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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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| US 08117824 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secterary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Adams (Chula Vista, California); Carol A. Becker (Del Mar, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A pollution-free propulsion engine includes a rotating arm, a hollow axle defining a fuel delivery chamber, and hydrogen and oxygen sources. The rotating arm is formed with a detonation chamber, an opening and two tubular ducts therebetween. The axle is inserted into the opening. A pair of holes is formed in the axle to establish paths of fluid communication from the fuel delivery chamber through the ducts and into the detonation chamber as the rotating arm turns. The hydrogen source comprises a thin palladium binding layer deposited onto an aluminum sheet. Hydrogen molecules that are trapped in the binding layer are released, and the hydrogen is fed into the delivery chamber, through one duct and into the detonation chamber. At the same time, oxygen is delivered into the detonation chamber through the other duct, and the oxygen-hydrogen combination is detonated to release energy, which is converted into mechanical energy. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/365211 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117828 | Snyder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Allison Advanced Development Company (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip H. Snyder (Avon, Indiana); Calvin W. Emmerson (Martinsville, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A pressure wave apparatus utilizing the principles of pulsed detonation and wave rotor technologies. The apparatus includes inlet and outlet ports that interface with a plurality of fluid flow passageways on a rotor. A buffer gas is routed through some of the inlet and outlet ports and into and out of the plurality of fluid flow passageways. One of the inlet ports is a buffer gas inlet port that when placed in registry with a fluid flow passageway allows the flow of buffer gas into the respective passageway. Fuel is delivered into the buffer gas proximate the buffer gas inlet port so that only a portion of the buffer gas inlet port receives any fuel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625181 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/247 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117915 | Cardarelli |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Milli Sensor Systems + Actuators, Inc. (West Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donato Cardarelli (Medfield, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A planar MEMS accelerometer that detects acceleration along an input axis that is orthogonal to the plane. There are spaced bonding pads coupled to a substrate. A generally planar Servo Member (SM) is flexibly coupled to the bonding pads by servo member flexures such that the SM is capable of oscillatory motion about a servo axis that is orthogonal to the plane. A generally planar plate Torque Summing Member (TSM) is located within, coplanar with, and flexibly coupled to the SM such that the TSM is capable of rotational motion about an output axis that is in the plane and orthogonal to the servo axis. The TSM is mass-imbalanced relative to the output axis. A generally planar plate rotor is located within, coplanar with, and flexibly coupled to the TSM such that it is capable of rotary oscillatory motion relative to the TSM about a rotor axis that is in the plane. Rotor drives directly oscillate the rotor about the rotor axis at a rotor oscillation frequency and amplitude. SM drives oscillate the SM about the servo axis at a SM oscillation frequency and amplitude, and thereby also oscillate the rotor and TSM about the servo axis at the SM oscillation frequency. Motion sensors detect oscillation of the rotor and the SM. TSM motion sensors detect rotation of the TSM relative to the substrate about the output axis. |
| FILED | Monday, January 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/348851 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/504.150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117917 | Novack |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mitchell Novack (Kenmore, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An accelerometer that has a cross coupling coefficient due to pendulum droop of the proof mass that is approximately equal and opposite in sign to a cross coupling coefficient due to resonator nonlinearity. The accelerometer includes a proof mass, a housing having at least two opposing interior walls, and one or more flexures for flexibly connecting the proof mass at a first end to a first one of the opposing walls of the housing. A first resonator is connected to a first surface of the proof mass at an end of the proof mass opposite the first end and to the housing wall that is not attached to the flexure. A second resonator is connected to a second surface of the proof mass and the housing wall that receives the first resonator. The second surface is on an opposite side of the proof mass as the first surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/057192 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/514.290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08118293 | Barger |
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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) | Brian Blair Barger (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for both rotating a cylinder about its center axis and translating the cylinder linearly along the same axis. The invention is suitable for X-raying rockets and other cylindrical objects. Multi-axis movement is accomplished by two sets of rollers: rotational and translational. The translational roller set is held in a retracted and unengaged position while the cylinder rests on the rotational roller set. Movement about the axis of the rotational roller set is allowed. When the translational roller set is engaged with the cylinder, the cylinder is disengaged from the rotational roller set, and movement about the axis is not allowed, but linear movement is allowed. The action may be reversed and repeated. The rollers or the cylinder may be powered by motor or manual device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383089 |
| ART UNIT | 3723 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Work holders 269/289.MR0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08118955 | Zavitsanos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Sciences Incorporated (Souderton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter D. Zavitsanos (Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania); Anthony J. Rozanski (Macungle, Pennsylvania); Thomas Manion (Hereford, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermobaric self-sustaining reactive composition, method and device for defeating chemical or biological agents includes a first material including at least one of a Group IV or Group V metal; a second material reactive with the first material in an exothermic intermetallic reaction to generate heat sufficient to vaporize a third material; and the third material that when vaporized combusts with air producing an elevated temperature sufficient to destroy the chemical and biological agents. The device includes a container having a center core explosive driver with the self-sustaining reactive composition surrounding the center core explosive driver. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/786324 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119138 | Sirbasku |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Signe Biopharma Inc. (Irving, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Sirbasku (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions for treating cancers of mucosal tissues including breast, prostate, ovary, colon are disclosed which include various combinations of new or conventional anti-estrogen compounds, aromatase inhibitors, immune modulators, immune inhibitors, immune inhibitor mimicking compounds and steroid or thyroid hormones. Methods of predicting susceptibility of a cancer of mucosal origin to treatment with a composition containing an immune inhibitor or an immune inhibitor mimicking compound are also disclosed. Preferred methods include identifying in a specimen of cancer cells the presence of a Poly-Ig (Fc) receptor or Poly-Ig-like (Fc) receptor capable of binding to an immune inhibitor or an immune inhibitor mimicking compound and of mediating immune inhibition of cancer cell growth. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/293439 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/155.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119336 | Sampath et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ibis Biosciences, Inc. (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rangarajan Sampath (San Diego, California); Thomas A. Hall (Oceanside, California); Mark W. Eshoo (Solana Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides oligonucleotide primers and compositions and kits containing the same for rapid identification of alphaviruses by amplification of a segment of viral nucleic acid followed by molecular mass analysis. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/070632 |
| 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 435/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119403 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corp. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Eric Mishkin (Winter Springs, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Michael Rivard (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for preparing an artificial immune system. The artificial immune system comprises a cell culture comprising a three-dimensional matrix comprising lymphoid tissue, a three-dimensional matrix comprising epithelial and/or endothelial cells, and diseased cells. The artificial immune system of the present invention can be used for in vitro testing of vaccines, adjuvants, immunotherapy candidates, cosmetics, drugs, biologics and other chemicals. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718084 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119410 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Sante Fe, California); Ning Ke (San Diego, California); Adam Godzik (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel human member of the Bcl-2 family Bcl-B has been identified, which is closest in amino-acid sequence homology to the Boo (Diva) protein. The Bcl-B protein is widely expressed in adult human tissues. The Bcl-B protein modulates apoptosis. Bcl-B also binds Bcl-2, BCl-XL, and Bax but not Bak. Bcl-B displays a unique pattern of selectivity for binding and regulating the function of other members of the Bcl-2 family. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946722 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119498 | Mengi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evigia Systems, Inc. (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guangqing Mengi (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Yafan Zhang (Troy, Michigan); Navid Yazdi (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A wafer bonding process that compensates for curvatures in wafer surfaces, and a wafer stack produced by the bonding process. The process entails forming a groove in a surface of a first wafer, depositing a bonding stack on a surface of a second wafer, aligning and mating the first and second wafers so that the bonding stack on the second wafer contacts a bonding site on the first wafer, and then heating the first and second wafers to reflow the bonding stack. The groove either surrounds the bonding site or lies entirely within the bonding site, and the heating step forms a molten bonding material, causes at least a portion of the molten bonding material to flow into the groove, and forms a bonding structure that bonds the second wafer to the first wafer. Bonding stacks having different lateral surface areas can be deposited to form bonding structures of different heights to compensate for variations in the wafer gap. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/565298 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119539 | Das et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cree, Inc. (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mrinal K. Das (Durham, North Carolina); Anant K. Agarwal (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); John W. Palmour (Cary, North Carolina); Dave Grider (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of forming oxide layers on silicon carbide layers are disclosed, including placing a silicon carbide layer in a chamber such as an oxidation furnace tube that is substantially free of metallic impurities, heating an atmosphere of the chamber to a temperature of about 500° C. to about 1300° C., introducing atomic oxygen in the chamber, and flowing the atomic oxygen over a surface of the silicon carbide layer to thereby form an oxide layer on the silicon carbide layer. In some embodiments, introducing atomic includes oxygen providing a source oxide in the chamber and flowing a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen gas over the source oxide. The source oxide may comprise aluminum oxide or another oxide such as manganese oxide. Some methods include forming an oxide layer on a silicon carbide layer and annealing the oxide layer in an atmosphere including atomic oxygen. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/502582 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/770 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120147 | Sugg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vega Wave Systems, Inc. (West Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Sugg (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, and improvement thereof, and method of making and method of using the same, as well as necessary intermediates, generally relating to the field of semiconductor devices, the structure of transistors, and the structure of compound semiconductor heterojunction bipolar transistors. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/344481 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/562 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120207 | 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 | Tuesday, February 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/703078 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical transmission or interconnection systems 37/108 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120515 | Schneider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AgileDelta, Inc. (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Schneider (Bellevue, Washington); Richard A. Rollman (Sammamish, Washington); Milen M. Nankov (Sammamish, Washington); Ethan Hugg (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for encoding data and decoding encoded data based on one or more knowledge representation describing the data, which may include one or more finite automata; for multiplexing the encoded data, after encoding the data; and for de-multiplexing the encoded data, before decoding the encoded data, are described herein. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861988 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120540 | Armstrong |
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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) | Lincoln Armstrong (King George, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An RF antenna system for RFID tag communication includes a terminal and wire antennas extending therefrom. Each wire antenna has a first end electrically coupled to the terminal and a second end that is unencumbered. At least a portion of each wire antenna to include the second end thereof is flexible in at least one direction so that an RFID tag of an RFID-tagged object contacts at least one of the wire antennas. |
