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Patent Details for Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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| US 08132443 | McGill 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) | R Andrew McGill (Lorton, Virginia); Rekha Pai (Alexandria, Virginia); David R. Mott (Burke, Virginia); Jennifer L Stepnowski (Alexandria, Virginia); Viet Nguyen (Gaithersburg, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is generally directed to a microfabricated gas chromatograph column having two patterned substrates, each optionally having a stationary phase material coating, bonded together to provide a continuous flow channel. The flow channel can have a serpentine arrangement or a modified serpentine arrangement comprising alternating series of consecutive turns in one direction where each series has enough turns to move carrier gas and analyte molecules from the center of the column cross section to an outer wall of the channel or from one outer wall of the channel to the opposite outer wall. Different portions of the substrates can be coated with differing thicknesses of stationary phase material and/or with different stationary phase materials. The column can have a circular cross-section or a semi-circular cross-section where the flat portion of the cross-section has grooves. Also disclosed is the related method of making the microfabricated gas chromatograph column. |
| FILED | Friday, May 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/434180 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/23.390 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132606 | Gardetto |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Defense Venture Group (Indian Land, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William W. Gardetto (Colleyville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A run-flat support system and method for installing the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the run-flat support system includes a torque assembly removably coupled to a split wheel rim of a pneumatic tired wheel. A plurality of support segments are adapted for attachment to the torque assembly in order to support the pneumatic tired wheel in a flat condition such as an under-inflated condition or deflated condition. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/054252 |
| ART UNIT | 3617 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Resilient tires and wheels 152/396 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132827 | Bergman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Polaris Industries Inc. (Medina, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James Bergman (Oslo, Minnesota); Larry Holter (Alvarado, Minnesota); Richard Nelson (Oslo, Minnesota); Lionel Hoff (Oslo, Minnesota); Doug Moman (Warren, Minnesota); Joshua J. Leonard (North Branch, Minnesota); Mitchell D. Johnson (Rosseau, Minnesota); Richard Raymond Maki (North Branch, Minnesota); Eric Bjerkelvedt (North Branch, Minnesota); Bradley Robert Morisch (Lindstrom, Minnesota); Brian D. Krosschell (Chicago City, Minnesota); Louis J. Brady (Wyoming, Minnesota); Michael D. Schneider (Dalbo, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A utility vehicle with ergonomic, safety, and maintenance features is disclosed. The ergonomic, safety, and maintenance features enhance the utility of the vehicle. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/875915 |
| ART UNIT | 3616 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Land vehicles 280/748 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132985 | Melby 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) | Jeffrey A. Melby (Vicksburg, Mississippi); Stephen R. Collinsworth (Fairhope, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | Armor units for rubble mound structures including breakwaters, revetments, groins, jetties, and the like. Embodiments are appropriate for ocean, river, lake and reservoir structure armoring, to prevent erosion from damaging hydrodynamic forces resulting from waves and water currents, and the like. An embodiment includes a central rectangular section, three “half H-shaped” appendages, two identical frusta (end members), and a flat bottom with two extrusions, nominally smaller than other appendages and frusta. An embodiment is symmetric about two perpendicularly intersecting vertical planes extending through the centroid of the unit. The three half H-shaped members are connected to outer parts of a side defined as the top and the two longitudinal sides of the central section. The three half H-shaped members and the two end members comprise four-sided frusta that taper from a base at the central rectangular section to four-sided distal ends. For select embodiments, the frusta are generally symmetric. |
| FILED | Monday, January 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/522266 |
| ART UNIT | 3672 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Hydraulic and earth engineering 45/16 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133074 | Park 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) | Bruce J. Park (Camarillo, California); Michael A. Torres (Newbury Park, California); Mark A. Doty (Port Hueneme, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A guided missile/launcher test set reprogramming interface assembly J2 connector clamp includes a frame having an upper side, a lower side, and at least one aperture with a threaded portion that extends through the frame and is adapted to threadingly associate with threads on a connector. Rotational torque is transferred away from the frame and connector when a securing mechanism is actuated. |
| FILED | Monday, June 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/824839 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical connectors 439/574 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133341 | Nealey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Franklin Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Shengxiang Ji (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of creating and transferring chemical patterns and physical patterns of deposited materials or molecules using block copolymers are provided. The methods involve providing block copolymer materials blended with one or more transfer molecules or inks. The differences in chemistry of the blocks of the copolymer that result in micro-phase separation (e.g., self-assembly into nanoscale domains) also allow inks to be sequestered into specific blocks. By designing the ink molecules to react, adsorb, or otherwise interact with a second substrate, inks are transferred to the second substrate in a pattern dictated by the pattern of block copolymer domains present at the surface of the block copolymer film. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416816 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133448 | Doona 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) | Christopher Doona (Oxford, Massachusetts); Maria Curtin (Easton, Massachusetts); Florence Feeherry (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Satish Kanlikar (Rochester, New York); Kenneth Kustin (San Diego, California); Irwin Taub (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barbara Taub, legal representative (Framingham, Massachusetts); David Baer (San Antonio, California); Albert McManus (Floresville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight, easy-to-carry, reusable, durable, and environmentally-friendly assembly for sterilizing contaminated equipment using conditions of a chemical sterilant, heat, and humidity generated in situ without requiring external electricity, fuels, or other exogenous energy sources for operation. The carry assembly includes a plastic carry-case or insulated aluminum pressure vessel having an inner chamber for accepting microbiologically contaminated objects, a vessel disposed in the chamber for serving as a reaction chamber and/or boiler, a chemical combination which upon mixing generates at least minimally sufficient conditions of the sterilant, heat, and humidity to effect sterilization of the objects, and outlet valves mounted on the carry-case for controllably venting pressures above ambient air pressure. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/490505 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133449 | Doona 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) | Christopher Doona (Oxford, Massachusetts); Maria Curtin (Easton, Massachusetts); Florence Feeherry (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Satish Kanlikar (Rochester, New York); Kenneth Kustin (San Diego, California); Irwin Taub (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barbara Taub, legal representative (Framingham, Massachusetts); David Baer (San Antonio, Texas); Albert McManus (Floresville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight, easy-to-carry, reusable, durable, and environmentally-friendly assembly for sterilizing contaminated equipment using conditions of a chemical sterilant, heat, and humidity generated in situ without requiring external electricity, fuels, or other exogenous energy sources for operation. The carry assembly includes a plastic carry-case or insulated aluminum pressure vessel having an inner chamber for accepting microbiologically contaminated objects, a vessel disposed in the chamber for serving as a reaction chamber and/or boiler, a chemical combination which upon mixing generates at least minimally sufficient conditions of the sterilant, heat, and humidity to effect sterilization of the objects, and outlet valves mounted on the carry-case for controllably venting pressures above ambient air pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494701 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133450 | Doona 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) | Christopher Doona (Oxford, Massachusetts); Maria Curtin (Easton, Massachusetts); Florence Feeherry (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Satish Kanlikar (Rochester, New York); Kenneth Kustin (San Diego, California); Irwin Taub (Framingham, Massachusetts); Barbara Taub, legal representative (Framingham, Massachusetts); David Baer (San Antonio, Texas); Albert McManus (Floresville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable, lightweight, easy-to-carry, reusable, durable, and environmentally-friendly assembly for sterilizing contaminated equipment using conditions of a chemical sterilant, heat, and humidity generated in situ without requiring external electricity, fuels, or other exogenous energy sources for operation. The carry assembly includes a plastic carry-case or insulated aluminum pressure vessel having an inner chamber for accepting microbiologically contaminated objects, a vessel disposed in the chamber for serving as a reaction chamber and/or boiler, a chemical combination which upon mixing generates at least minimally sufficient conditions of the sterilant, heat, and humidity to effect sterilization of the objects, and outlet valves mounted on the carry-case for controllably venting pressures above ambient air pressure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/494724 |
| ART UNIT | 1775 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/292 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133451 | Yuan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroFluidic Systems, Inc. (Fremont, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bob Yuan (Belmont, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A capture and purification apparatus is configured as a stand-alone apparatus or as part of a larger system. The capture and purification apparatus can be configured as a microfluidic cartridge that includes microfluidic circuitry and individually controlled valves. The microfluidic cartridge can be configured to function independently, or can be configured to be coupled to a separate instrument that provides the actuation to perform the capture and purification process. The capture and purification apparatus is configured as a volume-driven system that applies single-direction valves, a single fluid driving device, and fluid lines to control and discretely direct fluid flow within a full-loaded fluidic system. Such control enables various fluid sample processing techniques to be performed including, but not limited to, lysis, thermal cycling, and/or target analyte capture and purification, for example using a combination of ion-exchange chromatography and size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/290283 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 422/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133604 | Nakahara et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Hiroshi Nakahara (Santa Clarita, California); Sang Young Yoon (Saugus, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The electrochemical device assembly includes an anode tab in electrical communication with one or more anodes. The anode tab includes a first material. The assembly also includes a spacer having a third material and a fourth material. The third material is connected to the first material of the anode tab. The assembly also includes a cathode tab in electrical communication with one or more cathodes. The cathode tab includes a second material connected to the fourth material of the spacer. The second material is different from the first material and the fourth material is different from the third material. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/398246 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/122 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133680 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew L. Tingey (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian H. Clare (Madison, Wisconsin); Chang-Hyun Jang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, devices and kits for detecting a ligand. The methods involve capturing a ligand from a sample with an affinity substrate that includes a receptor for a ligand, transferring captured ligand to a detection surface and detecting the ligand on the detection surface with a liquid crystal. Accordingly, the capture step is decoupled from the detection step. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711517 |
| 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 08133691 | Ponniah et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sathibalan Ponniah (Columbia, Maryland); George E. Peoples (Fulton, Maryland); Catherine E. Storrer (Columbia, Maryland); Michael Flora (Mt. Airy, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to a kit comprising MHC Class I and Class II HLA-coated beads containing specific antigenic peptides for binding to antigen-specific T cells and the appropriate negative control peptides. Also provided are methods for making the coated beads and methods for use. The application of these beads go to the stimulation of peripheral blood cell populations and in vitro-stimulated culture for the elicitation of functional activities such as cell activation and signaling, cytokine secretion, proliferation and cytotoxicity activity. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 05, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/994794 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.240 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133715 | Buelter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Buelter (Denver, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); Stephanie Porter-Scheinman (Conifer, Colorado); Peter Meinhold (Denver, Colorado); Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Jun Urano (Aurora, Colorado); Matthew Peters (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Melissa Dey (Aurora, Colorado); Justas Jancauskas (Englewood, Colorado); Julie Kelly (Denver, Colorado); Ruth Berry (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to recombinant microorganisms comprising biosynthetic pathways and methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce various beneficial metabolites. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may further comprise one or more modifications resulting in the reduction or elimination of 3 keto-acid (e.g., acetolactate and 2-aceto-2-hydroxybutyrate) and/or aldehyde-derived by-products. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074907 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133732 | Slukvin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Igor I. Slukvin (Verona, Wisconsin); James A. Thomson (Madison, Wisconsin); Maksym A. Vodyanyk (Madison, Wisconsin); Maryna E. Gumenyuk (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the culture of dendritic cells from human embryonic stem (ES) cells. Human ES cells are first cultured into hematopoietic cells by co-culture with stromal cells. The cells now differentiated into the hematopoietic lineage are then cultured with GM-CSF to create a culture of myeloid precursor cells. Culture of the myeloid precursor cells with the cytokines GM-CSF and IL-4 causes functional dendritic cells to be generated. The dendritic cells have a unique phenotype, as indicated by their combination of cell surface markers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/876830 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133789 | Cooper et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Cooper (West Lafayette, Indiana); Maherin Matin (San Jose, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A silicon carbide power MOSFET having a drain region of a first conductivity type, a base region of a second conductivity type above the drain region, and a source region of the first conductivity type adjacent an upper surface of the base region, the base region including a channel extending from the source region through the base region adjacent a gate interface surface thereof, the channel having a length less than approximately 0.6 μm, and the base region having a doping concentration of the second conductivity type sufficiently high that the potential barrier at the source end of the channel is not lowered by the voltage applied to the drain. The MOSFET includes self-aligned base and source regions as well as self-aligned ohmic contacts to the base and source regions. |
