Mountain House, California); Wyatt N Vreeland (Washington, District of Columbia); Annelise E. Barron (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for performing free-solution conjugate analysis of nucleic acid molecules. For example, the present invention provides multiplexed single-base extension assays for genotyping. In particular, the present invention provides a series of disperse polyamide “drag tags” for use in achieving high-resolution separation of nucleic acid reaction products. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/960185 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
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| US 08114600 | Brennan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SureGene, LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark David Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana); Timothy Lynn Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to genetic markers of schizophrenia (SZ), schizotypal personality disorder (SPD), and/or schizoaffective disorder (SD), (collectively referred to herein as “schizophrenia spectrum disorders” or SSDs). For example, methods for using such genetic markers to identify an SSD (e.g., SZ) endophenotype are provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612584 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114606 | Cao |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Springfield, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deliang Cao (Chatham, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides antibodies immunologically specific for human ARL-1 (also referred to AKR1B10), a species of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily of proteins. The invention also provides methods of making and methods of using said antibodies. |
| FILED | Friday, February 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/032327 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08114608 | Mehrad et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Borna Mehrad (Charlottesville, Virginia); Marie D. Burdick (Charlottesville, Virginia); David A. Zisman (Santa Barbara, California); Michael P. Keane (Dublin, Ireland); John A. Belperio (Los Angeles, California); Robert M. Strieter (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating fibrotic lung disease. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/516912 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08114619 | Nath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Avindra Nath (Baltimore, Maryland); Caroline F Anderson (Columbia, Maryland); David Irani (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert J Cotter (Baltimore, Maryland); Joseph P Steiner (Mount Airy, Maryland); Norman Haughey (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Biological markers for multiple sclerosis, and their use in the diagnosis and prognosis of the disease, are described. Also described are methods for treating multiple sclerosis by administering an inhibitor of cathepsin B activity or a neuroprotective composition comprising a modified terpenoid compound. Also described are isolated polypeptide biomarkers, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptide biomarkers, and antibodies that bind specifically to the polypeptide biomarkers. Further described are kits that include the above-mentioned isolated polypeptide biomarkers, the polynucleotides encoding them, or specific antibodies against the polypeptide biomarkers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857742 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114626 | Brenner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Brenner (Lyme, New Hampshire); Peter Belenky (Enfield, New Hampshire); Katrina L. Bogan (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention embraces a fungal strain deficient in nicotinamide riboside import and salvage and use thereof for producing nicotinamide riboside. Methods for producing nicotinamide riboside and a nicotinamide riboside-supplemented food product using the strain of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/411586 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/61 |
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| US 08114627 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang C. Liu (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that can incorporate the unnatural amino acid sulfotyrosine into proteins produced in eubacterial host cells such as E. coli. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, novel orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, polynucleotides encoding the novel synthetase molecules, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing the unnatural amino acid sulfotyrosine and translation systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/903499 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 08114628 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978121 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114629 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate keto amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with keto amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978140 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114631 | Choresh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omer Choresh (Tel Aviv, Israel); Randolph V. Lewis (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding spider glue proteins and methods of use thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561779 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114640 | Sherman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Sherman (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wolfgang Seufert (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Zachary Q. Beck (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of preparing macrocycles using solid support chemistry and thioesterases is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel macrocycles. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/261768 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114648 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978188 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114652 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang C. Liu (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to orthogonal pairs of tRNAs and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases that can incorporate the unnatural amino acid sulfotyrosine into proteins produced in eubacterial host cells such as E. coli. The invention provides, for example but not limited to, novel orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, polynucleotides encoding the novel synthetase molecules, methods for identifying and making the novel synthetases, methods for producing proteins containing the unnatural amino acid sulfotyrosine and translation systems. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/311169 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114653 | Woodgate et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Woodgate (Rockville, Maryland); John P. McDonald (Germantown, Maryland); Wei Yang (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is related to thermostable Y-family polymerases, in particular several novel Y-family polymerases and chimeras made therefrom, as well as methods of identifying other Y-family polymerases, methods of generating other chimeric Y-family polymerases, methods of amplifying ancient or damaged DNA, and methods of incorporating fluorescent or modified nucleotides into a DNA molecule. |
| FILED | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/776603 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114654 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (LaJolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806751 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114664 | Weathers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pamela J. Weathers (Stow, Massachusetts); Melissa J. Towler (Worcester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible wall bioreactor is described that uses a small droplet size mist unit, a lower rate ambient air flow rate, and a flexible wall culture chamber to provide an environment that allows for the growth of dense root matrix, shoot cultures, and 2 and 3 dimensional animal tissues. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172781 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/294.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114834 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorraine Hsu (Chicago, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for self-assembling peptide amphiphiles that are capable of forming nanofibers. In particular, the present invention provides for diacetylene peptide amphiphiles that find use as scaffolds for tissue growth or for drug delivery. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936927 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114843 | Isacoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ehud Y. Isacoff (Berkeley, California); Richard H. Kramer (Oakland, California); Dirk Trauner (San Francisco, California); Matthew Banghart (Oakland, California); Matthew Volgraf (Oakland, California); Pablo Ignacio Gorostiza Langa (Barcelona, Spain); Katharine Borges (Centerport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a synthetic regulator of protein function, which regulator is a light-sensitive regulator. The present invention further provides a light-regulated polypeptide that includes a subject synthetic regulator. Also provided are cells and membranes comprising a subject light-regulated polypeptide. The present invention further provides methods of modulating protein function, involving use of light. The present invention further provides methods of identifying agents that modulate protein function. |
| FILED | Friday, November 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/601591 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/17.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114847 | Berdis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony J. Berdis (Cleveland, Ohio); Irene Lee (Cleveland, Ohio); Xuemei Zhang (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | An agent for inhibiting translesion DNA replication comprises a non-natural adenine ribose analog represented by those as set forth in FIG. 1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/908306 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/43 |
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| US 08114848 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Oligonucleotides containing unthylated CpG dinucleotides and therapeutic utilities based on their ability to stimulate an immune response in a subject are disclosed. Also disclosed are therapies for treating diseases associated with immune system activation that are initiated by unthylated CpG dinucleotides in a subject comprising administering to the subject oligonucleotides that do not contain unmethylated CpG sequences (i.e. methylated CpG sequences or no CpG sequence) to outcompete unmethylated CpG nucleic acids for binding. Further disclosed are methylated CpG containing dinucleotides for use antisense therapies or as in vivo hybridization probes, and immunoinhibitory oligonucleotides for use as antiviral therapeutics. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/127797 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114914 | Fahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William E. Fahl (Madison, Wisconsin); Arnold E. Ruoho (Madison, Wisconsin); Minesh Mehta (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Vasoconstrictors are administered topically to provide protection against the adverse effects, e.g., alopecia, mucositis or dermatitis, induced by chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Appropriate dosages and formulations of topical vasoconstrictors are provided. Methods for the use of such compositions are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471047 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/728 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114951 | James et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ken James (Somerville, Massachusetts); Stephen Brochini (London, United Kingdom); Varawut Tangpasuthadol (Bangkok, Thailand); Joachim Kohn (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to polyarylates comprising repeating units having the structure: as well as their preparation and use as cell growth substrates. |