| FILED | Friday, June 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214301 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/718 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120544 | Sauer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohn Sauer (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact continuous ground plane system is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to an assembly for forming a continuous ground plane for an antenna having at least two elements configured to move relative to one another, the ground assembly including a first element having a housing, a plunger disposed within the housing, a second element, a wear plate coupled to the second element, and a spring disposed between the plunger and the housing, the spring configured to urge the plunger toward the wear plate, where the plunger is configured to be moved within the housing and to make electrical contact with the wear plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391979 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/846 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120546 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Smith (La Jolla, California); David Schurig (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compensating multi layer material includes two compensating layers adjacent to one another. A multi-layer embodiment of the invention produces sub-wavelength near-field focusing, but mitigates the thickness and loss limitations of the isotropic “perfect lens.” An antenna substrate comprises an indefinite material. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395368 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120683 | Tumer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nova R and D, Inc. (Riverside, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tumay O Tumer (Riverside, California); Shi Yin (Riverside, California); Dale G. Maeding (Dana Point, California); James Asbrock (Oceanside, California); Martin Yaffe (Toronto, Canada); Gordon Mawdsley (Toronto, Canada); James Mainprize (North York, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated application specific integrated circuit having a detection layer, a time delayed integration capability, data acquisition electronics, and a readout function is provided for detecting breast cancer in women. The detection layer receives x-ray radiation and converts the received energy to electron pairs, one of which is received by pixels. The time delay integration is on the chip and a part of the readout architecture. The detector may be a hybrid silicon detector (SiPD), a CdZnTe detector, or a GaAs detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/544561 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120843 | Minden et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | HRL Laboratories, LLC (Malibu, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Monica L. Minden (Calabasas, California); Hans W. Bruesselbach (Calabasas, California); Oleg M. Efimov (Thousand Oaks, California); Shuoqin Wang (Westlake Village, California); Daniel Yap (Newbury Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | In one of the embodiments, a dark channel array is provided which includes gain channels, each configured to emit an output beam from an output surface and to have a light wave propagating therethrough. It further includes a dark channel configured to emit an output beam from the output surface of the dark channel array and to have a light wave propagating in the dark channel, such that output beams from the plurality of gain channels are coherently coupled in phase with each other. The dark channel array is configured such that the dark channel captures a portion of the output beam from at least two of the plurality of gain channels by radiant coupling. |
| FILED | Friday, March 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/413465 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/344 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120893 | Martin 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) | Brett D Martin (Washington, District of Columbia); Banahalli R Ratna (Alexandria, Virginia); Jawad Naciri (Herndon, Virginia); Michael A Markowitz (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the formula below. X is hydroxyl, a sulfonic ester or salt thereof, a phosphonate or salt thereof, a carboxylate or salt thereof, or a boronic ester or salt thereof. The value n is an integer greater than or equal to 2. A polymer made by polymerizing the compound. A method of: reacting NH2—(CH2—CH2—O)n—CH2—CH2—OH with thiophene acid chloride to form a (SC4H3)—CO—NH—(CH2—CH2—O)n—CH2—CH2—OH amide; reacting the amide with a vinyl sulfonic ester, a vinyl phosphonate, a vinyl carboxylate, or a vinyl boronic ester to form an intermediate; and converting the intermediate to a salt form. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/564270 |
| ART UNIT | 2835 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/523 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120968 | Reohr et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Robert Reohr (Ridgefield, Connecticut); John Edward Barth, Jr. (Williston, Vermont); Toshiaki Kirihata (Poughkeepsie, New York); Derek H. Leu (Stormville, New York); Donald W. Plass (Poughkeepsie, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A word line driver circuit coupled to a memory circuit word line includes pull-up, pull-up clamp, pull-down and pull-down clamp transistors, each having a source, a drain and a gate. For the pull-up transistor, the source is coupled to a first power supply, and the gate to a pull-up control signal. For the pull-up clamp transistor, the source is coupled to the drain of the pull-up transistor, the drain to the word line, and the gate to a pull-up clamp gate signal. For the pull-down transistor, the source is coupled to a second power supply, and the gate to a pull-down control signal. For the pull-down clamp transistor, the source is coupled to the drain of the pull-down transistor, the drain to the word line, and the gate to a pull-down clamp gate signal. The word line is coupled to one or more DRAM cells. Source to drain voltage magnitudes of the pull-up and pull-down transistors are less than a voltage between the first and second power supplies. |
| FILED | Friday, February 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/704703 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/185.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120992 | Kuklinski 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) | Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island); Thomas J. Gieseke (Newport, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for localizing the range and bearing of a distant underwater object includes firing a preselected number of supercavitating projectiles sequentially from a firing location such that each projectile tracks along substantially the same trajectory. Supercavitating pellets are dispersed from a projectile at a pre-selected range. Acoustic signals are sensed to detect acoustic signals caused by supercavitating pellet impact with an object. These signals can be processed to determine the range and bearing to the object. In further steps the range and bearing can be used to aim the projectiles. |
| FILED | Friday, June 03, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/152376 |
| 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 367/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121154 | Jiang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | AdValue Photonics, Inc. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shibin Jiang (Tucson, Arizona); Tao Luo (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A laser glass fiber with a core of the fiber composition, comprising a silicate glass host, one or more glass network modifiers, one or more glass network intermediators, and Thulium ions, Holmium ions, or a combination of Thulium ions and Holmium ions. The fiber emits laser light from 1.7 micron to 2.2 micron. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113865 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121222 | Boyle et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P. (Greenville, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank A. Boyle (Melissa, Texas); Gerald L. Fudge (Rockwall, Texas); Chen-Chu A. Yeh (Rockwall, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for detecting and/or identifying signals that employ streaming processing to generate time-frequency surfaces by sampling a datastream according to a temporal structure that may be chosen as needed. The sampled datastream may be correlated with a set of templates that span the band of interest in a continuous manner, and used to generate time-frequency surfaces from irregularly sampled data with arbitrary structure that has been sampled with non-constant and non-Nyquist sampling rates where such non-constant rates are needed or desired. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/214897 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121347 | Metaxas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitris Metaxas (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Atul Kanaujia (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for tracking features, e.g., facial features, is provided, which allows for the tracking of features which move in a series of images and whose shape changes nonlinearly due to perspective projection and complex 3D movements. A training set of images is processed to produce clustered shape subspaces corresponding to the set of images, such that non-linear shape manifolds in the images are represented as piecewise, overlapping linear surfaces that are clustered according to similarities in perspectives. A landmark-based training algorithm (e.g., ASM) is applied to the clustered shape subspaces to train a model of the clustered shape subspaces and to create training data. A subsequent image is processed using the training data to identify features in the target image by creating an initial shape, superimposing the initial shape on the target image, and then iteratively deforming the shape in accordance with the model until a final shape is produced corresponding to a feature in the target image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/954786 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121368 | Wiersma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney D. Wiersma (Chicago, Illinois); Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California); Weihua Mao (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical imaging-based system and method uses both kV and MV images captured during a treatment period for organ motion tracking. 3D geometric locations of internal features are computationally tracked as a function of time from internal features, such as natural biological features or implanted fiducials, which are computationally extracted from the captured kV and MV images. A partial information method allows 3D tracking to be maintained in the event that imaging information is temporarily not available. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291829 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121432 | Dorai et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chitra Dorai (Chappaqua, New York); Ying Li (Mohegan Lake, New York); Youngja Park (Edgewater, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | System and method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units where each semantic unit relates to a generally complete thematic topic. A computer implemented method for partitioning a video into a series of semantic units wherein each semantic unit relates to a theme or a topic, comprises dividing a video into a plurality of homogeneous segments, analyzing audio and visual content of the video, extracting a plurality of keywords from the speech content of each of the plurality of homogeneous segments of the video, and detecting and merging a plurality of groups of semantically related and temporally adjacent homogeneous segments into a series of semantic units in accordance with the results of both the audio and visual analysis and the keyword extraction. The present invention can be applied to generate important table-of-contents as well as index tables for videos to facilitate efficient video topic searching and browsing. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/055023 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/276 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121446 | Zheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-chip module (MCM) is described. This MCM includes two substrates having facing surfaces. Disposed on a surface of a first of these substrates, there is an optical waveguide, having an eigenmode in the plane of the surface, and an optical coupler, which redirects optical signals to and/or from the optical waveguide and a direction normal to the surface. Furthermore, disposed on a surface of a second of the substrates, which faces the surface of the first substrate, and which overlaps the optical coupler, there is an optoelectronic device. This optoelectronic device, which has an eigenmode in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the second substrate, selectively receives or provides the optical signal to and/or from the optical coupler. For example, the selective receiving or providing may be controlled by selectively applying a potential to the quantum-well device, thereby changing the optical properties of the optoelectronic device. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/566101 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121478 | Kash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Alan Kash (Pleasantville, New York); Laurent Schares (Sleepy Hollow, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a bidirectional communications system includes a first non-blocking network including a bidirectional optical switch, a plurality of nodes, a plurality of optical transceivers connected between the bidirectional optical switch and the plurality of nodes, each optical transceiver including a transmitter, a receiver and an optical combiner, and a second network connected to at least one of the nodes and the at least one at least one bidirectional optical switch for control of a crossconnect. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/408416 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip L. Freeman (Maryland Heights, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an embodiment, a numerically controlled (NC) processing system includes materials processing installation having a multi-axis kinematic linkage operable to position a tip portion of the linkage along a predetermined process path. The system also includes a processor having a compensation system operable to detect a singular point in the process path and to improve the accuracy tip portion positioning near the singular point. |
| FILED | Friday, July 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/497569 |
| ART UNIT | 3667 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/265 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121749 | Agrawal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mukul Agrawal (Plymouth, Minnesota); Daniel Chester Churchill (St Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems of controlling an autonomous vehicle are provided. A method comprises controlling operations of the vehicle based at least in part on edge costs. An edge is a representation of a path the vehicle can traverse. Edge costs are determined by an estimation system and are based on at least one of an estimated travel time for an edge and a traverse-ability of the edge. The method further comprises sensing conditions of edges the vehicle is traversing and based on the sensed conditions, dynamically updating the edge costs. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/238304 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Vehicles, navigation, and relative location 71/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121821 | Jones |
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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) | Thomas O. Jones (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatuses are described that enable the design of electrically small antennas in terms of their quality factor (Q) performance or other antenna parameter. A desired charge distribution is defined and thereafter the shape of the antenna is generated, based on the corresponding solution of a quasi-static field approximation. A degree of freedom in the shaping of the antenna is incorporated into the quasi-static field approximation, via a dimensional variable. This expression has a solution set containing the minimum Q factor. By selection of an appropriate value of the dimensional variable, antennas with minimum or otherwise tailored Q values can be quickly designed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/959715 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122132 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana Baba Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi Kumar Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Claude Basso (Raleigh, North Carolina); Jean L. Calvignac (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for operating a high performance computing cluster (HPC) having multiple nodes (each of which include multiple processors) includes periodically broadcasting information, related to processor utilization and network utilization at each of the multiple nodes, from each of the multiple nodes to remaining ones of the multiple nodes. Respective local job tables maintained in each of the multiple nodes are updated based on the broadcast information. One or more threads are then moved from one or more of the multiple processors to a different one of the multiple processors (based on the broadcast information in the respective local job tables). |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/336312 |