| FILED | Friday, May 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/463054 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/285 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133993 | Duddu 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) | Raja Duddu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Paritosh Dave (Bridgewater, New Jersey); Reddy Damavarapu (Hackettstown, New Jersey); Rao Surapaneni (Long Valley, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for synthesizing pentanitrohexaazaisowurtzintane under neutral reaction conditions. Which synthesis involves treating a solution of hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane in ethyl acetate in the presence of a catalytic quantity of palladium on a carbon substrate, until a heterogeneous mixture is formed. This heterogeneous mixture is hydrogenated under a balloon atmosphere until the starting hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane is substantially reacted. The resulting pentanitrohexaazaisowurzitane mixture is filtered, dried and recovered from the dried residue through a Si-gel column. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/323831 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/554 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134020 | Bruno 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) | Ferdinando F. Bruno (Andover, Massachusetts); Nicole Favreau (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of producing polyhydroxytyrosol comprising the step of reacting hydroxytyrosol monomers or derivative thereof in a mixed solution comprising an enzyme, hydrogen peroxide, and an aqueous solvent. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/634856 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 558/51 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134024 | Ricks-Laskoski 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) | Holly L Ricks-Laskoski (Springfield, Virginia); Arthur W Snow (Alexandria, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a new ionic liquid monomer salt and methods of is synthesis and polymerization. The ionic liquid monomer salt is prepared by mixing equimolar amounts of an amine, such as tris[2-(2-methoxyethoxy)-ethyl]amine and an acid functionalized polymerizable monomer, such as 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid, which is stirred at ambient temperature until salt formation is complete. Also disclosed is a new ionic liquid polymer salts and method for making the same. The synthesis of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid-ammonium salt polymer is accomplished by adding 2,2′-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) to the ionic liquid monomer salt and heating the homogeneous melt at 70° C. for 18 hr. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/898091 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 562/114 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134127 | Hill, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ralph Henry Hill, Jr. (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed relating to gas leak detection. The techniques can be deployed, for example, in compact, handheld portable devices usable for detecting leaks in space-confined applications. The devices generally include a non-laser light source and thermal imaging camera that allow for detection of a target gas (or gasses) that absorbs at least some of the light source's wavelengths of operation. The light source can be implemented, for example, with an incoherent infrared (IR) light source, such as a resonance lamp configured with a gas cell containing a volume of a gas that, when excited by electric discharge, emits a wavelength that is absorbed by the target gas. |
| FILED | Friday, July 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/194492 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/339.60 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134128 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Jianming Dai (Troy, New York); Xu Xie (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a remotely-located object includes the step of illuminating at least a portion of a targeted object with electromagnetic radiation to induce a phase transformation in the targeted object, wherein the phase transformation produces an emitter plasma, which emits terahertz radiation. The method also includes the step of ionizing a volume of an ambient gas to produce a sensor plasma by focusing an optical probe beam in the volume and the step of detecting an optical component of resultant radiation produced from an interaction of the focused optical probe beam and the terahertz radiation in the sensor plasma. Detecting an optical component of the resultant radiation emitted by the sensor plasma facilitates detection of a characteristic fingerprint of the targeted object imposed onto the terahertz radiation produced as a result of the induced phase transformation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/634282 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134275 | Kavetsky et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trace Photonics, Inc. (Charleston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexander Kavetsky (Champaign, Illinois); Galena Yakubova (Champaign, Illinois); Shahid Yousaf (Charleston, Illinois); Gabriel Walter (Urbana, Illinois); Doris Chan (Champaign, Illinois); Maxim Sychov (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Qian Lin (Charleston, Illinois); Ken Bower (Charleston, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to an encapsulated β− particle emitter that comprises a sol-gel derived core that comprises a β−-emitting radioisotope and an encapsulant enclosing the core through which at least some of the β− emissions from the β−-emitting radioisotope pass, wherein the encapsulant comprises a substrate and a cover and at least a portion of the encapsulant is electrically conductive, and a method for making the same. Additionally, the present invention is directed to a capacitor comprising such an encapsulated β− particle emitter and a method of performing work with such a capacitor. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/275974 |
| ART UNIT | 2834 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/303 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134373 | Pattison et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ridgetop Group, LLC. (Tucson, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John H. Pattison (Tucson, Arizona); John Schmitz (Tucson, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | The system contains a circuit apparatus and method for monitoring the status of components within a digital system, the apparatus having a digital device. A power-line is supplied to the digital device. A second signal is rendered from the power-line. At least one mask pulse is generated from a third signal. An extraction device is situated to extract a component of the power-line. A filtering device is situated to receive the extracted component. An extracted signal is output by the filtering device, wherein the extracted signal is a correlated result having characteristics corresponding to the status of components in a digital system. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/191452 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/537 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134442 | Leupold |
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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) | Herbert A. Leupold (Eatontown, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A group of magnetic strands are configured into a minimal number of solid magnetized toroidal rings with a conical magnetization direction and then aligned, stacked and assembled into a magic sphere magnetic structure. Each magnetized toroidal ring has predetermined dimensions to form the inner and outer surfaces of a spherical shell. The present invention also encompasses a magic sphere magnetic device with unsegmented solid magnetized toroidal rings and methods for assembling a magic sphere by stacking magnetized toroidal rings with a conical magnetic direction. |
| FILED | Monday, January 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 12/931634 |
| ART UNIT | 2832 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Magnetically operated switches, magnets, and electromagnets 335/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134460 | McCaughan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Noninvasive Medical Technologies, Inc. (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ann K. McCaughan (Las Vegas, Nevada); Andrew Pal (Las Vegas, Nevada); Brad McGrath (Las Vegas, Nevada) |
| ABSTRACT | A relative positioning system and method has an adjoining pair of spaced apart receivers positioned proximal to an object causing a signal interference with a radio frequency signal detectable by each receiver of the adjoining pair. The radio frequency signal is associated with an emitter. Control electronics operatively couple the spaced apart receivers. The control electronics are configured to determine a direction of the emitter based on the signal interference. In an embodiment of the system and method the emitter is associated with an object of interest, the signal encodes information relating to the identity and status of the object, and information and heading of the object are cutaneously communicated to an operator by an article worn by the operator. |
| FILED | Monday, March 23, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/383361 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134462 | Tran 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) | Nghia Tran (San Diego, California); Michael R. Blackburn (Encinitas, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed is a floating sensor system having a casing that encloses a microcontroller. The microcontroller includes a digital processor and a non-volatile memory. The casing also encloses a data bus that connects the microcontroller to an external environment sensor, an RF transceiver, and a battery. The non-volatile memory includes a history file that maintains a record of events sensed by the external environment sensors. The digital processor is configured to establish a pattern of expected external environmental behavior based on the record of events. The digital processor is also configured to emit a signal through the RF transceiver from the system when an unexpected event occurs. |
| FILED | Friday, August 08, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/188390 |
| ART UNIT | 2612 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Electrical 340/539.260 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134516 | Yaghjian et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur D. Yaghjian (Concord, Massachusetts); Teresa H. O'Donnell (Billerica, Massachusetts); Edward E. Altshuler (Newton, Massachusetts); Steven R. Best (Townsend, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrically small supergain endfire transmitting and receiving array antenna comprising at least one first resonant element with a first input terminal. The first resonant element driven by a power supply voltage supplied at the first input terminal. The electrically small supergain endfire transmitting and receiving array antenna further includes at least one second resonant parasitic element with a second input terminal. The second input terminal shorted and the second resonant element spaced less than about 0.25λ from the first resonant element at any corresponding point. The antenna has a gain of at least 6 db and ka<1.0. |
| FILED | Monday, October 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/973982 |
| ART UNIT | 2821 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Radio wave antennas 343/834 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134555 | Debevec et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul E. Debevec (Marina del Rey, California); Wan-Chun Ma (Taipei, Taiwan); Timothy Hawkins (Marina del Rey, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for generating a surface normal map of an object may include a plurality of light sources having intensities that are controllable so as to generate one or more gradient illumination patterns. The light sources are configured and arranged to illuminate the surface of the object with the gradient illumination patterns. A camera may receive light reflected from the illuminated surface of the object, and generate data representative of the reflected light. A processing system may process the data so as to estimate the surface normal map of the surface of the object. A specular normal map and a diffuse normal map of the surface of the object may be generated separately, by placing polarizers on the light sources and in front of the camera so as to illuminate the surface of the object with polarized spherical gradient illumination patterns. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/105141 |
| ART UNIT | 2628 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/426 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134702 | Fattal et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Fattal (Mountain View, California); Zhiyong Li (Redwood City, California); Qiangfei Xia (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An optical device for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy includes a substrate, and at least one antenna established thereon. The at least one antenna including at least two segments, where each segment is formed of a metal having a predetermined volume and a predetermined contact angle with respect to the substrate. A gap is located between the two segments. The gap has a controllable size such that the at least one antenna resonates at a predetermined frequency that corresponds with the gap. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/574379 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/301 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134774 | Wang et al. |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Shih-Yuan Wang (Palo Alto, California); Jingling Li (Sunnyvale, California); Alexandre M. Bratkovski (Mountain View, California); Lars Helge Thulen (Huddinge, Sweden); Wei Wu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to negative index material crossbars that can be electronically controlled and dynamically reconfigured to exhibit a variety of electromagnetic properties. In one aspect, a negative index material crossbar comprises a first layer of non-crossing nanowires, and a second layer of approximately parallel nanowires that overlay the nanowires in the first layer. Resonant elements at nanowire intersections, and a gain material incorporated in the crossbar such that transmitted electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in a wavelength band of interest is enhanced when the crossbar is flood pumped with pump electromagnetic radiation. |
