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Patent Details for Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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| US 08122583 | Luczak et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Blake J. Luczak (Manchester, Connecticut); Glenn A. Cotnoir (Thompson, Connecticut); James T. Beals (West Hartford, Connecticut); Thomas M. Morin (Terryville, Connecticut); Joseph J. Parkos, Jr. (East Haddam, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Removing of a casting core from a metal casting leaves at least one opening in a surface of the metal. The opening is filled with a sacrificial material. The metal and sacrificial material are machined at the opening. After the machining, a remainder of the sacrificial material is removed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/758160 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/527.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122601 | Kernozicky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garrett Kernozicky (Mansfield, Connecticut); Ephraim C. Davis (No Richland Hills, Texas); Thomas P. Cap (Simsbury, Connecticut); Paul Balko (Shelton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of correcting a twist angle of a gas turbine engine blade includes measuring an existing twist angle of the blade, applying a first angular load to a first end of the blade; and measuring a repaired twist angle of the blade. The first angular load applied to the first end of the blade is based on an empirical correlation between a plurality of angular loads necessary to produce a plurality of twist angle correction values. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082864 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/889.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122724 | Slovisky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Slovisky (Chandler, Arizona); Michael T. Barton (Scottsdale, Arizona); John A. Gunaraj (Chandler, Arizona); Mahmoud L. Mansour (Phoenix, Arizona); Donald L. Palmer (Cave Creek, Arizona); Charles J. Paine (Tempe, Arizona); George L. Perrone (Phoenix, Arizona); Nick A. Nolcheff (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A compressor includes a diffuser, a recirculation duct, and a flow control valve. The recirculation duct has an inlet in fluid communication with the air outlet of the diffuser, and an outlet in fluid communication with the air inlet of the diffuser. The flow control valve is selectively moveable between open and closed positions, to thereby fluidly couple and isolate, respectively, the recirculation duct inlet and outlets. During operation of the compressor, the flow control valve may be opened, which circulates a portion of the compressed air discharged from the diffuser air outlet back to the diffuser air inlet. The air that is circulated back to the diffuser air inlet reduces the effective area of the diffuser air inlet, thereby increasing the surge margin of the compressor. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 31, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/931502 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/772 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122769 | Shaw |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Orbital Research, Inc (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Greg S. Shaw (Shaker Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a pressure sensor comprising multiple flexible diaphragms to which are affixed, within which are embedded, or which themselves constitute part of transducer elements that are connected together electrically, providing greater sensitivity and allowing the diaphragms to be made smaller, thereby increasing burst pressure to operating pressure ratio. This multi-diaphragm pressure sensor can therefore be used to accurately measure small changes in dynamic pressure in a fluid of overall high static pressure, for example, in a flow inventory control system as may be used in a fire suppression system, or for control of nuclear reactor systems. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875530 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123169 | Collette |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Ross Collette (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A vertical non-bladdered fuel tank for a ducted fan vehicle comprising: a pod that releasably connects to a core vehicle of a ducted fan vehicle, a vertical fuel tank contained by the pod, wherein the vertical fuel tank is centered between the fore and aft sides of the pod, an outlet in a floor of the vertical fuel tank located adjacent to a sidewall on the fore side of the vertical fuel tank, wherein the outlet is coupled to a draw tube contained by the core vehicle, and a pressure release vent located at the highlight of the pod's duct. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269132 |
| ART UNIT | 3653 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/135.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123228 | Muldoon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc J. Muldoon (Marlborough, Connecticut); Tor W. Sherwood (San Diego, California); Meggan H. Harris-Miller (Colchester, Connecticut); Robert T. Brooks (Chuluota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine augmentor has a centerbody within a gas flowpath from upstream to downstream. The augmentor has upstream and downstream shell sections, a downstream rim of the upstream shell section meeting an upstream rim of the downstream shell section shell section. A plurality of vanes are positioned in the gas flowpath outboard of the centerbody. An augmentor spray bar fuel conduit extends through the centerbody and a first of the vanes to deliver fuel to the centerbody. A seal is mounted to the spray bar and positioned in a recess extending from at least one of the downstream rim of the upstream shell section and upstream rim of the downstream shell section shell section. The seal has a first portion and a second portion engaging the first portion in a backlocked interfitting. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/415170 |
| ART UNIT | 3674 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Seal for a joint or juncture 277/546 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123460 | Collette |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel Collette (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Electronic equipment frequently requires cooling to maintain the integrity and reliability of the equipment, and to elongate the life expectancy of the equipment. When in operation, the fan of a UAV creates airflow comprising outside air directed across the duct of the UAV. Utilizing this airflow generated by the fan of a UAV to provide heat transfer from a equipment enclosure accomplishes efficient heat transfer. The methods described herein for transferring heat from an equipment enclosure using an airflow generated by a fan of a UAV may be employed for UAVs having a variety of duct shapes, and having equipment enclosures inside the duct or in detachable equipment enclosures located on the duct of the UAV. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/178242 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/68 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123556 | Esplin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger C. Esplin (Marana, Arizona); John M. Oldham (Marana, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A compact, low profile coaxial to printed wiring board interface includes an interface block and an adapter. The interface block has a stepped opening for receiving the adapter and a coaxial cable. The adapter includes an outer profile with a series of steps that align and mate with the stepped opening of the interface block. An inner insulator of the coaxial cable is positioned entirely within the interface block and lies substantially flush with a first outside surface of the interface block, an outer conductor of the coaxial cable is positioned at an approximate midpoint interface of the adapter, an outer insulator of the coaxial cable lies flush with an external surface of the adapter, and a portion of the adapter positioned outside the interface block comprises a low profile such that the coaxial cable can be positioned away from a perpendicular to the interface block. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421315 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/579 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123740 | Madhani et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Akhil J. Madhani (Glendale, California); J. Kenneth Salisbury, Jr. (Los Altos, California); Gunter D. Niemeyer (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A robotic apparatus has eight actuators (M0-M7) and a linkage (LINK 0-LINK 5) that actuates an end effector. Three serial macro freedoms have large ranges of motion and inertias. Four serial micro freedoms have small ranges of motion and inertias. Translation of the end effector in any direction is actuated by at least one micro joint and at least one macro joint. The apparatus can be part of a master and slave combination, providing force feedback without any explicit force sensors. The slave is controlled with an Inverse Jacobian controller, and the mater with a Jacobian Transpose controller. A slave having more degrees of freedom (DOFs) than the master can be controlled. A removable effector unit actuates its DOFs with cables. Beating heart surgery can be accomplished by commanding the slave to move with a beating heart and cancelling out any such motion in the motions perceived by the master. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/893613 |
| ART UNIT | 3769 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123834 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Zheng Ni (Urbana, Illinois); Mark A. Shannon (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel metal organic framework (MOF) molecules and methods of synthesizing them are described. MOFs are organometallic crystalline structures that have high sorption capacity due to high surface area, tailorable selectivity, an inert nature, and thermal stability at high temperatures. MOFs may be used as sorbents in preconcentrators for analytical devices to provide orders of magnitude of improved sensitivity in analyte detection. MOFs are also useful as sorbents in new compact and portable micropreconcentrator designs such as a modified purge and trap system and a multi-valve microelectromechanical system (MEMS) to achieve high gain in analyte detection. Further, MOFs may be used as coatings for novel microstructure arrays in micropreconcentrators where the microstructures are designed to increase the surface area to volume ratio inside the micropreconcentrator while minimizing the pressure drop across the micropreconcentrator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539405 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123841 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Mark Shannon (Champaign, Illinois); Adarsh D Radadia (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved micro-columns and methods for producing micro-columns particularly suitable for use in gas chromatographs are disclosed. In particular, following deposition of the stationary phase coating, the micro-columns are subjected to a postcoating treatment with a molecule that binds to the active sites in the stationary phase micro-column thereby eliminating or reducing loss of gas chromatograph performance associated with those active sites. The postcoating treatment molecule binds to the same active sites as the analytes of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337856 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123859 | Schowalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); J. Carlos Rojo (East Setau, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing bulk single crystals of AlN having low dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm−2 or less includes a crystal growth enclosure with Al and N2 source material therein, capable of forming bulk crystals. The apparatus maintains the N2 partial pressure at greater than stoichiometric pressure relative to the Al within the crystal growth enclosure, while maintaining the total vapor pressure in the crystal growth enclosure at super-atmospheric pressure. At least one nucleation site is provided in the crystal growth enclosure, and provision is made for cooling the nucleation site relative to other locations in the crystal growth enclosure. The Al and N2 vapor is then deposited to grow single crystalline low dislocation density AlN at the nucleation site. High efficiency ultraviolet light emitting diodes and ultraviolet laser diodes are fabricated on low defect density AlN substrates, which are cut from the low dislocation density AlN crystals. Bulk crystals of ZnO may also be produced using the method. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/841350 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123879 | Bellitto 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) | Victor J. Bellitto (Alexandria, Virginia); Stanley M. Caulder (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention generally relates to an energetic composition including adjacent layers of an explosive and a combustible fuel, and making of the energetic composition. Specifically, making the energetic composition includes vapor deposition of an explosive layer on a combustible fuel surface; alternatively, a combustible fuel layer may be chemically or physically deposited on an explosive surface to make the energetic composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 06, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/900134 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Explosive and thermic compositions or charges 149/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123904 | Akhtar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Biopulping International Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masood Akhtar (Middleton, Wisconsin); William R. Kenealy (Madison, Wisconsin); Eric G. Horn (Madison, Wisconsin); Ross E. Swaney (Madison, Wisconsin); Jerrold Winandy (Mazomanie, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for producing an MDF board from pulp from a fibrous lignocellulose material using a treatment or pretreatment step which exposes the material to oxalic acid or oxalic acid derivatives (particularly dialkyl ester derivatives, particularly in the vapor phase). The treated wood is then subjected to a sugar extraction wash and refined using any one of the several pulping methods to produce a final pulp product. Once this is done the pulp is used to make MDF boards having improved water repellency properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/854574 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123922 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryan J. White (Santa Barbara, California); Richard B. Brown (Salt Lake City, Utah); Hakhyun Nam (Seoul, South Korea); Jun Ho Shim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanopore based ion-selective electrodes and methods of their manufacture as well as methods for their use are disclosed and described. The nanopore based ion-selective electrode can include a pore being present in a solid material and having a nanosize opening in the solid material, a metal conductor disposed inside the pore opposite the opening in the solid material, a reference electrode material contacting said metal conductor and disposed inside the pore, a conductive composition in contact with the reference electrode and disposed in the pore, and an ion-selective membrane. The ion-selective membrane can be configured to isolate the metal conductor, reference electrode material, and conductive composition together within the pore. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852061 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124178 | Hass et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Derek D. Hass (Charlottesville, Virginia); Haydn N. G. Wadley (Keswick, Virginia); Kumar P. Dharmasena (Charlottesville, Virginia); Yosef Marciano (Metar, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A directed vapor deposition (DVD) method and system for applying at least one bond coating on at least one substrate for thermal barrier coating systems. To overcome the limitations incurred by conventional methods, the DVD system uses an electron beam directed vapor deposition (DVD) technique to evaporate and deposit compositionally and morphologically controlled bond coats at high rate. The present DVD system uses the combination of an electron beam and a combined inert gas/reactive gas carrier jet of controlled composition to create engineering films. In this system, the vaporized material can be entrained in the carrier gas jet and deposited onto the substrate at a high rate and with high materials utilization efficiency. The velocity and flux of the gas atoms entering the chamber, the nozzle parameters, and the operating chamber pressure can all be significantly varied, facilitating wide processing condition variation and allowing for improved control over the properties of the deposited layer. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/489090 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/248.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124184 | Sambasivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Thin Films, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sankar Sambasivan (Chicago, Illinois); Kimberly A. Steiner (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Aluminophosphate compounds, compositions and/or materials as can be used for substrate coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724052 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124191 | Ervin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Electronic Bio Sciences, LLC (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric N. Ervin (Salt Lake City, Utah); Geoffrey Alden Barrall (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for single-sided bilayer formation includes a first fluid chamber including a sidewall and a second fluid chamber extending through the sidewall. A barrier wall separates the first and second fluid chambers and includes a nanopore therein across which a planar lipid bilayer (PLB) is formed. In use, an electrolyte is added to the first and second fluid chambers and a lipid/organic solvent mixture is added to the first fluid chamber to form a lipid/organic solvent layer. The electrolyte level within the first fluid chamber is adjusted such that the lipid layer is raised above the barrier wall and a PLB is formed. Electrolyte levels may be adjusted manually or utilizing a fluid level regulator with or without feedback control. Optionally, the apparatus may be in the form of a nanopore array. The apparatus may be incorporated into an ion channel sensing system wherein an electrical current through each PLB is separately recorded. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325792 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/430.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124235 | Hong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hontek Corporation (South Windsor, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shek C. Hong (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of forming a matte topcoat for rotor blades, propellers and other articles used to protect a leading edge substrate against high speed liquid or solid particle erosion including premixing a concentrate of flatting agent dispersed in a solvent, reducing the moisture content using molecular sieves, blending the concentrate of flatting agent into a polyurethane or polyurea composition and forming a protective coating comprising a matte layer on the leading edge substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/814003 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/423.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124410 | Beebe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David James Beebe (Monona, Wisconsin); Hongmei Yu (Madison, Wisconsin); Caroline Alexander (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Co-cultures of heterogeneous cell populations in a diffusion-constrained microenvironment and methods for co-culturing are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/449344 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/383 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124463 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhihong Chen (Yorktown Heights, New York); Aaron D. Franklin (Yorktown Heights, New York); James B. Hannon (Yorktown Heights, New York); George S. Tulevski (Yorktown Heights, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Transistor devices having nanoscale material-based channels and techniques for the fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a transistor device includes a substrate; an insulator on the substrate; a gate embedded in the insulator with a top surface of the gate being substantially coplanar with a surface of the insulator; a dielectric layer over the gate and insulator; a channel comprising a carbon nanostructure material formed on the dielectric layer over the gate, wherein the dielectric layer over the gate and the insulator provides a flat surface on which the channel is formed; and source and drain contacts connected by the channel. A method of fabricating a transistor device is also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, September 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/563553 |