| ART UNIT | 2445 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122222 | Nicholas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Nicholas (Round Rock, Texas); Eric E. Retter (Austin, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An access speculation predictor may predict whether to perform speculative retrieval of data for a data request from a main memory based on whether a scope predictor indicates whether a local or global request is predicted to be necessary to obtain the data for the data request. In particular, a first address and a scope predictor may be extracted from a first data request. A determination may be made as to whether a memory controller receiving the first data request is local to a source of the first data request or not. Speculative retrieval of the data for the first data request from a main memory may be controlled based on whether the memory controller is local to the source of the first data request and whether the scope predictor identifies whether a local or a global request is predicted to be necessary. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105360 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122223 | Cantin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason F. Cantin (Austin, Texas); Richard Nicholas (Round Rock, Texas); Eric E. Retter (Austin, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An access speculation predictor may predict whether to perform speculative retrieval of data for a data request from a main memory based on whether or not a current requestor tag matches a previous requestor tag. In particular, a first address and a first requester tag may be extracted from a first data request and a finite state machine (FSM) of a memory controller may be selected whose memory region includes the first address. A second requester tag, that identifies a previous requester that attempted to access the memory region association with the selected FSM, may be retrieved from a register associated with the selected FSM and compared to the first requester tag. Speculatively retrieving the data for the first data request from a main memory may be controlled based on results of the comparison of the first requester tag to the second requester tag. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105401 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122242 | Elliott |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brig Barnum Elliott (Arlington, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention performs “flow control” based on the remaining encryption capacity of an encrypted outbound network interface link of a network routing device, such as a router or switch. As the encrypted link begins to run low on encryption key material, this invention begins to discard datagrams queued for transit across that link, in order to signal distant host computers that they should slow down the rate at which they are sending datagrams. The invention, which is particularly useful in cryptographically protected networks that run the TCP/IP protocol stack, allows fine-grained flow control of individual traffic classes because it can determine, for example, how various classes of data traffic (e.g., voice, video, TCP) should be ordered and transmitted through a network. Thus, the invention can be used to implement sophisticated flow control rules so as to give preferential treatment to certain people, departments or computers. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/210786 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122281 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ranjita Bhagwan (Bangalore, India); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for allocating distributed processing systems includes inputting component descriptions in a distributed processing system and determining importance of each component. Capacity and failure characteristics of resource groups representing units of available processing capacity are also input. Components are assigned to a plurality of resource groups based on the capacity. Each resource group includes components where the failure characteristics permit simultaneous failures, such that in the event of such failures, an output value of the application is maximized. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/735026 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122317 | Clark et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence T. Clark (Phoenix, Arizona); Karl C. Mohr (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a two-dimensional parity technique for data to be stored in one or more memory arrays, each of which has various rows and columns of cells. A row of bits in a super bundle is referred to as a row bundle. A super bundle includes numerous rows of row bundles, and corresponding bits in each of the row bundles in the super bundle are aligned in columns. A row check bit is provided for each row bundle in each super bundle. Each row check bit provides a parity bit that is derived from the k bits of the corresponding row bundle. A column check bit is provided for each column in each super bundle. Each column check bit provides a parity bit that is derived from each of the bits in the corresponding column in the super bundle. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/163640 |
| ART UNIT | 2112 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/758 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122410 | DiLullo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jack DiLullo (Austin, Texas); Ronald Nick Kalla (Round Rock, Texas); Gavin Balfour Meil (Round Rock, Texas); Jeffrey Mark Ritzinger (Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, specifying a portion of a circuit design to be treated as untimed by static timing analysis is performed on the RTL design by means of an attribute annotation. The process is operable to map through to the Physical Design by correlating latches and chip-level nets. This allows the testing process to become closed-loop. Design and simulation time is also greatly reduced due to the accessibility of RTL design. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/264992 |
| ART UNIT | 2825 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks 716/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dinesh Verma (Mount Kisco, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods are provided for detecting malicious behavior in mobile ad-hoc wireless networks. The mobile ad-hoc network contains a plurality of actual nodes and a plurality of decoys that are derived from the actual nodes using duplicate instances of the operational software of the actual nodes in combination with a virtual interconnection topology created to make the decoys appear as actual nodes within the mobile ad-hoc network. The interconnection topology includes routing characteristics indicating that the most efficient path of communication to any given decoy is through at least one actual node in the network. The decoys are used to identify malicious behavior in the network and in particular to identify attempt to communicate directly with decoys in contradiction to the created interconnection topology. When the malicious behavior is associated with an identifiable node, corrective action is taken that includes quarantining that node from the other nodes in the network. |
| FILED | Friday, August 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/840844 |
| ART UNIT | 2435 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Thoratec Corporation (Pleasanton, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Scott Richardson (Wilmington, Massachusetts); Barry N. Gellman (North Easton, Massachusetts); Andrew Koert (Somerville, Massachusetts); Kurt Dasse (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a pump-inflow-cannula (1) providing a blood conduit from a heart (2) and/or from an associated vessel to an external blood handling system. The pump-inflow-cannula comprises a body (3), encompassing an essentially axially extending inflow-lumen (4), having a distal-end (5) for an attachment of the inflow-lumen (4) to the blood handling system, and having a proximal-end (6) for an introduction of blood from the heart (2) and/or from the associated vessel into the inflow-lumen (4), wherein at least one projection (7) is provided at the proximal-end (6) to deflect a heart muscle from intruding into the inflow-lumen (4), wherein the body (3) of the pump-inflow-cannula comprises a reinforcement-means (8). The invention is also related to a pump-outflow-cannula (19) and to a blood managing system comprising a pump-inflow-cannula and a pump-outflow-cannula in accordance with the present invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/698322 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08118744 | Palmeri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Palmeri (Durham, North Carolina); Kathryn R. Nightingale (Durham, North Carolina); Gregg E. Trahey (Durham, North Carolina); Kristin D. Frinkley (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining a mechanical parameter of a sample include detecting shear waves that have been generated in the sample by an applied shear wave source. A time of peak displacement of the shear waves for a plurality of sample positions is determined. At least one mechanical parameter of the sample based on the time of peak displacement for the plurality of sample positions is determined. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/028203 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119101 | Byrd et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio); Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Byrd (Columbus, Ohio); David M. Goldenberg (Mendham, New Jersey); Hans J. Hansen (Picayune, Mississippi) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compositions that include anti-CD74 immunoconjugates and optionally a therapeutic and/or diagnostic agent. In preferred embodiments, the immunoconjugates comprise one or more anti-CD74 antibodies or antigen-binding fragments thereof, conjugated to a liposome or micelle. Also disclosed are methods for preparing the immunoconjugates and using the immunoconjugates in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. In certain preferred embodiments, the therapeutic methods comprise administering to a subject with a CD74-expressing disease an anti-CD74 immunoconjugate and thereby inducing apoptosis of CD74-expressing cells. In more preferred embodiments, the CD74 immunoconjugate is capable of inducing cell death in the absence of any other therapeutic agent, although such agents may be optionally administered prior to, together with or subsequent to administration of the anti-CD74 immunoconjugate. The compositions may be part of a kit for administering the anti-CD74 immunoconjugates or compositions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789575 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119116 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | John Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Young Hee Ko (Owings Mills, Maryland); Jean-Francois Geschwind (Potomac, Maryland); Peter L. Pedersen (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of treating a cancerous tumor using selective inhibitors of ATP production. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical preparations comprising such inhibitors and methods for administering them intraarterially directly to a tumor, as well as methods for identifying compositions that selectively inhibitor ATP production for use in the invention. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355115 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119118 | Federoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Howard J. Federoff (Rochester, New York); William J. Bowers (Webster, New York); John G. Frelinger (Pittsford, New York); Richard A. Willis (Denver, Colorado); Thomas G. Evans (Davis, California); Stephen Dewhurst (Rochester, New York); Khaled A. Tolba (Rochester, New York); Joseph D. Rosenblatt (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention features new helper virus-free methods for making herpesvirus amplicon particles that can be used in immunotherapies, including those for treating any number of infectious diseases and cancers (including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, other cancers in which blood cells become malignant, lymphomas (e.g. Hodgkin's lymphoma or non-Hodgkin's type lymphomas). Described herein are methods of making helper virus-free HSV amplicon particles; cells that contain those particles (e.g., packaging cell lines or patients' cells, infected in vivo or ex vivo); particles produced according to those methods; and methods of treating a patient with an hf-HSV particle made according to those methods. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244726 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119339 | Philpott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Menands, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sean Philpott (Defreestville, New York); Barbara Weiser (East Greenbush, New York); Harold Burger (East Greenbush, New York); Christina Kitchen (Sherman Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and may be indicated by a shift in coreceptor use from CCR5 to CXCR4. The shift in coreceptor use to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients undergoing HAART, the predominant populations of virus may be shifted back to CCR5-mediated entry soon after the CXCR4-specific strains have emerged. The present invention relates to a diagnostic method to monitor coreceptor use in the treatment and clinical management of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The present invention further relates to a diagnostic method applied to HIV-positive individuals undergoing HAART to monitor the suppression of CCR5- or CXCR4-specific strains. The diagnostic methods may be used to assist in selecting antiretroviral therapy and to improve predictions of disease prognosis over time. The methods of the invention include cell-based methods, including cell fusion assays, and molecular-based methods, including heteroduplex tracking assay, to both quantitatively and qualitatively analyze patient-derived HIV for coreceptor usage. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723162 |
| 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 08119340 | Messmer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (Manhasset, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bradley T. Messmer (La Jolla, California); Nicholas Chiorazzi (Tenafly, New Jersey); Emilia Albesiano (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are isolated and purified preparations of a combination of a light chain antibody gene and a heavy chain antibody gene, where the light chain and heavy chain antibody genes are the same among more than one patient with B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). Vectors comprising those genes and cells comprising those vectors are also provided, as are isolated and purified antibodies encoded by the antibody genes. Anti-idiotype antibodies, peptides, and aptamers that bind to the antigen-binding region of an antibody encoded by the antibody genes are additionally provided, as are multimeric molecules comprising multiple binding sites that bind to the antigen-binding region of an antibody encoded by the antibody genes. Methods of determining whether a patient with B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) has a form of B-CLL that is susceptible to treatment directed to eliminating idiotype specific B cell receptor-bearing B-CLL cells are also provided, as are methods of following the progression of treatment of B-CLL in the patient. Additionally, methods of treating a patient having B-CLL are provided, as are methods of identifying a therapeutic agent for B-CLL. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575671 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119343 | Acland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory M. Acland (Kennett Square, Pennsylvania); Orly Goldstein (Ithaca, New York); Anna V. Kukekova (Ithaca, New York); Jennifer Lynn Johnson (Lansing, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for identifying dogs as likely to be genetically normal, carriers of, or affected with Oculo-skeletal dysplasia (OSD) by determining the presence or absence of a drd2 COL9A2 mutation and/or a drd1 COL9A3 mutation. Also provided is a method for selective breeding of dogs and kits useful for carrying out the methods of the invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/199137 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119348 | Swaroop et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan); The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anand Swaroop (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Goncalo Abecasis (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Wei Chen (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Dwight Stambolian (Sewell, New Jersey); Albert O. Edwards (Eugene, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to biomarkers for macular degeneration. In particular, the present invention provides a plurality of biomarkers for monitoring and diagnosing macular degeneration. The compositions and methods of the present invention find use in diagnostic, therapeutic, research, and drug screening applications. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834529 |
