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Patent Details for Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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| US 08151426 | Schneider |
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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) | John Felix Schneider (Huntingburg, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A convertible trailer that may be reconfigured for use with different towing hitch arrangements. The trailer includes a first deck, a second deck, and an adjustable neck configured to support the second deck substantially level with the first deck in a pintle configuration and to support the second deck above the first deck in a fifth wheel configuration. |
| FILED | Friday, December 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/641658 |
| ART UNIT | 3726 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Metal working 029/401.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08151573 | Christopher et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Christopher (Laveen, Arizona); Hanif Vhora (Chandler, Arizona) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting a flameout of an operating turbomachine that is configured to receive a controlled flow of bleed air from a bleed air source and a controlled flow of fuel from a fuel source. A value of an operational parameter within the turbomachine is detected and a determination is made as to whether it has varied by a predetermined amount. If the operational parameter has varied by the predetermined amount, a flameout confirmation test is triggered. The flameout confirmation test includes holding the controlled flow of bleed air constant, commanding an increase in turbomachine speed, and confirming that a flameout has occurred by detecting that the controlled fuel flow to the turbomachine is at a maximum fuel flow limit and that actual turbomachine speed differs from the commanded turbomachine speed by a predetermined speed error. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/266279 |
| ART UNIT | 3741 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/779 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08151630 | Gardner 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) | Paul D. Gardner (Bel Air, Maryland); Jonathan P. Eshbaugh (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A quantitative fit test (QNFT) system and method for assessing the biological fit factor (FF) performance of respiratory protective devices. The biological QNFT system includes the following three main elements: an aerosol generation system; an exposure chamber; and an aerosol sampling subsystem. The aerosol sampling subsystem includes an aerosol spectrometer that counts particles in discrete size units ranging from 0.5 to 20 micrometers (μm) making it possible to obtain several size-specific FF measurements from a single respirator fit test. A virtual impactor in the aerosol generation system increases the number of challenge particles in the primary target size of interest (1 to 5 μm) and increases the sensitivity of the method allowing FF values of up to one million to be measured without the need to correct for in-mask background particles. |
| FILED | Friday, November 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/613982 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/40 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08151644 | Brandt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Brandt Innovative Technologies, Inc. (Pewaukee, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert Kurt Brandt (Hubertus, Wisconsin); Mark Stephen Williamsen (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A portable non-contact sensor system including a laser generator subsystem, a laser detector subsystem, a beam steering subsystem, an analysis subsystem, a power management subsystem, a user interface, and a communications interface. The laser generator subsystem is configured to project a plurality of laser pulses at a surface of an object that is to be characterized. The laser detector subsystem is configured to receive return laser pulses from the object. The analysis subsystem is configured to analyze the received return pulses and characterize the object. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/913414 |
| ART UNIT | 2856 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/643 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08151683 | Dick 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) | Glen Dick (Jasper, Indiana); James Buechler (Jasper, Indiana); Michael Holzmeyer (Bloomfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A link chute ejection adapter for conveying spent links of an ammunition belt from the receiver chamber of a machine gun to a link chute. |
| FILED | Monday, September 28, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/568462 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/33.140 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08151684 | Buechler 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) | James Buechler (Jasper, Indiana); Michael Holzmeyer (Bloomfield, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An armament system for aircraft includes an ammunition system and a mount system for a machine gun. The ammunition system includes an ammunition canister and feed system, the canister having a pair of brackets releasably coupled to a pair of receivers supported by a vertical mounting surface. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/571396 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ordnance 089/33.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08151709 | Schwartz 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) | Barry Schwartz (Newton, New Jersey); John T. Geaney (Lafayette, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A stab type fuze mechanism, such as the 30 mm M759 fuze mechanism, which utilizes a generally horse shoe shaped configuration anti-setback spin clip initially lodged in a grove within the body of a target sensing probe, but extending partially therefrom, which extending part rests against a ledge within the aluminum o-give—located rearward from the target sensing probe; thereby preventing the target sensing probe from moving rearward within the fuze during firing and setback. After firing, with the onset of spin, the anti-setback spin clip will open, expanding away from, out of, and clear of the grove and into a cylindrical channel in which the target sensing probe is lodged. Due to a thinned area at the apex of the clip, the expansion of the anti-setback spin clip will be a plastic deformation and the clip will remain expanded. With the expanded clip entirely clear of the grove—when the cartridge impacts its target, either a hard target, or a soft target, the obstructed forward travel of the cartridge will force the target sensing probe rearwards to impact the firing pin located immediately rearward thereof; thereby, forcing the firing pin rearward and initiating the firing train of the fuze, and subsequently, igniting the secondary explosive within the cartridge to cause detonate thereof. |
| FILED | Friday, April 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/771045 |
| ART UNIT | 3641 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review |
| CURRENT CPC | Ammunition and explosives 12/273 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08152451 | Manteiga et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | General Electric Company (Schenectady, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John Alan Manteiga (North Andover, Massachusetts); Wilhelm Hernandez (Lynn, Massachusetts); Thet Kwan (Peabody, Massachusetts); Patrick Murphy (Kensington, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | A fairing for a structural strut in a gas turbine engine includes: (a) an inner band; (b) an outer band; (c) a hollow, airfoil-shaped vane extending between the inner and outer bands; (d) wherein the fairing is split along a generally transverse plane passing through the inner band, outer band and vane, so as to define a nose piece and a tail piece; and (e) complementary structures carried by the nose piece and the tail piece adapted to secure the nose piece and the tail piece to each other. |
| FILED | Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/325173 |
| ART UNIT | 2826 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/115 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08152908 | Masel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Richard I. Masel (Champaign, Illinois); Adarsh D. Radadia (Urbana, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | Improved microcolumns and methods for producing microcolumns particularly suitable for use in gas chromatographs are disclosed. In particular, following deposition of the stationary phase coating, the microcolumns are subjected to a postcoating treatment with a molecule that binds to the active sites in the stationary phase column thereby eliminating or reducing loss of gas chromatograph performance associated with those active sites. The postcoating treatment molecule binds to the same active sites as the analytes of interest. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337882 |
| ART UNIT | 1776 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Gas separation: Apparatus 096/101 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08152992 | Smela et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elisabeth Smela (Silver Spring, Maryland); Pamela Ann Abshire (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the reliable detection of chemical stimuli using a “nose-on-a-chip” are presented. The invention uses cells sensitive to chemical stimuli and detects and processes the signals given by the cells upon contact with chemical stimuli. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216604 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/777.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153116 | Mamoun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Choukri Ben Mamoun (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a malaria vaccine for administration to a host, comprising an attenuated malarial parasite with a gene that has been rendered non-functional, wherein the gene, when present in naturally occurring form, encodes a protein necessary for continued in vivo survival and proliferation of the parasite and/or for infection of host red blood cells. The gene that has been rendered non-functional can be, e.g., a gene that encodes a nutrient transporter protein or a gene that encodes an enzyme involved in phospholipid biosynthesis. The invention also provides kits and methods that include such attenuated malarial parasites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381326 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153158 | Sugaya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiminobu Sugaya (Winter Park, Florida); Stephanie Merchant (Sanford, Florida); Sudipta Seal (Oviedo, Florida); Petya Georgieva (Williamsville, New York); Manny Vrotsos (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A biocompatible composite includes a solid biocompatible material and a plurality of living human progenitor or living stem cells attached thereto. The composition resulting in accelerated repair to damaged bones and tissues. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026797 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153203 | Schnur 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) | Joel M Schnur (Burke, Virginia); Walter J Dressick (Waldorf, Maryland); Ronald R Price (Stevensville, Maryland); Paul E Schoen (Alexandria, Virginia); Alok Singh (Springfield, Virginia); Daniel Zabetakis (Brandywine, Maryland); Michael A. Dinderman (Bethesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to a method for making a conformal antenna on a surface by providing a composition comprising a polymer matrix and a plurality of metalized tubules and applying the composition to the surface as two parallel wires connected at their ends to make a closed loop with one of the parallel wires broken in the middle. Also disclosed is an alternate method for making a conformal antenna on a surface by spraying a first material comprising a polymer matrix onto the surface and simultaneously spraying a second material comprising a plurality of metalized tubules and a coagulant onto the surface, wherein the first and second materials mix together during the spraying. A further method for making a conformal antenna includes spraying a first material comprising a polymer matrix and a plurality of metalized tubules onto the surface and simultaneously spraying a second material comprising an aqueous electroless plating bath onto the surface, wherein the first and second materials mix together during the spraying. |
| FILED | Monday, January 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/352062 |
| ART UNIT | 1715 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth |
| CURRENT CPC | Coating processes 427/421.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153240 | Wang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jianjun Wang (Williamsburg, Virginia); Mingyao Zhu (Williamsburg, Virginia); Brian C. Holloway (Williamsburg, Virginia); Ronald A. Outlaw (Williamsburg, Virginia); Dennis M. Manos (Williamsburg, Virginia); Xin Zhao (Williamsburg, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Carbon nanoflakes, methods of making the nanoflakes, and applications of the carbon nanoflakes are provided. In some embodiments, the carbon nanoflakes are carbon nanosheets, which are less than 2 nm thick. The carbon nanoflakes may be made using RF-PECVD. Carbon nanoflakes may be useful as field emitters, for hydrogen storage applications, for sensors, and as catalyst supports. |
| FILED | Monday, October 04, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574507 |
| ART UNIT | 1728 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/215 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153280 | Mehregany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehran Mehregany (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Christian A. Zorman (Euclid, Ohio); Xiao-An Fu (Mayfield Village, Ohio); Jeremy L. Dunning (Berea, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing a ceramic film, particularly a silicon carbide film, on a substrate is disclosed in which the residual stress, residual stress gradient, and resistivity are controlled. Also disclosed are substrates having a deposited film with these controlled properties and devices, particularly MEMS and NEMS devices, having substrates with films having these properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/736964 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153285 | Higashi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert E. Higashi (Shorewood, Minnesota); Khanh Q. Nguyen (Bloomington, Minnesota); Karen M. Newstrom-Peitso (Hopkins, Minnesota); Tom M. Rezachek (Cottage Grove, Minnesota); Roland A. Wood (Bloomington, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | A fuel cell, fuel cell array and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The fuel cell can be made by forming a first aperture defined by a first aperture surface through a first electrode layer and forming a second aperture defined by a second aperture surface through a second electrode layer. A proton exchange membrane is laminated between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. At least a portion of the first aperture is at least partially aligned with the second aperture. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2003 |
| APPL NO | 10/750581 |
| ART UNIT | 1729 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153307 | Tanaka et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Quallion LLC (Sylmar, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Manabu Tanaka (Valencia, California); Sang Young Yoon (Saugus, California); Hiroshi Nakahara (Santa Clarita, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A battery is disclosed. The battery includes an electrolyte activating one or more anodes and one or more cathodes. The electrolyte includes one or more salts dissolved in a solvent. The solvent includes one or more first siloxanes and/or one or more first silanes. Each of the first siloxanes and/or first silanes have one or more first substituents that each include a poly(alkylene oxide) moiety. The solvent also includes one or more second siloxanes and/or one or more second silanes. Each of the second siloxanes and/or second silanes have one or more second substituents that each include a carbonate moiety. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 22, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/165406 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/313 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153397 | Smith 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) | Leonard A. Smith (Clarksburg, Maryland); Melody Jensen (Frederick, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to the construction, expression, and purification of synthetic or recombinant light chain (LC) botulinum neurotoxin genes from all botulinum neurotoxin serotypes. The methods of the invention can provide 1.1 g of the LC per liter of culture. The LC product is stable and proteolytically active. Methods of using the products of the invention are described. |
| FILED | Monday, April 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/387014 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/69.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153415 | 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); Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Matthew Peters (Highland 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 | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/077170 |
| 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 08153470 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yi Cui (Union City, California); Xiangfeng Duan (Mountain View, California); Yu Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for selectively aligning and positioning semiconductor nanowires on a substrate by providing a substrate; patterning electrodes on a surface of the substrate; conditioning the surface of the substrate to attach semiconductor nanowires to the surface by functionalizing the surface with a first functional group having an affinity for the semiconductor nanowires; providing an environment in contact with the electrodes, the environment having suspended therein the semiconductor nanowires; and providing an electric field between the electrodes, thereby causing the nanowires in the environment to align between and electrically connect the electrodes to thereby form a semiconducting channel between the electrodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543337 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153541 | McCullough et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Century, Inc. (Traverse City, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas W. McCullough (Lake Jackson, Texas); James E. Schuetz (Sanford, Michigan); Thomas D. Wood (Houghton, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A ceramic article comprises ceramic fibers having an aspect ratio of greater than 3:1 and ceramic particles. The ceramic fibers are substantially randomly oriented in three dimensions in the ceramic article. A method of forming the ceramic article includes the step of providing a composition including ceramic fibers having an aspect ratio of greater than 3:1 and ceramic particles. The composition is extruded through a multi-screw extruder having at least three intermeshing screws to form an extrudate. The extrudate is heated to form the ceramic article. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/174982 |
