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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 06, 2012
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| US 08127432 | Viscarra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alberto F. Viscarra (Torrance, California); Ethan S. Heinrich (San Pedro, California); Melvin S. Campbell (Hawthorne, California); David T. Winslow (Culver City, California); Kevin C. Rolston (Westchester, California); Rosalio S. Vidaurri (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A process for fabricating an origami formed antenna radiating structure is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a process for precisely fabricating a radio frequency (RF) antenna structure, the process including providing a flexible circuit substrate, forming a plurality of parallel channels in the flexible circuit substrate in a first direction, mounting the flexible substrate to a precision die, pressing the flexible substrate into the precision die using an elastomeric material thereby sandwiching the flexible substrate between the elastomeric material and the precision die, and applying heat to the flexible substrate sandwiched between the elastomeric material and the precision die. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/620544 |
| ART UNIT | 3729 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127526 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Joseph Murphy (Vernon, Connecticut); Jeffrey R. Lavin (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine includes an exhaust liner having cold and hot sheets radially spaced from one another and interconnected by a band arranged in a cavity between the hot and cold sheets. In one example, the band is Z-shaped to permit thermal growth of the hot sheets relative to the cold sheets in the axial and radial directions. The hot sheets include axially adjacent portions that provide slots that are in fluid communication with the space. Cooling fluid is provided to the cavity through impingement jets in the cold sheet. The slots are arranged radially between the hot sheet portions. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/015033 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/39.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127552 | Schumacher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International, Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jurgen C. Schumacher (Phoenix, Arizona); Ian L. Critchley (Phoenix, Arizona); David G. Walhood (Scottsdale, Arizona); Stony W. Kujala (Tempe, Arizona); Gregory O. Woodcock (Mesa, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | An engine assembly includes a combustor having a combustion chamber in which an air and fuel mixture is combusted to produce combustion gases. The engine assembly further includes a transition scroll coupled to the combustor for receiving the combustion gases. The transition scroll includes an interior surface, an exterior surface, and effusion cooling holes for providing cooling air to the interior surface. The engine assembly further includes a turbine coupled to the transition scroll for receiving and extracting energy from the combustion gases. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/016360 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/752 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127581 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ephraim C. Davis (No Richland Hills, Texas); Bryan G. Parrette (Vernon, Connecticut); Larry D. Cronin (Enfield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A tool for correcting the twist angle of a turbine blade includes an adaptor configured to engage a tip of the blade, a socket drive configured to engage the adaptor, a first handle connected to a first side of the socket drive, a second handle connected to a second side of the socket drive, and a torque gauge configured to measure a load applied to the blade. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/082896 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal deforming 072/31.30 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127616 | Carver et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Reed Carver (Aurora, Ohio); Joseph Snyder (Novelty, Ohio); Frederick J. Lisy (Euclid, Ohio); Troy Prince (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates, in general, to pressure sensors capable of operating at high temperatures. The present invention further relates to a high temperature pressure sensor with an improved gage factor. The present invention still further provides a pressure sensor with a smaller sized diaphragm, which is capable of reading higher pressures. The present invention also provides a method and sensor for detecting strain using shape memory alloys. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/080299 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/715 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127652 | Hennings 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) | Elsa J. Hennings (Ridgecrest, California); Julia N. Martin (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A double finger trap loop includes at least one braid having a first end and a second end. The braid is defined by an inner portion and an outer portion. The inner portion is a hollow conduit in the braid. The braid is readily adaptable to accept the first end and the second end into the hollow conduit. The first end and the second end are associated with each other. The association is capable of adhering the first end to the second end by a continuous internal stitch. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871581 |
| ART UNIT | 3765 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Textiles: Braiding, netting, and lace making 087/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127705 | Kuklinski |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kuklinski (Portsmouth, Rhode Island) |
| ABSTRACT | A water entry system increases the drag of an underwater vehicle by disrupting the cavity that forms during high-speed transit of the vehicle through the water. A series of inlet ports are positioned in regions of the vehicle where pressure stagnation occurs during transit. Flow passages connect these inlets to outlet ports at regions of lower pressure. Pressure differences cause jets to flow in the respective passages. The jets produce a high flow rate normal to the original cavity boundary. The jets serve to increase drag in at least two manners. In one case, a flow jet normal to the cavity interface broadens the cavity to increase drag and slow the vehicle. In a second case, a jet can cause waves on the cavity interface to break down the stable cavity. As a result, the vehicle surface is wetted, producing skin friction drag and slowing vehicle. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560523 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Ships 114/337 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127829 | Sabatino et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel R. Sabatino (East Hampton, Connecticut); Scott F. Kaslusky (West Hartford, Connecticut); Hayden M. Reeve (West Hartford, Connecticut); Louis J. Spadaccini (Manchester, Connecticut); Louis Chiappetta (South Windsor, Connecticut); He Huang (Glastonbury, Connecticut); David R. Sobel (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat exchanger includes one or more passages and one or more metal foam sections adjacent the passage to promote an exchange of heat relative to the passage. The metal foam section includes a nominal thermal conductivity gradient there though to provide a desirable balance of heat exchange properties within the metal foam section. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/516402 |
| ART UNIT | 3744 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Heat exchange 165/80.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128019 | Annati et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard E. Annati (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Patrick L. O'Brien (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A propulsion system for a vertical take-off and landing ducted fan aerial vehicle is provided, the propulsion system comprising an internal combustion engine, an electric motor that comprises a motor generator, a motor drive and a battery. The motor drive and battery are integrated into the aerial vehicle and provide power to the ducted fan aerial vehicle. The electric motor may comprise a ring motor generator. In operation, this dual propulsion system serves as a weight-efficient option to allow for two sources of power on a ducted fan unmanned aerial vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, December 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334098 |
| ART UNIT | 3644 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Aeronautics and astronautics 244/23.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128348 | Lutjen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine); Susan M. Tholen (Kennebunk, Maine) |
| ABSTRACT | A component for a gas turbine engine has an airfoil with internal cooling channels for delivering air from a radially outer end of the airfoil toward a radially inner end of the airfoil. The cooling channels are separated from adjacent cooling channels by sets of at least two disconnected wall segments. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861662 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128349 | Lutjen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul M. Lutjen (Kennebunkport, Maine); Susan M. Tholen (Kennebunk, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Gas turbine engines and related systems involving blade outer air seals are provided. In this regard, a representative blade outer air seal assembly for a gas turbine engine includes: an annular arrangement of outer air seal segments defining an inner diameter surface; intersegment gaps located between the outer air seal segments, each of the gaps being located between a corresponding adjacent pair of the segments; and recesses spaced about the inner diameter surface, each of the recesses communicating with a corresponding one of the gaps. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/873659 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128561 | Bhat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Intelligent Automation, Inc. (Rockville, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arvind Bhat (Germantown, Maryland); Shan Chiang (Ashburn, Virginia); Eric van Doorn (Frederick, Maryland); Pencheng Lv (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A hydration and composition measurement device and technique that in one embodiment includes a microcontroller; a phase lock loop frequency synthesizer controlled by the microcontroller to generate radio frequencies; a cavity for use in resonating at a set of frequencies; a radio frequency power detector for measuring perturbed cavity resonance; and an analyzer. The hydration and composition measurement device may further include a circulator, which receives frequencies from the phase lock loop frequency synthesizer, and an antenna connected to the circulator and cavity. The cavity may be defined by a metallic material or members, and the cavity includes a hole configured to provide access of tissue to be tested to the cavity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/455994 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128764 | Miracle et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Daniel B. Miracle (Bellbrook, Ohio); Seshacharyulu Tamirisakandala (Beavercreek, Ohio); Radhakrishna B. Bhat (Beavercreek, Ohio); Jaimie S Tiley (Verona, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for refining the microstructure of titanium alloys in a single thermomechanical processing step, wherein the titanium alloy comprises boron. In some embodiments, the method comprises the steps of first adding boron to the titanium alloy then subjecting the boron-containing titanium alloy to a thermomechanical processing step. Also provided is a method for achieving superplasticity in titanium alloys comprising the steps of selecting a boron-containing titanium alloy, determining the temperature and strain rate necessary to achieve beta superplasticity, and applying sufficient temperature and strain rate to the boron-containing titanium alloy to deform the alloy to the desired shape. Also provided methods of forming titanium alloy parts and the parts prepared by these methods. |
| FILED | Monday, December 13, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/581998 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/564 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128858 | Soong |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ricky K. Soong (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for forming a nano/microstructure includes applying a release coating having a transition temperature to a mold, the release coating promoting adhesion thereto at temperatures below the transition temperature and release at temperatures above the transition temperature. A cast material is adhered to the release coating at a first temperature below the transition temperature and released from the mold by exposing the release coating to a second temperature greater than the transition temperature. |
| FILED | Friday, March 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/727518 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: Processes 264/496 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128908 | Santra et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Swadeshmukul Santra (Orlando, Florida); Paul H. Holloway (Gainesville, Florida); Robert A. Mericle (Brentwood, Tennessee); Heesun Yang (Gainesville, Florida); Glenn A. Walter (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to fluorescent, radio-opaque and magnetic quantum nanoparticles, useful as multifunctional contrast agents or probes for in vivo bioimaging, and methods of their use. The invention provides for multifaceted bioimaging (e.g., intra-arterial pre-operative brain mapping and broad based in vivo diagnostic imaging), including imaging of various cell types, such as stem cells. |
| FILED | Monday, May 02, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 10/590590 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128921 | Ben Mamoun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Choukri Ben Mamoun (Farmington, Connecticut); Kamal El Bissati (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a malaria vaccine for administration to a host comprising an attenuated malarial parasite with a gene which has been rendered non-functional, wherein the gene, when present in naturally occurring form, encodes a protein necessary for continued in vivo survival and proliferation of the parasite and for infection of host red blood cells. The invention further relates to a malaria vaccine in which a gene that encodes a nutrient transporter protein has been rendered non-functional. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/827282 |
| 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 08128929 | Loizos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ImClone LLC (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nick Loizos (Staten Island, New York); Jim Huber (Scotch Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides antibodies that bind to human PDGFRα and neutralize activation of the receptor. The invention further provides methods for neutralizing activation of PDGFRα and methods of treating a mammal with a neoplastic disease using the antibodies alone or in combination with other agents. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/917890 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128942 | Gustafson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EndoBiologics, Incorporated (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Gustafson (Missoula, Montana); Dan C. DeBorde (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an immunogenic conjugate comprising biologically deacylated gram-negative bacterial moieties linked to D. discoideum proteinase 1, as well as novel subunits thereof, and methods of making and using the conjugates in vaccines to treat sepsis and other infectious complications. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/785312 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/250.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129059 | Brantley et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UltraCell, L.L.C. (Commack, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer E. Brantley (Dublin, California); Ian W. Kaye (Livermore, California); Hiep T. Nguyen (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a fuel processor that produces hydrogen from a fuel and includes a low pressure drop burner. The low pressure drop burner permits the use of a low pressure air supply such as a fan to move products and reactants through the burner. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/389158 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129141 | Kaplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (, None); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force AFMCLO/JAZ (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Jia Huang (Medford, Massachusetts); Cheryl Wong Po Foo (Palo Alto, California); Rajesh Naik (Dayton, Ohio); Anne George (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The claimed invention provides a fusion polypeptide comprising a fibrous protein domain and a mineralization domain. The fusion is used to form an organic-inorganic composite. These organic-inorganic composites can be constructed from the nano- to the macro-scale depending on the size of the fibrous protein fusion domain used. In one embodiment, the composites can also be loaded with other compounds (e.g., dyes, drugs, enzymes) depending on the goal for the materials, to further enhance function. This can be achieved during assembly of the material or during the mineralization step in materials formation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/097538 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129149 | Dorsey 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) | Russell M. Dorsey (Fallston, Maryland); Robert W. Dorsey (Middle River, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A rapid and sensitive method to measure endonuclease activity comprising reacting a substrate suspected of having endonuclease activity with a synthetic nucleotide to induce endonuclease cleavage of the synthetic nucleotide followed by measurement of activity by carrying out a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). When no polymerase chain reaction takes place when carrying out the method it is indicative of no endonuclease activity in the substrate. Synthetic oligonucleotides, primers, and probes useful for carrying out the method are disclosed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/269448 |
| 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 435/91.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129179 | Wikswo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Wikswo (Brentwood, Tennessee); David Cliffel (Nashville, Tennessee); Eugene J. Leboeuf (Franklin, Tennessee); Randall S. Reiserer (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioreactor (200) for cultivating living cells in a liquid medium. In one embodiment, the bioreactor (200) has a substrate (230) having a first surface and an opposite second surface, defining a channel (202) therein, and a plurality of chambers (204) formed in the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of chambers (204) is adapted for receiving cells in a liquid medium and formed with an open end (262), an opposite closed end (264) and side walls, the open end (262) and the closed end (264) defining a depth, d, therebetween for the corresponding chamber (206), the sidewalls defining a width, w, therebetween for the corresponding chamber (206). As such formed, each chamber (206) is in fluid communication with the channel (202) through the open end of the chamber (206), and at least two of the plurality of chambers (206) have depths or widths the same or different form each other. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525538 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/305.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129257 | Liang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Di Liang (Santa Barbara, California) |