| 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 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119355 | Kimberly et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama); Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Takeshi Isoyama (Tokyo, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are biomarkers and uses thereof for evaluating anti-cancer efficacy and sensitivity. |
| FILED | Friday, March 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/723113 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — 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 08119361 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Jefferson Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Derek Jantz (Durham, North Carolina); Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/245607 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119364 | Burkart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Burkart (San Diego, California); Kristine Clarke (San Diego, California); Andrew C. Mercer (LaJolla, California); James J. LaClair (San Diego, California); Jordan Meier (LaJolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to generate analogs of coenzyme A in vivo are disclosed. The methods to generate analogs of coenzyme A in a cell comprise reacting pantetheine or a derivative thereof with a reporter to form labeled pantetheine or a derivative thereof, contacting the cell with the labeled pantetheine or derivative thereof such that the labeled pantetheine or derivative thereof enters the cell, phosphorylating the labeled pantetheine or derivative thereof to form phosphopantetheine or a derivative thereof, adenylating the labeled phosphopantetheine or derivative thereof to form a labeled dephosphoCoenzyme A or derivative thereof, and phosphorylating the 3′-hydroxyl of the labeled dephosphoCoenzyme A or derivative thereof to form a labeled coenzyme A analog or derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789181 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119381 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Jefferson Smith (Durham, North Carolina); Derek Jantz (Durham, North Carolina); Homme W. Hellinga (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research. |
| FILED | Monday, September 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/245596 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/196 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119400 | Monahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Monahan (Brookline, Massachusetts); Frank W. LoGerfo (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Nicholas D. Andersen (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | In particular embodiments, the present invention provides methods of inhibiting smooth muscle cell responses and methods of treating or preventing vascular proliferative disease caused by smooth muscle cell migration and proliferation. More specifically, smooth muscle cell responses are inhibited by introducing an agent into smooth muscle cells, wherein the agent inhibits an activity of one or more members of the myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase substrate (MARCKS) family of proteins. The invention also provides methods of inhibiting expression of one or more genes encoding a member of the MARCKS family of proteins in a cell. |
| FILED | Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890318 |
| 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 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119404 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qihong Huang (San Diego, California); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Quinn L. Deveraux (San Diego, California); Susumu Maeda (Pasadena, California); Hiroko Maeda, legal representative (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polypeptides comprising inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family members, such as BmIAP initially derived from Bombyx mori BmN cells, and nucleic acids encoding them, and methods for making and using these compositions, including their use for inhibiting apoptosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832682 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119410 | Reed et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John C. Reed (Rancho Sante Fe, California); Ning Ke (San Diego, California); Adam Godzik (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A novel human member of the Bcl-2 family Bcl-B has been identified, which is closest in amino-acid sequence homology to the Boo (Diva) protein. The Bcl-B protein is widely expressed in adult human tissues. The Bcl-B protein modulates apoptosis. Bcl-B also binds Bcl-2, BCl-XL, and Bax but not Bak. Bcl-B displays a unique pattern of selectivity for binding and regulating the function of other members of the Bcl-2 family. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946722 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/86 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119572 | Denu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John M. Denu (Mc Farland, Wisconsin); Adam L. Garske (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for determining protein binding specificity using a screen of a peptide library is provided. The method can be used to determine binding specificity for human NAD+-dependent deacetylase SIRT1, and to identify the most efficiently deacetylated peptide sequences. The method can be also used to screen a combinatorial H4 histone N-terminal tail peptide library to examine the binding preferences of a α-phos (S1) H4 antibody toward all known possible H4 histone modification states. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/585625 |
| 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 | Combinatorial chemistry technology: Method, library, apparatus 56/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119589 | Anguita |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juan Anguita (Florence, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Salp15, biologically functional equivalents and fragments thereof, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same are disclosed. Recombinant host cells, recombinant nucleic acids and recombinant proteins are also disclosed. Salp15 gene products and Salp15 polypeptide fragments have biological activity in modulating CD4+ T cell activation through specific binding to CD4. Thus, therapeutic methods involving modulating T cell activation using Salp15 and biologically active polypeptide fragments thereof are also disclosed. The specific binding of Salp15 and fragment peptides thereof to CD4 can inhibit HIV infection of T cells, and thus methods of using Salp15 for inhibiting HIV infection are also disclosed. Screening methods for selecting substances having an ability to modulate activation of T cells are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 14, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/667748 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119610 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dun Yang (San Francisco, California); J. Michael Bishop (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods of making RNAi libraries using E. coli RNAse III for inhibition of mammalian gene expression. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/448612 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119640 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James K. Chen (Mountain View, California); Joel M. Hyman (San Carlos, California); Cory A. Ocasio (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides for compounds, pharmaceutical preparations, kits and methods for the inhibition of the Hh pathway and the alleviation of cancer and developmental disorders associated with the Hh pathway. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/866338 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119642 | Newman 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); University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amy Newman (Phoenix, Maryland); Peter Grundt (Baltimore, Maryland); Robert R. Luedtke (Forth Worth, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A family of structurally rigid dopamine D3 receptor selective ligands is described. The family of structurally rigid dopamine D3 receptor selective ligands has the formula wherein A is cis or trans —CH═CH—, —C═C—, or cyclohexyl. B is cis or trans —CH═CH— or absent. R1 represents an optionally substituted phenyl group, wherein said substituents are selected from the group consisting of: hydrogen, halogen, amino, nitro, hydroxyl, alkoxy, alkyl, acyl and pyridyl, and said substitution may occur at any of the ortho, meta, or para positions, or R1 represents a heteroaromatic ring. A preferred heteroaromatic ring is indole, quinoxoline, pyridyl, pyrimidyl, or imidazole. R2 and R3 may be independently hydrogen or a halogen, or R2 alone may be C1, C2, or C3 alkoxy, and m is 1 or 2, and n is 0, 1, or 2. |
| FILED | Monday, September 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/558983 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/255.20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119656 | Roth et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Roth (Dallas, Texas); Beatriz Fontoura (Dallas, Texas); Shuguang Wei (Plano, Texas); Neal Satterly (Garland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to compounds to treat viral infections and methods of their use. In particular, compounds of the present invention inhibit the activity of NS1 protein, thereby mitigating viral infection and, in particular, influenza virus infection. Accordingly, NS1 protein inhibitors and methods of treatment that employ such inhibitors are contemplated by the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, December 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/315945 |
| ART UNIT | 1629 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119677 | Bashkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NanoVir, LLC (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James K. Bashkin (St. Louis, Missouri); Kevin J. Koeller (Richmond Heights, Missouri); Terri Grace Edwards (Kalamazoo, Michigan); Christopher Fisher (Kalamazoo, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to polyamide compositions and therapies for treating cells infected with papilloma virus. |
| FILED | Monday, August 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/534693 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/397 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119691 | Serhan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles N. Serhan (Needham, Massachusetts); Bruce D. Levy (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The use of lipoxin analogs for the treatment or prevention of asthma and asthma related diseases is described. In particular, acetylenic lipoxin analogs are effective for the treatment and prevention of eosinophil recruitment involved with the inflammation processes associated with asthma, asthma like conditions, and lung injuries associated from airway inflammation or infection as brought about by leukocyte-mediated injury from within. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/281132 |
| 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 514/562 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119692 | Johnson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | PanThera Biopharma LLC (Aiea, Hawaii) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan T. Johnson (Kaneohe, Hawaii); Seongjin Kim (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds having the formula wherein the symbols have the meaning described in the specification are hydroxamic acid derivatives of 4-phenyl-4-hydroxy-butyric acid and capable of inhibiting the lethal effects of infection by anthrax bacteria and are useful in the treatment of poisoning by anthrax. |
| FILED | Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079722 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/575 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119693 | Millan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jose Luis Millan (San Diego, California); Eduard Sergienko (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are compounds that are tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase inhibitors. The disclosed compounds are used to treat, prevent, or abate vascular calcification, arterial calcification and other cardiovascular diseases. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/117570 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/604 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119742 | Dalsin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KNC Ner Acquisition Sub, Inc. (Exton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Dalsin (Madison, Wisconsin); Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura Vollenweider (Middleton, Wisconsin); Sunil Silvary (Madison, Wisconsin); John L. Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Amanda Spitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Arinne Lyman (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes families of compounds that utilize multihydroxyl phenyl groups to provide adhesive properties. Selection of the multihydroxy phenyl group along with linkers or linking groups and the linkages between the linkers or linking groups with polyalkylene oxides, provides materials that can be engineered to afford controllable curing time, biodegradation and/or swelling. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568542 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119773 | Abkowitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Janis L. Abkowitz (Mercer Island, Washington); Raymond T. Doty (Seattle, Washington); Zhantao Yang (Kenmore, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a high affinity heme-binding agent, which can be provided in the form of a pharmaceutical composition that includes, optionally, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The heme-binding agent can be used in a method of facilitating heme-iron export from a cell. The method comprises contacting a cell with a high affinity heme-binding agent. Also provided is a method of treating a disorder associated with excess iron in cells in a subject. The method comprises administering to the subject an effective amount of the composition of the invention. The subject is typically a mammal, most typically a human or veterinary subject. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329206 |