| FILED | Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/386295 |
| ART UNIT | 2872 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/333 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134885 | Feng |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey T. Feng (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Memory design techniques are disclosed that provide a high compression ratio at no loss in speed. The techniques can be embodied, for instance, in heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) based ROMs. By embedding compression logic (e.g., XOR) functionality directly into the address decoders and sense amplifiers of the memory device, a high compression ratio is achieved at no loss in speed. For example, the logic-based compression functionality can be directly implemented into the buffers that form the address decoder as well as the sense amplifiers. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/625034 |
| ART UNIT | 2827 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/230.80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134887 | Cray 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) | Benjamin A. Cray (West Kingston, Rhode Island); Dimitri Donskoy (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention as disclosed is a fiber optic interferometric directional acoustic density sensor that increases the directionality of a vector sensor that is much smaller in size than the wave length of an acoustic wave. This is accomplished through the use of second order directionality by measuring the acoustic fluctuations of fluid density at a point, wherein the acoustic density fluctuations are determined according to the principles of fluid compressibility and conservation of mass using a density fluctuation measuring apparatus that restricts two of the three vector components of the particle velocity of the acoustic wave and that employs a laser interferometer to measure the fluid density fluctuation along the remaining vector component. |
| FILED | Monday, September 13, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/880384 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications, electrical: Acoustic wave systems and devices 367/89 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134939 | Ramaswami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tellabs Operations, Inc. (Naperville, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rajiv Ramaswami (Ossining, New York); Galen H. Sasaki (Honolulu, Hawaii) |
| ABSTRACT | A ring communication network according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of nodes in which a single one of the nodes is configured for full channel conversion and the remaining nodes, other than the single node, are configured for no channel conversion. Links with no more than W channels couple the nodes. The ring communication network also may include N nodes and links connecting the nodes for carrying data in W channels such that N≧2 log2 W−1 where W is a power of 2. Each of the N nodes includes switches connected such that each channel of a first one of the links adjacent to any one of the N nodes can be switched to no more than W−1 channels of another one of the links adjacent any one node. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556125 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/255 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135111 | Jaffray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Jaffray (Ontario, Canada); John W. Wong (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan); Jeffrey H. Siewerdesen (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation therapy system that includes a radiation source that moves about a path and directs a beam of radiation towards an object and a cone-beam computer tomography system. The cone-beam computer tomography system includes an x-ray source that emits an x-ray beam in a cone-beam form towards an object to be imaged and an amorphous silicon flat-panel imager receiving x-rays after they pass through the object, the imager providing an image of the object. A computer is connected to the radiation source and the cone beam computerized tomography system, wherein the computer receives the image of the object and based on the image sends a signal to the radiation source that controls the path of the radiation source. |
| FILED | Monday, November 01, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/917079 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/65 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135243 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Seng-Tiong Ho (Wheeling, Illinois); Jing Ma (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Guoyang Xu (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | New electro-optic (EO) phase modulator devices and geometries, as can be constructed using a transparent conductive component. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946426 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135372 | Collins, III et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | BAE Systems Information and Elecronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas E. Collins, III (Tyngsboro, Massachusetts); Douglas S. Jansen (Pelham, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques are disclosed for eliminating or otherwise sufficiently suppressing spurious signals. The techniques are particularly useful in applications such as those that employ aggressor frequency sources along with a frequency conversion or mixing function, and especially applications implemented as a system-on-chip. In the spur-training mode, a spur-canceller circuit identifies spurious tones associated with the host system to neutralize those tones when running in a normal mode. The tones are neutralized using a comb generator with variable phase and gain by way of cancellation with comb output signals having substantially the same amplitude and a phase that is 180° out of phase with the aggressor tone to be cancelled. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555355 |
| ART UNIT | 2618 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/296 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135602 | Xiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Xiao (Gambrills, Maryland); Fu Ming (Peter) Hu (Ellicott City, Maryland); F. Jacob Seagull (Baltimore, Maryland); Colin F. Mackenzie (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for delivering data for coordinating multiple party use of a facility include producing conditions data by measuring without human intervention current condition of a facility that is used by multiple human parties. Availability data that indicates present or future availability for the facility is generated based at least in part on the conditions data. Coordination data based at least in part on the availability data is presented for the parties. These techniques allow rapid dynamic adaptation to changing status of a high-value facility while being less reliant on varied and subjective human motivations for reporting status changes. Undue exposure of sensitive information can be avoided by deriving less detailed views from high-resolution images of the facility and its users. Coordination data can be projected directly onto, and manual input can be derived from, a magnetic white board currently used for coordination at many facilities. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926665 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — 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 75/7.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135776 | Bremer, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Bremer, Jr. (Bellingham, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for managing the communication of multi-page documents. The system may use a software module document splitter adapted to receive a multi-page document being uploaded as a single file and to split the multi-page document into a plurality of independent files, with each independent file representing a single page of the document. The software module document splitter may also associate meta data with each single page that enables the single pages to be downloaded, one at a time, by an electronic device being used by a user, from a file storage device remote from the electronic device. This provides the appearance to the user that the electronic device is in possession of single, multi-page file. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/276848 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135959 | Tucker |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James L. Tucker (Clearwater, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An external key device including a test access port connector adapted to mate with a test access port, a test equipment connector adapted to communicatively couple to test equipment, and an external encryption chip adapted to communicate signals through the test access port to an internal encryption chip. The internal encryption chip at least one of decrypts at least one test data input from the external encryption chip based on a password shared by the external encryption chip and the internal encryption chip and encrypts at least one test data output from a protected device. The external encryption chip at least one of decrypts at least one test data output from the protected device based on the shared password and encrypts at least one test data input generated by the test equipment. |
| FILED | Friday, April 07, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/400694 |
| ART UNIT | 2434 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Support 713/189 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08136106 | Franaszek et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter A. Franaszek (Mount Kisco, New York); Luis Alfonso Lastras Montaño (Cortland Manor, New York); R. Brett Tremaine (Stormville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A system includes a processor, a memory, a cache, program software, and a marker management engine. The software includes at least one marker. Each marker is a computer instruction and marks distinct computer code sections in the software. The engine (a) determines whether one of the at least one marker is executed during the execution of the program software, (b) monitors data accesses by the at least one processor to the at least one cache and the main memory, (c) stores at least one of the monitored data accesses in a pre-defined location in the main memory, and (d) optimizes only the computer code section indicated by the determined marker of the program software executed by the at least one processor based on the stored data accesses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/119912 |
| ART UNIT | 2197 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Software development, installation, and management 717/151 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08136154 | Phoha et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Penn State Foundation (University Park, Pennsylvania); Louisiana Tech Unversity Research Foundation (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vir V. Phoha (Ruston, Louisiana); Shashi Phoha (State College, Pennsylvania); Asok Ray (State College, Pennsylvania); Shrijit Sudhakar Joshi (Ruston, Louisiana); Sampath Kumar Vuyyuru (Ruston, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | Hidden Markov Models (“HMMs”) are used to analyze keystroke dynamics measurements collected as a user types a predetermined string on a keyboard. A user enrolls by typing the predetermined string several times; the enrollment samples are used to train a HMM to identify the user. A candidate who claims to be the user provides a typing sample, and the HMM produces a probability to estimate the likelihood that the candidate is the user he claims to be. A computationally-efficient method for preparing HMMs to analyze certain types of processes is also described. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/116142 |
| ART UNIT | 2438 — Cryptography and Security |
| CURRENT CPC | Information security 726/19 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul D. Smith (Annapolis, Maryland); Francisco de Monasterio (Bethesda, Maryland); Edward Wellner (Fairfax, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | An eye examination device has a fundus observation system and an optical stimulation system. The optical stimulation system has an optical targeting subsystem and an optical stimulation subsystem, wherein the optical stimulation system is structured to be used to provide light stimulation to a portion of a fundus of an eye targeted by the optical targeting subsystem in conjunction with observations made with the fundus observation system. |
| FILED | Monday, July 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/180877 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Eye examining, vision testing and correcting 351/206 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133185 | Krivitski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transonic Systems, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, New York); Victor V. Kislukhin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter for retrograde orientation in a blood flow is used to determine the blood flow rate by thermodilution measurements. The determination of the blood flow rate accommodates injectate induced thermal influences on a dilution thermal sensor, wherein the thermal influences can occur prior to introduction of the injectate into the blood flow. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/657829 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133471 | Brooks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter C. Brooks (Scarborough, Maine); Jennifer Roth (North Babylon, New York); Abebe Akalu (Forest Hills, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention describes methods for inhibiting angiogenesis in a tissue by administering an antagonist that specifically binds to a proteolyzed or denatured collagen type-IV with substantially greater affinity than to the native triple helical form of collagen type-IV. Methods utilizing such antagonists for therapeutic treatment of tumor growth, tumor metastasis or of restenosis also are described, as are methods to use such antagonists as diagnostic markers of angiogenesis in normal or diseased tissues both in vivo and ex vivo. The invention further describes methods for treating tumors using said antagonists in combination with radiation therapy and therapies comprising the antagonists and radiation treatment. |
| FILED | Monday, December 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/643926 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/1.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133473 | Pandey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research, Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ravindra K. Pandey (Williamsville, New York); Zachary Grossman (Buffalo, New York); Peter Kanter (East Aurora, New York); Thomas J. Dougherty (Grand Island, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound comprising a chemical combination of a photodynamic tetra-pyrrolic compound with a plurality of radionuclide element atoms such that the compound may be used to enhance MR imaging and also be used as a photodynamic compound for use in photodynamic therapy to treat hyperproliferative tissue. The preferred compounds have the structural formula: where R1, R2, R2a R3, R3a R4, R5, R5a R6, R7, R7a, and R8 cumulatively contain at least two functional groups that will complex or combine with an MR imaging enhancing element or ion. The compound is intended to include such complexes and combinations and includes the use of such compounds for MR imaging and photodynamic therapy treatment of tumors and other hyperproliferative tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431275 |