| ART UNIT | 1731 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions: Ceramic 51/95.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153786 | 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 | Energetic candidate azido heterocycles and their synthesis are described. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/173883 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 544/179 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153812 | Tan 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) | Loon-Seng Tan (Centerville, Ohio); Ramamurthi Kannan (Cincinnati, Ohio); Matthew J. Dalton (Bellbrook, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are new 2PA chromophores of the formula: wherein X=para- or meta-NO2; para- or meta-NH2; and CnHn+1 is either a straight or branched alkyl chain, and n is an integer from 1-20. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 23, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/032735 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/160 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153965 | Adamski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John L. Adamski (Kenmore, Washington); Benjamin Emerson Carl Koltenbah (Federal Way, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus for merging a low energy electron flow into a high energy electron flow may include: a high energy electron path for accommodating the high energy electron flow; and a plurality of magnetic elements arranged to guide the low energy electron flow through a chicane presenting a path having a first end and a second end. The path intersects the high energy electron path at the second end. The path has a plurality of turns and path segments intermediate the first and second ends. Respective adjacent path segments intersect at each respective turn. The path establishes a respective bend radius and subtends a respective path angle between respective adjacent path segments at each respective turn. Each respective path angle is maximized within predetermined path angle limits. Each respective bend radius is minimized within predetermined bend radius limits. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/634361 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/305 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153985 | Randazzo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Todd Andrew Randazzo (Mound, Minnesota); Bradley J. Larsen (Mound, Minnesota); Paul S. Fechner (Plymouth, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Neutron detection cells and corresponding methods of detecting charged particles that make efficient use of silicon area are set forth. Three types of circuit cells/arrays are described: state latching circuits, glitch generating cells, and charge loss circuits. An array of these cells, used in conjunction with a neutron conversion film, increases the area that is sensitive to a strike by a charged particle over that of an array of SRAM cells. The result is a neutron detection cell that uses less power, costs less, and is more suitable for mass production. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/536950 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.50 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154002 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yue Wu (Renens, Massachusetts); Hao Yan (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention generally relates to nanotechnology and submicroelectronic devices that can be used in circuitry and, in some cases, to nanoscale wires and other nanostructures able to encode data. One aspect of the invention provides a nanoscale wire or other nanostructure having a region that is electrically-polarizable, for example, a nanoscale wire may comprise a core and an electrically-polarizable shell. In some cases, the electrically-polarizable region is able to retain its polarization state in the absence of an external electric field. All, or only a portion, of the electricallypolarizable region may be polarized, for example, to encode one or more bits of data. In one set of embodiments, the electrically-polarizable region comprises a functional oxide or a ferroelectric oxide material, for example, BaTiO3, lead zirconium titanate, or the like. In some embodiments, the nanoscale wire (or other nanostructure) may further comprise other materials, for example, a separation region separating the electrically polarizable region from other regions of the nanoscale wire. For example, in a nanoscale wire, one or more intermediate shells may separate the core from the electrically polarizable shell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 06, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/792444 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/4 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154009 | Wong et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | William S. Wong (San Carlos, California); Michael A. Kneissl (Berlin, Germany); Zhihong Yang (Sunnyvale, California); Mark Teepe (Menlo Park, California); Cliff Knollenberg (Mountain View, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A GaN/AlN superlattice is formed over a GaN/sapphire template structure, serving in part as a strain relief layer for growth of subsequent layers (e.g., deep UV light emitting diodes). The GaN/AlN superlattice mitigates the strain between a GaN/sapphire template and a multiple quantum well heterostructure active region, allowing the use of high Al mole fraction in the active region, and therefore emission in the deep UV wavelengths. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435342 |
| ART UNIT | 2893 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Active solid-state devices 257/13 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154185 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wanli Yang (El Cerrito, California); Jason D. Fabbri (San Francisco, California); Nicholas A. Melosh (Menlo Park, California); Zahid Hussain (Orinda, California); Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are electron emitters based upon diamondoid monolayers, preferably self-assembled higher diamondoid monolayers. High intensity electron emission has been demonstrated employing such diamondoid monolayers, particularly when the monolayers are comprised of higher diamondoids. The application of such diamondoid monolayers can alter the band structure of substrates, as well as emit monochromatic electrons, and the high intensity electron emissions can also greatly improve the efficiency of field-effect electron emitters as applied to industrial and commercial applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704910 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154438 | Larson 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) | Jacoby Larson (San Diego, California); Michael Bruch (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention can find the exact location anywhere in the nautical world (latitude/longitude coordinates) by correlating or matching radar returns with maps produced by a digital nautical chart called a Chart Server, because each pixel location on the Chart Server maps can be traced back to a latitude/longitude coordinate. An obstacle avoidance module called a Chart Server provides digital nautical charts to create a map of the world. To determine the current world location of a vehicle, the invention combines the Chart Server maps with a radar return, which also appears to display prominent features such as coastlines, buoys, piers and the like. These return features from the radar are correlated or matched with features found in the Chart Server maps. The radar then reports its current location inside of its local map, which when translated to the Chart Server map, correlates to a latitude/longitude registration location. |
| FILED | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/555112 |
| 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 342/145 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154445 | Maenpa et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jon E. Maenpa (Redondo Beach, California); Andrew M. Hautzik (Rancho Palos Verdes, California); Richard G. Keegan (Palos Verdes Estates, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) pseudorange measurements must be compensated for receiver hardware and directionally dependent antenna errors to obtain desired accuracies for high precision GNSS positioning applications. The problem of pseudorange measurement errors resulting from directionally dependent group delays is not an issue in Fixed Reception Pattern Antenna (FRPA) GNSS sensors. However, for the complex case of a GNSS receiver employing a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA) and dynamic beam steering, the multiplicity of combinations of antenna element outputs makes compensation of directionally dependent antenna induced errors more difficult, as the simple subtraction that might be used for FRPA compensation does not work with a CRPA. Example embodiments provide for frequency domain correction of GNSS pseudorange measurements in CRPA receivers. The correction takes place in the signal processing of the satellite signals, after they have been converted to the frequency domain, but before they are formed into beams for the respective satellites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/750540 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Communications: Directive radio wave systems and devices 342/357.620 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154729 | Baldo et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Marc A Baldo (Lexington, Massachusetts); Mihail Bora (Livermore, California); Jonathan K Mapel (Boston, Massachusetts); Kemal Celebi (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A near-field surface plasmon detector is provided. The near-field surface plasmon detector includes one or more semiconductor layers that absorb one or more surface plasmons of thin metal films in the vicinity of the semiconductor layer. The surface plasmons are excited by incoming light being emitted from a light emitting source. The metal films are also employed as electrical contacts used to capture photocurrent generated after absorption of surface plasmons by the semiconductor layers. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 06, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/774974 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/445 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154732 | Bodkin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Bodkin Design and Engineering, LLC (Newton, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Andrew Bodkin (Wellesley, Massachusetts); Andrew I. Sheinis (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A multiband spatial heterodyne spectrometer for determining spectra in first and second wavelength bands has a beam splitter configured to split incident light and to direct the incident light upon a first and a second diffraction grating. The gratings are configured for Littrow reflection of incident light of the first wavelength band at a first order and Littrow reflection of incident light of the second wavelength band at a second order. Light reflected by the first and the second diffraction grating forms diffraction patterns that are imaged by an electronic camera. A dispersive device such as a prism or diffraction grating separates the imaged interference patterns onto separate rows of pixel sensors corresponding to the wavelength bands. A processing device receives information from the detector and computes spectra therefrom. In embodiments, the spectrometer is configured to compute hyperspectral images of a target. |
| FILED | Monday, April 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/111108 |
| ART UNIT | 2877 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/484 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154792 | Weyburne 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) | David Weyburne (Maynard, Massachusetts); David Bliss (Arlington, Massachusetts); Candace Lynch (Chelmsford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A new nonlinear optical structure for frequency conversion is described. The new nonlinear optical structure is a multilayer wafer comprising alternating layers of gallium arsenide and aluminum gallium arsenide onto a gallium arsenide substrate. The new device is both more efficient and easier to make than prior art gallium arsenide crystal structures designed for nonlinear optical conversion. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/511101 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/332 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154804 | McGinn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc. (Roanoke, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Joseph Thomas McGinn (Flemington, New Jersey); Dwight P. Duston (Laguna Niguel, California); Anthony Van Heugten (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A lens is presented in which the lens includes a substrate and an electrode layer. The electrode layer is positioned upon the substrate. The electrode layer has radially alternating rings of electrodes and resistive material. When voltage is applied across two adjacent electrodes the profile of the electric field therebetween is linear. When voltage is applied to the rings of electrodes, the optical phase profile of the lens closely approximates the optical phase of ideal spherical aberration correction. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/410889 |
| ART UNIT | 2873 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/666 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154840 | Hardy et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Delphi Technologies Holding S.arl (Troy, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Paul Hardy (Gillingham, United Kingdom); Adrian R. Tolliday (Chatham, United Kingdom) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for controlling the displacement of a stack of a piezoelectric actuator adapted for use in a fuel injector in order to control the fuel injection rate and volume. The method comprises driving a varying current through the stack during an opening phase including a first opening stage and a second opening stage; driving the stack during the first opening stage with a first opening current level for a first opening time period and driving the stack during the second opening stage with a second opening current level for a second opening time period. The second opening current level is less than the first opening current level and the current levels are selected so that the fuel injection rate in the opening phase includes a first portion corresponding to the first opening stage having a gradient that is steeper than a second portion corresponding to the second opening stage. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/469270 |
| ART UNIT | 2836 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Electrical systems and devices 361/139 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154891 | Morico et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Raytheon Company (Waltham, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter Dennis Morico (North Grafton, Massachusetts); John D. Walker (Bolton, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for providing a DC/DC converter having a first configuration to output a first voltage level and a second configuration to output a second voltage level. |
| FILED | Monday, May 18, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/467540 |
| ART UNIT | 2838 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric power conversion systems 363/61 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154952 | Gendron 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) | Marlin L Gendron (Stennis Space Center, Mississippi); Charles B Martin (Slidell, Iowa); Lancelot M Riedlinger (Lacombe, Iowa); Maura C Lohrenz (Pearl River, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | A computer based system and method for real-time display of co-registered historical and current side scan sonar imagery during a side scan sonar survey. Embodiments also include modules for detection of clutter in the current imagery, identification of features, extraction of snippets, filtering based on predetermined size and shape parameters, and determination if a current feature is the same as a previously identified contact from historical imagery. |
| FILED | Friday, May 20, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/112076 |
| 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 367/88 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154954 | Snow 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) | Trevor Snow (Bloomington, Indiana); Jeffrey M. Snow (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure relates to a method and system for finding and physically altering underground targets. Multiple projectiles are dispersed into the ground and determine their spatial orientation using seismic waves, and then operate as an array to locate and properly time kinetic pulses to focus seismic waves on the target. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/570965 |
| 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 367/127 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155127 | Seidel et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Powerwave Cognition, Inc. (Santa Ana, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scott Y. Seidel (Fairfax, Virginia); Roberto Berezdivin (Great Falls, Virginia); Jay N. Livingston (Oakton, Virginia); Robert J. Breinig (Warrenton, Virginia); Gary A. Luethke (Oakton, Virginia); Darrell L. Young (Falls Church, Virginia); Timothy C. Brannan (Chantilly, Virginia); Tin T Ho (Springfield, Virginia); Kevin L. Chapman (Vienna, Virginia); Stephen P. Hershey (Sarasota, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Communicating between a plurality of nodes includes: at one or more of the plurality of nodes, sensing spectrum activity on at least one channel; creating and maintaining at least one spectrum awareness table based at least in part on the sensed spectrum activity, determining at least one selected bearer based on the at least one spectrum awareness table; performing an adaptive control channel initialization operation to detect zero or more neighbor nodes. |
| FILED | Friday, November 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/595719 |
| ART UNIT | 2465 — Multiplex and VoIP |
| CURRENT CPC | Multiplex communications 370/400 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155273 | Eaton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Stellar Micro Devices (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark F. Eaton (Austin, Texas); Leonid D. Karpov (Cedar Park, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A radiation source which can emit X-ray flux using electron beam currents from a cathode array formed on the window through which the radiation will exit the source. The source can be made in formats which are compact or flat compared with prior art radiation sources. X-ray flux produced by the source can be used for such purposes as radiation imaging, sterilization, decontamination of biohazards or photolithography. |
| FILED | Friday, August 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/201741 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155375 | Tewfik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Tewfik (Edina, Minnesota); Bin Zhu (Beijing, China PRC); Mitch Swanson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of embedding and detecting watermarks in video use temporal analysis to compute temporal components of video from which the watermarks are embedded and detected. Temporal analysis, such as a temporal wavelet, is used to compute representations of static and dynamic portions of the video. For embedding, watermarks are computed from and/or adapted to the temporal components. For detecting, temporal properties are exploited to detect watermarks in the static and/or dynamic components. Temporal analysis also enables plural watermarks to be embedded at different levels of temporal resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/928300 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155449 | Wirth |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Boeing Company (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Andrew Wirth (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for comparing a first drawing and a second drawing generated by a shape-based computer system includes: (a) In no particular order: (1) identifying shapes present in the first drawing; and (2) identifying shapes present in the second drawing. (b) In no particular order: (1) identifying deleted shapes; the deleted shapes being present in the first drawing and not present in the second drawing; and (2) identifying new shapes; the new shapes being present in the second drawing and not present in the first drawing. (c) In no particular order: (1) indicating the deleted shapes in the first drawing; and (2) indicating the new shapes in the second drawing. |