| 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 530/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119788 | Morrison 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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christine J. Morrison (Decatur, Georgia); Sanchita Das (New York, New York); Teresa Brown (Lawrenceville, Georgia); Brian Holloway (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for detecting and/or differentiating among Candida organisms, including C. albicans and C. dubliniensis, are disclosed. Exemplary methods involve screening a sample suspected of containing at least one or more Candida sp. for the presence or absence of a nucleic acid sequence specific for each such fungal pathogen. Some disclosed methods permit the rapid and simultaneous detection and identification of several fungal pathogens (e.g., up to 100 fungi) in a single sample. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 26, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/088235 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.320 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119854 | Sanna |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pietro P. Sanna (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pietro Paolo Sanna (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods of preventing or treating drug addiction, or ameliorating the craving for an addictive drug, as well as compounds, peptides, and pharmaceutical compositions that may be used to prevent or treat drug addiction or ameliorate the craving for an addictive drug. The invention also provides methods for identifying agents that may be used to prevent or treat drug addiction, or ameliorate the craving for an addictive drug. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/085381 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119998 | Avdeef et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pion, Inc. (Billerica, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Avdeef (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Dmytro Voloboy (Chelmsford, Massachusetts); Deren J. Dohoda (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Per E. Nielsen (Westlake, Ohio); Michael J. DeMaria (South Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for evaluating physicochemical properties of sample materials contained in an array of vessels includes: a light detector; a light source for transmitting a light beam through the sample material in a vessel to the light detector; an analyzer for processing data from the light detector to determine concentration-related properties of the sample material as a function of time; and a mixing system. The mixing system includes: a plurality of magnetic stirrer elements, each for being placed in a sample material in a different one of the array of vessels; an array of magnetic drive elements, each associated with a different one of the array of vessels and being magnetically coupled with a magnetic stirrer element in an associated vessel; and a drive mechanism coupled to the array of magnetic drive elements for simultaneously moving each of the magnetic drive elements relative to an associated vessel. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/811666 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/461.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120683 | Tumer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nova R and D, Inc. (Riverside, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tumay O Tumer (Riverside, California); Shi Yin (Riverside, California); Dale G. Maeding (Dana Point, California); James Asbrock (Oceanside, California); Martin Yaffe (Toronto, Canada); Gordon Mawdsley (Toronto, Canada); James Mainprize (North York, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated application specific integrated circuit having a detection layer, a time delayed integration capability, data acquisition electronics, and a readout function is provided for detecting breast cancer in women. The detection layer receives x-ray radiation and converts the received energy to electron pairs, one of which is received by pixels. The time delay integration is on the chip and a part of the readout architecture. The detector may be a hybrid silicon detector (SiPD), a CdZnTe detector, or a GaAs detector. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 06, 2000 |
| APPL NO | 09/544561 |
| ART UNIT | 2622 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Television 348/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120777 | Weinberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Sensing, Inc. (Montara, California); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scot R. Weinberger (Montara, California); Bruce J. Richardson (Santa Cruz, California); Darryl J. Bornhop (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides an interferometric detection device configured to maintain a temperature of a sensing area to within 20 m° C. of a first target temperature and to maintain a temperature of the medium within 500 m° C. of a second target temperature The device can do so under conditions in which ambient temperature changes from 0.1° C. to 5° C. over 5 minutes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/331354 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/450 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121245 | Pan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaochuan Pan (Chicago, Illinois); Yu Zou (Naperville, Illinois); Lifeng Yu (Rochester, Minnesota); Chien-Min Kao (Wilmette, Illinois); Martin King (Chicago, Illinois); Maryellen Giger (Elmhurst, Illinois); Dan Xia (Chicago, Illinois); Howard Halpern (Chicago, Illinois); Charles Pelizzari (Chicago, Illinois); Emil Y. Sidky (Chicago, Illinois); Seungryong Cho (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for reconstruction of a region of interest for an object is provided. The reconstruction of the object may be based on chords which may fill a part, all, or more than all of the region of interest. Using chords for reconstruction may allow for reducing data acquired and/or processing for reconstructing a substantially exact image of the ROI. Moreover, various methodologies may be used in reconstructing the image, such as backprojection-filtration, and modified filtration backprojection. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/930856 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121249 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ge Wang (Blacksburg, Virginia); Wenxiang Cong (Christiansburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the field of x-ray imaging. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to methods, systems, and apparatus for imaging, which can be used in a wide range of applications, including medical imaging, security screening, and industrial non-destructive testing to name a few. Specifically provided as embodiments of the invention are systems for x-ray imaging comprising: a) a first collimator-and-detector assembly having a first operable configuration to provide at least one first dataset comprising primary x-ray signals as a majority component of its data capable of being presented as a first image of an object subjected to x-ray imaging; b) a second collimator-and-detector assembly having a second operable configuration or wherein the first collimator-and-detector assembly is adjustable to a second configuration to provide at least one second dataset comprising primary and dark-field x-ray signals as a majority component of its data capable of being presented as a second image of the object; and c) a computer operably coupled with the collimator-and-detector assemblies comprising a computer readable medium embedded with processing means for combining the first dataset and the second dataset to extract the dark-field x-ray signals and produce a target image having higher contrast quality than the images based on the first or second dataset alone. Such systems can be configured to comprise at least two collimator-and-detector assemblies or configurations differing with respect to collimator height, collimator aperture, imaging geometry, or distance between an object subjected to the imaging and the collimator-and-detector assembly. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794160 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121361 | Ernst et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Queen's Medical Center (Honolulu, Hawaii); The University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii); The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); UWM Research Foundation, Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Michael Ernst (Honolulu, Hawaii); Thomas Edmund Prieto (Grafton, Wisconsin); Brian Stewart Randall Armstrong (Shorewood, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Current MRI technologies require subjects to remain largely motionless for achieving high quality magnetic resonance (MR) scans, typically for 5-10 minutes at a time. However, lying absolutely still inside the tight MR imager (MRI) tunnel is a difficult task, especially for children, very sick patients, or the mentally ill. Even motion ranging less than 1 mm or 1 degree can corrupt a scan. This invention involves a system that adaptively compensates for subject motion in real-time. An object orientation marker, preferably a retro-grate reflector (RGR), is placed on a patients' head or other body organ of interest during MRI. The RGR makes it possible to measure the six degrees of freedom (x, y, and z-translations, and pitch, yaw, and roll), or “pose”, required to track the organ of interest. A camera-based tracking system observes the marker and continuously extracts its pose. The pose from the tracking system is sent to the MR scanner via an interface, allowing for continuous correction of scan planes and position in real-time. The RGR-based motion correction system has significant advantages over other approaches, including faster tracking speed, better stability, automatic calibration, lack of interference with the MR measurement process, improved ease of use, and long-term stability. RGR-based motion tracking can also be used to correct for motion from awake animals, or in conjunction with other in vivo imaging techniques, such as computer tomography, positron emission tomography (PET), etc. |
| FILED | Friday, May 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804417 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121368 | Wiersma et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney D. Wiersma (Chicago, Illinois); Lei Xing (Palo Alto, California); Weihua Mao (Plano, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A medical imaging-based system and method uses both kV and MV images captured during a treatment period for organ motion tracking. 3D geometric locations of internal features are computationally tracked as a function of time from internal features, such as natural biological features or implanted fiducials, which are computationally extracted from the captured kV and MV images. A partial information method allows 3D tracking to be maintained in the event that imaging information is temporarily not available. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/291829 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121697 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Alfred E. Mann (Beverly Hills, California); Neil Talbot (Montrose, California); Jerry Ok (Canyon Country, California); Gaillard R. Nolan (Valenica, California); Dau Min Zhou (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue. |
| FILED | Monday, August 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/861729 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121794 | Rimm et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Rimm (Branford, Connecticut); Robert L. Camp (Stamford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820786 |
| ART UNIT | 1631 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Benjamin Paul Lacy (Greer, South Carolina); Gilbert Otto Kraemer (Greer, South Carolina); Balachandar Varatharajan (Clifton Park, New York); Ertan Yilmaz (Albany, New York); Baifang Zuo (Simpsonville, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for assembling a premixing injector is provided. The method includes providing a centerbody including a center axis and a radially outer surface, and providing an inlet flow conditioner. The inlet flow conditioner includes a radially outer wall, a radially inner wall, and an end wall coupled substantially perpendicularly between the outer wall and the inner wall. Each of the outer wall and the end wall include a plurality of openings defined therein. The outer wall, the inner wall, and the end wall define a first passage therebetween. The method also includes coupling the inlet flow conditioner to the centerbody such that the inlet flow conditioner substantially circumscribes the centerbody, such that the inner wall is substantially parallel to the centerbody outer surface, and such that a second passage is defined between the centerbody outer surface and the inner wall. |
| FILED | Friday, April 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/741483 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/737 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08117929 | Van Berkel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Van Berkel (Clinton, Tennessee); Vilmos Kertesz (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method utilizes distance-measuring equipment including a laser sensor for controlling the collection instrument-to-surface distance during a sample collection process for use, for example, with mass spectrometric detection. The laser sensor is arranged in a fixed positional relationship with the collection instrument, and a signal is generated by way of the laser sensor which corresponds to the actual distance between the laser sensor and the surface. The actual distance between the laser sensor and the surface is compared to a target distance between the laser sensor and the surface when the collection instrument is arranged at a desired distance from the surface for sample collecting purposes, and adjustments are made, if necessary, so that the actual distance approaches the target distance. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/217225 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/864.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08118908 | Gonze et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Frank Ament (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A particulate matter (PM) filter includes filter walls having inlet ends and outlet ends. First adjacent pairs of the filter walls define inlet channels. Second adjacent pairs of the filter walls define outlet channels. Outlet end plugs are arranged in the inlet channels adjacent to the output ends. Inlet end plugs arranged in the outlet channels spaced from the inlet ends. |
| FILED | Monday, April 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/106594 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119010 | Keller et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Karsten Keller (Hockessin, Delaware); Christopher M. Rey (Hockessin, Delaware); Benjamin Fuchs (Karlsruhe, Germany); Christian Hoffmann (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to an improved cake-filtration solid-liquid separation process wherein the improvement comprises simultaneously subjecting the solid-liquid mixture to a homogeneous magnetic field, a magnetic field gradient or both and cake-filtration to accomplish separation. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/060001 |
| ART UNIT | 1797 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/695 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119011 | Nyman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | May D. Nyman (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Thomas A. Stewart (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Substitution of a single Ga-atom or single Ge-atom (GaAl12 and GeAl12 respectively) into the center of an aluminum Keggin polycation (Al13) produces an optimal water-treatment product for neutralization and coagulation of anionic contaminants in water. GaAl12 consistently shows ˜1 order of magnitude increase in pathogen reduction, compared to Al13. At a concentration of 2 ppm, GaAl12 performs equivalently to 40 ppm alum, removing ˜90% of the dissolved organic material. The substituted GaAl12 product also offers extended shelf-life and consistent performance. We also synthesized a related polyaluminum chloride compound made of pre-hydrolyzed dissolved alumina clusters of [GaO4Al12(OH)24(H2O)12]7+. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/369042 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/725 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119140 | Korber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts); Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); The University of Alabama at Birmingham Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bette T. Korber (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Simon Perkins (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Tanmoy Bhattacharya (Los Alamos, New Mexico); William M. Fischer (Los Alamos, New Mexico); James Theiler (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Norman Letvin (Boston, Massachusetts); Barton F. Haynes (Durham, North Carolina); Beatrice H. Hahn (Birmingham, Alabama); Karina Yusim (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Carla Kuiken (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to mosaic clade M HIV-1 Nef polypeptides and to compositions comprising same. The polypeptides of the invention are suitable for use in inducing an immune response to HIV-1 in a human. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 23, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/990222 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/188.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119198 | Muradov |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nazim Z. Muradov (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to novel three-dimensional (3D) carbon fibers which are original (or primary) carbon fibers (OCF) with secondary carbon filaments (SCF) grown thereon, and, if desired, tertiary carbon filaments (TCF) are grown from the surface of SCF forming a filamentous carbon network with high surface area. The methods and apparatus are provided for growing SCF on the OCF by thermal decomposition of carbonaceous gases (CG) over the hot surface of the OCF without use of metal-based catalysts. The thickness and length of SCF can be controlled by varying operational conditions of the process, e.g., the nature of CG, temperature, residence time, etc. The optional activation step enables one to produce 3D activated carbon fibers with high surface area. The method and apparatus are provided for growing TCF on the SCF by thermal decomposition of carbonaceous gases over the hot surface of the SCF using metal catalyst particles. |