| ABSTRACT | InP epitaxial material is directly bonded onto a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) wafer having Vertical Outgassing Channels (VOCs) between the bonding surface and the insulator (buried oxide, or BOX) layer. H2O and other molecules near the bonding surface migrate to the closest VOC and are quenched in the buried oxide (BOX) layer quickly by combining with bridging oxygen ions and forming pairs of stable nonbridging hydroxyl groups (Si—OH). Various sizes and spacings of channels are envisioned for various devices. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/353798 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129303 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075040 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129345 | Kufe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Kufe (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of identifying and making compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds that inhibit the interaction between MUC1 and an IKK. The disclosure also provides in vivo and in vitro methods of inhibiting such an interaction. Also embraced by the disclosure are in vitro and in vivo methods of inhibiting the IKK/NF-κB pathway in cells expressing MUC1. The compounds, compositions, and methods of the disclosure are generally useful in the treatment of various cancers, inflammatory (e.g., autoimmune disorders), and transplant rejection. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781148 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129525 | Pitner et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Becton Dickinson and Company (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | J. Bruce Pitner (Durham, North Carolina); Douglas B. Sherman (Durham, North Carolina); Arounaguiry Ambroise (Morrisville, North Carolina); Joseph Thomas (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Reactive fluorescent dyes compositions and methods of using same are disclosed. Nile Red nucleus dyes are disclosed having thiol-reactive groups. Nile Red nucleus dyes are disclosed that exhibit a fluorescence emission of at least about 575 nm. The Nile Red nucleus dyes are of the following formulae: |
| FILED | Monday, June 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/489121 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130023 | Veliadis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Falls Church, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John V. Veliadis (Hanover, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method for providing symmetric, efficient bi-directional power flow and power conditioning for high-voltage applications. Embodiments include a first vertical-channel junction gate field-effect transistor (VJFET), a second VJFET, a gate drive coupled to the first VJFET gate and the second VJFET gate. Both VJFETs include a gate, drain (D1 and D2), and a source, and have gate-to-drain and gate-to-source built-in potentials. The first VJFET and the second VJFET are connected back-to-back in series so that the sources of each are shorted together at a common point S. The gate drive applies an equal voltage bias (VG) to both the gates. The gate drive is configured to selectively bias VG so that current flows through the VJFETs in the D1 to D2 direction, flows through the VJFETs in the D2 to D1 direction or voltages applied to D1 of the first VJFET or D2 of the second VJFET are blocked. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/623655 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/430 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130049 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Daquan Huang (Allen, Texas); Mau-Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California); Tim R. LaRocca (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Generation of Terahertz range (300 GHz to 3 THz) frequencies is increasingly important for communication, imaging and spectroscopic systems, including concealed object detection. Apparatus and methods describe generating multiple phase signals which are phase-locked at a fundamental frequency, which are then interleaved into an output which is a multiple of the fundamental frequency. By way of example phase generators comprise cross-coupling transistors (e.g., NMOS) and twist coupling transistors (NMOS) for generating a desired number of phase-locked output phases. A rectifying interleaver comprising a transconductance stage and Class B amplifiers provides superimposition of the phases into an output signal. The invention allows frequency output to exceed the maximum frequency of oscillation of a given device technology, such as CMOS in which a 324 GHz VCO in 90 nm digital CMOS with 4 GHz tuning was realized. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/579661 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/117.FE0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130167 | Glabe et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | COI Ceramics, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Glabe (Ramona, California); Andrew B. MacFarland (Beavercreek, Ohio); Paul C. Kuhl (Vista, California); Thomas Barrett Jackson (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Radomes include an outer wall having a first average thickness and an inner wall having a second average thickness that is different from the first average thickness. At least a major portion of the inner wall is separated from at least a major portion of the outer wall by a space therebetween. The outer wall may comprise a layer of ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material. Aircraft and spacecraft include such radomes. Methods of forming radomes include forming an outer wall having a first average thickness, forming an inner wall having a different second average thickness, and coupling together the inner wall and the outer wall in such a manner as to provide a space between at least a major portion of the outer wall and at least a major portion of the inner wall. |
| FILED | Friday, April 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422075 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/872 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130171 | Lam et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tai Anh Lam (Kent, Washington); Claudio G. Parazzoli (Seattle, Washington); Minas Tanielian (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and apparatus for a negative index metamaterial lens. The method is used for creating a negative index metamaterial lens for use with a phased array antenna. A design is created for the negative index materials lens that is capable of bending a beam generated by the phased array antenna to around 90 degrees from a vertical orientation to form an initial design. The initial design is modified to include discrete components to form a discrete design. Materials are selected for the discrete components. Negative index metamaterial unit cells are designed for the discrete components to form designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. The designed negative index metamaterial unit cells are fabricated to form fabricated designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. The negative index metamaterial lens is formed from the designed negative index metamaterial unit cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/046940 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/909 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130776 | Sundararajan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego, California); Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joao Barros (Oporto, Portugal); Szymon Jakubczak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549925 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130821 | Hopkins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert D. Hopkins (Hayward, California); Ronald Ho (Mountain View, California); William S. Coates (Los Gatos, California); Robert J. Drost (Los Altos, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrated circuit containing a communication channel is described. This communication channel includes a transmit circuit configured to transmit signals using a voltage-mode driver, a receive circuit, and a capacitive link that couples the transmit circuit to the receive circuit. The communication channel includes a filter with a capacitive-summing junction to equalize signals communicated between the transmit circuit and the receive circuit. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 18, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/437287 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/233 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130908 | Huang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | X-Ray Optical Systems, Inc. (East Greenbrush, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Huapeng Huang (Ellicott City, Maryland); Alexei Vershinin (Schenectady, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | An x-ray diffraction apparatus for measuring crystal orientation of a multiple grain sample. An x-ray excitation path is provided having a focusing optic for collecting x-rays from an x-ray source and redirecting the collected x-rays into an x-ray beam converging on a single grain of the multiple grain sample. At least one point detector and the sample are rotated relative to each other; and a grain orientation is obtained based upon diffraction patterns collected from first and second grain crystal planes within the apparatus. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 23, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/710827 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/73 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130964 | Boneh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); The Regents of the University of California, Davis (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dan Boneh (Palo Alto, California); Matthew Franklin (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for encrypting a first piece of information M to be sent by a sender [100] to a receiver [110] allows both sender and receiver to compute a secret message key using identity-based information and a bilinear map. In a one embodiment, the sender [100] computes an identity-based encryption key from an identifier ID associated with the receiver [110]. The identifier ID may include various types of information such as the receiver's e-mail address, a receiver credential, a message identifier, or a date. The sender uses a bilinear map and the encryption key to compute a secret message key gIDr, which is then used to encrypt a message M, producing ciphertext V to be sent from the sender [100] to the receiver [110] together with an element rP. An identity-based decryption key dID is computed by a private key generator [120] based on the ID associated with the receiver and a secret master key s. After obtaining the private decryption key from the key generator [120], the receiver [110] uses it together with the element rP and the bilinear map to compute the secret message key gIDr, which is then used to decrypt V and recover the original message M. According to one embodiment, the bilinear map is based on a Weil pairing or a Tate pairing defined on a subgroup of an elliptic curve. Also described are several applications of the techniques, including key revocation, credential management, and return receipt notification. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/589880 |
| ART UNIT | 2437 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Cryptography 380/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130986 | White et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert David White (Medford, Massachusetts); Karl Grosh (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Silicon and glass micromachined (MEMS) acoustic sensors incorporating trapped-liquid architectures are disclosed. The trapped liquid serves as an acoustic transmission medium allowing the input port to the system to be physically separated from the sensing location. The trapped liquid interacts with a conductive, flexible sensing membrane. Sound pressure waves enter the trapped liquid through an input membrane, travel to the sensing membrane, and excite vibrations of the sensing membrane. The vibrations of the sensing membrane are measured using on-chip capacitive sensing. The capacitive sensing structure is formed by the conductive sensing membrane and a fixed conducting top electrode. As the gap between the conductive sensing membrane and the fixed top electrode varies, the capacitance varies, leading to an electrical signal which is the electrical output of the system. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/656849 |
| ART UNIT | 2614 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 381/165 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131007 | Tewfik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Tewfik (Edina, Minnesota); Bin Zhu (Beijing, China PRC); Mitch Swanson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of embedding a watermarking in a host signal computes a first watermark depending on a particular party and computes a second watermark depending on the host signal. The method embeds the first and second watermarks in the host signal. At least one of the watermarks is embedded using a key derived from the host signal. In particular, one of the watermarks is embedded with a key derived from the host signal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/929137 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131011 | Nevatia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakant Nevatia (Pacific Palisades, California); Bo Wu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A human tracking system for tracking a plurality of humans in motion, in a video of the humans in motion, includes a human detection subsystem, and a combined tracker. The human detection subsystem is configured to generate a detection output by detecting the plurality of humans in a part-based representation, in each one of a sequence of static frames in the video. The human detection subsystem is further configured to account for partial occlusion of one or more of the humans in the image. The combined tracker is configured to receive and combine the detection responses generated by the human detection subsystem, and to track the humans in response to the received detection responses and image appearance properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/860743 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131054 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | STI Medical Systems, LLC (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wenjing Li (Honolulu, Hawaii); Rolf Holger Wolters (Kailua, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for differentiating cancerous lesions from surrounding tissue, which includes extracting an opacity parameter from acetowhite regions of pre acetic acid and post acetic acid images of a cervix. |
| FILED | Monday, August 04, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/221645 |
| ART UNIT | 2862 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/133 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131119 | Cunningham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John E. Cunningham (San Diego, California); Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy (San Diego, California); Ivan Shubin (San Diego, California); Guoliang Li (San Diego, California); Xuezhe Zheng (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of an optical device, an array of optical devices, and a technique for fabricating the optical device or the array are described. This optical device is implemented on a substrate (such as silicon), and includes a thermally tunable optical waveguide that has good thermal isolation from its surroundings. In particular, a portion of a semiconductor in the optical device, which includes the optical waveguide, is free standing above a gap between the semiconductor layer and the substrate. By reducing the thermal coupling between the optical waveguide and the external environment, the optical device can be thermally tuned with significantly less power consumption. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/845035 |
| ART UNIT | 2883 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131218 | Kleider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Eric Kleider (Atlanta, Georgia); Robert John Baxley (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | An embodiment for wirelessly communicating a signal includes a transmitter combining a plurality of phase shifted input data signals with a plurality of synchronization/pilot sequences to produce a plurality of combined signals, performing frequency domain-to-time domain transformations of the combined signals to produce a plurality of candidate signals, determining peak-to-average ratios for at least some of the plurality of candidate signals, identifying a selected signal from the plurality of candidate signals based on the peak-to-average ratios, and transmitting the selected signal over a wireless communication channel. An embodiment further includes a receiver receiving a channel-affected version of the transmitted, selected signal, determining an estimate of a selective mapping index, which identifies the synchronization/pilot sequence from the plurality of synchronization/pilot sequences, applying corrections to the received signal based on estimated channel perturbations to produce an equalized combined signal, and producing an output data symbol from the equalized combined signal. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038983 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131250 | Gu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Qun Gu (Los Angeles, California); Zhiwei Xu (Los Angeles, California); Jenwei Ko (Los Angeles, California); Mau Chung Frank Chang (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A Self-Synchronized Radio Frequency RF-Interconnect (SSRFI), based on capacitor coupling and peak detection, for vertically interconnecting active device layers in three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (IC), as well as wireless communication and RF signal transmission/receiving. |
| FILED | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/356770 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131384 | Karpman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boris Karpman (Marlborough, Connecticut); Richard P. Meisner (Glastonbury, Connecticut); Mark E. Lacour (Glastonbury, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A control system comprises an actuator, a control law and a processor. The actuator positions a control surface and the control law controls the actuator. The processor comprises an open loop module, a corrector, a comparator, and an estimator, and generates an output vector to direct the control law. The open loop module generates the output vector as a function of a state vector and an input vector. The corrector generates a corrector vector as a function of the output vector. The comparator generates an error vector by comparing the corrector vector to the input vector. The estimator generates the state vector as a function of the error vector, such that the error vector is minimized. |
| FILED | Friday, May 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/475020 |
| ART UNIT | 2121 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Generic control systems or specific applications 7/45 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131481 | Moeck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Moeck (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Candidate structures for nanocrystal and other specimens are obtained based on a specimen complex spectrum that is determined as a Fourier transform of a phase-contrast electron micrograph. The specimen can also be assessed based on an amplitude portion of the complex spectrum using a lattice-fringe fingerprint. In some examples, the specimen complex spectrum is compensated based on an electron microscope transfer function, a specimen tilt, or based on other crystallographic compensation. Amplitude or phase portions of the compensated complex spectrum can be compared with reference structures stored in one or more reference structure databases. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800422 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131509 | Novis |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United Technologies Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ari Novis (Rocky Hill, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A system designed for failure detectability through detection and isolation of a particular design feature. |