| FILED | Friday, November 09, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/937941 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/203 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155450 | Prusia |
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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) | Ronald Norman Prusia (Ridgecrest, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and electronics circuit for processing very high resolution images or very high frame rate images in real time. Each pixel within a frame of pixels is compared to the neighboring pixels within the frame to determine if the pixel is part of a blob group. If the pixel is part of the blob group, the characteristics of the pixel are added to the statistics for the blob group. When a pixel overlaps two target blob groups, the two blob groups are combined to form one blob group. When the end of the frame is reached information about the blob groups in the frame is made available. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/828189 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/204 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155497 | Shtein et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Max Shtein (Ann Arbor, Michigan); Kevin P. Pipe (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of manufacturing a fiber-based electric apparatus includes providing an elongate, flexible fiber core and layering an electric device on the fiber core. |
| FILED | Monday, June 06, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/154186 |
| ART UNIT | 2874 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical waveguides 385/147 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155538 | Amberg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Oracle America, Inc. (Redwood Shores, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Philip Amberg (San Jose, California); Dinesh D. Patil (Fremont, California); Frankie Y. Liu (Palo Alto, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A technique for calibrating an optical receiver is described. During this technique, a front-end circuit in the optical receiver receives an optical signal that corresponds to a sequence with alternating groups of symbol types that correspond to binary values, where durations of the groups of a given symbol type, which can correspond to a first binary value or a second binary value, progressively decrease during the sequence. Then, the output of the feedback circuit is adjusted based at least on the sequence. When the durations of groups corresponding to the first binary value and the second binary value reach their minimum values in the sequence, a calibration value corresponding to the output of the feedback circuit is stored for use during a normal operating mode of the optical receiver. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 09, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/633940 |
| ART UNIT | 2613 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical communications 398/209 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155649 | McHenry et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shared Spectrum Company (Vienna, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark Allen McHenry (McLean, Virginia); Igor Bazarov (Herndon, Virginia); Dmitry Dain (Herndon, Virginia); Jevgenijs Livsics (Reston, Virginia); Olga K. Ritterbush (Arlington, Virginia); Karl N. Steadman (Arlington, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and systems for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in a wireless network are provided. A DSA-enabled device may sense spectrum use in a region and, based on the detected spectrum use, select one or more communication channels for use. The devices also may detect one or more other DSA-enabled devices with which they can form DSA networks. A DSA network may monitor spectrum use by cooperative and non-cooperative devices, to dynamically select one or more channels to use for communication while avoiding or reducing interference with other devices. |
| FILED | Friday, August 14, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/541624 |
| ART UNIT | 2617 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Telecommunications 455/434 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155949 | Rubin |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stuart H Rubin (San Diego, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A knowledge-based decision support system that allows for communication and learning to occur using natural language is presented. The system has a capability to automatically extract features from the natural language using symmetric reductions and random search. The iterative generalization of the rule base and checking of the resultant base against a case base from which the generalizations are induced is also provided. The decision support system can be used to search semi-structured databases and automatically learns new knowledge and search control knowledge where it is most needed based on the pattern of previous rule firings. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/243049 |
| ART UNIT | 2626 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 74/9 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155989 | Baskin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washingtin, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arthur B. Baskin (Indianapolis, Indiana); Mohamed Y. Shahin (Fort Collins, Colorado); Robert E. Reinke (Indianapolis, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | An automated user-implemented method for optimizing cost, schedule and performance of maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) on manmade structure, such as pavements. The method utilizes a database containing information on the condition of the manmade structure, the information on condition further including a condition index; applies one or more algorithms to data in the database to yield schedule and budget for M&R of the manmade structure; correlates the type of M&R and schedule for performing the M&R with alternative budgets that a user may enter into the software supporting the method and outputs and displays work plans associated to each of the alternative budgets for use by managers in planning future M&R work and predicting performance thereof by evaluating past work on the manmade structure. The system may be implemented by a user on the internet as well as on individual personal computers. Specific implementations include PAVER™ and microPAVER™ software. |
| FILED | Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/287454 |
| ART UNIT | 3627 — 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 08156050 | Correll 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) | Roger L. Correll (Bloomington, Indiana); Steven D. Lawyer (Elnora, Indiana); Thomas R. O'Brien (Loogootee, Indiana); James W. Evans, II (Bloomington, Indiana); M. Denise Wittmer (Odon, Indiana); Karen B. Hixson (Bloomington, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | A project management system comprising a first, second, third, fourth and fifth processing sequences embodied in a computer readable medium. The first processing sequence is operable to provide a user interface to display a plurality of alert indicia corresponding to a plurality of alert status of a plurality of project requirements. The second processing sequence is operable to convert an incomplete requirement to a complete requirement upon completion of a task corresponding to the incomplete requirement. The third processing sequence is operable to determine the alert status of the requirements of the plurality of projects based on a time difference between a current date and a target date corresponding to each requirement. The fourth and fifth processing sequences are operable override the alert status based on user selections. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 26, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/471701 |
| ART UNIT | 3687 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Electronic Shopping; Business Cryptography, Voting; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Business Processing, Electronic Negotiation |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/80 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156287 | Bose et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip Bose (Yorktown Heights, New York); Alper Buyuktosunoglu (White Plains, New York); Miles Robert Dooley (Austin, Texas); Michael Stephen Floyd (Cedar Park, Texas); David Scott Ray (Georgetown, Texas); Bruce Joseph Ronchetti (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A data processing system includes a processor, a unit that includes a multi-level cache, a prefetch system and a memory. The data processing system can operate in a first mode and a second mode. The prefetch system can change behavior in response to a desired power consumption policy set by an external agent or automatically via hardware based on on-chip power/performance thresholds. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/354219 |
| ART UNIT | 2186 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Memory 711/137 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Donna M. Peters (Middleton, Wisconsin); Mark S. Filla (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An integrin antagonist reduces the occurrence of cross-linked actin network (CLAN) structures in cells of the trabecular meshwork. CLAN structures are associated with steroid-induced glaucoma. Reduction in CLAN structures is associated with increased aqueous humor outflow facility from the trabecular meshwork. |
| FILED | Friday, February 24, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/361343 |
| ART UNIT | 3761 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 64/294 |
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| US 08152848 | Freilich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Martin Allen Freilich (West Hartford, Connecticut); John Robert Kelly (West Hartford, Connecticut); Rebecca Lee Cochrane (Suffield, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | A structural/biological implant and method of use. The implant being utilized as a single or multiple staged system that is designed to encourage new alveolar bone growth with or without the need to obtain autologous bone. The implant has an apical portion that is fastened into existing bone, with the remainder of the implant left outside of existing bone. The exposed portion of the implant may have an external shape or configuration with a variety of attached and/or integrally formed mechanical retention and stability elements. Osteotropic/angiotropic material may be associated with the implant to induce and or conduct new bone growth and possible vascularization, thus, rather than fitting the implant into the bone, the bone is grown integratively with the implant. The osteotropic/angiotropic materials may be simultaneously placed with the staged implant to provide consistent stabilization for the materials and to provide an immediately available surface for bone cell adhesion and growth. The invention thus allows implants to be used in location where the volume and/or shape of the bone would not be adequate for existing implant systems. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/259608 |
| ART UNIT | 3775 — Medical & Surgical Instruments, Treatment Devices, Surgery and Surgical Supplies |
| CURRENT CPC | Prosthesis 623/16.110 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153103 | Li et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wen-Hong Li (Dallas, Texas); Yan-Ming Guo (Dallas, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A new class of photoactivatable dyes provides the ability to study cell-cell communication in live animals non-invasively with high spatiotemporal resolution. The compositions are made up of a macromolecule, a caging group, and a coumarin dye. Upon photolysis, the coumarin dye is released from the macromolecule caging group complex and is freely diffusible in cells and between cells. The compositions are retained in cells very well, having no observable side effects, no susceptibility to metabolism, and the ability to generate bright fluorescence signals after photolysis. Because of their high loading capacity and long cellular retention, they can be selectively uncaged in specific cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496289 |
| ART UNIT | 1618 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/9.600 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153116 | Mamoun |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Choukri Ben Mamoun (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a malaria vaccine for administration to a host, comprising an attenuated malarial parasite with a gene that has been rendered non-functional, wherein the gene, when present in naturally occurring form, encodes a protein necessary for continued in vivo survival and proliferation of the parasite and/or for infection of host red blood cells. The gene that has been rendered non-functional can be, e.g., a gene that encodes a nutrient transporter protein or a gene that encodes an enzyme involved in phospholipid biosynthesis. The invention also provides kits and methods that include such attenuated malarial parasites. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/381326 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153121 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Terry J. Smith (Manhattan Beach, California); William W. Cruikshank (Westford, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a method of reducing the severity of an autoimmune condition associated with T-lymphocyte infiltration. The invention also provides a method of diagnosing or predicting the susceptibility to an autoimmune disease associated with fibroblast mediated T-lymphocyte infiltration. Methods of identifying a substance capable of modulating T-lymphocyte recruitment associated with an autoimmune condition also are provided. |
| FILED | Monday, May 06, 2002 |
| APPL NO | 10/140003 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153123 | Ware et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (La Jolla, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Carl F. Ware (Solana Beach, California); Carl De Trez (Brussels, Belgium) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for restoring and increasing dendritic cell populations in a subject by modulation of the lymphotoxin-β receptor (LTβR) via LTβR agonists. The invention also provides methods for screening for agents capable of restoring or increasing dendritic cell populations. The invention further provides a method for the treatment of immunodeficiency by administration of an LTβR agonist. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/483159 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/130.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153136 | Franzusoff et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GlobeImmune, Inc. (Louisville, Colorado); The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alex Franzusoff (Denver, Colorado); Donald Bellgrau (Highlands Ranch, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for treating and/or preventing a variety of diseases and conditions that are amenable to immunotherapy and, in one particular embodiment, compositions and methods for treating and/or preventing cancer in an animal are described. Specifically improvements related to the use of a yeast-based vaccine comprising a yeast vehicle and an antigen that is selected to elicit an antigen-specific cellular and humoral immune response in an animal, for use in prophylactic and/or therapeutic vaccination and the prevention and/or treatment of a variety of diseases and conditions are disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 15, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/334729 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/184.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153140 | Burns, Jr. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James M. Burns, Jr. (Lansdale, Pennsylvania) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides an immunogenic composition comprising MSP-8 linked to an antigen. Methods of using the composition to induce an immune response in an animal are also provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/089924 |
| ART UNIT | 1645 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/272.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
08153154 — Arginine-conjugated bioreducible poly(disulfide amine) polymers for gene delivery systems
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sung Wan Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah); Tae-il Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An arginine-grafted bioreducible poly(disulfide amine) (“ABP”) as a reagent for efficient and nontoxic gene delivery is described. ABP forms positively charged nano-particles of less than 200 nm with plasmid DNA. ABP is biodegraded under reducing conditions, such as the cytoplasm. ABP exhibits much higher transfection efficiency than polyethyleneimine in mammalian cells and exhibits no cytotoxicity. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 12, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/370515 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153155 | Kim et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sun Hwa Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Ji Hoon Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea); Tae-il Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sung Wan Kim (Salt Lake City, Utah); David A. Bull (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | An arginine-grafted bioreducible poly(disulfide amine) (“ABP”) as a reagent for efficient and nontoxic gene delivery is described. ABP forms positively charged nano-particles of less than 200 nm with siRNA. ABP is biodegraded under reducing conditions, such as in the cytoplasm. ABP exhibits much higher transfection efficiency than polyethyleneimine in mammalian cells and exhibits no cytotoxicity. ABP is an effective delivery vehicle for gene silencing with siRNA and may be used for treating cancer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/496568 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/486 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153158 | Sugaya et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. (Orlando, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kiminobu Sugaya (Winter Park, Florida); Stephanie Merchant (Sanford, Florida); Sudipta Seal (Oviedo, Florida); Petya Georgieva (Williamsville, New York); Manny Vrotsos (Orlando, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A biocompatible composite includes a solid biocompatible material and a plurality of living human progenitor or living stem cells attached thereto. The composition resulting in accelerated repair to damaged bones and tissues. |
| FILED | Monday, February 14, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/026797 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153162 | Tseng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Tissuetech, Inc. (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Scheffer Tseng (Pinecrest, Florida); Hua He (Miami, Florida); Wei Li (Songgang Town, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions having a combination of specific biological components have been found to exert a number of useful effects in mammalian cells, including modulating TGF β signaling, apoptosis, and proliferation of mammalian cells, as well as decreasing inflammation in mice. These components can be obtained commercially, or can be prepared from biological tissues such as placental tissues. Placental amniotic membrane (AM) preparations described herein include AM pieces, AM extracts, AM jelly, AM stroma, and mixtures of these compositions with additional components. The compositions can be used to treat various diseases, such as wound healing, inflammation and angiogenesis-related diseases. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 27, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/528980 |