| 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 424/9.362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133474 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiao-An Zhang (Somerville, Massachusetts); Alan Pradip Jasanoff (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Stephen J. Lippard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to agents and compositions having MRI and/or optical signals, and methods for their use in the determination of an analyte. In some cases, an optical, MRI, or other signal produced by the agent or composition may be affected by the presence of an analyte. Some embodiments of the present invention may provide agents or compositions which are cell permeable. Examples of analytes that may be determined by the present invention include zinc ions, calcium ions, and other biological analytes. |
| FILED | Friday, September 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/901245 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.362 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133480 | Cox, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bolder Biotechnology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George N. Cox, III (Louisville, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are cysteine variants of interleukin-11 (IL-11) and methods of making and using such proteins in therapeutic applications. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/391896 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/85.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133492 | Wang |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Denong Wang (Middletown City, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides novel nitrocellulose-based or Hydrogel-based microarrays and methods of making and using them (1) to detect the presence of one or more agents in a sample, (2) to determine the amount of one or more agents in a sample, (3) to determine whether a subject is afflicted with a disorder, and (4) to determine whether an agent known to specifically bind to a first compound also specifically binds to a second compound. This invention also provides kits which comprise the instant microarrays. This invention further provides antibodies capable of specifically binding to a glycomer present both on the surface of a mammalian macrophage or intestinal epithelial cell, and on a bacterial cell. Finally, this invention provides diagnostic methods using the instant antibodies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/472731 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/197.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133493 | Curtiss, III |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Curtiss, III (Paradise Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A live attenuated derivative of a pathogenic bacterium intended for use as a vaccine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/511616 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100 |
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| US 08133496 | Mobley |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harry L. T. Mobley (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating urinary tract infections. In particular, the present invention relates to vaccines and immune modulators for treating urinary tract infections. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/038930 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/234.100 |
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| US 08133515 | Boons et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, Georgia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Geert-Jan Boons (Athens, Georgia); Jun Guo (Athens, Georgia); Xinghai Ning (Athens, Georgia); Margaretha Wolfert (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | 1,3-Dipole-functional compounds (e.g., azide functional compounds) can be reacted with certain alkynes in a cyclization reaction to form heterocyclic compounds. Useful alkynes (e.g., strained, cyclic alkynes) and methods of making such alkynes are also disclosed. The reaction of 1,3-dipole-functional compounds with alkynes can be used for a wide variety of applications including the immobilization of biomolecules on a substrate. |
| FILED | Friday, November 21, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/743632 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/501 |
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| US 08133666 | Grant et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The J. David Gladstone Institutes (San Francisco, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert M. Grant (San Francisco, California); Khaoula Bourara (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of identifying agents that reduce a level of active APOBEC3C in a cell. The present invention provides agents that reduce a level of active APOBEC3C in a cell; and compositions comprising the agents. The present invention further provides methods of reducing the mutation rate of a lentivirus in a cell; and methods of reducing the emergence of drug-resistant strains of lentivirus. The present invention further provides methods for treating lentivirus infections. |
| FILED | Monday, October 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/577077 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/5 |
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| US 08133669 | Lebedev et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trilink Biotechnologies (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre Lebedev (San Diego, California); Inna Koukhareva (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods and compositions for nucleic acid replication. These methods involve the use of 3′-substituted nucleoside 5′-triphosphates or 3′-substituted terminated primers in nucleic acid replication reactions. In certain aspects, the methods are accomplished by use of 3′-substituted NTPs and/or 3′-substituted terminated primers which provide utility in nucleic acid replication. In preferred embodiments, the NTPs and/or primers are substituted at the 3′-position with particular heat labile chemical groups such as ethers, esters or carbonate esters. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/470449 |
| 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 |
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| US 08133680 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew L. Tingey (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian H. Clare (Madison, Wisconsin); Chang-Hyun Jang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, devices and kits for detecting a ligand. The methods involve capturing a ligand from a sample with an affinity substrate that includes a receptor for a ligand, transferring captured ligand to a detection surface and detecting the ligand on the detection surface with a liquid crystal. Accordingly, the capture step is decoupled from the detection step. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711517 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08133684 | Aebersold et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Rudolf H. Aebersold (Mercer Island, Washington); Michael E. Wright (Seattle, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method for diagnosing or predicting susceptibility to a prostate neoplastic condition in an individual. The method involves (a) determining a level of RDC1 in a sample from the individual, and (b) comparing the level of RDC1 in the sample to a reference level of RDC1, wherein a level of RDC1 in the sample 2-fold or more higher than the reference level indicates the presence of, or susceptibility to, a prostate neoplastic condition in the individual. |
| FILED | Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/372644 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08133685 | Milbrandt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey Milbrandt (Clayton, Missouri); Biplab Dasgupta (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are disclosed for decreasing stem cell proliferation, including cancer stem cell proliferation. These methods comprise administering to stem cells inhibitors of AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK). Methods for promoting stem cell growth by increasing stem cell proliferation, self-renewal and/or differentiation are also disclosed. These methods comprise administering AMPK activators to stem cells. Methods of achieving selective differentiation of stem cells are also disclosed. These methods comprise administering small molecules to stem cells that modulate AMPK activity. Applications of these methods are also disclosed, such as methods of increasing numbers of neuronal progenitor cells. These methods can be used therapeutically, such as for repair of spinal cord injuries, or for stimulating neurogenesis in the hippocampus, and other cell-based therapies. The methods can also be used for screening of compounds that can be activators or inhibitors of AMPK activity. |
| FILED | Friday, April 03, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/384446 |
| ART UNIT | 1649 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08133687 | Strauss et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jerome F. Strauss (Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania); Mary D. Sammel (Wallingford, Pennsylvania); Rita Leite (Boothwyn, Pennsylvania); Amy Brown (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods of predicting or detecting labor in a female subject and methods of testing a compound for an ability to delay the onset of labor. The present invention also provides methods of testing a labor marker useful in the diagnostic methods, isolated peptides identified in the present invention, methods for inhibiting labor, utilizing the peptides, and kits comprising methods of the present invention. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/556489 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.100 |
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| US 08133692 | Jove et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard Jove (Glendora, California); Susan E. Minton (Tampa, Florida); Carlos A. Muro-Cacho (Tampa, Florida); Daniel Sullivan (Lutz, Florida); Eric Bruce Haura (Tampa, Florida); Gerold Bepler (Tierra Verde, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods are provided for predicting responsiveness of cancer cells to chemotherapy by measuring the level of phosphorylated Stat or the level of expression of Survivin in a cancer and comparing the level in the cancer cell to the respective level in a control. Also provided are methods of selecting a chemotherapeutic treatment for a subject diagnosed with cancer by measuring the level of phosphorylated Stat or the level of expression of Survivin in a cancer and comparing the level in the cancer cell to the respective level in a control. Kits for performing the methods are also provided. Methods for modulating Survivin-dependent apoptosis in a cancer cell are also disclosed. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/490316 |
| ART UNIT | 1643 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/7.920 |
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| US 08133697 | 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 | 13/246355 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/18 |
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| US 08133719 | Drmanac et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Callida Genomics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Radoje Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California); Matthew J. Callow (Redwood City, California); Snezana Drmanac (Los Altos Hills, California); Brian K. Hauser (Campbell, California); George Yeung (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Random arrays of single molecules are provided for carrying out large scale analyses, particularly of biomolecules, such as genomic DNA, cDNAs, proteins, and the like. In one aspect, arrays of the invention comprise concatemers of DNA fragments that are randomly disposed on a regular array of discrete spaced apart regions, such that substantially all such regions contain no more than a single concatemer. Preferably, such regions have areas substantially less than 1 μm2 and have nearest neighbor distances that permit optical resolution of on the order of 109 single molecules per cm2. Many analytical chemistries can be applied to random arrays of the invention, including sequencing by hybridization chemistries, sequencing by synthesis chemistries, SNP detection chemistries, and the like, to greatly expand the scale and potential applications of such techniques. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/981607 |
| 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 435/287.200 |
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08133724 — Human androgen receptor alternative splice variants as biomarkers and therapeutic targets
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yun Qiu (Ellicott City, Maryland); Zhiyong Guo (Timonium, Maryland); Xi Yang (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to novel androgen receptor splice variants (AR3, AR4, AR4b, AR5 and AR8) and variants and fragments thereof which have a role in the progression of androgen independent prostate cancer. The invention further relates to compositions and methods which can be used to identify and treat prostate cancer based on these novel androgen receptor splice variants, as well as methods for screening agents which modulate the activity and/or expression of the androgen receptor splice variants. Vectors, host cells and recombinant methods for producing the same and transgenic animals are also provided. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/562031 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
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| US 08133731 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Su-Chun Zhang (Waunakee, Wisconsin); Xiaoqing Zhang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A transcription factor both necessary and sufficient for human neuroectoderm specification, Pax6, as well as applications thereof, is disclosed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/849249 |
| 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 | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/377 |
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| US 08133733 | Khan |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932674 |
| 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 435/455 |
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| US 08133736 | Shan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lian Shan (Ithaca, New York); Lorelei D. Davis (East Lansing, Michigan); Rebecca Sutphen (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of detecting a cancer, such as ovarian cancer, in a test subject including (a) determining the amount of a lysophosphatidyl ethanolamine in a sample of a bodily fluid taken from the test subject, and (b) comparing the amount of the lysophosphatidyl ethanolamine in the sample of the bodily fluid taken from the test subject to a range of amounts of the lysophosphatidyl ethanolamine found in samples of the bodily fluid taken from a group of normal subjects of the same species as the test subject and lacking the cancer, such as ovarian cancer, whereby a change in the amount of the lysophosphatidyl ethanolamine in the sample of the bodily fluid from the test subject indicates the presence of the cancer, such as ovarian cancer. |
| FILED | Friday, May 07, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/775958 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/64 |
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| US 08133828 | Denry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Isabelle L. Denry (Dublin, Ohio); Julie A. Holloway (Dublin, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Glass-ceramic compositions exhibiting high reliability and tensile strength are described. The compositions can include crystal phases including roedderite and/or potassium fluorrichterite. The glass-ceramic compositions are bioactive, and can be used as components of a wide variety of biomedical devices such as dental restorations. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/465093 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/3 |