| FILED | Friday, July 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/533953 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/182 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114961 | Meruelo et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Meruelo (Scarborough, New York); Kelly Victoria Jamieson (New York, New York); Stevan Ralph Hubbard (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A human laminin receptor crystal is disclosed. Methods are disclosed for using various computer and non-computer means in order to develop models for use in the development of novel therapeutics that block and/or mimic laminin receptor interactions in the setting of, among others, Alzheimer's disease, other neurological disorders, cancer, and viral and bacterial infections. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/181653 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114975 | Samelson 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) | Lawrence E. Samelson (Chevy Chase, Maryland); Weiguo Zhang (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to compositions and methods for identifying and testing tyrosine kinase signaling pathway agonists and antagonists, and more particularly, methods and compositions for screening compounds and identifying compounds that will modulate the interaction of protein tyrosine kinase substrates with their intracellular ligands, as well as between their intracellular ligands and other members of the signaling pathway. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/218020 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 08114976 | Buck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory Buck (Richmond, Virginia); Luis Shozo Ozaki (Richmond, Virginia); Yingping Wang (Richmond, Virginia); Ping Xu (Richmond, Virginia); Myma Garcia Serrano (Richmond, Virginia); Patrico A. Manque (Richmond, Virginia); Joao Marcelo Pereira Alves (Richmond, Virginia); Daniela Puiu (Montgomery Village, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Cryptosporidium hominis genes and gene products are provided. The genes and gene products are useful for chemotherapeutic, immunotherapeutic, immunoprophylactic and diagnostic applications. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/575245 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.700 |
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| US 08114982 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Zhu (Ardsley, New York); Daqian Sun (Bronx, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are DNAs comprising a polynucleotide that encodes at least a first modified miR-30 precursor and a second modified miR-30 precursor. Also provided are vectors comprising the the DNAs, where the vector can replicate in a host cell. Additionally, specific lentiviral vectors comprising the above-described DNA are provided, as are methods of inhibiting expression of a target gene in a eukaryotic cell. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/312616 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114985 | Tuschl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockefeller University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas H. Tuschl (New York, New York); Markus Landthaler (New York, New York); Gunter Meister (New York, New York); Sebastien Pfeffer (Strasbourg, France) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to isolated anti-microRNA molecules. In another embodiment, the invention relates to an isolated microRNA molecule. In yet another embodiment, the invention provides a method for inhibiting microRNP activity in a cell. |
| FILED | Friday, March 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/045685 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115023 | Petasis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicos A. Petasis (Hacienda Heights, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Benzolipoxin analogs, methods of their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds are provided. The compounds and compositions are useful in methods for treatment of various diseases, including, inflammation, autoimmune disease and abnormal cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/711051 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 554/218 |
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| US 08115934 | Boppart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen A. Boppart (Champaign, Illinois); Chuanwu Xi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming an image of tissue. The method includes non-invasively inserting a fiber-based device into a patient's ear canal and acquiring OCT data from ear tissue while the fiber-based device is in the ear canal. The method also includes converting the OCT data into at least one image. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/040539 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/479 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116550 | Zahniser |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cytyc Corporation (Marlborough, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R. Zahniser (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for locating and focusing on a fiducial mark on a specimen slide. A plurality of pixels are identified as candidate pixels. A pixel is identified as a candidate pixel based on a number of empty pixels in an area defined by boundary lines extending from the pixel, and one or more dimensions, such as the perimeter, of the defined area. The candidate pixel enclosing the largest area is selected from the group or set of candidate pixels, and the coordinates of that pixel are considered to be the coordinates of the corner of the fiducial mark. The methods can be performed using different gray values that define dark or fiducial pixels and light or empty pixels. Differences between the results at different gray values can be used as focus scores for automatic focusing on the fiducial mark. |
| FILED | Friday, December 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/957236 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
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| US 08116838 | Gaspard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanna Gaspard (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Mel Siegel (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Todd M. Przybycien (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); James F. Antaki (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); David M. Brienza (Allison Park, Pennsylvania); Mark B. Friedman (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Medical device or instrument for diagnosing pressure ulcers using optical reflectance spectroscopy. The device may comprise a tip and a controller. The tip is pressed against the skin of the patient and collects the optical reflectance data. The controller processes the data to determine whether there exists a pressure ulcer and, if there is one, its depth. The tip may also include a pressure sensor for sensing the pressure at which the tip is applied to the patient's skin. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/324445 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/322 |
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| US 08116885 | Zheng et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Xiangsheng Zheng (Birmingham, Alabama); Michael E. Benser (Birmingham, Alabama); Raymond E. Ideker (Birmingham, Alabama); Gregory P. Walcott (Wilsonville, Alabama); Steven D. Girouard (Woodbury, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An implantable system for the defibrillation of the atria of a patient's heart comprises (a) a first catheter configured for insertion into the right atrium of the heart; a first atrial defibrillation electrode carried by the first catheter and positioned to stimulate Bachmann's bundle, or positioned at the atrial septum of the heart (i.e., an atrial septum electrode); (b) a second atrial defibrillation electrode which together with the first atrial defibrillation electrode provides a pair of atrial defibrillation electrodes that are configured for orientation in or about the patient's heart to effect atrial defibrillation, and (c) a pulse generator operatively associated with the pair of atrial defibrillation electrodes for delivering a first atrial defibrillation pulse to the heart of the patient. The second electrode may be configured for positioning through the coronary sinus ostium and in the coronary sinus or a vein on the surface of the left ventricle, such as the great vein. An additional electrode configured for positioning in the superior vena cava, right atrium (including the right atrial appendage, or the right ventricle may also be included, and the pulse generator may be configured or programmed for concurrently delivering a first defibrillation pulse through the additional electrode and the atrial septum electrode, and a second defibrillation pulse through the atrial septum electrode and the second electrode. Electrode assemblies and methods useful for carrying out the invention are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/896648 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/123 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amanda C. Phelps (Malibu, California); Kevin K. Kirby (Calabasas Hills, California); Daniel J. Gregoire (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A resistively heated diesel particulate filter (DPF). The resistively heated DPF includes a DPF having an inlet surface and at least one resistive coating on the inlet surface. The at least one resistive coating is configured to substantially maintain its resistance in an operating range of the DPF. The at least one resistive coating has a first terminal and a second terminal for applying electrical power to resistively heat up the at least one resistive coating in order to increase the temperature of the DPF to a regeneration temperature. The at least one resistive coating includes metal and semiconductor constituents. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178520 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112990 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Garima Bhatia (Bangalore, India) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a particulate matter (PM) filter, a sensor, a heating element, and a control module. The PM filter includes with an upstream end that receives exhaust gas, a downstream end and multiple zones. The sensor detects a temperature of the exhaust gas. The control module controls current to the heating element to convection heat one of the zones and initiate a regeneration process. The control module selectively increases current to the heating element relative to a reference regeneration current level when the temperature is less than a predetermined temperature. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174069 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08112999 | Zuo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | An injection nozzle for a turbomachine includes a main body having a first end portion that extends to a second end portion defining an exterior wall having an outer surface. A plurality of fluid delivery tubes extend through the main body. Each of the plurality of fluid delivery tubes includes a first fluid inlet for receiving a first fluid, a second fluid inlet for receiving a second fluid and an outlet. The injection nozzle further includes a coolant delivery system arranged within the main body. The coolant delivery system guides a coolant along at least one of a portion of the exterior wall and around the plurality of fluid delivery tubes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/186271 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/730 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113000 | Laster et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Walter R. Laster (Oviedo, Florida); Domenico Gambacorta (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A pre-mixer assembly associated with a fuel supply system for mixing of air and fuel upstream from a main combustion zone in a gas turbine engine. The pre-mixer assembly includes a swirler assembly disposed about a fuel injector of the fuel supply system and a pre-mixer transition member. The swirler assembly includes a forward end defining an air inlet and an opposed aft end. The pre-mixer transition member has a forward end affixed to the aft end of the swirler assembly and an opposed aft end defining an outlet of the pre-mixer assembly. The aft end of the pre-mixer transition member is spaced from a base plate such that a gap is formed between the aft end of the pre-mixer transition member and the base plate for permitting a flow of purge air therethrough to increase a velocity of the air/fuel mixture exiting the pre-mixer assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210354 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113002 | Lacy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenetady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Balachandar Varatharajan (Loveland, Ohio); Gilbert Otto Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Ertan Yilmaz (Albany, New York); Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present application provides a burner for use with a combustor of a gas turbine engine. The burner may include a center hub, a shroud, a pair of fuel vanes extending from the center hub to the shroud, and a vanelet extending from the center hub and/or the shroud and positioned between the pair of fuel vanes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/253268 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113173 | Willi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin L. Willi (Dunlap, Illinois); Scott B. Fiveland (Metamora, Illinois); David T. Montgomery (Edelstein, Illinois); Weidong Gong (Dunlap, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system for an engine having a cylinder is disclosed having an engine valve movable to regulate a fluid flow of the cylinder and an actuator associated with the engine valve. The control system also has a controller in communication with the actuator. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of engine speed and compare the engine speed signal with a desired engine speed. The controller is also configured to selectively regulate the actuator to adjust a timing of the engine valve to control an amount of air/fuel mixture delivered to the cylinder based on the comparison. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/292822 |
| ART UNIT | 3747 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Internal-combustion engines 123/436 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold J. Vinegar (Bellaire, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A heating system for a subsurface formation is described. The heating system includes three substantially u-shaped heaters with first end portions of the heaters being electrically coupled to a single, three-phase wye transformer and second end portions of the heaters being electrically coupled to each other and/or to ground. The three heaters may enter the formation through a first common wellbore and exit the formation through a second common wellbore so that the magnetic fields of the three heaters at least partially cancel out in the common wellbores. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250352 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08113929 | Birrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart J. Birrell (Ames, Iowa); Benjamin J. Schlesser (Davenport, Iowa); Mark D. Dilts (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A crop residue harvesting system for a harvesting machine is provided. The crop residue harvesting system includes a blower and a transition member having a first position and a second position. In a first position the transition member directs at least a portion of the crop residue to the blower for harvesting of the crop residue. In a second position the transition member allows for spreading at least a portion of the crop residue. A lever or actuator may be operatively connected to the transition member for selecting between the first position and the second position or selecting an intermediate position to control the proportions of the crop residue harvested and the crop residue spread. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/062846 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Crop threshing or separating 460/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114193 | Stein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | VanEric Edward Stein (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Michael Francis Carolan (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Christopher M. Chen (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Phillip Andrew Armstrong (Orefield, Pennsylvania); Harold W. Wahle (North Canton, Ohio); Theodore R. Ohrn (Alliance, Ohio); Kurt E. Kneidel (Alliance, Ohio); Keith Gerard Rackers (Louisville, Ohio); James Erik Blake (Uniontown, Ohio); Shankar Nataraj (Allentown, Pennsylvania); Rene Hendrik Elias Van Doorn (Obersulm-Willsbach, Germany); Merrill Anderson Wilson (West Jordan, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion transport membrane system comprising (a) a pressure vessel having an interior, an exterior, an inlet, and an outlet; (b) a plurality of planar ion transport membrane modules disposed in the interior of the pressure vessel and arranged in series, each membrane module comprising mixed metal oxide ceramic material and having an interior region and an exterior region, wherein any inlet and any outlet of the pressure vessel are in flow communication with exterior regions of the membrane modules; and (c) one or more gas manifolds in flow communication with interior regions of the membrane modules and with the exterior of the pressure vessel. The ion transport membrane system may be utilized in a gas separation device to recover oxygen from an oxygen-containing gas or as an oxidation reactor to oxidize compounds in a feed gas stream by oxygen permeated through the mixed metal oxide ceramic material of the membrane modules. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016667 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114214 | Constantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Calera Corporation (Los Gatos, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent R. Constantz (Portola Valley, California); Kasra Farsad (San Jose, California); Chris Camire (San Jose, California); Joshua Patterson (Freedom, California); Miguel Fernandez (San Jose, California); Karin Yaccato (San Jose, California); Ryan Thatcher (Sunnyvale, California); John Stagnaro (Santa Clara, California); Irvin Chen (Santa Clara, California); Sidney Omelon (Willowdale, Canada); Keith Hodson (Palo Alto, California); Laurence Clodic (Sunnyvale, California); Katharine Geramita (Seattle, California); Terence C. Holland (Auburn Township, Ohio); Justin Ries (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods including hydraulic cement, supplementary cementitious material, and/or self-cementing material. Methods for making the compositions and using the compositions are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, August 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857267 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Coating or plastic 16/738 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114264 | Srivastava et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brookhaven Science Associates (Upton, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Suresh C. Srivastava (Setauket, New York); Gilbert R. Gonzales (New York, New York); Radoslav Adzic (East Setauket, New York); George E. Meinken (Middle Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for preparing an implant coated with a conversion electron emitting source (CEES) are disclosed. The typical method includes cleaning the surface of the implant; placing the implant in an activating solution comprising hydrochloric acid to activate the surface; reducing the surface by H2 evolution in H2SO4 solution; and placing the implant in an electroplating solution that includes ions of the CEES, HCl, H2SO4, and resorcinol, gelatin, or a combination thereof. Alternatively, before tin plating, a seed layer is formed on the surface. The electroplated CEES coating can be further protected and stabilized by annealing in a heated oven, by passivation, or by being covered with a protective film. The invention also relates to a holding device for holding an implant, wherein the device selectively prevents electrodeposition on the portions of the implant contacting the device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/758914 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08114373 — Method of producing nano-scaled graphene and inorganic platelets and their nanocomposites
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of exfoliating a layered material (e.g., graphite and graphite oxide) to produce nano-scaled platelets having a thickness smaller than 100 nm, typically smaller than 10 nm, and often between 0.34 nm and 1.02 nm. The method comprises: (a) subjecting the layered material in a powder form to a halogen vapor at a first temperature above the melting point or sublimation point of the halogen at a sufficient vapor pressure and for a duration of time sufficient to cause the halogen molecules to penetrate an interlayer space of the layered material, forming a stable halogen-intercalated compound; and (b) heating the halogen-intercalated compound at a second temperature above the boiling point of the halogen, allowing halogen atoms or molecules residing in the interlayer space to exfoliate the layered material to produce the platelets. Alternatively, rather than heating, step (a) is followed by a step of dispersing the halogen-intercalated compound in a liquid medium which is subjected to ultrasonication for exfoliating the halogen-intercalated compound to produce the platelets, which are dispersed in the liquid medium. The halogen can be readily captured and re-used, thereby significantly reducing the impact of halogen to the environment. The method can further include a step of dispersing the platelets in a polymer or monomer solution or suspension as a precursor step to nanocomposite fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/983947 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/415.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114374 | Blencoe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | U.T. Battelle, LLC. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee); Virginia Museum of Natrual History Foundation (Martinsville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Blencoe (Harriman, Tennessee); Donald A. Palmer (Oliver Springs, Tennessee); Lawrence M. Anovitz (Knoxville, Tennessee); James S. Beard (Martinsville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | In a preferred embodiment, the invention relates to a process of sequestering carbon dioxide. The process comprises the steps of: (a) reacting a metal silicate with a caustic alkali-metal hydroxide to produce a hydroxide of the metal formerly contained in the silicate; (b) reacting carbon dioxide with at least one of a caustic alkali-metal hydroxide and an alkali-metal silicate to produce at least one of an alkali-metal carbonate and an alkali-metal bicarbonate; and (c) reacting the metal hydroxide product of step (a) with at least one of the alkali-metal carbonate and the alkali-metal bicarbonate produced in step (b) to produce a carbonate of the metal formerly contained in the metal silicate of step (a). |