| ART UNIT | 1651 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/583 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153361 | Benner |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Steven Albert Benner (Gainesville, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to the field of nucleic acid chemistry, more specifically to compositions of matter that are nucleic acid analogs, and processes that use them. Still more specifically, these compositions comprise two fragments of DNA-like molecules, each having one or more ends modified to carry a reactive group, where the reactive group on one fragment can form a transient covalent bond with the reactive group on the other under conditions of dynamic equilibrium to form a composite, where the composite can then bind to a target oligonucleotide, such as a DNA or RNA molecule. Most specifically, once the transient covalent bond forms, the composite serves as a primer for a template-directed polymerization using a DNA polymerase, an RNA polymerase, or a reverse transcriptase. Once incorporated, the epimerization causes the base pair to be destabilized, the duplex containing the epimerized nucleoside to likewise be destabilized, and the double strand to then disassociate. This leaves the template available to template the synthesis of another complementary oligonucleotide containing the epimerizing base. |
| FILED | Monday, February 05, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/702327 |
| 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 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153366 | Rieder et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark J. Rieder (Seattle, Washington); Allan Rettie (Langley, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to methods and compositions for predicting drug responses. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions for determining individualized Warfarin dosages based on genotype of DNA polymorphisms and haplotypes derived from them in the VKORC1 gene. |
| FILED | Friday, March 16, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/687153 |
| ART UNIT | 1634 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153368 | Beauchamp et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | R. Daniel Beauchamp (Nashville, Tennessee); Bonnie J. LaFleur (Salt Lake City, Utah); Nipun B. Merchant (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to a new tumor suppressor, designated FJX1. Also described are diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic uses of the FJX1 protein and the FJX1 gene, alone or in combination with traditional cancer therapies. |
| FILED | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/146167 |
| ART UNIT | 1642 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153370 | Adami et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Guy Richard Adami (Brookfield, Illinois); Joel L. Schwartz (Chicago, Illinois) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention relates to methods and kits for detecting the likelihood that a subject has cancer, e.g., squamous cell carcinoma, by assaying the expression levels of tumor associated genes. More specifically, the expression levels of nucleic acids or proteins can be assayed in the tumor associated genes, e.g., beta-2 microgobulin (B2M) and cytochrome p450 1B1 (CYP1B1). The expression levels compared to standards can be indicative of the likelihood a subject has squamous cell carcinoma. For example, over-expression of B2M and under-expression of CYP1B1 can be indicative of the likelihood a subject has squamous cell carcinoma. Also, over-expression of B2M and over-expression of CYP1B1 can be indicative of the likelihood a subject has a precancerous squamous cell disorder. The expression levels of B2M and CYP1B1 can also be repeatedly assayed to monitor the progression of a squamous cell neoplasia. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/407604 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/6.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153422 | Isacson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The McLean Hospital Corporation (Belmont, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ole Isacson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Lars Bjorklund (Stockholm, Sweden) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed herein are methods for generating dopaminergic neurons in vitro by inhibiting a pathway component of a TGF-β signaling pathway and overexpressing one or more cell fate-inducing polypeptides in pluripotent cells, causing differentiation of the pluripotent cells into dopaminergic neurons. Also disclosed are methods for treating a neurodegenerative disease in a patient by generating dopaminergic neurons in vitro, and transplanting them into the brain of the patient, such that the dopaminergic neurons are sufficient to reduce or eliminate the symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 22, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/107725 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/325 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153424 | Zhang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Su-Chun Zhang (Middleton, Wisconsin); Xue-Jun Li (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of differentiating embryonic stem cells into ventral spinal progenitor cells is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention comprises culturing a population of cells comprising a majority of cells that are characterized by an early rosette morphology and are Sox1−/Pax6+ in the presence of retinoic acid, wherein the cells express Hoxb4, but not Otx2 or Bf1. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/932582 |
| 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 435/366 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153429 | Robins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ViaCyte, Inc. (San Diego, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Allan J. Robins (Athens, Georgia); Thomas C. Schulz (Athens, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to cell culture methods and compositions that are essentially serum-free and comprise a basal salt nutrient solution and an ErbB3 ligand. |
| FILED | Friday, February 23, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/678487 |
| 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 435/404 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153436 | Cheung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herman S. Cheung (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of assaying for disease-associated crystal species in biological samples are described. Such methods involve contacting a patient sample with an excess of a detectable crystal-tagging compound reactive with a plurality of crystal species under conditions that allow the detectable crystal-tagging compound to react with a plurality of crystal species, if present, to form tagged crystal species complexes. Substantially all unreacted tagging compound is then removed. If desired, chemical, enzymatic, or physical treatment can be used to selectively degrade some, but not, of the tagged crystal species. Assessment of soluble versus crystal-associated label is then performed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/031689 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153443 | Taylor et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, California); The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Alabama) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kent D. Taylor (Ventura, California); Jerome I. Rotter (Los Angeles, California); Charles O. Elson (Birmingham, Alabama); Stephan R. Targan (Santa Monica, California) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention provides methods of diagnosing or predicting susceptibility to Crohn's Disease by determining the presence or absence of genetic variants. In one embodiment, the present invention provides methods to diagnose and/or predict susceptibility to Crohn's Disease in an individual by determining the presence or absence of anti-Cbir1 reactivity and the presence or absence of TLR5 risk variants. In another embodiment, the present invention provides methods to diagnose Crohn's Disease by determining the presence or absence of NFKB1 haplotype H3 and/or ASCA expression. In another embodiment, the present invention provides methods of diagnosing Crohn's Disease by determining the presence or absence of Cbir1 specific peripheral blood T cell proliferation. |
| FILED | Friday, May 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/599549 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/506 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153446 | Twieg et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Kent State University (Kent, Ohio); Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Robert J. Twieg (Kent, Ohio); William E. Moerner (Los Altos, California); Samuel J. Lord (Palo Alto, California); Na Liu (Bloomfield, Connecticut); Reichel Samuel (Atlanta, Georgia) |
| ABSTRACT | Fluorophores derived from photoactivatable azide-pi-acceptor fluorogens or from a thermal reaction of an azide-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an alkene or alkyne are disclosed. Fluorophores derived from a thermal reaction of an alkyne-pi-acceptor fluorogen with an azide are also disclosed. The fluorophores can readily be activated by light and can be used to label a biomolecule and imaged on a single-molecule level in living cells. |
| FILED | Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/454273 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/800 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153585 | Klagsbrun et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Children's Medical Center Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Michael Klagsbrun (Newton, Massachusetts); Shay Soker (Greensboro, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides isolated polypeptides having VEGF antagonist activity, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of subjects having a disease or disorder associated with VEGF activity or subjects having tumors expressing a VEGF receptor. The polypeptides of the invention include polypeptides comprising a portion of SEQ ID NO: 1 having VEGF antagonist activity, polypeptides comprising SEQ ID NO: 2 or a portion thereof having VEGF antagonist activity, and a polypeptide having the structure of formula (I), set forth above. The present invention further includes analogs and derivatives of these polypeptides having VEGF antagonist activity. |
| FILED | Monday, July 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/172491 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/8.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153589 | Patterson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Cam Patterson (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xinchun Pi (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are methods for treating a subject having or at risk for an angiogenesis-related disorder. The methods include administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that inhibits JNK3 expression, or a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that inhibits JNK3 activity. Disorders that can be treated by these methods include cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, vascular diseases, and other disorders resulting from excessive angiogenesis. The therapeutic agent may be a compound, small molecule, peptide, antibody, antisense nucleic acid, ribozyme, or the like. Methods of identifying a candidate agent that modulates JNK3 expression are also provided. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 21, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/764356 |
| ART UNIT | 1647 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/13.300 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153592 | Platt et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jeffrey L. Platt (Rochester, Minnesota); Gregory J. Brunn (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | This description provides methods and materials related to modulating Toll-like receptor activity. For example, methods and materials for increasing or decreasing the responsiveness of a TLR4 polypeptide are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/813652 |
| ART UNIT | 1646 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/18.700 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153593 | Khosla et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chaitan Khosla (Palo Alto, California); Richard Edward Watts (Lindale, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | Transglutaminase inhibitors and methods of use thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/462554 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/19.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153595 | Chen |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lieping Chen (Sparks Glencoe, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Compositions and methods for costimulating T cells (i.e., increasing antigen-specific proliferation of T cells, enhancing cytokine production by T cells, stimulating differentiation ad effector functions of T cells and/or promoting T cell survival) are provided. Suitable compositions include variant B7-DC polypeptides, fragments and fusion proteins thereof. Variant B7-DC polypeptides have reduced binding affinity for the inhibitory PD-1 ligand and substantially retain the ability to costimulate T cells. Methods for using variant B7-DC polypeptides to stimulate immune responses in subjects in need thereof are provided. |
| FILED | Friday, July 11, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/171802 |
| ART UNIT | 1644 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
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| US 08153596 | Sebti et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida); Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Said M. Sebti (Tampa, Florida); Andrew D. Hamilton (Guilford, Connecticut); James Turkson (Orlando, Florida); Richard Jove (Glendora, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The subject invention concerns compositions and methods for blocking cancer cell growth or proliferation and/or inducing cancer cell death. Compositions of the present invention are peptidomimetics that inhibit STAT function. Peptidomimetics of the invention display selective inhibition of specific STAT isoform homo-dimerization. The peptidomimetic probes of STAT1 function, described herein, provide the means to preferentially inhibit STAT1 over STAT3 through the exploration of the C-terminus. |
| FILED | Monday, June 08, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/480376 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
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| US 08153597 | Stanton et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Bruce Stanton (Hanover, New Hampshire); George O'Toole, Jr. (Hanover, New Hampshire); Agnieszka Swiateck-Urban (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); Daniel P. MacEachran (Orford, New Hampshire); Sophie Moreau Marquis (Nashua, New Hampshire) |
| ABSTRACT | An isolated factor derived from the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa and confirmed by proteomics to be a protein that reduces expression of ABC transmembrane proteins and active fragments and mimetics thereof are provided. Also provided is a method for inhibiting expression of ABC transmembrane proteins in cells by administering to the cells the isolated factor or protein or active fragment thereof or a mimetic thereof. Such methods are useful in the enhancing delivery of small molecule therapeutic agents to the CNS and in treating cancers, particularly multidrug resistant cancers, and secretory diarrhea. In addition, compositions, methods for identifying compositions and methods for use of compositions that inhibit suppression of ABC transmembrane protein expression or reduce epoxide hydrolase activity by this factor are provided. Such compositions and methods are useful in treatment of cystic fibrosis. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 25, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/712336 |
| ART UNIT | 1654 — Fermentation, Microbiology, Isolated and Recombinant Proteins/Enzymes |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/21.200 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153620 | Mascharak |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Pradip K. Mascharak (Santa Cruz, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are nitric oxide delivery agents and methods of their use, more specifically to photoactive compounds, which are able to perform targeted delivery of nitric oxide in vitro and in vivo and are useful for medicinal applications including, but not limited, to blood pressure regulation and cancer treatment. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/540810 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/185 |
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| US 08153657 | Kozikowski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Georgetown University (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alan P. Kozikowski (Chicago, Illinois); Jia Zhou (Washington, District of Columbia) |
| ABSTRACT | One aspect of the invention relates to piperidine compounds that are useful as inhibitors of monoamine transporters. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions, comprising a piperidine compound of the invention. Another aspect of the present invention relates to the use of the aforementioned compounds in a method of treating a disorder of the central nervous system in a mammal. |
| FILED | Friday, October 22, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/576620 |
| ART UNIT | 1625 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/316 |
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| US 08153680 | Chen et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Ohio State University Research Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ching-Shih Chen (Upper Arlington, Ohio); Jing-Ru Weng (Taichung, Taiwan) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds and methods for treating cancer or inducing apoptosis in proliferating cells. The compounds are shown in formula I: wherein X is selected from hydroxyl, thiol, and amino; Y is selected from carboxyl and sulfonyl; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are selected from hydrogen, lower alkyl, and combinations thereof; R5, R6, and R7 are selected from hydrogen, halo, nitro, amino, methoxy, and combinations thereof; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/547036 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/415 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153684 | Lephart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); Brigham Young University Technology Transfer Office (Provo, Utah); Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Douglas Lephart (Orem, Utah); Trent D. Lund (Wheaton, Illinois); Kenneth David Reginald Setchell (Cincinnati, Ohio); Robert J. Handa (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Equol (7-hydroxy-3(4′hydroxyphenyl)-chroman), the major metabolite of the phytoestrogen daidzein, specifically binds and blocks the hormonal action of 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in vitro and in vivo. Equol can bind circulating free DHT and sequester it from the androgen receptor, thus altering growth and physiological hormone responses that are regulated by androgens. These data suggest a novel model to explain equol's biological properties. The significance of equol's ability to specifically bind and sequester DHT from the androgen receptor have important ramifications in health and disease and may indicate a broad and important usage for equol in the treatment and prevention of androgen-mediated pathologies. Thus, equol can specifically bind DHT and prevent DHT's biological actions in physiological and pathophysiological processes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572791 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153760 | Smith et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Thomas J. Smith (Saint Louis, Missouri); Umesh C. Katpally (Saint Louis, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates generally to peptide vaccines. More specifically, the present invention relates to vaccines against rhinoviruses and other related and non-related pathogenic animal viruses. In addition, the present invention relates generally to methods of designing and producing vaccines against viruses and, in certain embodiments, against rhinoviruses and other pathogenic viruses. |