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| US 08133857 | Aikawa |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Brigham and Women's FHospital, Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Masanori Aikawa (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to methods of treating or preventing atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases by administering agents that inhibit or modulate the NOTCH signaling pathway. In addition, the invention encompasses methods for assaying compounds for their ability to treat atherosclerosis based upon their effects on NOTCH signaling, and for measuring levels of amount, function, or activity of NOTCH pathway components in biological samples. |
| FILED | Friday, March 02, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/230867 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/1 |
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| US 08133859 | Kimura et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shioko Kimura (Bethesda, Maryland); Reiko Kurotani (Kanagawa, Japan) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure is generally related to methods of using the secretory protein SCGB3A2 for promoting lung development and treating lung disease. Some embodiments are, for example, methods for treating and inhibiting the development of neonatal respiratory distress. Other embodiments are methods of promoting lung development in damaged or diseased lungs. Also disclosed are methods for inhibiting lung damage due to anti-cancer agents. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/442927 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/7.600 |
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| US 08133875 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Health Research Inc. (Buffalo, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiang-Yang Wang (Amherst, New York); John Subjeck (Williamsville, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for enhancing an immune response to a desired antigen in an individual. The method is performed by administering to the individual an agent capable of inhibiting class A macrophage scavenger receptor (SR-A) and optionally administering the desired antigen. Also provided is a method for enhancing an immune response to an antigen by administering to an individual a composition containing antigen presenting cells that are characterized by specifically inhibited SR-A. Substantially purified populations of mammalian dendritic cells characterized by specifically inhibited SR-A are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/104105 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/44.A00 |
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| US 08133902 | Fenical et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Fenical (Del Mar, California); Paul Jensen (San Diego, California); John MacMillan (Dallas, Texas); Chambers C. Hughes (Del Mar, California); James J. LaClair (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A compound having the general the general structure I is provided: (Formula I), wherein Z is a substituent selected from a group consisting of S and O; X is a substituent selected from a group consisting of Cl, Br, I, OH and NH2; each of R1 and R2 is a substituent independently selected from a group consisting of H, a linear, cyclic or branched, substituted or unsubstituted C1-C6 alkyl, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl, and a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl; and each of Y and Y1 is a substituent independently selected from a group consisting of H and C(O)—C6H4—Br. |
| FILED | Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/666269 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/296 |
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| US 08133986 | Issa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jean-Pierre Issa (Timonium, Maryland); Stephen Baylin (Baltimore, Maryland); Minoru Toyota (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method for identifying a methylated CpG containing nucleic acid by contacting a nucleic acid with a methylation sensitive restriction endonuclease that cleaves unmethylated PcG sites and contacting the sample with an isoschizomer of the methylation sensitive restriction endonuclease, which cleaves both methylated and unmethylated CpG sites. The method also includes amplification of the CpG-containing nucleic acid using CpG-specific oligonucleotide primers. A method is also provided for detecting an age associated disorder by identification of a methylated CpG containing nucleic acid. A method is further provided for evaluating the responses of a cell to an agent. A kit is useful for detection of a CpG containing nucleic acid is also provided. Nucleic acid sequences encoding novel methylated clones. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/763917 |
| 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 | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
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| US 08134175 | Bawendi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Moungi G. Bawendi (Boston, Massachusetts); Sang-wook Kim (Brookline, Massachusetts); John P. Zimmer (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Semiconductor nanocrystals including III-V semiconductors can include a core including III-V alloy. The nanocrystal can include an overcoating including a II-VI semiconductor.teh |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/032163 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/103 |
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| US 08135452 | Dougherty et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lawrence Dougherty (Wenonah, New Jersey); Hee Kwon Song (Moorestown, New Jersey); Raymond Charles Boston (West Chester, Pennsylvania); Mitchell Schnall (Wayne, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided is a method for rapid, 3D, dynamic, projection reconstruction bilateral breast imaging using simultaneous multi-slab volume excitation and radial acquisition of a contrast enhanced bilateral image, in conjunction with SENSE processing, using k-Space Weighted Image Contrast (“KWIC”) filtering and multi-coil arrays for signal separation in an interleaved bilateral MR bilateral breast scan that uses conventional Cartesian sampling without parallel imaging. Software was developed for the reconstruction, modeling contrast kinetics using a heuristic model, display by parametric mapping and viewer/analysis of the multidimensional, high frame-rate bilateral breast images. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/288463 |
| ART UNIT | 3737 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/420 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chang H. Oh (Idaho Falls, Idaho); Eung S. Kim (Ammon, Idaho); Steven R. Sherman (Augusta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems are disclosed for the production of hydrogen and the use of high-temperature heat sources in energy conversion. In one embodiment, a primary loop may include a nuclear reactor utilizing a molten salt or helium as a coolant. The nuclear reactor may provide heat energy to a power generation loop for production of electrical energy. For example, a supercritical carbon dioxide fluid may be heated by the nuclear reactor via the molten salt and then expanded in a turbine to drive a generator. An intermediate heat exchange loop may also be thermally coupled with the primary loop and provide heat energy to one or more hydrogen production facilities. A portion of the hydrogen produced by the hydrogen production facility may be diverted to a combustor to elevate the temperature of water being split into hydrogen and oxygen by the hydrogen production facility. |
| FILED | Monday, December 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/958142 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/644.100 |
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| US 08132412 | Bennett |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles L. Bennett (Livermore, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A solar thermal powered aircraft powered by heat energy from the sun. A Rankine-Brayton hybrid cycle heat engine is carried by the aircraft body for producing power for a propulsion mechanism, such as a propeller or other mechanism for enabling sustained free flight. The Rankine-Brayton engine has a thermal battery, preferably containing a lithium-hydride and lithium mixture, operably connected to it so that heat is supplied from the thermal battery to a working fluid. A solar concentrator, such as reflective parabolic trough, is movably connected to an optically transparent section of the aircraft body for receiving and concentrating solar energy from within the aircraft. Concentrated solar energy is collected by a heat collection and transport conduit, and heat transported to the thermal battery. A solar tracker includes a heliostat for determining optimal alignment with the sun, and a drive motor actuating the solar concentrator into optimal alignment with the sun based on a determination by the heliostat. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/512727 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — SELECT * FROM codes_techcenter; |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/650 |
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| US 08132746 | Zhamu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of exfoliating a layered material to produce separated nano-scaled platelets having a thickness smaller than 100 nm. The method comprises: (a) providing a graphite intercalation compound comprising a layered graphite containing expandable species residing in an interlayer space of the layered graphite; (b) exposing the graphite intercalation compound to an exfoliation temperature lower than 650° C. for a duration of time sufficient to at least partially exfoliate the layered graphite without incurring a significant level of oxidation; and (c) subjecting the at least partially exfoliated graphite to a mechanical shearing treatment to produce separated platelets. The method can further include a step of dispersing the platelets in a polymer or monomer solution or suspension as a precursor step to nanocomposite fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787442 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid material comminution or disintegration 241/1 |
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| US 08133014 | Ebert et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. (Jupiter, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd A Ebert (West Palm Beach, Florida); John A Carella (Jupiter, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A triple acting radial seal used as an interstage seal assembly in a gas turbine engine, where the seal assembly includes an interstage seal support extending from a stationary inner shroud of a vane ring, the interstage seal support includes a larger annular radial inward facing groove in which an outer annular floating seal assembly is secured for radial displacement, and the outer annular floating seal assembly includes a smaller annular radial inward facing groove in which an inner annular floating seal assembly is secured also for radial displacement. A compliant seal is secured to the inner annular floating seal assembly. The outer annular floating seal assembly encapsulates the inner annular floating seal assembly which is made from a very low alpha material in order to reduce thermal stress. |
| FILED | Monday, August 17, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/542495 |
| ART UNIT | 3745 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/173.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133256 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas S. Wilson (Castro Valley, California); Duncan J. Maitland (Pleasant Hill, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for occluding a physical anomaly. One embodiment comprises a shape memory material body wherein the shape memory material body fits within the physical anomaly occluding the physical anomaly. The shape memory material body has a primary shape for occluding the physical anomaly and a secondary shape for being positioned in the physical anomaly. |
| FILED | Monday, March 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/801355 |
| ART UNIT | 3731 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 66/213 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133299 | Brandon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nu-Iron Technology, LLC (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark M. Brandon (Charlotte, North Carolina); Bradford G. True (Charlotte, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiple moving hearth furnace (10) having a furnace housing (11) with at least two moving hearths (20) positioned laterally within the furnace housing, the hearths moving in opposite directions and each moving hearth (20) capable of being charged with at least one layer of iron oxide and carbon bearing material at one end, and being capable of discharging reduced material at the other end. A heat insulating partition (92) is positioned between adjacent moving hearths of at least portions of the conversion zones (13), and is capable of communicating gases between the atmospheres of the conversion zones of adjacent moving hearths. A drying/preheat zone (12), a conversion zone (13), and optionally a cooling zone (15) are sequentially positioned along each moving hearth (30) in the furnace housing (11). |
| FILED | Thursday, November 08, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 12/513872 |
| ART UNIT | 1733 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Specialized metallurgical processes, compositions for use therein, consolidated metal powder compositions, and loose metal particulate mixtures 075/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133463 | Berry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David A. Berry (Morgantown, West Virginia); Dushyant Shekhawat (Morgantown, West Virginia); Daniel Haynes (Morgantown, West Virginia); Mark Smith (Morgantown, West Virginia); James J. Spivey (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of catalytically reforming a reactant gas mixture using a pyrochlore catalyst material comprised of one or more pyrochlores having the composition A2-w-xA′wA″xB2-y-zB′yB″zO7-Δ. Distribution of catalytically active metals throughout the structure at the B site creates an active and well dispersed metal locked into place in the crystal structure. This greatly reduces the metal sintering that typically occurs on supported catalysts used in reforming reactions, and reduces deactivation by sulfur and carbon. Further, oxygen mobility may also be enhanced by elemental exchange of promoters at sites in the pyrochlore. The pyrochlore catalyst material may be utilized in catalytic reforming reactions for the conversion of hydrocarbon fuels into synthesis gas (H2+CO) for fuel cells, among other uses. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422346 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/418.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133711 | Dunn-Coleman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Danisco US Inc. (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nigel Dunn-Coleman (Los Gatos, California); Michael Ward (San Francisco, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides BGL7 polypeptides with the biological activity of a β-glucosidase and a method of producing a recombinant enzyme having β-glucosidase activity. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/145023 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133735 | Farmer |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph C. Farmer (Tracy, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for warning of corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. The system comprises painting a surface with a paint or coating that includes an indicator material and monitoring the surface for indications of the corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. |