| FILED | Sunday, March 23, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/053607 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/185 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131525 | Schmitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony L. Schmitz (Gainesville, Florida); Gregory S. Duncan (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting a tool point response of a spindle-holder-tool assembly to be used for high-speed machining applications is provided. The method includes determining direct and cross displacement-to-force receptances of a standard holder clamped in the spindle. The method also includes determining direct receptances at a free end of the standard holder based upon the determined direct and cross displacement-to-force receptances of the standard holder. Additionally, the method includes performing an inverse receptance coupling to simulate a decomposition of the standard holder into multiple subassemblies, the subassemblies including a spindle-holder base subassembly and an extended holder subassembly. The method further includes determining spindle-holder base subassembly receptances based upon the simulated decomposition of the standard holder. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/910947 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131536 | Weischedel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph M. Weischedel (Canton, Massachusetts); Jinxi Xu (Framingham, Massachusetts); Michael R. Kayser (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods for automatically translating documents from a first language to a second language. To carry out the translation of a document, elements of information are extracted from the document and are translated using one or more specialized translation processes. The remainder of the document is separately translated by a statistical translation process. The translated elements of information and the translated remainder are then merged into a final translated document. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998663 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131540 | Marchisio et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Evri, Inc. (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Giovanni B. Marchisio (Kirkland, Washington); Krzysztof Koperski (Seattle, Washington); Jisheng Liang (Bellevue, Washington); Thien Nguyen (Edmonds, Washington); Carsten Tusk (Seattle, Washington); Navdeep S. Dhillon (Seattle, Washington); Lubos Pochman (Breckenridge, Colorado); Matthew E. Brown (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index with document terms as well as information pertaining to the grammatical roles of the terms and ontological and other semantic information. In one embodiment, the enhanced document index is a form of term-clause index, that indexes terms and syntactic and semantic annotations at the clause level. The enhanced document index permits the use of a traditional keyword search engine to process relationship queries as well as to process standard document level keyword searches. In one embodiment, the SQE comprises a Query Processor, a Data Set Preprocessor, a Keyword Search Engine, a Data Set Indexer, an Enhanced Natural Language Parser (“ENLP”), a data set repository, and, in some embodiments, a user interface or an application programming interface. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/401421 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131656 | Goldberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David E. Goldberg (Champaign, Illinois); Kumara Sastry (Champaign, Illinois); Fenando G. Lobo (Aljezur, Portugal); Claudio F. Lima (Tavira, Portugal) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for optimizing a solution set. A solution set is generated, and solutions in the solution set are evaluated. Desirable solutions from the solution set are selected. A structural model is created using the desirable solutions, and a surrogate fitness model is created based on the structural model and the desirable solutions. A new solution set may be generated and/or evaluated, based on analyzing at least one of the structural model and the surrogate fitness model, and determining a method for generating a new solution set and/or evaluating the new solution set based at least in part on the analyzing. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/701066 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131658 | McKinstry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. McKinstry (San Diego, California); Gerald M. Edelman (La Jolla, California); Jeffrey L. Krichmar (Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A mobile brain-based device (BBD) includes a mobile platform with sensors and effectors, which is guided by a simulated nervous system that is an analogue of the cerebellar areas of the brain used for predictive motor control to determine interaction with a real-world environment. The simulated nervous system has neural areas including precerebellum nuclei (PN), Purkinje cells (PC), deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN) and an inferior olive (IO) for predicting turn and velocity control of the BBD during movement in a real-world environment. The BBD undergoes training and testing, and the simulated nervous system learns and performs control functions, based on a delayed eligibility trace learning rule. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/914596 |
| ART UNIT | 2129 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/14 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131935 | Arimilli et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravi K. Arimilli (Austin, Texas); Guy L. Guthrie (Austin, Texas); Robert A. Cargnoni (Austin, Texas); William J. Starke (Round Rock, Texas); Derek E. Williams (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes an interconnect fabric, a system memory coupled to the interconnect fabric and including a virtual barrier synchronization region allocated to storage of virtual barrier synchronization registers (VBSRs), and a plurality of processing units coupled to the interconnect fabric and operable to access the virtual barrier synchronization region of the system memory. Each of the plurality of processing units includes a processor core and a cache memory including a cache array that caches VBSR lines from the virtual barrier synchronization region of the system memory and a cache controller. The cache controller, responsive to a store request from the processor core to update a particular VBSR line, performs a non-blocking update of the cache array in each other of the plurality of processing units contemporaneously holding a copy of the particular VBSR line by transmitting a VBSR update command on the interconnect fabric. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/419364 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131938 | Shen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaowei Shen (Hopewell Junction, New York); Man Cheuk Ng (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Aaron Christoph Sawdey (Cannon Falls, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In a computer system with a memory hierarchy, when a high-level cache supplies a data copy to a low-level cache, the shared copy can be either volatile or non-volatile. When the data copy is later replaced from the low-level cache, if the data copy is non-volatile, it needs to be written back to the high-level cache; otherwise it can be simply flushed from the low-level cache. The high-level cache can employ a volatile-prediction mechanism that adaptively determines whether a volatile copy or a non-volatile copy should be supplied when the high-level cache needs to send data to the low-level cache. An exemplary volatile-prediction mechanism suggests use of a non-volatile copy if the cache line has been accessed consecutively by the low-level cache. Further, the low-level cache can employ a volatile-promotion mechanism that adaptively changes a data copy from volatile to non-volatile according to some promotion policy, or changes a data copy from non-volatile to volatile according to some demotion policy. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/248209 |
| ART UNIT | 2187 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
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| US 08131974 | Nicholas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Nicholas (Round Rock, Texas); Ram Raghavan (Round Rock, Texas); Eric E. Retter (Austin, Texas); Jeffrey A. Stuecheli (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An access speculation predictor is provided that may be implemented using idle command processing resources, such as registers of idle finite state machines (FSMs) in a memory controller. The access speculation predictor may predict whether to perform speculative retrieval of data for a data request from a main memory of the data processing system based on history information stored for a memory region targeted by the data request. In particular, a first address may be extracted from the data request and compared to memory regions associated with second addresses stored in address registers of a plurality of FSMs of the memory controller. A FSM whose memory region includes the first address may be selected. History information for the memory region may be obtained from the selected FSM. The history information may be used to control whether to speculatively retrieve the data for the data request from a main memory. |
| FILED | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105427 |
| 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 08131976 | Doing et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard W. Doing (Raleigh, North Carolina); Susan E. Eisen (Round Rock, Texas); David S. Levitan (Austin, Texas); Kevin N. Magill (Raleigh, North Carolina); Brian R. Mestan (Austin, Texas); Balaram Sinharoy (Poughkeepsie, New York); Benjamin W. Stolt (Austin, Texas); Jeffrey R. Summers (Raleigh, North Carolina); Albert J. Van Norstrand, Jr. (Round Rock, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Mechanisms, in a data processing system, are provided for tracking effective addresses through a processor pipeline of the data processing system. The mechanisms comprise logic for fetching an instruction from an instruction cache and associating, by an effective address table logic in the data processing system, an entry in an effective address table (EAT) data structure with the fetched instruction. The mechanisms further comprise logic for associating an effective address tag (eatag) with the fetched instruction, the eatag comprising a base eatag that points to the entry in the EAT and an eatag offset. Moreover, the mechanisms comprise logic for processing the instruction through the processor pipeline by processing the eatag. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422595 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/205 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132155 | Gvillo |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis W. Gvillo (Moro, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer readable media, includes instructions capable of being interpreted for execution by a computer processor. The instructions provide information sufficient for: reading a master telemetry definition data file; producing a source code for implementing a data stream telemetry method, and generating documentation files for the source code. The source code includes a get component, a format component, and a blocks component. The get component includes source code for accessing flight software variable values according to the master telemetry definition data file. The format component includes source code for scaling the flight software variable values according to the master telemetry definition data file. The format component includes source code for formatting the values as telemetry stream parameters according to the master telemetry definition data file. The blocks component includes source code for placing telemetry parameters into a data stream according to the master telemetry definition data file. |
| FILED | Friday, May 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/381934 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/124 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US RE43224 | Lui et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gee L. Lui (Westminster, California); Kuang Tsai (Santa Ana, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Data aided carrier phase and symbol timing synchronizers are implemented at baseband as digital modulators isolating input signal inphase and quadrature component signals fed into inphase and quadrature Laurent transforms that function as data detector to provide odd and even data bit multiplexed output data signal while cross coupling the inphase and quadrature transformed outputs for removing data modulation in error signals to correct phase errors and timing errors in the received signal so as to provide reliable data demodulation of noisy received signals having dynamic carrier phase and symbol timing errors as found in continuous phase modulation communications systems such as Gaussian minimum shift keying communications systems. |
| FILED | Monday, August 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/871451 |
| ART UNIT | 2611 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Pulse or digital communications 375/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| US 08128921 | Ben Mamoun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Choukri Ben Mamoun (Farmington, Connecticut); Kamal El Bissati (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a malaria vaccine for administration to a host comprising an attenuated malarial parasite with a gene which has been rendered non-functional, wherein the gene, when present in naturally occurring form, encodes a protein necessary for continued in vivo survival and proliferation of the parasite and for infection of host red blood cells. The invention further relates to a malaria vaccine in which a gene that encodes a nutrient transporter protein has been rendered non-functional. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 11, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/827282 |
| 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 08128922 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tzyy-Choou Wu (Stevenson, Maryland); Chien-Fu Hung (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids encoding a chimeric or fusion polypeptide which polypeptide comprises a first domain comprising a translocation polypeptide; and a second domain comprising at least one antigenic peptide are disclosed. The preferred translocation polypeptide is a bacterial toxin translocation polypeptide, such as domain II of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (ETA(dII)). Such nucleic acids, expression vectors thereof, and cells expressing these vectors are used as vaccine compositions in a method for enhancing an antigen specific immune response, a method of increasing the numbers of CD8+ CTLs specific for a selected desired antigen in a subject, or a method of inhibiting the growth of a tumor in a subject. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 04, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/115440 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.210 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128929 | Loizos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ImClone LLC (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nick Loizos (Staten Island, New York); Jim Huber (Scotch Plains, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides antibodies that bind to human PDGFRα and neutralize activation of the receptor. The invention further provides methods for neutralizing activation of PDGFRα and methods of treating a mammal with a neoplastic disease using the antibodies alone or in combination with other agents. |
| FILED | Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/917890 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128930 | Acton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. (Rahway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Acton (Newbury Park, California); Zhiqiang An (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Bett (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Robert Breese (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois); Elizabeth Chen Dodson (Soudertown, Pennsylvania); Gene Kinney (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); William L. Klein (Winnetka, Illinois); Mary P. Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Xiaoping Liang (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Paul Shughrue (West Chester, Pennsylvania); William R. Strohl (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Kristen Viola (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antibodies that differentially recognize multi-dimensional conformations of Aβ-derived diffusible ligands, also known as ADDLs. The antibodies of the invention can distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease and control human brain extracts and are useful in methods of detecting ADDLs and diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. The present antibodies also block binding of ADDLs to neurons, assembly of ADDLs, and tau phosphorylation and are there useful in methods for the preventing and treating diseases associated with soluble oligomers of amyloid β 1-42. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/828411 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128939 | Tweten |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rodney K. Tweten (Edmond, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | Mutants of cholesterol-dependent cytolysins comprising at least one amino acid substitution in at least one of Loop 1, Loop 2, or Loop 3 of Domain 4, nucleic acids encoding such polypeptide mutants, and compositions and vaccines comprising such polypeptide mutants. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102696 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/236.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128963 | Pinsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City Of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David J. Pinsky (Ann Arbor, Michigan); David M. Stern (Augusta, Georgia); Charles J. Prestigiacome (East Hanover, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides for a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically acceptable form of a selectin antagonist in a sufficient amount over a sufficient time period to prevent white blood cell accumulation so as to treat the ischemic disorder in the subject. The invention further provides a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject carbon monoxide gas in a sufficient amount over a sufficient period of time thereby treating the ischemic disorder in the subject. The invention further provides a method for treating an ischemic disorder in a subject which comprises administering to the subject a pharmaceutically acceptable form of inactivated Factor IX in a sufficient amount over a sufficient period of time to inhibit coagulation so as to treat the ischemic disorder in the subject. |
| FILED | Friday, October 03, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/679135 |
| ART UNIT | 1616 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/699 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129116 | Benkovic et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn 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 | 12/785974 |
| 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 08129117 | Brennan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SureGene LLC (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark David Brennan (Jeffersonville, Indiana); Timothy Lynn Ramsey (Shelbyville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | This document provides methods and materials related to genetic markers of Bipolar Disorder (BD) and Schizophrenia (SZ). For example, methods for using such genetic markers to assess risk of developing BD and/or SZ are provided, as are methods for making a differential diagnosis between BD and SZ. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/612521 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129119 | Jarrell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Modular Genetics, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Jarrell (Lincoln, Massachusetts); Brian Turczyk (Peabody, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an improved system for linking nucleic acids to one another. In particular, the present invention provides techniques for producing DNA product molecules that may be easily and directly ligated to recipient molecules. The product molecules need not be cleaved with restriction enzymes in order to undergo such ligation. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the DNA product molecules are produced through iterative DNA synthesis reactions, so that the product molecules are amplified products. The invention further provides methods for directed ligation of product molecules (i.e., for selective ligation of certain molecules within a collection of molecules), and also for methods of exon shuffling, in which multiple different product molecules are produced in a single ligation reaction. Preferred embodiments of the invention involve ligation of product molecules encoding functional protein domains, particularly domains naturally found in conserved gene families. The inventive DNA manipulation system is readily integrated with other nucleic acid manipulation systems, such as ribozyme-mediated systems, and also is susceptible to automation. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/417754 |