| FILED | Tuesday, January 17, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/795623 |
| ART UNIT | 1648 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 530/324 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153773 | Jemielity et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College (Baton Rouge, Louisiana); University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Jacek Jemielity (Warsaw, Poland); Ewa M. Grudzien-Nogalska (Shreveport, Louisiana); Joanna Kowalska (Radom, Poland); Edward Darzynkiewicz (Izabelin, Poland); Robert E. Rhoads (Shreveport, Louisiana) |
| ABSTRACT | New RNA cap analogs are disclosed containing one or more phosphorothioates groups. The analogs also contain modifications at the 2′-O position of 7-methylguanosine that prevent them from being incorporated in the reverse orientation during in vitro synthesis of mRNA and that hence are “anti-reverse cap analogs” (ARCAs). The ARCA modification ensures that the S atom is precisely positioned within the active sites of cap-binding proteins in both the translational and decapping machinery. The new S-ARCA analogs are resistant to in vivo decapping enzymes. Some S-ARCAs have a higher affinity for eIF4E than the corresponding analogs not containing a phosphorothioate group. When mRNAs containing the various S-ARCAs are introduced into cultured cells, some are translated as much as five-fold more efficiently than mRNAs synthesized with the conventional analog m7GpppG. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 19, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/280282 |
| ART UNIT | 1637 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/23.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153776 | Hannon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gregory J. Hannon (Huntington, New York); Patrick Paddison (Seattle, Washington); Emily Bernstein (New York, New York); Amy Caudy (Lawrenceville, New Jersey); Douglas Conklin (Cold Spring Harbor, New York); Scott Hammond (Cold Spring Harbor, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods for attenuating gene expression in a cell, especially in a mammalian cell, using gene-targeted double stranded RNA (dsRNA), such as a hairpin RNA. The dsRNA contains a nucleotide sequence that hybridizes under physiologic conditions of the cell to the nucleotide sequence of at least a portion of the gene to be inhibited (the “target” gene). |
| FILED | Monday, August 20, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/894676 |
| ART UNIT | 1635 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/24.500 |
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| US 08153781 | Jacobson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, District of Columbia); Inserm (Paris, France) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Kenneth A. Jacobson (Silver Spring, Maryland); Yoonkyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea); Athena Klutz (Adelphi, Maryland); Beatrice Hechler (Strasbourg, France); Christian Gachet (Lalaye, France) |
| ABSTRACT | Disclosed are conjugates comprising a dendrimer and a ligand, which is a functionalized congener of an agonist or antagonist of a receptor of the G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, for example, wherein the functionalized congener is an A1 adenosine receptor agonist having a purine nucleoside moiety and a functional group at the N6 position of the purine nucleoside moiety, wherein the functional group has the formula (I): N6H—Ar1—CH2—C(═O)NH—R1 (I), wherein Ar1 and R1 as defined herein. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treating various diseases, and a diagnostic method employing such conjugates. |
| FILED | Friday, June 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/143451 |
| ART UNIT | 1623 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 536/27.130 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153784 | Bogdanov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexei Bogdanov (Westborough, Massachusetts); John W. Chen (Quincy, Massachusetts); Ralph Weissleder (Peabody, Massachusetts); Manel Querol (Calig, Spain) |
| ABSTRACT | This invention relates to biochemistry and magnetic resonance imaging. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 07, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/631720 |
| ART UNIT | 1622 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 540/465 |
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| US 08153818 | Charvat et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | ChemoCentryx, Inc. (Mountain View, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Trevor T. Charvat (San Jose, California); Cheng Hu (Menlo Park, California); Anita Melikian (San Francisco, California); Aaron Novack (San Jose, California); Andrew M. K. Pennell (San Francisco, California); Sreenivas Punna (Sunnyvale, California); Edward J. Sullivan (San Jose, California); Xuefei Tan (Union City, California); William D. Thomas (San Jose, California); Solomon Ungashe (Fremont, California); Yibin Zeng (San Mateo, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 or CCR9 receptor. Animal testing demonstrates that these compounds are useful for treating inflammation, a hallmark disease for CCR2 and CCR9. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases, CCR9-mediated diseases, as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR9 antagonists. |
| FILED | Friday, April 02, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/753342 |
| ART UNIT | 1626 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 548/262.200 |
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| US 08153827 | Davisson et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Purdue Research Foundation (Lafayette, Indiana) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vincent Jo Davisson (West Lafavette, Indiana); Shirshendu K. Deb (Bansdroni Kolkata, India); Giselle Marcelline Knudsen-Mooney (Indianapolis, Indiana); Meiguo Xin (West Lafayette, Indiana) |
| ABSTRACT | The present disclosure provides isotopically substituted compounds of the formula (I): wherein T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, R0, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined in the detailed description. The method for detection and quantification using the same is also disclosed. |
| FILED | Monday, December 29, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/345071 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/349 |
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| US 08153863 | Coruzzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gloria Coruzzi (New York, New York); Rodrigo A. Gutierrez (Santiago, Chile); Damion C. Nero (Woodside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants comprise a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1, operably linked to a plant-specific promote, wherein the CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 is ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plants, and wherein the promoter is optionally a constitutive or inducible promoter. In other embodiments, transgenic plants in which express a lower level of CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 are provided. Also provided herein are commercial products (e.g., pulp, paper, paper products, or lumber) derived from the transgenic plants (e.g., transgenic trees) produced using the methods provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079001 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
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| US 08154001 | Flynn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ryan Thomas Flynn (Iowa City, Iowa); Thomas R. Mackie (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | An ion radiation therapy machine provides a steerable beam for treating a tumor within the patient where the exposure spot of the beam is controlled in width and/or length to effect a flexible trade-off between treatment speed, accuracy, and uniformity. |
| FILED | Thursday, June 10, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/813291 |
| ART UNIT | 2881 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/505.100 |
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| US 08154286 | Weinberg |
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| INVENTOR(S) | Irving Weinberg (Besthesda, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A magnetic field generator includes a power source and a coil connected to the power source to generate a time-varying magnetic field. Energy is applied to the coil so that the coil generates a time-varying magnetic field gradient with a magnitude of at least 1 milliTesla per meter and a rise-time of less than 10 microseconds. One or more of a capacitor, a multi-stage high-voltage switch, and/or a pulse-forming network may assist with the generation of the magnetic field gradient. |
| FILED | Friday, June 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/488105 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/309 |
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| US 08154289 | Zelinski et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Adam C. Zelinski (Jersey City, New Jersey); Lawrence Wald (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Elfar Adalsteinsson (Belmont, Massachusetts); Vivek K Goyal (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A system and method is provided for simultaneously designing a radiofrequency (“RF”) pulse waveform and a magnetic field gradient waveform in a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system. The method includes determining a desired pattern of RF excitation and determining, from the desired pattern of RF excitation, a plurality of k-space locations indicative of the magnetic field gradient waveform and a plurality of complex weighting factors indicative of RF energy deposited at each k-space location. The method also includes calculating, from the determined k-space locations, the magnetic field gradient waveform and calculating, from the complex weighting factors, the RF pulse waveform that will produce the desired pattern of RF excitation when produced with the calculated magnetic field gradient. |
| FILED | Monday, April 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/422512 |
| ART UNIT | 2858 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Electricity: Measuring and testing 324/314 |
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| US 08155262 | Zhou et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Xintek, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Otto Z. Zhou (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jianping Lu (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Jian Zhang (Carrboro, North Carolina); Guang Yang (Carrboro, North Carolina); Yueh Lee (Durham, North Carolina); Qi Qiu (Cary, North Carolina); Yuan Cheng (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods, systems, and computer program products for multiplexing computed tomography are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein can include illuminating an object with a plurality of x-ray beams from a plurality of viewing angles, wherein each x-ray beam has a distinct waveform; detecting the x-ray intensities of the plurality of pulsed x-ray beams as a function of time, and extracting individual projection image data from the detected x-ray intensities based on the distinct waveforms of the x-ray beams for combining the projection image data to generate three-dimensional tomographic image data of the object. |
| FILED | Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/526217 |
| ART UNIT | 2882 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices 378/4 |
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| US 08155389 | Parker et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dennis Lee Parker (Centerville, Utah); Evgueni G. Kholmovski (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided which perform motion correction of image data. A first set of data and a second set of data of k-space data of an object to be imaged are received. The first set of data and the second set of data include a plurality of phase encoded lines that encompass the object to be imaged. The first set of data correlates with the second set of data. A cross-correlation is calculated by multiplying the first set of data and the second set of data in k-space. A value of the motion of the object to be imaged that occurred between acquisition of the first set of data and acquisition of the second set of data is calculated using the cross-correlation. The second set of data is corrected using the calculated value to remove the motion. The correction process is repeated until the k-space data is completely processed. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/190287 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/107 |
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| US 08155403 | Tschirren et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Juerg Tschirren (Iowa City, Iowa); Milan Sonka (Iowa City, Iowa); Joseph Reinhardt (Iowa City, Iowa); Geoffrey McLennan (Iowa City, Iowa); Eric Hoffman (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| ABSTRACT | Devices, such as computer readable media, and methods, such as automated methods, for labeling and/or matching. Some of the devices and methods are particularly useful for anatomical labeling of human airway trees. Some of the devices and methods are particularly useful for matching branch-points of human airway trees from represented in two or more graphs. |
| FILED | Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/122974 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/128 |
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| US 08155419 | Haider et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Clifton R. Haider (Rochester, Minnesota); Stephen J. Riederer (Rochester, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | An MRI system produces a three-dimensional image by acquiring NMR signals that fully sample a central region of k-space and partially sample peripheral region of k-space. Specifically, k-space is arranged as a three-dimensional (3D) Cartesian grid of points that is divided into a central region of k-space and a peripheral region of k-space. Points are selected in k-space within a plurality of radial vanes that extend radially outward from the central region of k-space through the peripheral region of k-space as viewed in a plane sampled by two phase encoding gradients to create a plurality of gaps between the radial vanes that is substantially a factor of N times greater in area than the radial vanes. Using an MRI system having arrays of RF receiver coils, NMR signals are acquired from a subject to fully sample the central region of the 3D k-space and undersample the peripheral region of k-space by only sampling k-space within the plurality of radial vanes. An image of the subject is reconstructed using the acquired NMR signals. |
| FILED | Monday, May 04, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/435391 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/131 |
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| US 08155730 | Pertsov et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Research Foundation of State University of New York (Albany, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Arkady M. Pertsov (Manlius, New York); Arvydas Matiukas (Syracuse, New York); Leslie M. Loew (West Hartford, Connecticut); Joseph P. Wuskell (West Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides a method of optical electrophysiological probing, including: providing a fluorescing chemical probe; contacting a thick portion of tissue with the fluorescing chemical probe to create a thick portion of treated tissue; applying a first range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation to the treated portion of tissue; and detecting a plurality of depth-specific emission wavelengths emitted from the thick portion of treated tissue. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/923282 |
| ART UNIT | 3768 — Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Surgery 6/473 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (, None) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eugene V. Gonze (Pinckney, Michigan); Michael J. Paratore, Jr. (Howell, Michigan); Frank Ament (Troy, Michigan) |
| ABSTRACT | An exhaust system that processes exhaust generated by an engine has a diesel particulate filter (DPF) that is disposed downstream of the engine and that filters particulates in the exhaust. An electrical heater is disposed upstream of the DPF and selectively heats the exhaust to initiate combustion of the particulates. Heat generated by combustion of particulates in the heater induces combustion of particulates within the DPF. A control module selectively enables current flow to the electrical heater for an initial period of a DPF regeneration cycle, and limits exhaust flow while the electrical heater is heating to a predetermined soot combustion temperature. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/890766 |
| ART UNIT | 3748 — Manufacturing Devices & Processes, Machine Tools & Hand Tools Group Art Units |
| CURRENT CPC | Power plants 060/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08151880 | Roes et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Shell Oil Company (Houston, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Augustinus Wilhelmus Maria Roes (Houston, Texas); Weijian Mo (Sugar Land, Texas); Michel Serge Marie Muylle (Houston, Texas); Remco Hugo Mandema (Houston, Texas); Vijay Nair (Katy, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for producing alkylated hydrocarbons is disclosed. Formation fluid is produced from a subsurface in situ heat treatment process. The formation fluid is separated to produce a liquid stream and a first gas stream. The first gas stream includes olefins. The liquid stream is fractionated to produce at least a second gas stream including hydrocarbons having a carbon number of at least 3. The first gas stream and the second gas stream are introduced into an alkylation unit to produce alkylated hydrocarbons. At least a portion of the olefins in the first gas stream enhance alkylation. The alkylated hydrocarbons may be blended with one or more components to produce transportation fuel. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 09, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/964548 |
| ART UNIT | 3676 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Wells 166/267 |
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| US 08152439 | Lawlor |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Ramgen Power Systems, LLC (Bellevue, Washington) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Shawn P. Lawlor (Bellevue, Washington) |
| ABSTRACT | A supersonic gas compressor. The compressor includes aerodynamic duct(s) situated on a rotor journaled in a casing. The aerodynamic duct(s) generate a plurality of oblique shock waves for efficiently compressing a gas at supersonic conditions. The convergent inlet is adjacent to a bleed air collector, and during acceleration of the rotor, bypass gas is removed from the convergent inlet via a collector to enable supersonic shock stabilization. Once the oblique shocks are stabilized at a selected inlet relative Mach number and pressure ratio, the bleed of bypass gas from the convergent inlet via the bypass gas collectors is eliminated. |
| FILED | Friday, January 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/355702 |