| FILED | Friday, July 16, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/837687 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133740 | DeVol et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Clemson University Research Foundation (Anderson, South Carolina); Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Aiken, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Timothy A. DeVol (Clemson, South Carolina); Amy E. Hixon (Piedmont, South Carolina); David P. DiPrete (Evans, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are methods, materials and systems that can be used to determine qualitatively or quantitatively the level of uranium contamination in water samples. Beneficially, disclosed systems are relatively simple and cost-effective. For example, disclosed systems can be utilized by consumers having little or no training in chemical analysis techniques. Methods generally include a concentration step and a complexation step. Uranium concentration can be carried out according to an extraction chromatographic process and complexation can chemically bind uranium with a detectable substance such that the formed substance is visually detectable. Methods can detect uranium contamination down to levels even below the MCL as established by the EPA. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/543856 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/82 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133826 | Klett et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James W. Klett (Knoxville, Tennessee); Christopher Stan Cameron (Sanford, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | A flexible thermally conductive structure. The structure generally includes a plurality of thermally conductive yarns, at least some of which are at least partially disposed adjacent to an elastomeric material. Typically, at least a portion of the plurality of thermally conductive yarns is configured as a sheet. The yarns may be constructed from graphite, metal, or similar materials. The elastomeric material may be formed from urethane or silicone foam that is at least partially collapsed, or from a similar material. A thermal management garment is provided, the garment incorporating a flexible thermally conductive structure. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/842407 |
| ART UNIT | 1798 — Food, Analytical Chemistry, Sterilization, Biochemistry, Electrochemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Fabric 442/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134217 | Rim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | SunPower Corporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Seung Bum Rim (Palo Alto, California); Taeseok Kim (San Jose, California); David D. Smith (Campbell, California); Peter J. Cousins (Menlo Park, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Bypass diodes for solar cells are described. In one embodiment, a bypass diode for a solar cell includes a substrate of the solar cell. A first conductive region is disposed above the substrate, the first conductive region of a first conductivity type. A second conductive region is disposed on the first conductive region, the second conductive region of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/967976 |
| ART UNIT | 2829 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/431 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134276 | Stalford |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | MicroZeus, LLC (Dallas, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Harold L. Stalford (Norman, Oklahoma) |
| ABSTRACT | A micro device may comprise a substrate, a first micro structure coupled to the substrate, a second micro structure coupled to the substrate, and port configured to receive an input. The first micro structure is configured to move into engagement with the second micro structure in response to the input. |
| FILED | Friday, June 01, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/757343 |
| ART UNIT | 2837 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical generator or motor structure 310/306 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134345 | Bray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Niskayuna, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James William Bray (Niskayuna, New York); Luis Jose Garces (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The disclosed technology is a cryogenic static exciter. The cryogenic static exciter is connected to a synchronous electric machine that has a field winding. The synchronous electric machine is cooled via a refrigerator or cryogen like liquid nitrogen. The static exciter is in communication with the field winding and is operating at ambient temperature. The static exciter receives cooling from a refrigerator or cryogen source, which may also service the synchronous machine, to selected areas of the static exciter and the cooling selectively reduces the operating temperature of the selected areas of the static exciter. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/288551 |
| ART UNIT | 2839 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Single generator systems 322/59 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135024 | Abel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Corning Incorporated (Corning, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francois G Abel (Rueschlikon, Switzerland); Alan F Benner (Poughkeepsie, New York); Richard R Grzybowski (Corning, New York); Brewster Roe Hemenway, Jr. (Painted Post, New York); Ilias Iliadis (Rueschlikon, Switzerland); Rajaram Krishnamurthy (Adliswil, Switzerland); Ronald P Luijten (Horgen, Switzerland); Cyriel Minkenberg (Adliswil, Switzerland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and system for reducing arbitration latency employs speculative transmission (STX) without prior arbitration in combination with routing fabric scheduled arbitration. Packets are sent from source locations to a routing fabric through scheduled arbitration, and also through speculative arbitration, to non-contentiously allocate outputs that were not previously reserved in the routing fabric to the speculatively transmitted packets. |
| FILED | Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/402091 |
| ART UNIT | 2467 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/412 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135244 | Sander et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States Deparment of Energy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert K. Sander (Buena Vista, Colorado); Kirill K. Zhuravlev (Monrovia, California); Richard D. Schaller (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Jeffrey M. Pietryga (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Michael Whitehead (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A fiber-based optical pressure-sensor, made using semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots (NQDs) as the active transducing material, provides response time fast enough for shock wave measurements. For NQDs, the shift in band gap as a result of applied pressure can be observed as a shift of the photoluminescence (PL) peak. Further, the shift of the principal absorbance feature allows pressure measurements faster than those obtainable by following the PL peak. |
| FILED | Wednesday, November 14, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/939580 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135662 | Bollen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Johan Bollen (Santa Fe, New Mexico); Herbert Van De Sompel (Santa Fe, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | Although recording of usage data is common in scholarly information services, its exploitation for the creation of value-added services remains limited due to concerns regarding, among others, user privacy, data validity, and the lack of accepted standards for the representation, sharing and aggregation of usage data. A technical, standards-based architecture for sharing usage information is presented. In this architecture, OpenURL-compliant linking servers aggregate usage information of a specific user community as it navigates the distributed information environment that it has access to. This usage information is made OAI-PMH harvestable so that usage information exposed by many linking servers can be aggregated to facilitate the creation of value-added services with a reach beyond that of a single community or a single information service. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 09, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/431409 |
| ART UNIT | 2122 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Artificial intelligence 76/62 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Cohn (Louisville, Kentucky); Mehdi M. Yazdanpanah (Louisville, Kentucky); Steven A. Harfenist (San Luis Obispo, California); Frank P. Zamborini (Louisville, Kentucky); Mahdi Hosseini (Ginalary, Australia); Santosh Pabba (Louisville, Kentucky); Vladimir Dobrokhotov (Louisville, Kentucky); Abdelilah Safir (Louisville, Kentucky); Brigitte H. Fasciotto (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides method for metallic nanonstructures self-assembly methods and materials testing. Preferred embodiment methods permit for the formation of individual nanostructures and arrays of nanostructures. The nanostructures formed can have a metal alloy crystal structure. Example structures include slender wires, rectangular bars, or plate-like structures. Tips can be shaped, single layer and multiple layer coatings can be formed, tips can be functionalized, molecules can be adhered, and many testing methods are enabled. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156534 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133341 | Nealey et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Paul Franklin Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin); Shengxiang Ji (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of creating and transferring chemical patterns and physical patterns of deposited materials or molecules using block copolymers are provided. The methods involve providing block copolymer materials blended with one or more transfer molecules or inks. The differences in chemistry of the blocks of the copolymer that result in micro-phase separation (e.g., self-assembly into nanoscale domains) also allow inks to be sequestered into specific blocks. By designing the ink molecules to react, adsorb, or otherwise interact with a second substrate, inks are transferred to the second substrate in a pattern dictated by the pattern of block copolymer domains present at the surface of the block copolymer film. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/416816 |
| ART UNIT | 1745 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture 156/234 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133531 | King et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David M. King (Boulder, Colorado); Alan W. Weimer (Niwot, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Titanium dioxide particles are coated first with an interstitial coating and then with silicon dioxide or alumina. The coatings are suitably applied via an atomic layer deposition process. The interstitial coating preserves the bright white coloration of the particles after they are coated. The particles therefore can be used as pigments and white fillers in polymers, paints, paper and other applications. |
| FILED | Friday, March 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/399145 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/214 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133534 | Stoykovich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark P. Stoykovich (Dover, New Hampshire); Huiman Kang (Madison, Wisconsin); Konstantinos C. Daoulas (Goettingen, Germany); Juan J. de Pablo (Madison, Wisconsin); Marcus Muller (Goettingen, Germany); Paul Franklin Nealey (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of directing the self assembly of block copolymers on chemically patterned surfaces to pattern discrete or isolated features needed for applications including patterning integrated circuit layouts are described. According to various embodiments, these features include lines, t-junctions, bends, spots and jogs. In certain embodiments a uniform field surrounds the discrete feature or features. In certain embodiments, a layer contains two or more distinct regions, the regions differing in one or more of type of feature, size, and/or pitch. An example is an isolated spot at one area of the substrate, and a t-junction at another area of the substrate. These features or regions of features may be separated by unpatterned or uniform fields, or may be adjacent to one another. Applications include masks for nanoscale pattern transfer as well as the fabrication of integrated circuit device structures. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879758 |
| ART UNIT | 1717 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/256 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133680 | Abbott et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nicholas L. Abbott (Madison, Wisconsin); Matthew L. Tingey (Madison, Wisconsin); Brian H. Clare (Madison, Wisconsin); Chang-Hyun Jang (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods, devices and kits for detecting a ligand. The methods involve capturing a ligand from a sample with an affinity substrate that includes a receptor for a ligand, transferring captured ligand to a detection surface and detecting the ligand on the detection surface with a liquid crystal. Accordingly, the capture step is decoupled from the detection step. |
| FILED | Thursday, September 23, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/711517 |
| 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 08133802 | Kouvetakis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Arizona Board of Regents (Scottsdale, Arizona) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Kouvetakis (Mesa, Arizona); Cole J. Ritter, III (Palmer Township, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides silicon-germanium hydride compounds, methods for their synthesis, methods for their deposition, and semiconductor structures made using the compounds. The compounds are defined by formula: SiHnI (GeHn2)y, wherein y is 2, 3, or 4 wherein n1 is 0 1, 2 or 3 to satisfy valency and wherein n2 is independently 0, 1, 2 or 3 for each Ge atom in the compound, to satisfy valency. |
| FILED | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 12/093256 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/503 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134128 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xi-Cheng Zhang (Melrose, New York); Jianming Dai (Troy, New York); Xu Xie (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of analyzing a remotely-located object includes the step of illuminating at least a portion of a targeted object with electromagnetic radiation to induce a phase transformation in the targeted object, wherein the phase transformation produces an emitter plasma, which emits terahertz radiation. The method also includes the step of ionizing a volume of an ambient gas to produce a sensor plasma by focusing an optical probe beam in the volume and the step of detecting an optical component of resultant radiation produced from an interaction of the focused optical probe beam and the terahertz radiation in the sensor plasma. Detecting an optical component of the resultant radiation emitted by the sensor plasma facilitates detection of a characteristic fingerprint of the targeted object imposed onto the terahertz radiation produced as a result of the induced phase transformation. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/634282 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134394 | Maxwell et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Erick Maxwell (Temple Terrace, Florida); Thomas Weller (Tampa, Florida); Ebenezer Odu (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A multi-port circuit and corresponding method for simultaneous shaping of sub-nanosecond pulses (MCS3P). The MCS3P includes a coupled-line coupler, a Schottky detector diode, and circuitry for compressing the rising and falling edges of a waveform. The MCS3P simultaneously produces square wave, Gaussian, and monocycle waveforms by differentiating a sinusoidal source. The method includes the steps of compressing the rising edge of a sinusoidal source waveform, differentiating the resulting waveform to form a square waveform and a Gaussian waveform, filtering out the positive going Gaussian to produce a negative going Gaussian, differentiating the Gaussian waveform to form a monocycle waveform, and compressing the falling edge of the square waveform to produce a square wave form with both edges compressed. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/406681 |