| 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 435/6.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York); The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Silver (New York, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of regulating fat storage in tissue by modulating the levels of Fibrate Induced Transcript 1 (FIT1) and/or Fibrate Induced Transcript 2 (FIT2), as well as diagnostic screens for disorders and conditions involving regulation of fat storage in tissue, assays for identifying agents that can regulate fat storage in tissue through modulating the levels of FIT1 and/or FIT2, and genetically altered mammals in which expression of FIT1 and/or FIT2 is altered in one or more tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/448840 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129123 | Tsimikas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sotirios Tsimikas (San Diego, California); Joseph L. Witztum (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the analysis of oxidized phospholipids (OxPL) on apolipoprotein B-100 in patients at high risk or with documented coronary artery disease (CAD) or acute coronary syndromes (ACS) such as unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction or suspected of being at risk for ACS. Such methods are useful for diagnostic purposes and for monitoring the effects of dietary interventions or with drugs such as statins. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods for determining OxPL/apoB ratios as indices of atherosclerosis regression and plaque stability. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/244300 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — 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 08129124 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tong Zhou (Birmingham, Alabama); Robert P. Kimberly (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein is a method of reversing or preventing a target cell's resistance to a death receptor agonist. Also provided are methods of screening for biomarkers resistance of and monitoring resistance to death receptor agonists. Also provided are methods of selectively inducing apoptosis in a target cell, treating a subject with cancer, autoimmune or inflammatory diseases, comprising administering compositions provided herein. Further provided are compositions comprising agents that modulate CARD containing proteins. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 31, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/814551 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08129131 | Lu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kun Ping Lu (Newton, Massachusetts); Xiao Zhen Zhou (Newton, Massachusetts); Gerburg Wulf (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for the use of Pin1 as a marker of abnormal cell growth are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes detecting a level of Pin1 to stage an abnormal cell growth, such as breast or prostate cancer. In another embodiment, the method includes evaluating the efficacy of a treatment of an abnormal cell growth, such as cancer, by monitoring the levels of Pin1. In another embodiment, the method includes evaluating the extent of metastasis of abnormal cell growth, such as cancer. The levels of Pin1 can be protein levels or nucleic acid levels. |
| FILED | Friday, July 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/218838 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.230 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129134 | 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 | 13/246270 |
| 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 08129141 | Kaplan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Tufts College (, None); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force AFMCLO/JAZ (Washington, District of Columbia); The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David L. Kaplan (Concord, Massachusetts); Jia Huang (Medford, Massachusetts); Cheryl Wong Po Foo (Palo Alto, California); Rajesh Naik (Dayton, Ohio); Anne George (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The claimed invention provides a fusion polypeptide comprising a fibrous protein domain and a mineralization domain. The fusion is used to form an organic-inorganic composite. These organic-inorganic composites can be constructed from the nano- to the macro-scale depending on the size of the fibrous protein fusion domain used. In one embodiment, the composites can also be loaded with other compounds (e.g., dyes, drugs, enzymes) depending on the goal for the materials, to further enhance function. This can be achieved during assembly of the material or during the mineralization step in materials formation. |
| FILED | Friday, April 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/097538 |
| ART UNIT | 1656 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/41 |
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| US 08129144 | Qiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Loyola University Chicago (Maywood, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Liang Qiao (Maywood, Illinois); Wei Shi (Maywood, Illinois); Yujun Huang (Maywood, Illinois); Jianzhong Liu (Maywood, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention involves a papilloma pseudovirus that can induce immune response after oral intake as well as its preparation. It is characterized in that HPV or BPV pseudovirus are made by disrupting HPV-VLP or BPV-VLP, mixing them with plasmids (plasmids or DNA vaccine), and reassembling them into the pseudoviruses (VLPs with plasmids inside). Oral administration of the pseudoviruses will result in delivery to mucosal and systemic lymphoid tissues and induce immune responses for disease prevention and treatment. The pseudovirus induces stronger immune response than DNA vaccines. Additionally, the pseudovirus can be applied in gene therapy by bringing the therapeutic genes into lymphoid tissues in the human body. |
| FILED | Monday, April 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/784626 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
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| US 08129161 | Sheffield et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Val Sheffield (Iowa City, Iowa); Darryl Nishimura (Coralville, Iowa); Edwin Stone (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the identification of a gene, now designated negevin (ngvn), that is involved in the genetic disease Bardet Biedl Syndrome (BBS), which is characterized by such diverse symptoms as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, mental retardation, renal cancer and other abnormalities, retinopathy and hypogonadism. The human NGVN protein disclosed herein is 731 amino acids in length and is coded for by a gene spanning 17 exons. Homologs have been identified in mouse, rat, zebrafish. Methods of use for the gene, for example in diagnosis and therapy of BBS and in drug screening, also are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/908707 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129176 | Quake et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen R. Quake (Stanford, California); Hou-Pu Chou (Foster City, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a microfabricated device for the rapid detection of DNA, proteins or other molecules associated with a particular disease. The devices and methods of the invention can be used for the simultaneous diagnosis of multiple diseases by detecting molecules (e.g. amounts of molecules), such as polynucleotides (e.g., DNA) or proteins (e.g., antibodies), by measuring the signal of a detectable reporter associated with hybridized polynucleotides or antigen/antibody complex. In the microfabricated device according to the invention, detection of the presence of molecules (i.e., polynucleotides, proteins, or antigen/antibody complexes) are correlated to a hybridization signal from an optically-detectable (e.g. fluorescent) reporter associated with the bound molecules. These hybridization signals can be detected by any suitable means, for example optical, and can be stored for example in a computer as a representation of the presence of a particular gene. Hybridization probes can be immobilized on a substrate that forms part of or is exposed to a channel or channels of the device that form a closed loop, for circulation of sample to actively contact complementary probes. Universal chips according to the invention can be fabricated not only with DNA but also with other molecules such as RNA, proteins, peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and polyamide molecules. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536129 |
| ART UNIT | 1772 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/287.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129179 | Wikswo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Wikswo (Brentwood, Tennessee); David Cliffel (Nashville, Tennessee); Eugene J. Leboeuf (Franklin, Tennessee); Randall S. Reiserer (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A bioreactor (200) for cultivating living cells in a liquid medium. In one embodiment, the bioreactor (200) has a substrate (230) having a first surface and an opposite second surface, defining a channel (202) therein, and a plurality of chambers (204) formed in the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of chambers (204) is adapted for receiving cells in a liquid medium and formed with an open end (262), an opposite closed end (264) and side walls, the open end (262) and the closed end (264) defining a depth, d, therebetween for the corresponding chamber (206), the sidewalls defining a width, w, therebetween for the corresponding chamber (206). As such formed, each chamber (206) is in fluid communication with the channel (202) through the open end of the chamber (206), and at least two of the plurality of chambers (206) have depths or widths the same or different form each other. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/525538 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/305.200 |
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08129185 — Regulatory T cells and their use in immunotherapy and suppression of autoimmune responses
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Blazar (Golden Valley, Minnesota); Carl June (Merion Station, Pennsylvania); Wayne R. Godfrey (Los Altos, California); Richard G. Carroll (Lansdowne, Pennsylvania); Bruce Levine (Cherry Hill, New Jersey); James L. Riley (Downingtown, Pennsylvania); Patricia Taylor (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Based upon a strong correlation between regulator T cells (Treg cells) and suppressing or preventing a cytotoxic T cell response, provided are methods for the production of ex vivo activated and culture-expanded isolated CD4+CD25+ suppressor Treg cells for the prevention or suppression of immune reactions in a host, particularly in a human host, and including autoimmune responses. The resulting ex vivo culture-expanded Treg cells provide a sufficient amount of otherwise low numbers of such cells, having long term suppressor capability to permit therapeutic uses, including the preventing, suppressing, blocking or inhibiting the rejection of transplanted tissue in a human or other animal host, or protecting against graft vs host disease. Also provided are therapeutic and immunosuppressive methods utilizing the ex vivo culture-expanded Treg cells for human treatment, and high efficiency methods for research use. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/649101 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/372.300 |
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| US 08129332 | Brophy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Tempe, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Colleen Brophy (Scottsdale, Arizona); Alyssa Panitch (Higley, Arizona); Padmini Komalavilas (Tempe, Arizona); Brandon Seal (Mesa, Arizona); Lokesh Joshi (Tempe, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides novel polypeptides comprising heat shock protein 20 (HSP20)-derived polypeptides to treat or inhibit smooth muscle vasospasm, as well to treat and inhibit smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration. |
| FILED | Friday, April 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/101691 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 08129334 | Dewji et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nazneen Dewji (San Diego, California); S. Jonathan Singer (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure relates generally to neurodegenerative disorders and more specifically to a group of presenilin/G-protein/c-src binding polypeptides and methods of use for modulating signaling and progression of Alzheimer's disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/464850 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1.100 |
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| US 08129344 | Dzau et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Duke University (Durham, North Carolina); The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Victor Dzau (Durham, North Carolina); Maria Mirotsou (Dresden, Germany) |
| ABSTRACT | A purified paracrine factor of a mesenchymal stem cell, such as a Secreted frizzled related protein (Sfrp) is useful to reduce cell death an/or tissue injury associated with ischemic condtions. |
| FILED | Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/008583 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.900 |
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| US 08129345 | Kufe |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donald W. Kufe (Wellesley, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosure provides methods of identifying and making compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds that inhibit the interaction between MUC1 and an IKK. The disclosure also provides in vivo and in vitro methods of inhibiting such an interaction. Also embraced by the disclosure are in vitro and in vivo methods of inhibiting the IKK/NF-κB pathway in cells expressing MUC1. The compounds, compositions, and methods of the disclosure are generally useful in the treatment of various cancers, inflammatory (e.g., autoimmune disorders), and transplant rejection. |
| FILED | Friday, July 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/781148 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.300 |
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| US 08129349 | Chojkier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mario Chojkier (San Diego, California); Martina Buck (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to the treatment and prevention of diseases characterized by excess cell proliferation and/or activation. In particular, the present invention provides compositions and methods to suppress the activation and/or proliferation of various cells. In some preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to suppress the activation and/or proliferation of mesenchymally derived cells (including, but not limited to hepatic stellate cells), as well as cells with abnormal growth characteristics. In some particularly preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to inhibit or eliminate fibrosis. In alternative preferred embodiments, the present invention provides compositions and methods to induce fibrosis. In still further embodiments, the present invention provides methods and compositions to treat and/or prevent cancer. |
| FILED | Monday, August 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/189526 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.900 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129351 | Krieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa); Coley Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. (New York, New York); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur M. Krieg (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Dennis Klinman (Potomac, Maryland); Alfred D. Steinberg (Potomac, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Nucleic acids containing unmethylated CpG dinucleotides and therapeutic utilities based on their ability to stimulate an immune response and to redirect a Th2 response to a Th1 response in a subject are disclosed. Methods for treating atopic diseases, including atopic dermatitis, are disclosed. |
| FILED | Friday, February 25, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/067587 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08129353 — Methods of gene therapy using nucleic acid sequences for ATP-binding cassette transporter
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas); John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rando Allikmets (Frederick, Maryland); Kent L. Anderson (Houston, Texas); Michael Dean (Frederick, Maryland); Mark Leppert (Salt Lake City, Utah); Richard A. Lewis (Houston, Texas); Yixin Li (Houston, Texas); James R. Lupski (Houston, Texas); Jeremy Nathans (Baltimore, Maryland); Amir Rattner (Baltimore, Maryland); Noah F. Shroyer (Houston, Texas); Nanda Singh (Salt Lake City, Utah); Philip Smallwood (Woodbine, Maryland); Hui Sun (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of an ATP binding cassette transporter and mutated sequences thereof associated with macular degeneration. Methods of detecting agents that modify ATP-binding cassette transporter comprising combining purified ATP binding cassette transporter and at least one agent suspected of modifying the ATP binding cassette transporter an observing a change in at least one characteristic associated with ATP binding cassette transporter. Methods of detecting macular degeneration is also embodied by the present invention. |
| FILED | Monday, December 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/636909 |
| 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 08129356 | Hallahan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis E. Hallahan (Nashville, Tennessee); Christopher D. Willey (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are methods for modulating the proliferation of cells and tissues. In some embodiments, the methods include administering to a subject an effective amount of a modulator of a biological activity of a bone marrow X kinase (Bmx) gene product. Also provided are methods for increasing the radiosensitivity of a target cell or tissue, methods for suppressing tumor growth, methods for inhibiting tumor blood vessel growth, and compositions that include modulators of a biological activity of a bone marrow X kinase (Bmx) gene product. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243640 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129365 | Verkman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan Verkman (San Francisco, California); Prashant A. Padmawar (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides chromoionophore compounds comprising a triazacryptand (TAC) K+ ionophore conjugated to at least a first chromophoric moiety (e.g., xanthylium dyes and derivatives thereof). In related embodiments, the chromoionophore compounds further comprise a second chromophoric moiety which is insensitive to potassium binding by the TAC ionophore, thus providing for dual wavelength detection and absolute determination of K+ concentration. The invention further provides methods and kits for the determination of K+ concentrations in biological systems, either in vitro or in vivo, using embodiments of inventive chromoionophores. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/088929 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/183 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129414 | Adejare |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Adeboye Adejare (Mantua, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adeboye Adejare (Mantua, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonists having chemical structures similar to that of phencyclidine (PCP). These antagonists contain a polycyclic ring structure in place of the cycloalkyl ring of PCP. The antagonists also differ from PCP in that they include an electron withdrawing group, a hydroxyl group, or an amine group at the para position of the phenyl ring. The antagonists disclosed herein are useful for treating or ameliorating a symptom of ailments associated with over excitation of cells (e.g., neurons) that express NMDA receptors. Examples of ailments that can be treated and for which symptoms can be ameliorated include epilepsy, neurodegenerative disease (e.g., Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases), drug addiction, neuropathic pain, and neuronal and glutamate-dependent tumors. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/820524 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/327 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129428 | Carlier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Carlier (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jeffrey Bloomquist (Blacksburg, Virginia); Sally Paulson (Blacksburg, Virginia); Eric Wong (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes insecticidal carbamates that are useful, for example, for the control of insects, such as mosquitoes, which can be used in applications where exposure to and/or contact with humans is likely. The insecticides of the present invention include phenyl N-methyl carbamates and compositions comprising them that exhibit species-selective inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and are preferably toxic to mosquitoes but not humans. Of particular interest are compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II): Compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II) are especially suitable for insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying for mosquito control. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209301 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/491 |