| ART UNIT | 2813 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps 415/1 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); University of Tennessee Research Foundation (Knoxville, Tennessee); Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation (Martinsville, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James G. Blencoe (Harriman, Tennessee); Lawrence M. Anovitz (Knoxville, Tennessee); Donald A. Palmer (Oliver Springs, Tennessee); James S. Beard (Martinsville, Virginia) |
| ABSTRACT | A process of producing magnesium metal includes providing magnesium carbonate, and reacting the magnesium carbonate to produce a magnesium-containing compound and carbon dioxide. The magnesium-containing compound is reacted to produce magnesium metal. The carbon dioxide is used as a reactant in a second process. In another embodiment of the process, a magnesium silicate is reacted with a caustic material to produce magnesium hydroxide. The magnesium hydroxide is reacted with a source of carbon dioxide to produce magnesium carbonate. The magnesium carbonate is reacted to produce a magnesium-containing compound and carbon dioxide. The magnesium-containing compound is reacted to produce magnesium metal. The invention also relates to the magnesium metal produced by the processes described herein. |
| FILED | Monday, February 22, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/709726 |
| 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 075/594 |
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| US 08152980 | Singh et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Dileep Singh (Naperville, Illinois); Jules Routbort (Hinsdale, Illinois); Prabir Dutta (Worthington, Ohio); John V. Spirig (Somerset, New Jersey) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and an article of an electrically conductive ceramic interconnect bonded to a compatible ceramic housing for an oxygen partial pressure sensor system. The interconnect includes a LaxSryAlzMn1−zO3 (LSAM) having a stoichiometry enabling good electrical conductivity at high temperatures and the LSAM also bonded to a yttria stabilized zirconia forming a stable and durable seal. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/861941 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical and wave energy 24/427 |
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| US 08152988 | Aulich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Enviromental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Junhua Jiang (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and apparatus for the preparation of nitrogen fertilizers including ammonium nitrate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate, and/or ammonia, at low temperature and pressure, preferably at ambient temperature and pressure, utilizing a source of carbon, a source of nitrogen, and/or a source of hydrogen or hydrogen equivalent. Implementing an electrolyte serving as ionic charge carrier, (1) ammonium nitrate is produced via the reduction of a nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a nitrogen source at the anode; (2) urea or its isomers are produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source; (3) ammonia is produced via the reduction of nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a hydrogen source or a hydrogen equivalent such as carbon monoxide or a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen at the anode; and (4) urea-ammonium nitrate is produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source, and anodic oxidation of a nitrogen source. The electrolyte can be aqueous, non-aqueous, or solid. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/200621 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/551 |
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| US 08153014 | Doorn et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Los Alamos National Security, LLC (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Stephen K. Doorn (Los Alamos, New Mexico); Sandip Niyogi (Los Alamos, New Mexico) |
| ABSTRACT | A mixture of single-walled carbon nanotubes (“SWNTs”) is separated into fractions of enriched chirality by preparing an aqueous suspension of a mixture of SWNTs and a surfactant, injecting a portion of the suspension on a column of separation medium having a density gradient, and centrifuging the column. In some embodiments, salt is added prior to centrifugation. In other embodiments, the centrifugation is performed at a temperature below room temperature. Fractions separate as colored bands in the column. The diameter of the separated SWNTs decreases with increasing density along the gradient of the column. The colored bands can be withdrawn separately from the column. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/150813 |
| ART UNIT | 1778 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Liquid purification or separation 210/781 |
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| US 08153020 | Srinivasan et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Sesha S. Srinivasan (Tampa, Florida); Michael U. Niemann (Venice, Florida); D. Yogi Goswami (Tampa, Florida); Elias K. Stefanakos (Tampa, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | A ternary hydrogen storage system having a constant stoichiometric molar ratio of LiNH2:MgH2:LiBH4 of 2:1:1. It was found that the incorporation of MgH2 particles of approximately 10 nm to 20 nm exhibit a lower initial hydrogen release temperature of 150° C. Furthermore, it is observed that the particle size of LiBNH quaternary hydride has a significant effect on the hydrogen sorption concentration with an optimum size of 28 nm. The as-synthesized hydrides exhibit two main hydrogen release temperatures, one around 160° C. and the other around 300° C., with the main hydrogen release temperature reduced from 310° C. to 270° C., while hydrogen is first reversibly released at temperatures as low as 150° C. with a total hydrogen capacity of 6 wt. % to 8 wt. %. Detailed thermal, capacity, structural and microstructural properties have been demonstrated and correlated with the activation energies of these materials. |
| FILED | Thursday, March 19, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/407116 |
| ART UNIT | 1761 — Organic Chemistry, Polymers, Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Compositions 252/188.250 |
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| US 08153094 | Pol et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, Illinois) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Vilas G. Pol (Westmont, Illinois); Pappannan Thiyagarajan (Germantown, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A single step process for degrading plastic waste by converting the plastic waste into carbonaceous products via thermal decomposition of the plastic waste by placing the plastic waste into a reactor, heating the plastic waste under an inert or air atmosphere until the temperature of 700° C. is achieved, allowing the reactor to cool down, and recovering the resulting decomposition products therefrom. The decomposition products that this process yields are carbonaceous materials, and more specifically egg-shaped and spherical-shaped solid carbons. Additionally, in the presence of a transition metal compound, this thermal decomposition process produces multi-walled carbon nanotubes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/507300 |
| ART UNIT | 1732 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry of inorganic compounds 423/445.R00 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | John F. Cooper (Oakland, California) |
| ABSTRACT | An electrochemical cell apparatus that can operate as either a fuel cell or a battery includes a cathode compartment, an anode compartment operatively connected to the cathode compartment, and a carbon fuel cell section connected to the anode compartment and the cathode compartment. An effusion plate is operatively positioned adjacent the anode compartment or the cathode compartment. The effusion plate allows passage of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide exhaust channels are operatively positioned in the electrochemical cell to direct the carbon dioxide from the electrochemical cell. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/879568 |
| ART UNIT | 1727 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/476 |
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| US 08153432 | Church et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | George M. Church (Brookline, Massachusetts); Harris H. Wang (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Farren J. Isaacs (Brookline, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to automated methods of introducing multiple nucleic acid sequences into one or more target cells. |
| FILED | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/427478 |
| ART UNIT | 1636 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Molecular biology and microbiology 435/455 |
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| US 08153554 | Ritter et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James A. Ritter (Lexington, South Carolina); Tao Wang (Columbia, South Carolina); Armin D. Ebner (Lexington, South Carolina); Charles E. Holland (Cayce, South Carolina) |
| ABSTRACT | In accordance with the present disclosure, a process for synthesis of a complex hydride material for hydrogen storage is provided. The process includes mixing a borohydride with at least one additive agent and at least one catalyst and heating the mixture at a temperature of less than about 600° C. and a pressure of H2 gas to form a complex hydride material. The complex hydride material comprises MAlxByHz, wherein M is an alkali metal or group IIA metal, Al is the element aluminum, x is any number from 0 to 1, B is the element boron, y is a number from 0 to 13, and z is a number from 4 to 57 with the additive agent and catalyst still being present. The complex hydride material is capable of cyclic dehydrogenation and rehydrogenation and has a hydrogen capacity of at least about 4 weight percent. |
| FILED | Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/940651 |
| ART UNIT | 1736 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography |
| CURRENT CPC | Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: Product or process of making 52/414 |
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| US 08153698 | Cortright et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wisconsin); Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Randy D. Cortright (Madison, Wisconsin); James A. Dumesic (Verona, Wisconsin) |
| ABSTRACT | A low-temperature catalytic process for converting biomass (preferably glycerol recovered from the fabrication of bio-diesel) to synthesis gas (i.e., H2/CO gas mixture) in an endothermic gasification reaction is described. The synthesis gas is used in exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions, such as Fischer-Tropsch, methanol, or dimethylether syntheses. The heat from the exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction is integrated with the endothermic gasification reaction, thus providing an energy-efficient route for producing fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources. |
| FILED | Wednesday, December 08, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/962747 |
| ART UNIT | 1621 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Fischer-Tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof 518/706 |
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| US 08153863 | Coruzzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gloria Coruzzi (New York, New York); Rodrigo A. Gutierrez (Santiago, Chile); Damion C. Nero (Woodside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants comprise a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1, operably linked to a plant-specific promote, wherein the CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 is ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plants, and wherein the promoter is optionally a constitutive or inducible promoter. In other embodiments, transgenic plants in which express a lower level of CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 are provided. Also provided herein are commercial products (e.g., pulp, paper, paper products, or lumber) derived from the transgenic plants (e.g., transgenic trees) produced using the methods provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079001 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
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| US 08153986 | Mihailescu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lucian Mihailescu (Livermore, California); Kai M. Vetter (Alameda, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A system in one embodiment includes an array of radiation detectors; and an array of imagers positioned behind the array of detectors relative to an expected trajectory of incoming radiation. A method in another embodiment includes detecting incoming radiation with an array of radiation detectors; detecting the incoming radiation with an array of imagers positioned behind the array of detectors relative to a trajectory of the incoming radiation; and performing at least one of Compton imaging using at least the imagers and coded aperture imaging using at least the imagers. A method in yet another embodiment includes detecting incoming radiation with an array of imagers positioned behind an array of detectors relative to a trajectory of the incoming radiation; and performing Compton imaging using at least the imagers. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170323 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/370.100 |
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| US 08153988 | Diawara et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, Tennessee) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yacouba Diawara (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Menyhert Kocsis (Venon, France) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector employs a porous material layer including pores between nanoparticles. The composition of the nanoparticles is selected to cause emission of electrons upon detection of a neutron. The nanoparticles have a maximum dimension that is in the range from 0.1 micron to 1 millimeter, and can be sintered with pores thereamongst. A passing radiation generates electrons at one or more nanoparticles, some of which are scattered into a pore and directed toward a direction opposite to the applied electrical field. These electrons travel through the pore and collide with additional nanoparticles, which generate more electrons. The electrons are amplified in a cascade reaction that occurs along the pores behind the initial detection point. An electron amplification device may be placed behind the porous material layer to further amplify the electrons exiting the porous material layer. |
| FILED | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/844960 |
| ART UNIT | 2884 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Radiant energy 250/390.110 |
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| US 08154185 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wanli Yang (El Cerrito, California); Jason D. Fabbri (San Francisco, California); Nicholas A. Melosh (Menlo Park, California); Zahid Hussain (Orinda, California); Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are electron emitters based upon diamondoid monolayers, preferably self-assembled higher diamondoid monolayers. High intensity electron emission has been demonstrated employing such diamondoid monolayers, particularly when the monolayers are comprised of higher diamondoids. The application of such diamondoid monolayers can alter the band structure of substrates, as well as emit monochromatic electrons, and the high intensity electron emissions can also greatly improve the efficiency of field-effect electron emitters as applied to industrial and commercial applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704910 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/311 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit, Michigan) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David H. Miller (Redondo Beach, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Sensor mount assemblies and sensor assemblies are provided. In an embodiment, by way of example only, a sensor mount assembly includes a busbar, a main body, a backing surface, and a first finger. The busbar has a first end and a second end. The main body is overmolded onto the busbar. The backing surface extends radially outwardly relative to the main body. The first finger extends axially from the backing surface, and the first finger has a first end, a second end, and a tooth. The first end of the first finger is disposed on the backing surface, and the tooth is formed on the second end of the first finger. |
| FILED | Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/263196 |
| ART UNIT | 2833 — Electrical Circuits and Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical resistors 338/334 |
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| US 08155258 | Rowland et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mark S. Rowland (Alamo, California); Neal J. Snyderman (Berkeley, California) |
| ABSTRACT | A neutron detector system for discriminating fissile material from non-fissile material wherein a digital data acquisition unit collects data at high rate, and in real-time processes large volumes of data directly into information that a first responder can use to discriminate materials. The system comprises counting neutrons from the unknown source and detecting excess grouped neutrons to identify fission in the unknown source. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/233228 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Induced nuclear reactions: Processes, systems, and elements 376/156 |
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| US 08155929 | Fitch et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Simeon H. K. Fitch (Charlottesville, Virginia); David S. Riha (San Antonio, Texas); Ben H. Thacker (San Antonio, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for computing geometric perturbations for probabilistic analysis. The probabilistic analysis is based on finite element modeling, in which uncertainties in the modeled system are represented by changes in the nominal geometry of the model, referred to as “perturbations”. These changes are accomplished using displacement vectors, which are computed for each node of a region of interest and are based on mean-value coordinate calculations. |
| FILED | Friday, September 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/239336 |
| ART UNIT | 2123 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/2 |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Miao Yu (Potomac, Maryland); Hyungdae Bae (College Park, Maryland); Xuming Zhang (Hyattsville, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Ultra-miniature surface-mountable Fabry-Perot pressure sensor is constructed on an optical fiber which utilizes a 45° angled fiber tip covered with a reflective layer which steers the optical axis of the fiber by 90°. The Fabry-Perot cavity is formed on the sidewall of the fiber and a polymer-metal composite diaphragm is formed on the top of the Fabry-Perot cavity to operate as a pressure transducer. The sensor exhibits a sufficient linearity over the broad pressure range with a high sensitivity. The sensitivity of the sensor may be tuned by controlling the thickness of the diaphragm. The sensor may be used in a wide range of applications, including reliable in vivo low invasive pressure measurements of biological fluids, single sensor systems, as well as integral spatial-division-multiplexing sensor networks. Methods of batch production of uniform device-to-device Fabry-Perot pressure sensors of co-axial and cross-axial configurations are presented. |
| FILED | Tuesday, August 03, 2010 |
| APPL NO | 12/849436 |
| ART UNIT | 2855 — Printing/Measuring and Testing |
| CURRENT CPC | Measuring and testing 073/705 |