| ART UNIT | 2811 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/149 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124503 | Hauge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Ya-Qiong Xu (Houston, Texas); Hongwei Shan (Houston, Texas); Nolan Walker Nicholas (South Charleston, West Virginia); Myung Jong Kim (Houston, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and useful nanotube growth substrate conditioning processes is herein disclosed that allows the growth of vertical arrays of carbon nanotubes where the average diameter of the nanotubes can be selected and/or controlled as compared to the prior art. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/281611 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124583 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Elia Beniash (Newton, Massachusetts); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a composition useful for making homogeneously mineralized self assembled peptide-amphiphile nanofibers and nanofiber gels. The composition is generally a solution comprised of a positively or negatively charged peptide-amphiphile and a like signed ion from the mineral. Mixing this solution with a second solution containing a dissolved counter-ion of the mineral and/or a second oppositely charged peptide amphiphile, results in the rapid self assembly of the peptide-amphiphiles into a nanofiber gel and templated mineralization of the ions. Templated mineralization of the initially dissolved mineral cations and anions in the mixture occurs with preferential orientation of the mineral crystals along the fiber surfaces within the nanofiber gel. One advantage of the present invention is that it results in homogenous growth of the mineral throughout the nanofiber gel. Another advantage of the present invention is that the nanofiber gel formation and mineralization reactions occur in a single mixing step and under substantially neutral or physiological pH conditions. These homogeneous nanostructured composite materials are useful for medical applications especially the regeneration of damaged bone in mammals. This invention is directed to the synthesis of peptide-amphiphiles with more than one amphiphilic moment and to supramolecular compositions comprised of such multi-dimensional peptide-amphiphiles. Supramolecular compositions can be formed by self assembly of multi-dimensional peptide-amphiphiles by mixing them with a solution comprising a monovalent cation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489401 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124936 | Lagna |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William M. Lagna (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A stand-off chemical detector has an array of charge-coupled-device electromagnetic radiation sensing elements. One or more first charge-coupled-device electromagnetic radiation sensing elements of the array are selectively responsive to non-visible electromagnetic radiation having at least a first wavelength, and one or more second charge-coupled-device electromagnetic radiation sensing elements of the array are selectively responsive to non-visible electromagnetic radiation having at least a second wavelength that is different that the at least first wavelength. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 13, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/955674 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.10 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125011 | Johnson |
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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) | Mark B Johnson (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Magnetoelectronic devices are fabricated by joining the edge of one ferromagnetic thin film element with the top, or bottom, portion of a second ferromagnetic, or nonmagnetic, thin film element. The devices also employ a new operational geometry in which the transport of bias current is in the film plane of at least one of the thin film elements, but is substantially perpendicular to the film plane of at least one of the thin film elements. Additionally, any of the variety magnetoelectronic devices (e.g., current-in-plane spin valves, current-perpendicular-to-the-plane spin valves, magnetic tunnel junctions, and lateral spin valves can be fabricated using these features. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/622366 |
| ART UNIT | 2814 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125198 | Steinbrecher |
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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) | Donald H. Steinbrecher (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An amplitude, phase and frequency modulator circuit is provided with the circuit containing a periodically driven switch. The circuit connects a DC power source and a resistive load. Periodic operation of the switch generates a square-wave of voltage across the load. A transistor used as a switch is embedded in a switch driver that controls base current and base-emitter reverse bias voltage. The modulator DC input resistance is approximately equal to the load resistance when the switch ON-state period and OFF-state period are approximately equal. The modulator efficiency is nearly one hundred percent. The frequency response of the square-wave modulator system is high-pass with a lower cutoff frequency determined by element values. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/313789 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Power supply or regulation systems 323/222 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125361 | Choe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, LLC (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Myung-Jun Choe (Thousand Oaks, California); Munkyo Seo (Thousand Oaks, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) calibration. The present invention may be implemented by a DAC calibration system including a first current source, a first switch coupled to the first current source, a second current source, a second switch coupled to the second current source, an output node coupled to the first switch and the second switch, a first calibration module coupled to the output node, an average current measurement module coupled to the first calibration module, and a second calibration module coupled to the average current measurement module. |
| FILED | Monday, July 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/834822 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125370 | Rogers 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) | George W. Rogers (Milford, Virginia); Houra Rais (Adelphi, Maryland); Kenneth G. Bullard (Charlotte Hall, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for processing an acquired polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of a region to identify a candidate pixel that correlates to a target representation. The polarimetric SAR image is composed of a plurality of pixels, and the candidate pixel corresponds to a position in the region that contains a candidate object. The process includes deconstructing J parameter components each sample, obtaining acquired values for the image from select parameter components, acquiring reference values that characterize said parameter components for the target representation, determining distance values each reference value and each acquired value, comparing the distance values against a classification criterion to determine whether the candidate pixel conforms to the target representative. The process may further include extracting N sub-apertures from the polarimetric SAR image, and combining the distance values for the sub-apertures together to obtain distance summations for comparison. The process may additionally include multiplying the distance summations with their corresponding weighting factors to obtain weighted results and combining these to produce a weighted log-likelihood function that identifies whether the pixel conforms to the target. Determining a difference may further include subtracting reference values from their respective acquired values to respectively obtain set of differences, assigning normalized defaults to the differences in response to the difference having a specified relation to parameter thresholds, and otherwise normalizing the difference, and determining natural logs of unity minus said each difference to obtain their distance values. |
| FILED | Monday, March 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082194 |
| 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 342/25.F00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125627 | Dottery et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alakai Defense Systems, Inc. (Largo, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ed Dottery (Palm Harbor, Florida); Rob Waterbury (Palm Harbor, Florida); Chris Stefano (Dunedin, Florida); Roy Walters (Enterprise, Florida); Jeremy Rose (Largo, Florida); Frank Vilardi (Largo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A spectroscopy system including first and second lasers. The first laser is triggered to induce a plasma, such as on a surface of a target at a stand-off distance from the target. The second laser stimulates amplified emissions from the plasma detected by one or more spectroscopes. The gain induced by the second laser detects traces of explosives and other substances on surfaces at stand-off distances. The spectroscopy systems use the same telescopic optics to collect emissions from the detection surface and activated at or just before the peak emission intensity useful for detecting element signatures and intensity ratios from the trace elements in the plasma. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/597761 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125634 | Nikitin 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) | Sergei Nikitin (Springfield, Virginia); Charles K Manka (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An additive {hacek over (S)}olc filter (ASF) includes i) a first polarizer for receiving an input light, such as from a monochromatic light source, and transmitting a first polarized output, ii) at least one birefringent plate positioned to receive the first polarizer output and transmit an output with wavelength-dependent polarization state, and iii) a second polarizer for receiving the plate output and transmitting a second polarized, filtered output. An ASF spectroscopy system includes the ASF; a monochromatic light source input, e.g. a laser; a sample chamber for exposing a sample to the second polarized, tuned output and generating a signal characteristic of the sample that is filtered by the ASF; and a detector for acquiring the characteristic signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512161 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125642 | Nettleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Nettleton (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Dallas N. Barr (Woodbridge, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for optically aligning a laser rangefinder that includes the steps of providing a laser rangefinder having a laser source, a photodetector lens and a photodetector, providing a fiber optic travel path, aligning the laser source to the fiber optic travel path, illuminating the photodetector with a light source, focusing the photodetector lens, coupling the fiber optic travel path to an optical light source, and aligning the fiber optic light relative to the photodetector. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/552598 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125706 | Vurgaftman 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) | Igor Vurgaftman (Odenton, Maryland); Jerry R Meyer (Catonsville, Maryland); Chadwick L. Canedy (Washington, District of Columbia); William W. Bewley (Falls Church, Virginia); James R. Lindle (Bowie, Maryland); Chul-soo Kim (Springfield, Virginia); Mijin Kim (Springfield, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A gain medium and an interband cascade laser, an interband cascade amplifier, and an external cavity laser having the gain medium are presented. The gain medium can include any one or more of the following features: (1) the active quantum well region includes a thick and In-rich GaInSb hole well; (2) the hole injector includes two or more GaSb hole wells having thicknesses in a specified range; (3) the electron and hole injectors are separated by a thick AlSb barrier to suppress interband absorption; (4) a first electron barrier of the hole injector region separating the hole injector region from an adjacent active quantum well region has a thickness sufficient to lower a square of a wavefunction overlap between a zone-center active electron quantum well and injector hole states to not more than 5%; (5) the thickness of the first InAs electron well in the electron injector, as well as the total thickness of the electron injector, is reduced; (6) the number of cascaded stages is reduced; (7) transition regions are inserted at the interfaces between the various regions of the gain medium so as to smooth out abrupt shifts of the conduction-band minimum; (8) thick separate confinement layers comprising Ga(InAlAs)Sb are disposed between the active gain region and the cladding to confine the optical mode and increase its overlap with the active stages; and (9) the doping profile of the cladding layers is optimized to minimize the overlap of the optical mode with the most heavily-doped portion of the InAs/AlSb SL cladding layers. An interband cascade laser, an interband cascade amplifier, or an external cavity laser employing a gain medium having these features can emit at a wavelength of about 2.5 μm to about 8 μm at high temperatures. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402627 |
| 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 08125716 | Bryant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kyle R. Bryant (Owens Cross Roads, Alabama); Colin E. Reese (Lorton, Virginia); Richard J. Heimer (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical assembly uses a plastic prism with one flat surface and a collimating lens optic to provide the capability of imaging a color micro-display to the eye. The collimating optic and flat prism surface can allow for aberration-free diopter adjustment and an image with very low-magnitude, nearly-symmetric distortion. The collimating optic can also provide environmental protection of the prism involving an optical plastic device. The input illumination from the micro-display enters the prism, is reflected two times within the prism, exits the prism, and passes through the collimating optic before being viewed by the eye. Such an optical assembly can provide a field of view with eye-relief and exit pupil when viewing a full-color micro-display. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/578647 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/630 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125758 | Pelrine et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SRI International (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ronald E. Pelrine (Longmont, Colorado); Harsha Prahlad (Cupertino, California); Joseph S. Eckerle (Woodside, California); Roy D. Kornbluh (Palo Alto, California); Scott E. Stanford (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Described herein is electroadhesion technology that permits controllable adherence between two objects. Electroadhesion uses electrostatic forces of attraction produced by an electrostatic adhesion voltage, which is applied using electrodes in an electroadhesive device. The electrostatic adhesion voltage produces an electric field and electrostatic adherence forces. When the electroadhesive device and electrodes are positioned near a surface of an object such as a vertical wall, the electrostatic adherence forces hold the electroadhesive device in position relative to the surface and object. This can be used to increase traction or maintain the position of the electroadhesive device relative to a surface. Electric control of the electrostatic adhesion voltage permits the adhesion to be controllably and readily turned on and off. |
| FILED | Friday, July 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/830239 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125898 | Strayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Ratheon BBN Technologies, Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts); Christine Elaine Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington); Rajesh Krishnan (North Billerica, Massachusetts); Isidro Marcos Castineyra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Regina Rosales Hain (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining correlated flows in a network may include obtaining times of arrival and corresponding flows for data units in the network (1020) and assigning weights to a set of data units based on respective times between the set of data units and one data unit (1030). A probability matrix representing interflow connections in the network may be updated based on the assigned weights (1040). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077429 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125964 | Ling et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Telcordia Licensing Company, LLC (Piscataway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yibei Ling (Belle Mead, New Jersey); Wai Chen (Parsippany, New Jersey); Paul Li-Ching Yu (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A hybrid mobile ad-hoc network and a method of operating the same, including a mobile network node and a plurality of static network nodes randomly distributed over a coverage area with a predetermined density. The static network nodes form a static infrastructure backbone of the hybrid mobile ad-hoc network. Position information of the static network nodes, either through position awareness or triangulation with reference to other static nodes enhances the network function. The method tracks mobile node position with a minimum of overhead because of the fixed infrastructure of static nodes. The infrastructure can self-heal by placing excess static nodes in a hibernating state, and activating those in response to the failure of a nearby static node. |