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| US 08129499 | Schultz-Cherry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stacey L. Schultz-Cherry (Germantown, Tennessee); Curtis R. Brandt (Stoughton, Wisconsin); Jeremy C. Jones (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure generally relates to peptides having antiviral properties. More particularly, the invention relates to peptides exhibiting activity against influenza viruses, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the peptides, and to methods of using the peptides to prevent and/or treat influenza viral infections. |
| FILED | Monday, June 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/484853 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/326 |
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| US 08129510 | Kay et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California); Benitec Biopharma Limited (Balmain, NSW, Australia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Kay (Los Altos, California); Micheal Hebert (Sunnyvale, California); Petrus Wilhelmus Roelvink (Gaithersburg, Maryland); David A. Suhy (San Ramon, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for expressing a gene or nucleotide sequence of interest are provided. The compositions include an expression cassette that includes a synthetic enhancer, a transthyretin promoter, and a nucleotide sequence operably under the control of the synthetic enhancer and the transthyretin promoter. The expression cassette may be used in an adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector, such as a self-complementary AAV vector. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/731198 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 08129532 | Loew et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leslie M. Loew (West Hartford, Connecticut); Ping Yan (Middletown, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Amino(oligo)thiophene dyes useful for studying the electrophysiology of organelles, cells, and tissues are described. Compared to previously known dyes, the amino(oligo)thiophene dyes exhibit improved (faster) response to membrane potential changes, as well as the ability to be excited by 1064 nanometer femtosecond pulses. Methods of preparing the amino( oligo )thiophene dyes are also described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/182599 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 546/102 |
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| US 08129542 | Sharpless et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California); Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); Vsevold V. Rostovtsev (Wilmington, Delaware); Luke Green (Basel, Switzerland); Fahmi Himo (Solna, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | A copper catalyzed click chemistry ligation process is employed to bind azides and terminal acetylenes to provide 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole triazoles. The process comprises contacting an organic azide and a terminal alkyne with a source of reactive Cu(I) ion for a time sufficient to form by cycloaddition a 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole. The source of reactive Cu(I) ion can be, for example, a Cu(I) salt or copper metal. The process is preferably carried out in a solvent, such as an aqueous alcohol. Optionally, the process can be performed in a solvent that comprises a ligand for Cu(I) and an amine. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804644 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/255 |
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| US 08129701 | Al-Sadah et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Jihad H. Al-Sadah (Madison, Wisconsin); David C. Westerly (Madison, Wisconsin); Patrick M. Hill (Madison, Wisconsin); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A modulator for radiation therapy provides modulation of an area beam to decrease treatment time. Separate channels passing modulated “beamlets” are possible by spacing the channels such that spreading of the beams and multiple angles of treatment eliminate cold spots. The space between the channels allows well-defined channel walls and space for modulator mechanisms. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/038659 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/505.100 |
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| US 08130072 | De Bruyker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dirk De Bruyker (San Jose, California); Michal V. Wolkin (Los Altos Hills, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A temperature probe includes a substrate, a cantilever body portion formed on the substrate, having an anchor portion held in contact to the substrate and a free end portion extending out of the surface of the substrate, and a sputter-deposited thermistor sensor portion located at the free end portion of the cantilever body portion. |
| FILED | Friday, May 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467089 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/22.R00 |
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| US 08130776 | Sundararajan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego, California); Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joao Barros (Oporto, Portugal); Szymon Jakubczak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549925 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
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| US 08131336 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Fei Liu (Seattle, Washington); William S Kerwin (Seattle, Washington); Dongxiang Xu (Seattle, Washington); Chun Yuan (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for the automated segmentation of in vivo image data is disclosed. A region of carotid artery in a number of patients was imaged using MRI. Histological data for each imaged region was then obtained, identifying various atherosclerotic plaque components in the imaged region. A portion of the histological data, and the image data, was used to generate PDFs based on image intensity, and on morphological data (local wall thickness and distance from lumen). The remaining data was used to validate the method. A plurality of MRI images were taken at various weightings, and the images were registered and normalized. The lumen and outer wall boundary were identified. The PDFs were combined in a Bayesian analysis with the intensity and morphological data to calculate the likelihood that each pixel corresponded to each of four plaque components. A contour algorithm was applied to generate contours segmenting the images by composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 01, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/445510 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/407 |
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| US 08131348 | Backman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northshore University Healthsystem (Evanston, Illinois); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Brand Randall (Highland Park, Illinois); Yang Liu (Somerset, New Jersey); Jeremy Rogers (Chicago, Illinois); Vladimir Turzhitsky (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatuses of elastic light scattering spectroscopy and low-coherence enhanced backscattering spectroscopy are described here. An apparatus couple-able to a light source and a target object, to facilitate light transmission between the light source and the target object, the apparatus comprises: a probe to emit incident light that is partially coherent obtained from the light source onto the target object and to receive interacted light, the interacted light to be backscattered light from illumination of the incident light on the target object, the probe comprising: a delivery channel having at least one delivery optical fiber with a distal end portion couple-able to the light source and a proximal end portion suited to couple the incident light to the target object, a collection channel having a first collection optical fiber suited to collect substantially co-polarized backscattered light and a second collection optical fiber suited to collect substantially cross-polarized backscattered light. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803418 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
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| US 08131375 | Greenberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California); Mark S. Humayun (Glendale, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Applicant has proposed a combination of the subretinal and epiretinal methods by placing the electronics external to the eye, entering the eye through the pars plana and the piercing the retina (retinotomy) from inside the eye to stimulate subreintally. The present invention is an improved electrode array for subretinal stimulation. A hard polymer such as polyimide is biocompatible and strong for supporting an electrode array and supporting traces in a thin flex circuit array. In the present invention applicant takes advantage of the sharp nature of thin polyimide making a point on the end of the electrode array. This allows the flexible circuit electrode array to be both electrode array and surgical tool to cut the retinal and slide the array under the retina in a single action. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 13, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/521281 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
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| US 08131376 | Faraji et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Boozarjomehr Faraji (Valencia, California); Kevin Jun Ha (Los Angeles, California); Neil Hamilton Talbot (La Crescenta, California); James Singleton Little (Saugus, California); Robert J. Greenberg (Los Angeles, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a non-destructive method of inspecting a bond, particularly a braze bond, in a hermetic package. The invention involves a unique hermetic package design adapted for ultrasonic inspection and a method of inspecting the package. This package and non-destructive inspection process are particularly useful in implantable neural stimulators such as visual prostheses. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209068 |
| ART UNIT | 3762 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery: Light, thermal, and electrical application 67/54 |
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| US 08131475 | Staudt 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); Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska); University of Rochester (Rochester, New York); Arizona Board of Regents of Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Arizona); Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain); Fundacio Clinic (Barcelona, Spain); Hospital Clinic (Barcelona, Spain); Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg (Wuerzburg, Germany); British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch (Vancouver, Canada); Oslo University Hospital HF (Oslo, Norway); Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (London, United Kingdom) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Louis M. Staudt (Silver Spring, Maryland); George Wright (Rockville, Maryland); Sandeep Dave (Washington, District of Columbia); Bruce Tan (Baltimore, Maryland); John I. Powell (Ijamsville, Maryland); Wyndham Wilson (Washington, District of Columbia); Elaine Jaffe (Great Falls, Virginia); Wing C. Chan (Omaha, Nebraska); Timothy C. Greiner (Council Bluffs, Iowa); Dennis Weisenburger (Elkhom, Nebraska); James Armitage (Omaha, Nebraska); Kai Fu (Omaha, Nebraska); Richard I. Fisher (Pittsford, New York); Lisa Rimsza (Tucson, Arizona); Thomas Miller (Tucson, Arizona); Thomas Grogan (Tucson, Arizona); Elias Campo (Barcelona, Spain); Silvia M Bea (Sabadell, Spain); Itziar Salaverria (Barcelona, Spain); Armando Lopez-Guillermo (Barcelona, Spain); Emili Montserrat (Barcelona, Spain); Victor Moreno (Barcelona, Spain); Andreas Zettl (Würzburg, Germany); German Ott (Würzburg, Germany); Hans-Konrad Muller-Hermelink (Wuerzburg, Germany); Andreas Rosenwald (Wuerzburg, Germany); Julie Vose (Omaha, Nebraska); Randy Gascoyne (North Vancouver, Canada); Joseph Connors (Vancouver, Canada); Erlend Smeland (Oslo, Norway); Stein Kvaløy (Oslo, Norway); Harald Holte (Oslo, Norway); Jan Delabie (Oslo, Norway); T. Andrew Lister (London, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | Gene expression data provides a basis for more accurate identification and diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorders. In addition, gene expression data can be used to develop more accurate predictors of survival. The present invention discloses methods for identifying, diagnosing, and predicting survival in a lymphoma or lymphoproliferative disorder on the basis of gene expression patterns. The invention discloses a novel microarray, the Lymph Dx microarray, for obtaining gene expression data from a lymphoma sample. The invention also discloses a variety of methods for utilizing lymphoma gene expression data to determine the identity of a particular lymphoma and to predict survival in a subject diagnosed with a particular lymphoma. This information will be useful in developing the therapeutic approach to be used with a particular subject. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/493387 |
| 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 RE43225 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis L. Parker (Centerville, Utah); Andrew L. Alexander (Madison, Wisconsin); John A. Roberts (Salt Lake City, Utah); Brian E. Chapman (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system are disclosed for generating enhanced images of multiple dimensional data using a depth-buffer segmentation process. The method and system operate in a computer system modify the image by generating a reduced-dimensionality image data set from a multidimensional image by formulating a set of projection paths through image points selected from the multidimensional image, selecting an image point along each projection path, analyzing each image point to determine spatial similarities with at least one other point adjacent to the selected image point in a given dimension, and grouping the image point with the adjacent point or spatial similarities between the points is found thereby defining the data set. |
| FILED | Friday, October 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/249583 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/154 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Bland (Oviedo, Florida); Dennis A. Horazak (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A gas turbine engine is provided comprising an outer shell, a compressor assembly, at least one combustor assembly, a turbine assembly and duct structure. The outer shell includes a compressor section, a combustor section, an intermediate section and a turbine section. The intermediate section includes at least one first opening and at least one second opening. The compressor assembly is located in the compressor section to define with the compressor section a compressor apparatus to compress air. The at least one combustor assembly is coupled to the combustor section to define with the combustor section a combustor apparatus. The turbine assembly is located in the turbine section to define with the turbine section a turbine apparatus. The duct structure is coupled to the intermediate section to receive at least a portion of the compressed air from the compressor apparatus through the at least one first opening in the intermediate section, pass the compressed air to an apparatus for separating a portion of oxygen from the compressed air to produced vitiated compressed air and return the vitiated compressed air to the intermediate section via the at least one second opening in the intermediate section. |
| FILED | Friday, August 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/848544 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/784 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127839 | Jin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Wyoming Research Corporation (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Song Jin (Fort Collins, Colorado); Alan E. Bland (Laramie, Wyoming) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems for enhanced in-situ or perhaps even ex-situ biogenic methane production from hydrocarbon-bearing formations (1) including coal seam, oil shale, coal, coal derivates and the like are presented in embodiments such as but not limited to: increasing and perhaps even selection of microbial populations (2), amending CBM water and other microbe-containing media, diminishing sulfate reduction competition, enhancing organic matter concentrations and generation of biogenic methane (10), universally treating hydrocarbon-bearing formations, and introducing amendments (3) to hydrocarbon-bearing formations. |
| FILED | Friday, October 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/901169 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/246 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128548 | Meikrantz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Meikrantz (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jack D. Law (Pocatello, Idaho); Troy G. Garn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Lawrence L. Macaluso (Carson City, Nevada); Terry A. Todd (Aberdeen, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | Centrifugal separators and related methods and devices are described. More particularly, centrifugal separators comprising a first fluid supply fitting configured to deliver fluid into a longitudinal fluid passage of a rotor shaft and a second fluid supply fitting sized and configured to sealingly couple with the first fluid supply fitting are described. Also, centrifugal separator systems comprising a manifold having a drain fitting and a cleaning fluid supply fitting are described, wherein the manifold is coupled to a movable member of a support assembly. Additionally, methods of cleaning centrifugal separators are described. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/338148 |