| FILED | Thursday, January 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016098 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/432 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114510 | Dai 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) | Sheng Dai (Knoxville, Tennessee); Xiqing Wang (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method for fabricating a mesoporous carbon material, the method comprising subjecting a precursor composition to a curing step followed by a carbonization step, the precursor composition comprising: (i) a templating component comprised of a block copolymer, (ii) a phenolic compound or material, (iii) a crosslinkable aldehyde component, and (iv) at least 0.5 M concentration of a strong acid having a pKa of or less than −2, wherein said carbonization step comprises heating the precursor composition at a carbonizing temperature for sufficient time to convert the precursor composition to a mesoporous carbon material. The invention is also directed to a mesoporous carbon material having an improved thermal stability, preferably produced according to the above method. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/468946 |
| ART UNIT | 1788 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/315.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114547 | Brighton, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Dearborn, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fred G. Brighton, II (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hans Buus Gangwar (Livonia, Michigan); Victor D. Dobrin (Ypsilanti, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell system has a compressor delivering compressed gas to a fuel cell stack and a control valve affecting the flow of compressed gas. A load dump condition is determined for the fuel cell stack. The flow through the compressor is increased and the additional flow diverted away from the fuel cell stack by the control valve to provide additional load for the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell stack may then be operated at a higher output power for the purpose of generating more waste heat to more rapidly warm itself. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/248543 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/444 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114602 | Groves et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John T. Groves (Berkeley, California); Michael M. Baksh (Fremont, California); Michal Jaros (Brno, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and assay are described for measuring the interaction between a ligand and an analyte. The assay can include a suspension of colloidal particles that are associated with a ligand of interest. The colloidal particles are maintained in the suspension at or near a phase transition state from a condensed phase to a dispersed phase. An analyte to be tested is then added to the suspension. If the analyte binds to the ligand, a phase change occurs to indicate that the binding was successful. |
| FILED | Monday, December 06, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/581371 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114628 | Chin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); T. Ashton Cropp (Bethesda, Maryland); J. Christopher Anderson (San Francisco, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides compositions and methods for producing translational components that expand the number of genetically encoded amino acids in eukaryotic cells. The components include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases and unnatural amino acids. Proteins and methods of producing proteins with unnatural amino acids in eukaryotic cells are also provided. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978121 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114629 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate keto amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with keto amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978140 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114648 | Schultz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Lei Wang (San Diego, California); John Christopher Anderson (San Diego, California); Jason W. Chin (Cambridge, United Kingdom); David R. Liu (Lexington, Massachusetts); Thomas J. Magliery (North Haven, Connecticut); Eric L. Meggers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Ryan Aaron Mehl (Lancaster, Pennsylvania); Miro Pastrnak (San Diego, California); Stephen William Santoro (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods and compositions for in vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids. Also provided are compositions including proteins with unnatural amino acids. |
| FILED | Friday, October 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/978188 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114654 | Alfonta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (LaJolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lital Alfonta (San Diego, California); Peter G. Schultz (La Jolla, California); Zhiwen Zhang (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods of producing components of protein biosynthetic machinery that include orthogonal tRNAs, orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and orthogonal pairs of tRNAs/synthetases, which incorporate redox active amino acids into proteins are provided. Methods for identifying these orthogonal pairs are also provided along with methods of producing proteins with redox active amino acids using these orthogonal pairs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/806751 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/193 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114655 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Frits Goedegebuur (Vlaardingen, Netherlands); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California); Jian Yao (Sunnyvale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a novel endoglucanase nucleic acid sequence, designated egl7, and the corresponding EGVII amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host cells comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGVII, recombinant EGVII proteins and methods for producing the same. |
| FILED | Monday, October 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/250316 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114677 | Morrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC. (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jonathan S. Morrell (Farragut, Tennessee); Edward B. Ripley (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A chemical sensor for assessing a chemical of interest. In typical embodiments the chemical sensor includes a first thermocouple and second thermocouple. A reactive component is typically disposed proximal to the second thermal couple, and is selected to react with the chemical of interest and generate a temperature variation that may be detected by a comparison of a temperature sensed by the second thermocouple compared with a concurrent temperature detected by the first thermocouple. Further disclosed is a method for assessing a chemical of interest and a method for identifying a reaction temperature for a chemical of interest in a system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243247 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114808 | Smirniotis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Panagiotis G. Smirniotis (Cincinnati, Ohio); Hong Lu (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A sorbent for the capture of carbon dioxide from a gas stream is provided, the sorbent containing calcium oxide (CaO) and at least one refractory dopant having a Tammann temperature greater than about 530° C., wherein the refractory dopant enhances resistance to sintering, thereby conserving performance of the sorbent at temperatures of at least about 530° C. Also provided are doped CaO sorbents for the capture of carbon dioxide in the presence of SO2. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/635061 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115178 | Marrs et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC. (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roscoe E. Marrs (Livermore, California); Norman W. Madden (Sparks, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, a radiation detector comprises a scintillator and a photodiode optically coupled to the scintillator. The radiation detector also includes a bias voltage source electrically coupled to the photodiode, a first detector operatively electrically coupled to the photodiode for generating a signal indicative of a level of a charge at an output of the photodiode, and a second detector operatively electrically coupled to the bias voltage source for generating a signal indicative of an amount of current flowing through the photodiode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/431595 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115179 | Riedel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard A. Riedel (Knoxville, Tennessee); Alan L. Wintenberg (Knoxville, Tennessee); Lloyd G. Clonts (Knoxville, Tennessee); Ronald G. Cooper (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A preamplifier circuit for processing a signal provided by a radiation detector includes a transimpedance amplifier coupled to receive a current signal from a detector and generate a voltage signal at its output. A second amplification stage has an input coupled to an output of the transimpedance amplifier for providing an amplified voltage signal. Detector electronics include a preamplifier circuit having a first and second transimpedance amplifier coupled to receive a current signal from a first and second location on a detector, respectively, and generate a first and second voltage signal at respective outputs. A second amplification stage has an input coupled to an output of the transimpedance amplifiers for amplifying the first and said second voltage signals to provide first and second amplified voltage signals. A differential output stage is coupled to the second amplification stage for receiving the first and second amplified voltage signals and providing a pair of outputs from each of the first and second amplified voltage signals. Read out circuitry has an input coupled to receive both of the pair of outputs, the read out circuitry having structure for processing each of the pair of outputs, and providing a single digital output having a time-stamp therefrom. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/882584 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/392 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115430 | Gallegos-Lopez et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gabriel Gallegos-Lopez (Torrance, California); James M. Nagashima (Cerritos, California); Milun Perisic (Torrance, California); Silva Hiti (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system is provided for controlling two AC machines. The system comprises a DC input voltage source that provides a DC input voltage, a voltage boost command control module (VBCCM), a five-phase PWM inverter module coupled to the two AC machines, and a boost converter coupled to the inverter module and the DC input voltage source. The boost converter is designed to supply a new DC input voltage to the inverter module having a value that is greater than or equal to a value of the DC input voltage. The VBCCM generates a boost command signal (BCS) based on modulation indexes from the two AC machines. The BCS controls the boost converter such that the boost converter generates the new DC input voltage in response to the BCS. When the two AC machines require additional voltage that exceeds the DC input voltage required to meet a combined target mechanical power required by the two AC machines, the BCS controls the boost converter to drive the new DC input voltage generated by the boost converter to a value greater than the DC input voltage. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/473964 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/400.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brian A. Welchko (Torrance, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for pulse-width modulated control of power inverter using phase-shifted carrier signals. An electrical system comprises an energy source and a motor. The motor has a first set of windings and a second set of windings, which are electrically isolated from each other. An inverter module is coupled between the energy source and the motor and comprises a first set of phase legs coupled to the first set of windings and a second set of phase legs coupled to the second set of windings. A controller is coupled to the inverter module and is configured to achieve a desired power flow between the energy source and the motor by modulating the first set of phase legs using a first carrier signal and modulating the second set of phase legs using a second carrier signal. The second carrier signal is phase-shifted relative to the first carrier signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/236172 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/400.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115437 | Royak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Semyon Royak (Beachwood, Ohio); Mark M. Harbaugh (Richfield, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes a motor controller and technique for controlling a permanent magnet motor. In accordance with one aspect of the present technique, a permanent magnet motor is controlled by receiving a torque command, determining a physical torque limit based on a stator frequency, determining a theoretical torque limit based on a maximum available voltage and motor inductance ratio, and limiting the torque command to the smaller of the physical torque limit and the theoretical torque limit. Receiving the torque command may include normalizing the torque command to obtain a normalized torque command, determining the physical torque limit may include determining a normalized physical torque limit, determining a theoretical torque limit may include determining a normalized theoretical torque limit, and limiting the torque command may include limiting the normalized torque command to the smaller of the normalized physical torque limit and the normalized theoretical torque limit. |