| FILED | Friday, November 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/282509 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125984 | Giles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Daniel M. Kuchta (Patterson, New York); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Laurent Schares (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Eugen Schenfeld (South Brunswick, New Jersey); Phillippe L. Selo (Tarrytown, New York); Marc Taubenblatt (Pleasantville, New York); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York); Xiaolan J. Zhang (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for implementing stream processing are provided. The system includes an application framework and applications containing dataflow graphs managed by the application framework running on a first network. The system also includes at least one circuit switch in the first network having a configuration that is controlled by the application framework, a plurality of processing nodes interconnected by the first network over one of wireline and wireless links, and a second network for providing at least one of control and additional data transfer over the first network. The application framework reconfigures circuit switches in response to monitoring aspects of the applications and the first network. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052814 |
| ART UNIT | 2472 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126082 | Jeng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isaac Ming-En Jeng (Yorba Linda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for generating a composite binary phase shift keying (BPSK) code from at least two independent component BPSK codes that is representative of each of the component BPSK codes. According to one embodiment the method involves gain weighting each BPSK code by its respective code power ratio to form a corresponding pluarity of gain weighted codes. The gain weighted codes are then processed in accordance with an algorithm to form a composite BPSK code. The composite BPSK code has at least a fifty percent probability of matching each one of the component BPSK codes. Specific implementations for generating a composite BPSK code from either two component BPSK codes, or from three component BPSK codes, are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/013073 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/308 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126442 | Wolfe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Saint Francis University (Loretto, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Wolfe (Nicktown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | A two component highly portable and lightweight system for extending the transmission capabilities of Land Mobile Radio systems into areas lacking coverage due to structures, depth below the earth's surface, or varying terrain or other dead zones lacking coverage. The system utilizes the Radio over IP protocol to transfer two-way audio from one radio to another radio for re-broadcast inside a dead zone over a 900 MHz Ethernet-based point-to-point wireless link. The novel system includes RF to TCP/IP conversion and digital data transmission followed by a TCP/IP conversion to RF radio link and provides components and a method for bridging RF radio into dead zones. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/806516 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/414.400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126649 | Frasch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne Frasch (Phoenix, Arizona); David Spetzler (Scottsdale, Arizona); Justin York (Phoenix, Arizona); Fusheng Xiong (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for generating a distribution of optimal answers to a nondeterministic polynomial optimization problem by providing a plurality of solutions comprising input polynucleotides, wherein each solution comprises identical input polynucleotides; and wherein the number of solutions comprising polynucleotides equals a number of data inputs in the problem to be answered, and wherein each input polynucleotide comprises an x segment and a y segment; providing a plurality of solutions comprising connection polynucleotides wherein each solution comprises identical connection polynucleotides; and wherein the number of solutions comprising connection polynucleotides equals a number of unique connections that can be made between the different data inputs, and wherein each polynucleotide in the set of connection polynucleotides is complementary to the x segment of one input polynucleotide and to the y segment of one different input polynucleotide; combining the solutions comprising the input polynucleotides with the solutions comprising the connection polynucleotides to form a hybridization mixture, wherein the combining is done under conditions to promote formation of hybridization complexes between complementary polynucleotides, and wherein each individual connection polynucleotide is added at a concentration based on a weighted value assigned to the individual connection polynucleotide; ligating the polynucleotides that are present in the hybridization complexes to form ligation products; and determining a concentration of the ligation products, wherein the ligation products present at the highest concentration represent optimal answers to the nondeterministic polynomial optimization problem. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/181056 |
| 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 72/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126828 | Snook et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neuroscience Research Foundation, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Snook (San Diego, California); Donald B. Hutson (San Diego, California); Jeffrey L. Krichmar (Cardiff-by-the Sea, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A special purpose processor (SPP) for implementing a synthetic neural model of the biological anatomy of the human brain to control a brain-based device (BBD) that is movable in a real-world environment, including neural processing units (NPUs), each having a programmed processor and a local memory that stores data records of neural elements, a system memory for storing data about all the NPUs, and a finite state machine and a system bus for transferring data between the NPUs and system memory. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/421503 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127080 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Satya P. Sharma (Austin, Texas); Randal C. Swanberg (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A wake-and-go mechanism is provided for a data processing system. The wake-and-go mechanism is configured to issue a look-ahead load command on a system bus to read a data value from a target address and perform a comparison operation to determine whether the data value at the target address indicates that an event for which a thread is waiting has occurred. In response to the comparison resulting in a determination that the event has not occurred, the wake-and-go engine populates the wake-and-go storage array with the target address and snoops the target address on the system bus. |
| FILED | Friday, February 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/024242 |
| ART UNIT | 2189 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08127106 — Access speculation predictor with predictions based on a domain indicator of a cache line
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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 or not a domain indicator in the data request indicates that the cache line corresponding to the data has a special invalid state or not. In particular, a first address and a domain indicator are extracted from first data request. The first address is used to select a finite state machine (FSM) of a memory controller based on memory regions associated with the FSMs of the memory controller. Speculative retrieval of data for the first data request from main memory is controlled based on whether the domain indicator identifies the special invalid state or not and, if the domain indicator identifies that the cache line does not have the special invalid state, based on information stored in registers associated with the selected FSM. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105464 |
| 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 08127116 | Islam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Saiful Islam (Austin, Texas); Mary D. Brown (Austin, Texas); Bjorn P. Christensen (Round Rock, Texas); Sam G. Chu (Round Rock, Texas); Robert A. Cordes (Austin, Texas); Maureen A. Delaney (Burlington, Vermont); Jafar Nahidi (Round Rock, Texas); Joel A. Silberman (Somers, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A processor having a dependency matrix comprises a first array comprising a plurality of first cells. A second array couples to the first array and comprises a plurality of second cells. A first write port couples to the first array and the second array and writes to the first array and the second array. A first read port couples to the first array and the second array and reads from the first array and the second array. A second read port couples to the first array and reads from the first array. A second write port couples to the second read port, reads from the second read port and writes to the second array. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/417768 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/217 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127119 | Burger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doug Burger (Austin, Texas); Stephen W. Keckler (Austin, Texas); Nitya Ranganathan (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally describes computing systems with a multi-core processor comprising one or more branch predictor arrangements. The branch predictor are configured to predict a single and complete flow of program instructions associated therewith and to be performed on at least one processor core of the computing system. Overall processor performance and physical scalability may be improved by the described methods. |
| FILED | Friday, December 05, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/329517 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/239 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127138 | Lynch 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 S. Lynch (Old Mystic, Connecticut); G. Clifford Carter (Waterford, Connecticut); Bijan Mobasseri (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention as disclosed is of a method to authenticate identify and trace sonar transmissions and echoes by embedding transparent, secure and robust digital watermarks in signal space, where the additional information incurs no cost in bandwidth. The complex short time Fourier transform is selected as the domain for embedding the digital watermark, secured by a secret key, in the time frequency representation of the signal. The watermark is designed through an iterative optimization step. This step insures that the watermarked sonar is also realizable. Selection of the time frequency region for watermarking is driven by avoidance of interference with the sonar itself, or in case of network operation, other watermarks. In addition, the selected time-frequency region remains robust to sound channel and other transmission effects. Sonar echoes are authenticated in the time-frequency plane by a correlation receiver tuned to the watermarked region using the secret key. |
| FILED | Monday, September 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287156 |
| ART UNIT | 2453 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/176 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127242 | Su |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wei Su (Englishtown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for rapidly analyzing and editing data files with a number GUI's and an adaptive decimation ratio in a computer allows processing data files and signal data files within a given data segment for a better fit into a limited-size working space buffer and provides improved resolution of data segments in a simplified way using GUI's that allow the user to point and click at a computer screen instead of performing manual calculations. A large data segment is adaptively decimated to a smaller size automatically so that a lower resolution version of the data segment will be loaded into a fixed-size small buffer in hardware working space for further data editing. The decimation and loading process will be repeated until the user finds the desired data-section of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 12, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/807372 |
| ART UNIT | 2179 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/771 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127277 | Albot et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andre Laurent Albot (Austin, Texas); Michael Gerard Mall (Round Rock, Texas); Bruce G. Mealey (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for returning a return code to an error hook in an application using a framework. An identifier and a pass-through are received from the error hook. The error hook is software code in the application. The pass-through is a set of parameters. If the identifier has an active status, a set of framework conditions is retrieved using the identifier. If the set of framework conditions is met, an inject callback is retrieved using the error identifier. The inject callback is called with the error identifier and the pass-through. An inject callback return code is received. If the inject callback return code is an execute return code, the execute return code is returned to the error hook. |
| FILED | Monday, May 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/751599 |
| ART UNIT | 2191 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127300 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lakshminarayana B. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Ramakrishnan Rajamony (Austin, Texas); William E. Speight (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms for providing hardware based dynamic load balancing of message passing interface (MPI) tasks are provided. Mechanisms for adjusting the balance of processing workloads of the processors executing tasks of an MPI job are provided so as to minimize wait periods for waiting for all of the processors to call a synchronization operation. Each processor has an associated hardware implemented MPI load balancing controller. The MPI load balancing controller maintains a history that provides a profile of the tasks with regard to their calls to synchronization operations. From this information, it can be determined which processors should have their processing loads lightened and which processors are able to handle additional processing loads without significantly negatively affecting the overall operation of the parallel execution system. As a result, operations may be performed to shift workloads from the slowest processor to one or more of the faster processors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 28, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/846119 |
| ART UNIT | 2195 — Interprocess Communication and Software Development |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 718/105 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127357 | Phoha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Louisiana Tech Research Foundation; A Division of Louisiana Tech University Foundation, Inc. (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vir V Phoha (Ruston, Louisiana); Kiran S Balagani (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of predicting a SYN flooding attack on a server. The method tracks the number of SYN signals received (or SYN+ACK signals sent) over the communications port of the server in a specified time interval, the arrival estimation window. The invention then predicts the number of anticipated ACK, RST or ACK+RST signals to be received over the communication port within a predetermined time length prediction window. The prediction may be made at multiple points within the prediction window. The prediction window is offset in time from the arrival estimation window. The prediction of ACK signals to be received is based upon the number of SYN signals received or SYN+ACK signals sent in the arrival estimation window. In one embodiment, a polynomial is fit to the data in the Arrival estimation window and extrapolated to the prediction window. The predicted number of ACK, or RST or ACK+RST signals is compared to the actual number received in the prediction window, and if the difference is in excess of a threshold value, and attack is indicated. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/943555 |
| ART UNIT | 2431 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/23 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George Maltezos (Fort Salonga, New York); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Communication between microchannels of a microfluidic circuit is controlled through a combination between a membrane and a pin-actuated valve arrangement. The deformable membrane contributes to the formation of the surface of the microchannels. Alternatively, or in addition, the valve arrangement is operated through combination of the membrane with a control fluid. Systems, devices and methods based on such communication are shown. Also shown are methods to manufacture a system having a fluidic circuit and a control arrangement. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/874211 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/129.170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123678 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale A. Lawrence (Louisville, Colorado); Sutha Aphanuphong (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, in part, a dexterous endoscope apparatus, referred to herein as a MicroFlex Scope (MFS). The MFS is an novel, small diameter, e.g., less about 1 mm to about 4 mm, about 1 mm to about 3 mm, etc., dexterous endoscope that allows for access, direct visualization, tissue sampling, treatment, etc. of body lumens. In one embodiment, the distal end of the MFS of the invention is an ultra-flexible tip that comprises a plurality of thin, curved shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator elements attached to at least one structural skeleton, e.g., a coil spring skeleton or hinge structure. The SMA actuator elements in each structural skeleton segment are indirectly heated by a heater element and produce force in response to their temperature relative to specific thresholds. In certain embodiments, the heater element may include an integrated heater/sensor element adapted to heat the actuator element and to sense the temperature and bend state of the actuator element. In configurations comprising a plurality of actuator elements, multiplexing/demultiplexing of heating currents and sensor voltages may be accomplished via a parallel bus and demulitplexing circuit. In this regard, a demultiplexing circuit using standard microelectronic fabrication techniques may be designed to achieve individual sensing and control over each actuator element. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400065 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124015 | Diercks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Diercks (Seattle, Washington); Adrian Ozinsky (Seattle, Washington); Carl Hansen (Vancouver, Canada); Alan Aderem (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Microfluidic systems are disclosed, including microfluidic devices and methods, useful for simultaneously analyzing multiple analytes in each of a plurality of distinct nanoliter-volume samples. |
| FILED | Friday, February 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/346222 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/68.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anton Wellstein (Washington, District of Columbia); Kevin J. McDonnell (Little Neck, New York); Justinian R. Ngaiza (Salisbury, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method of identifying tissue targeting domains. In particular, the invention relates to methods for identifying a polynucleotide encoding a targeting domain which directs tumor cell localization to secondary sites, to methods of utilizing the polynucleotide and corresponding polypeptide or fragments thereof and compositions comprising the same. |