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| US 08152992 | Smela et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elisabeth Smela (Silver Spring, Maryland); Pamela Ann Abshire (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the reliable detection of chemical stimuli using a “nose-on-a-chip” are presented. The invention uses cells sensitive to chemical stimuli and detects and processes the signals given by the cells upon contact with chemical stimuli. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216604 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/777.500 |
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| US 08153119 | Collins et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Trustees of Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | James J Collins (Newton Center, Massachusetts); Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention is directed to engineered enzymatically active bacteriophages that are both capable of killing the bacteria by lysis and dispersing the bacterial biofilm because they have been also engineered to express biofilm-degrading enzymes, particularly dispersin B (DspB), an enzyme that hydrolyzes β-1,6-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, a crucial adhesion molecule needed for biofilm formation and integrity in Staphylococcus and E. coli, including E. coli K-12, as well as clinical isolates. |
| FILED | Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/337677 |
| ART UNIT | 1633 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/93.600 |
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| US 08153233 | Sheng et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoxia Sheng (Buffalo Grove, Illinois); Lei Zhai (Somerville, Massachusetts); Michael F. Rubner (Westford, Massachusetts); Robert E. Cohen (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A surface with superhydrophobic and hydrophilic or superhydrophilic regions can be made. The hydrophilic or superhydrophilic regions can selective collect water on the surface. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/530751 |
| ART UNIT | 1783 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/141 |
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| US 08153324 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lulu Song (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A controlled-release fuel cell comprising (a) a proton exchange membrane having a first surface and a second surface, a fuel electrode or anode being coupled to the first surface, and an oxidant electrode or cathode being coupled to the second surface; (b) a fuel flow field plate having surface channels positioned in front of the anode with the channels containing therein a controlled-release material that retains a liquid fuel at or below an ambient temperature, but releases the fuel at a temperature higher than an activation temperature to deliver a fuel vapor to the anode; (c) heating means in heat-supplying relation to the controlled-release material to activate fuel vapor release on demand at a desired rate; and (d) fuel supply means that feeds the liquid fuel to the controlled-release material. The invented fuel cell is compact and lightweight, with significantly reduced fuel crossover and improved fuel utilization efficiency. The fuel cell is particularly useful for powering small vehicles and portable devices such as a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant, a mobile phone, and a digital camera. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353463 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/457 |
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| US 08153439 | Zamborini et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Lousiville Research Foundation, Inc. (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Francis P. Zamborini (Louisville, Kentucky); Francisco J. Ibanez (Louisville, Kentucky) |
| ABSTRACT | The presently-disclosed subject matter provides sensors and methods for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by determining the conductivity of a chemiresistant film upon exposure to VOCs, including for example chemiresistant films comprised of surfactant-coated metal alloy nanoparticles. |
| FILED | Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/279950 |
| ART UNIT | 1773 — Chemical Apparatus, Separation and Purification, Liquid and Gas Contact Apparatus |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/127 |
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| US 08153470 | Lieber et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Charles M. Lieber (Lexington, Massachusetts); Yi Cui (Union City, California); Xiangfeng Duan (Mountain View, California); Yu Huang (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| ABSTRACT | A method for selectively aligning and positioning semiconductor nanowires on a substrate by providing a substrate; patterning electrodes on a surface of the substrate; conditioning the surface of the substrate to attach semiconductor nanowires to the surface by functionalizing the surface with a first functional group having an affinity for the semiconductor nanowires; providing an environment in contact with the electrodes, the environment having suspended therein the semiconductor nanowires; and providing an electric field between the electrodes, thereby causing the nanowires in the environment to align between and electrically connect the electrodes to thereby form a semiconducting channel between the electrodes. |
| FILED | Wednesday, October 04, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/543337 |
| ART UNIT | 2894 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Semiconductor device manufacturing: Process 438/99 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153863 | Coruzzi et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | New York University (New York, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Gloria Coruzzi (New York, New York); Rodrigo A. Gutierrez (Santiago, Chile); Damion C. Nero (Woodside, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants comprise a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1, operably linked to a plant-specific promote, wherein the CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 is ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plants, and wherein the promoter is optionally a constitutive or inducible promoter. In other embodiments, transgenic plants in which express a lower level of CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 are provided. Also provided herein are commercial products (e.g., pulp, paper, paper products, or lumber) derived from the transgenic plants (e.g., transgenic trees) produced using the methods provided herein. |
| FILED | Monday, March 24, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/079001 |
| ART UNIT | 1638 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes 8/295 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154185 | Yang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Wanli Yang (El Cerrito, California); Jason D. Fabbri (San Francisco, California); Nicholas A. Melosh (Menlo Park, California); Zahid Hussain (Orinda, California); Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Provided are electron emitters based upon diamondoid monolayers, preferably self-assembled higher diamondoid monolayers. High intensity electron emission has been demonstrated employing such diamondoid monolayers, particularly when the monolayers are comprised of higher diamondoids. The application of such diamondoid monolayers can alter the band structure of substrates, as well as emit monochromatic electrons, and the high intensity electron emissions can also greatly improve the efficiency of field-effect electron emitters as applied to industrial and commercial applications. |
| FILED | Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/704910 |
| ART UNIT | 2879 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Electric lamp and discharge devices 313/311 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154354 | Ricketts et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Ricketts (Warwick, Rhode Island); Donhee Ham (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Xiaofeng Li (Luoyang, China PRC) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and apparatus for implementing stable self-starting and self-sustaining high-speed electrical nonlinear pulse (e.g., soliton, cnoidal wave, or quasi-soliton) oscillators. Chip-scale nonlinear pulse oscillator devices may be fabricated using III-V semiconductor materials (e.g., GaAs) to attain soliton pulse widths on the order of a few picoseconds or less (e.g., 1 to 2 picoseconds, corresponding to frequencies of approximately 300 GHz or greater). In one example, a nonlinear pulse oscillator is implemented as a closed loop structure that comprises a nonlinear transmission line and a distributed nonlinear amplifier arrangement configured to provide a self-adjusting gain as a function of an average voltage of the oscillator signal. In another example, a nonlinear oscillator employing a lumped nonlinear amplifier and a nonlinear transmission line in a closed loop arrangement may be used in combination with a two-port nonlinear transmission line that provides additional pulse compression for pulses circulating in the oscillator. |
| FILED | Wednesday, September 06, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/991577 |
| ART UNIT | 2817 — Semiconductors/Memory |
| CURRENT CPC | Oscillators 331/107.DP0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154455 | Landon et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City, Utah); L-3 Communications Corporation (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| INVENTOR(S) | David Glen Landon (Salt Lake City, Utah); Cynthia Mahoney Furse (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| ABSTRACT | A wireless communication system can include polarization agile antennas to enable adaptation to the polarization characteristics of a changing propagation channel. In one embodiment, a mobile terminal can include one or more polarization-agile antennas, and can select polarization orientations that are preferentially propagated through the changing propagation channel. In another embodiment, a mobile terminal having two polarization-agile antennas can provide spatial diversity, polarization diversity, or combinations of both. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems can include polarization-agile antennas to allow for switching between spatial and polarization diversity, combined spatial and polarization diversity, and various Eigen channel decompositions using spatial, polarization, and combined spatial and polarization dimensions. An extended polar normalization provides enhanced fidelity for methods of communications system modeling. |
| FILED | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/959322 |
| 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 343/700.MS0 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154512 | Olien et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Immersion Coporation (San Jose, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Neil T. Olien (Montreal, Canada); Pedro Gregorio (Verdun, Canada) |
| ABSTRACT | Products and processes for providing haptic feedback in a user interface are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment of an apparatus comprises a first element comprising a first surface, a second element comprising a second surface, and an actuator configured vary a force between the first and second surfaces. In one embodiment, the second element may be configured to be displaced relative to first element in a degree of freedom. In another embodiment, at least one of the first surface and the second surface may comprise a thermoplastic polymer. |
| FILED | Monday, April 20, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/426862 |
| ART UNIT | 2629 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems 345/156 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154793 | Wise et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank W. Wise (Ithaca, New York); Lyuba Kuznetsova (Cambridge, Massachusetts); Chin Yu Chong (Ithaca, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | A chirped-pulse fiber amplification method and system operates with large nonlinear phase shifts (as large as ˜20π or more). In this regime, the pulse spectrum is modified by strong self-phase modulation and gain shaping. With large-enough nonlinear phase shift, substantial spectral broadening occurs. The amplified spectrum can therefore be much broader than the spectrum that is obtained with small nonlinear phase shifts. The broader spectrum enables the formation of a shorter pulse, and the bandwidth generated in nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification can in fact be exploited to generate shorter pulses. Ultimately, this allows the generation of pulses shorter than the gain-narrowing limit of a fiber amplifier. |
| FILED | Tuesday, May 27, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/127725 |
| ART UNIT | 3663 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Optical: Systems and elements 359/341.100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155375 | Tewfik et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Regents of the University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ahmed Tewfik (Edina, Minnesota); Bin Zhu (Beijing, China PRC); Mitch Swanson (Eden Prairie, Minnesota) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of embedding and detecting watermarks in video use temporal analysis to compute temporal components of video from which the watermarks are embedded and detected. Temporal analysis, such as a temporal wavelet, is used to compute representations of static and dynamic portions of the video. For embedding, watermarks are computed from and/or adapted to the temporal components. For detecting, temporal properties are exploited to detect watermarks in the static and/or dynamic components. Temporal analysis also enables plural watermarks to be embedded at different levels of temporal resolution. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/928300 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/100 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155382 | Rubenstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P. Rubenstein (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein is generally directed to methods for analyzing an image. In particular, crowded field images may be analyzed for unidentified, unobserved objects based on an iterative analysis of modified images including artificial objects or removed real objects. The results can provide an estimate of the completeness of analysis of the image, an estimate of the number of objects that are unobserved in the image, and an assessment of the quality of other similar images. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074465 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
| US 08152366 | Kang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Delaware (Newark, Delaware) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Yong Q. Kang (Elkton, Maryland); Young-Heon Jo (Camden, Delaware); Xiao-Hai Yan (Newark, Delaware) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of determining a subsurface temperature in a body of water is disclosed. The method includes obtaining surface temperature anomaly data and surface height anomaly data of the body of water for a region of interest, and also obtaining subsurface temperature anomaly data for the region of interest at a plurality of depths. The method further includes regressing the obtained surface temperature anomaly data and surface height anomaly data for the region of interest with the obtained subsurface temperature anomaly data for the plurality of depths to generate regression coefficients, estimating a subsurface temperature at one or more other depths for the region of interest based on the generated regression coefficients and outputting the estimated subsurface temperature at the one or more other depths. Using the estimated subsurface temperature, signal propagation times and trajectories of marine life in the body of water are determined. |
| FILED | Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/321559 |
| ART UNIT | 2841 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| CURRENT CPC | Thermal measuring and testing 374/136 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153280 | Mehregany et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Mehran Mehregany (Pepper Pike, Ohio); Christian A. Zorman (Euclid, Ohio); Xiao-An Fu (Mayfield Village, Ohio); Jeremy L. Dunning (Berea, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A method of depositing a ceramic film, particularly a silicon carbide film, on a substrate is disclosed in which the residual stress, residual stress gradient, and resistivity are controlled. Also disclosed are substrates having a deposited film with these controlled properties and devices, particularly MEMS and NEMS devices, having substrates with films having these properties. |
| FILED | Wednesday, April 18, 2007 |
| APPL NO | 11/736964 |
| ART UNIT | 1784 — Miscellaneous Articles, Stock Material |
| CURRENT CPC | Stock material or miscellaneous articles 428/698 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08154727 | Dreyer et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Chris Dreyer (Lakewood, Colorado); Greg S. Mungas (Arcadia, California) |
| ABSTRACT | Laser light is confined in a hollow waveguide between two highly reflective mirrors. This waveguide cavity is used to conduct Cavity Ringdown Absorption Spectroscopy of loss mechanisms in the cavity including absorption or scattering by gases, liquid, solids, and/or optical elements. |
| FILED | Monday, March 03, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/041648 |
| ART UNIT | 2886 — Optics |
| CURRENT CPC | Optics: Measuring and testing 356/437 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155939 | Hughes |
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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) | David W. Hughes (Columbia, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | A method and model of predicting particle-surface interactions with a surface, such as the surface of a spacecraft. The method includes the steps of: determining a trajectory path of a plurality of moving particles; predicting whether any of the moving particles will intersect a surface; predicting whether any of the particles will be captured by the surface and/or; predicting a reflected trajectory and velocity of particles reflected from the surface. |
| FILED | Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/170683 |
| ART UNIT | 2128 — AI & Simulation/Modeling |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 73/6 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156371 | Oliver et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Honeywell International Inc. (Morristown, New Jersey) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Brett D. Oliver (Tampa, Florida); Joseph Caltagirone (Tampa, Florida); Christopher Brickner (St. Petersburg, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | An apparatus comprises first and second modules configured to operate in a lockstep mode and a reset mode. Each of the first and second modules is configured to asynchronously enter the reset mode when a parent reset signal is asserted at the respective each module. Each of the first and second modules is configured to, in response to the asserted parent reset signal being negated at the respective each module, indicate to the respective other module that the respective each module is ready to exit the reset mode and exit the reset mode when the respective other module has also indicated that the respective other module is ready to exit the reset mode. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/485581 |
| ART UNIT | 2114 — Computer Error Control, Reliability, & Control Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 714/12 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