| FILED | Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/036099 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Motive power systems 318/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116167 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul A. Johnson (Santa Fe, New Mexico); James A. Ten Cate (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Robert Guyer (Reno, Nevada); Pierre-Yves Le Bas (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Cung Vu (Houston, Texas); Kurt Nihei (Oakland, California); Denis P. Schmitt (Katy, Texas); Christopher Skelt (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact array of transducers is employed as a downhole instrument for acoustic investigation of the surrounding rock formation. The array is operable to generate simultaneously a first acoustic beam signal at a first frequency and a second acoustic beam signal at a second frequency different than the first frequency. These two signals can be oriented through an azimuthal rotation of the array and an inclination rotation using control of the relative phases of the signals from the transmitter elements or electromechanical linkage. Due to the non-linearity of the formation, the first and the second acoustic beam signal mix into the rock formation where they combine into a collimated third signal that propagates in the formation along the same direction than the first and second signals and has a frequency equal to the difference of the first and the second acoustic signals. The third signal is received either within the same borehole, after reflection, or another borehole, after transmission, and analyzed to determine information about rock formation. Recording of the third signal generated along several azimuthal and inclination directions also provides 3D images of the formation, information about 3D distribution of rock formation and fluid properties and an indication of the dynamic acoustic non-linearity of the formation. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/137980 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/32 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116992 | Ludlow 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) | J. Christopher Ludlow (Morgantown, West Virginia); James L. Spenik (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a method of determining bed velocity and solids circulation rate in a standpipe experiencing a moving packed bed flow, such as the in the standpipe section of a circulating bed fluidized reactor The method utilizes in-situ measurement of differential pressure over known axial lengths of the standpipe in conjunction with in-situ gas velocity measurement for a novel application of Ergun equations allowing determination of standpipe void fraction and moving packed bed velocity. The method takes advantage of the moving packed bed property of constant void fraction in order to integrate measured parameters into simultaneous solution of Ergun-based equations and conservation of mass equations across multiple sections of the standpipe. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/430192 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/47 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117040 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, LLC (Kansas City, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maurice Smith (Kansas City, Missouri); Michael Lusby (Kansas City, Missouri); Arthur Van Hook (Lotawana, Missouri); Charles J. Cook (Raytown, Missouri); Edward G. Wenski (Lenexa, Kansas); David Solyom (Overland Park, Kansas) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for identifying, reporting, and evaluating a presence of a solid, liquid, gas, or other substance of interest, particularly a dangerous, hazardous, or otherwise threatening chemical, biological, or radioactive substance. The system comprises one or more substantially automated, location self-aware remote sensing units; a control unit; and one or more data processing and storage servers. Data is collected by the remote sensing units and transmitted to the control unit; the control unit generates and uploads a report incorporating the data to the servers; and thereafter the report is available for review by a hierarchy of responsive and evaluative authorities via a wide area network. The evaluative authorities include a group of relevant experts who may be widely or even globally distributed. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/672212 |
| ART UNIT | 3689 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117502 | 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 logically divide a group of nodes and causes node pairs comprising a node from each section to communicate. Results from the communications may be analyzed to determine performance characteristics, such as bandwidth and proper connectivity. |
| FILED | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/196931 |
| ART UNIT | 2113 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/43 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117537 | Vell 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) | Jeffrey L. Vell (Slingerlands, New York); Darius M. Siganporia (Clifton Park, New York); Arthur J. Levy (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A CAD/CAM method is disclosed for a computer system to capture and interchange schematic drawing and associated design information. The schematic drawing and design information are stored in an extensible, platform-independent format. |
| FILED | Friday, February 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/670461 |
| ART UNIT | 2176 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/236 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Younan Xia (Seattle, Washington); Jingyi Chen (Seattle, Washington); Thurston Edwin Herricks (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synthesizing noble metal nanostructures is disclosed. The method involves reacting under heat a noble metal precursor, a polyol reducing agent, and a stabilizing polymer. Morphological control is achieved by controlling the reduction rate of the noble metal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 03, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/197745 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/370 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114431 | Garcia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andres J. Garcia (Atlanta, Georgia); Catherine D. Reyes (Miami, Florida); Timothy Petrie (Atlanta, Georgia); Zvi Schwartz (Atlanta, Georgia); Barbara D. Boyan (Atlanta, Georgia); Jenny E. Raynor (E. Sandwich, Massachusetts); David M. Collard (Atlanta, Georgia); Abigail M. Wojtowicz (Atlanta, Georgia); Robert E. Guldberg (Marietta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided for improving tissue growth and device integration in vivo. Substrates and devices coated with an α2β1 or α5β1 integrin-specific ligand are provided. The substrates and devices coated with an α2β1 or α5β1 integrin-specific ligand are shown to have greater tissue formation on the surface relative to controls, in particular greater bone formation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/857819 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114626 | Brenner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles Brenner (Lyme, New Hampshire); Peter Belenky (Enfield, New Hampshire); Katrina L. Bogan (Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention embraces a fungal strain deficient in nicotinamide riboside import and salvage and use thereof for producing nicotinamide riboside. Methods for producing nicotinamide riboside and a nicotinamide riboside-supplemented food product using the strain of the invention are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/411586 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114631 | Choresh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Omer Choresh (Tel Aviv, Israel); Randolph V. Lewis (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding spider glue proteins and methods of use thereof are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/561779 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114785 | Lewis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan S. Lewis (La Canada, California); William J. Royea (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Electrical structures and devices may be formed and include an organic passivating layer that is chemically bonded to a silicon-containing semiconductor material to improve the electrical properties of electrical devices. In different embodiments, the organic passivating layer may remain within finished devices to reduce dangling bonds, improve carrier lifetimes, decrease surface recombination velocities, increase electronic efficiencies, or the like. In other embodiments, the organic passivating layer may be used as a protective sacrificial layer and reduce contact resistance or reduce resistance of doped regions. The organic passivation layer may be formed without the need for high-temperature processing. |
| FILED | Monday, July 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/505663 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/780 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114834 | Hsu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lorraine Hsu (Chicago, Illinois); Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for self-assembling peptide amphiphiles that are capable of forming nanofibers. In particular, the present invention provides for diacetylene peptide amphiphiles that find use as scaffolds for tissue growth or for drug delivery. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936927 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114918 | Schlenoff |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph B. Schlenoff (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is described for producing an osmotically compacted polyelectrolyte complex having a first region and a second region, the first region having a greater modulus than the second region. The method comprises contacting an article comprising polyelectrolyte complex to a solution comprising a preferred osmolyte of concentration sufficient to compact said polyelectrolyte complex and terminating the compaction process before the entire article is osmotically compacted. A method is also described for producing a article comprising water and an intermolecular blend of at least one positively charged polyelectrolyte polymer and at least one negatively charged polymer, said article having a core region and a surface region, the surface region having at least twice the elastic modulus of the core region, the method comprising contacting a starting article comprising a blend of said polymers with a solution of osmolyte, wherein the osmolyte is excluded from said article. |