| FILED | Monday, February 10, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/364907 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.690 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124055 | Mehta et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajeshwari R. Mehta (Orland Park, Illinois); Brad N. Taylor (Chicago, Illinois); Tohru Yamada (Oak Park, Illinois); Craig W. Beattie (Chicago, Illinois); Tapas K. Das Gupta (River Forest, Illinois); Ananda M. Chakrabarty (Villa Park, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions comprising cupredoxins, and their use to inhibit angiogenesis in mammalian cells, tissues, and animals, and particularly the angiogenesis that accompanies tumor development and particularly in humans. Specifically, the present invention relates to compositions comprising the cupredoxin(s), and or peptides that are variants, derivatives or structural equivalents of cupredoxins, which retain the ability to inhibit angiogenesis in mammalian cells, tissues or animals. These compositions may be peptides or pharmaceutical compositions, among others. The compositions of the invention may be used to treat any pathological condition that has as a symptom or cause, inappropriate angiogenesis, and particularly inappropriate angiogenesis related to tumor development. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/477358 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124068 | Horwitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marcus A. Horwitz (Los Angeles, California); Gunter Harth (Los Angeles, California); Michael V. Tullius (Encino, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Immunogenic compositions comprising recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogens that have been transformed to express recombinant immunogenic antigens of the same or other intracellular pathogens are provided. Exemplary immunogenic compositions include, but are not limited to attenuated recombinant Mycobacteria expressing the major extracellular non-fusion proteins of Mycobacteria and/or other intracellular pathogens. Other embodiments are provided wherein the recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogen is auxotrophic. |
| FILED | Monday, October 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/581795 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124084 | Lefrancois et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo Lefrancois (West Hartford, Connecticut); Thomas A. Stoklasek (Bristol, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a therapeutic polypeptide and methods for its creation and use for modulating an immune response in a host organism in need thereof. In particular, the invention relates to the administration to an organism in need thereof, of an effective amount of a pre-coupled polypeptide complex comprising a lymphokine polypeptide portion, for example IL-15 (SEQ ID NO: 5, 6), IL-2 (SEQ ID NO: 10, 12) or combinations of both, and an interleukin receptor polypeptide portion, for example IL-15Ra (SEQ ID NO: 7, 8), IL-2Ra (SEQ ID NO: 9, 11) or combinations of both, for augmenting the immune system in, for example, cancer, SCID, AIDS, or vaccination; or inhibiting the immune system in, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, or Lupus. The therapeutic complex of the invention surprisingly demonstrates increased half-life, and efficacy in vivo. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/435497 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/134.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124087 | Shaughnessy, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, Alaska) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John D. Shaughnessy, Jr. (Roland, Arkansas); Bart Barlogie (Little Rock, Arkansas); Ya-wei Qiang (Little Rock, Arkansas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is drawn to understanding lytic bone diseases. In this regard, the present invention discloses mechanism by which Wnt signaling antagonist inhibits bone differentiation. Also disclosed herein are methods to control bone loss, treat bone disease and prevent tumor growth in bones of individual. |
| FILED | Monday, January 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008771 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/139.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124101 | Palese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Richard J. Webby (Memphis, Tennessee); Juergen A. Richt (Ames, Iowa); Robert G. Webster (Memphis, Tennessee); Kelly M. Lager (Colo, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated swine influenza viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. In particular, the invention relates to attenuated swine influenza viruses having modifications to a swine NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. These viruses replicate in vivo, but demonstrate decreased replication, virulence and increased attenuation, and therefore are well suited for use in live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/628292 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124105 | Cohen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary H. Cohen (Havertown, Pennsylvania); Roselyn J. Eisenbert (Haddonfield, New Jersey); John Charles Whitbeck (Glenside, Pennsylvania); Lydia Aldaz-Carroll (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Bernard Moss (Bethesda, Maryland); Shlomo Lustig (Ramat Gan, Israel); Christiana Fogg (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is directed to a poxvirus vaccine comprising a soluble truncated poxvirus envelope protein. The invention is also directed to a vaccine comprising a nucleic acid encoding such proteins. Also included is an antibody which specifically binds to the proteins and nucleic acid encoding the same, as well as methods of preventing and treating a poxvirus infection using the afore-mentioned vaccine, antibody, protein, and nucleic acid encoding them. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489846 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/232.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124109 | Kickhoefer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valerie A. Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, California); Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, California); Kathleen A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Cheryl I. Champion (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided herein for immunizing a subject against Chlamydial genital infection by administering to the subject an effective amount of a Chlamydial immunogenic peptide or an immunogenic fragment or variant thereof incorporated within a vault-like particle carrier. In some aspects, the vault-like-particles are administered to the nasal mucosa. The methods and compositions advantageously exhibit enhanced ability to induce cell-mediated immunity and/or antibody-based immunity at mucosal surfaces while reducing inflammation associated with Chlamydia infection. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467255 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124110 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvão Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Florence, Italy); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216214 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124111 | Saba |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Julie D. Saba (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for modulating immune function are provided based on the unexpected discovery that inhibition of sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase (SPL) activity confers useful immunosuppressive effects, for example to modulate immune function in treatment or prevention of inflammation, transplant graft rejection, autoimmune disease, allergy, or other conditions, including therapeutic alteration of immune system cell survival and/or proliferation. Altering SPL activity by direct or indirect pharmacological intervention, or alternatively by molecular genetic methods to alter SPL expression levels, are also contemplated. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 08, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/917029 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/278.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124218 | Unger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A. Unger (San Mateo, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Sunnyvale, California); Todd A. Thorsen (Pasadena, California); Axel Scherer (Laguna Beach, California); Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of fabricating an elastomeric structure, comprising: forming a first elastomeric layer on top of a first micromachined mold, the first micromachined mold having a first raised protrusion which forms a first recess extending along a bottom surface of the first elastomeric layer; forming a second elastomeric layer on top of a second micromachined mold, the second micromachined mold having a second raised protrusion which forms a second recess extending along a bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer; bonding the bottom surface of the second elastomeric layer onto a top surface of the first elastomeric layer such that a control channel forms in the second recess between the first and second elastomeric layers; and positioning the first elastomeric layer on top of a planar substrate such that a flow channel forms in the first recess between the first elastomeric layer and the planar substrate. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556373 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/172 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124342 | Benkovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Pann State Research Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen J. Benkovic (State College, Pennsylvania); Frank Salinas (Wheaton, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for replicating and amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence is described. A method of the invention involves the formation of a recombination intermediate without the prior denaturing of a nucleic acid duplex through the use of a recombination factor. The recombination intermediate is treated with a high fidelity polymerase to permit the replication and amplification of the target nucleic acid sequence. In preferred embodiments, the polymerase comprises a polymerase holoenzyme. In further preferred embodiments, the recombination factor is bacteriophage T4 UvsX protein or homologs from other species, and the polymerase holoenzyme comprises a polymerase enzyme, a clamp protein and a clamp loader protein, derived from viral, bacteriophage, prokaryotic, archaebacterial, or eukaryotic systems. |
| FILED | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/786033 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124349 | Latz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Massachusetts (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eicke Latz (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts); Alberto Visintin (Worcester, Massachusetts); Douglas T. Golenbock (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of identifying compounds that modulate the interaction between a TLR and a molecule that interacts with the TLR by direct binding or by inclusion in a complex that associates with the TLR are described. Methods of identifying molecules that interact with a TLR are also described. |
| FILED | Friday, January 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/326963 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124365 | Stockwell |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brent R. Stockwell (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relate to methods of identifying a genotype-selective agent. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to agents that are selectively toxic to engineered human tumorigenic cells. |
| FILED | Friday, February 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/074024 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124369 | 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 | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/246380 |
| 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 08124371 | Kitareewan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sutisak Kitareewan (Ordford, New Hampshire); Roger Sloboda (Hanover, New Hampshire); Ethan Dmitrovsky (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to compositions for destabilizing lysosomes to increase the degradation of oncogenic or aberrant proteins for the prevention or treatment of disease. Methods for identifying agents which destabilize lysosomes are also provided as are agents identified in accordance with the screening method. |
| FILED | Friday, July 30, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/564070 |
| ART UNIT | 1653 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/23 |
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| US 08124389 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Che-Hong Chen (Fremont, California); Daria Mochly-Rosen (Menlo Park, California); Thomas D. Hurley (Indianapolis, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides a crystal structure of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) with a modulator of ALDH bound thereto. The present disclosure provides a computer readable medium comprising atomic coordinates for an ALDH polypeptide and a modulator bound to a site within the polypeptide. A method is also provided. In general terms, the method comprises computationally identifying a compound that binds to an ALDH polypeptide, using the atomic coordinates. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435265 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/190 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124393 | Potter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip M. Potter (Memphis, Tennessee); Monika Weirdl (Memphis, Tennessee); Matthew R. Redinbo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Polynucleotides encoding a mutant human carboxylesterase enzyme and polypeptides encoded by the polynucleotides which are capable of metabolizing a prodrug and inactive metabolites thereof to active drug are provided. Compositions and methods for sensitizing cells to a prodrug agent, inhibiting cell growth, treating drug addiction, and facilitating the metabolism of an organophosphate with this enzyme are also provided. In addition, a screening assay for identification of drugs activated by this enzyme is described. |
| FILED | Friday, February 04, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/020871 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/197 |
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| US 08124407 | Kay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A. Kay (Los Altos, California); Zhi-Ying Chen (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Circular nucleic acid vectors that provide for persistently high levels of protein expression are provided. The circular vectors of the subject invention are characterized by being devoid of expression-silencing bacterial sequences, where in many embodiments the subject vectors include a unidirectional site-specific recombination product hybrid sequence in addition to an expression cassette. Also provided are methods of using the subject vectors for introduction of a nucleic acid, e.g., an expression cassette, into a target cell, as well as preparations for use in practicing such methods. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including both research and therapeutic applications. Also provided is a highly efficient and readily scalable method for producing the vectors employed in the subject methods, as well as reagents and kits/systems for practicing the same. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/006356 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124579 | Brophy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colleen Brophy (Tempe, Arizona); Elizabeth Furnish (Tempe, Arizona); Padmini Komalavilas (Tempe, Arizona); Catherin Dreiza (Phoenix, Arizona); Alyssa Panitch (W Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel HSP20-based polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for using such polypeptides and pharmaceutical compositions for various therapeutic uses. |
| FILED | Friday, October 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/575294 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124581 | Dangsheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Li Dangsheng (Forest Hills, New York); Sharmistha Das (Secaucus, New Jersey); Herbert Samuels (New Rochelle, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein is the discovery that administration of the NRIF3 family of transcriptional coregulators (NRIF3 and related molecules) to breast cancer cells induce rapid and profound apoptosis (nearly 100% cell death within 24 h). A novel death domain (DD1) was mapped to a short 30 amino acid region common to all members of the NRIF3 family. Two other death domains (DD2 and DD3) were also found to have effective breast cancer killing activities. Mechanistic studies showed that DD1-induced apoptosis occurred through a novel caspase-2 mediated pathway that involved mitochondria membrane permeabilization but did not require other caspases. Interestingly, cytotoxicity of NRIF3 related molecules was cell-type specific, as they selectively killed breast cancer or related cells but not other examined cells of different origins, suggesting the presence in breast cancer cells of a specific death switch that can be selectively triggered by NRIF3 and related molecules. Also disclosed are strategies utilizing NRIF3 related molecules and/or targeting this death switch for the development of novel and more selective therapeutics against breast cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802371 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124592 | Nabel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary J. Nabel (Washington, District of Columbia); Zhi-yong Yang (Potomac, Maryland); Nancy Sullivan (Kensington, Maryland); Anthony Sanchez (Lilburn, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to viral vaccines and, more specifically, to filovirus vaccines and methods of eliciting an immune response against a filovirus or disease caused by infection with filovirus. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612625 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124616 | Frechette |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biota Scientific Management Pty Ltd (Victoria, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roger Frechette (Reading, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are compounds of Formula I, pharmaceutical compositions comprising Formula I and methods of treating bacterial infections. The disclosed compounds are inhibitors of PPAT (phosphopantetheine adenyl transferase), and are useful in the treatment and prevention of diseases caused by bacteria, particularly bacteria dependent on PPAT, for example, species such Escherichia coli, Helicobacter pylori, Staphyloccocus aureus, and the like. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/324347 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124632 | Rossignol et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Romark Laboratories, L.C. (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Francois Rossignol (St. Petersburg, Florida); J. Edward Semple (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of alkylsulfonyl-substituted thiazolide compounds is described. These compounds show strong activity against hepatitis virus. |
| FILED | Friday, August 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184760 |