| ART UNIT | 1774 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Imperforate bowl: Centrifugal separators 494/64 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128717 | Linck et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gas Technology Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Brendan Linck (Mount Prospect, Illinois); Phillip Vann Bush (Bartlett, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for fast pyrolysis of biomass and other solid organic materials including a vertically oriented cylindrical vessel having a solids outlet proximate the bottom thereof, a vapor outlet, a top wall forming at least one opening, and an adjacent heated side wall. Disposed within the cylindrical vessel and extending through the at least one opening in the top wall is a rotor having a rotatable shaft coincident with the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical vessel to which is attached at least one substantially vertically oriented blade having one edge connected directly or indirectly with the rotatable shaft and having an opposite edge spaced apart from the heated side wall, whereby a non-radial, preferably tangential, force is imparted on the feedstock in the cylindrical vessel. Also disclosed is a method for fast pyrolysis of biomass and other solid organic materials. |
| FILED | Monday, December 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325370 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas: Heating and illuminating 048/197.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128733 | Wijmans et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Membrane Technology and Research, Inc (Menlo Park, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johannes G. Wijmans (Menlo Park, California); Timothy C. Merkel (Menlo Park, California); Haiqing Lin (Mountain View, California); Scott Thompson (Brecksville, Ohio); Ramin Daniels (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A membrane-based gas separation process for treating gas streams that contain methane in low concentrations. The invention involves flowing the stream to be treated across the feed side of a membrane and flowing a sweep gas stream, usually air, across the permeate side. Carbon dioxide permeates the membrane preferentially and is picked up in the sweep air stream on the permeate side; oxygen permeates in the other direction and is picked up in the methane-containing stream. The resulting residue stream is enriched in methane as well as oxygen and has an EMC value enabling it to be either flared or combusted by mixing with ordinary air. |
| FILED | Monday, May 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454084 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128735 | Siriwardane 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) | Ranjani V. Siriwardane (Morgantown, West Virginia); Robert W. Stevens (Morgantown, West Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for separating CO2 from a gas stream comprised of CO2 and other gaseous constituents using a zeolite sorbent in a swing-adsorption process, producing a high temperature CO2 stream at a higher CO2 pressure than the input gas stream. The method utilizes CO2 desorption in a CO2 atmosphere and effectively integrates heat transfers for optimizes overall efficiency. H2O adsorption does not preclude effective operation of the sorbent. The cycle may be incorporated in an IGCC for efficient pre-combustion CO2 capture. A particular application operates on shifted syngas at a temperature exceeding 200° C. and produces a dry CO2 stream at low temperature and high CO2 pressure, greatly reducing any compression energy requirements which may be subsequently required. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/582760 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Processes 095/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128765 | Myneni et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (Newport, News, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ganapati Rao Myneni (Yorktown, Virginia); Peter Kneisel (Williamsburg, Virginia); Tadeu Cameiro (McMurray, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Niobium cavities are fabricated by the drawing and ironing of as cast niobium ingot slices rather than from cold rolled niobium sheet. This method results in the production of niobium cavities having a minimum of grain boundaries at a significantly reduced cost as compared to the production of such structures from cold rolled sheet. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/099247 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal treatment 148/668 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129054 | Mukerjee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies, Inc. (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Subhasish Mukerjee (Pittsford, New York); Karl J Haltiner, Jr. (Fairport, New York); Jeffrey G. Weissman (West Henrietta, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for adding sulfur to a fuel cell stack, having a reformer adapted to reform a hydrocarbon fuel stream containing sulfur contaminants, thereby providing a reformate stream having sulfur; a sulfur trap fluidly coupled downstream of the reformer for removing sulfur from the reformate stream, thereby providing a desulfurized reformate stream; and a metering device in fluid communication with the reformate stream upstream of the sulfur trap and with the desulfurized reformate stream downstream of the sulfur trap. The metering device is adapted to bypass a portion of the reformate stream to mix with the desulfurized reformate stream, thereby producing a conditioned reformate stream having a predetermined sulfur concentration that gives an acceptable balance of minimal drop in initial power with the desired maximum stability of operation over prolonged periods for the fuel cell stack. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074589 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/410 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129072 | Yates et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Rochester (Rochester, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Yates (Penfield, New York); Dongxia Liu (Rochester, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A c-axis-oriented HAP thin film synthesized by seeded growth on a palladium hydrogen membrane substrate. An exemplary synthetic process includes electrochemical seeding on the substrate, and secondary and tertiary hydrothermal treatments under conditions that favor growth along c-axes and a-axes in sequence. By adjusting corresponding synthetic conditions, an HAP this film can be grown to a controllable thickness with a dense coverage on the underlying substrate. The thin films have relatively high proton conductivity under hydrogen atmosphere and high temperature conditions. The c-axis oriented films may be integrated into fuel cells for application in the intermediate temperature range of 200-600° C. The electrochemical-hydrothermal deposition technique may be applied to create other oriented crystal materials having optimized properties, useful for separations and catalysis as well as electronic and electrochemical applications, electrochemical membrane reactors, and in chemical sensors. |
| FILED | Monday, April 11, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/083737 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129306 | Myers et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Deborah J. Myers (Lisle, Illinois); Xiaoping Wang (Naperville, Illinois); Nancy N. Kariuki (Naperville, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | A polymetallic nanoparticle alloy having enhanced catalytic properties including at least one noble metal and at least one base metal, where the noble metal is preferentially dispersed near the surface of the nanoparticle and the base metal modifies the electronic properties of the surface disposed noble metal. The polymetallic nanoparticles having application as a catalyst when dispersed on a carbon substrate and in particular applications in a fuel cell. In various embodiments a bimetallic noble metal-base metal nanoparticle alloy may be used as an electrocatalyst offering enhanced ORR activity compared to the monometallic electrocatalyst of noble metal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/361366 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/326 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129498 | Klaehn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John R. Klaehn (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eric S. Peterson (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Christopher J. Orme (Shelley, Idaho); Michael G. Jones (Chubbuck, Idaho); Alan K. Wertsching (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Thomas A. Luther (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Tammy L. Trowbridge (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | A PBI compound includes imidazole nitrogens at least a portion of which are substituted with a moiety containing a carbonyl group, the substituted imidazole nitrogens being bonded to carbon of the carbonyl group. At least 85% of the nitrogens may be substituted. The carbonyl-containing moiety may include RCO—, where R is alkoxy or haloalkyl. The PBI compound may exhibit a first temperature marking an onset of weight loss corresponding to reversion of the substituted PBI that is less than a second temperature marking an onset of decomposition of an otherwise identical PBI compound without the substituted moiety. The PBI compound may be included in separatory media. A substituted PBI synthesis method may include providing a parent PBI in a less than 5 wt % solvent solution. Substituting may use more than 5 equivalents in relation to the imidazole nitrogens to be substituted. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/933652 |
| ART UNIT | 1765 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 528/423 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129520 | Yu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lianhe Yu (Raleigh, North Carolina); Kannan Muthukumaran (Raleigh, North Carolina); Prathapan Sreedharan (Kerala, India); Jonathan S. Lindsey (Raleigh, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides dipyrrin substituted porphyrinic macrocycles, intermediates useful for making the same, and methods of making the same. Such compounds may be used for purposes including the making of molecular memory devices, solar cells and light harvesting arrays. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/086751 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129614 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | RoseStreet Labs Energy (Phoenix, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Joel W. Ager, III (Berkeley, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A single P-N junction solar cell is provided having two depletion regions for charge separation while allowing the electrons and holes to recombine such that the voltages associated with both depletion regions of the solar cell will add together. The single p-n junction solar cell includes an alloy of either InGaN or InAlN formed on one side of the P-N junction with Si formed on the other side in order to produce characteristics of a two junction (2J) tandem solar cell through only a single P-N junction. A single P-N junction solar cell having tandem solar cell characteristics will achieve power conversion efficiencies exceeding 30%. |
| FILED | Monday, October 17, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/275079 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/261 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129615 | Walukiewicz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz (Kensington, California); Kin Man Yu (Lafayette, California); Junqiao Wu (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The highly mismatched alloy Zn1-yMnyOxTe1-x, 0≦y<1 and 0<x<1 and other Group II-IV-Oxygen implanted alloys have been synthesized using the combination of oxygen ion implantation and pulsed laser melting. Incorporation of small quantities of isovalent oxygen leads to the formation of a narrow, oxygen-derived band of extended states located within the band gap of the Zn1-yMnyTe host. With multiple band gaps that fall within the solar energy spectrum, Zn1-yMnyOxTe1-x is a material perfectly satisfying the conditions for single-junction photovoltaics with the potential for power conversion efficiencies surpassing 50%. |
| FILED | Friday, January 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/009505 |
| ART UNIT | 1723 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Batteries: Thermoelectric and photoelectric 136/262 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129678 | Dahl et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Dahl (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Jill R. Scott (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Timothy R. McJunkin (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion cyclotron spectrometer may include a vacuum chamber that extends at least along a z-axis and means for producing a magnetic field within the vacuum chamber so that a magnetic field vector is generally parallel to the z-axis. The ion cyclotron spectrometer may also include means for producing a trapping electric field within the vacuum chamber. The trapping electric field may comprise a field potential that, when taken in cross-section along the z-axis, includes at least one section that is concave down and at least one section that is concave up so that ions traversing the field potential experience a net magnetron effect on a cyclotron frequency of the ions that is substantially equal to zero. Other apparatuses and a method for performing ion cyclotron spectrometry are also disclosed herein. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/818051 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/291 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130569 | Zettl |
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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) | Alex Karlwalter Zettl (Kensington, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A device for storing data using nanoparticle shuttle memory having a nanotube. The nanotube has a first end and a second end. A first electrode is electrically connected to the first end of the nanotube. A second electrode is electrically connected to the second end of the nanotube. The nanotube has an enclosed nanoparticle shuttle. A switched voltage source is electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, whereby a voltage may be controllably applied across the nanotube. A resistance meter is also connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, whereby the electrical resistance across the nanotube can be determined. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 27, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/768251 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/189.160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130800 | Holtom |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary R. Holtom (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A mode-locked laser employs a coupled-polarization scheme for efficient longitudinal pumping by reshaped laser diode bars. One or more dielectric polarizers are configured to reflect a pumping wavelength having a first polarization and to reflect a lasing wavelength having a second polarization. An asymmetric cavity provides relatively large beam spot sizes in gain medium to permit efficient coupling to a volume pumped by a laser diode bar. The cavity can include a collimation region with a controlled beam spot size for insertion of a saturable absorber and dispersion components. Beam spot size is selected to provide stable mode locking based on Kerr lensing. Pulse durations of less than 100 fs can be achieved in Yb:KGW. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/724625 |
| ART UNIT | 2828 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Coherent light generators 372/11 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130902 | Adams et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernhard W. Adams (Naperville, Illinois); Klaus Attenkofer (Bolingbrook, Illinois); Oliver A. Schmidt (Lombard, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Active optics apparatus and method for aligning active optics are provided for a high-resolution, active optic fluorescence analyzer combining a large acceptance solid angle with wide energy tunability. A plurality of rows of correctors selectively controlled to bend an elongated strip of single crystal material like Si (400) into substantially any precisely defined shape. A pair of pushers engages opposite ends of the silicon crystal strip exert only a force along the long axis of the crystal strip, and does not induce additional bending moments which would result in a torsion of the crystal. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/831518 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/44 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul L. Gourley (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for distinguishing a normal cell from an abnormal cell, such as, for example a cancer cell or diseased cell, of the same tissue type using mitochondrial correlation microscopy. |
| FILED | Monday, July 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/487826 |
| 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 | Image analysis 382/280 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131735 | Rose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart J Rose (Richland, Washington); Wendy E Cowley (Richland, Washington); Vernon L Crow (Richland, Washington); Nicholas O Cramer (Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis. Embodiments can include parsing words in an individual document by delimiters, stop words, or both in order to identify candidate keywords. Word scores for each word within the candidate keywords are then calculated based on a function of co-occurrence degree, co-occurrence frequency, or both. Based on a function of the word scores for words within the candidate keyword, a keyword score is calculated for each of the candidate keywords. A portion of the candidate keywords are then extracted as keywords based, at least in part, on the candidate keywords having the highest keyword scores. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555916 |
| ART UNIT | 2159 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/750 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132121 | Risch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Risch (Kennewick, Washington); Scott T. Dowson (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and line to represent a data field, nodes representing data values, and links showing correlations among fields and values. Other visualization methods and apparatus are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/057086 |
| ART UNIT | 2171 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/850 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132122 | Risch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John S. Risch (Kennewick, Washington); Michelle L. Hart (Richland, Washington); Scott T. Dowson (West Richland, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and line to represent a data field, nodes representing data values, and links showing correlations among fields and values. Other visualization methods and apparatus are disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/057144 |
| ART UNIT | 2171 — Graphical User Interface and Document Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 715/850 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Science Foundation (NSF)
| US 08128242 | Grier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Grier (New York City, New York); Eric Dufresne (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device able to reduce the number of manufacturing steps and attain the rationalization of a manufacturing line is disclosed. The semiconductor device is a high-frequency module assembled by mounting chip parts (22) and semiconductor pellets (21) onto each of wiring substrates (2) formed on a matrix substrate (27) after inspection. A defect mark (2e) is affixed to a wiring substrate (2) as a block judged to be defective in the inspection of the matrix substrate (27), then in a series of subsequent assembling steps the defect mark (e) is recognized and the assembling work for the wiring substrate (2) with the defect mark (2e) thereon is omitted to attain the rationalization of a manufacturing line. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/385202 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/614 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128825 | Massingill |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chemtor, LP (San Marcos, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lee Massingill (San Marcos, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber reaction process whereby reactive components contained in immiscible streams are brought into contact to effect chemical reactions and separations. The conduit reactor utilized contains wettable fibers onto which one stream is substantially constrained and a second stream is flowed over to continuously create a new interface there between to efficiently bring about contact of the reactive species and thus promote reactions thereof or extractions thereby. Co-solvents and phase transfer catalysts may be employed to facilitate the process. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/576407 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128901 | Mackeyev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yuri Mackeyev (Houston, Texas); Lon J. Wilson (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of removing metal impurities from carbon nanotubes includes treating carbon nanotubes with distilled bromine in a substantially oxygen- and water-free atmosphere and then removing the distilled bromine from the carbon nanotubes. Purified carbon nanotubes having an iron content from about 2.5 to about 3.5 by weight that are substantially free of derivatization at the ends and defect sites are made available via this method. |