| FILED | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/542260 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114993 | Daugulis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Houston System (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Olafs Daugulis (Houston, Texas); Hendrich Chiong (Evansville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A one-step method for efficiently converting carbon-hydrogen bonds into carbon-carbon bonds using chloroarenes and palladium catalysts is disclosed. This method allows faster introduction of complex molecular entities, a process that would otherwise require many more steps. This invention is particularly relevant for the organic synthesis of complex molecules such as, but not limited to, pharmacophores. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/027029 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115029 | Givens et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard S. Givens (Lawrence, Kansas); Chi Cheng Ma (Lawrence, Kansas); Daryle H. Busch (Lawrence, Kansas); Bala Subramaniam (Lawrence, Kansas); Bhuma Rajagopalan (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Oxidations of hydrocarbons, cycloalkanes and alkenes, arylalkanes, and a variety of other organic substrates are accomplished by cobalt-N-hydroxysuccinimide co-catalyzed reactions with dioxygen under unusually mild, near ambient conditions of temperature and pressure. The improved safety of the oxidation method and the high yields of product obtained make use of a unique combination of cobalt (II) complexes with N-hydroxysuccinimide. These autoxidation reactions do not have prolonged initiation times. Many of these reactions can be safely performed under normal chemical laboratory conditions and do not require specialized equipment or reagents. |
| FILED | Friday, November 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/934612 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115766 | Svakhine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai Svakhine (San Jose, California); Yun Jang (West Lafayette, Indiana); David S. Ebert (West Lafayette, Indiana); Kelly P. Gaither (Austin, Texas); Thomas Ertl (Stohrerweg, Germany); Eduardo Tejada-Gamero (Schoenauer Strasse, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for rendering flows and volumes includes the steps of generating a preintegrated table, the preintegrated table having a plurality of entries, each of the plurality of entries having color information and opacity information, generating illustrative effects based on the plurality of entries of the preintegrated table and displaying the illustrative effects. |
| FILED | Friday, June 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/811325 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116067 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin C. Leonard (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoporous insulating oxide composite electrode and ultracapacitor device, method of manufacture and method of use thereof. The composite electrode being constructed from a conductive backing electrode and an composite layer. Preferably, the ultracapacitor device is configured in a stacked, coiled or button cell configurations and includes composite electrodes. The composite layer being substantially free of mixed oxidation states and nanoporous and having a median pore diameter of 0.5-500 nanometers and average surface area of 300-600 m2/g. The composite layer made from a stable sol-gel suspension containing particles of the insulating oxide, the median primary particle diameter being 1-50 nanometers. Preferably, the insulating oxide is Al2O3, MgAl2O4, SiO2 or TiO2. Preferably, the backing electrode is carbon paper sputter-coated with a film of Au. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932519 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank W. Wise (Ithaca, New York); Jeffrey A. Moses (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A pulse compressor for compressing many-cycle femtosecond-duration high-energy pulses to near-single-cycle durations uses a single quadratic nonlinear crystal. A pulsed laser beam is controlled and its passage is aligned through the quadratic nonlinear crystal such that the detrimental effects of group-velocity mismatch are avoided, while still allowing enough nonlinear phase accumulation for compression to near-single-cycle pulse durations. To do so, the perturbation to nonlinear Schrödinger-type soliton compression due to group-velocity mismatch is minimized which requires that the soliton order must not exceed an optimal value set by the amount of group-velocity mismatch. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/276570 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/21 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116564 | Kilambi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Prahlad Kilambi (Santa Barbara, California); Osama T. Masoud (Woodbury, Minnesota); Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, methods and systems for determining the number of members in a group as well as changes over a period of time. Using an image of the scene, an overlap area is calculated by projecting portions of the image onto spaced apart and parallel planes. A filter correlates the overlap area to the number of members. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/603928 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/174 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116566 | Kirby et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Joseph Kirby (Fort Collins, Colorado); James Ross Beveridge (Fort Collins, Colorado); Jen-Mei Chang (Fort Collins, Colorado); Bruce Anthony Draper (Fort Collins, Colorado); Holger Philipp Kley (Fort Collins, Colorado); Christopher Scott Peterson (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A pattern recognition system compares a set of unlabeled images (or other patterns) having a variation of state in a set-by-set comparison with individual data sets of multiple labeled images (or other patterns) also having a variation of state. The individual data sets are each mapped to a point on a parameter space (e.g., a Grassmannian manifold, a Stiefel manifold, a flag manifold, etc.), and the set of unlabeled images is mapped to a point in the same parameter space. If the point associated with the set of unlabeled images satisfies a distance criterion on the parameter space with regard to one of the points on the parameter space, the data set of unlabeled images is assigned to the class attributed to that point. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/846486 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/181 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117131 | Boozer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tanaga Anne Boozer (Tallahassee, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An online, and therefore distributed, technology transfer department accessible by multiple inventive entities is provided. The systems and methods of the invention provide a comprehensive interface to a remote application that collects information related to inventions, ranks the inventions, solicits approval for pursuing intellectual property protection, funding, financing, commercializing or otherwise exploiting the invention, solicits bids from a stable of service providers, manages the award of contracts to provide services, facilitates collaboration between users internal and external to the inventive entities and between different entities, implements security protocols, and reports government funded inventions to the appropriate regulatory agencies, and manages intellectual property portfolios. Each inventive entity may specify the level of control to be retained to utilize the distributed technology office application as a supplement for or as a substitute for full time technology transfer personnel. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/681517 |
| ART UNIT | 3629 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/310 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117190 | Koudas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AT and T Intellectual Property II, L.P. (Atlanta, Georgia); The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolaos Koudas (Springfield, New Jersey); Divesh Srivastava (Summit, New Jersey); Jignesh M. Patel (Sylvania, Ohio); Shurug Ali Al-Khalifa (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Hosagrahar V. Jagadish (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yuqing Wu (Windsor, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Structural join mechanisms provide efficient query pattern matching. In one embodiment, tree-merge mechanisms are provided. In another embodiment, stack-tree mechanisms are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268944 |
| ART UNIT | 2163 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/716 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117203 | Gazen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Fetch Technologies, Inc. (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bora C. Gazen (Huntington Beach, California); Steven N. Minton (El Segundo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an embodiment, data may be automatically extracted from semi-structured web sites. Unsupervised learning may be used to analyze web sites and discover their structure. One method utilizes a set of heterogeneous “experts,” each expert being capable of identifying certain types of generic structure. Each expert represents its discoveries as “hints.” Based on these hints, the system may cluster the pages and text segments and identify semi-structured data that can be extracted. To identify a good clustering, a probabilistic model of the hint-generation process may be used. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/014532 |
| ART UNIT | 2165 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117436 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Queen's University at Kingston (ON, Canada); Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Zhang (Princeton, New Jersey); Niraj K. Jha (Westfield, New Jersey); Li Shang (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid nanotube, high-performance, dynamically reconfigurable architecture, NATURE, is provided, and a design optimization flow method and system, NanoMap. A run-time reconfigurable architecture is provided by associating a non-volatile universal memory to each logic element to enable cycle-by-cycle reconfiguration and logic folding, while remaining CMOS compatible. Through logic folding, significant logic density improvement and flexibility in performing area-delay tradeoffs are possible. NanoMap incorporates temporal logic folding during the logic mapping, temporal clustering and placement steps. NanoMap provides for automatic selection of a best folding level, and uses force-direct scheduling to balance resources across folding stages. Mapping can thereby target various optimization objectives and user constraints. A high-density, high-speed carbon nanotube RAM can be implemented as the universal memory, allowing on-chip multi-context configuration storage, enabling fine-grain temporal logic folding, and providing a significant increase in relative logic density. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/297638 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08113929 | Birrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart J. Birrell (Ames, Iowa); Benjamin J. Schlesser (Davenport, Iowa); Mark D. Dilts (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | A crop residue harvesting system for a harvesting machine is provided. The crop residue harvesting system includes a blower and a transition member having a first position and a second position. In a first position the transition member directs at least a portion of the crop residue to the blower for harvesting of the crop residue. In a second position the transition member allows for spreading at least a portion of the crop residue. A lever or actuator may be operatively connected to the transition member for selecting between the first position and the second position or selecting an intermediate position to control the proportions of the crop residue harvested and the crop residue spread. |