| ART UNIT | 1627 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/369 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124643 | Jordan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siga Technologies, Inc. (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Jordan (Corvallis, Oregon); Thomas R. Bailey (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania); Susan R. Rippin (Wilmington, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of using di, tri, and tetracyclic acylhydrazide derivatives and analogs, as well as pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, for the treatment or prophylaxis of viral infections and diseases associated therewith, particularly those viral infections and associated diseases caused by the orthopoxvirus. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643641 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124651 | Powis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Pittsburgh Office of Technology Transfer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Arizona Board of Regents (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Garth Powis (Houston, Texas); Peter Wipf (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention relate to inhibitors of thioredoxin. Certain embodiments relate to palmarumycin based compounds and methods of using the same. Such compounds may be useful in inhibiting the overexpression of thioredoxin, inhibiting tumor growth and treating cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, September 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/066426 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/452 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124653 | Matalon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Reuben Matalon (Houston, Texas); Ofer Matalon (Hayward, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a composition that includes a tetrahydrobiopterin in a controlled-release pharmaceutical preparation. Also disclosed is a method of treating a patient with phenylketonuria that includes administering, to the patient, a composition that contains tetrahydrobiopterin in a controlled-release pharmaceutical preparation. Also disclosed is a method of treating a patient with ADHD that includes administering a tetrahydropterin to the patient. Compositions for the treatment of ADHD are also described. |
| FILED | Saturday, June 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/630589 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/469 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124742 | Siegel |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald L. Siegel (Hatboro, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention includes Rh(D) binding proteins, including antibodies, and DNA encoding such proteins. Methods of generating such proteins and DNAs are also included. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/064174 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.250 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124743 | Krishnamurthy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vijay M. Krishnamurthy (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Lara A. Estroff (Dryden, New York); Vincent Semetey (Paris, France); Samuel W. Thomas (Boston, Massachusetts); George K. Kaufman (Somerville, Massachusetts); Zihni Basar Bilgicer (Cambridge, Massachusetts); George M. Whitesides (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention discloses a method of purifying bivalent antibodies or antibody fragments that are active at both Fab sites from a source of antibodies or antibody fragments using a non-chromatographic method that includes inducing the formation of cyclic immunoglobulin aggregates by addition of multivalent hapten to a salt solution of soluble antibodies or antibody fragments, wherein the multivalent hapten possesses a linker between the two haptens effective to prevent the binding of both haptens of the ligand to the same antibody or antibody fragment. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/303089 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/388.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124749 | Selkirk et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen M. Selkirk (Mayfield, Ohio); Robert H. Miller (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides compositions and methods for studying neuropathy. The compositions and methods provided herein are particularly useful for screening agents of therapeutic and/or diagnostic potential. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/138277 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.500 |
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| US 08124751 | Pierce et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Niles A. Pierce (Pasadena, California); Robert Dirks (Pasadena, California); Scott E. Fraser (La Canada, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the use of fluorescently labeled nucleic acid probes to identify and image analytes in a biological sample. In the preferred embodiments, a probe is provided that comprises a target region able to specifically bind an analyte of interest and an initiator region that is able to initiate polymerization of nucleic acid monomers. After contacting a sample with the probe, labeled monomers are provided that form a tethered polymer. Triggered probes and self-quenching monomers can be used to provide active background suppression. |
| FILED | Friday, May 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/790379 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.300 |
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| US 08124753 | Kaye et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frederic J. Kaye (Potomac, Maryland); Takefumi Komiya (Osaka, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | Composition for the inhibition of the translation of a Mect1-MAML2 chimeric gene consisting essentially of: (a) a fragment of the nucleic acid encoding the chimeric gene, and (b) a nucleic acid complementary to the fragment, and a method of inhibiting the translation of a Mect1-MAML2 chimeric gene comprising contacting a cell expressing the chimeric gene with the composition, whereupon the translation of the chimeric gene is inhibited. |
| FILED | Monday, June 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/493901 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124778 | Boger |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale L. Boger (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A series of substituted oxazole compounds having an alpha keto side chain at the 2 position and an aromatic, heteroaromatic or heterocycle substituent at the 5 position are disclosed. These compounds exhibit inhibition of fatty acid amid hydrolase and arc useful for treatment of malconditions involving that enzyme. |
| FILED | Friday, May 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/600736 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/271.400 |
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| US 08124794 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey W. Smith (La Jolla, California); Fumiko Axelrod (La Jolla, California); Steven J. Kridel (La Jolla, California); Daniel Romo (College Station, Texas); Vikram Purohit (College Station, Texas); Gil Ma (College Station, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention features methods of treating a cancer in a subject by administering an effective amount of a beta-lactone to the subject. The invention also features methods of inhibiting angiogenesis in a subject by administering an effective amount of an inhibitor of fatty acid synthase to the subject. These methods can be used to treat a variety of cancers and other diseases and conditions. The invention also features methods of identifying beta-lactones and other compounds that can be used in the methods of the invention for the treatment of tumors, inhibition of angiogenesis, and the treatment of diseases and conditions that involve pathological angiogenesis. The invention also features methods of synthesizing beta-lactones and features novel beta-lactone compounds. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/620412 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/263 |
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| US 08124830 | Lee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Se-Jin Lee (Baltimore, Maryland); Alexandra C. McPherron (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a substantially purified growth differentiation factor (GDF) receptor, including a GDF-8 (myostatin) receptor, as well as functional peptide portions thereof. In addition, the invention provides a virtual representation of a GDF receptor or a functional peptide portion thereof. The present invention also provides a method of modulating an effect of myostatin on a cell by contacting the cell with an agent that affects myostatin signal transduction in the cell. In addition, the invention provides a method of ameliorating the severity of a pathologic condition, which is characterized, at least in part, by an abnormal amount, development or metabolic activity of muscle or adipose tissue in a subject, by modulating myostatin signal transduction in a muscle cell or an adipose tissue cell in the subject. The invention also provides a method of modulating the growth of muscle tissue or adipose tissue in a eukaryotic organism by administering an agent that affects myostatin signal transduction to the organism. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361512 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/13 |
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| US 08124831 | Caron et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc G. Caron (Hillsborough, North Carolina); Xiaodong Zhang (Durham, North Carolina); Martin Beaulieu (Durham, North Carolina); Raul R. Gainetdinov (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Tatyana D. Sotnikova (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Recombinant or transgenic non-human mammals are described having a mutant tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (Tph2) gene resulting in altered synthesis of 5-hydroxytryptophan and serotonin in the brain. In some embodiments the mutant tryptophan hydroxylase 2 gene contains mouse R439H and/or P447R functional mutations, or their corresponding mutations in other species. Congenic non-human mammals having mutant tryptophan hydroxylase 2 genes are also provided. Methods of screening a compound for serotonergic activity or activity in treating a serotonergic neurotransmission dysregulation disorder are provided, which include administering a test compound to a recombinant non-human mammal and then detecting the presence or absence of serotonergic activity, or activity in treating a serotonergic neurotransmission dysregulation disorder, in the mammal. A cell such as a nerve cell (e.g., a central nervous system neuron) isolated from a transgenic or congenic mammal is also disclosed, along with cell cultures containing these cells. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/825202 |
| ART UNIT | 1632 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/18 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125225 | Koretsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Koretsky (Bethesda, Maryland); Jeff H. Duyn (Garrett Park, Maryland); Shumin Wang (Bethesda, Maryland); Hellmut Merkic (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for imaging includes: a main magnet to generate a substantially uniform main B0 magnetic field through an examination region; and a coil system including a first coil layer and a second coil layer disposed substantially parallel to the first coil layer with a defined air gap in a radial direction, the first coil layer including a first coil array, the second coil layer including a second coil array, the first and second coil arrays being coupled and cooperating to selectively produce a prespecified B1 magnetic field within the examination region. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/449514 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/318 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125270 | Zanchi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marta G. Zanchi (Palo Alto, California); Greig C. Scott (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An amplifier system providing improved Cartesian feedback is provided. A complex band pass error amplifier is provided. A quadrature up converter is connected to the complex band pass error amplifier so as to receive as input, output from the complex band pass error amplifier. An amplifier is connected to the quadrature up converter so as to receive as input, output from the quadrature up converter. A quadrature down converter is connected at or beyond the amplifier output so as to receive as input a signal proportional to that delivered by the amplifier as output to a load, wherein the complex band pass error amplifier is connected to the quadrature down converter so as to receive as a first input, output from the quadrature down converter and as a second input, a quadrature reference signal. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/464010 |
| ART UNIT | 2815 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Amplifiers 330/69 |
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| US 08125640 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Aaron M. Lowe (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides systems and methods for data acquisition and image analysis that utilize twisted nematic liquid crystals (“TNLCs”) to create maps of bio/chemical functionality patterned on surfaces. The method involves the acquisition of a series of images of TNLC film that contacts the analytic surface followed by analysis of the series of images to yield maps of twist angle of the liquid crystal across the surface. This analysis technique effectively condenses a large data set (stack of images) into a compact form (map of twist angle), revealing features on the surface that were not apparent in the individual images comprising the original stack. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/380751 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126527 | Marcinek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Marcinek (Seattle, Washington); Kevin Conley (Seattle, Washington); Kenneth A. Schenkman (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | This document discusses, among other things, quantification of hemoglobin content, and therefore blood volume, of muscle. An analysis of the optical spectra can determine the ratio of hemoglobin (Hb) to myoglobin (Mb) content in intact muscle. The peak position of the in vivo optical spectra from intact tissue is used to determine the ratio of Hb to Mb contributing to the optical signal. The wavelength of the peak is a linear function of the percent contribution of Hb to the optical spectra. Such analysis in combination with known Mb concentrations yields a non-invasive measure of the Hb content for in vivo muscle. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/462283 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/328 |
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| US 08126564 | Gantz |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce J. Gantz (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrode array which is able to be inserted to a desired depth within the cochlea to provide useful percepts for the recipient which will also preferably not cause damage to the sensitive structures of the cochlea. The electrode array is insertable through an opening in the cochlea and into at least the basal region of the cochlea and comprises an elongate carrier having a proximal end, a distal end, and a plurality of electrodes supported by the carrier at respective spaced locations thereon in a region between the proximal end and the distal end. A stabilising collar extends outwardly from the elongate carrier at or adjacent a proximal end thereof and has an abutment surface adapted to abut a portion of the cochlea surface around the cochleostomy and at least substantially prevent movement of the carrier following completion of insertion of the array into the cochlea. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/197822 |
| ART UNIT | 3766 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/57 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08122596 | Krulevitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California); Doheny Eye Institute (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Krulevitch (Pleasanton, California); Dennis L. Polla (Roseville, Minnesota); Mariam N. Maghribi (Davis, California); Julie Hamilton (Tracy, California); Mark S. Humayun (La Canada, California); James D. Weiland (Valencia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An image is captured or otherwise converted into a signal in an artificial vision system. The signal is transmitted to the retina utilizing an implant. The implant consists of a polymer substrate made of a compliant material such as poly(dimethylsiloxane) or PDMS. The polymer substrate is conformable to the shape of the retina. Electrodes and conductive leads are embedded in the polymer substrate. The conductive leads and the electrodes transmit the signal representing the image to the cells in the retina. The signal representing the image stimulates cells in the retina. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/787182 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/832 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08122780 | Zollinger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William T. Zollinger (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Kerry M. Klingler (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Scott G. Bauer (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An Explosion Proof Vehicle (EPV) having an interior substantially filled with an inert fluid creating an interior pressure greater than the exterior pressure. One or more flexible tubes provide the inert fluid and one or more electrical conductors from a control system to the vehicle. The vehicle is preferably used in subsurface tank inspection, whereby the vehicle is submerged in a volatile fluid. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/051952 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/865.800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123354 | Olivier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scot S. Olivier (Livermore, California); Diana C. Chen (Fremont, California); Steven M. Jones (Danville, California); Sean M. McNary (Stockton, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Badal Optometer and rotating cylinders are inserted in the AO-OCT to correct large spectacle aberrations such as myopia, hyperopic and astigmatism for ease of clinical use and reduction. Spherical mirrors in the sets of the telescope are rotated orthogonally to reduce aberrations and beam displacement caused by the scanners. This produces greatly reduced AO registration errors and improved AO performance to enable high order aberration correction in a patient eyes. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 12, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/085123 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123904 | Akhtar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Biopulping International Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masood Akhtar (Middleton, Wisconsin); William R. Kenealy (Madison, Wisconsin); Eric G. Horn (Madison, Wisconsin); Ross E. Swaney (Madison, Wisconsin); Jerrold Winandy (Mazomanie, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for producing an MDF board from pulp from a fibrous lignocellulose material using a treatment or pretreatment step which exposes the material to oxalic acid or oxalic acid derivatives (particularly dialkyl ester derivatives, particularly in the vapor phase). The treated wood is then subjected to a sugar extraction wash and refined using any one of the several pulping methods to produce a final pulp product. Once this is done the pulp is used to make MDF boards having improved water repellency properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/854574 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123943 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P Wynn (Redwood City, California); Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Donald A Fulton (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a pervaporation process and pervaporation equipment, using a series of membrane modules, and including inter-module reheating of the feed solution under treatment. The inter-module heating is achieved within the tube or vessel in which the modules are housed, thereby avoiding the need to repeatedly extract the feed solution from the membrane module train. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794445 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124009 | Danchenko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vitaliy G. Danchenko (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine); Ronald T. Noyes (Stillwater, Oklahoma); Larysa P. Potapovych (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) |