| FILED | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/818529 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/249.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119273 | Gerald, II et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rex E. Gerald, II (Brookfield, Illinois); Katarina J. Ruscic (Chicago, Illinois); Devin N. Sears (Spruce Grove, Canada); Luis J. Smith (Natick, Massachusetts); Robert J. Klingler (Glenview, Illinois); Jerome W. Rathke (Homer Glen, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a unique battery having an active, porous membrane and method of making the same. More specifically the invention relates to a sealed battery system having a porous, metal oxide membrane with uniform, physicochemically functionalized ion channels capable of adjustable ionic interaction. The physicochemically-active porous membrane purports dual functions: an electronic insulator (separator) and a unidirectional ion-transporter (electrolyte). The electrochemical cell membrane is activated for the transport of ions by contiguous ion coordination sites on the interior two-dimensional surfaces of the trans-membrane unidirectional pores. The membrane material is designed to have physicochemical interaction with ions. Control of the extent of the interactions between the ions and the interior pore walls of the membrane and other materials, chemicals, or structures contained within the pores provides adjustability of the ionic conductivity of the membrane. |
| FILED | Friday, March 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/690413 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119367 | Preston, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James F. Preston, III (Micanopy, Florida); Virginia Chow (Gainesville, Florida); Guang Nong (Gainesville, Florida); John D. Rice (Gainesville, Florida); Franz J. St. John (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention provides at least one nucleic acid sequence encoding an aldouronate-utilization regulon isolated from Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2, a bacterium which efficiently utilizes xylan and metabolizes aldouronates (methylglucuronoxylosaccharides). The subject invention also provides a means for providing a coordinately regulated process in which xylan depolymerization and product assimilation are coupled in Paenibacillus sp. strain JDR-2 to provide a favorable system for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biobased products. Additionally, the nucleic acid sequences encoding the aldouronate-utilization regulon can be used to transform other bacteria to form organisms capable of producing a desired product (e.g., ethanol, 1-butanol, acetoin, 2,3-butanediol, 1,3-propanediol, succinate, lactate, acetate, malate or alanine) from lignocellulosic biomass. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/256155 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119377 | Yi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Biotechnology Institute (Lansing, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jian Yi (East Lansing, Michigan); Susanne Kleff (East Lansing, Michigan); Michael V. Guettler (Holt, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are recombinant microorganisms for producing organic acids. The recombinant microorganisms express a polypeptide that has the enzymatic activity of an enzyme that is utilized in the pentose phosphate cycle. The recombinant microorganism may include recombinant Actinobacillus succinogenes that has been transformed to express a Zwischenferment (Zwf) gene. The recombinant microorganisms may be useful in fermentation processes for producing organic acids such as succinic acid and lactic acid. Also disclosed are novel plasmids that are useful for transforming microorganisms to produce recombinant microorganisms that express enzymes such as Zwf. |
| FILED | Friday, December 16, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/722579 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119571 | Goyal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Amit Goyal (Knoxville, Tennessee); Sukill Kang (Knoxville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel articles and methods to fabricate same with self-assembled nanodots and/or nanorods of a single or multicomponent material within another single or multicomponent material for use in electrical, electronic, magnetic, electromagnetic and electrooptical devices is disclosed. Self-assembled nanodots and/or nanorods are ordered arrays wherein ordering occurs due to strain minimization during growth of the materials. A simple method to accomplish this when depositing in-situ films is also disclosed. Device applications of resulting materials are in areas of superconductivity, photovoltaics, ferroelectrics, magnetoresistance, high density storage, solid state lighting, non-volatile memory, photoluminescence, thermoelectrics and in quantum dot lasers. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/498120 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Superconductor technology: Apparatus, material, process 55/238 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Novozymes, Inc. (Davis, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Harris (Carnation, Washington); Alfredo Lopez de Leon (Davis, California); Micheal Rey (Davis, California); Hanshu Ding (Davis, California); Elena Vlasenko (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having endoglucanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/892614 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/288 |
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| US 08120224 | Trzynadlowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on behalf of the University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski (Reno, Nevada); Ling Qin (Reno, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A permanent-magnet switched-flux (PMSF) device has an outer rotor mounted to a shaft about a central axis extending axially through the PMSF device. First and second pluralities of permanent-magnets (PMs) are respectively mounted in first and second circles, radially outwardly in first and second transverse planes extending from first and second sections of the central axis adjacent to an inner surface of the outer rotor. An inner stator is coupled to the shaft and has i) a stator core having a core axis co-axial with the central axis; and ii) first and second pluralities of stator poles mounted in first and second circles, radially outwardly from the stator core axis in the first and second transverse planes. The first and second pluralities of PMs each include PMs of alternating polarity. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/116180 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/168 |
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| US 08120225 | Thundat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas George Thundat (Knoxville, Tennessee); Charles W. Van Neste (Kingston, Tennessee); Arpad Alexander Vass (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A generator includes a coil disposed about a core. A first stationary magnetic field source may be disposed on a first end portion of the core and a second stationary magnetic field source may be disposed on a second end portion of core. The first and second stationary magnetic field sources apply a stationary magnetic field to the coil. An external magnetic field source may be disposed outside the coil to apply a moving magnetic field to the coil. Electrical energy is generated in response to an interaction between the coil, the moving magnetic field, and the stationary magnetic field. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/478429 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/181 |
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| US 08120448 | Peng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haibing Peng (Houston, Texas); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable nanostructure such as a nanotube is used to make an electromechanical oscillator. The mechanically oscillating nanotube can be provided with inertial clamps in the form of metal beads. The metal beads serve to clamp the nanotube so that the fundamental resonance frequency is in the microwave range, i.e., greater than at least 1 GHz, and up to 4 GHz and beyond. An electric current can be run through the nanotube to cause the metal beads to move along the nanotube and changing the length of the intervening nanotube segments. The oscillator can operate at ambient temperature and in air without significant loss of resonance quality. The nanotube is can be fabricated in a semiconductor style process and the device can be provided with source, drain, and gate electrodes, which may be connected to appropriate circuitry for driving and measuring the oscillation. Novel driving and measuring circuits are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/446231 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120546 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David R. Smith (La Jolla, California); David Schurig (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compensating multi layer material includes two compensating layers adjacent to one another. A multi-layer embodiment of the invention produces sub-wavelength near-field focusing, but mitigates the thickness and loss limitations of the isotropic “perfect lens.” An antenna substrate comprises an indefinite material. |
| FILED | Friday, February 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/395368 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121162 | Eisler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans J. Eisler (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Michael E. Walsh (Everett, Massachusetts); Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure including a grating and a semiconductor nanocrystal layer on the grating, can be a laser. The semiconductor nanocrystal layer can include a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals including a Group II-VI compound, the nanocrystals being distributed in a metal oxide matrix. The grating can have a periodicity from 200 nm to 500 nm. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/275800 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/43.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121708 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David G. Wilson (Tijeras, New Mexico); Rush D. Robinett, III (Tijeras, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system design method and concomitant control system comprising representing a physical apparatus to be controlled as a Hamiltonian system, determining elements of the Hamiltonian system representation which are power generators, power dissipators, and power storage devices, analyzing stability and performance of the Hamiltonian system based on the results of the determining step and determining necessary and sufficient conditions for stability of the Hamiltonian system, creating a stable control system based on the results of the analyzing step, and employing the resulting control system to control the physical apparatus. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052180 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122197 | Blumrich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthias A. Blumrich (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Dong Chen (Croton on Hudson, New York); Paul W. Coteus (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alan G. Gara (Mount Kisco, New York); Mark E. Giampapa (Irvington, New York); Philip Heidelberger (Cortlandt Manor, New York); Dirk Hoenicke (Ossining, New York); Martin Ohmacht (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for managing coherence between two processors of a two processor node of a multi-processor computer system. Generally the present invention relates to a software algorithm that simplifies and significantly speeds the management of cache coherence in a message passing parallel computer, and to hardware apparatus that assists this cache coherence algorithm. The software algorithm uses the opening and closing of put/get windows to coordinate the activated required to achieve cache coherence. The hardware apparatus may be an extension to the hardware address decode, that creates, in the physical memory address space of the node, an area of virtual memory that (a) does not actually exist, and (b) is therefore able to respond instantly to read and write requests from the processing elements. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543890 |
| ART UNIT | 2185 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122228 | Faraj |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmad Faraj (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for broadcasting collective operation contributions throughout a parallel computer. The parallel computer includes a plurality of compute nodes connected together through a data communications network. Each compute node has a plurality of processors for use in collective parallel operations on the parallel computer. Broadcasting collective operation contributions throughout a parallel computer according to embodiments of the present invention includes: transmitting, by each processor on each compute node, that processor's collective operation contribution to the other processors on that compute node using intra-node communications; and transmitting on a designated network link, by each processor on each compute node according to a serial processor transmission sequence, that processor's collective operation contribution to the other processors on the other compute nodes using inter-node communications. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/053842 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/28 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08117842 | McBride et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Benjamin R. Bollinger (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Michael Schaefer (West Lebanon, New Hampshire); Dax Kepshire (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | In various embodiments, a pneumatic cylinder assembly is coupled to a mechanism that converts motion of a piston into electricity, and vice versa, during expansion or compression of a gas in the pneumatic cylinder assembly. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026677 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/613 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08117902 — Nanopatterned surfaces and related methods for selective adhesion, sensing and separation
| US 08117902 | Santore et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Maria Monica Santore (Sunderland, Massachusetts); Surachate Kalasin (Amherst, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is comprised, in part, of a surface that contains more than one component or construct. Such heterogenous surface compositions and configurations, related systems and methods for sensing particle or analyte interaction therewith can selectively and/or differentially interact with a range of particles/analytes, in lieu of specific molecular sensor-analyte interactions for each particle. These interactions of various analytes or particles can differ sufficiently in strength and range between multiple analyte types or particles to effect a separation of analytes or particles mixtures, in a way that requires no sensing or detection. With incorporation of a sensing mechanism, discrimination/detection of different compounds within an analyte mixture can be accomplished. |