| FILED | Friday, April 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/062846 |
| ART UNIT | 3671 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Crop threshing or separating 460/111 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114279 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Jin (Newark, Delaware); Pei Chiu (Hockessin, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for removing microorganisms and/or precursors of disinfection by-products from a medium sought to be treated comprising treating the medium with one or more elements capable of forming an oxide, a hydroxide, and/or an oxyhydroxide through corrosion is disclosed. A system for effecting the removal or inactivation of microorganisms and/or disinfection by-product precursors is also contemplated. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/375206 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/192 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114622 | Applegate et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Michael Applegate (West Lafayette, Indiana); Lynda Louise Perry (Bothell, Washington); Mark Thomas Morgan (West Lafayette, Indiana); Aparna Kothapalli (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel reporter bacteriophages are provided. Provided are compositions and methods that allow bacteriophages that are used for specific detection or killing of E. coli 0157:H7 to be propagated in nonpathogenic E. coli, thereby eliminating the safety and security risks of propagation in E. coli 0157:H7. Provided are compositions and methods for attaching active bacteriophages to the surface of a polymer in order to kill target bacteria with which the phage comes into contact. Provided are modified bacteriophages immobilized to a surface, which capture E. coli 0157:H7 and cause the captured cells to emit light or fluorescence, allowing detection of the bacteria in a sample. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549500 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114852 | Borca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel Borca (Westbrook, Connecticut); Guillermo Risatti (Westbrook, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | E1, along with Erns and E2 is one of the three envelope glycoproteins of Classical Swine Fever Virus (CSFV). Our previous studies indicated that glycosylation status of either E2 or Erns strongly influence viral virulence in swine. Here, we have investigated the role of E1 glycosylation of highly virulent CSFV strain Brescia during infection in the natural host. The three putative glycosylation sites in E1 were modified by site directed mutagenesis of a CSFV Brescia infectious clone (BICv). A panel of virus mutants was obtained and used to investigate whether the removal of putative glycosylation sites in the E1 glycoprotein would affect viral virulence/pathogenesis in swine. We observed that rescue of viable virus was completely impaired by removal of all three putative glycosylation sites in E1. Single mutations of each of the E1 glycosylation sites showed that CSFV amino acid N594 (E1.N3 virus), as well the combined mutation of N500 and N513 (E1.N1N2 virus) resulted in BICv attenuation. Infection of either E1.N1N2 or E1.N3 viruses were able to efficiently protected swine from challenge with virulent BICv at 3 and 28 days post-infection. These results, along with those demonstrating the role of glycosylation of Erns and E2, suggest that manipulation of the pattern of glycosylation could be a useful tool for development of CSF live-attenuated vaccines. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008958 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08115060 | Howard et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Biotechnology Institute, Inc. (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Howard (Cayucos, California); Erin Engelkrout (San Luis Obispo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of controlling germination of seed is provided in which a nucleic acid encoding a protein which causes inhibition of germination is transformed into a plant, operably linked with a promoter that expresses during germination. The protein is one in which a restoring substance can be applied to the seed and restores germination. Also provided is an amylase germination preferred promoter. |
| FILED | Sunday, February 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/390485 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08114622 | Applegate et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Michael Applegate (West Lafayette, Indiana); Lynda Louise Perry (Bothell, Washington); Mark Thomas Morgan (West Lafayette, Indiana); Aparna Kothapalli (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel reporter bacteriophages are provided. Provided are compositions and methods that allow bacteriophages that are used for specific detection or killing of E. coli 0157:H7 to be propagated in nonpathogenic E. coli, thereby eliminating the safety and security risks of propagation in E. coli 0157:H7. Provided are compositions and methods for attaching active bacteriophages to the surface of a polymer in order to kill target bacteria with which the phage comes into contact. Provided are modified bacteriophages immobilized to a surface, which capture E. coli 0157:H7 and cause the captured cells to emit light or fluorescence, allowing detection of the bacteria in a sample. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549500 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/8 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08116350 | Arndt 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) | G. Dickey Arndt (Friendswood, Texas); Phong H. Ngo (Friendswood, Texas); Chau T. Phan (Sugar Land, Texas); Julia A. Gross (Houston, Texas); Jianjun Ni (Pearland, Texas); John Dusl (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A passive tracking system is provided with a plurality of ultrawideband (UWB) receivers that is asynchronous with respect to a UWB transmitter. A geometry of the tracking system may utilize a plurality of clusters with each cluster comprising a plurality of antennas. Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) may be determined for the antennas in each cluster and utilized to determine Angle of Arrival (AOA) based on a far field assumption regarding the geometry. Parallel software communication sockets may be established with each of the plurality of UWB receivers. Transfer of waveform data may be processed by alternately receiving packets of waveform data from each UWB receiver. Cross Correlation Peak Detection (CCPD) is utilized to estimate TDOA information to reduce errors in a noisy, multipath environment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/353755 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117013 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Adminstrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John W. Wilson (Newport News, Virginia); Ram K. Tripathi (Hampton, Virginia); Francis F. Badavi (Suffolk, Virginia); Francis A. Cucinotta (League City, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus, method and program storage device for determining high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest. Boundaries are defined for calculation of a high-energy neutron/ion transport to a target of interest; the high-energy neutron/ion transport to the target of interest is calculated using numerical procedures selected to reduce local truncation error by including higher order terms and to allow absolute control of propagated error by ensuring truncation error is third order in step size, and using scaling procedures for flux coupling terms modified to improve computed results by adding a scaling factor to terms describing production of j-particles from collisions of k-particles; and the calculated high-energy neutron/ion transport is provided to modeling modules to control an effective radiation dose at the target of interest. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002857 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117523 | Divsalar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dariush Divsalar (Pacific Palisades, California); Samuel J Dolinar, Jr. (Sunland, California); Christopher R. Jones (Pacific Palisades, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Digital communication coding methods are shown, which generate certain types of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes built from protographs. A first method creates protographs having the linear minimum distance property and comprising at least one variable node with degree less than 3. A second method creates families of protographs of different rates, all having the linear minimum distance property, and structurally identical for all rates except for a rate-dependent designation of certain variable nodes as transmitted or non-transmitted. A third method creates families of protographs of different rates, all having the linear minimum distance property, and structurally identical for all rates except for a rate-dependent designation of the status of certain variable nodes as non-transmitted or set to zero. LDPC codes built from the protographs created by these methods can simultaneously have low error floors and low iterative decoding thresholds, and families of such codes of different rates can be decoded efficiently using a common decoding architecture. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/125862 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/801 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
08114373 — Method of producing nano-scaled graphene and inorganic platelets and their nanocomposites
| US 08114373 | Jang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method of exfoliating a layered material (e.g., graphite and graphite oxide) to produce nano-scaled platelets having a thickness smaller than 100 nm, typically smaller than 10 nm, and often between 0.34 nm and 1.02 nm. The method comprises: (a) subjecting the layered material in a powder form to a halogen vapor at a first temperature above the melting point or sublimation point of the halogen at a sufficient vapor pressure and for a duration of time sufficient to cause the halogen molecules to penetrate an interlayer space of the layered material, forming a stable halogen-intercalated compound; and (b) heating the halogen-intercalated compound at a second temperature above the boiling point of the halogen, allowing halogen atoms or molecules residing in the interlayer space to exfoliate the layered material to produce the platelets. Alternatively, rather than heating, step (a) is followed by a step of dispersing the halogen-intercalated compound in a liquid medium which is subjected to ultrasonication for exfoliating the halogen-intercalated compound to produce the platelets, which are dispersed in the liquid medium. The halogen can be readily captured and re-used, thereby significantly reducing the impact of halogen to the environment. The method can further include a step of dispersing the platelets in a polymer or monomer solution or suspension as a precursor step to nanocomposite fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/983947 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/415.