| ABSTRACT | Aeration drying and disinfecting grain crops in bulk and pretreating seeds includes passing through a bulk of grain crops and seeds disinfecting and drying agents including an ozone and air mixture and surrounding air, subdividing the disinfecting and drying agents into a plurality of streams spaced from one another in a vertical direction, and passing the streams at different heights through levels located at corresponding heights of the bulk of grain crops and seeds transversely in a substantially horizontal direction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/344150 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124037 | Jain et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kailash C. Jain (Troy, Michigan); Joseph M. Keller (Grand Blanc, Michigan); Rick D. Kerr (Fenton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved LSCF 6428 perovskite material of the type La12zSrx+zCo0.2+aFe0.8+bO3−δ wherein x=0.4, z=(0-0.1), a=(0.01-0.04), and b=(0.05-0.15) for use as an SOFC cathode having increased electronic and ionic conductivity. The general formula is similar to the prior art formulae (La0.6Sr0.4)1−zCo0.2Fe0.8O3−δ and La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3−δ but applies the z term to La and Sr independently as well as reducing the overall content of La. Further, by adding a small amount (a) of extra Co ions, catalytic activity, conductivity, and sinterability are further enhanced. Adding small amounts (b) of Fe and/or Fe and Co moderates the thermal expansion coefficient with no adverse effect on crystal structure or fuel cell performance. Improved sinterability, microstructure, and reduced film cracking result in high power density of fuel cells. An inherently low-cost solid state reaction method is described. |
| FILED | Friday, December 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/635756 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/263 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124176 | McCleskey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas M. McCleskey (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Anthony K. Burrell (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Quanxi Jia (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Yuan Lin (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymer assisted deposition process for deposition of metal nitride films and the like is presented. The process includes solutions of one or more metal precursor and soluble polymers having binding properties for the one or more metal precursor. After a coating operation, the resultant coating is heated at high temperatures under a suitable atmosphere to yield metal nitride films and the like. Such films can be conformal on a variety of substrates including non-planar substrates. In some instances, the films can be epitaxial in structure and can be of optical quality. The process can be organic solvent-free. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/804472 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/226 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124184 | Sambasivan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Applied Thin Films, Inc. (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sankar Sambasivan (Chicago, Illinois); Kimberly A. Steiner (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Aluminophosphate compounds, compositions and/or materials as can be used for substrate coatings. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/724052 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124261 | Shore |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BASF Corporation (Florham Park, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Shore (Edison, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of a PEM fuel cell can be recycled by contacting the MEA with a lower alkyl alcohol solvent which separates the membrane from the anode and cathode layers of the assembly. The resulting solution containing both the polymer membrane and supported noble metal catalysts can be heated under mild conditions to disperse the polymer membrane as particles and the supported noble metal catalysts and polymer membrane particles separated by known filtration means. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/471324 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/49 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124280 | Thackeray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Uchicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael M Thackeray (Naperville, Illinois); John T. Vaughey (Elmhurst, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to intermetallic negative electrode compounds for non-aqueous, electrochemical lithium cells and batteries. More specifically, the invention relates to one or more electrode components or compositions, one of which contains the basic structural unit of a MM′3 intermetallic compound, in which M and M′ are comprised of one or more metals. The MM′3 intermetallic electrode compounds can be mixed, blended or integrated with one or more other intermetallic compounds, such as isostructural M3M′ compounds. The electrodes are of particular use in rechargeable lithium-ion cells and batteries in numerous applications such as portable electronic devices, medical devices, space, aeronautical and defense-related devices and in transportation applications such as electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002968 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/218.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124289 | Scotto |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems (US) Inc. (North Canton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Vincent Scotto (Uniontown, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A multistage combustor is configured for starting a fuel cell system, and includes a partial oxidation (POX) burner having an inlet for receiving a flow of a fuel/oxidant mixture, the POX burner being configured to partially oxidize fuel in the fuel/oxidant mixture to yield a partially oxidized gas; a first output coupled to the fuel cell system and configured to provide a first amount of the partially oxidized gas as first output gas to a first fuel cell system component; a second burner coupled to the POX burner, the second burner being configured to receive a second amount of the partially oxidized gas from the POX burner and to oxidize at least some remaining fuel to yield a second output gas different from the first output gas; and a second output coupled to a second fuel cell system component and configured to provide the second output gas to the second fuel cell system component. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016795 |
| ART UNIT | 1734 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/429 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124414 | Harrup et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mason K. Harrup (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Frederick F. Stewart (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Mark L. Stone (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A taggant comprising at least one perfluorocarbon compound surrounded by a polyphosphazene compound. The polyphosphazene compound has the chemical structure: wherein G1 and G2 are pendant groups having different polarities, m is an integer greater than or equal to 100, and each of A and B is independently selected from hydrogen, an alkyl, an alkene, an alkoxide, a polyether, a polythioether, a siloxane, and —X(CH2)nY1(CH2)p1Y2(CH2)p2 . . . Yi(CH2)piCH3, where n ranges from 1 to 6, X and Y are independently selected from oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellurium, and polonium, and p1 through pi range from 1 to 6. Cyclic polyphosphazene compounds lacking the A and B groups are also disclosed, as are methods of forming the taggant and of detecting an object. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/613343 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/56 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124444 | Kloc et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Alcatel Lucent (Paris, France); The Trustees of Columbia University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Christian Leo Kloc (Constance, Germany); Arthur Penn Ramirez (Summit, New Jersey); Woo-Young So (New Providence, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method includes the steps of forming a contiguous semiconducting region and heating the region. The semiconducting region includes polyaromatic molecules. The heating raises the semiconducting region to a temperature above room temperature. The heating is performed in the presence of a dopant gas and the absence of light to form a doped organic semiconducting region. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875902 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124503 | Hauge et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert H. Hauge (Houston, Texas); Ya-Qiong Xu (Houston, Texas); Hongwei Shan (Houston, Texas); Nolan Walker Nicholas (South Charleston, West Virginia); Myung Jong Kim (Houston, Texas); Howard K. Schmidt (Cypress, Texas); W. Carter Kittrell (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new and useful nanotube growth substrate conditioning processes is herein disclosed that allows the growth of vertical arrays of carbon nanotubes where the average diameter of the nanotubes can be selected and/or controlled as compared to the prior art. |
| FILED | Monday, March 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/281611 |
| ART UNIT | 2812 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/478 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124558 | Au |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ming Au (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydrogen storage material and process is provided in which alkali borohydride materials are created which contain effective amounts of catalyst(s) which include transition metal oxides, halides, and chlorides of titanium, zirconium, tin, and combinations of the various catalysts. When the catalysts are added to an alkali borodydride such as a lithium borohydride, the initial hydrogen release point of the resulting mixture is substantially lowered. Additionally, the hydrogen storage material may be rehydrided with weight percent values of hydrogen at least about 9 percent. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/130750 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124559 | Mohtadi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc. (Erlanger, Kentucky); U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rana F. Mohtadi (Northville, Michigan); Ragaiy Zidan (Aiken, South Carolina); Joshua Gray (Aiken, South Carolina); Ashley C. Stowe (Knoxville, Tennessee); Premkumar Sivasubramanian (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of forming a hydrogen storage material, including the steps of: providing a borohydride material of the formula: M(BH4)x where M is an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal and 1≦x≦2; providing an alanate material of the formula: M1(AlH4)x where M1 is an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal and 1≦x≦2; providing a halide material of the formula: M2Halx where M2 is an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal or transition metal and Hal is a halide and 1≦x≦4; combining the borohydride, alanate and halide materials such that 5 to 50 molar percent from the borohydride material is present forming a reaction product material having a lower hydrogen release temperature than the alanate material. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/575557 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124583 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Elia Beniash (Newton, Massachusetts); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a composition useful for making homogeneously mineralized self assembled peptide-amphiphile nanofibers and nanofiber gels. The composition is generally a solution comprised of a positively or negatively charged peptide-amphiphile and a like signed ion from the mineral. Mixing this solution with a second solution containing a dissolved counter-ion of the mineral and/or a second oppositely charged peptide amphiphile, results in the rapid self assembly of the peptide-amphiphiles into a nanofiber gel and templated mineralization of the ions. Templated mineralization of the initially dissolved mineral cations and anions in the mixture occurs with preferential orientation of the mineral crystals along the fiber surfaces within the nanofiber gel. One advantage of the present invention is that it results in homogenous growth of the mineral throughout the nanofiber gel. Another advantage of the present invention is that the nanofiber gel formation and mineralization reactions occur in a single mixing step and under substantially neutral or physiological pH conditions. These homogeneous nanostructured composite materials are useful for medical applications especially the regeneration of damaged bone in mammals. This invention is directed to the synthesis of peptide-amphiphiles with more than one amphiphilic moment and to supramolecular compositions comprised of such multi-dimensional peptide-amphiphiles. Supramolecular compositions can be formed by self assembly of multi-dimensional peptide-amphiphiles by mixing them with a solution comprising a monovalent cation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489401 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125089 | Caporaso et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George J. Caporaso (Livermore, California); Stephen E. Sampayan (Manteca, California); James S. Sullivan (Livermore, California); David M. Sanders (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An improved photoconductive switch having a SIC or other wide band gap substrate material, such as GaAs and field-grading liners composed of preferably SiN formed on the substrate adjacent the electrode perimeters or adjacent the substrate perimeters for grading the electric fields. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/952949 |
| ART UNIT | 2822 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/778 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125357 | Hamlet et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jason R. Hamlet (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Perry J. Robertson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Lyndon G. Pierson (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Ronald R. Olsberg (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A deflate decompressor includes at least one decompressor unit, a memory access controller, a feedback path, and an output buffer unit. The memory access controller is coupled to the decompressor unit via a data path and includes a data buffer to receive the data stream and temporarily buffer a first portion the data stream. The memory access controller transfers fixed length data units of the data stream from the data buffer to the decompressor unit with reference to a memory pointer pointing into the memory buffer. The feedback path couples the decompressor unit to the memory access controller to feed back decrement values to the memory access controller for updating the memory pointer. The decrement values each indicate a number of bits unused by the decompressor unit when decoding the fixed length data units. The output buffer unit buffers a second portion of the data stream after decompression. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/729816 |
| ART UNIT | 2819 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coded data generation or conversion 341/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125385 | Singleton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Singleton (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Houshang Ardavan (Cambridge, United Kingdom); Arzhang Ardavan (Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for a radiation source involving phase fronts emanating from an accelerated, oscillating polarization current whose distribution pattern moves superluminally (that is, faster than light in vacuo). Theoretical predictions and experimental measurements using an existing prototype superluminal source show that the phase fronts from such a source can be made to be very complex. Consequently, it will be very difficult for an aircraft imaged by such a radiation to detect where this radiation has come from. Moreover, the complexity of the phase fronts makes it almost impossible for electronics on an aircraft to synthesize a rogue reflection. A simple directional antenna and timing system should, on the other hand, be sufficient for the radar operators to locate the aircraft, given knowledge of their own source's speed and modulation pattern. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191148 |
| 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 342/374 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125486 | DuBois et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. DuBois (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Andrew J. DuBois (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Carolyn Connor Davenport (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Images and video can be produced by compositing or alpha blending a group of image layers or video layers. Increasing resolution or the number of layers results in increased computational demands. As such, the available computational resources limit the images and videos that can be produced. A computational architecture in which the image layers are packetized and streamed through processors can be easily scaled so to handle many image layers and high resolutions. The image layers are packetized to produce packet streams. The packets in the streams are received, placed in queues, and processed. For alpha blending, ingress queues receive the packetized image layers which are then z sorted and sent to egress queues. The egress queue packets are alpha blended to produce an output image or video. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/441972 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/501 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126596 | Lee, Jr. et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James H. Lee, Jr. (Edgewood, New Mexico); Jonathan R. Salton (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Barry L. Spletzer (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus and method for inspecting a plurality of containers are provided. Each container has an outer surface for housing at least one material therein. The techniques provided involve at least one inspection vehicle and at least one detector. Each inspection vehicle has a plurality of wheels for movably positioning about the plurality of containers. The wheels may have at least one magnet for selectively adhering to the outer surface of at least one of the containers whereby the inspection vehicle traverses the container(s). The detector is positionable proximate at least one of the containers. The detector may be deployable from the inspection vehicle to a position adjacent the container(s). The detector has at least one sensor for measuring at least one characteristic of the plurality of containers. At least one base station may be provided for communicating with the inspection vehicle(s) and/or detector(s). |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/348926 |