| FILED | Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/299691 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/461 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128930 | Acton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois); Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp. (Rahway, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Acton (Newbury Park, California); Zhiqiang An (Ambler, Pennsylvania); Andrew J. Bett (Lansdale, Pennsylvania); Robert Breese (Quakertown, Pennsylvania); Lei Chang (Westmont, Illinois); Elizabeth Chen Dodson (Soudertown, Pennsylvania); Gene Kinney (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); William L. Klein (Winnetka, Illinois); Mary P. Lambert (Glenview, Illinois); Xiaoping Liang (Collegeville, Pennsylvania); Paul Shughrue (West Chester, Pennsylvania); William R. Strohl (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Kristen Viola (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to antibodies that differentially recognize multi-dimensional conformations of Aβ-derived diffusible ligands, also known as ADDLs. The antibodies of the invention can distinguish between Alzheimer's Disease and control human brain extracts and are useful in methods of detecting ADDLs and diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. The present antibodies also block binding of ADDLs to neurons, assembly of ADDLs, and tau phosphorylation and are there useful in methods for the preventing and treating diseases associated with soluble oligomers of amyloid β 1-42. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/828411 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/133.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129199 | Murphy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Caroliina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Catherine J. Murphy (Columbia, South Carolina); Tapan K. Sau (Chandigarh, Indiana); Christopher J. Orendorff (Albuquerque, New Mexico); Anand M. Gole (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In one aspect, the invention relates to methods for enhancing a Raman signal comprising the steps of providing a sample comprising a metal surface, an analyte adhered to the surface, and a metallic nanoparticle coupled to the surface, wherein the nanoparticle has a plasmon resonance band; exposing the sample to incident energy of an excitation wavelength; and detecting the Raman signal of the analyte. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a compositiion comprising a metal surface, a functionalized self-assembled monolayer adhered to the surface, wherin the self-assembled monolayer comprises an analyte, and a cetyltrimethylammonium halide-capped metallic nanoparticle coupled to the surface. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-capped gold nanoparticle and a method for preparing same. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 13, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/721554 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/525 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129542 | Sharpless et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | K. Barry Sharpless (La Jolla, California); Valery Fokin (Oceanside, California); Vsevold V. Rostovtsev (Wilmington, Delaware); Luke Green (Basel, Switzerland); Fahmi Himo (Solna, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | A copper catalyzed click chemistry ligation process is employed to bind azides and terminal acetylenes to provide 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole triazoles. The process comprises contacting an organic azide and a terminal alkyne with a source of reactive Cu(I) ion for a time sufficient to form by cycloaddition a 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole. The source of reactive Cu(I) ion can be, for example, a Cu(I) salt or copper metal. The process is preferably carried out in a solvent, such as an aqueous alcohol. Optionally, the process can be performed in a solvent that comprises a ligand for Cu(I) and an amine. |
| FILED | Monday, July 26, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/804644 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129585 | Joshi |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chandrashekhar P. Joshi (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | Described are methods for making transgenic plants capable of expressing secondary cell wall cellulose synthases and methods of enhancing expression of secondary cell wall cellulose synthases in plants. Also described are plants produced by the methods. Plants comprising at least three exogenous polynucleotides encoding secondary cell wall cellulose synthases are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 03, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/997503 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/278 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129587 | 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 | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800466 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129887 | Mehraeen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shahab Mehraeen (Rolla, Missouri); Jagannathan Sarangapani (Rolla, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for increasing the harvested energy from a piezoelectric element exposed to environmental vibrations via a two-prong system. In a first prong, a cantilever beam is tapered and shaped so as to increase and provide an approximately uniform strain on and along the beam, thus resulting in increased voltage. In a second prong of the system and method, a voltage compensating circuit, when used with a voltage inversion circuit of the prior art, increases the harvested power by injecting current to the piezoelectric element after each voltage inversion so as to increase the voltage level. |
| FILED | Friday, January 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/363082 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/339 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130776 | Sundararajan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jay Kumar Sundararajan (San Diego, California); Devavrat Shah (Newton, Massachusetts); Muriel Medard (Belmont, Massachusetts); Michael Mitzenmacher (Lexington, Massachusetts); Joao Barros (Oporto, Portugal); Szymon Jakubczak (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen. |
| FILED | Friday, August 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/549925 |
| ART UNIT | 2474 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/401 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131348 | Backman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northshore University Healthsystem (Evanston, Illinois); Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vadim Backman (Chicago, Illinois); Hemant Roy (Highland Park, Illinois); Brand Randall (Highland Park, Illinois); Yang Liu (Somerset, New Jersey); Jeremy Rogers (Chicago, Illinois); Vladimir Turzhitsky (Evanston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Systems, methods, and apparatuses of elastic light scattering spectroscopy and low-coherence enhanced backscattering spectroscopy are described here. An apparatus couple-able to a light source and a target object, to facilitate light transmission between the light source and the target object, the apparatus comprises: a probe to emit incident light that is partially coherent obtained from the light source onto the target object and to receive interacted light, the interacted light to be backscattered light from illumination of the incident light on the target object, the probe comprising: a delivery channel having at least one delivery optical fiber with a distal end portion couple-able to the light source and a proximal end portion suited to couple the incident light to the target object, a collection channel having a first collection optical fiber suited to collect substantially co-polarized backscattered light and a second collection optical fiber suited to collect substantially cross-polarized backscattered light. |
| FILED | Monday, May 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/803418 |
| ART UNIT | 3777 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/476 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131525 | Schmitz et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tony L. Schmitz (Gainesville, Florida); Gregory S. Duncan (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for predicting a tool point response of a spindle-holder-tool assembly to be used for high-speed machining applications is provided. The method includes determining direct and cross displacement-to-force receptances of a standard holder clamped in the spindle. The method also includes determining direct receptances at a free end of the standard holder based upon the determined direct and cross displacement-to-force receptances of the standard holder. Additionally, the method includes performing an inverse receptance coupling to simulate a decomposition of the standard holder into multiple subassemblies, the subassemblies including a spindle-holder base subassembly and an extended holder subassembly. The method further includes determining spindle-holder base subassembly receptances based upon the simulated decomposition of the standard holder. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/910947 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131715 | 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 may include identifying a group of documents; identifying linking documents that include links to the identified documents; assigning a measure of importance to one or more of the linking documents; and generating a score for each of the identified documents based on the measure of importance assigned to at least one of the linking documents that includes a link to the identified document. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689889 |
| 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 |
| US 08131717 | 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 may include identifying a linked document that is linked to by a group of linking documents; identifying links between the linking documents and the linked document; assigning a weight to each of the identified links; and determining a score for the linked document based on the identified links between the linking documents and the linked document, and the weights assigned to each of the identified links. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/689846 |
| ART UNIT | 2157 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/726 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08128227 | Greenlee et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Justin J. Greenlee (Ames, Iowa); Mary Heather West Greenlee (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a method for identifying transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in livestock via an electroretinogram, the method comprises producing a biphasic electroretinogram waveform having an a-wave and b-wave from livestock retina in response to photic stimulus, measuring the amplitude of the b-wave, wherein the amplitude is measured from the trough of the a-wave to the peak of the b-wave, measuring the implicit time of the b-wave, wherein the implicit time is measured from onset of photic stimulus to b-wave peak; and comparing said produced waveform to a comparative waveform of livestock known not to have transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, wherein the produced waveform having a decrease b-wave amplitude and increased b-wave implicit time being indicative of livestock having transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/423046 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128825 | Massingill |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Chemtor, LP (San Marcos, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Lee Massingill (San Marcos, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber reaction process whereby reactive components contained in immiscible streams are brought into contact to effect chemical reactions and separations. The conduit reactor utilized contains wettable fibers onto which one stream is substantially constrained and a second stream is flowed over to continuously create a new interface there between to efficiently bring about contact of the reactive species and thus promote reactions thereof or extractions thereby. Co-solvents and phase transfer catalysts may be employed to facilitate the process. |
| FILED | Friday, October 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/576407 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/638 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128948 | Teal 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) | Peter E.A. Teal (Gainsville, Florida); Spencer S. Walse (Fresno, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A composition containing suspensolide and optionally at least one of γ-hydroxy acid of epianastrephin, γ-hydroxy acid of anastrephin, 2,6-dimethyl-6-vinyl-cyclohexeneacetic acid, β-D-glucopyranosyl 2,6-dimethyl-6-vinyl-cyclohex-1-ene-1-acetoate, or mixtures thereof, and optionally a carrier or carrier material; the composition contains no β-bisabolene and no α-farnesene. A method for attracting Anastrepha species (e.g., A. suspensa) involving treating an object or area with an Anastrepha species attracting effective amount of the above composition. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/152570 |
| ART UNIT | 1615 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/405 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129157 | Gonzalez |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Marsh Rice University (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramon Gonzalez (Houston, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to the development of appropriate cultivation conditions for a bacteria to grow anaerobically (fermentatively) on a glycerol substrate. The method requires culturing bacteria having a functional 1,2-propanediol pathway and a functional type II glycerol dehydrogenase-dihydroxyacetone kinase pathway in a culture medium containing high concentrations of glycerol, a neutral to mildly acidic pH, low levels of potassium and phosphate, and high levels of CO2, such that glycerol is thus converted into a desirable product, such as ethanol, hydrogen, formate, succinate, or 1,2-propanediol. |
| FILED | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/295609 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/161 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129459 | Tao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bernard Y. Tao (Lafayette, Indiana); Kevin C. Coates (Huntington Beach, California); William Jason Weiss (West Lafayette, Indiana); Samia Mohtar (West Lafayette, Indiana); Alva Peled (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A non-aqueous blend composition for treating a porous material comprising triacylglycerides obtained, from vegetable oils and containing a fatty acid component and a polystyrene dissolved in the triacylglycerides to form a blend composition, the polystyrene component being present in the blend composition in an amount of from about 1% to about 40% by weight of the fatty acid component. |
| FILED | Monday, November 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/592336 |
| ART UNIT | 1762 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Synthetic resins or natural rubbers 524/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129587 | 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 | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/800466 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/283 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129598 | Ow et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David W. Ow (Hercules, California); Richard Calendar (Berkeley, California); Lynn Thomason (Albany, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods for obtaining specific and stable integration of nucleic acids into eukaryotic cells. The invention makes use of site-specific recombination systems that use prokaryotic recombinase polypeptides, such as the ΦC31 integrase, that can mediate recombination between the recombination sites, but not between hybrid recombination sites that are formed upon the recombination. Thus, the recombination is irreversible in the absence of additional factors. Eukaryotic cells that contain the recombinase polypeptides, or genes that encode the recombinases, are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/721980 |
| 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 | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/317.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US PP22541 | Vorsa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholi Vorsa (Atco, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A new cranberry variety distinguished by very early season ripening, with exceptional early and high fruit anthocyanin (TAcy), as compared to the currently cultivated commercial varieties, with high fruit quality, and very suitable for the fresh fruit market. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/802279 |
| ART UNIT | 1661 — Plants |
| CURRENT CPC | Plants PLT/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08127527 | Giffin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rollin George Giffin (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for operating a gas turbine engine is provided. The system includes in serial flow arrangement, at least one compressor, a combustor, and at least one turbine. The method includes compressing atmospheric air in the gas turbine engine, channeling at least a portion of the compressed air from the turbine engine flowpath to an oxidizer supply system, and channeling an oxygen-depleted flow of the compressed air from the oxidizer supply system to the gas turbine engine flowpath. |
| FILED | Monday, November 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/994709 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/224 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08127977 | Ding |
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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) | R. Jeffrey Ding (Athens, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A welding apparatus is provided for forming a weld joint between first and second elements of a workpiece. The apparatus heats the first and second elements to form an interface of material in a plasticized or melted state interface between the elements. The interface material is then allowed to cool to a plasticized state if previously in a melted state. The interface material, while in the plasticized state, is then mixed, for example, using a grinding/extruding mixer, to remove any dendritic-type weld microstructures introduced into the interface material during heating. |
| FILED | Friday, June 10, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/157895 |