| ART UNIT | 2816 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems 327/164 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134864 | Victora et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randall H. Victora (New Brighton, Minnesota); Xi Chen (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | In general, the invention is directed to techniques for reducing the amount of switching current that is utilized within a magnetic storage (e.g., MRAM) device. An example apparatus includes a fixed magnetic layer that provides a fixed direction of magnetization, an exchange-coupled magnetic multi-layer structure, and a non-magnetic layer placed between the fixed magnetic layer and the exchange-coupled magnetic multi-layer structure. The exchange-coupled magnetic multi-layer structure includes a recording layer configured to record information and an assisting layer having a lower anisotropy than the recording layer. The exchange coupling between the recording and assisting layers is operable to switch a magnetization direction of the recording layer. In some cases, the exchange-coupled magnetic multi-layer structure may further include a spacer separating the recording and assisting layers and configured to weaken an exchange coupling between the recording and assisting layers. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541111 |
| ART UNIT | 2824 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Static information storage and retrieval 365/158 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135243 | Marks et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Tobin J. Marks (Evanston, Illinois); Seng-Tiong Ho (Wheeling, Illinois); Jing Ma (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Guoyang Xu (Newtown, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | New electro-optic (EO) phase modulator devices and geometries, as can be constructed using a transparent conductive component. |
| FILED | Monday, November 15, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/946426 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/2 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135602 | Xiao et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yan Xiao (Gambrills, Maryland); Fu Ming (Peter) Hu (Ellicott City, Maryland); F. Jacob Seagull (Baltimore, Maryland); Colin F. Mackenzie (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Techniques for delivering data for coordinating multiple party use of a facility include producing conditions data by measuring without human intervention current condition of a facility that is used by multiple human parties. Availability data that indicates present or future availability for the facility is generated based at least in part on the conditions data. Coordination data based at least in part on the availability data is presented for the parties. These techniques allow rapid dynamic adaptation to changing status of a high-value facility while being less reliant on varied and subjective human motivations for reporting status changes. Undue exposure of sensitive information can be avoided by deriving less detailed views from high-resolution images of the facility and its users. Coordination data can be projected directly onto, and manual input can be derived from, a magnetic white board currently used for coordination at many facilities. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 26, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/926665 |
| ART UNIT | 3623 — 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 75/7.120 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Roy Curtiss, III (Paradise Valley, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | A live attenuated derivative of a pathogenic bacterium intended for use as a vaccine. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 15, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/511616 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/200.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133495 | Borca et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manuel V. Borca (Westbrook, Connecticut); Guillermo R. Risatti (Westbrook, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | Classical swine fever virus is a world-wide distributed highly-contagious disease affecting swine. The two main strategies for diseases control are prophylactic vaccination and non-vaccination stamping out policies. Marker vaccines are a promising strategy. Here we report the rational development of a doubly antigenic marker CSFV experimental live attenuated candidate strain vaccine (Flag/T4 virus). Flag/T virus (Flag/T4v) is based in the combination of two Brescia derived recombinant attenuated viruses: RB-C22 and T4. RB-C22v contains a 19mer insertion in the structural glycoprotein E1, while T4v posses mutated CSFV amino acid residues 830 to 834 in the structural glycoprotein E2, deleting the highly conserved epitope recognized by monoclonal antibody (mAb) WH303. Flag/T4 virus contains a positive foreign antigenic marker, due to the insertion of the highly antigenic epitope Flag in the 19mer insertion of E1, as well as a negative antigenic marker, the lack of reactivity with mAb WH303. Immunized with Flag/T4v induced a complete protection against the challenge with virulent strain Brescia both at 3 and 28 days post infection when nasally administered and since the second day post infection when intramuscularly administered. These results constitute an example of rational design of a CSFV antigenically marked LAV. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/805278 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/211.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133715 | Buelter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gevo, Inc. (Englewood, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas Buelter (Denver, Colorado); Andrew Hawkins (Parker, Colorado); Stephanie Porter-Scheinman (Conifer, Colorado); Peter Meinhold (Denver, Colorado); Catherine Asleson Dundon (Englewood, Colorado); Aristos Aristidou (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Jun Urano (Aurora, Colorado); Matthew Peters (Highlands Ranch, Colorado); Melissa Dey (Aurora, Colorado); Justas Jancauskas (Englewood, Colorado); Julie Kelly (Denver, Colorado); Ruth Berry (Englewood, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to recombinant microorganisms comprising biosynthetic pathways and methods of using said recombinant microorganisms to produce various beneficial metabolites. In various aspects of the invention, the recombinant microorganisms may further comprise one or more modifications resulting in the reduction or elimination of 3 keto-acid (e.g., acetolactate and 2-aceto-2-hydroxybutyrate) and/or aldehyde-derived by-products. In various embodiments described herein, the recombinant microorganisms may be microorganisms of the Saccharomyces clade, Crabtree-negative yeast microorganisms, Crabtree-positive yeast microorganisms, post-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, pre-WGD (whole genome duplication) yeast microorganisms, and non-fermenting yeast microorganisms. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074907 |
| ART UNIT | 1652 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/254.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133916 | Horseman et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Amelgo, LLC (Covington, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nelson D. Horseman (Cincinnati, Ohio); Robert J. Collier (Tucson, Arizona); Aaron M. Marshall (Cincinnati, Ohio); Laura Hernandez Baumgard (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is a method for increasing serotonin activity in mammary glands such that involution of milk secretion of the same mammary glands occurs. The present invention further is a composition that can be implanted, or infused into the mammary glands to cause involution of milk secretion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/721296 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/647 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133917 | Rimando et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture (Washington, District of Columbia); The University of Mississippi (University, Mississippi) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Agnes M. Rimando (Oxford, Mississippi); Dennis R. Feller (Oxford, Mississippi); Wallace H. Yokoyama (Berekley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Resveratrol, a stilbenoid antioxidant found in grapes, wine, peanuts and other berries, has been reported to have hypolipidemic properties. Resveratrol and its three analogs (pterostilbene, piceatannol and resveratrol trimethyl ether) were evaluated for their effects on the activation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) isoforms, a receptor shown to mediate the activity of lipid-lowering drugs such as the fibrates. The four stilbenes and ciprofibrate (positive control) were evaluated for the activation of endogenous PPARα in H4IIEC3 cells. Pterostilbene demonstrated the highest induction of PPARα demonstrating increases of 7- and 9-14 fold relative to control. The maximal responses to pterostilbene are similar to those obtained with the hypolipidemic drug, ciprofibrate; that is, pterostilbene acts as a PPARα agonist, like that of the fibrate class, and is a more effective hypolipidemic agent than resveratrol. |
| FILED | Monday, October 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/911376 |
| ART UNIT | 1655 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/720 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134047 | Stonaker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jennifer L. Stonaker (Fremont, California); Christopher J. Hale (El Cerrito, California); Jay B. Hollick (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Maize plants with reduced gene silencing are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, March 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/400727 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/286 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08135179 | Wilson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Biotronics, Inc. (Ames, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Doyle E. Wilson (Huxley, Iowa); Viren R. Amin (Ames, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems and devices are implemented in connection with measuring subcutaneous fat and loin depth in a portion of muscle tissue. Consistent with one such method a probe is presented to the portion of muscle tissue. The probe produces a response-provoking signal in the muscle tissue used to determine the fat and loin depth in the portion of muscle tissue. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435735 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08132611 | Cohn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert W. Cohn (Louisville, Kentucky); Mehdi M. Yazdanpanah (Louisville, Kentucky); Steven A. Harfenist (San Luis Obispo, California); Frank P. Zamborini (Louisville, Kentucky); Mahdi Hosseini (Ginalary, Australia); Santosh Pabba (Louisville, Kentucky); Vladimir Dobrokhotov (Louisville, Kentucky); Abdelilah Safir (Louisville, Kentucky); Brigitte H. Fasciotto (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides method for metallic nanonstructures self-assembly methods and materials testing. Preferred embodiment methods permit for the formation of individual nanostructures and arrays of nanostructures. The nanostructures formed can have a metal alloy crystal structure. Example structures include slender wires, rectangular bars, or plate-like structures. Tips can be shaped, single layer and multiple layer coatings can be formed, tips can be functionalized, molecules can be adhered, and many testing methods are enabled. |
| FILED | Monday, June 02, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/156534 |
| ART UNIT | 1777 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal founding 164/46 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132772 | Thomas et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jackie D. Thomas (Huntsville, Alabama); Lawanna L. Harris (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | One or more linear and/or curvilinear mounting rails are coupled to a structure. Each mounting rail defines a channel and at least one cartridge assembly is engaged in the channel. Each cartridge assembly includes a housing that slides within the channel. The housing defines a curvilinearly-shaped recess longitudinally aligned with the channel when the housing is in engagement therewith. The cartridge assembly also includes a cleat fitted in the recess for sliding engagement therealong. The cleat can be coupled to a fastener that passes through the mounting rail and the housing when the housing is so-engaged in the channel. The cleat is positioned in the recess by a position of the fastener. |
| FILED | Friday, September 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/567451 |
| ART UNIT | 3632 — Static Structures, Supports and Furniture |
| CURRENT CPC | Supports 248/500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132786 | Burgess et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Big Horn Valve, Inc. (Sheridan, Wyoming) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kevin Burgess (Sheridan, Wyoming); David Yakos (Bozeman, Montana); Bryan Walthall (Bozeman, Montana) |
| ABSTRACT | A stemless ball valve comprising: a right flange; left flange; ball with an axis pin and two travel pins; ball seal on either side of the ball; guide sleeve with inner walls comprising two channels; cartridge guide holder; inner magnetic cartridge; and outer magnetic cartridge. The ball is situated inside of the guide sleeve, and a travel pin is located in each of the two channels. The guide sleeve is situated inside of the cartridge guide holder, which is located adjacent to and outside of the inner magnetic cartridge and secured to the inner magnetic cartridge such that when the inner magnetic cartridge rotates, the cartridge guide holder also rotates. The cartridge guide holder is secured to the guide sleeve such that when the cartridge guide holder rotates, the travel pins move within the channels in the inner walls of the guide sleeve, thereby causing the ball to rotate. |
| FILED | Saturday, September 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/890645 |
| ART UNIT | 3753 — Fluid Handling and Dispensing |
| CURRENT CPC | Valves and valve actuation 251/315.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08132961 | England et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Dwight England (Arab, Alabama); Anthony R. Kelley (Somerville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | A flow plug of varying thickness has a plurality of holes formed therethrough. The plug fits in a conduit such that a fluid flow in the conduit passes through the plug's holes. Each hole is defined by a parameter indicative of size in terms of the cross-sectional area thereof. A ratio of hole length-to-parameter is approximately the same for all of the holes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/397973 |
| ART UNIT | 1744 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Agitating 366/340 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133768 | Ray et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc (Tempe, Arizona); The United States of America as represented by the Unites States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William Johnstone Ray (Fountain Hills, Arizona); Mark D. Lowenthal (Gilbert, Arizona); Neil O. Shotton (Perry, Florida); Richard A. Blanchard (Los Altos, California); Mark Allan Lewandowski (Tempe, Arizona); Kirk A. Fuller (Madison, Alabama); Donald Odell Frazier (Huntsville, Alabama) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus, such as a lighting device having light emitting diodes (LEDs) or a power generating device having photovoltaic diodes. The exemplary method includes depositing a first conductive medium within a plurality of channels of a base to form a plurality of first conductors; depositing within the plurality of channels a plurality of semiconductor substrate particles suspended in a carrier medium; forming an ohmic contact between each semiconductor substrate particle and a first conductor; converting the semiconductor substrate particles into a plurality of semiconductor diodes; depositing a second conductive medium to form a plurality of second conductors coupled to the plurality of semiconductor diodes; and depositing or attaching a plurality of lenses suspended in a first polymer over the plurality of diodes. In various embodiments, the depositing, forming, coupling and converting steps are performed by or through a printing process. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/560371 |