| ART UNIT | 3661 — 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 71/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126804 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Zhenyu Huang (Richland, Washington); Pak Chung Wong (Richland, Washington); Jian Ma (Richland, Washington); Patrick S Mackey (Richland, Washington); Yousu Chen (Richland, Washington); Kevin P Schneider (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for automated decision support in analyzing operation data from a complex network. Embodiments of the present invention utilize these algorithms and techniques not only to characterize the past and present condition of a complex network, but also to predict future conditions to help operators anticipate deteriorating and/or problem situations. In particular, embodiments of the present invention characterize network conditions from operation data using a state estimator. Contingency scenarios can then be generated based on those network conditions. For at least a portion of all of the contingency scenarios, risk indices are determined that describe the potential impact of each of those scenarios. Contingency scenarios with risk indices are presented visually as graphical representations in the context of a visual representation of the complex network. Analysis of the historical risk indices based on the graphical representations can then provide trends that allow for prediction of future network conditions. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/409103 |
| ART UNIT | 3694 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/38 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SustainX, Inc. (Seabrook, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vermont); Benjamin Bollinger (Windsor, Vermont); Michael Izenson (Hanover, New Hampshire); Weibo Chen (Hanover, New Hampshire); Patrick Magari (Plainfield, New Hampshire); Benjamin Cameron (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods including an energy conversion system for storage and recovery of energy using compressed gas, a source of recovered thermal energy, and a heat-exchange subsystem in fluid communication with the energy conversion system and the source of recovered thermal energy. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/966773 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/613 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123834 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Zheng Ni (Urbana, Illinois); Mark A. Shannon (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Novel metal organic framework (MOF) molecules and methods of synthesizing them are described. MOFs are organometallic crystalline structures that have high sorption capacity due to high surface area, tailorable selectivity, an inert nature, and thermal stability at high temperatures. MOFs may be used as sorbents in preconcentrators for analytical devices to provide orders of magnitude of improved sensitivity in analyte detection. MOFs are also useful as sorbents in new compact and portable micropreconcentrator designs such as a modified purge and trap system and a multi-valve microelectromechanical system (MEMS) to achieve high gain in analyte detection. Further, MOFs may be used as coatings for novel microstructure arrays in micropreconcentrators where the microstructures are designed to increase the surface area to volume ratio inside the micropreconcentrator while minimizing the pressure drop across the micropreconcentrator. |
| FILED | Friday, October 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/539405 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/90 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123898 | Sivasankar et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sanjeevi Sivasankar (El-Cerrito, California); Steven Chu (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of bonding optical structures, bonded optical structures, silylated bonded optical structures, and the like, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/936947 |
| ART UNIT | 1746 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123922 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Henry S. White (Salt Lake City, Utah); Ryan J. White (Santa Barbara, California); Richard B. Brown (Salt Lake City, Utah); Hakhyun Nam (Seoul, South Korea); Jun Ho Shim (Seoul, South Korea) |
| ABSTRACT | Nanopore based ion-selective electrodes and methods of their manufacture as well as methods for their use are disclosed and described. The nanopore based ion-selective electrode can include a pore being present in a solid material and having a nanosize opening in the solid material, a metal conductor disposed inside the pore opposite the opening in the solid material, a reference electrode material contacting said metal conductor and disposed inside the pore, a conductive composition in contact with the reference electrode and disposed in the pore, and an ion-selective membrane. The ion-selective membrane can be configured to isolate the metal conductor, reference electrode material, and conductive composition together within the pore. |
| FILED | Friday, September 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/852061 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/416 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124109 | Kickhoefer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Valerie A. Kickhoefer (Sherman Oaks, California); Leonard H. Rome (Tarzana, California); Kathleen A. Kelly (Pacific Palisades, California); Cheryl I. Champion (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions are provided herein for immunizing a subject against Chlamydial genital infection by administering to the subject an effective amount of a Chlamydial immunogenic peptide or an immunogenic fragment or variant thereof incorporated within a vault-like particle carrier. In some aspects, the vault-like-particles are administered to the nasal mucosa. The methods and compositions advantageously exhibit enhanced ability to induce cell-mediated immunity and/or antibody-based immunity at mucosal surfaces while reducing inflammation associated with Chlamydia infection. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467255 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/263.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124254 | Zou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Applied Technologies, Inc (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yingyin Kevin Zou (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hua Jiang (Sharon, Massachusetts); Kewen Kevin Li (Andover, Massachusetts); Xiaomei Guo (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterostructure of multiferroics or magnetoelectrics (ME) was disclosed. The film has both ferromagnetic and ferroelectric properties, as well as magneto-optic (MO) and electro-optic (EO) properties. Oxide buffer layers were employed to allow grown a cracking-free heterostructure a solution coating method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002585 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/817 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124583 | Stupp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Samuel I. Stupp (Chicago, Illinois); Elia Beniash (Newton, Massachusetts); Jeffrey D. Hartgerink (Pearland, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a composition useful for making homogeneously mineralized self assembled peptide-amphiphile nanofibers and nanofiber gels. The composition is generally a solution comprised of a positively or negatively charged peptide-amphiphile and a like signed ion from the mineral. Mixing this solution with a second solution containing a dissolved counter-ion of the mineral and/or a second oppositely charged peptide amphiphile, results in the rapid self assembly of the peptide-amphiphiles into a nanofiber gel and templated mineralization of the ions. Templated mineralization of the initially dissolved mineral cations and anions in the mixture occurs with preferential orientation of the mineral crystals along the fiber surfaces within the nanofiber gel. One advantage of the present invention is that it results in homogenous growth of the mineral throughout the nanofiber gel. Another advantage of the present invention is that the nanofiber gel formation and mineralization reactions occur in a single mixing step and under substantially neutral or physiological pH conditions. These homogeneous nanostructured composite materials are useful for medical applications especially the regeneration of damaged bone in mammals. This invention is directed to the synthesis of peptide-amphiphiles with more than one amphiphilic moment and to supramolecular compositions comprised of such multi-dimensional peptide-amphiphiles. Supramolecular compositions can be formed by self assembly of multi-dimensional peptide-amphiphiles by mixing them with a solution comprising a monovalent cation. |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489401 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/3.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124693 | Kennedy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph P. Kennedy (Akron, Ohio); Zheng Fang (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Various novel block cationomers comprising polyisobutylene (PIB) and poly(2-dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA) segments have been synthesized and characterized. The specific targets were various molecular weight diblocks (PDMAEMA+) and triblocks (PDMAEMA+-b-PIB-b-PDMAEMA+) with the PIB blocks in the DPn=50-200 (Mn=3,000-9,000 g/mol) range connected to blocks of PDMAEMA+ cations in the DPn=5-20 range. The overall synthetic strategy for the preparation of these block cationomers comprised four steps: 1) Synthesis by living cationic polymerization of mono- and di-allyltelechelic polyisobutylenes, 2) End group transformation to obtain PIBs fitted with termini capable of mediating the atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of DMAEMA, 3) ATRP of DMAEMA and 4) Quaternization of PDMAEMA to PDMAEMA+I− by CH3I. Kinetic and model experiments provided guidance to develop convenient synthesis methods. The microarchitecture of PIB-PDMAEMA di- and triblock and the corresponding block cationomers were confirmed by 1H NMR and FTIR spectroscopy and solubility studies. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 28, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/605025 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 525/299 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124860 | Gallie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Des Moines, Iowa); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Gallie (Riverside, California); Robert Meeley (Des Moines, Iowa); Todd Young (Palm Springs, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The enzymes of the ACC synthase family are used in producing ethylene. Nucleotide and polypeptide sequences of ACC synthases, namely ACS2, ACS6, and ACS7 from Zea mays, are provided. Knockout plant cells having inhibition in expression and/or activity in an ACC synthase such as ACS2, ACS6, or ACS7 and knockout plants displaying a staygreen phenotype, a male sterility phenotype, or an inhibition in ethylene production are also provided, as are seeds obtained from such plants. Methods for modulating staygreen potential in plants, methods for modulating sterility in plants, and methods for inhibiting ethylene production in plants are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802876 |
| 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 8/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126653 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Welch (Fremont, California); Claes Gustafsson (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides in an expression system. A plurality of polynucleotides, each encoding a polypeptide sequence, is constructed. An amino acid is encoded a plurality of times in both a first and second polynucleotide in the plurality. The amino acid is encodable by a plurality of synonymous codons including a first codon. The first codon is in the first polynucleotide at a first frequency relative to other synonymous codons, and is in the second polynucleotide at a second frequency relative to other synonymous codons. The first and second frequencies are different. Each polynucleotide is individually expressed in the expression system to measure an expression property value of the polynucleotides, thereby determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides. The property is an effect that a frequency of use of one or more codons has on expression of polynucleotides in the expression system. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184230 |
| 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 |
| US 08126884 | Page |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Page (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a document is calculated from the ranks of documents citing it. In addition, the rank of a document is calculated from a constant representing the probability that a browser through the database will randomly jump to the document. The method is particularly useful in enhancing the performance of search engine results for hypermedia databases, such as the world wide web, whose documents have a large variation in quality. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/695713 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/723 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Biopulping International Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masood Akhtar (Middleton, Wisconsin); William R. Kenealy (Madison, Wisconsin); Eric G. Horn (Madison, Wisconsin); Ross E. Swaney (Madison, Wisconsin); Jerrold Winandy (Mazomanie, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for producing an MDF board from pulp from a fibrous lignocellulose material using a treatment or pretreatment step which exposes the material to oxalic acid or oxalic acid derivatives (particularly dialkyl ester derivatives, particularly in the vapor phase). The treated wood is then subjected to a sugar extraction wash and refined using any one of the several pulping methods to produce a final pulp product. Once this is done the pulp is used to make MDF boards having improved water repellency properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/854574 |
| ART UNIT | 1741 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Paper making and fiber liberation 162/72 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124101 | Palese et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York, New York); St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, Tennessee); The United States of America as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Palese (Leonia, New Jersey); Adolfo Garcia-Sastre (New York, New York); Richard J. Webby (Memphis, Tennessee); Juergen A. Richt (Ames, Iowa); Robert G. Webster (Memphis, Tennessee); Kelly M. Lager (Colo, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated swine influenza viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. In particular, the invention relates to attenuated swine influenza viruses having modifications to a swine NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. These viruses replicate in vivo, but demonstrate decreased replication, virulence and increased attenuation, and therefore are well suited for use in live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 01, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/628292 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/206.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124375 | Pichersky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents Of The University Of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eran Pichersky (Chelsea, Michigan); Yoko Iijima (Chiba, Japan); Efraim Lewinsohn (Timrat, Illinois); David R. Gang (Tucson, Arizona); James Simon (Princeton, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel type of monoterpene synthase, a key enzyme in the production of the monoterpene aroma compound geraniol. More specifically, the present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences coding for GES from flowers and herbs species, in particular sweet basil, as well as to vectors containing the sequences, to host cells containing the sequences and to methods of producing recombinant GES, its products, and uses thereof. |
| FILED | Monday, February 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/702019 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124837 | Kirkpatrick et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce C. Kirkpatrick (Davis, California); Magalie R. R. Guilhabert (Davis, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Xylella fastidiosa (Xj), a Gram-negative, xylem-limited bacterium, is the causal agent of several economically important plant diseases, including Pierce's disease (PD) and Citrus Variegated Chlorosis (CVC). Identified is a HccA-like hemagglutinin gene in Xylella fastidiosa involved in the virulence of the pathogen. In essence this protein is a “molecular glue” that specifically attaches to the surface of Xylella fastidiosa causing Xylella fastidiosa cells to form aggregrates. If this protein is expressed in trans-genic plants, this protein could cause greater aggregation of Xylella fastidiosa cells in planta, thus slowing down the movement of Xylella fastidiosa and decreasing disease symptoms. The protein can also be introduced into the plant by inoculation with a plant endophyte which expresses and secretes a HecA-like hemagglutinin. Thus plants containing increased levels of a Xylella fastidiosa HecA-like hemagglutinin protein could have an increased level of field resistance to disease caused by Xylella fastidiosa. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/793916 |
| 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 8/279 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124838 | Browse et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington State University Research Foundation (Pullman, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John A. Browse (Palouse, Washington); James G. Wallis (Moscow, Idaho); Jennifer L. Watts (Moscow, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | The amino acid and nucleic acid sequences of a Δ5-desaturase enzyme and a Δ8-desaturase enzyme are disclosed. The nucleic acid sequences can be used to design recombinant DNA constructs and vectors. These vectors can then be used to transform various organisms, including for example, plants and yeast. The transformed organisms will then produce polyunsaturated fatty acids. The amino acid sequences are useful for generating enzyme-specific antibodies that are useful for identifying the desaturases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/141865 |
| 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 8/281 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124860 | Gallie et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. (Des Moines, Iowa); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Gallie (Riverside, California); Robert Meeley (Des Moines, Iowa); Todd Young (Palm Springs, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The enzymes of the ACC synthase family are used in producing ethylene. Nucleotide and polypeptide sequences of ACC synthases, namely ACS2, ACS6, and ACS7 from Zea mays, are provided. Knockout plant cells having inhibition in expression and/or activity in an ACC synthase such as ACS2, ACS6, or ACS7 and knockout plants displaying a staygreen phenotype, a male sterility phenotype, or an inhibition in ethylene production are also provided, as are seeds obtained from such plants. Methods for modulating staygreen potential in plants, methods for modulating sterility in plants, and methods for inhibiting ethylene production in plants are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802876 |