| US 08152988 | Aulich et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Energy and Enviromental Research Center Foundation (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Ted R. Aulich (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Edwin S. Olson (Grand Forks, North Dakota); Junhua Jiang (Grand Forks, North Dakota) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention provides methods and apparatus for the preparation of nitrogen fertilizers including ammonium nitrate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate, and/or ammonia, at low temperature and pressure, preferably at ambient temperature and pressure, utilizing a source of carbon, a source of nitrogen, and/or a source of hydrogen or hydrogen equivalent. Implementing an electrolyte serving as ionic charge carrier, (1) ammonium nitrate is produced via the reduction of a nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a nitrogen source at the anode; (2) urea or its isomers are produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source; (3) ammonia is produced via the reduction of nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a hydrogen source or a hydrogen equivalent such as carbon monoxide or a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen at the anode; and (4) urea-ammonium nitrate is produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source, and anodic oxidation of a nitrogen source. The electrolyte can be aqueous, non-aqueous, or solid. |
| FILED | Thursday, August 28, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/200621 |
| ART UNIT | 1759 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/551 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153415 | 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); Doug Lies (Parker, Colorado); Matthew Peters (Highland 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 | Thursday, March 31, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/077170 |
| 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 08153684 | Lephart et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Colorado State University Research Foundation (Fort Collins, Colorado); Brigham Young University Technology Transfer Office (Provo, Utah); Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Edwin Douglas Lephart (Orem, Utah); Trent D. Lund (Wheaton, Illinois); Kenneth David Reginald Setchell (Cincinnati, Ohio); Robert J. Handa (Fort Collins, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Equol (7-hydroxy-3(4′hydroxyphenyl)-chroman), the major metabolite of the phytoestrogen daidzein, specifically binds and blocks the hormonal action of 5α-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in vitro and in vivo. Equol can bind circulating free DHT and sequester it from the androgen receptor, thus altering growth and physiological hormone responses that are regulated by androgens. These data suggest a novel model to explain equol's biological properties. The significance of equol's ability to specifically bind and sequester DHT from the androgen receptor have important ramifications in health and disease and may indicate a broad and important usage for equol in the treatment and prevention of androgen-mediated pathologies. Thus, equol can specifically bind DHT and prevent DHT's biological actions in physiological and pathophysiological processes. |
| FILED | Friday, October 02, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/572791 |
| ART UNIT | 1628 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 514/456 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA)
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veteran Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); The Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Nathan Ravi (Chesterfield, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | The present invention relates to reversible hydrogel systems. Particularly, the hydrogel of the present invention is made up of copolymers that can be a hydrogel when in an oxidize state and can be a solution when in a reduced state. A solution of the copolymer can be oxidized to form a hydrogel; and the hydrogel can be reduced to form a solution of the copolymer. Reversible nanogels can also be formed from a dilute solution of the copolymers. The hydrogel is formed with nanoparticles embedded therein to form a nanocomposite whose refractive index and modulus can be controlled by varying the amounts of nanoparticles and the polymer concentration of the hydrogel, respectively. |
| FILED | Friday, September 03, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/574667 |
| ART UNIT | 1617 — Organic Compounds: Bio-affecting, Body Treating, Drug Delivery, Steroids, Herbicides, Pesticides, Cosmetics, and Drugs |
| CURRENT CPC | Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 424/489 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08153436 | Cheung |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The United States of America as represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington, District of Columbia); University of Miami (Miami, Florida) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Herman S. Cheung (Miami, Florida) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods of assaying for disease-associated crystal species in biological samples are described. Such methods involve contacting a patient sample with an excess of a detectable crystal-tagging compound reactive with a plurality of crystal species under conditions that allow the detectable crystal-tagging compound to react with a plurality of crystal species, if present, to form tagged crystal species complexes. Substantially all unreacted tagging compound is then removed. If desired, chemical, enzymatic, or physical treatment can be used to selectively degrade some, but not, of the tagged crystal species. Assessment of soluble versus crystal-associated label is then performed. |
| FILED | Thursday, February 14, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/031689 |
| ART UNIT | 1641 — Immunology, Receptor/Ligands, Cytokines Recombinant Hormones, and Molecular Biology |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Analytical and immunological testing 436/79 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA)
| US 08155391 | Tang et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Geoeye Solutions, Inc. (Herndon, Virginia) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Matthew Tang (Denver, Colorado); Richard Clelland (Boulder, Colorado); Jacek Grodecki (Thornton, Colorado); Seth Malitz (Aurora, Colorado); Joshua Nolting (Thornton, Colorado) |
| ABSTRACT | Method for editing a vector set associated with an extracted linear feature in a remotely sensed image, the vector set defining a path and being tied to a geographical location. The method includes displaying the path in a graphical display. Once the user activates a smart editing tool, the user establishes a region of influence centered around a cursor. The region of influence is configured to respond to cursor movements. The user specifies a point near the path and moves the cursor to it, brining the region of influence along. Any error in the vector set of the path is automatically corrected in real time using image-based logic. The user then previews the correction on the graphical display and implements it, updating the path. The updated path is displayed in real time in the graphical display. |
| FILED | Tuesday, October 27, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/606918 |
| ART UNIT | 3662 — Computerized Vehicle Controls and Navigation, Radio Wave, Optical and Acoustic Wave Communication, Robotics, and Nuclear Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/113 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156136 | Davis et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Missouri) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Curtis Herbert Davis (Columbia, Missouri); Matthew Nicholas Klaric (Columbia, Missouri); Grant Jason Scott (Columbia, Missouri); Brian Christopher Claywell (Columbia, Missouri); Chi-Ren Shyu (Columbia, Missouri) |
| ABSTRACT | A method, system, and medium are provided for revising a first set of search results related to high-resolution satellite imagery. One embodiment of the method includes receiving a query that seeks high-resolution, remotely sensed images of geographic areas that have changed consistent with a given change signature; returning indications of the geographic areas; and presenting a first set of images that corresponds to the indications; presenting a set of feedback of options in connection with each of the set of images, wherein the feedback options include one or more of a more-like-this option and a less-like-this option; such that a second set of images can be identified based on receiving input by way of the feedback options. |
| FILED | Monday, October 20, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/254673 |
| ART UNIT | 2156 — Data Bases & File Management |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Database and file management or data structures 77/766 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
National Security Agency (NSA)
| US 08152992 | Smela et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Elisabeth Smela (Silver Spring, Maryland); Pamela Ann Abshire (Silver Spring, Maryland) |
| ABSTRACT | Methods and compositions for the reliable detection of chemical stimuli using a “nose-on-a-chip” are presented. The invention uses cells sensitive to chemical stimuli and detects and processes the signals given by the cells upon contact with chemical stimuli. |
| FILED | Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
| APPL NO | 11/216604 |
| ART UNIT | 1724 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrolysis: Processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions 25/777.500 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08156310 | Eichenberger et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, New York) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Alexandre E. Eichenberger (Chappaqua, New York); Michael Karl Gschwind (Chappaqua, New York); John-David Wellman (Hopewell Junction, New York); Peng Wu (Fairport, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for data stream alignment support includes retrieving a first input from a first register file, retrieving a second input from a second register file, the second register file being dedicated to a stream shift unit and performing the stream shift instruction in accordance with the first input, the second input and a third input. |
| FILED | Monday, September 11, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/518692 |
| ART UNIT | 2183 — Computer Architecture and I/O |
| CURRENT CPC | Electrical computers and digital processing systems: Processing architectures and instruction processing 712/7 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Small Business Administration (SBA)
| US 08153324 | Song et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. (Dayton, Ohio) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lulu Song (Centerville, Ohio); Jiusheng Guo (Centerville, Ohio); Aruna Zhamu (Centerville, Ohio); Bor Z. Jang (Centerville, Ohio) |
| ABSTRACT | A controlled-release fuel cell comprising (a) a proton exchange membrane having a first surface and a second surface, a fuel electrode or anode being coupled to the first surface, and an oxidant electrode or cathode being coupled to the second surface; (b) a fuel flow field plate having surface channels positioned in front of the anode with the channels containing therein a controlled-release material that retains a liquid fuel at or below an ambient temperature, but releases the fuel at a temperature higher than an activation temperature to deliver a fuel vapor to the anode; (c) heating means in heat-supplying relation to the controlled-release material to activate fuel vapor release on demand at a desired rate; and (d) fuel supply means that feeds the liquid fuel to the controlled-release material. The invented fuel cell is compact and lightweight, with significantly reduced fuel crossover and improved fuel utilization efficiency. The fuel cell is particularly useful for powering small vehicles and portable devices such as a notebook computer, a personal digital assistant, a mobile phone, and a digital camera. |
| FILED | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
| APPL NO | 11/353463 |
| ART UNIT | 1726 — Fuel Cells, Battery, Flammable Gas, Solar Cells, Liquid Crystal Compositions |
| CURRENT CPC | Chemistry: Electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process 429/457 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
| US 08155382 | Rubenstein |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Eric P. Rubenstein (East Hartford, Connecticut) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention described herein is generally directed to methods for analyzing an image. In particular, crowded field images may be analyzed for unidentified, unobserved objects based on an iterative analysis of modified images including artificial objects or removed real objects. The results can provide an estimate of the completeness of analysis of the image, an estimate of the number of objects that are unobserved in the image, and an assessment of the quality of other similar images. |
| FILED | Tuesday, March 29, 2011 |
| APPL NO | 13/074465 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/103 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Commerce (DOC)
| US 08152511 | Xu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Molecular Imprints, Inc. (Austin, Texas) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Frank Y. Xu (Round Rock, Texas); Michael N. Miller (Austin, Texas) |
| ABSTRACT | An imprint lithography mold assembly includes a mold having a surface, a substrate having a surface, and a polymerizable composition disposed between the surface of the mold and the surface of the substrate. The polymerizable composition includes a bulk material and a non-ionic surfactant having a first end and a second end. The first end of the non-ionic surfactant has an affinity for the bulk material, and the second end of the non-ionic surfactant is fluorinated. |
| FILED | Friday, March 13, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/404024 |
| ART UNIT | 1743 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding |
| CURRENT CPC | Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: Apparatus 425/385 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Department of Justice (DOJ)
| US 08155399 | Liu et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | UTC Fire and Security Corporation (Farmington, Connecticut) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Xiaoming Liu (Schenectady, New York); Peter Henry Tu (Niskayuna, New York); Frederick Wilson Wheeler (Niskayuna, New York) |
| ABSTRACT | There is provided a discriminative framework for image alignment. Image alignment is generally the process of moving and deforming a template to minimize the distance between the template and an image. There are essentially three elements to image alignment, namely template representation, distance metric, and optimization method. For template representation, given a face dataset with ground truth landmarks, a boosting-based classifier is trained that is able to learn the decision boundary between two classes—the warped images from ground truth landmarks (e.g., positive class) and those from perturbed landmarks (e.g., negative class). A set of trained weak classifiers based on Haar-like rectangular features determines a boosted appearance model. A distance metric is a score from the strong classifier, and image alignment is the process of optimizing (e.g., maximizing) the classification score. On the generic face alignment problem, the proposed framework greatly improves the robustness, accuracy, and efficiency of alignment. |
| FILED | Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
| APPL NO | 12/056051 |
| ART UNIT | 2624 — Selective Visual Display Systems |
| CURRENT CPC | Image analysis 382/118 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Federal Reserve Bank (FED)
| US 08156040 | Gavin et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis, Minnesota) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Peter John Gavin (Richfield, Minnesota); Sandra Lynn Hamlin (Plymouth, Minnesota); Dianna Marie Weidenaar (Elk River, Minnesota); Thomas H. Wick (Brooklyn Park, Minnesota); Vicki Anderson (Miami, Florida); Henrik Parl (Hørsholm, Denmark); Søren Rose (Lynge, Denmark); Annelise Lysdal (Glostrup, Denmark); Uwe Holmsgaard (Hillerød, Denmark) |
| ABSTRACT | Converting electronic files comprising financial transaction data for supporting international electronic financial transactions. A gateway financial institution that processes electronic payments can organize files comprising international financial transactions according to the destination country. The gateway financial institution can transmit the organized transaction files to an interface that is coupled to the computing systems of foreign financial institutions. The interface can convert the transaction files from the format of the originating financial institution to the format of the receiving financial institution. The converted transaction files can then be forwarded to the respective foreign financial institutions. The interface can also transmit additional data associated with the transaction files to support settlement of the transactions. |
| FILED | Tuesday, June 15, 2004 |
| APPL NO | 10/868729 |
| ART UNIT | 3691 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance |
| CURRENT CPC | Data processing: Financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 75/39 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
Government Rights Acknowledged
| US 08153828 | Makings et al. |
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| ASSIGNEE(S) | Life Technologies Corporation (Carlsbad, California) |
| INVENTOR(S) | Lewis Makings (Encinitas, California); Gregor Zlokarnik (La Jolla, California) |
| ABSTRACT | The invention provides a compound, useful as an optical probe or sensor of the activity of at least one cytochrome P450 enzyme, and methods of using the compound to screen candidate drugs, and candidate drugs identified by these methods. The optical probe of the invention is a compound having the generic structure Y-L-Q, wherein Q is a chemical moiety that gives rise to optical properties in its hydroxy or hyrdoxylate, phenol or phenoxide form that are different from the optical properties that arise from its ether form. |
| FILED | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |
| APPL NO | 12/499047 |
| ART UNIT | 1624 — Organic Chemistry |
| CURRENT CPC | Organic compounds 549/399 |
| VIEW PATENT | @ USPTO: Full Text PDF |
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THE FEDINVENT PATENT DETAILS PAGE
Each week, FedInvent analyzes newly granted patents and published patent applications whose origins lead back to funding by the US Federal Government. The FedInvent Patent Details page is a companion to the weekly FedInvents Patents Report.
This week's information is published in the FedInvent Patents report for Tuesday, April 10, 2012.
The FedInvent Weekly Patent Details Page contains a subset of patent information to provide a deeper dive into the week’s taxpayer-funded patents to help the reader better understand where a patent fits in the federal innovation ecosphere.
HOW IS THE INFORMATION ORGANIZED?
Patents are organized by the funding agency. Within each group, the patents are organized in numeric order. A patent funded by more than one agency will appear in the section of each of the agencies that funded the research and development that resulted in the invention. This approach gives the reader a complete view of the department or agency activity for the week.
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THE PANEL
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FUNDED BY
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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
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FILED
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APPL NO
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ART UNIT
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3793 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices
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CURRENT CPC
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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
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