| FILED | Monday, June 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/215046 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/61.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08118243 | Pfeffer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, New Jersey); Evonik Carbon Black GmbH (Hanau, Germany) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Pfeffer (Scottsdale, Arizona); Jose A. Quevedo (Brick, New Jersey); Juergen Flesch (Rayong, Thailand) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for enhancing fluidization of nanoparticle and/or nanoagglomerates are provided. A fluidization chamber is provided with a fluidizing medium directed in a first fluidizing direction, e.g., upward into and through a bed containing a volume of nanoparticles and/or nanopowders. A second source of air/gas flow is provided with respect to the fluidization chamber, the secondary air/gas flow generally being oppositely directed relative to the fluidizing medium. Turbulence created by the secondary gas flow is advantageously effective to aerate the agglomerates and the shear generated by the jet is advantageously effective to break apart nanoagglomerates and/or reduce the tendency for nanoagglomerates to form or reform. A downwardly directed source of secondary gas flow located near the main gas distributor leads to full fluidization of the entire amount of powder in the column. The oppositely directed fluid flow facilitates powder circulation within the fluidization chamber, thereby enhancing fluidization results. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937736 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid material comminution or disintegration 241/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08118744 | Palmeri et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark L. Palmeri (Durham, North Carolina); Kathryn R. Nightingale (Durham, North Carolina); Gregg E. Trahey (Durham, North Carolina); Kristin D. Frinkley (Durham, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for determining a mechanical parameter of a sample include detecting shear waves that have been generated in the sample by an applied shear wave source. A time of peak displacement of the shear waves for a plurality of sample positions is determined. At least one mechanical parameter of the sample based on the time of peak displacement for the plurality of sample positions is determined. |
| FILED | Friday, February 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/028203 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119032 | Gordon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy G. Gordon (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Damon B. Farmer (White Plains, New York); Charles M. Marcus (Winchester, Massachusetts); James R. Williams (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides methods functionalizing a planar surface of a graphene layer, a graphite surface, or microelectronic structure. The graphene layer, graphite surface, or planar microelectronic structure surface is exposed to at least one vapor including at least one functionalization species that non-covalently bonds to the graphene layer, a graphite surface, or planar microelectronic surface while providing a functionalization layer of chemically functional groups, to produce a functionalized graphene layer, graphite surface, or planar microelectronic surface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/157337 |
| ART UNIT | 1764 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/502 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119364 | Burkart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael D. Burkart (San Diego, California); Kristine Clarke (San Diego, California); Andrew C. Mercer (LaJolla, California); James J. LaClair (San Diego, California); Jordan Meier (LaJolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods to generate analogs of coenzyme A in vivo are disclosed. The methods to generate analogs of coenzyme A in a cell comprise reacting pantetheine or a derivative thereof with a reporter to form labeled pantetheine or a derivative thereof, contacting the cell with the labeled pantetheine or derivative thereof such that the labeled pantetheine or derivative thereof enters the cell, phosphorylating the labeled pantetheine or derivative thereof to form phosphopantetheine or a derivative thereof, adenylating the labeled phosphopantetheine or derivative thereof to form a labeled dephosphoCoenzyme A or derivative thereof, and phosphorylating the 3′-hydroxyl of the labeled dephosphoCoenzyme A or derivative thereof to form a labeled coenzyme A analog or derivative thereof. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/789181 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119445 | Virkar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ajay A. Virkar (Stanford, California); Stefan Christian Bernhardt Mannsfeld (Palo Alto, California); Zhenan Bao (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Organic semiconductor devices exhibit desirable mobility characteristics. In connection with various example embodiments, a monolayer of methyl-terminated molecules exhibits density characteristics that are sufficient to promote two-dimensional growth of organic semiconductor material formed thereupon. In some applications, the methyl-terminated molecules are sufficiently dense to dominate inter-layer interactions between layers of the organic semiconductor material. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127323 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119653 | Romo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Texas A and M University System (College Station, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Romo (College Station, Texas); Sung Wook Cho (College Station, Texas); Jeffrey W. Smith (San Diego, California); Robyn D. Richardson (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Derivatives of belactosin and their synthesis are disclosed. In certain embodiments, compounds of the present invention exhibit anti-cancer, antiviral, antibiotic, and/or auto-immune therapeutic abilities. In general, methods of synthesis disclosed herein allow for introduction of a variety of substituents at numerous positions as well as the facile introduction of a beta-lactone ring moiety. The synthetic steps comprise, in preferred embodiments, a tandem Mukaiyama aldol lactonization reaction. Data demonstrating the utility of some of the derivatives as proteasome inhibitors is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, July 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/775154 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119742 | Dalsin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KNC Ner Acquisition Sub, Inc. (Exton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Dalsin (Madison, Wisconsin); Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura Vollenweider (Middleton, Wisconsin); Sunil Silvary (Madison, Wisconsin); John L. Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Amanda Spitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Arinne Lyman (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes families of compounds that utilize multihydroxyl phenyl groups to provide adhesive properties. Selection of the multihydroxy phenyl group along with linkers or linking groups and the linkages between the linkers or linking groups with polyalkylene oxides, provides materials that can be engineered to afford controllable curing time, biodegradation and/or swelling. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568542 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119759 | Edmiston |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Edmiston (Wooster, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a method of making a swellable sol-gel composition that involves the use of a bridged silane precursor. The resulting sol-gel includes residual silanols, which are derivatized with a reagent having at least one silanol-reactive group and at least one alkyl group; and the sol-gel is then dried. Sol-gels of the invention are demonstrated to swell up to about 8-10 times their original volume in the presence of a non-polar sorbate. The sol-gel compositions can be used in a sorbate-activated actuator or in a detector for non-polar sorbates. The sol-gel compositions can further be used to take up non-polar sorbates for purposes of chemical remediation, extraction from aqueous systems or vapor, and chemical sensing. |
| FILED | Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/819940 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/35 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119782 | MacDonald et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joanne MacDonald (New York, New York); Milan N. Stojanovic (Fort Lee, New Jersey); Darko Stefanovic (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | The development of the first solution-phase molecular assembly comprising over 100 molecular logic gates, which more than quadruples the complexity performed by any previous system. “MAYA-II” is a second generation molecular automaton capable of playing a complete game of tic-tac-toe against a human opponent, and encompasses 76 permissible game plays. MAYA-II is more user-friendly than MAYA-I, as it signals both players move in a two-color output system and imposes no constraints on the position of the human player's first move. MAYA-II is constructed from three classes of stem-loop controlled deoxyribozyme-based logic gates that are allosterically modulated by input oligonucleotides to produce fluorescent output signals. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/319835 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119976 | Squier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeff Squier (Golden, Colorado); David W. M. Marr (Golden, Colorado); Robert Applegate (Golden, Colorado); Tor Vestad (Golden, Colorado); Justin Chichester (Centennial, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system, method, and device for re-orienting and/or deforming cells and other objects is provided. The system, method, and device may include a high-throughput setup that facilitates the ability to orient, deform, analyze, measure, and/or tag objects at a substantially higher rate than was previously possible. A relatively large number of cells and other objects can be deformed, by optical forces for example, as the cells and other objects a flowed through the system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/167136 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/251 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120147 | Sugg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vega Wave Systems, Inc. (West Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Sugg (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, and improvement thereof, and method of making and method of using the same, as well as necessary intermediates, generally relating to the field of semiconductor devices, the structure of transistors, and the structure of compound semiconductor heterojunction bipolar transistors. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/344481 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/562 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120448 | Peng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Haibing Peng (Houston, Texas); Alexander K. Zettl (Kensington, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A tunable nanostructure such as a nanotube is used to make an electromechanical oscillator. The mechanically oscillating nanotube can be provided with inertial clamps in the form of metal beads. The metal beads serve to clamp the nanotube so that the fundamental resonance frequency is in the microwave range, i.e., greater than at least 1 GHz, and up to 4 GHz and beyond. An electric current can be run through the nanotube to cause the metal beads to move along the nanotube and changing the length of the intervening nanotube segments. The oscillator can operate at ambient temperature and in air without significant loss of resonance quality. The nanotube is can be fabricated in a semiconductor style process and the device can be provided with source, drain, and gate electrodes, which may be connected to appropriate circuitry for driving and measuring the oscillation. Novel driving and measuring circuits are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/446231 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Wave transmission lines and networks 333/186 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120770 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony Jun Huang (State College, Pennsylvania); Xiaole Mao (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A microfluidic device comprises inlets for a sample flow and an out-of-plane focusing sheath flow, and a curved channel section configured to receive the sample flow and out-of-plane focusing sheath and to provide hydrodynamic focusing of the sample flow in an out-of-plane direction, the out-of-plane direction being normal to a plane including the curved channel. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/207699 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121162 | Eisler et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hans J. Eisler (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Vikram C. Sundar (Stoneham, Massachusetts); Michael E. Walsh (Everett, Massachusetts); Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Moungi G. Bawendi (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Henry I. Smith (Sudbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure including a grating and a semiconductor nanocrystal layer on the grating, can be a laser. The semiconductor nanocrystal layer can include a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals including a Group II-VI compound, the nanocrystals being distributed in a metal oxide matrix. The grating can have a periodicity from 200 nm to 500 nm. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/275800 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/43.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121433 | Leprince et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sebastien Leprince (Pasadena, California); Jean-Philippe Avouac (Pasadena, California); Francois Ayoub (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for mapping and resampling images such as satellite or aerial images are presented, including methods to measure relative displacements of images, methods to refine look directions of an aircraft or satellite for aerial or satellite imaging and methods to ortho-rectify and co-register raw satellite or aerial images. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/340693 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/294 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122366 | Harrold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mary Jean Harrold (Atlanta, Georgia); Carsten Goerg (Atlanta, Georgia); Hina Shah (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are various embodiments for visualization of exception-handling constructs. In one embodiment, among others, a system includes at least one computing device; a program maintained in a memory accessible to the at least one computing device; and logic executable in the at least one computing device configured to analyze the program to determine exception-handling information; generate a graphical user interface based upon the exception-handling information; and provide the graphical user interface for display on a display device. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560689 |
| ART UNIT | 2172 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/762 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08119404 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qihong Huang (San Diego, California); John C. Reed (Rancho Santa Fe, California); Bruce D. Hammock (Davis, California); Quinn L. Deveraux (San Diego, California); Susumu Maeda (Pasadena, California); Hiroko Maeda, legal representative (Pasadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides polypeptides comprising inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family members, such as BmIAP initially derived from Bombyx mori BmN cells, and nucleic acids encoding them, and methods for making and using these compositions, including their use for inhibiting apoptosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/832682 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119742 | Dalsin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | KNC Ner Acquisition Sub, Inc. (Exton, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Dalsin (Madison, Wisconsin); Bruce P. Lee (Madison, Wisconsin); Laura Vollenweider (Middleton, Wisconsin); Sunil Silvary (Madison, Wisconsin); John L. Murphy (Madison, Wisconsin); Fangmin Xu (Middleton, Wisconsin); Amanda Spitz (Madison, Wisconsin); Arinne Lyman (Fitchburg, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes families of compounds that utilize multihydroxyl phenyl groups to provide adhesive properties. Selection of the multihydroxy phenyl group along with linkers or linking groups and the linkages between the linkers or linking groups with polyalkylene oxides, provides materials that can be engineered to afford controllable curing time, biodegradation and/or swelling. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568542 |