| ART UNIT | 1735 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal fusion bonding 228/2.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08128418 | Determan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Determan (Sylmar, California); Daniel Edward Matejczyk (West Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A thermal expansion compensator is provided and includes a first electrode structure having a first surface, a second electrode structure having a second surface facing the first surface and an elastic element bonded to the first and second surfaces and including a conductive element by which the first and second electrode structures electrically and/or thermally communicate, the conductive element having a length that is not substantially longer than a distance between the first and second surfaces. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 17, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/857965 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/66 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129036 | Beringer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Durwood M. Beringer (Suffield, Connecticut); Kenneth J. Zacharias (Windsor, Connecticut); Jesse J. Stieber (Waterbury, Connecticut); Edmund P. Taddey (West Springfield, Massachusetts); Stephen A. Yaworski (Tolland, Connecticut); Gregory K. Schwalm (Canton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat transfer apparatus includes a first protective layer of a first metallic material, a second protective layer of a second metallic material, and a heat transfer layer bonded between the first protective layer and the second protective layer. The heat transfer layer is made of a metal matrix composite, such as aluminum oxide reinforcement dispersed within a copper matrix. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119543 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130185 | Handschy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A Handschy (Boulder, Colorado); Michael R Meadows (Nederland, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for producing spatially modulated monochrome or color light having gray scale includes an active matrix liquid crystal spatial light modulator having light modulating means including (i) a layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal material which is designed to switch between ON and OFF states and (ii) active matrix means including VLSI circuitry for dividing the layer of liquid crystal material into an array of individual liquid crystal pixels and for causing each of the pixels of liquid crystal material to modulate light individually by switching between the ON and OFF states in a way that depends upon the data which the VLSI circuitry is written. The system also includes illumination means having a light source for directing light from the source into the pixel-divided layer of ferroelectric liquid crystal material in a specific way. And finally, the system includes means for writing the VLSI circuitry with preselected data in accordance with a particular data ordering scheme such that the circuitry, in response to the written data, causes the pixels of liquid crystal material to individually switch between their ON and OFF states and therefore modulate light from the source in a way which, depending upon the data, produces a specific overall pattern of gray scale light. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/623665 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/87 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08130439 | Handschy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark A Handschy (Boulder, Colorado); Michael R Meadows (Nederland, Colorado); Holden Chase (Lafayette, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for producing modulated lights disclosed. The system comprises a spatial light modulator including a light modulating medium switchable between different states so as to act on light in ways which form overall patterns of modulated light. The system also includes an arrangement for switching the modulating medium between the different states in a controlled way and an illumination arrangement for producing a source of light. The system, further includes an optics arrangement for directing light from the source of light into the spatial light modulator and for directing light from the spatial light modulator through a predetermined source imaging area. The optics arrangement cooperates with the illumination arrangement and the spatial light modulator so as to produce a real image of the source of light within the source imaging area such that an individual is able to view a virtual image of the overall patterns of modulated light from the source imaging area. A variety of novel optics arrangements are disclosed including specific combinations of different light sources, diffusing plates, polarizers, beam splitters, analyzers, lenses, mirrors, and holographic optical elements which allow the overall optical arrangement to be miniaturized to the same degree and in coordination with the spatial light modulator. The different light sources include using a plurality of light sources, such as LEDs, to form an array of light sources, each of the light sources providing light to a corresponding portion of the spatial light modulator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932447 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/290 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08129418 | Luesch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Florida Research Foundation (Gainsville, Florida); Smithsonian Institute (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Hendrik Luesch (Gainesville, Florida); Taori Kanchan (Towson, Maryland); Valerie J. Paul (Fort Pierce, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | The instant invention describes macrocyclic compounds having therapeutic activity, and methods of treating disorders such as cancer, tumors and cell proliferation related disorders, or affect cell differentiation, dedifferentiation or transdifferentiation. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/677078 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129512 | Zhu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Johnston, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Genhai Zhu (San Jose, California); Itzhak Kurek (San Francisco, California); Lu Liu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods for identifying one or more amino acid substitutions in a Rubisco large subunit polypeptide (variant) that confer increased Rubisco activity in a unicellular photosynthetic organism and transferring those substitutions to a Rubisco large subunit polypeptide of a higher plant cell are described herein. Methods and compositions for modulating plant productivity using the modified Rubisco large subunit polypeptide variants are provided. The Rubisco large subunit sequences are used in a variety of methods including increasing plant productivity in a plant. Transformed plants, plant cell, tissues, seed, and expression vectors are also provided. |
| FILED | Monday, April 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/102639 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129894 | Tsakalakos et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Loucas Tsakalakos (Niskayuna, New York); Sung Su Han (Niskayuna, New York); John Aibangbee Osaheni (Clifton Park, New York); Vanita Mani (Clifton Park, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure includes a substrate and a metallized carbon nano-structure extending from a portion of the substrate. In a method of making a metallized carbon nanostructure, at least one carbon structure formed on a substrate is placed in a furnace. A metallic vapor is applied to the carbon nanostructure at a preselected temperature for a preselected period of time so that a metallized nanostructure forms about the carbon nanostructure. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/940488 |
| ART UNIT | 2889 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/495 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131011 | Nevatia et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ramakant Nevatia (Pacific Palisades, California); Bo Wu (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A human tracking system for tracking a plurality of humans in motion, in a video of the humans in motion, includes a human detection subsystem, and a combined tracker. The human detection subsystem is configured to generate a detection output by detecting the plurality of humans in a part-based representation, in each one of a sequence of static frames in the video. The human detection subsystem is further configured to account for partial occlusion of one or more of the humans in the image. The combined tracker is configured to receive and combine the detection responses generated by the human detection subsystem, and to track the humans in response to the received detection responses and image appearance properties. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/860743 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08132259 | Anderson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kay Schwendimann Anderson (Washington, District of Columbia); Pau-Chen Cheng (Yorktown Heights, New York); Trenton Ray Jaeger (Port Matilda, Pennsylvania); Zhen Liu (Tarrytown, New York); Anton Viktorovich Riabov (Ossining, New York); Pankaj Rohatgi (New Rochelle, New York); Angela Schuett Reninger (Columbia, Maryland); Grant Wagner (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for security planning with soft security constraints, include: receiving security-related requirements of a workflow to be developed using system inputs and processing components; and generating at least one proposed workflow according to the security-related requirements, wherein the at least one proposed workflow satisfies soft constraints. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 04, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/619856 |
| ART UNIT | 2491 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/25 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US D655335 | Gollucci |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Director, National Security Agency (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Felix J. Gollucci (Upper Marlboro, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 09, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 29/374453 |
| ART UNIT | 2913 — Design |
| CURRENT CPC | Office supplies; artists and teachers materials D19/20 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08128942 | Gustafson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | EndoBiologics, Incorporated (Missoula, Montana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gary L. Gustafson (Missoula, Montana); Dan C. DeBorde (Missoula, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides an immunogenic conjugate comprising biologically deacylated gram-negative bacterial moieties linked to D. discoideum proteinase 1, as well as novel subunits thereof, and methods of making and using the conjugates in vaccines to treat sepsis and other infectious complications. |
| FILED | Friday, May 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/785312 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/250.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08129303 | Lombardi |
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| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Lombardi (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A pathogen-resistant fabric comprising one or more photocatalysts capable of generating singlet oxygen from ambient air. The pathogen-resistant fabric may optionally include one or more singlet oxygen traps. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/075040 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/150 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
U.S. State Government
| US 08128822 | Browning et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through The State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon); Home Dialysis Plus (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. Browning (Portland, Oregon); James R. Curtis (Portland, Oregon); Goran Nadezda Jovanovic (Corvallis, Oregon); Brian Kevin Paul (Corvallis, Oregon); Sundar Atre (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is related to hemodialysis, and more particularly, to a dialyser with improved efficiency of mass transfer across a dialysis membrane utilizing microchannel separation provided in accordance with embodiments of the present invention. In accordance with an embodiment, a dialyzer is provided comprising a plurality of semipermeable membrane sheets and a plurality of flow separators. The membrane sheets and flow are arranged in alternating configuration and coupled into a laminae stack defining a plurality of parallel microchannel layers. Each microchannel layer comprises a plurality of first microchannels and a plurality of second microchannels. The first and second microchannels of each microchannel layer are in fluid communication with each other via one of the plurality of membrane sheets therebetween. The MECS dialyzer is characterized as having a high surface to volume ratio and a high mass transfer coefficient. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/576804 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/321.710 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08131481 | Moeck |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | State of Oregon acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on behalf of Portland State University (Portland, Oregon) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Moeck (Portland, Oregon) |
| ABSTRACT | Candidate structures for nanocrystal and other specimens are obtained based on a specimen complex spectrum that is determined as a Fourier transform of a phase-contrast electron micrograph. The specimen can also be assessed based on an amplitude portion of the complex spectrum using a lattice-fringe fingerprint. In some examples, the specimen complex spectrum is compensated based on an electron microscope transfer function, a specimen tilt, or based on other crystallographic compensation. Amplitude or phase portions of the compensated complex spectrum can be compared with reference structures stored in one or more reference structure databases. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/800422 |
| ART UNIT | 2857 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Measuring, calibrating, or testing 72/27 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Transportation (USDOT)
| US 08129036 | Beringer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International, Inc. (Windsor Locks, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Durwood M. Beringer (Suffield, Connecticut); Kenneth J. Zacharias (Windsor, Connecticut); Jesse J. Stieber (Waterbury, Connecticut); Edmund P. Taddey (West Springfield, Massachusetts); Stephen A. Yaworski (Tolland, Connecticut); Gregory K. Schwalm (Canton, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A heat transfer apparatus includes a first protective layer of a first metallic material, a second protective layer of a second metallic material, and a heat transfer layer bonded between the first protective layer and the second protective layer. The heat transfer layer is made of a metal matrix composite, such as aluminum oxide reinforcement dispersed within a copper matrix. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119543 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/627 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of the Interior (DOI)
| US 08131536 | Weischedel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph M. Weischedel (Canton, Massachusetts); Jinxi Xu (Framingham, Massachusetts); Michael R. Kayser (Somerville, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to systems and methods for automatically translating documents from a first language to a second language. To carry out the translation of a document, elements of information are extracted from the document and are translated using one or more specialized translation processes. The remainder of the document is separately translated by a statistical translation process. The translated elements of information and the translated remainder are then merged into a final translated document. |
| FILED | Friday, November 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/998663 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/5 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08130245 | Ham et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd E. Ham (Fairfax Station, Virginia); Kurt L. Feldbush (Melbourne, Florida); Jason M. Asbell (West Melbourne, Florida); Sean O. Miniclier (Melbourne, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A system of processing map images includes a Web Mapping Service (WMS) for storing map images. A WMS proxy is operative with the WMS and receives from a client a request for a map image for display at the client. A WMS proxy includes a tile broker module that converts the request for the map image into a series of requests for obtaining map tiles. A cache system that stores the map tiles. The tile broker module is operative for returning cached map tiles if they already exist within the cache and retrieving map tiles from the WMS if map tiles are not returned from the cache. A tile building module is operative for building a map image at the WMS proxy from the map tiles in a requested format and resolution and displaying the map image at the client without resampling at the client. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/624250 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/660 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Non-Profit Organization (NPO)
| US 08129428 | Carlier et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Carlier (Blacksburg, Virginia); Jeffrey Bloomquist (Blacksburg, Virginia); Sally Paulson (Blacksburg, Virginia); Eric Wong (Blacksburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention includes insecticidal carbamates that are useful, for example, for the control of insects, such as mosquitoes, which can be used in applications where exposure to and/or contact with humans is likely. The insecticides of the present invention include phenyl N-methyl carbamates and compositions comprising them that exhibit species-selective inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and are preferably toxic to mosquitoes but not humans. Of particular interest are compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II): Compounds of Formula (I) and Formula (II) are especially suitable for insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying for mosquito control. |
| FILED | Friday, September 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/209301 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/491 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
United States Postal Service (USPS)
| US 08131652 | Gullo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | United States Postal Service (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Gullo (Alexandria, Virginia); James D. Wilson (Collierville, Tennessee); Robert F. Snapp (Memphis, Tennessee); David J. Payne (Collierville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods, apparatus, and systems for classifying addresses. An address is evaluated based upon a postal code or standardized postal code, such as a U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 code, serving the address. If the address cannot be classified based on the standardized postal code, the address is classified based on additional information, such as a U.S. Postal Service delivery point code. A mailer may then determine whether the address is a business or residential (or non-business) address. Furthermore, a mailer may predict when surcharges may apply and compare the rates of various carriers. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/101223 |
| ART UNIT | 3628 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/ Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/338 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08130692 | Barnhart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy C. Barnhart (Parker, Colorado); Donald V. Schnaidt (Centennial, Colorado); Steven W. Talcott (Larkspur, Colorado); Craig S. Kloosterman (Denver, Colorado); Melinda C. Milani (Parker, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | In one embodiment, a system for data handling in a distributed communication network includes a data-handling node (DHN) residing at a mission management center (MMC). The MMC manages operations of one or more remote units. The DHN receives a stream of data units from a routing system. The stream of data units includes both stored mission data (SMD) and telemetry data having originated at the remote units. The DHN, in near real time, extracts the telemetry data from the stream of data units, identifies one or more subsystems of the MMC for receiving the extracted telemetry data, and communicates the extracted telemetry data to the identified subsystems of the MMC for processing. |
| FILED | Friday, March 18, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/084496 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/316 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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