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114585 | Huang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Monogram Biosciences, Inc. (South San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Huang (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for determining whether a human immunodeficiency virus is likely to be have enhanced ability to enter a cell expressing CD4 and CXCR4 relative to a reference HIV. In certain aspects, the methods comprise detecting one or more amino acid in an envelope protein of the HIV associated with enhanced ability to enter CD4- and CXCR4-expressing cells and determining that the HIVs ability to enter such cells is enhanced relative to a reference HIV, e.g., an HIV that does not comprise such amino acid(s). |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/304418 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114810 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075022 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08116067 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Anderson (Madison, Wisconsin); Kevin C. Leonard (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A nanoporous insulating oxide composite electrode and ultracapacitor device, method of manufacture and method of use thereof. The composite electrode being constructed from a conductive backing electrode and an composite layer. Preferably, the ultracapacitor device is configured in a stacked, coiled or button cell configurations and includes composite electrodes. The composite layer being substantially free of mixed oxidation states and nanoporous and having a median pore diameter of 0.5-500 nanometers and average surface area of 300-600 m2/g. The composite layer made from a stable sol-gel suspension containing particles of the insulating oxide, the median primary particle diameter being 1-50 nanometers. Preferably, the insulating oxide is Al2O3, MgAl2O4, SiO2 or TiO2. Preferably, the backing electrode is carbon paper sputter-coated with a film of Au. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932519 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117206 | Sibley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Streamsage, Inc. (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tim V. Sibley (Washington, District of Columbia); Michael Scott Morton (Washington, District of Columbia); Noam Carl Unger (Somerville, Massachusetts); Robert Rubinoff (Potomac, Maryland); Anthony Ruiz Davis (Takoma Park, Maryland); Kyle Aveni-Deforge (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving information from timed media files based upon relevance intervals. The method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving this information is based upon relevance intervals so that a portion of a timed media file is returned, which is selected specifically to be relevant to the given information representations, thereby eliminating the need for a manual determination of the relevance and avoiding missing relevant portions. The timed media includes streaming audio, streaming video, timed HTML, animations such as vector-based graphics, slide shows, other timed media, and combinations thereof. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/349934 |
| ART UNIT | 2155 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/746 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08115302 | Andry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul S. Andry (Yorktown Heights, New York); Evan G. Colgan (Chestnut Ridge, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Apparatus and methods are provided for integrating microchannel cooling modules within high-density electronic modules (e.g., chip packages, system-on-a-package modules, etc.,) comprising multiple high-performance IC chips. Electronic modules are designed such that high-performance (high power) IC chips are disposed in close proximity to the integrated cooling module (or cooling plate) for effective heat extraction. Moreover, electronic modules which comprise large surface area silicon carriers with multiple chips face mounted thereon are designed such that integrated silicon cooling modules are rigidly bonded to the back surfaces of such chips to increase the structural integrity of the silicon carriers. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/134873 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/713 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117331 | Gedik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bugra Gedik (Atlanta, Georgia); Kun-Lung Wu (Yorktown Heights, New York); Philip S. Yu (Chappaqua, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus adaptive load shedding includes receiving at least one data stream (comprising a plurality of tuples, or data items) into a first sliding window of memory. A subset of tuples from the received data stream is then selected for processing in accordance with at least one data stream operation, such as a data stream join operation. Tuples that are not selected for processing are ignored. The number of tuples selected and the specific tuples selected depend at least in part on a variety of dynamic parameters, including the rate at which the data stream (and any other processed data streams) is received, time delays associated with the received data stream, a direction of a join operation performed on the data stream and the values of the individual tuples with respect to an expected output. |
| FILED | Monday, June 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/165524 |
| ART UNIT | 2444 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/231 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08115182 | Patel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930529 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/482.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08115182 | Patel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930529 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/482.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of State (DOS)
| US 08115182 | Patel |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Gordhanbhai N Patel (Middlesex, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Described is a self-indicating instant radiation dosimeter (1001) for monitoring high energy radiations, such as X-ray. The dosimeter contains a radiation sensitive, color changing, indicating composition (10), e.g., a diacetylene (R—C≡C—C≡C—R′, where R and R′ are substituents groups) or a radiochromic dye, a polymeric binder (20) and optionally a shelf life extender (50) or an activator (40). The radiation sensitive composition (10) changes color instantly when exposed to high energy radiation. The dose is estimated by comparing the color with a color reference chart or more accurately with a spectrophotometer or an optical densitometer. The radiation sensitive composition (10) is protected from low energy radiation such as UV light, by a layer of low energy absorbing materials, such as UV absorbers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/930529 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/482.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08113242 | Bennett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Odyssian Technology, LLC (South Bend, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Barton E. Bennett (Mishawaka, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A repair assembly is provided for repairing a pipe that in one embodiment includes a layer of thermoplastic material substantially surrounding the pipe in an area needing repair; a heating element located to provide heat to the layer of thermoplastic material; and an overpress at least partially surrounding the pipe and the layer of thermoplastic material. The layer of thermoplastic material may be configured as a sleeve surrounding the pipe, and the sleeve may be configured in two semicylindrical halves with longitudinal seams where the semicylindrical halves meet. The seams extend generally parallel to a longitudinal axis of the pipe, and the sleeve may further include outwardly extending flanges along the edges of the semicylindrical halves at the seams. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/657316 |
| ART UNIT | 3754 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Pipes and tubular conduits 138/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08114255 | Vane et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leland M Vane (Cincinnati, Ohio); Franklin R Alvarez (Cincinnati, Ohio); Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Richard W Baker (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Processes for removing water from organic solvents, such as ethanol. The processes include distillation in two columns operated at sequentially higher pressure, followed by treatment of the overhead vapor by one or two membrane separation steps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/229802 |
| ART UNIT | 1771 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Distillation: Processes, separatory 23/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08117462 | Snapp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert F. Snapp (Memphis, Tennessee); James D. Wilson (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods consistent with the present invention encode a list so users of the list may make inquiries to the coded list without the entire content of the list being revealed to the users. Once each item in the list has been encoded by an encoder, a bit array with high and low values may be used to represent the items in the list. The bit array may be embodied in a validation system for allowing users to query the list to determine whether an inquiry item is on the list. The validation system determines which bits to check by executing the same coding process executed by the encoder. If all the bits are high, then the inquiry item is determined to be part of the list, if at least one of the bits is low, then the inquiry item is determined not to be part of the original list. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/231787 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08113780 | Cherolis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anthony P. Cherolis (Urbana, Illinois); Eric P. Letizia (East Hartford, Connecticut); Matthew A. Devore (Manchester, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine component has a leading edge and a trailing edge and a pressure side and a suction side. The pressure side and suction side extend between the leading edge and trailing edge. One or more cooling passageways extend through the airfoil and comprise a trunk extending from an inlet. At the inlet, there is an additional passageway adjacent the trunk and having at least one edge recessed relative to the trunk. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/465862 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Fluid reaction surfaces 416/97.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08114603 | Margolin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geneprint Corporation (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Judith F. Margolin (Houston, Texas); Marie-Claude Gingras (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a soluble receptor variant of TREM-1. More particularly, present invention relates to methods of modulating an immune response by administering variants of TREM-1. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/082308 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117010 | Busch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl Busch (Eden Prairie, Minnesota); Kwong Wing Au (Bloomington, Minnesota); Michael John Flanagan (St. Petersburg, Florida); Saad J. Bedros (West St. Paul, Minnesota); Mirela Onorica Popa (Cornelius, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A detection system which provides for continuous background estimation removal from a sequence of spectra. A panoramic field of regard may be partitioned into a large number of fields of view (FOVs). An FOV may have a chemical vapor cloud. The small FOV may maximize detection of the cloud. Such detection may require removing the spectral characteristics other than that of the target cloud. This may amount to removal of background spectra with an estimated background developed from one or more FOVs which may or may not be similar to the background of the FOV with the target cloud. A number of estimated background spectra of the other FOVs may be used individually to greatly increase the detection probability of the target chemical. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329432 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/190 |
| 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 14, 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-20120214.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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