| ART UNIT | 2895 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/141 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134130 | Herrero et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Federico A. Herrero (Glenn Dale, Maryland); Patrick A. Roman (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion source may include first, second, and third electrodes. The first electrode may be a repeller having a V-shaped groove. The second electrode may be an electron emitter filament disposed adjacent the base of the V-shaped groove. The third electrode may be an anode that defines an enclosed volume with an aperture formed therein adjacent the electron emitter filament. A potential of the first electrode may be less than a potential of the second electrode, and the potential of the second electrode may be less than a potential of the third electrode. A fourth electrode that is disposed between the electron emitter filament and the anode may be used to produce a more collimated electron beam. |
| FILED | Monday, July 19, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/839207 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/427 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08134707 — On-chip polarimetry for high-throughput screening of nanoliter and smaller sample volumes
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Darryl J. Bornhop (Nashville, Tennessee); Stephen Dotson (Nashville, Tennessee); Brian O. Bachmann (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | A polarimetry technique for measuring optical activity that is particularly suited for high throughput screening employs a chip or substrate (22) having one or more microfluidic channels (26) formed therein. A polarized laser beam (14) is directed onto optically active samples that are disposed in the channels. The incident laser beam interacts with the optically active molecules in the sample, which slightly alter the polarization of the laser beam as it passes multiple times through the sample. Interference fringe patterns (28) are generated by the interaction of the laser beam with the sample and the channel walls. A photodetector (34) is positioned to receive the interference fringe patterns and generate an output signal that is input to a computer or other analyzer (38) for analyzing the signal and determining the rotation of plane polarized light by optically active material in the channel from polarization rotation calculations. |
| FILED | Monday, October 24, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/666046 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/364 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Jinjun Shi (Columbus, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of exfoliating a layered material to produce separated nano-scaled platelets having a thickness smaller than 100 nm. The method comprises: (a) providing a graphite intercalation compound comprising a layered graphite containing expandable species residing in an interlayer space of the layered graphite; (b) exposing the graphite intercalation compound to an exfoliation temperature lower than 650° C. for a duration of time sufficient to at least partially exfoliate the layered graphite without incurring a significant level of oxidation; and (c) subjecting the at least partially exfoliated graphite to a mechanical shearing treatment to produce separated platelets. The method can further include a step of dispersing the platelets in a polymer or monomer solution or suspension as a precursor step to nanocomposite fabrication. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/787442 |
| ART UNIT | 3725 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Solid material comminution or disintegration 241/1 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08133185 | Krivitski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Transonic Systems, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, New York); Victor V. Kislukhin (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A catheter for retrograde orientation in a blood flow is used to determine the blood flow rate by thermodilution measurements. The determination of the blood flow rate accommodates injectate induced thermal influences on a dilution thermal sensor, wherein the thermal influences can occur prior to introduction of the injectate into the blood flow. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/657829 |
| ART UNIT | 3736 — Sheet Container Making, Package Making, Receptacles, Shoes, Apparel, and Tool Driving or Impacting |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/505 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Gencia Corporation (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shaharyar Khan (Charlottesville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for delivering polynucleotides are provided. One embodiment provides a non-viral vector comprising a recombinant polynucleotide-binding protein comprising a protein transduction domain operably linked to a targeting signal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932674 |
| 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 435/455 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sachin R. Shinde (Oviedo, Florida); Anand A. Kulkarni (Oviedo, Florida); David J. Mitchell (Oviedo, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A structure and method for instrumenting a component for monitoring wear in a coating. The method includes depositing a first thin layer of electrically insulating material, depositing a thin electrically conductive layer over the first electrically insulating layer, depositing a second thin layer of electrically insulating material over the electrically conductive layer. An overlying thickness of the coating material is deposited over the second thin layer of electrically insulating material. The thicknesses of the insulating and conducting layers is controlled to be small enough such that the overlying coating surface exposed to mechanical wear retains a desired degree of smoothness without the necessity for a separate planarization step. |
| FILED | Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/194876 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/774 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134144 | Wu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Xerox Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yiliang Wu (Mississauga, Canada); Jessica Sacripante (Oakville, Canada); Beng S. Ong (Mississauga, Canada); Paul Smith (Oakville, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided herein a performance-enhancing composition comprising inorganic nanoparticles dispersed in a polymer selected from the group consisting of polysiloxane, polysilsesquioxane, and mixtures thereof. This composition, when applied to a thin-film transistor, such as a bottom-gate thin-film transistor, as an overcoat or top layer, improves the carrier mobility and current on/off ratio of the thin film transistor. Also provided is the thin-film transistor produced utilizing this process and/or composition. |
| FILED | Friday, December 23, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/317746 |
| ART UNIT | 2891 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Bremer, Jr. (Bellingham, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A system for managing the communication of multi-page documents. The system may use a software module document splitter adapted to receive a multi-page document being uploaded as a single file and to split the multi-page document into a plurality of independent files, with each independent file representing a single page of the document. The software module document splitter may also associate meta data with each single page that enables the single pages to be downloaded, one at a time, by an electronic device being used by a user, from a file storage device remote from the electronic device. This provides the appearance to the user that the electronic device is in possession of single, multi-page file. |
| FILED | Monday, November 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/276848 |
| ART UNIT | 2457 — Computer Networks |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Multicomputer data transferring 79/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Leonard I. Zon (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Adriana Donovan (West Roxbury, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Positional cloning has been carried out to identify the gene responsible for the hypochromic anemia of the zebrafish mutant weissherbst. The gene, ferroportin1, encodes a novel multiple-transmembrane domain protein, expressed in the yolk sac. Zebrafish ferroportin1 is required for the transport of iron from maternally-derived yolk stores to the circulation, and functions as an iron exporter when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Human and mouse homologs of the ferroportin1 gene have been identified. The invention includes isolated polynucleotides, vectors and host cells comprising nucleotide sequences encoding Ferroportin1 proteins and variants thereof, including those having iron transport function. The invention also includes polypeptides encoded by ferroportin1 genes and variants of such polypeptides, and fusion polypeptides comprising a Ferroportin1 or a portion thereof. Methods to produce a Ferroportin1, methods to produce antibodies to a Ferroportin1 and methods to identify agents binding to a Ferroportin1, which can be inhibitors or enhancers of Ferroportin1 iron transport activity, are also described. Inhibitors of Ferroportin1 activity can be used in a therapy for hemochromatosis. |
| FILED | Monday, March 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381770 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/350 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08134494 | Isom et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert S. Isom (Allen, Texas); Gordon R. Scott (Farmersville, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | According to one embodiment, simulating the mutual performance of an antenna array coupled to an electrical drive circuit includes receiving one or more cross-coupling matrices and a number of electrical circuit parameters. Each cross-coupling matrix comprises matrix elements that each represent a cross-coupling factor of one antenna element to another antenna element of the antenna array. The electrical circuit parameters model one or more characteristics of the electrical drive circuit. Performance of the microwave antenna array and the electrical drive circuit in a far-field environment is modeled according to the electrical circuit parameters and the cross-coupling matrices. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/476583 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/170 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
WHAT INFORMATION WILL I FIND?
THE PANEL
There is a panel for each patent that contains the patent number and the title of the patent. When you click the panel, it opens to reveal the following information:
FUNDED BY
The agencies that funded the grants, contracts, or other research agreements that resulted in the patent. FedInvent includes as much information on the source of the funding as possible. The information is presented in a hierarchy going from the Federal Department down to the agencies, subagencies, and offices that funded the work. Here are two examples:
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Army Research Office (ARO)
We do our best to provide detailed information about the funding. In some cases, the patent only reports limited information on the origins of the funding. FedInvents presents what it can confirm. We add the patents without the information required by the Bayh-Dole Act to our list of patents worthy of further investigation.
APPLICANT(S) and ASSIGNEES
FedInvent includes both the Applicants and the Assignees because having both provides more information about where the inventive work was done and by what organizations. Many organizations — universities, corporations, and federal agencies — standardize the Assignee/Owner information by the time a patent is granted. In the case of federal patents, many of the patents use the agency headquarters information for patent assignment.
Showing just the headquarters address would make Washington, DC the epicenter of all taxpayer-funded research and development. Providing both the applicant information and the assignee information provides a more accurate picture of where important taxpayer funded innovation is happening in America. Here are two examples from two different patents:
APPLICANT: U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
ASSIGNEE: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army Washington, DC
APPLICANT: Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
ASSIGNEE(S): The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California); Optech Ventures, LLC (Torrance, California)
INVENTOR(S)
The inventors appear in the same order as they appear on the patent. FedInvents presents the names in first name/last name order because they are easier to read than the last name/first name order of the names on the USPTO patent documents.
ABSTRACT
The abstract as it appears on the patent.
FILED
The date of the patent application including the day of the week.
APPL NO
This is the patent application serial number. If you’d like to learn more about how application serial numbers work you can go to the Lists Page.
ART UNIT
Patent data includes the Art Unit where a patent was examined. (The Art Unit isn’t available for published patent applications.) The Art Unit provides insight into what group of patent examiners prosecuted the patent application and the subject matter that the examiners work on. For example:
3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
You can learn more about ART UNITS on the FedInvent Patents Weekly panel called About Tech Center or you can find information on the FedInvent Lists Page.
CURRENT CPC
Current CPC provides a list of the Cooperative Patent Classification symbols assigned to the patent. These are the CPC symbols assigned at the time the patent was granted.
The FedInvent Project is a patent classification maximalist endeavor or put another way, we believe that more you understand about patent classification the more you'll learn about the nature of the invention and the types of work that the federal government is funding.
The symbol presented in BOLD is the symbol identified as the "first" classification which is the most relevant classification on the patent. The date that follows the symbol is the date of the most recent revision to the art classed there.
- A61B 1/149 (20130101)
- A61B 1/71 (20130101)
- A61B 1/105 (20130101)
The CPC symbols match the classifications found on the PDF version of the patent. Over time, the classifications on the full-text version of the patent change to reflect how USPTO organizes patent art to support its examiners. The two sets of CPCs don’t always match.
VIEW PATENT
As of June 2021, we include two ways to view a patent at USPTO. FedInvent provides a link to the Full-Text Version of the patent and a link to the PDF version of the patent.
HOW DO I FIND A SPECIFIC PATENT ON A PAGE?
You can use the Command F or Control F to find a specific patent you are interested in.
HOW DO I GET HERE?
You navigate to the details of a patent by clicking the information icon that follows a patent on the FedInvent Patents Weekly Report.
You can also reach this page using the weekly page link that looks like this:
https://wayfinder.digital/fedinvent/patents-2012/fedinvent-patents-20120313.html
Just update the date portion of the URL. Tuesdays for patents. Thursdays for pre-grant publication of patent applications.
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