| ART UNIT | 1766 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/408 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP22505 | Bliss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fredrick A. Bliss (Davis, California); Ali A. Almehdi (Davis, California); Theodore M. Dejong (Davis, California); Anne Gillen (Leland, Mississippi); Craig A. Ledbetter (Clovis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The new ‘HBOK10’ rootstock, a hybrid between two peach parents, is useful as a commercial under-stock for peach and nectarine cultivars. The stock has been successfully propagated clonally by leafy cuttings and tissue culture. This rootstock imparts significant vigor control to the scion cultivar that is propagated on top of it. This rootstock produces very few root suckers, its anchorage is good and it is resistant to root-knot nematode. Utilization of adapted growth controlling rootstocks in commercial orchard situations reduces the height of the tree and the amount of wood pruned in the winter and summer, without compromising the quality of the fruit. This in turn increases the efficiency of various cultural operations such as pruning, thinning and harvesting by reducing the need for workers in the field to use tall ladders when carrying out these operations. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/653883 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/194 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08119265 | Hsia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Seagate Technology LLC (Scotts Valley, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiao-Tee Hsia (Wexford, Pennsylvania); Wei Peng (Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania); Timothy J. Klemmer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin film structure, such as a magnetic recording media, having a magnetic layer and a stress-effecting layer is disclosed. The stress-effecting layer induces a magneto-elastic anisotropy in the magnetic layer. The stress-effecting layer can be activated by the application of an external stress and/or strain. The induced magneto-elastic anisotropy can transiently achieve and/or enhance a tilt angle of the medium. The medium can be a perpendicular magnetic recording medium, a longitudinal magnetic recording medium and/or a tilted magnetic recording medium. The magnetic recording media is suitable for use with a data storage system, such as a HAMR data storage system. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/265031 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/832 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08119701 | Delaviz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC (Toledo, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yadollah Delaviz (Lewis Center, Ohio); Bharat Patel (Dublin, Ohio); Mark Polasky (Mogadore, Ohio); Raymond M. Breindel (Hartville, Ohio); Roland R. Loh (Stow, Ohio); Mitchell Z. Weekley (Tallmadge, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for making polystyrene foam which utilizes one or more atmospheric gases, particularly combinations of HFCs and CO2, as the blowing system in combination with a polymer processing aid (PPA), typically an ester that is relatively non-volatile at the extrusion temperature range. The blowing system and the PPA may both be introduced into the molten thermoplastic polystyrene resin or the PPA may be incorporated in the solid source polystyrene resins. The resulting foams will typically exhibit improved dimensional stability at ambient temperatures. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/257301 |
| ART UNIT | 1767 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 521/97 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120772 | Cicerone et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcus T. Cicerone (Urbana, Maryland); Young Jong Lee (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are described for suppressing nonresonant background in broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy and spectroscopy. The methods and systems improve sensitivity and signal to noise ratio in CARS. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/611176 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08119238 | Parrish |
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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) | Clyde F. Parrish (Trinity, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A self-healing system for an insulation material initiates a self-repair process by rupturing a plurality of microcapsules disposed on the insulation material. When the plurality of microcapsules are ruptured, reactants within the plurality of microcapsules react to form a replacement polymer in a break of the insulation material. This self-healing system has the ability to repair multiple breaks in a length of insulation material without exhausting the repair properties of the material. |
| FILED | Monday, September 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/856218 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/402.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120529 | Bar-Sever et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yoaz E. Bar-Sever (Altadena, California); William I. Bertiger (Altadena, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for autonomous in-receiver prediction of orbit and clock states of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are described. Only the GNSS broadcast message is used, without need for periodic externally-communicated information. Earth orientation information is extracted from the GNSS broadcast ephemeris. With the accurate estimation of the Earth orientation parameters it is possible to propagate the best-fit GNSS orbits forward in time in an inertial reference frame. Using the estimated Earth orientation parameters, the predicted orbits are then transformed into Earth-Centered-Earth-Fixed (ECEF) coordinates to be used to assist the GNSS receiver in the acquision of the signals. GNSS satellite clock states are also extracted from the broadcast ephemeris and a parameterized model of clock behavior is fit to that data. The estimated modeled clocks are then propagated forward in time to enable, together with the predicted orbits, quicker GNSS signal acquision. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/208525 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08121818 | Gorinevsky |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mitek Analytics LLC (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitry Gorinevsky (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Proposed is a method, implemented in software, for estimating fault state of an apparatus outfitted with sensors. At each execution period the method processes sensor data from the apparatus to obtain a set of parity parameters, which are further used for estimating fault state. The estimation method formulates a convex optimization problem for each fault hypothesis and employs a convex solver to compute fault parameter estimates and fault likelihoods for each fault hypothesis. The highest likelihoods and corresponding parameter estimates are transmitted to a display device or an automated decision and control system. The obtained accurate estimate of fault state can be used to improve safety, performance, or maintenance processes for the apparatus. |
| FILED | Monday, November 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/268357 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08121478 | Kash et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Alan Kash (Pleasantville, New York); Laurent Schares (Sleepy Hollow, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a bidirectional communications system includes a first non-blocking network including a bidirectional optical switch, a plurality of nodes, a plurality of optical transceivers connected between the bidirectional optical switch and the plurality of nodes, each optical transceiver including a transmitter, a receiver and an optical combiner, and a second network connected to at least one of the nodes and the at least one at least one bidirectional optical switch for control of a crossconnect. |
| FILED | Friday, March 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/408416 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122281 | Bansal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikhil Bansal (Yorktown Heights, New York); Ranjita Bhagwan (Bangalore, India); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Chitra Venkatramani (Roslyn Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for allocating distributed processing systems includes inputting component descriptions in a distributed processing system and determining importance of each component. Capacity and failure characteristics of resource groups representing units of available processing capacity are also input. Components are assigned to a plurality of resource groups based on the capacity. Each resource group includes components where the failure characteristics permit simultaneous failures, such that in the event of such failures, an output value of the application is maximized. |
| FILED | Friday, April 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/735026 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/3 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08119288 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an exfoliated graphite-based hybrid material composition for use as an electrode, particularly as an anode of a lithium ion battery. The composition comprises: (a) micron- or nanometer-scaled particles or coating which are capable of absorbing and desorbing alkali or alkaline metal ions (particularly, lithium ions); and (b) exfoliated graphite flakes that are substantially interconnected to form a porous, conductive graphite network comprising pores, wherein at least one of the particles or coating resides in a pore of the network or attached to a flake of the network and the exfoliated graphite amount is in the range of 5% to 90% by weight and the amount of particles or coating is in the range of 95% to 10% by weight. Also provided is a lithium secondary battery comprising such a negative electrode (anode). The battery exhibits an exceptional specific capacity, excellent reversible capacity, and long cycle life. |
| FILED | Monday, November 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/982662 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/231.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08120147 | Sugg |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vega Wave Systems, Inc. (West Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Sugg (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, and improvement thereof, and method of making and method of using the same, as well as necessary intermediates, generally relating to the field of semiconductor devices, the structure of transistors, and the structure of compound semiconductor heterojunction bipolar transistors. |
| FILED | Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/344481 |
| ART UNIT | 2892 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/562 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
| US 08121347 | Metaxas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dimitris Metaxas (North Brunswick, New Jersey); Atul Kanaujia (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for tracking features, e.g., facial features, is provided, which allows for the tracking of features which move in a series of images and whose shape changes nonlinearly due to perspective projection and complex 3D movements. A training set of images is processed to produce clustered shape subspaces corresponding to the set of images, such that non-linear shape manifolds in the images are represented as piecewise, overlapping linear surfaces that are clustered according to similarities in perspectives. A landmark-based training algorithm (e.g., ASM) is applied to the clustered shape subspaces to train a model of the clustered shape subspaces and to create training data. A subsequent image is processed using the training data to identify features in the target image by creating an initial shape, superimposing the initial shape on the target image, and then iteratively deforming the shape in accordance with the model until a final shape is produced corresponding to a feature in the target image. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/954786 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08119403 | Warren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanofi Pasteur Vaxdesign Corp. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William L. Warren (Orlando, Florida); Russell Higbee (Orlando, Florida); Eric Mishkin (Winter Springs, Florida); Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz (Orlando, Florida); Heather Fahlenkamp (Cleveland, Oklahoma); Michael Rivard (Natick, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods for preparing an artificial immune system. The artificial immune system comprises a cell culture comprising a three-dimensional matrix comprising lymphoid tissue, a three-dimensional matrix comprising epithelial and/or endothelial cells, and diseased cells. The artificial immune system of the present invention can be used for in vitro testing of vaccines, adjuvants, immunotherapy candidates, cosmetics, drugs, biologics and other chemicals. |
| FILED | Friday, March 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/718084 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
| US 08118132 | Gray, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Gray, Jr. (Pinckney, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydraulic hybrid vehicle includes elements such as a hydraulic pump driven by an internal combustion engine and arranged to draw in low pressure fluid and pump the fluid at high pressure to an accumulator. A hydraulic motor is powered by the pressurized fluid. Safety processes are provided for detecting and addressing a number of conditions that may arise in the operation of the hydraulic hybrid vehicle, including an initialization procedure for start-up of the vehicle, a shut-down procedure, and procedures for detecting and responding to failure of the pump or motor, internal and external fluid leaks, and non-responsive actuation and mode control systems. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/583205 |
| ART UNIT | 3618 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Motor vehicles 180/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08120544 | Sauer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rohn Sauer (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact continuous ground plane system is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to an assembly for forming a continuous ground plane for an antenna having at least two elements configured to move relative to one another, the ground assembly including a first element having a housing, a plunger disposed within the housing, a second element, a wear plate coupled to the second element, and a spring disposed between the plunger and the housing, the spring configured to urge the plunger toward the wear plate, where the plunger is configured to be moved within the housing and to make electrical contact with the wear plate. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391979 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/846 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08119987 | Yoon et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Howard W. Yoon (Gaithersburg, Maryland); George P. Eppeldauer (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An infrared measurement apparatus and method to detect and view ambient-temperature objects using short-wave infrared (“SWIR”) detectors which operate in a wavelength region from 2.0 μm to 2.5 μm. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/472632 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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