| 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 8/320.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126213 | Chao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kuanglin Chao (Ellicott City, Maryland); Yud R. Chen (Laurel, Maryland); Moon S. Kim (Silver Spring, Maryland); Diane Chan (Odenton, Maryland); Chun-Chieh Yang (Greenbelt, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | An imaging system containing an electron-multiplying charge-coupled device detector and line-scan spectrograph is used for identifying wholesome and unwholesome freshly slaughtered chicken carcasses on high-speed commercial chicken processing lines. Multispectral imaging algorithms allow for real-time online identification of wholesome and unwholesome chicken carcasses. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/904537 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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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) | Christopher J. Johnson (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of assembling an inflatable shell of a structure comprises folding a plurality of shell sections about a set of fold lines and integrating the plurality of shell sections together with one another to form the shell. In another embodiment, an inflatable shell comprises a plurality of shell sections, each shell section having two pairs of fold lines for folding into stowage comprising a first gore section having a plurality of first gore panels layered and collectively folded about at a first set of fold lines. Each layer of the first gore panels and second gore panels are configured such that, once the first gore panel and second gore panel are attached to one another at the respective side edges of each panel, the lines of attachment forming a second set of fold lines for the shell section. A system and method for fabricating gore panels is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/402986 |
| ART UNIT | 3635 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Static structures 052/2.220 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124254 | Zou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Boston Applied Technologies, Inc (Woburn, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yingyin Kevin Zou (Lexington, Massachusetts); Hua Jiang (Sharon, Massachusetts); Kewen Kevin Li (Andover, Massachusetts); Xiaomei Guo (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A heterostructure of multiferroics or magnetoelectrics (ME) was disclosed. The film has both ferromagnetic and ferroelectric properties, as well as magneto-optic (MO) and electro-optic (EO) properties. Oxide buffer layers were employed to allow grown a cracking-free heterostructure a solution coating method. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/002585 |
| ART UNIT | 1785 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/817 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124870 | Woods et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ITN Energy System, Inc. (Littleton, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence M. Woods (Littleton, Colorado); Rosine M. Ribelin (Lakewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A thin-film photovoltaic device includes a semi-transparent back contact layer. The semi-transparent back contact layer includes a semi-transparent contact layer and a semi-transparent contact interface layer. The thin-film photovoltaic device may be formed in a substrate or superstrate configuration. A tandem thin-film photovoltaic device includes a semi-transparent interconnect layer. The semi-transparent interconnect layer includes a semi-transparent contact layer and a semi-transparent contact interface layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/858010 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08124927 | Savchenkov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Anatoliy Savchenkov (La Crescenta, California); Lutfollah Maleki (Pasadena, California); Makan Mohageg (Valley Village, California); Thanh M. Le (Duarte, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device including a whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical resonator configured to support one or more whispering gallery modes; and a photodetector optically coupled to an exterior surface of the optical resonator to receive evanescent light from the optical resonator to detect light inside the optical resonator. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/754959 |
| ART UNIT | 2878 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/227.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08123678 | Lawrence et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dale A. Lawrence (Louisville, Colorado); Sutha Aphanuphong (Boulder, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides, in part, a dexterous endoscope apparatus, referred to herein as a MicroFlex Scope (MFS). The MFS is an novel, small diameter, e.g., less about 1 mm to about 4 mm, about 1 mm to about 3 mm, etc., dexterous endoscope that allows for access, direct visualization, tissue sampling, treatment, etc. of body lumens. In one embodiment, the distal end of the MFS of the invention is an ultra-flexible tip that comprises a plurality of thin, curved shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator elements attached to at least one structural skeleton, e.g., a coil spring skeleton or hinge structure. The SMA actuator elements in each structural skeleton segment are indirectly heated by a heater element and produce force in response to their temperature relative to specific thresholds. In certain embodiments, the heater element may include an integrated heater/sensor element adapted to heat the actuator element and to sense the temperature and bend state of the actuator element. In configurations comprising a plurality of actuator elements, multiplexing/demultiplexing of heating currents and sensor voltages may be accomplished via a parallel bus and demulitplexing circuit. In this regard, a demultiplexing circuit using standard microelectronic fabrication techniques may be designed to achieve individual sensing and control over each actuator element. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400065 |
| ART UNIT | 3779 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123859 | Schowalter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Crystal IS, Inc. (Green Island, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leo J. Schowalter (Latham, New York); Glen A. Slack (Scotia, New York); J. Carlos Rojo (East Setau, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for producing bulk single crystals of AlN having low dislocation densities of about 10,000 cm−2 or less includes a crystal growth enclosure with Al and N2 source material therein, capable of forming bulk crystals. The apparatus maintains the N2 partial pressure at greater than stoichiometric pressure relative to the Al within the crystal growth enclosure, while maintaining the total vapor pressure in the crystal growth enclosure at super-atmospheric pressure. At least one nucleation site is provided in the crystal growth enclosure, and provision is made for cooling the nucleation site relative to other locations in the crystal growth enclosure. The Al and N2 vapor is then deposited to grow single crystalline low dislocation density AlN at the nucleation site. High efficiency ultraviolet light emitting diodes and ultraviolet laser diodes are fabricated on low defect density AlN substrates, which are cut from the low dislocation density AlN crystals. Bulk crystals of ZnO may also be produced using the method. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/841350 |
| ART UNIT | 1714 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor 117/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08123943 | Wynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas P Wynn (Redwood City, California); Yu Huang (Palo Alto, California); Tiem Aldajani (San Jose, California); Donald A Fulton (Fairfield, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention is a pervaporation process and pervaporation equipment, using a series of membrane modules, and including inter-module reheating of the feed solution under treatment. The inter-module heating is achieved within the tube or vessel in which the modules are housed, thereby avoiding the need to repeatedly extract the feed solution from the membrane module train. |
| FILED | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/794445 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126653 | Welch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | DNA Twopointo, Inc. (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Welch (Fremont, California); Claes Gustafsson (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides in an expression system. A plurality of polynucleotides, each encoding a polypeptide sequence, is constructed. An amino acid is encoded a plurality of times in both a first and second polynucleotide in the plurality. The amino acid is encodable by a plurality of synonymous codons including a first codon. The first codon is in the first polynucleotide at a first frequency relative to other synonymous codons, and is in the second polynucleotide at a second frequency relative to other synonymous codons. The first and second frequencies are different. Each polynucleotide is individually expressed in the expression system to measure an expression property value of the polynucleotides, thereby determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides. The property is an effect that a frequency of use of one or more codons has on expression of polynucleotides in the expression system. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/184230 |
| 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 |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08123399 | Moldover et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael R Moldover (Bethesda, Maryland); Dean Ripple (Gaithersburg, Maryland); Gregory Strouse (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermometer is provided. A housing has at least one opening. A dielectric element is disposed in the housing. At least one microwave guide is coupled to the at least one opening for providing a signal into the dielectric element for propagation at a resonant frequency and for receiving the signal from the dielectric element. A temperature determination unit receives the signal from the at least one microwave guide, measures the resonant frequency of the dielectric element, and determines the temperature of the dielectric element based on a relationship between resonant frequency and temperature of the dielectric element. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/113340 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126262 | Kender |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Kender (Leonia, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Each video segment in a plurality of video segments is annotated with an indicator of the likelihood that the respective video segment shows a particular feature. The plurality of video segments forms an episode of interest from a given video domain. Initial feature probabilities are calculated for respective ones of the plurality of video segments using a machine learning algorithm. Each initial feature probability indicates the likelihood that its respective video segment shows the particular feature. Refined feature probabilities are determined for respective ones of the plurality of video segments by finding the most probable state sequence in a finite state machine. This is accomplished at least in part using the determined initial feature probabilities. Finally, each of the video segments in the plurality of vides segments is annotated with its respective refined feature probability. |
| FILED | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/764473 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08125898 | Strayer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. (Basking Ridge, New Jersey); Ratheon BBN Technologies, Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Timothy Strayer (West Newton, Massachusetts); Christine Elaine Jones (Spokane Valley, Washington); Rajesh Krishnan (North Billerica, Massachusetts); Isidro Marcos Castineyra (Somerville, Massachusetts); Regina Rosales Hain (Winchester, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining correlated flows in a network may include obtaining times of arrival and corresponding flows for data units in the network (1020) and assigning weights to a set of data units based on respective times between the set of data units and one data unit (1030). A probability matrix representing interflow connections in the network may be updated based on the assigned weights (1040). |
| FILED | Thursday, March 10, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/077429 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08125984 | Giles et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James R. Giles (Yorktown Heights, New York); Nagui Halim (Yorktown Heights, New York); Kirsten W. Hildrum (Hawthorne, New York); Daniel M. Kuchta (Patterson, New York); Yoonho Park (Chappaqua, New York); Deepak Rajan (Fishkill, New York); Laurent Schares (Sleepy Hollow, New York); Eugen Schenfeld (South Brunswick, New Jersey); Phillippe L. Selo (Tarrytown, New York); Marc Taubenblatt (Pleasantville, New York); Rohit Wagle (Elmsford, New York); Joel L. Wolf (Katonah, New York); Xiaolan J. Zhang (Champaign, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and computer program product for implementing stream processing are provided. The system includes an application framework and applications containing dataflow graphs managed by the application framework running on a first network. The system also includes at least one circuit switch in the first network having a configuration that is controlled by the application framework, a plurality of processing nodes interconnected by the first network over one of wireline and wireless links, and a second network for providing at least one of control and additional data transfer over the first network. The application framework reconfigures circuit switches in response to monitoring aspects of the applications and the first network. |
| FILED | Friday, March 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/052814 |
| ART UNIT | 2472 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/353 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
| US 08124110 | Ko et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. (Ithaca, New York); Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Albert I. Ko (Bahia, Brazil); Mitermayer Galvão Reis (Bahia, Brazil); Julio Henrique Rosa Croda (Bahia, Brazil); Isadora Cristina Siqueira (Bahia, Brazil); David A. Haake (Los Angeles, California); James Matsunaga (Los Angeles, California); Lee W. Riley (Berkeley, California); Michele Barocchi (Florence, Italy); Tracy Ann Young (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to three isolated DNA molecules that encode for proteins, BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3, in the Leptospira sp bacterium which have repetitive Bacterial-Ig-like (Big) domains and their use in diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine applications. According to the present invention, the isolated molecules encoding for BigL1, BigL2 and BigL3 proteins are used for the diagnosis and prevention of infection with Leptospira species that are capable of producing disease in humans and other mammals, including those of veterinary importance. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/216214 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/269.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08126649 | Frasch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona acting for and on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wayne Frasch (Phoenix, Arizona); David Spetzler (Scottsdale, Arizona); Justin York (Phoenix, Arizona); Fusheng Xiong (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for generating a distribution of optimal answers to a nondeterministic polynomial optimization problem by providing a plurality of solutions comprising input polynucleotides, wherein each solution comprises identical input polynucleotides; and wherein the number of solutions comprising polynucleotides equals a number of data inputs in the problem to be answered, and wherein each input polynucleotide comprises an x segment and a y segment; providing a plurality of solutions comprising connection polynucleotides wherein each solution comprises identical connection polynucleotides; and wherein the number of solutions comprising connection polynucleotides equals a number of unique connections that can be made between the different data inputs, and wherein each polynucleotide in the set of connection polynucleotides is complementary to the x segment of one input polynucleotide and to the y segment of one different input polynucleotide; combining the solutions comprising the input polynucleotides with the solutions comprising the connection polynucleotides to form a hybridization mixture, wherein the combining is done under conditions to promote formation of hybridization complexes between complementary polynucleotides, and wherein each individual connection polynucleotide is added at a concentration based on a weighted value assigned to the individual connection polynucleotide; ligating the polynucleotides that are present in the hybridization complexes to form ligation products; and determining a concentration of the ligation products, wherein the ligation products present at the highest concentration represent optimal answers to the nondeterministic polynomial optimization problem. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/181056 |
| 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 72/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08123118 | McDonald |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Glenn E McDonald (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method of tracking a plurality of items during transfer from a source location to a destination. One embodiment is a method comprising associating information identifying the plurality of items with a radio frequency (RF) tag that identifies a carrier unit. The method further comprises storing said associated information in at least one of the RF tag and a computer memory. The method further comprises communicating with the RF tag to identify the location of the carrier unit. The method further comprises identifying the location of at least one of the plurality of items based at least in part on the location of the carrier unit. Another embodiment is a system configured to perform an embodiment of the method. |
| FILED | Monday, August 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/197968 |
| ART UNIT | 2887 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Registers 235/375 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08123945 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior, The Bereau of Reclamation (Washington, District of Columbia); Separation Systems Technology Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Patrick Murphy (Littleton, Colorado); Saied Delagah (Denver, Colorado); Robert Lee Riley (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method is provided for producing a high flux, high salt rejection cellulose acetate desalination membrane. In this method, cellulose acetate polymer is dissolved in a first solvent such as methylene chloride or 2-methyltetrahydrofuran to produce a solution. Further steps involve stirring the solution, and thereafter permitting the solution to settle, for a time sufficient for a majority of the cellulose acetate to precipitate out of the solution to form a cellulose acetate precipitate. Next, the cellulose acetate precipitate is stirred into an excess methanol. Thereafter, the cellulose acetate is filtered out and used in making the desalination membrane. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/746288 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/634 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08126261 | Medioni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gerard Medioni (Los Angeles, California); Douglas Fidaleo (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A 3D face reconstruction technique using 2D images, such as photographs of a face, is described. Prior face knowledge or a generic face is used to extract sparse 3D information from the images and to identify image pairs. Bundle adjustment is carried out to determine more accurate 3D camera positions, image pairs are rectified, and dense 3D face information is extracted without using the prior face knowledge. Outliers are removed, e.g., by using tensor voting. A 3D surface is extracted from the dense 3D information and surface detail is extracted from the images. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828214 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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